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terrible ::: 1. Extremely formidable. 2. Causing great fear or alarm; dreadful.
terrible ::: a. --> Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
Excessive; extreme; severe.
terrible, and mighty angel chiefs” who passed
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Aghora ::: literally "not terrible" (though terrible, ghora, in appearance), an epithet of Śiva, the destroyer; a form of Tantra of the vamamarga or "left-hand path" which annuls all distinctions; a being or world characterised by samata (equality).Agner bhr bhrajante
All the cataclysms are accompanied by both deluges and volcanism, but one or the other of these is accentuated at alternately different times. The forthcoming cataclysms at the end of the fifth root-race are stated to be especially marked by the action of the element fire. Lemuria, the third continental system, is said to have perished by subterranean convulsion, tremendous volcanic activity, and other phenomena arising in the igneous element, and the consequent breaking of the sea floor; whereas that of Atlantis, or the fourth great continental system, was mainly caused by axial disturbance, leading to subsidence of lands, tremendous consequent tidal waves, and the shifting of large portions of the oceanic system. “Therefore, it is absolutely false, . . . that all the great geological changes and terrible convulsions have been produced by ordinary and known physical forces. For these forces were but the tools and final means for the accomplishment of certain purposes, acting periodically, and apparently mechanically, through an inward impulse mixed up with, but beyond their material nature. There is a purpose in every important act of Nature, whose acts are all cyclic and periodical” (SD 1:640).
almighty ::: a. --> Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
Great; extreme; terrible.
among the “splendid, terrible and mighty angel
among the “splendid, terrible, and mighty angel
and by the most terrible words: Soab, Sother,
Angel, The terrible
atrocious ::: a. --> Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.
awful ::: 1. Inspiring fear; terrible, dreadful, appalling, awe-inspiring. 2. Extremely impressive. 3. Profoundly inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
awful ::: a. --> Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
bhayanaka ::: [one of the eight rasas]: the terrible.
Blavatsky explains that the serpent Tiamat is the great mother, “the living principle of chaos” (TG 334). “The struggle of Bel and then of Merodach, the Sun-god, with Tiamat, the Sea and its Dragon, a ‘war’ which ended in the defeat of the latter, has a purely cosmic and geological meaning, as well as an historical one. It is a page torn out of the History of the Secret and Sacred Sciences, their evolution, growth and death — for the profane masses. It relates (a) to the systematic and gradual drying up of immense territories by the fierce Sun at a certain pre-historic period; one of the terrible droughts which ended by a gradual transformation of once fertile lands abundantly watered into the sandy deserts which they are now; and (b) to the as systematic persecution of the Prophets of the Right Path by those of the Left” (SD 2:503). See also TAMTI
bloodybones ::: n. --> A terrible bugbear.
terrible ::: 1. Extremely formidable. 2. Causing great fear or alarm; dreadful.
terrible ::: a. --> Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
Excessive; extreme; severe.
terrible, and mighty angel chiefs” who passed
buddhavacana. (T. sangs rgyas kyi bka'; C. foyu; J. butsugo; K. puro 佛語). In Sanskrit and PAli, "word of the Buddha"; those teachings accepted as having been either spoken by the Buddha or spoken with his sanction. Much traditional scholastic literature is devoted to the question of what does and does not qualify as the word of the Buddha. The SuTRAPItAKA and the VINAYAPItAKA of the Buddhist canon (TRIPItAKA), which are claimed to have been initially redacted at the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST), held in RAJAGṚHA soon after the Buddha's death, is considered by the tradition-along with the ABHIDHARMAPItAKA, which was added later-to be the authentic word of the Buddha; this judgment is made despite the fact that the canon included texts that were spoken, or elaborated upon, by his direct disciples (e.g., separate versions of the BHADDEKARATTASUTTA, which offer exegeses by various disciples of an enigmatic verse the Buddha had taught) or that included material that clearly postdated the Buddha's death (such as the MAHAPARINIRVAnASuTRA, which tells of the events leading up to, and immediately following, the Buddha's demise, or the NAradasutta, which refers to kings who lived long after the Buddha's time). Such material could still be considered buddhavacana, however, by resort to the four references to authority (MAHAPADEsA; CATURMAHAPADEsA). These four types of authority are found listed in various SuTRAs, including the eponymous PAli MahApadesasutta, and provide an explicit set of criteria through which to evaluate whether a teaching is the authentic buddhavacana. Teachings could be accepted as authentic if they were heard from four authorities: (1) the mouth of the Buddha himself; (2) a SAMGHA of wise elders; (3) a group of monks who were specialists in either the dharma (dharmadhara), vinaya (vinayadhara), or the proto-abhidharma (mAtṛkAdhara); or (4) a single monk who was widely learned in such specializations. The teaching should then be compared side by side with the authentic SuTRA and VINAYA; if found to be compatible with these two strata of the canon and not in contradiction with reality (DHARMATA), it would then be accepted as the buddhavacana and thus marked by the characteristics of the Buddha's words (buddhavacanalaksana). Because of this dispensation, the canons of all schools of Buddhism were never really closed, but could continue to be reinvigorated with new expressions of the Buddha's insights. In addition, completely new texts that purported to be from the mouths of the buddha(s) and/or BODHISATTVAs, such as found in the MAHAYANA or VAJRAYANA traditions, could also begin to circulate and be accepted as the authentic buddhavacana since they too conformed with the reality (dharmatA) that is great enlightenment (MAHABODHI). For example, a MahAyAna sutra, the AdhyAsayasaNcodanasutra, declares, "All which is well-spoken, Maitreya, is spoken by the Buddha." The sutra qualifies the meaning of "well spoken" (subhAsita), explaining that all inspired speech should be known to be the word of the Buddha if it is meaningful and not meaningless, if it is principled and not unprincipled, if it brings about the extinction and not the increase of the afflictions (KLEsA), and if it sets forth the qualities and benefits of NIRVAnA and not the qualities and benefits of SAMSARA. However, the authenticity of the MahAyAna sutras (and later the tantras) was a topic of great contention between the proponents of the MahAyAna and mainstream schools throughout the history of Indian Buddhism and beyond. Defenses of the MahAyAna as buddhavacana appear in the MahAyAna sutras themselves, with predictions of the terrible fates that will befall those who deny their authenticity; and arguments for the authenticity of the MahAyAna sutras were a stock element in writings by MahAyAna authors as early as NAGARJUNA and extending over the next millennium. Related, and probably earlier, terms for buddhavacana are the "teaching of the master" (S. sAstuḥ sAsanam) and the "dispensation of the Buddha" (buddhAnusAsanam). See also APOCRYPHA, DAZANGJING, GTER MA.
calamity ::: 1. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster. 2. Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy. calamities.
Cheriour—a “terrible angel,” charged with
cluded among the “splendid, terrible, and mighty
countered there “angels of evil, terrible and without pity carrying savage weapons.” 10 In a
demogorgon ::: n. --> A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.
dire ::: 1. Causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible. 2. Indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like. 3. Urgent; desperate. direr.
direful ::: a. --> Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
direness ::: n. --> Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
dire ::: superl. --> Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
dreadful ::: a. --> Full of dread or terror; fearful.
Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
dread ::: n. **1. Profound fear; terror. 2. An object of fear, awe, or reverence. v. 3. To be in fear or terror of. 4. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance. adj. 5. Fearful terrible; causing terror. 6. Held in awe or reverential fear. Dread, dreads, dreaded.**
E. Landau, Grundlagen der Analysis, Leipzig, 1930. Numinous: A word coined from the Latin "numen" by Rudolf Otto to signify the absolutely unique state of mind of the genuinely religious person who feels or is aware of something mysterious, terrible, awe-inspiring, holy and sacred. This feeling or awareness is a mysterium tremendum, beyond reason, beyond the good or the beautiful. This numinous is an a priori category and is the basis of man's cognition of the Divine. See his book The Idea of the Holy (rev. ed., 1925). -- V.F.
fearful ::: a. --> Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
foobar "jargon" Another common {metasyntactic variable}; see {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense. According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word "furchtbar" (horrible, terrible, awful). [{Jargon File}] (2003-07-03)
foobar ::: (jargon) Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word furchtbar (horrible, terrible, awful).[Jargon File](2003-07-03)
horrible ::: a. --> Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
horrisonous ::: a. --> Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
hydra ::: n. --> A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
“In the Rig Veda the name Siva is unknown, but the god is called Rudra, which is a word used for Agni, the fire god . . .”; “In the Vedas he is the divine Ego aspiring to return to its pure, deific state, and at the same time that divine ego imprisoned in earthly form, whose fierce passions make of him the ‘roarer,’ the ‘terrible’ ” (SD 2:613, 548).
judgment. A “terrible angel,” says De Plancy,
Just as Diana represented the moonlight splendor of night, so Hecate represented its darkness and terrors; and she is best known as a deity of the nether world, sending forth terrible phantoms and presiding wherever sorcery is practiced.
Kali ::: Sri Aurobindo: “… the terrible Kali is also the loving and beneficent Mother; …” Essays on the Gita
Kali ::: [the terrible form of the Divine Mother]; the mother of all and the destroyer of all.
karali ::: terrible. karali ..
lion food "humour" (IBM) Middle management or HQ staff, or, by extension, administrative drones in general. The term derives from an old joke: Two lions escape from the zoo and split up to increase their chances. When they finally meet after two months, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says, "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me with guns and nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass." The fat one replies: "Well, *I* hid near an IBM office and ate a manager every day. Nobody even noticed!" [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01)
Mahāmaudgalyāyana. (P. Mahāmoggallāna; T. Mo'u 'gal gyi bu chen po; C. Mohemujianlian/Mulian; J. Makamokkenren/Mokuren; K. Mahamokkollyon/Mongnyon 摩訶目犍連/目連). An eminent ARHAT and one of the two chief disciples of the Buddha, often depicted together with his friend sĀRIPUTRA flanking the Buddha. Mahāmaudgalyāyana was considered supreme among the Buddha's disciples in supranormal powers (ṚDDHI). According to Pāli accounts, where he is called Moggallāna, he was older than the Buddha and born on the same day as sāriputra (P. Sāriputta). Both he and sāriputra were sons of wealthy families and were friends from childhood. Once, when witnessing a play, the two friends were overcome with a sense of the impermanence and the vanity of all things and decided to renounce the world as mendicants. They first became disciples of the agnostic SaNjaya Belatthiputta (SANJAYA VAIRĀtĪPUTRA), although later they took their leave and wandered the length and breadth of India in search of a teacher. Finding no one who satisfied them, they parted company, promising one another that if one should succeed he would inform the other. Later sāriputra met the Buddha's disciple, Assaji (S. AsVAJIT), who recited for him a précis of the Buddha's teachings, the so-called YE DHARMĀ verse, which immediately prompted sāriputra to attain the path of a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA). He repeated the stanza to Mahāmaudgalyāyana, who likewise immediately became a stream-enterer. The two friends thereupon resolved to take ordination as disciples of the Buddha and, together with five hundred disciples of their former teacher SaNjaya, proceeded to the Veluvana (S. VEnUVANAVIHĀRA) grove where the Buddha was residing. The Buddha ordained the entire group with the formula ehi bhikkhu pabbajjā ("Come forth, monks"; see EHIBHIKsUKĀ), whereupon all five hundred became arhats, except for sāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana. Mahāmaudgalyāyana attained arhatship seven days after his ordination, while sāriputra reached the goal one week later. The Buddha declared sāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana his chief disciples the day they were ordained, noting that they had both strenuously exerted themselves in countless previous lives for this distinction; they appear often as the bodhisattva's companions in the JĀTAKAs. sāriputra was chief among the Buddha's disciples in wisdom, while Mahāmaudgalyāyana was chief in mastery of supranormal powers. He could create doppelgängers of himself and transform himself into any shape he desired. He could perform intercelestial travel as easily as a person bends his arm, and the tradition is replete with the tales of his travels, such as flying to the Himālayas to find a medicinal plant to cure the ailing sāriputra. Mahāmaudgalyāyana said of himself that he could crush Mount SUMERU like a bean and roll up the world like a mat and twirl it like a potter's wheel. He is described as shaking the heavens of sAKRA and BRAHMĀ to dissuade them from their pride, and he often preached to the divinities in their abodes. Mahāmaudgalyāyana could see ghosts (PRETA) and other spirits without having to enter into meditative trance as did other meditation masters, and because of his exceptional powers the Buddha instructed him alone to subdue the dangerous NĀGA, Nandopananda, whose huge hood had darkened the world. Mahāmaudgalyāyana's powers were so immense that during a terrible famine, he offered to turn the earth's crust over to uncover the ambrosia beneath it; the Buddha wisely discouraged him, saying that such an act would confound creatures. Even so, Mahāmaudgalyāyana's supranormal powers, unsurpassed in the world, were insufficient to overcome the law of cause and effect and the power of his own former deeds, as the famous tale of his death demonstrates. A group of naked JAINA ascetics resented the fact that the people of the kingdom of MAGADHA had shifted their allegiance and patronage from them to the Buddha and his followers, and they blamed Mahāmaudgalyāyana, who had reported that, during his celestial and infernal travels, he had observed deceased followers of the Buddha in the heavens and the followers of other teachers in the hells. They hired a group of bandits to assassinate the monk. When he discerned that they were approaching, the eighty-four-year-old monk made his body very tiny and escaped through the keyhole. He eluded them in different ways for six days, hoping to spare them from committing a deed of immediate retribution (ĀNANTARYAKARMAN) by killing an arhat. On the seventh day, Mahāmaudgalyāyana temporarily lost his supranormal powers, the residual karmic effect of having beaten his blind parents to death in a distant previous lifetime, a crime for which he had previously been reborn in hell. The bandits ultimately beat him mercilessly, until his bones had been smashed to the size of grains of rice. Left for dead, Mahāmaudgalyāyana regained his powers and soared into the air and into the presence of the Buddha, where he paid his final respects and passed into NIRVĀnA at the Buddha's feet. ¶ Like many of the great arhats, Mahāmaudgalyāyana appears frequently in the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, sometimes merely listed as a member of the audience, sometimes playing a more significant role. In the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, he is one of the sRĀVAKA disciples who is reluctant to visit VIMALAKĪRTI. In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, he is one of four arhats who understands the parable of the burning house and who rejoices in the teaching of the one vehicle (EKAYĀNA); later in the sutra, the Buddha prophesies his eventual attainment of buddhahood. Mahāmaudgalyāyana is additionally famous in East Asian Buddhism for his role in the apocryphal YULANBEN JING. The text describes his efforts to save his mother from the tortures of her rebirth as a ghost (preta). Mahāmaudgalyāyana (C. Mulian) is able to use his supranormal powers to visit his mother in the realm of ghosts, but the food that he offers her immediately bursts into flames. The Buddha explains that it is impossible for the living to make offerings directly to the dead; instead, one should make offerings to the SAMGHA in a bowl, and the power of their meditative practices will be able to save one's ancestors and loved ones from rebirths in the unfortunate realms (DURGATI).
“ Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
of dominations; now, in hell, a “terrible and
pencil and paper An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-06)
pleasant and terrible, who maketh all the children
redoubtable ::: a. --> Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
Ri-thlen (East Indian) Snake-keeping; “a terrible kind of sorcery practised at Cherrapoonjee in the Khasi-Hills. . . . As the legend tells us: ages ago a thlen (serpent-dragon) which inhabited a cavern and devoured men and cattle was put to death by a local St. George, and cut to pieces, every piece being sent out to a different district to be burnt. But the piece received by the Khasis was preserved by them and became a kind of household god, and their descendants developed into Ri-thlens or ‘snake-keepers,’ for the piece they preserved grew into a dragon (thlen) and ever since has obsessed certain Brahmin families of that district. To acquire the good grace of their thlen and save their own lives, these ‘keepers’ have often to commit murders of women and children, from whose bodies they cut out the toe and finger nails, which they bring to their thlen, and thus indulge in a number of black magic practices connected with sorcery and necromancy” (TG 278-9).
Rudra2 ::: "the terrible", a Vedic deity who is "the Violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, . . . the armed, wrathful and beneficent Power of God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all that opposes, scourges all that errs and resists, heals all that is wounded and suffers"; (in the plural) gods with the qualities of this deity, "the fierce, impetuous ones", such as the Maruts; in later Hinduism, a name of Śiva as the Destroyer, one of the "three Powers and Personalities of the One Cosmic Godhead", of which the other two are Brahma, the Creator, and Vis.n.u, the Preserver; in the Record of Yoga, sometimes identified with the Balarama personality of the fourfold isvara. rudra ananda
Rudra ::: "fierce, violent"; [Ved.]: the Divine as master of our evolution by violence and battle, the deva or Deity ascending in the cosmos; [Puranas]: the Terrible one, the God of might and wrath, a member of the divine Triad [trimurti], expressive of the destructive process in the cosmos.
Siva-Rudra (Shiva-Rudra) ::: the auspicious [Siva] and the terrible [Rudra], the leader and destroyer, the yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace and the Master of the force that acts in the worlds.
Śiva (Shiva) ::: "the auspicious", a name of the god who is at once "the Siva Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys the supreme liberty and peace"; especially the contemplative aspect of this deity, in contrast to his "terrible" aspect which is called Rudra2 and sometimes regarded as a distinct god; the divine personality representing absolute Existence (sat) with infinite Force (tapas) inherent in it, whose immobility is translated in the lower hemisphere of existence (aparardha) by inertia, figured in the image of Śiva"s body lying under the feet of the dancing Kali; (also called Mahesvara and identified with Mahavira) the aspect of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahesvari; a name of the Lord and supreme Being (isvara, purus.ottama). siva siv a K Kali
spirit of Delight ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“splendid, terrible and mighty angel chiefs who
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the terrible Kali is also the loving and beneficent Mother; . . . .” Essays on the Gita
Sri Aurobindo: “… the terrible Kali is also the loving and beneficent Mother; …” Essays on the Gita
terrific ::: a. --> Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
terrify ::: v. t. --> To make terrible.
To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
The contents of the Koran are varied both in style and material: a declaratory style predominates; denunciations abound; idolatry and deification of any beings or things are condemned — especially in regard to the worship of Jesus as the son of God, although Jesus and Moses are both regarded as holy prophets. A similarity to the Jewish Bible is observable, even to attributing customs of the Jews to the Arabs. Allah is glorified as the one, all-powerful God, and Mohammed as his prophet. Believers receive special instruction, and terrible punishments are threatened for nonbelievers. The doctrines of heaven and hell in the Moslem conception are forcefully presented.
The early Christians looked upon the Holy Spirit as of distinctly feminine characteristics, influence, or svabhava, as the center not only of vital but of spiritual and intellectual activity, whether in the universe or man, so that the Holy Spirit corresponds to a divine sakti. A notable instance in Hinduism is the Sakti or goddess Durga, having both a lofty or spiritual, and an inferior or distinctly material, function in nature, and therefore a beneficent as well as a terrible action therein — the very name Durga meaning “terrible in action,” or “terrible in going.” And yet Durga is the consort or sakti of Siva, often called the Mahesvara (Great Lord); and the name of this goddess arises from the utterly impartial, infinitely just, and yet often simply terrific action of the forces in nature, particularly when karmically directed to works of regeneration, often called destruction. Cosmic operations or cosmic justice are often indeed to human vision terrible in their operation, which can never be set aside, stayed, or diverted. Hence Durga is often represented in iconography as surrounded with a necklace of skulls or by similar ghastly emblems — a series of ideas which the pragmatic West misinterprets and consequently depicts as horrible and revolting.
The more subtle forms of force-matter or astral light form the links between the physical earth and the mental state of the living beings upon it; and rapid and more or less violent physical cataclysms may be regarded as the final effects of a sudden release of tension in those higher realms. That unusual psychic conditions perceptible to animals and even to humans precede earthquakes many hours before a shock, and long before the seismographs show the smallest tremor, is well-authenticated. “It is absolutely false, and but an additional demonstration of the great conceit of our age, to assert (as men of science do) that all the great geological changes and terrible convulsions have been produced by ordinary and known physical forces. For these forces were but the tools and final means for the accomplishment of certain purposes, acting periodically, and apparently mechanically, through an inward impulse mixed up with, but beyond their material nature. There is a purpose in every important act of Nature, whose acts are all cyclic and periodical. But spiritual Forces having been usually confused with the purely physical, the former are denied by, and therefore have to remain unknown to Science, because left unexamined” (SD 1:640).
::: The Mother: "Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15*.
The Mother: “Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The rudras here are collectively spoken of as an individual equivalent to Siva, who has always been recognized as the patron or chief of initiates and of occult training. He is often spoken of as the destroyer, whereas regenerator would be a better term. Rudra is truly the Siva of the Rig-Veda, and in many respects the Agni of later writings. Like Siva, Rudra is a beneficent deity (because regenerating), and a mistaken maleficent deity (because destroying falsehoods and imperfections at the same time). As the beneficent one or spiritual healer, Rudra is the higher human ego aspiring to its own spiritual pure state; and as the destroyer he is the same imprisoned higher human ego whose war against imperfection, evil, and sin make him the “roarer” or the “terrible.”
thunderstrike ::: v. t. --> To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning.
To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Thus the question whether the mystical drink was an actual drink, or merely a mystical one, cannot be answered by a simple yes or no. Originally it was entirely mystical, later it remained as mystical as ever, but the body with its grossness, and the astral influences with their terrible power over the men and women of the time, were temporarily reduced to quiescence by a preparation known to initiates to have the power of bringing about the condition required, without any permanent or even long after-effect, very much as a sedative will be given by a physician today. It is of course true that if this drink, however relatively innocent in a single instance, were to be constantly repeated, it would have developed into a drug habit.
tragedy ::: n. --> A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
tragical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
Trailokyavijaya. (T. Khams gsum rnam rgyal; C. Xiangsanshi mingwang; J. Gozanze myoo; K. Hangsamse myongwang 降三世明王). In Sanskrit, "Victor of the Three Realms"; a wrathful deity, he is considered a wrathful form of VAJRAPĀnI. He is depicted in Indian Buddhist iconography and plays an important role in the SARVATATHĀGATATATTVASAMGRAHA. It is in the form of Trailokyavijaya that Vajrapāni conquers Mahesvara (the Hindu god siva). It was often the case that Buddhists gave Hindu deities Buddhist forms, especially in the tantras. In this case, Trailokyavijaya may have his antecedent in the Hindu god Tripurāntaka, "Destroyer of the Three [Demon] Cities," a form of siva whose worship was still current at the time the SarvatathāgatatattvasaMgraha was being formulated. Iconographic similarities as well as the Buddhist Trailokyavijaya's subjugation of the rival tradition's Mahesvara support the connection; a Hindu deity is appropriated by Buddhists, with the appropriated form then subduing the Hindu god. The cult of Trailokyavijaya entered China with the translations of the SarvatathāgatatattvasaMgraha, the MAHĀVAIROCANĀBHISAMBODHISuTRA, and several other texts translated by AMOGHAVAJRA in the second half of the eighth century, whence they quickly entered Japan. He is described as being terrible to behold, with four heads and eight arms, although in the GARBHADHĀTU MAndALA, he has a single face with three eyes and two arms. He stands on prone figures of siva and Umā, whom he has thus subdued. His worship was largely replaced by that of HERUKA in the CAKRASAMVARATANTRA cycles, who performs the same function in the taming of Mahesvara.
tremendous ::: a. --> Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
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1:It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~ G K Chesterton, #KEYS
2:The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Mother Teresa,#KEYS
3:Nothing is superior to truthfulness, nor anything more terrible than falsehood. ~ Mahabharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
4:The worldly-minded never come to their senses, even though they suffer and have terrible experiences. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
5:Why should human frailty fear to go to Mary? In her there is no austerity, nothing terrible: she is all sweetness, offering milk and wool to all. ~ Saint Bernard, #KEYS
6:Temptations are going to be terrible, the world will live in such a confusion that the elect will have to dwell themselves in the doubt! There is no escape" ~ Our Lady of Revelation , #KEYS
7:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #KEYS
8:That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine... ~ Samuel Becket, #KEYS
9:Strange and terrible books were drawn voluminously from the stack shelves and from secure places of storage; and diagrams and formulae were copied with feverish haste and in bewildering abundance. ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
10:The Society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God." ~ Our Lady of La Salette , #KEYS
11:All the movement and action of Rudra the Terrible is towards perfection and divine light and completeness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Vision of the World-Spirit - The Double Aspect, #KEYS
12:If the soul is immortal, we must care for it, not only in respect to this time, which we call life, but in respect to all time, and if we neglect it, the danger now appears to be terrible. ~ Plato, Phaedo, 107c, #KEYS
13:As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before." ~ Our Lady of Akita, #KEYS
14:Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. ~ Saint Catherine of Genoa, #KEYS
15:Free from the happiness desired by slaves, delivered from the gods and their adoration, fearless and terrible, grand and solitary is the will of the man of truth. ~ Nietzsche, Zarathoustra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
16:I pronounced a great day, not wherein any temporal potentate should minister, but wherein the Terrible Judge should reveal all men's consciences and try every man of each kind of religion. This is the day of change." ~ Saint Edmund Campion, (1540-1581), #KEYS
17:I have created all, all I devour;
I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life,
I am Kali black and naked in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
18:Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Be not afraid. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
19:Such is the Guru, "Who has himself crossed this terrible ocean of life, and without any idea of gain to himself, helps others also to cross the ocean." This is the Guru, and mark that none else can be a Guru. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
20:And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
~ C S Lewis,#KEYS
21:To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. ~ Jorge Luis Borge,#KEYS
22:When an old dog howls, other dogs join in for no reason. 118 Even when the wise fall into terrible decline, they please others by giving good advice. Even when fools become prosperous, they only argue, burning themselves and others ... ~ The Tibetan Book of Everyday Wisdom, #KEYS
23:The wrath of God is near. Soon the world will be afflicted with great calamities, bloody revolutions, frightful hurricanes and the overflowing of rivers and the seas . . . the world will be overturned in a new and more terrible war." ~ Our Lady to Blessed Sister Elena Aiello, #KEYS
24:... the breast of their hearers rage and hatred. I pray earnestly for the oppressed! --- On those places in which some souls still pray I see light descending; but on others, pitchy darkness. The situation is terrible! May God have mercy! How much I have prayed! ~ Anna Emmerich, #KEYS
25:The human race has been weakened by means of all those bad habits, and the worst of all of them is to deny breastfeeding the child. In the name of the truth, this seems terrible, monstrous. Ancient people were very strong because their mothers did not deny breastfeeding them... ~ Samael Aun Weor #KEYS
26:Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Maya. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Be not afraid. Think not how many times you fail. Never mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
27:It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty. (402) ~ Charles S Peirce, #KEYS
28:I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake. ~ Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, #KEYS
29:And even the All is at first too hard for him; for he himself in his active consciousness is a limited and selective formation and can open himself only to that which is in harmony with his limited nature. There are things in the All which are too hard for his comprehension or seem too terrible to his sensitive emotions and cowering sensations.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
30:There comes a time in the growth of every living individual thing when it realizes with dawning consciousness that it is a prisoner. While apparently free to move and have its being, the struggling life cognizes through ever greater vehicles its own limitations. It is at this point that man cries out with greater insistence to be liberated from the binding ties which, though invisible to mortal eyes, still chain him with bonds far more terrible than those of any physical prison. ~ Manly P Hall, #KEYS
31:To read great books does not mean one becomes 'bookish'; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.
~ John Cowper Powys,#KEYS
32:O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine Force may spread over the earth and penetrate its troubled atmosphere, the struggling energies, the violent chaos of battling elements; grant that the pure light of Thy Knowledge and the inexhaustible love of Thy Benediction may fill men's hearts, penetrate their souls, illumine their consciousness and, out of this obscurity, out of this sombre, terrible and potent darkness, bring forth the splendour of Thy majestic Presence!
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
33:Krishna:::
At last I find a meaning of soul's birth
Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet.
I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
And heard the passion of the Lover's flute,
And known a deathless ecstasy's surprise
And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.
Nearer and nearer now the music draws,
Life shudders with a strange felicity;
All Nature is a wide enamoured pause
Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.
For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
34:The heaven-hints that invade our earthly lives,
The dire imaginations dreamed by Hell,
Which if enacted and experienced here
Our dulled capacity soon would cease to feel
Or our mortal frailty could not long endure,
Were set in their sublime proportions there.
There lived out in their self-born atmosphere,
They resumed their topless pitch and native power;
Their fortifying stress upon the soul
Bit deep into the ground of consciousness
The passion and purity of their extremes,
The absoluteness of their single cry
And the sovereign sweetness or violent poetry
Of their beautiful or terrible delight.
All thought can know or widest sight perceive
And all that thought and sight can never know,
All things occult and rare, remote and strange
Were near to heart's contact, felt by spirit-sense.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
35:A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain - a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space .... Therefore we must judge a weird tale not by the author's intent, or by the mere mechanics of the plot; but by the emotional level which it attains at its least mundane point... The one test of the really weird is simply this - whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
36:You must ask yourself, if for 10 years if you didnt avoid doing what you knew you needed to do, by your own definitions right, within the value structure that you've created to the degree that youve done that, what would you be like? Well you know there are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time and there are people who do find out over decades long periods what they could be like if they were who they were if they said... if they spoke their being forward, and theyd get stronger and stronger. you do not know the limits to that, we do not know the limits to that and so you could say well in part perhaps the reason that you're suffering unbearably can be left at your feet because you are not everything you could be and you know it. and of course thats a terrible thing to admit and its a terrible thing to consider but theres real promise in it. perhaps theres another way you could look at the world and another way you could act in the world. .. Imagine many people did that. ~ Jordan Peterson, #KEYS
37:Elric: We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocation of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.
John Sheridan: Such as?
Elric: The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor. How to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them. That is why we are going away-to preserve that knowledge.
Sheridan: From what?
Elric: There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost or used to ill purpose. From this place we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish. But I cannot tell you where we are going. I can only ask you to trust us. ~ J Michael Straczynski,#KEYS
38:The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
~ David Foster Wallace,#KEYS
39:I've never been lonely. I've been in a room ~ I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful ~ awful beyond all ~ but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, The strongest men are the most alone. I've never thought, Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good. No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine! ~ Charles Bukowski, #KEYS
40:It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.
Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
in fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either.
Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,#KEYS
41:
Mother, in your symbol the twelve petals signify the twelve inner planes, don't they?
It signifies anything one wants, you see. Twelve: that's the number of Aditi, of Mahashakti. So it applies to everything; all her action has twelve aspects. There are also her twelve virtues, her twelve powers, her twelve aspects, and then her twelve planes of manifestation and many other things that are twelve; and the symbol, the number twelve is in itself a symbol. It is the symbol of manifestation, double perfection, in essence and in manifestation, in the creation.
What are the twelve aspects, Sweet Mother?
Ah, my child, I have described this somewhere, but I don't remember now. For it is always a choice, you see; according to what one wants to say, one can choose these twelve aspects or twelve others, or give them different names. The same aspect can be named in different ways. This does not have the fixity of a mental theory. (Silence)
According to the angle from which one sees the creation, one day I may describe twelve aspects to you; and then another day, because I have shifted my centre of observation, I may describe twelve others, and they will be equally true.
(To Vishwanath) Is it the wind that's producing this storm? It is very good for a dramatic stage-effect.... The traitor is approaching in the night... yes? We are waiting for some terrible deed....
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 395,#KEYS
42:There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is there for swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything before it. Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she deals roughly with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all that is obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [19],#KEYS
43:[God is] The Hindu discipline of spirituality provides for this need of the soul by the conceptions of the Ishta Devata, the Avatar and the Guru. By the Ishta Devata, the chosen deity, is meant, - not some inferior Power, but a name and form of the transcendent and universal Godhead. Almost all religions either have as their base or make use of some such name and form of the Divine. Its necessity for the human soul is evident. God is the All and more than the All. But that which is more than the All, how shall man conceive? And even the All is at first too hard for him; for he himself in his active consciousness is a limited and selective formation and can open himself only to that which is in harmony with his limited nature. There are things in the All which are too hard for his comprehension or seem too terrible to his sensitive emotions and cowering sensations. Or, simply, he cannot conceive as the Divine, cannot approach or cannot recognise something that is too much out of the circle of his ignorant or partial conceptions. It is necessary for him to conceive God in his own image or in some form that is beyond himself but consonant with his highest tendencies and seizable by his feelings or his intelligence. Otherwise it would be difficult for him to come into contact and communion with the Divine.
Even then his nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar - Krishna, Christ, Buddha.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 65 [T9],#KEYS
44:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. ~ Bertrand Russell,#KEYS
45:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart-perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example-but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must.
And this is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because in any case there is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn't matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery-either way-and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. You must shout, in whatever way you can. ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste,#KEYS
46:Many Blows are Needed:
Mother, even when one tries to think that one is powerless, there is something which believes one is powerful. So?
Ah, yes, ah yes! Ah, it is very difficult to be sincere.... That is why blows multiply and sometimes become terrible, because that's the only thing which breaks your stupidity. This is the justification of calamities. Only when you are in an acutely painful situation and indeed before something that affects you deeply, then that makes the stupidity melt away a little. But as you say, even when there is something that melts, there is still a little something which remains inside. And that is why it lasts so long... How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing, that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists... but till that moment... And it takes very long.
Why doesn't the blow come all at once?
Because that would kill you. For if the blow is strong enough to cure you, it would simply crush you, it would reduce you to pulp. It is only by proceeding little by little, little by little, very gradually, that you can continue to exist. Naturally this depends on the inner strength, the inner sincerity, and on the capacity for progress, for profiting by experience and, as I said a while ago, on not forgetting. If one is lucky enough not to forget, then one goes much faster. One can go very fast. And if at the same time one has that inner moral strength which, when the red-hot iron is at hand, does not extinguish it by trying to pour water over it, but instead goes to the very core of the abscess, then in this case things go very fast also. But not many people are strong enough for this. On the contrary, they very quickly do this (gesture), like this, like this, in order to hide, to hide from themselves. How many pretty little explanations one gives oneself, how many excuses one piles up for all the foolishnesses one has committed.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
47:What is the ape to a human? A laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. And that is precisely what the human shall be to the overman: a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment.
You have made your way from worm to human, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now a human is still more ape than any ape.
But whoever is wisest among you is also just a conflict and a cross between plant and ghost. But do I implore you to become ghosts or plants?
Behold, I teach you the overman!
The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth!
I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of extraterrestrial hopes! They are mixers of poisons whether they know it or not.
They are despisers of life, dying off and self-poisoned, of whom the earth is weary: so let them fade away!
Once the sacrilege against God was the greatest sacrilege, but God died, and then all these desecrators died. Now to desecrate the earth is the most terrible thing, and to esteem the bowels of the unfathomable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Once the soul gazed contemptuously at the body, and then such contempt was the highest thing: it wanted the body gaunt, ghastly, starved.
Thus it intended to escape the body and the earth.
Oh this soul was gaunt, ghastly and starved, and cruelty was the lust of this soul!
But you, too, my brothers, tell me: what does your body proclaim about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and filth and a pitiful contentment?
Truly, mankind is a polluted stream. One has to be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming unclean.
Behold, I teach you the overman: he is this sea, in him your great contempt can go under.
What is the greatest thing that you can experience? It is the hour of your great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness turns to nausea and likewise your reason and your virtue.
The hour in which you say: 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth, and a pitiful contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself!' ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
48:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
49:The ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians had some very interesting, dramatic ideas about that. For example-very briefly-there was a deity known as Marduk. Marduk was a Mesopotamian deity, and imagine this is sort of what happened. As an empire grew out of the post-ice age-15,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago-all these tribes came together. These tribes each had their own deity-their own image of the ideal. But then they started to occupy the same territory. One tribe had God A, and one tribe had God B, and one could wipe the other one out, and then it would just be God A, who wins. That's not so good, because maybe you want to trade with those people, or maybe you don't want to lose half your population in a war. So then you have to have an argument about whose God is going to take priority-which ideal is going to take priority.
What seems to happen is represented in mythology as a battle of the gods in celestial space. From a practical perspective, it's more like an ongoing dialog. You believe this; I believe this. You believe that; I believe this. How are we going to meld that together? You take God A, and you take God B, and maybe what you do is extract God C from them, and you say, 'God C now has the attributes of A and B.' And then some other tribes come in, and C takes them over, too. Take Marduk, for example. He has 50 different names, at least in part, of the subordinate gods-that represented the tribes that came together to make the civilization. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted. You think, 'this is important, and it works, because your tribe is alive, and so we'll take the best of both, if we can manage it, and extract out something, that's even more abstract, that covers both of us.'
I'll give you a couple of Marduk's interesting features. He has eyes all the way around his head. He's elected by all the other gods to be king God. That's the first thing. That's quite cool. They elect him because they're facing a terrible threat-sort of like a flood and a monster combined. Marduk basically says that, if they elect him top God, he'll go out and stop the flood monster, and they won't all get wiped out. It's a serious threat. It's chaos itself making its comeback. All the gods agree, and Marduk is the new manifestation. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. When he fights, he fights this deity called Tiamat. We need to know that, because the word 'Tiamat' is associated with the word 'tehom.' Tehom is the chaos that God makes order out of at the beginning of time in Genesis, so it's linked very tightly to this story. Marduk, with his eyes and his capacity to speak magic words, goes out and confronts Tiamat, who's like this watery sea dragon. It's a classic Saint George story: go out and wreak havoc on the dragon. He cuts her into pieces, and he makes the world out of her pieces. That's the world that human beings live in.
The Mesopotamian emperor acted out Marduk. He was allowed to be emperor insofar as he was a good Marduk. That meant that he had eyes all the way around his head, and he could speak magic; he could speak properly. We are starting to understand, at that point, the essence of leadership. Because what's leadership? It's the capacity to see what the hell's in front of your face, and maybe in every direction, and maybe the capacity to use your language properly to transform chaos into order. God only knows how long it took the Mesopotamians to figure that out. The best they could do was dramatize it, but it's staggeringly brilliant. It's by no means obvious, and this chaos is a very strange thing. This is a chaos that God wrestled with at the beginning of time.
Chaos is half psychological and half real. There's no other way to really describe it. Chaos is what you encounter when you're blown into pieces and thrown into deep confusion-when your world falls apart, when your dreams die, when you're betrayed. It's the chaos that emerges, and the chaos is everything it wants, and it's too much for you. That's for sure. It pulls you down into the underworld, and that's where the dragons are. All you've got at that point is your capacity to bloody well keep your eyes open, and to speak as carefully and as clearly as you can. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get through it that way and come out the other side. It's taken people a very long time to figure that out, and it looks, to me, that the idea is erected on the platform of our ancient ancestors, maybe tens of millions of years ago, because we seem to represent that which disturbs us deeply using the same system that we used to represent serpentile, or other, carnivorous predators. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,#KEYS
50: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:Some things are too terrible to be true. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 2:There is no evil as terrible as a woman. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 3:It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 4:I was in a terrible mess in my childhood. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 5:Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 6:Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 7:This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 8:Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 9:Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 10:To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 11:It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 12:The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 13:It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 14:It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 15:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 16:Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 17:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 18:What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 19:Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 20:Everything terrible is something that needs our love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 21:A terrible thing happened to me last night again‚Äînothing. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 22:It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 23:It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 24:War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 25:Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 26:If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 27:How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 28:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 29:To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 30:It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 31:I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 32:Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 33:There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 34:He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 35:How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 36:If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 37:Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 38:It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 39:There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 40:The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 41:Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 42:Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 43:Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 44:I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 45:Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 46:I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 47:There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering& 48:My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 49:Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 50:The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 51:Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 52:Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 53:A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 54:Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 55:We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 56:There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 57:There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 58:Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.) ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 59:There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 60:My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 61:I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 62:There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 63:What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 64:No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 65:Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 66:Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 67:How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 68:It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 69:Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 70:If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 71:The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 72:Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 73:Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 74:Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 75:A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 76:That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 77:We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 78:This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 79:[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 80:I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 81:If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 82:The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 83:People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 84:A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 85:I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 86:It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 87:Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 88:The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 89:It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 90:The inward battle& 91:Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 92:There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 93:It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 94:I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 95:Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 96:The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self& 97:No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 98:For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 99:He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 100:In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease& 101:There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 102:The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 103:When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 104:As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 105:I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 106:The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 107:There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 108:I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 109:Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often ‚Äî and in my inmost self perhaps all the time ‚Äî I doubt whether I am a human being. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 110:If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 111:Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 112:But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 113:The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 114:People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 115:To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 116:And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 117:An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 118:It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 119:I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 120:We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 121:From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 122:My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 123:I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 124:Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 125:A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 126:There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 127:All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 128:Indeed you did your best... I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 129:Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons& 130:The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 131:Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 132:There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 133:I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 134:The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 135:I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 136:Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 137:Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 138:Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God ... . and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 139:A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. Sitting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him: ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove 140:& 141:Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 142:To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 143:What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 144:The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 145:To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 146:I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 147:Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ... 'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 148:The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 149:The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 150:Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 151:It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 152:Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 153:We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 154:Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 155:Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 156:To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 157:We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 158:What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations? ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 159:Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 160:Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 161:And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 162:Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 163:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 164:People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 165:It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 166:There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 167:Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 168:Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 169:My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 170:But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 171:Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 172:It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 173:Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 174:You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said... 'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, & 175:Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 176:The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 177:No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 178:I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 179:most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 180:There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 181:If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 182:It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 183:Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 184:This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 185:Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 186:Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 187:That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 188:I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214 ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 189:If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 190:There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 191:If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 192:When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 193:There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 194:And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 195:How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 196:The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 197:I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 198:As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 199:One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you." ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 200:Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 201:As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 202:I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken - but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 203:Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 204:I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 205:The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 206:There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 207:And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history‚Äîmoney, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery‚Äîthe long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 208:I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any & 209:War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 210:Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 211:Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 212:We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 213:It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 214:The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 215:We & 216:All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 217:Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 218:To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 219:Q: I can see the picture, but who is the painter? Who is responsible for this terrible and yet a dorable experience? M: The painter is in the picture. You separate the painter from the picture and look for him. Don’t separate and don't put false questions. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 220:Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 221:God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 222:the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 223:There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 224:It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 225:Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 226:If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 227:So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 228:The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 229:Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 230:I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 231:All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: & 232:The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 233:And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke! ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 234:The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 235:The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 236:Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 237:The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not & 238:This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 239:But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 240:Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 241:Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 242:Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 243:What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 244:There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 245:Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 246:Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "... and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side... " "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 247:It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 248:She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 249:We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 250:In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 251:The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 252:What’s wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor? Death is not the enemy, gentleman. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. — Patch Adams ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 253:One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 254:Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 255:People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 256:The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self& 257:Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 258:It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 259:We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 260:And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 261:The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 262:I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 263:As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 264:In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source‚ if not the cause, of all our misfortune. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 265:When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right... something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise... it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 266:But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 267:Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 268:The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 269:God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 270:No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 271:I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 272:Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 273:I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 274:The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 275:The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 276:How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men... They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 277:That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby& 278:I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, & 279:I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me... or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 280:I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever! ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 281:The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 282:A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 283:When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 284:I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 285:She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 286:The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 287:The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ... [I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 288:There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 289:If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 290:I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 291:So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 292:Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 293:As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become light-hearted, carefree, joyous, and free. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 294:The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 295:We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world... .No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 296:Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that & 297:She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 298:There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them... . Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 299:We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 300:But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 301:In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 302:The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 303:America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 304:When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight... ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 305:I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 306:The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 307:[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 308:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 309:The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 310:In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 311:In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 312:It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 313:There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives& 314:He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... . ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 315:For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 316:I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 317:When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 318:But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 319:One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; ‚ hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; ‚ hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; ‚ hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin ‚ a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it ‚ if such a thing were possible ‚ even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 320:Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 321:I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 322:I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 323:And this is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because in any case there is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery—either way—and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. You must shout, in whatever way you can. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 324:Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. The only sense to make of tragedies like this is that terrible things can happen to perfectly innocent people. This understanding inspires compassion. Religious faith, on the other hand, erodes compassion. Thoughts like, & 325:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart—perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example—but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you. Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don’t want to upset others because you don’t want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity. Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:terrible roar, ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
2:age is a terrible theif ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
3:Age is a terrible thief. ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
4:count on this terrible ~ Barbara Park, #NFDB
5:I am a terrible sleeper. ~ Matt Smith, #NFDB
6:A terrible beauty is born. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
7:Guilt's a terrible thing. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
8:I am terrible at relationships. ~ Mika, #NFDB
9:I'm a terrible dancer. ~ Rupert Friend, #NFDB
10:Then let us go and be terrible. ~ Brom, #NFDB
11:cet enfant terrible,’ that ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB
12:Lo terrible es la esperanza ~ Jos Donoso, #NFDB
13:Her suspense was terrible. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
14:terrible fates are inevitable ~ Shaun Tan, #NFDB
15:John [Ivan] the Terrible, ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
16:Nice days, terrible nights. ~ Peter Straub, #NFDB
17:Oz, the Great and Terrible. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
18:I have a terrible memory. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
19:I smoke, isn't that terrible? ~ Kate Hudson, #NFDB
20:No, communication is terrible! ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
21:to a perfectly terrible day. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
22:All good ideas are terrible... ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
23:He loves power. A terrible love. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
24:Most fan fiction is terrible. ~ Neal Pollack, #NFDB
25:Every angel is terrible. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
26:I'm a terrible Scrabble player. ~ Andrew Bird, #NFDB
27:I'm terrible with patience. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
28:The Great and Terrible Humbug, ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
29:You’ve made a terrible mistake. ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
30:I'm a terrible trumpet player... ~ Ray Stevens, #NFDB
31:Sentirse solo era terrible. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
32:That’s a terrible idea.” “He ~ Christy Barritt, #NFDB
33:Forced idleness is a terrible thing. ~ Stan Lee, #NFDB
34:Life is, of course, terrible. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
35:My dad was a terrible businessman. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
36:Vengeance was a terrible prison. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
37:A mind is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
38:I was terrible at school. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas, #NFDB
39:Well, it’s got to be terrible ~ Karen MacInerney, #NFDB
40:A mind is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
41:Every loss of life is terrible. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
42:How terrible the need for God. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
43:Human beings make terrible gods. ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
44:I'm a terrible dancer. The worst. ~ Sheena Easton, #NFDB
45:What a terrible thing life can be. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
46:A film is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
47:It’s terrible to lie in chains, ~ Taras Shevchenko, #NFDB
48:Temptation to behave is terrible. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
49:A father's love can be a terrible thing ~ Jeph Loeb, #NFDB
50:As a child I had terrible asthma. ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
51:Chaos is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
52:Curiosity is a terrible inducement. ~ Lindsey Davis, #NFDB
53:Hope is a terrible thing to lose. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
54:Life is a terrible thing, thank God. ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
55:A mind is a terrible thing; waste it. ~ Brad Blanton, #NFDB
56:I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad. ~ Lara Stone, #NFDB
57:Parents, you know, can be terrible. ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
58:Some things are too terrible to be true. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
59:The men in our world are terrible beasts ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
60:There is no evil as terrible as a woman. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
61:The terrible tyranny of the majority. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
62:A death is the most terrible of facts. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
63:A mime is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Marcel Marceau, #NFDB
64:Better terrible truths than kind lies ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
65:Early success is a terrible teacher. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
66:Hell, no. Your embroidery is terrible. ~ Vanessa Vale, #NFDB
67:immortality is a terrible curse. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
68:Interest is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Roger Schank, #NFDB
69:Texas GOP Endorses Terrible Anti-Gay Plan ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
70:We the erratic keep terrible time. ~ Alexander Maksik, #NFDB
71:Better terrible truths than kind lies. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
72:Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ~ Joan D Vinge, #NFDB
73:I'm shockingly terrible at action movies. ~ Emma Stone, #NFDB
74:It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
75:That was bad news. Terrible. The worst. ~ Shayla Black, #NFDB
76:Untouchability is a terrible reality. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
77:Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing. ~ R S Belcher, #NFDB
78:Hope can make people do terrible things. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
79:I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word. ~ John Stossel, #NFDB
80:Life is like a box of terrible analogies. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
81:Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
82:Terrible is the temptation to be good. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
83:The truth is, men make terrible pigs. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
84:Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. ~ Robert Carlyle, #NFDB
85:Insecure men make terrible warriors. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
86:It is terrible to be an unprotected being. ~ Colm T ib n, #NFDB
87:It's terrible what's going on in Chicago. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
88:Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
89:phone calls to make. Terrible phone calls. ~ Lisa Jewell, #NFDB
90:Success and failure are terrible traps. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
91:Love is a wonderful, terrible thing ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
92:Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
93:Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
94:Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it’s human. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
95:I get terrible reviews everywhere I go. ~ Harry Connick Jr, #NFDB
96:I have a terrible sense of direction. ~ Elizabeth McGovern, #NFDB
97:It’s a beautiful, terrible, world, isn’t it? ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
98:It's a terrible thing to not feel missed. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
99:My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things. ~ Moby, #NFDB
100:Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB
101:People in large quantities are terrible. ~ Catherine Lacey, #NFDB
102:Politics can make people do terrible things ~ Jonathan Coe, #NFDB
103:The trouble is, I'm a terrible PR person. ~ Peter Molyneux, #NFDB
104:Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov, #NFDB
105:I'm just terrible. At talking. With words. ~ Richard Ayoade, #NFDB
106:It is a terrible thing to not feel missed. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
107:O how terrible it must be for a young man-- ~ Gregory Corso, #NFDB
108:A terrible burden seemed to drain from him. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
109:C'était pénible d'être témoin d'une si terrible ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
110:I apologize for my terrible interview skills. ~ Heath Ledger, #NFDB
111:Oh no, a human feeling awkward. How terrible. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
112:The British have always made terrible parents. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
113:The most terrible things end, at last. ~ James Theodore Bent, #NFDB
114:What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
115:Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
116:[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist. ~ Jay Roach, #NFDB
117:Please make me either relatable or terrible. ~ Jami Attenberg, #NFDB
118:Rock ’n’ roll is a terrible babysitter, baby. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
119:There is a terrible loneliness in the spring. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
120:This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
121:Triumph was laughable and terrible and his. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
122:We all make terrible mistakes in our lives. ~ Scott Bradfield, #NFDB
123:yes, yes, yes. I was and am awful and terrible. ~ Rufi Thorpe, #NFDB
124:An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
125:Having a vivid imagination is a terrible curse. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
126:I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. ~ Moby, #NFDB
127:It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
128:Money holds terrible power when it is loved ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
129:Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! ~ Enid Bagnold, #NFDB
130:What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
131:Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible. ~ Kim Carnes, #NFDB
132:Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings! ~ William Blake, #NFDB
133:Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
134:If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore. ~ Julie London, #NFDB
135:It's terrible to have to depend on someone else. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
136:Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
137:Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
138:To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
139:To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
140:To the man of taste, most things taste terrible. ~ Mykle Hansen, #NFDB
141:Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
142:An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
143:Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
144:Even 9 1/2 Weeks made some kind of terrible sense. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
145:Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
146:He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
147:I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
148:It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
149:It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
150:Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
151:Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it. ~ Rupert Murdoch, #NFDB
152:Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people. ~ Jim Broadbent, #NFDB
153:The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. ~ Paul Shepard, #NFDB
154:To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
155:To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
156:..what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
157:Children give terrible gifts because they are poor. ~ Rob Delaney, #NFDB
158:Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
159:He was in a terrible state - that of consciousness. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
160:I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
161:It feels terrible. Being in love feels terrible. I ~ Walter Tevis, #NFDB
162:It is a terrible thing to be angry with the dead. ~ D E Stevenson, #NFDB
163:There is nothing so terrible as a story untold ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
164:Things have a terrible permanence when people die. ~ Joyce Kilmer, #NFDB
165:Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
166:Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing. ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
167:Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
168:I’m sorry.” She frowns. “I’m a terrible friend. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
169:It was better not to remember such terrible details. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
170:I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
171:Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
172:There is nothing so terrible as a story untold. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
173:These are terrible people in ISIS, not masterminds. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
174:To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
175:To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
176:What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
177:El corazón de una mujer era una terrible maldición. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
178:He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
179:I have a really terrible sense of direction. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
180:I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy. ~ Melanie Griffith, #NFDB
181:I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
182:I think these are terrible times to be anything in. ~ Swoosie Kurtz, #NFDB
183:less a person than a collection of terrible traits. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
184:money is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
185:That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
186:The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
187:The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons ~ Jean Renoir, #NFDB
188:To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. ~ Hypatia, #NFDB
189:An imagination is a terrible thing to bring along. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
190:He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
191:I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
192:I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. ~ Matt Long, #NFDB
193:Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
194:They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
195:We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
196:Being right so much of the time was a terrible burden. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
197:Diets don’t work, and they’re terrible for our health. ~ Joel Fuhrman, #NFDB
198:He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed. ~ Mel Odom, #NFDB
199:I’m supposed to be the rebellious one, l’enfant terrible. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
200:It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
201:Más terrible que morir es no saber para qué se vive. ~ Gioconda Belli, #NFDB
202:Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
203:September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy. ~ Vernon Jordan, #NFDB
204:That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
205:There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
206:There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. ~ Alexander Suvorov, #NFDB
207:The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try. ~ Sam Pink, #NFDB
208:What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go. ~ Danny Wallace, #NFDB
209:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
210:What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. ~ Moli re, #NFDB
211:Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
212:enfrentado valerosamente a la imagen terrible de la muerte ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
213:Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
214:Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
215:Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
216:I feel...a terrible need to piss in a Christening font. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
217:It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for. ~ Erich Maria Remarque, #NFDB
218:La mente es un magnífico criado pero un amo terrible. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
219:Make the matter even more terrible than the truth ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
220:No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
221:Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
222:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
223:We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place. ~ John Berryman, #NFDB
224:Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing! ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
225:All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born. ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB
226:And the wild things...gnashed their terrible teeth ... ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
227:Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. ~ Auberon Waugh, #NFDB
228:Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it’s human. So human. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
229:Es terrible, ¿verdad, Laurel?, cómo apartamos a la gente. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
230:How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
231:I am old. And tired of the terrible clarity of the young. ~ Sarah Blake, #NFDB
232:I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result. ~ Rich Fulcher, #NFDB
233:I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression. ~ Winona Ryder, #NFDB
234:she felt secure only in her terrible sense of insecurity. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
235:The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
236:There are much more terrible things than physical injury. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
237:There is something great and terrible about suicide. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
238:The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt. ~ Brigid Berlin, #NFDB
239:What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
240:world is terrible and wonderful at the same time. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
241:All is changed, changed utterly
A terrible beauty is born ~ W B Yeats,#NFDB
242:As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure. ~ Martha Wells, #NFDB
243:If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings. ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
244:I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying. ~ Scott Eastwood, #NFDB
245:I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar. ~ Ben Harper, #NFDB
246:I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. ~ Donald Sterling, #NFDB
247:It is that love can make the most terrible things acceptable. ~ Jade Lee, #NFDB
248:It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, #NFDB
249:It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
250:Kitten, your mind is a terrible and dirty place. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
251:No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. Luckily ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
252:Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
253:Obviously, I can't perform; admittedly, I'm terrible. ~ Courtney Solomon, #NFDB
254:Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad. ~ Graham Parker, #NFDB
255:Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
256:She could find joy during those terrible times. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson, #NFDB
257:The church has paid a terrible price for statistics! ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
258:The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
259:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
260:There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged. ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
261:What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people, ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
262:Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB
263:You are officially fired. You are a terrible conscience. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
264:You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are... ~ Adam Rex, #NFDB
265:A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
266:He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
267:How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men. ~ Ki Longfellow, #NFDB
268:I am really in love and it's a terrible experience. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
269:It is a terrible, terrible beauty that I do not understand. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
270:McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. ~ S I Hayakawa, #NFDB
271:My secret is a terrible secret, and holy in my heart. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
272:Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. ~ Jane Russell, #NFDB
273:Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
274:She looked beautiful, fierce, as terrible as a goddess. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
275:She was a strong prince.
Strong and terrible and fair ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
276:Terrible mania, when something happens, to enquire what. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
277:The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not? ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
278:The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons. ~ Jean Renoir, #NFDB
279:There it was, that familiar fear, love’s terrible price. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
280:...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone... ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
281:The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
282:A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing. ~ Phyllis Diller, #NFDB
283:Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don’t act on it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
284:Everything terrible is something that needs our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
285:Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
286:How terrible to die without finishing a book, she thought. ~ Heather Young, #NFDB
287:It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office. ~ Jilly Cooper, #NFDB
288:It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under? ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
289:Porque lo bello no es sino el comienzo de lo terrible ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
290:Shade’s death still weighs on me like a terrible stone. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
291:The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
292:The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. If ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
293:There aren't terrible ideas. Just ideas done terribly. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
294:There aren't terrible ideas, just ideas done terribly. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
295:There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things. ~ Gwen Cooper, #NFDB
296:The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts. ~ Anjelica Huston, #NFDB
297:How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
298:If love is a terrible disease, please give me seven doses. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
299:I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy. ~ Val Guest, #NFDB
300:I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
301:In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. ~ Marilyn Johnson, #NFDB
302:No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. ~ William Ellery Channing, #NFDB
303:People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
304:The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. ~ Jean Renoir, #NFDB
305:What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
306:What terrible tragedies people suffer through realism! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
307:Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin. ~ Matthew Flaming, #NFDB
308:Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
309:Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible. ~ Marina Abramovic, #NFDB
310:[ Hillary Clinton] is the one who has a terrible temperament. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
311:How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. ~ Dashiell Hammett, #NFDB
312:I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar. ~ Alyson Hannigan, #NFDB
313:If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
314:It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
315:Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. ~ Jorge Amado, #NFDB
316:My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist! ~ Paul Gauguin, #NFDB
317:People do terrible things. You should never blame ideas. ~ Marshall Thornton, #NFDB
318:Sweet, cherubic Jesus, this might've been a terrible plan. ~ Kate Canterbary, #NFDB
319:this violent, terrible, treasonous, glorious eruption of peace. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
320:Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
321:A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
322:If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
323:I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words. ~ Donald Sterling, #NFDB
324:it. Block out the terrible thoughts that invade your mind. I ~ Andrew Solomon, #NFDB
325:La tragedia más terrible no es morir, sino vivir sin propósito. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
326:Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
327:One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. ~ Emile Zola, #NFDB
328:One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
329:recordar asusta, pero no recordar es aún más terrible». ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
330:The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. ~ John Green, #NFDB
331:The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
332:This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard. ~ Cleve Jones, #NFDB
333:Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
334:what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.. ~ Victor Serge, #NFDB
335:Art is a terrible preacher, but a tremendous conversationalist. ~ Melanie Dale, #NFDB
336:Blue was not so much a terrible driver as a terrified one. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
337:Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea. ~ Bob McDonnell, #NFDB
338:I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. ~ Gordon Getty, #NFDB
339:I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it. ~ Ronnie Wood, #NFDB
340:Is love, yes, when a terrible feeling makes you happy? ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
341:It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
342:It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
343:Maybe it's a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
344:My love, I feel terrible without you. It is like being with you. ~ Manu Joseph, #NFDB
345:The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of Love ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
346:Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
347:A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
348:Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! ~ Homer, #NFDB
349:de lo terrible lo bello no es más que ese grado que aún soportamos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
350:Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
351:Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
352:Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
353:It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
354:It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
355:Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
356:Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone. ~ Mikl s B nffy, #NFDB
357:The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak. ~ Jared Cohen, #NFDB
358:The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
359:There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
360:There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
361:War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
362:a false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
363:Another terrible night. Neighbor was busy with his hamsters again ~ Graham Parke, #NFDB
364:Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don’t act on it. ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
365:Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
366:Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. ~ Horace, #NFDB
367:It is a terrible thing to see someone else scared, isn’t it? ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
368:It was beautiful, in its own terrible way.
So many monsters are. ~ Mira Grant,#NFDB
369:I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them. ~ Louise Bay, #NFDB
370:Let’s set the bar for ideas a little higher than not terrible. ~ Adam Sternbergh, #NFDB
371:My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation. ~ Sean Astin, #NFDB
372:My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible. ~ Kevin Eubanks, #NFDB
373:People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
374:She was beautiful; she was also terrible. She was the Summer Queen. ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
375:Since we have met I feel both happy and terrible all of the time. ~ Trish Doller, #NFDB
376:So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible. ~ Simon Cowell, #NFDB
377:terrible indifference towards one’s neighbor… . [P]eople today ~ Michael Gaitley, #NFDB
378:The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
379:There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
380:You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
381:Alas! how terrible it is to know,
Where no good comes of knowing! ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
382:All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ~ Cleopatra, #NFDB
383:Did you listen to that tape? It makes me sound terrible. And ~ Mary Higgins Clark, #NFDB
384:Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231) ~ Keith Ablow, #NFDB
385:had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
386:How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
387:I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero. ~ Kelly Macdonald, #NFDB
388:I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
389:It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
390:It is a very terrible thing to be far smaller than one's rage. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
391:It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
392:Plans To Embrace Terrible, Horrible Plan For Gays The Huffington Post ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
393:the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
394:Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. ~ Gosho Aoyama, #NFDB
395:Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I’m ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
396:We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
397:What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
398:What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
399:Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. ~ Octave Mirbeau, #NFDB
400:Yet, Áine decided, was a terrible word. A terrible word, indeed. ~ Kelly Barnhill, #NFDB
401:You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible. ~ Larry Page, #NFDB
402:A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. ~ Farhan Akhtar, #NFDB
403:As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
404:As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
405:Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
406:Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
407:Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa. ~ Terry McMillan, #NFDB
408:He-who-must-not-be-named did great things, terrible, yes. But great. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
409:If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
410:I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M. ~ James Herbert, #NFDB
411:I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend. ~ Fred Armisen, #NFDB
412:it was almost like this terrible thing had made life a little better. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
413:It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress. ~ Fay Vincent, #NFDB
414:The dragon roared. Terrible sound, that. Made my testicles shrink. ~ Gene Doucette, #NFDB
415:To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. ~ Helen Dunmore, #NFDB
416:You’re an amazing woman … a terrible influence, but an amazing woman. ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
417:Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! ~ Homer,#NFDB
418:He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
419:How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
420:I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films. ~ Cary Fukunaga, #NFDB
421:It's a terrible thing to be nearly sixteen and the wrong species. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
422:I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
423:I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. ~ Charlie Simpson, #NFDB
424:looked terrible! Her face was covered with bright yellow spots! ~ Mary Pope Osborne, #NFDB
425:Oh, it was, and, remains, a source of great and terrible wonder. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
426:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
427:Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
428:People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. “What’s ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
429:The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
430:To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
431:To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
432:We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty. ~ Marina Abramovic, #NFDB
433:Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. ~ Laurie Simmons, #NFDB
434:A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. ~ Sue Miller, #NFDB
435:Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. ~ Ernest Becker, #NFDB
436:Fear may be an effective motivator, but it's a terrible master." pg 19 ~ Chris Hogan, #NFDB
437:For 240 years, it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
438:I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list. ~ Kristen Wiig, #NFDB
439:I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
440:I'm a terrible dancer! I dance like a guy who is trying to dance. ~ Enrique Iglesias, #NFDB
441:I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden". ~ Ruth Rendell, #NFDB
442:It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
443:It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
444:It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. ~ Jose Marti, #NFDB
445:It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. ~ Arthur Schnitzler, #NFDB
446:It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB
447:It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
448:Raising a teenager makes the terrible twos seem like a holiday in Hawaii. ~ Ruby Wax, #NFDB
449:Secret and terrible things are hidden everywhere
in this world. ~ A Manette Ansay,#NFDB
450:That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. ~ Nick Flynn, #NFDB
451:The cross reveals how terrible my sin is but also how sure my pardon is. ~ R W Glenn, #NFDB
452:The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. ~ Remy de Gourmont, #NFDB
453:The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. ~ R my de Gourmont, #NFDB
454:What are we supposed to do about the terrible innocence of Americans? ~ Helen Thorpe, #NFDB
455:And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one: ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
456:Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. ~ Joe Meno, #NFDB
457:Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood. ~ Luis Alberto Urrea, #NFDB
458:I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
459:I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish. ~ Julie Delpy, #NFDB
460:I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again. ~ Chuck Close, #NFDB
461:I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success! ~ Ashley Madekwe, #NFDB
462:It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
463:It was terrible, being married to someone who thinks the worst of you. ~ Claire Cross, #NFDB
464:Pretty much everything that isn’t terrible is awesome in America now. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
465:There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace ~ Bernard Hinault, #NFDB
466:The world swarmed with terrible problems but they were not her affair. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
467:This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
468:We had a terrible start… doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
469:Why would anyone want to be God?" he asked. "It's a terrible occupation. ~ Jane Yolen, #NFDB
470:A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. ~ Edward R Murrow, #NFDB
471:Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio. ~ Millicent Martin, #NFDB
472:Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist. ~ Kevin Wilson, #NFDB
473:I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity. ~ Benny Hinn, #NFDB
474:If you talk too openly about terrible things people shrink from you. ~ Gilly Macmillan, #NFDB
475:I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself. ~ Duane Michals, #NFDB
476:Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be? ~ Monique Martin, #NFDB
477:I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ~ Sydney Pollack, #NFDB
478:I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any. ~ Bob Dole, #NFDB
479:Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
480:She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
481:The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ~ James F Cooper, #NFDB
482:There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
483:The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ~ William Barclay, #NFDB
484:This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones ~ Karen Foxlee,#NFDB
485:What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
486:What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
487:Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake. ~ Bob Barker, #NFDB
488:Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
489:Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. ~ S D Smith, #NFDB
490:I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory. ~ Jim Shaw, #NFDB
491:I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. ~ John Green, #NFDB
492:Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself. ~ Sarah Paulson, #NFDB
493:Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
494:Right,” Holden said. “No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet. ~ James S A Corey, #NFDB
495:She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, damnit. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
496:The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny. ~ Andre Malraux, #NFDB
497:The unfixable nature of never—that’s what makes it so terrible to bear. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
498:We’re going to be together. And have terrible, terrible little children. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
499:Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
500:Everything he had dreamed of for so long had happened. And it was terrible. ~ Tim Lebbon, #NFDB
501:Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
502:How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
503:I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. ~ David Knopfler, #NFDB
504:I thought he [Tim Kaine] was terrible. I thought his speech was terrible. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
505:I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
506:Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
507:My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. ~ Alex Korb, #NFDB
508:My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
509:Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~ Juan Ram n Jim nez, #NFDB
510:Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez, #NFDB
511:Sometimes being an adult doesn't prevent you from making terrible choices ~ Zoe Whittall, #NFDB
512:They're not terrible people. They just couldn't be who I needed them to be. ~ Doug Dorst, #NFDB
513:Your heart is raw and bleeding.
Everything is strange and terrible. ~ Vasily Grossman,#NFDB
514:Death was far less terrible than the living prospect that was before us ~ Solomon Northup, #NFDB
515:He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
516:He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
517:How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
518:If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from. ~ Sei Sh nagon, #NFDB
519:I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
520:Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
521:It is well that war is so terrible: we should grow too fond of it. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison, #NFDB
522:It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is? ~ Martin Bashir, #NFDB
523:Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
524:Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
525:Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
526:Look, my terrible childhood is all I’ve got! Don’t you dare try to top it. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
527:No beast of reality, or creature of imagination, is as terrible as mankind. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
528:Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. ~ Dashiell Hammett, #NFDB
529:Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
530:That could be a good sign, right?” “Sure,” I said. It was a terrible sign. ~ Martha Wells, #NFDB
531:The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
532:There’s nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
533:The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you. ~ Paul Washer, #NFDB
534:The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible. ~ Dominic Cooper, #NFDB
535:This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
536:Tragedy is based on this sense that there's been a terrible mistake,isn't it? ~ Lily King, #NFDB
537:Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
538:You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
539:I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible. ~ Toma alamun, #NFDB
540:If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
541:I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay. ~ Edie Campbell, #NFDB
542:I miss those days, don’t you? I mean, except for the terrible parts. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
543:It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
544:It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world, ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
545:It was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it was almost indescribably eerie. ~ Andy Remic, #NFDB
546:Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
547:New York is terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
548:Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging
judges things all wrong. ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
549:Strange and terrible were the adventures they undertook with a merry heart ~ John Matthews, #NFDB
550:The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Misty Griffin, #NFDB
551:The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
552:The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
553:The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once ~ Emily Henry, #NFDB
554:This is not a date; this is an audition for a play about a terrible date. ~ Jami Attenberg, #NFDB
555:time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. ~ Gosho Aoyama, #NFDB
556:We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea." ~ Alexis Ohanian, #NFDB
557:A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
558:I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
559:I realize the terrible screaming is coming from me. What’s the matter with me? ~ Anya Allyn, #NFDB
560:It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
561:It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
562:My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go. ~ Ryan Reynolds, #NFDB
563:Now she did not even wish to try, for fear of rousing up something terrible. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
564:People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. ~ Penelope Gilliatt, #NFDB
565:Popularity is a terrible goal, because you have to lose yourself to find it. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
566:The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
567:The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
568:There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously. ~ Barry Humphries, #NFDB
569:There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
570:There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
571:The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
572:The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
573:What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real. ~ Miranda July, #NFDB
574:When infinity opens to us, terrible indeed is the closing of the gate behind. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
575:A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
576:Attendre est encore une occupation. C'est ne rien attendre qui est terrible. ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
577:Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. ~ Tanya Huff, #NFDB
578:Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
579:Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting. ~ Sherry Thomas, #NFDB
580:Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
581:I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything. ~ Nicola Formichetti, #NFDB
582:I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city. ~ Fran Wilde, #NFDB
583:I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
584:I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. ~ Steve Buscemi, #NFDB
585:I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing. ~ Cillian Murphy, #NFDB
586:It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen. ~ Eve Bunting, #NFDB
587:It's a terrible thing to outlive your child, a tragedy I wish upon no one. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
588:Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen." ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
589:My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible. ~ Harold Budd, #NFDB
590:One thing Barack Obama is: He's a good campaigner. He's a terrible president. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
591:Revenge is a terrible tool, a dagger where the hilt is as sharp as the blade. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
592:Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
593:The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
594:The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
595:The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. ~ Countee Cullen, #NFDB
596:The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Mother Teresa,#NFDB
597:We’ve had a terrible start - it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
598:What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. ~ P D James, #NFDB
599:But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
600:Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class. ~ Andy Samberg, #NFDB
601:Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
602:For men, incompetence was a gambit: I'm terrible at this; you do it . ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
603:Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
604:I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer. ~ J Robbins, #NFDB
605:In fact, studies show that people are terrible at estimating their abilities. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
606:It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
607:It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
608:It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done! ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
609:I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not. ~ Richard Griffiths, #NFDB
610:Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
611:Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
612:My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it. ~ Victoria Laurie, #NFDB
613:No matter how long you lived, you never got used to seeing terrible things. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
614:No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
615:Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. ~ Dashiell Hammett,#NFDB
616:Nothing is superior to truthfulness, nor anything more terrible than falsehood. ~ Mahabharata, #NFDB
617:Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
618:The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
619:There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. ~ Harry Connick Jr, #NFDB
620:the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime. . . . We do not touch the innocent. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
621:They look like scarecrows shipping west to be staked in some terrible garden. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
622:What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular, ~ Edward W Robertson, #NFDB
623:What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
624:After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
625:El libro es bálsamo para las heridas del terrible tiempo en que nos toco vivir. ~ Benito Taibo, #NFDB
626:Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
627:He felt eyes suddenly upon him because marital telepathy is a terrible thing ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
628:Her smile was beautiful and terrible. Her eyes glowed as bright as a furnace. ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
629:How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives! ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
630:I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
631:In the journey of life, emotions make great companions but terrible leaders. But ~ Judah Smith, #NFDB
632:I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
633:It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. ~ Charles Frazier, #NFDB
634:I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
635:Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden. ~ Kelly Barnhill, #NFDB
636:Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong. ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
637:Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. ~ Loni Anderson, #NFDB
638:This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible. ~ Michelle Tea, #NFDB
639:we were Chronics. Prone to chronic tragedy. One terrible thing after another. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
640:What seems terrible at first may turn out to be a great thing. You can't predict. ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
641:And this...was the natural order: love everywhere, and also, a terrible mess. ~ Rebecca Coleman, #NFDB
642:An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
643:Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
644:Es el demonio, padre mío", le dijo Delaura. "El más terrible de todos. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
645:everybody’d still be making the same terrible mistake—being nice to each other. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
646:How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
647:I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside. ~ James Herriot, #NFDB
648:I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
649:I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending. ~ Sherry Stringfield, #NFDB
650:It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
651:Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
652:Suspicious people should be terrible lie catchers, prone to disbelieving-the-truth ~ Paul Ekman, #NFDB
653:Tenemos todo lo que queremos” es un dicho terrible cuando “todo” no incluye a Dios. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
654:Terrible and beautiful things happened to everyone. That was life. Simply life. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
655:Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
656:The most terrible nightmare I ever had. It's the most horrible dream I ever had. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
657:There aren’t terrible ideas,” the Gray Man said. “Just ideas done terribly. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
658:Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
659:The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you. ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB
660:Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word, ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
661:Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
662:Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
663:Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming. ~ Susan Dorothea White, #NFDB
664:First love is not always happy. It can sometimes be like a terrible illness. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
665:I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward. ~ Rickie Lee Jones, #NFDB
666:I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile. ~ Nikki Cox, #NFDB
667:I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret. ~ Andrew Fastow, #NFDB
668:It sounds like a terrible idea,” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work. ~ R A Spratt, #NFDB
669:I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
670:Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles. ~ Nora Roberts, #NFDB
671:My brother is a strange fellow," said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
672:My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Bill Watterson Calvin ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
673:Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing. ~ Guy Branum, #NFDB
674:Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act. ~ Jena Malone, #NFDB
675:Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. ~ Jimmy Fallon, #NFDB
676:When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible. ~ Oscar Robertson, #NFDB
677:When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. ~ Bernadette Peters, #NFDB
678:An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
679:Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
680:Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public. ~ Brian Posehn, #NFDB
681:Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
682:I bought the world’s worst thesaurus yesterday. Not only is it terrible, it’s terrible. ~ Various, #NFDB
683:If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
684:I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
685:It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
686:It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. ~ Louis C K, #NFDB
687:It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment. ~ Graham Shiels, #NFDB
688:It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
689:I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
690:Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
691:Knowledge is powerful, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden. ~ Kelly Barnhill, #NFDB
692:Maybe we just don't recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
693:My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
694:Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you! ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
695:Something terrible's coming, and everyone in the world is working to bring it on. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
696:The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
697:There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
698:The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
699:To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
700:Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word, ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
701:Waking to the truth when it’s too late is a terrible thing. I know that very well. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
702:Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
703:... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
704:but it was love in an inferno: that terrible relentless withholding of forgiveness. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
705:I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
706:I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
707:I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
708:In a moment of terrible heartbreak, he (The Sweep) had taught her to see wonder. ~ Jonathan Auxier, #NFDB
709:It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.’ Napoleon ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
710:It's terrible never to find a father in a world chock-full of fathers of all sorts. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
711:I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. — ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
712:Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves! ~ Georges Danton, #NFDB
713:like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
714:Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
715:My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
716:Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing. ~ Andre Leon Talley, #NFDB
717:Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
718:Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
719:The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
720:Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
721:Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
722:a cup of room coffee,” Will said. “It’s terrible, tastes like chemicals and poison, ~ Charles Soule, #NFDB
723:A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. ~ Cecil B DeMille, #NFDB
724:... afraid of everything because nothing truly terrible had happened to me, yet. ~ Melanie Benjamin, #NFDB
725:Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ~ Leonard Woolf, #NFDB
726:Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
727:from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
728:Have you ever been in love?
Yes.
What's it like?
Great and terrible. Like Oz. ~ Alex Adams,#NFDB
729:Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
730:Humidity did terrible things to me. I‘d be much prettier if I lived in the desert. ~ Kim Harrington, #NFDB
731:If something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain. ~ Galt Niederhoffer, #NFDB
732:I'm livin' high on the hog, and let me tell you, hogs make a terrible foundation. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
733:I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible. ~ Bruno Tonioli, #NFDB
734:It’s not my place to make terrible truths easier to hear; all I do is reveal them. ~ Lysley Tenorio, #NFDB
735:It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them. ~ Rachel Field, #NFDB
736:Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
737:Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
738:No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start. ~ Rachel Zoe, #NFDB
739:Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life. ~ Paz Vega, #NFDB
740:Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
741:There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it. ~ Gaston Leroux, #NFDB
742:There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ~ Cleveland Amory, #NFDB
743:These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
744:The worst thing wasn’t something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful. ~ Jaclyn Dolamore, #NFDB
745:Tis my belief she’s a very good woman at bottom.”
“She’s terrible deep, then. ~ Thomas Hardy,#NFDB
746:When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
747:Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
748:An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
749:A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world ~ Ron Rash, #NFDB
750:A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
751:Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
752:Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
753:Everyone in my orbit would have a terrible day: the arbiter of days has decreed it. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
754:Good land!” she exclaimed. “You do look terrible, Charles. You ought to be in bed. ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
755:He shook his head. "You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
756:I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened. ~ Lars von Trier, #NFDB
757:I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
758:I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand. ~ Ken Jennings, #NFDB
759:I guess once you'd had a taste of the worst, pretty bad isn't all that terrible. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
760:I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. ~ Carly Simon, #NFDB
761:I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. ~ Wolfgang Pauli, #NFDB
762:I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good. ~ Kohta Hirano, #NFDB
763:My parents called me Penelope because they clearly wanted me to have a terrible life. ~ Alison Evans, #NFDB
764:...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
765:The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
766:There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB
767:There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
768:The situation was terrible, of course. But the universe could still be so beautiful. ~ Daniel Suarez, #NFDB
769:This man had a huge and terrible conscience riding herd on a huge and terrible greed. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
770:To a terrible place which men’s ears may not hear of, nor their eyes see it. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
771:We are all capable of doing every terrible thing that we are capable of doing. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
772:What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones. ~ Anjelica Huston, #NFDB
773:Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
774:Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked between the wrong people ~ Natasha Anders, #NFDB
775:He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
776:He was terrible at falling—Roar was right about that—but nothing ever kept him down. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
777:I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. ~ Various, #NFDB
778:I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I’ve become. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
779:My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
780:Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them. ~ Jack Campbell, #NFDB
781:Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure. ~ E Stanley Jones, #NFDB
782:That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty ~ David Guterson, #NFDB
783:There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
784:The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901) ~ Ian Kershaw, #NFDB
785:We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
786:What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
787:what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
788:You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
789:All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
790:Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
791:I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible. ~ Daphne Guinness, #NFDB
792:I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner, #NFDB
793:I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy. ~ Kris Allen, #NFDB
794:I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
795:It's terrible to live believing that everything you do is of the utmost importance. ~ Kathryn Harrison, #NFDB
796:It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,” she said simply. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
797:I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
798:Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
799:People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them. ~ Henry Mosquera, #NFDB
800:The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
801:You can't expect children to sew their own gaping wounds without leaving a terrible scar. ~ Jamie Ford, #NFDB
802:You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. ~ Maya Lin, #NFDB
803:A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
804:Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish. ~ Anne Enright, #NFDB
805:He’s a truly terrible dancer,” Ruby says. “It looks like he’s having a vertical seizure. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
806:How do you feel about this terrible thing?"
"Terrible," said Oedipa.
"Wonderful! ~ Thomas Pynchon,#NFDB
807:How terrible it was that it should be spring, and everything cold-hearted, cold-hearted. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
808:Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile. ~ Francine Pascal, #NFDB
809:I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad. ~ Lara Stone, #NFDB
810:I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring. ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
811:I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
812:I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible. ~ Emilio Estevez, #NFDB
813:I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. ~ Peter Kay, #NFDB
814:I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work. ~ Emily Gould, #NFDB
815:It is a terrible thing to feel trapped within a movie whose plot twists are senseless. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
816:it is well that war is so terrible, because otherwise people would grow too fond of it, ~ Jack Campbell, #NFDB
817:Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
818:Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
819:Oh, this was a terrible flaw in her, this need to interfere and manage and fix things. ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
820:People have a way of believing nothing terrible will ever happen to them, only to others. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
821:There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. ~ Romano Prodi, #NFDB
822:There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
823:Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end. ~ Bruce Cumings, #NFDB
824:What a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre! ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
825:What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
826:Como magullados,
sensibles al tacto; en un momento nos dimos la mano y fue terrible. ~ Julio Cort zar,#NFDB
827:Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind. ~ Rosie Thomas, #NFDB
828:How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible: By the mere thought my terror is renewed. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
829:I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
830:I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
831:If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
832:I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
833:It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
834:It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
835:I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. ~ Rick Reilly, #NFDB
836:mind is a terrible thing to waste, and the United States is wasting too many of them. ~ Raghuram G Rajan, #NFDB
837:mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the fear and the fascination. The great and terrible awe. ~ John Green, #NFDB
838:Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
839:People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great. ~ James D Watson, #NFDB
840:Perdre quelqu'un qu'on a aimé est terrible, mais le pire serait de ne pas l'avoir rencontré. ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
841:Resulta que soy absolutamente terrible en permanecer lejos de ti. Es un problema muy serio. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
842:Suicide is a terrible idea, but if you're going to end it, do so at a Pinkberry near you. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
843:Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
844:That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me—that dark fire, that music … ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
845:The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. ~ Sally Quinn, #NFDB
846:There is much that is noble in all religions, but there is also much that is terrible. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
847:There was no living thing in the universe that was more alone than me. Or more terrible. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
848:The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable. ~ Sean Connery, #NFDB
849:...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
850:Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
851:I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen. ~ Ralph Lauren, #NFDB
852:I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy. ~ Ian Anderson, #NFDB
853:I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible. ~ Gavin Extence, #NFDB
854:I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
855:Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head. ~ Ben Hecht, #NFDB
856:I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something. ~ Rebecca Mead, #NFDB
857:La veritat és una cosa meravellosa, i alhora terrible, i s'hi ha d'anar amb molt de compte. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
858:Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
859:Oh, superstition is terrible, terrible! oh, it is the great defect in our Indian character! ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
860:People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
861:Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
862:The Bluebeard’s terrible parting gift had been to make desire rhyme with death and fear. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
863:The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
864:There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
865:There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
866:There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
867:There´s always use in fighting,” said Emma. “Especially when it makes terrible people cry. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
868:There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. ~ Frank O Hara, #NFDB
869:The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives. ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
870:This is a terrible thing that she is saying. It is a terrible thing that she loves herself. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
871:true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
872:What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
873:When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one. ~ Priyanka Chopra, #NFDB
874:Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. ~ Plato, #NFDB
875:Flag arguments are ugly. Passing a boolean into a function is a truly terrible practice. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
876:Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
877:His terrible hunger he’d thought would be sated was not. The end apparent in the beginning. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
878:I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism. ~ Sanjeev Bhaskar, #NFDB
879:I really such a terrible mother?’ she asked Bertie. ‘Why the past tense?’ Bertie said. Sow ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
880:It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
881:It was from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
882:La verdad. Es una cosa terrible y hermosa, y por lo tanto debe ser tratada con gran cuidado. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
883:Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.) ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
884:Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
885:This is a terrible, horrible, incredibly foolish idea. Let’s try it and see what happens. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
886:Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
887:You must be terrible at birthday parties. I’m certainly never letting you give me the bumps. ~ Lily Morton, #NFDB
888:Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. ~ Harry Houdini, #NFDB
889:God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it! ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
890:Her whole body ached; she ached, as if there were a terrible hollow emptiness inside her. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
891:I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible. ~ Vanessa Paradis, #NFDB
892:If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound. ~ NoViolet Bulawayo, #NFDB
893:Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional. ~ Vicki Escarra, #NFDB
894:I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
895:Is it really possible to quit, and step out of a car that’s taking you someplace terrible? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
896:I think the world is just as terrible as beautiful and just as beautiful as terrible. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
897:It's terrible to be alone and frightened at any age, but I think it's worse when you're old. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
898:It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
899:It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
900:I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
901:Lo terrible no es la muerte, sino las vidas que la gente vive o no vive hasta su muerte. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
902:People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. ~ Klaus Kinski, #NFDB
903:Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
904:She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says.
'Which part?,' I ask.
'Being human. ~ A M Homes,#NFDB
905:Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. ~ Sextus Empiricus, #NFDB
906:Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. ~ Jeanne Moreau, #NFDB
907:Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: you have no one to blame. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
908:The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own. ~ Lauren Beukes, #NFDB
909:What a ridiculous sentiment. ‘Adventures’ is just a different name for ‘terrible ideas. ~ Cecil Castellucci, #NFDB
910:What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
911:Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen? ~ Maggie O Farrell, #NFDB
912:A terrible thing, is it not, when a woman is passed over, left unclaimed like unwanted baggage. ~ Eve Silver, #NFDB
913:C’mon, what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
914:Even I won't defy her. She is terrible."
"Let me tell you a secret, General. I am worse. ~ Erika Johansen,#NFDB
915:Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really. ~ Bo Derek, #NFDB
916:I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
917:If the movie is terrible, then the 3D sucks. If the movie is fantastic, then the 3D is good. ~ Rob Letterman, #NFDB
918:I guess none of us will get through this without some terrible sin. This will be mine. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
919:I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person. ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
920:In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail. ~ Anne Fontaine, #NFDB
921:I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. ~ Tony Curtis, #NFDB
922:My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
923:The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, #NFDB
924:There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
925:There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen. ~ Dexter Palmer, #NFDB
926:Until the other shoe drops and the real terrible things happen, it’s best to enjoy the quiet. I ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
927:We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
928:When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
929:You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.
It's really funny. ~ Brandon Sanderson,#NFDB
930:—Alles gut, Saumensch?
No necesitaba una respuesta.
Todo iba bien.
Pero era terrible. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
931:a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
932:Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie. ~ Susan Howatch, #NFDB
933:but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
934:but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
935:Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
936:Here on the road with nothing but darkness around me, I tell a stranger how terrible I am. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
937:He’s the dark side of the moon. He’s my beautiful, terrible mystery. My friend. My soulmate. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
938:Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. ~ Colin Angle, #NFDB
939:I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers, ~ John Green, #NFDB
940:I gave in to that feeling. I didn't care what it made me -weak selfish, stupid, terrible. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
941:I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. ~ Roberto Cavalli, #NFDB
942:In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife. ~ June Allyson, #NFDB
943:Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
944:My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
945:¿No estás de acuerdo en que hasta la venganza más terrible empieza con una simple pregunta? ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
946:Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
947:Right, life was still terrible. Check. But now a little less terrible, because, you know, coffee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
948:The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity. ~ Andrena Sawyer, #NFDB
949:Theres a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart. ~ Leeza Gibbons, #NFDB
950:The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
951:throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
952:What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
953:With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. ~ Jean Anouilh, #NFDB
954:Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
955:A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan. ~ Coolio, #NFDB
956:Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
957:For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible. ~ William Lane Craig, #NFDB
958:He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, #NFDB
959:How terrible to die without finishing a book, she thought. Never to know the end of the story. ~ Heather Young, #NFDB
960:I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. ~ Elizabeth Hurley, #NFDB
961:I dare say that when I get out of this bed I shall do some deed of an almost terrible virtue. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
962:I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. ~ Saul Kripke, #NFDB
963:I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
964:I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche. ~ Sally Quinn, #NFDB
965:I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
966:• • • Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts. ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
967:My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. ~ Pamela Anderson, #NFDB
968:People are always dying. Its a terrible habit they have and nothing you can do will change that. ~ Sally Green, #NFDB
969:Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare. ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
970:That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
971:The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ~ William Dean Howells, #NFDB
972:There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
973:Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet. ~ Garth Nix, #NFDB
974:We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
975:What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
976:A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
977:Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business. ~ Robert Falcon Scott, #NFDB
978:Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it. ~ Andrei Platonov, #NFDB
979:... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed! ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
980:I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible. ~ Geraldine Ferraro, #NFDB
981:I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell. ~ Leslie Caron, #NFDB
982:I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. ~ Paul Engle, #NFDB
983:I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
984:It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
985:Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
986:My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there. ~ Kitty Carlisle, #NFDB
987:Sin dudas, la vida siempre es terrible. No podemos evitarlo y, sin embargo, somos responsables. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
988:The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. ~ Shirley Manson, #NFDB
989:To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
990:You have to look for the little mercies, the small kindnesses and good that come from the terrible. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
991:You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
992:How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards—exiled, ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
993:I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
994:I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. ~ Paula Poundstone, #NFDB
995:I know it’s impossible to explain this to you. I carry this terrible aching hell in my heart. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
996:In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
997:It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people. ~ Eminem, #NFDB
998:It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” Whether ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
999:It took time to break a devout man of his beliefs, and it was a terrible thing to witness. ~ Matthew FitzSimmons, #NFDB
1000:I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that. ~ Kelly Oxford, #NFDB
1001:Lectures, says Minerva’s Stephen Kosslyn, are ‘a great way to teach, but a terrible way to learn’. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1002:Me desperté en el sofá de mi hermana con una resaca terrible y el deseo de asesinar a mi esposa. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1003:My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul. ~ Nikita Khrushchev, #NFDB
1004:Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1005:Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1006:The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1007:This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1008:This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
1009:what was hope but a fight between two possible outcomes: the wonderful and the terrible? ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
1010:(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl) ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1011:A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. ~ Aga Khan IV, #NFDB
1012:Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
1013:But now her tears dried because so many terrible emotions and speculations demanded her attention. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1014:Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
1015:Dear V.,
I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.
- A. ~ Emily St John Mandel,#NFDB
1016:I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly. ~ Jeffrey Deitch, #NFDB
1017:I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman. ~ Pete Hautman, #NFDB
1018:I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines. ~ Angela Sarafyan, #NFDB
1019:Is it terrible to take solace in finding oneself better off than the huddled masses? ~ Miranda Beverly Whittemore, #NFDB
1020:know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
1021:No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1022:One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1023:She accepted the bargain without understanding the price. A terrible mistake, for an accountant. ~ Seth Dickinson, #NFDB
1024:The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure. ~ Edith Hamilton, #NFDB
1025:There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love. ~ Elin Hilderbrand, #NFDB
1026:These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
1027:This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1028:"Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!" ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1029:What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1030:What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway. ~ Jack Ketchum, #NFDB
1031:Actually, the real mystery is why more people don’t commit murder. It must be terrible to be human. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1032:All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1033:And then at last I began to realize how terrible a thing it was, the dream that you make come true. ~ James M Cain, #NFDB
1034:An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1035:As is so often the case, those things we wish to forget have a terrible habit of consuming our minds. ~ Terah Edun, #NFDB
1036:At least, I’m not as terrible a magician as whoever enchanted that poor cat!
- Mildred Jaeger ~ Brad Strickland,#NFDB
1037:But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1038:But the truth is that we’re all just stumbling around in the dark. Sometimes we hit something terrible. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
1039:Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going. ~ Guru Gobind Singh, #NFDB
1040:Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1041:Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB
1042:I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness. ~ Andrei Sakharov, #NFDB
1043:I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1044:It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1045:It is those terrible reminders of what was and what could have been that will rob us of hope. ~ Robert Chazz Chute, #NFDB
1046:It’s one of humanity’s worst traits. Good intentions justify all kinds of terrible behavior.” Myron ~ Rachel Aaron, #NFDB
1047:It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen. ~ Emily Susan Rapp, #NFDB
1048:I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking". ~ Cass Elliot, #NFDB
1049:No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1050:Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
1051:Somehow, she walked out of a terrible place and into a terrible power, and she came through kind. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1052:That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu ~ Ruth Reichl, #NFDB
1053:The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1054:The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1055:The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you’re one of them. ~ Lauren Gilley, #NFDB
1056:The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate. ~ Kamila Shamsie, #NFDB
1057:Though putting off the inevitable only makes the inevitable loom larger, more dangerous and terrible. ~ Jen Larsen, #NFDB
1058:Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
1059:What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1060:What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes. ~ Alex Gibney, #NFDB
1061:When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. ~ Robert Downey Jr, #NFDB
1062:You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my
sake. A for effort. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1063:As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
1064:As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you. ~ Jenna Marbles, #NFDB
1065:Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1066:es sufrir la discriminación. La indiferencia de los hombres buenos hace del mundo un lugar terrible ~ Mario Escobar, #NFDB
1067:I am like a lifeguard with the terrible, secret knowledge that he does not himself know how to swim. ~ Shira Nayman, #NFDB
1068:I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with. ~ Phil Collins, #NFDB
1069:It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success. ~ Claude Lelouch, #NFDB
1070:Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB
1071:Making other people feel like assholes was a terrible way to get them to stop acting like assholes. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
1072:—No debo preocuparme —dijo ella—. Mientras hay vida, hay esperanza.
—Qué idea tan terrible ~ Penelope Fitzgerald,#NFDB
1073:One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1074:Saying you have a terrible track record is like saying Hannibal Lecter just hosted bad dinner parties. ~ Staci Hart, #NFDB
1075:Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. ~ Amanda Palmer, #NFDB
1076:Terrible things can happen when you’re overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
1077:The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
1078:This new Ariella, quiet and sad, bowed under the weight of terrible knowledge and countless secrets, ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1079:Those were terrible things, but I think the cure was a lot worse than the disease. Know what I mean? ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1080:"Weak and miserable as I am, I can still stand up to the terrible tragedy of life and prevail!" ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1081:We are desperate to feel that our lives matter and we have a terrible suspicion that they might not. ~ Jacob Nordby, #NFDB
1082:We talked about how terrible it is that you spend so much of your life hoping you’re not pregnant ~ Katherine Heiny, #NFDB
1083:What’s it like to be in love?”"It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you, ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1084:When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love. ~ Monica Bellucci, #NFDB
1085:You've not been an idiot. It's hard to believe that the people we love can do terrible things to us. ~ Mackenzi Lee, #NFDB
1086:Aunque es terrible comprenderlo, la vida se hace en borrador y no nos es dado corregir sus páginas. ~ Ernesto Sabato, #NFDB
1087:He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic. ~ Adam Nevill, #NFDB
1088:I'll explain it to you: it's terrible to remember, but it's far more terrible not to remember. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
1089:It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing. ~ Anita Diament, #NFDB
1090:It is terrible if I should be denied Christian burial just because turkeys will not baste themselves. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB
1091:It is terrible to be singled out, to feel eyes on you all the time. It is wonderful, and terrible too. ~ Sari Wilson, #NFDB
1092:It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. ~ Maria Callas, #NFDB
1093:It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet to feel angry that the need existed. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1094:Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
1095:Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni, #NFDB
1096:Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1097:pig is not like other animals. There is a spark of intelligence and a terrible practicality in pigs. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
1098:She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
1099:She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
1100:Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. —Erica Jong ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
1101:There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study. ~ Ovadia Yosef, #NFDB
1102:There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly, ~ Alexandra Kleeman, #NFDB
1103:They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1104:We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
1105:writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1106:Your twenties are the worst part of your life that you don't actually know at the time is terrible. ~ Julie Klausner, #NFDB
1107:Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1108:For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
1109:He is a terrible human being. He's a shit. So don't dwell on him. Flush him out of your life. Gone. ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
1110:if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people? ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
1111:If you were away from home, you had to use a phone attached by a wire to the wall. It was terrible. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1112:I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1113:I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me. ~ Barbara Hulanicki, #NFDB
1114:I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1115:It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday. ~ Barbara Hambly, #NFDB
1116:I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level. ~ Rashida Jones, #NFDB
1117:It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it. ~ Woody Harrelson, #NFDB
1118:It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. ~ Josef Albers, #NFDB
1119:It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, #NFDB
1120:I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB
1121:Maybe it's a terrible thing, to keep a war to yourself. But maybe that's the way it has to be. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
1122:Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1123:. . . solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1124:Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form. ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
1125:Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life. ~ Sebastian Barry, #NFDB
1126:Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time. ~ A Lee Martinez, #NFDB
1127:the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
1128:There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news. ~ Jacqueline Winspear, #NFDB
1129:The world was abruptly sharp and clear, too clear, and too alive. It was terrible beyond words. The ~ Christina Henry, #NFDB
1130:This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate. ~ Tyler Oakley, #NFDB
1131:...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1132:I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1133:I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1134:I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds. ~ Yvonne Strahovski, #NFDB
1135:I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home. ~ Sarah Sutton, #NFDB
1136:I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined. ~ Pete Hamill, #NFDB
1137:I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1138:It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1139:It's a terrible feeling to go to the funeral of someone whose voice you can't even remember. ~ Pierdomenico Baccalario, #NFDB
1140:I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1141:Life keeps on making the terrible mistake of making impatient people capable of making children. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1142:Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i]
Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
1143:My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. ~ John Bonham, #NFDB
1144:Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. ~ Kingsley Amis, #NFDB
1145:«Qué terrible es la diferencia entre el gobierno de la justicia y la tiranía de los más convincentes.» ~ Marcos Chicot, #NFDB
1146:Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1147:The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ~ John Keegan, #NFDB
1148:The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay, #NFDB
1149:There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1150:This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. ~ Robert Hayden, #NFDB
1151:We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1152:We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own. ~ Derren Brown, #NFDB
1153:Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like? ~ Ansel Elgort, #NFDB
1154:A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1155:Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
1156:If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
1157:If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts. ~ Ad le Geras, #NFDB
1158:If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end. ~ Sharon J Bolton, #NFDB
1159:It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1160:I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
1161:Morley laughed. "You're trying to make me Amelie."
"Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
1162:¿O habría sucumbido al terrible hábito francés de la arrogancia, igual que todos los demás? Francia ~ Edward Rutherfurd, #NFDB
1163:Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. ~ John Schlesinger, #NFDB
1164:So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
1165:The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1166:The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1167:When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
1168:With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1169:Yes, supermodels have the power to make you buy things you don't need and feel terrible about yourself. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1170:You have to look for the little mercies, the small kindnesses and good that come from the terrible. ~ Heather Gudenkauf, #NFDB
1171:You see, Christine, there is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it. ~ Gaston Leroux, #NFDB
1172:20O how terrible for those who confuse good with evil, right with wrong, light with dark, sweet with bitter. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1173:As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. ~ Anna Akhmatova, #NFDB
1174:But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1175:Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know? ~ Brian Evenson, #NFDB
1176:Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
1177:I did not set out to make you love me. And I was not supposed to love you. But I do. And it is terrible.” I ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1178:I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
1179:I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation. ~ Arielle Dombasle, #NFDB
1180:[I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1181:It's a terrible shame he's a Renegade, isn't it? Otherwise, you could have asked him to stay for dinner. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1182:It was then that he gained the nickname adulescentulus carnifex: 'kid butcher' rather than enfant terrible. ~ Mary Beard, #NFDB
1183:Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1184:managers, and, after her stay at that terrible old coaching inn, The Boar’s Head, she welcomed even the ~ Marion Chesney, #NFDB
1185:She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1186:Some people say I am a terrible person. I'm not, I have the heart of a young boy... in a jar, on my desk. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1187:Their lives are so terrible that the war is a better alternative, and they're not even allowed to go. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1188:There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it. ~ Bernard Moitessier, #NFDB
1189:The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. ~ Sara Quin, #NFDB
1190:The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
1191:This was why love was terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1192:To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!
- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ~ N z m Hikmet Ran,#NFDB
1193:what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1194:...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1195:Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
1196:Y lo más terrible es que tengo la culpa de todo y sin embargo no soy culpable. En eso consiste mi tragedia ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1197:You’re not a terrible person. You’re allowed to be happy about a good thing even when other stuff sucks. ~ Keira Andrews, #NFDB
1198:And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
1199:As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One. ~ Bernie Ecclestone, #NFDB
1200:because in spite of the most terrible suffering, the heart goes on loving; that is the beauty of love. ~ Santa Montefiore, #NFDB
1201:Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1202:Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB
1203:Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1204:Honestly, Jack, your handwriting is terrible.”
Jackson held up both hands. “What can I say? I’m a doctor. ~ Vic James,#NFDB
1205:I also knew every stolen moment we had together put her at a terrible risk to face the Alchemists’ wrath. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1206:I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world; ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1207:If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.' ~ Gilbert Gottfried, #NFDB
1208:It is a terrible omen when you see an American flag on somebody else’s car and realize that’s your enemy. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1209:I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up. ~ Kumail Nanjiani, #NFDB
1210:I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
1211:People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
1212:People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1213:Religious wars are the most terrible wars because they are waged without any prospect of conciliation. ~ Ludwig von Mises, #NFDB
1214:The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~ Jean Kerr, #NFDB
1215:Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1216:There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. ~ Ian Hislop, #NFDB
1217:This was why love was a terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1218:We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1219:We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton, #NFDB
1220:and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1221:But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. I ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1222:Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1223:Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them. ~ Christopher Lee, #NFDB
1224:Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1225:He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end. ~ Various, #NFDB
1226:I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. ~ Jonathan Alter, #NFDB
1227:It was a terrible time to realize you were falling in love with someone - when you were kissing another bloke ~ Kady Cross, #NFDB
1228:People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
1229:Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1230:She turns and waves, and the morning of another terrible day creeps up on us like a thug with a lead pipe. ~ Richard Lange, #NFDB
1231:something terrible has happened to that woman. I feel it in my heart. Please don't be bad-tempered with her. ~ Jane Bowles, #NFDB
1232:Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered.
"Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked. ~ Robyn Schneider,#NFDB
1233:subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love, ~ Sara Donati, #NFDB
1234:That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
1235:The city is full of terrible actors. That is what historians never say about Madras, it is filled with hams. ~ Manu Joseph, #NFDB
1236:The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1237:There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1238:The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1239:We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
1240:what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1241:[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1242:Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1243:Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1244:hope is a terrible thing. It’s the only emotion that pushes you forward and holds you back at the same time. ~ Emily Hemmer, #NFDB
1245:I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1246:I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is. ~ Evan Roskos, #NFDB
1247:It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late. ~ Edna Ferber, #NFDB
1248:know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
1249:Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. ~ Geoff Dyer, #NFDB
1250:Los locos son una terrible equivocación de la Naturaleza; son las faltas de
ortografía de Dios. ~ Torcuato Luca de Tena,#NFDB
1251:¿No es una cosa terrible que la salvación propia signifique la condenación eterna de otra persona? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1252:Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1253:Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1254:That’s terrible,” said Wylan. “It’s brilliant.” Jesper winked. “Just like you.” Wylan blushed daylily pink. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1255:The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie. ~ Olivier Theyskens, #NFDB
1256:There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ~ Polybius, #NFDB
1257:There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscious that dwells in the heart of every man. ~ Polybius, #NFDB
1258:We know God will answer us when we call because one terrible day he did not answer Jesus when he called. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1259:What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1260:White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. ~ Joan Mitchell, #NFDB
1261:Why didn’t you mention how you were feeling?” “Because it’s feelings,” I said. “And feelings are terrible. ~ Elizabeth Bear, #NFDB
1262:Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1263:A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1264:are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ~ John Green, #NFDB
1265:Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1266:But Ulla was not alone; all these broken, betrayed girls were with her, and what a terrible sound they made. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1267:Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth’s globe. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1268:Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. ~ Robert Cormier, #NFDB
1269:I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping. ~ Soko, #NFDB
1270:I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. ~ Annie Baker, #NFDB
1271:I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
1272:It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
1273:It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1274:It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
1275:It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1276:I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened,” Mark Twain once said. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1277:I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. ~ David Bailey, #NFDB
1278:Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1279:La posición es un buen lugar por el que comenzar en el liderazgo, pero es un lugar terrible donde quedarse. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1280:No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1281:One of Russia’s tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild. ~ E H Gombrich, #NFDB
1282:People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1283:That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1284:There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1285:There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii! ~ Gaston Leroux, #NFDB
1286:There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible. ~ Edward Teller, #NFDB
1287:Tienes que usar esa terrible fuerza que tienes por alguien, por algo, por lo que sea que te haga mejor persona. ~ Kazue Kato, #NFDB
1288:We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult. ~ Ian Mckellen, #NFDB
1289:When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1290:15
"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,#NFDB
1291:All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1292:All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that.” “Terrible.” “Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1293:Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better. ~ Thom Yorke, #NFDB
1294:I felt terrible. What could I do to make Kristy feel better? And if she felt better, would she be nicer to me? ~ Ann M Martin, #NFDB
1295:I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
1296:Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1297:In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1298:I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1299:Is there some rule that says a young man can't be a handsome prince and a terrible bore all at the same time? ~ Cameron Dokey, #NFDB
1300:It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
1301:It is only in the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a descent as mine. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1302:I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1303:It was terrible, though, when you couldn't tell people things. Olive felt this keenly as the days went by. ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
1304:'I wish someone had told you that you're a terrible liar so I wouldn't have to be the first one. I feel bad now.' ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1305:Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse. Love is a terrible thing and i want nothing to do with it. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1306:Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1307:She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1308:Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1309:That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ~ Alberto Giacometti, #NFDB
1310:There’s something so terrible about wanting something you’ve already had. You know exactly what you’re missing. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1311:The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
1312:The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
1313:This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1314:To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld, #NFDB
1315:Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with. ~ Quentin Tarantino, #NFDB
1316:We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1317:Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
1318:Yes, Lex was her friend. Yes, she wanted to help him out. But Terrible … he wasn’t her friend, he was her life. ~ Stacia Kane, #NFDB
1319:You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame ~ Aimee Mann, #NFDB
1320:As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves. ~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
1321:buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I’d had such a choice. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1322:Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1323:In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
1324:It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
1325:La verdad -Dumbledore suspiró- es una cosa terrible y hermosa, y por lo tanto debe ser tratada con gran cuidado. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1326:Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
1327:More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
1328:Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: you have no one to blame. —ERICA JONG ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
1329:Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. ~ Kate Tempest, #NFDB
1330:That is a terrible plan."
"Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible."
"Hey! You're still here, aren't you? ~ Cressida Cowell,#NFDB
1331:The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1332:The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1333:There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1334:There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1335:The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1336:Ungit tells me things. I hear of terrible doings in this land, mortals aping the gods and stealing the worship due ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1337:We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
1338:What harm has he ever done to you?'
'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste. ~ Nick Hornby,#NFDB
1339:Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars! ~ Rian Johnson, #NFDB
1340:Yes, Mom, we’re trying to save the world from a crazy guy who’s using magic statues to cause terrible weather. ~ John Bellairs, #NFDB
1341:Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
1342:How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others. ~ Sarah Shun lien Bynum, #NFDB
1343:I got to watch some of Hillary Clinton's debates against Barack Obama. She treated him with terrible disrespect. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1344:Incluso lo esperado puede provocar una terrible sorpresa cuando nos aferramos a tenues esperanzas. XAVIER HARKONNEN ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1345:It is a terrible indictment against the human race that it’s possible for such places of brutality to exist. ~ Lawrence Anthony, #NFDB
1346:It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1347:It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
1348:It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1349:Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes. ~ Phoebe Stone, #NFDB
1350:Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. ~ Donald Hall, #NFDB
1351:She began to weep. What have I done was a terrible question. What else could I have done was perhaps even worse. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1352:Such a terrible word, terminate. A word from a brave new world in which only the flawless are allowed to be born. ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
1353:There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1354:There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB
1355:There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
1356:There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
1357:This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1358:To look away when something terrible is happening does not mean that the terrible thing ceases to happen. Someone ~ Jodi Taylor, #NFDB
1359:Truth is so terrible, even in fetters, that for a moment Syme’s slender and insane victory swayed like a reed. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1360:Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul. ~ Anita Diament, #NFDB
1361:What a terrible thing it was to wish to be known, to be seen, when one's life depended on remaining unnoticed. ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
1362:When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1363:Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional issues. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
1364:An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1365:Battle is a frightening thing, a terrible thing, but once you develop a taste for it…nothing else comes close. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
1366:Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1367:Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1368:Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1369:Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
1370:I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1371:If you push people away for long enough, isolation become a terrible habit. People start to believe your prefer it. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1372:I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. ~ David Bailey, #NFDB
1373:Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible. ~ Michael Hudson, #NFDB
1374:It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
1375:Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1376:Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB
1377:Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty ~ Kerrelyn Sparks, #NFDB
1378:[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
1379:People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
1380:People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1381:People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
1382:People move on, history moves on and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1383:Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
1384:Sonreía con desprecio, como si me odiara. ¿Por qué? No lo sé. A veces no hay una razón, y eso es lo más terrible. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1385:Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to. ~ Judy Blume, #NFDB
1386:That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1387:The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
1388:The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
1389:The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1390:There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, #NFDB
1391:They’ve ruined our young people with these terrible drugs. And it’s not just the Negroes that get addicted anymore. ~ D M Pulley, #NFDB
1392:We are all insects,” he said to Miss Ephreikian. “Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree? ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1393:What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1394:What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1395:You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ~ John Green, #NFDB
1396:You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1397:Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. ~ Gary Lutz, #NFDB
1398:Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1399:He was in need of prayer to battle the terrible emotions that threatened to drag him farther and farther from God. ~ Tamara Leigh, #NFDB
1400:I'd learned long ago that just because someone was likable did not mean they weren't capable of terrible things. ~ Anna Lee Huber, #NFDB
1401:If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife. ~ Freddie Mercury, #NFDB
1402:I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives. ~ Grace Helbig, #NFDB
1403:It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1404:It is well that war is so terrible; otherwise, we would grow too fond of it.” —General Robert E. Lee ~ Bathroom Readers Institute, #NFDB
1405:Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all. ~ Susan Cooper, #NFDB
1406:Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you. ~ Courtney Allison Moulton, #NFDB
1407:Love is a beautiful but terrible thing,” he said. “You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you. ~ Courtney Allison Moulton, #NFDB
1408:Love is a terrible thing and it's loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB
1409:Lust is a terrible powerful thing and I could hear it in his voice. I couldn't fathom that I inspired it in him. ~ James Buchanan, #NFDB
1410:Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. ~ George Balanchine, #NFDB
1411:My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1412:Nice threw me off my game like nothing else. People being nice leads to hope, and false hope is a terrible thing. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
1413:Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction. ~ Lynn Johnston, #NFDB
1414:Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
1415:Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells. ~ Geraldine Ferraro, #NFDB
1416:The most terrible things can happen to a man, but he’ll never lose himself if he remembers he was once a child. ~ Robert Dinsdale, #NFDB
1417:The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one. ~ Shannon A Thompson, #NFDB
1418:[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. ~ Norman Tebbit, #NFDB
1419:The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1420:Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1421:Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1422:When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier! ~ Carol Alt, #NFDB
1423:You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! ~ William Tecumseh Sherman, #NFDB
1424:You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1425:Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us? ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1426:All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
1427:Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history. ~ Peter Eisenman, #NFDB
1428:From my novel Seaside Daisies:
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty ~ Mother Teresa,#NFDB
1429:I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
1430:I'd learned long ago that just because someone was likeable did not mean they weren't capable of terrible things. ~ Anna Lee Huber, #NFDB
1431:if you are not in touch with the king in the other world, your life in this world is going to be a terrible mess. ~ Robert L Moore, #NFDB
1432:Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1433:It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway? ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1434:I was alive. I was alone. There was no living thing in the universe that was more alone than me. Or more terrible. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
1435:More power to ’em. What do I care? My ‘thing’ is a thing of beauty. And being this hot is a terrible responsibility. ~ Damon Suede, #NFDB
1436:No, it was something else, something with human tendencies, which, of course, made it terrible in a different way. ~ Brian Catling, #NFDB
1437:Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. ~ Cammie McGovern, #NFDB
1438:Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1439:To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness. ~ Tiffany Baker, #NFDB
1440:We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1441:What if his words had the effect of polio on me? WHat a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1442:When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening. ~ Margaret Rogerson, #NFDB
1443:When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance. ~ Alan Dershowitz, #NFDB
1444:Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123 ~ Kate Sherwood, #NFDB
1445:And as the night dragged on, so did the terrible, dreary introspection. Had I been misleading myself my entire life? ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1446:f it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1447:Gaia wasn’t ruthless and self-serving like Caine; she was evil, like Drake. A psychopath. A mad and terrible beast. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB
1448:I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1449:I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help! ~ Josh Groban, #NFDB
1450:I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1451:I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start. ~ Courteney Cox, #NFDB
1452:I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
1453:I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1454:I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it. ~ Alan Dershowitz, #NFDB
1455:It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
1456:It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1457:Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1458:Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity of evil. ~ Lisa Jewell, #NFDB
1459:That's what terrible, sordid situations did to you, made you act crazily, against your own truths, against yourself. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1460:There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1461:There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1462:The terrible powerlessness of being unable to do anything except wait for mercy you couldn't earn and didn't deserve. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
1463:The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. ~ John Dos Passos, #NFDB
1464:Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1465:To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth, followed by the most terrible emptiness. ~ Tiffany Baker, #NFDB
1466:–Todo se deshace cuando lo agarrás, hasta cuando lo mirás –dijo Pola–. Sos como un ácido terrible, te tengo miedo. ~ Julio Cort zar, #NFDB
1467:A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1468:He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end. ~ Compton Mackenzie, #NFDB
1469:I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world. ~ Francoise Hardy, #NFDB
1470:if there is an underlying bond of deep love, no matter how terrible the misunderstanding, the relationship survives. ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
1471:If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1472:I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1473:It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
1474:It was a fear sad and terrible in what it demanded from her . . . and beautiful in what it said of who he was to her. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1475:John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1476:Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1477:Love, she realized at that terrible moment of truth, could be incredibly unselfish, even when it hurt until she bled. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1478:Nerve thrum and screaming blood, wild and churning and chasing and devouring and terrible and terrible and terrible — ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1479:Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1480:Something in me was unfurling fast, and it was wonderful or terrible, depending on how you looked at it. Maybe both. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1481:To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. ~ Andrew Wyeth, #NFDB
1482:Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
1483:Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life? ~ Serena Valentino, #NFDB
1484:Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1485:You can’t just cover your eyes and pretend like terrible things aren’t happening simply because you can’t see them, ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1486:Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up.
Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ... ~ Bryan Lee O Malley,#NFDB
1487:Either he was suffering a terrible case of gas or he had a pint-size child practicing the trumpet in his back pocket. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1488:Él le había hecho daño, le había hecho mucho daño, y el mundo era un terrible embrollo de sensaciones e impresiones... ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1489:I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.” The ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1490:I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks. ~ Pusha T, #NFDB
1491:It is a terrible thing to grieve for someone who is not dead, not in love with someone else, but just no longer there. ~ Priya Parmar, #NFDB
1492:It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1493:It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent. ~ Beatrice Sparks, #NFDB
1494:Let my hands cease to create if I’m lying to you!” the gnome uttered the most terrible oath of the masters’ guild. ~ Vasily Mahanenko, #NFDB
1495:Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1496:Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1497:People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1498:Queaque ipsa miserrima vidi,et quorum pars magna fui. (And those terrible things I saw, and in which I played a great part.) ~ Virgil, #NFDB
1499:Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ~ James Bryant Conant, #NFDB
1500:Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next.It's a terrible thing, but that's reality. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
337 Integral Yoga
119 Poetry
93 Fiction
41 Philosophy
34 Yoga
29 Occultism
25 Christianity
18 Psychology
10 Mysticism
3 Mythology
2 Science
2 Philsophy
2 Integral Theory
2 Hinduism
2 Baha i Faith
1 Thelema
1 Sufism
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
255 The Mother
174 Satprem
84 Sri Aurobindo
80 H P Lovecraft
38 Nolini Kanta Gupta
22 Sri Ramakrishna
22 Friedrich Nietzsche
17 Walt Whitman
17 Aleister Crowley
14 Percy Bysshe Shelley
14 Carl Jung
13 Saint Augustine of Hippo
11 Swami Krishnananda
8 Jorge Luis Borges
7 Robert Browning
6 Saint Teresa of Avila
6 Plato
6 Friedrich Schiller
6 Anonymous
5 William Wordsworth
5 William Butler Yeats
5 Jordan Peterson
5 Edgar Allan Poe
5 A B Purani
4 Saint John of Climacus
4 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
4 Lucretius
4 James George Frazer
4 George Van Vrekhem
3 Swami Vivekananda
3 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 John Keats
3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 Plotinus
2 Ovid
2 Nirodbaran
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 H. P. Lovecraft
2 Baha u llah
2 Aristotle
2 Aldous Huxley
80 Lovecraft - Poems
21 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
19 Agenda Vol 02
18 Agenda Vol 12
17 Whitman - Poems
17 Agenda Vol 01
15 Agenda Vol 13
15 Agenda Vol 05
15 Agenda Vol 04
14 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
14 Shelley - Poems
14 Questions And Answers 1953
14 Agenda Vol 03
13 Questions And Answers 1954
13 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
11 Words Of Long Ago
11 The Study and Practice of Yoga
11 City of God
11 Agenda Vol 09
10 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
10 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
10 Essays On The Gita
9 Savitri
9 Labyrinths
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
9 Collected Poems
9 Agenda Vol 10
9 Agenda Vol 08
9 Agenda Vol 07
8 Twilight of the Idols
8 Liber ABA
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
8 Agenda Vol 06
7 The Life Divine
7 Questions And Answers 1956
7 Prayers And Meditations
7 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
7 Browning - Poems
7 Agenda Vol 11
6 The Bible
6 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
6 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
6 Schiller - Poems
6 Magick Without Tears
6 Essays Divine And Human
5 Yeats - Poems
5 Wordsworth - Poems
5 The Synthesis Of Yoga
5 Poe - Poems
5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
4 The Way of Perfection
4 The Secret Doctrine
4 The Red Book Liber Novus
4 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
4 The Golden Bough
4 Tagore - Poems
4 Some Answers From The Mother
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Preparing for the Miraculous
4 Of The Nature Of Things
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
3 The Human Cycle
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 Keats - Poems
3 Faust
3 Crowley - Poems
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
3 Anonymous - Poems
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
2 The Divine Comedy
2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
2 Selected Fictions
2 Poetics
2 On the Way to Supermanhood
2 Metamorphoses
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Emerson - Poems
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Aion
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
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 omnipotent, 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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Totapuri had no idea of the struggles of ordinary men in the toils of passion and desire. Having maintained all through life the guilelessness of a child, he laughed at the idea of a man's being led astray by the senses. He was convinced that the world was maya and had only to be denounced to vanish for ever. A born non-dualist, he had no faith in a Personal God. He did not believe in the terrible aspect of Kali, much less in Her benign aspect. Music and the chanting of God's holy name were to him only so much nonsense. He ridiculed the spending of emotion on the worship of a Personal God.
--- KALI AND MAYA
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Dinosaurs because of their seeming to be terrible
devouring creatures. They are Masters of the Temple,
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
entirely by a terrible fit of political and social epilepsy through
which the most dangerous forces of destruction do their work.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
confessions are not so terrible as all that, no matter what you
may think of them. And as soon as you tell me all the things that
--
It is not so terrible - the mind likes to be busy with something
always, and making up stories (even when one knows that these
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
in terrible revolt. What can I do?
It is the same tiredness as that of the muscles when they do not
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
portion of very few.'5 The one is 'bitter and terrible' but 'the second bears no
comparison with it,' for it is 'horrible and awful to the spirit.'6 A good deal of
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Things terrible and beautiful and divine.
Her empire in the cosmos she has built,
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
Pascal's place in the evolution of European culture and consciousness is of considerable significance and importance. He came at a critical time, on the mounting tide of rationalism and scepticism, in an age when the tone and temper of human mentality were influenced and fashioned by Montaigne and Rochefoucauld, by Bacon and Hobbes. Pascal himself, born in such an atmosphere of doubt and disbelief and disillusionment, had sucked in a full dose of that poison; yet he survived and found the Rock of Ages, became the clarion of Faith against Denial. What a spectacle it was! This is what one wrote just a quarter of a century after the death of Pascal:
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The characteristic then of the path is a one-pointed concentration. Great stress is laid upon "oneliness", "onedness":that is to say, a perfect and complete withdrawal from the outside and the world; an unmixed solitude is required for the true experience and realisation to come. "A full forsaking in will of the soul for the love of Him, and a living of the heart to Him. This asks He, for this gave He." The rigorous exclusion, the uncompromising asceticism, the voluntary self-torture, the cruel dark night and the arid desert are necessary conditions that lead to the "onlyness of soul", what another prophet (Isaiah, XXIV, 16) describes as "My privity to me". In that secreted solitude, the "onlistead"the graphic language of the author calls itis found "that dignity and that ghostly fairness which a soul had by kind and shall have by grace." The utter beauty of the soul and its absolute love for her deity within her (which has the fair name of Jhesu), the exclusive concentration of the whole of the being upon one point, the divine core, the manifest Grace of God, justifies the annihilation of the world and life's manifold existence. Indeed, the image of the Beloved is always within, from the beginning to the end. It is that that keeps one up in the terrible struggle with one's nature and the world. The image depends upon the consciousness which we have at the moment, that is to say, upon the stage or the degree we have ascended to. At the outset, when we can only look through the senses, when the flesh is our master, we give the image a crude form and character; but even that helps. Gradually, as we rise, with the clearing of our nature, the image too slowly regains its original and true shape. Finally, in the inmost soul we find Jesus as he truly is: "an unchangeable being, a sovereign might, a sovereign soothfastness, sovereign goodness, a blessed life and endless bliss." Does not the Gita too say: "As one approaches Me, so do I appear to him."Ye yath mm prapadyante.
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The ideal was Blake's. It will not sound so revolting if we understand what the poet meant by Hell. Hell, he explains, is simply the body, the Energy of Lifehell, because body and life on earth were so considered by the orthodox Christianity. The Christian ideal demands an absolute denial and rejection of life. Fulfilment is elsewhere, in heaven alone. That is, as we know, the ideal of the ascetic. The life of the spirit (in heaven) is a thing away from and stands against the life of the flesh (on earth). In the face of this discipline, countering it, Blake posited a union, a marriage of the two, considered incompatibles and incommensurables. Enfant terrible that he was, he took an infinite delight in a spirit of contradiction and went on expatiating on the glory of the misalliance. He declared a new apocalypse and said that Lucifer, the one called Satan, was the real God, the so-called Messiah the fake one: the apparent Milton spoke in praise of God and in dispraise of Satan, but the real, the esoteric Milton glorified Satan, who is the true God and minimised or caricatured the counterfeit or shadow God. Here is Blakean Bible in a nutshell:
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged.. . . If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ashram is in a terrible financial condition, and from time
to time we clearly see this for ourselves. But, Mother, we
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Otherwise, Mother, there is this block before me that is obscuring all the rest and taking away my taste for everything. I would like to leave, Mother, but not in revolt; may it be an experience to go through that receives your approval. I would not like to be cut off from you by your displeasure or your condemnation, for this would seem to me terrible and leave me no other recourse but to plunge into the worst excesses in order to forget.
Mother, I would like you to forgive me, to understand me and, above all, not to deprive me of your Love. I would like you to tell me if I may leave for a few weeks and how you feel about it. It seems to me that I am profoundly your child, in spite of all this??
0 1958-02-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Some people come to see me in utter despair, in tears, in what they call terrible moral suffering; when I see them like that I slightly shift the needle in that part of my consciousness containing all of you, and when they leave, they are completely relieved. It is just like a compass needle I slightly shift the needle in my consciousness, and its over. Naturally, through habit, it returns later on. But these are mere soap bubbles.
I too have known suffering, but there was always a part of me that knew how to hold itself back and remain aloof.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There is something similar between the Puranic gods and the gods of Greek or Egyptian mythology. The gods of Egyptian mythology are terrible beings They cut off peoples heads, tear their enemies to pieces!
The Greeks were not always tender either!
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I found my message for the 1st of January It was quite unforeseen. Yesterday morning, I thought, All the same, I have to find my message, but what? I was absolutely like that, neutral, nothing. Then yesterday evening at the class (of Friday, November 7) I noticed that these children who had had a whole week to prepare their questions on the text had not found a single one! A terrible lethargy! A total lack of interest. And when I had finished speaking, I thought to myself, But what IS there in these people who are interested in nothing but their personal little affairs? So I began descending into their mental atmosphere, in search of the little light, of that which responds And it literally pulled me downwards as into a hole, but in such a material way; my hand, which was on the arm of the chair, began slipping down, my other hand went like this (to the ground), my head, too! I thought it was going to touch my knees!
And I had the impression It was not an impression I saw it. I was descending into a crevasse between two steep rocks, rocks that appeared to be made of something harder than basalt, BLACK, but metallic at the same time, with such sharp edgesit seemed that a mere touch would lacerate you. It appeared endless and bottomless, and it kept getting narrower, narrower and narrower, narrower and narrower, like a funnel, so narrow that there was almost no more roomnot even for the consciousness to pass through. And the bottom was invisible, a black hole. And it went down, down, down, like that, without air, without light, except for a sort of glimmer that enabled me to make out the rock edges. They seemed to be cut so steeply, so sharply Finally, when my head began touching my knees, I asked myself, But what is there at the bottom of this this hole?
0 1958-11-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It is a terrible image of the Minds action in the Inconscient.
It has made the Inconscient aggressiveit was not so before. Aggressive, resistant, OBSTINATE. That was not there before.
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I was VERY HAPPY with the vision, for there was a great POWER, though it was rather terrible. But it was magnificent. When I saw that, I This vision was given to me because I had concentrated with a will to find the solution, a true solution, an enduring and permanent solution that is, I had this spontaneous gratitude which goes out to the Grace when it brings some effective help. Only, what followed was interrupted by someone who came to call me and that cut it short, but it will return.
But now I KNOWbefore I did not know. The other morning I saw, and I was told very clearly that it was a karma1 to be worked out; so then I told you, but at the time I didnt know what it was.
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At that point, sometimes a great courage is needed, sometimes a great endurance is needed, sometimes a true love is enough, sometimes, oh! if only faith were there, one thing, one tiny little thing is enough, and everything can be swept away. I have done it often; there are times when I have failed. But more often than not I have been able to remove it. But then, what is needed is a great, stoical courage or a capacity to endure and to SEE IT THROUGH. The resistance (especially in cases of former suicide), the resistance to the temptation of renewing this stupidity creates a terrible formation. Or else this habit of fleeing when suffering comes: flee, flee, instead of absorbing the difficulty, holding on.
But just this, a faith in the Grace, or an awareness of the Grace, or the intensity of the call, or else naturally the response the response, the thing that opens, that breaks the response to this marvelous love of the Grace.
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Oh, the most terrible of all is when one does not have the strength, the courage, something indomitable! How many times do they come to tell me, I want to die, I want to flee, I want to die.I say, But die, then, die to yourself! No one is asking you to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that courage, the true courage, to die to your egoism.
But because it is karma, one must, one must DO something oneself. Karma is the construction of the ego; the ego MUST DO something, everything cannot be done for it. This is it, THIS is the thing: karma is the result of the egos actions, and only when the ego abdicates is the karma dissolved. One can help it along, one can assist it, give it strength, bestow courage upon it, but the ego must then make use of it.
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have followed the vicissitudes of your struggle step by step and I know that it has been terrible, but my confidence in the outcome has not wavered for I know you are in good hands. I am so happy that X is taking good care of you, teaching you Sanskrit, speaking to you of the Tantra. It is just what I wanted.
His action here has been very effective and really very interesting. I still do not know whether someone has really done black magic, and the villain has yet to appear before me. But already several days ago the malefic influence completely disappeared without leaving any trace in the atmosphere. Also their mantric intervention did not stop at that, for it has had another most interesting result. I am preparing a long letter for Swami to explain all this to him
0 1960-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Things are better physically. But its always a terrible physical shock for me to take the train.
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0 1960-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I was pained and shocked upon reaching Xs place to see him in such a horrible housea train station in miniature (and not as nice) with little pastries in garish yellow cement. Cement everywhere they even cemented the patio and uprooted the beautiful tree that was there. O Mother, its vandalism, its barbaric! You cannot imagine! Really, M has committed a terrible sin.
To compensate for that, however, I had the joy of finding your two letters. Yes, for some time I have been feeling your physical Presence more clearly. But then, why am I so blocked, where is the flaw? It constantly feels as though I am living at the outskirts of myself, or more precisely in a miniscule region of myself, and Im unable to be conscious of the resta perpetual amnesic. It is unpleasant and quite stupid. What is it that will explode this shell?
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its very simple, actually; its a convention, a conventional construction somewhere in the subconscious brain, and you write automatically. But if you want to try to bring the light of a slightly higher reason into it, its terrible. It becomes meaningless, and you forget everything.
You have to be inside this automatic convention to remember; its very difficult (Mother laughs). So I make a lot of spelling mistakes (under her breath, in a mischievous tone) I think Ill ask him for his dictionary (laughter)!
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But I wasnt speaking to you with words Everything I see at night has a special color and a special vibration. Its strange, but it looks sketched When I said that to you, for example, there was a kind of patch,1 a white patch, as I recallwhite, exactly like a piece of white papera patch with a pink border around it, then this same blue light I keep telling you aboutdeep blueencircling the rest, as it were. And beyond that, it was swarminga swarming of black and dark gray vibrations in a terrible agitation. When I saw this, I said to you, You must repeat your mantra once in my presence so that I may see if there is anything I can do about this swarming. And then I dont know whyyou objected, and this objection was red, like a tongue of fire lashing out from the white, like this (Mother draws an arabesque). So I said, No, dont worry, it doesnt matter, I wont disturb a thing2! (Mother laughs mischievously)
All this took place in a realm which is constantly active, everywhere; it is like a permanent mental transcription of everything that physically takes place They arent actually thoughts; when I see this, I dont really get the impression of thinking, but its a transcription its the result of thoughts on a certain mental atmosphere which records things.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But then there came a frightful reaction. For one day I was nearly as sicknot quiteas two years ago5 (they must have used the same mantra). And, you see, I who never vomit terrible vomitingeverything inside came out! Only now Im a bit more experienced than two years ago (!), so I set it right It happened here, downstairs, in the afternoon. I went right back up to my room (I didnt see anyone that afternoon), and I remained concentrated to try to find out what had happened. I saw that it came from therea backlash of those people trying to defend themselves.
I did what had to be done.
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(No sooner had Mother finished telling this story than, by a curious coincidence, someone brought her a portrait drawn by P.K., one of the Ashram artists. Several days earlier, at about two in the morning during an uncommonly violent lightning storm, P.K. had suddenly SEEN amidst the flashes of lightning in the sky a rather terrible, demoniacal head in front of his very eyes. Having nothing else available, he hastily drew his vision in chalk on a schoolchilds slate, which is the portrait Mother speaks of here:)
Well, well! So P.K. is clairvoyant! Its him, for surethis is the being behind those people. Thats why they had so much power. And he came here because of tha the was furious. Quite a demon!
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Oh, its terrifying! I dont know who had the stupid idea of showing this to the child, but after he saw it he had a fever for three days, with terrible chills. And I believe the artist too was sick after finishing his sketch.
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Theres also this old idea rooted in religions of Chaldean or Christian origin of a God with whom you can have no true contactan abyss between the two. That is terrible.
That absolutely has to stop.
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So then I went in search of its origin. Its something in the subconscientin the cells subconscient. Its roots are there, and on the least occasion And its so very, very ingrained that For example, you can be feeling very good, the body can be perfectly harmonious (and when the body is perfectly harmonious, its motions are harmonious, things are in their true places, everything works exactly as it should without needing the least attentiona general harmony), when suddenly the clock strikes, for example, or someone utters a word, and you have just the faint impression Oh, its late, Im not going to be on timea second, a split second, and the whole working of the body falls apart. You suddenly feel feeble, drained, uneasy. And you have to intervene. Its terrible. And were at the mercy of such things!
To change it, you have to descend into itwhich is what Im in the midst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once its done, it will be something. When that is done, Ill explain it to you. And then Ill have the power to restore you to health.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
So for persons who are severe and grave (there are two such examples here, but its not necessary to name them) There are beings who are grave, so serious, so sincere, who find it hypocritical; and when it borders on certain (how shall I put it?) vital excesses, they call it vice. There are others who have lived their entire lives in a yogic or religious discipline, and they see this as an obstacle, illusion, dirtyness (Mother makes a gesture of rejecting with disgust), but above all, its this terrible illusion that prevents you from nearing the Divine. And when I saw the way these two people here reacted, in fact, I said to myself, but you see, I FELT So strongly that this too is the Divine, it too is a way of getting out of something that has had its place in evolution, and still has a place, individually, for certain individuals. Naturally, if you remain there, you keep turning in circles; it will always be (not eternally, but indefinitely) the woman of my life, to take that as a symbol. But once youre out of it, you see that this had its place, its utilityit made you emerge from a kind of very animal-like wisdom and quietude that of the herd or of the being who sees no further than his daily round. It was necessary. We mustnt condemn it, we mustnt use harsh words.
The mistake we make is to remain there too long, for if you spend your whole life in that, well, youll probably need many more lifetimes. But once the chance to get out of it comes, you can look at it with a smile and say, Yes, its really a sort of love for fiction!people love fiction, they want fiction, they need fiction! Otherwise its boring and all much too flat.
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Its the mind thats terrible. Its a nuisance. To have an experience like the one I told you about a little while ago you have to tell it, Okay, be quiet; be quiet now, be calm. But if its left on its own and youre unfortunate enough to listen to it, it spoils everything. This is what you must learn to do.
But effort is not of much use, my child, its (long silence) its you can call it grace, or you can call it a knacktwo very different things, yet it has something of each.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Speaking of which, I looked at Ts most recent questions on the Aphorisms again. All these children havent the least sense of humor, so Sri Aurobindos paradoxes throw them into a kind of despair! The last aphorism went something like this: When I could read a wearisome book from one end to the other with pleasure, then I knew I had conquered my mind.2 So T asked me How can you read a wearisome book with pleasure?!! I had to explain it to her. And on top of that, I have to take on a rather serious tone, for were I to reply in the same ironic fashion, they would be totally drowned! It throws them into a terrible confusion!
Its a lack of plasticity in the mind, and they are bound by the expression of things; for them, words are rigid. Sri Aurobindo explained it so well in The Secret of the Veda; he shows how language evolves and how, before, it was very supple and evocative. For example, one could at once think of a river and of inspiration. Sri Aurobindo also gives the example of a sailboat and the forward march of life. And he says that for those of the Vedic age it was quite natural, the two could go together, superimposed; it was merely a way of looking at the same thing from two sides, whereas now, when a word is said, we think only of this word all by itself, and to get a clear picture we need a whole literary or poetic imagery (with explanations to boot!). Thats exactly the case with these children; theyre at a stage where everything is rigid. Such is the product of modern education. It even extracts the subtlest nuance between two words and FIXES it: And above all, dont make any mistake, dont use this word for that word, for otherwise your writings no good. But its just the opposite.
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I listen, I answer. Its not satisfactory! I told them. But theyve kept to their idea, they like it. When that first storm came some time back (you remember, with those terrible bolts of lightning and that asuric being P.K. saw and sketched): Dont you want us to destroy something? I got angry. But it was This influence was so close and acute that it gave you goose bumps! The whole time the storm lasted, I had to hold on tight in my bed, like this (Mother closes her fists tight as in a trance or deep concentration), and I didnt movedidnt movelike a a rock during the entire storm, until he consented to go a bit further away. Then I moved. And even now, it comesfrom others (theres not just one, you see, there are many): How about a good flood? A roof collapsed the other day with someone underneath, but he was able to escape. So roofs are collapsing, houses Arouse public sympathy, we must help the Ashram! Its no good, I said. But maybe thats whats responsible for this interminable rain. And they offer so many other things oh, what they parade past me! You could write books on all this!
But generally and this is something Theon had told me (Theon was very qualified on the subject of hostile forces and the workings of all that resists the divine influence, and he was a great fighteras you might imagine! He himself was an incarnation of an asura, so he knew how to tackle these things!); he was always saying, If you make a VERY SMALL concession or suffer a minor defeat, it gives you the right to a very great victory. Its a very good trick. And I have observed, in practice, that for all things, even for the very little things of everyday life, its trueif you yield on one point (if, even though you see what should be, you yield on a very secondary and unimportant point), it immediately gives you the power to impose your will for something much more important. I mentioned this to Sri Aurobindo and he said that it was true. It is true in the world as it is today, but its not what we want; we want it to change, really change.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I havent told this to anyone until now, especially not to those who take care and watch over me, for I dont want to terrify them. Besides, Im not so sure of their reactionsyou understand, if they started getting frightened, it would be terrible. So I dont tell them. But it has happened at least five or six times, usually in the morning before going down to the balcony, just when I dont have the time And it has to be done quickly, for I have to be ready on time!
Its very, very interesting. But then, you see, at such moments the concreteness of the Presence6concrete to the touch, really to the material touchis extraordinary!
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a terrible epidemic in the countrya triple epidemic.
Does a servant come to your house? No one is sick in his family? Because what happens is that they dont want to lose their jobs or their salary, so they dont warn you. They may have smallpox or measles or chickenpox and they dont take the slightest care to wash or change their clothes; they come to your house and of course they bring along the disease. So the number of cases keeps multiplying and multiplying. I have been meaning to tell Pavitra to be careful of that little character who works for himeven ordinarily I dont like to see him running around here. Its strange how it sullies the atmosphereoh, you cant imagine! Almost all of them, almost all!
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, another little example. You know those photos I distributed on the 21st for the Saraswati Puja) Amrita told me he was going to send them to X,1 I but I told him, No, dont bother. (The 21st was a terrible day for me. All the dasyus of the world were in league against me, trying to stop me I understood this afterwards, when I saw those things.2 So thats what it is! I said to myself, Thats what has been going on!) Then after the night of the 24th, I went down for balcony-darshan3 with such a foursquare certaintyyou know, cubic: such a cubic certainty and I said to Amrita, You can send him those photos today, without an explanation, without a word, with nothing but a feeling of certainty, a kind of definite and absolute THATS HOW IT IS.
And that is a change, truly a change.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh (laughing), he had a formidable power! Theon had a formidable power. One stormy day (there were terrible thunderstorms there), he climbed to the high terrace above the sitting room. Its a strange time to be going up there, I said to him. He laughed, Come along, dont be afraid! So I joined him. He began some invocations and then I clearly saw a bolt of lightning that had been heading straight towards us suddenly swerve IN THE MIDST OF ITS COURSE. You will say its impossible, but I saw it turn aside and strike a tree farther away. I asked Theon, Did you do that? He nodded.
Oh, that man was terriblehe had a terrible power. But quite a good external appearance!
Have you seen his photo? No? Ill have to show it to you. He was a handsome man, about sixty years oldbetween fifty and sixty.
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There were all kinds of stories in the countryside, terrible stories.
One day I will find his photo and show it to you; he is there with a big dog he called Little Boy, a dog that could exteriorizehe would dream and go out of his body! This dog had a kind of adoration for me. (I should mention that at a fixed time in the afternoons I used to meditate and go into trance. When it was finished I would go out walking with Theon, and the dog always came with us, usually coming to fetch me in my room.) One day I was lying on a divan in trance when I felt his cold muzzle nudging my hand to wake me. I opened my eyes no dog. Yet I had positively, clearly felt his cold muzzle. So I got ready, went downstairs, and who did I find fast asleep on the landing but Little Boyhe was in trance as well! He had come to wake me in his sleep. When I reached the landing he woke up, shook himself and trotted off.
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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For Sri Aurobindo, the important thing was always the Mother. As he explained it, the Mother has several aspects, and certain aspects are still unmanifest. So if he has represented the Mother by Kali in particular, I believe its in relation to all those gods. Because, as he wrote in The Mother, the aspects to be manifested depend upon the time, the need, the thing to be done. And he always said that unless one understands and profoundly feels the aspect of Kali, one can never really participate in the Work in the worldhe felt that a sort of timid weakness makes people recoil before this terrible aspect.
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Two nights ago, I saw a formation of illness over the entire Ashram, a kind of adverse formation trying to prevent me from leaving my room, and I had to hide to get out, leave clandestinely. Oh, what a terrible atmosphere, so heavy, so grayeverybody was ill. And this formation had some actual effects because many people fell ill who normally never do. It is an adverse formation and theres no reason to concede its victory; its simply a force which doesnt want us to succeed, of courseso we need not pay attention.
The trouble is, if I were thirty or forty years old, people wouldnt be affected. But unfortunately they think about how old I am all the time and it creates a bad atmosphere. After all, they keep saying, Mother is old and. All the usual nonsense.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even mastery can be achievedits quite easy to do from above. But for the transformation one must descend, and that is terrible. Otherwise, the subconscient will never be transformed, it will remain as it is.
One can even pose as a superman! (Mother laughs) But it remains like that (gesture in the air), its not the real thing. Its not the new creation, its not the next step in terrestrial evolution.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now the body has a kind of extraordinary smile for everything. At the end of the day, with the accumulation of everything coming from the people I have seen and the work I have done, when I have to push and pull myself just to climb the stairs because my legs are like iron rods, without any will (thats the most terrible part: they dont respond to the will), even at times like these, when my arms are what pull me up the stairs (no longer my legs), the body doesnt protest, doesnt protest. Then it begins walking back and forth for japa. And after half an hour of walking, things are infinitely better (Mother makes a gesture of the Force descending into her body).
(silence)
0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Long ago when Sri Aurobindo was still here, I was once bitten by a mosquito that had just come from a leper. He was sitting on the street corner, although I didnt know it at the time (I was in my bathroom, just opposite the corner). Suddenly I was bitten here, on the chin, and I knew IMMEDIATELY: Leprosy! Within a few seconds it became terriblehideous! I did what was necessary at once (as I was in the bathroom, I had what I needed). Then I suddenly got the impulse to go and look out the window there was the leper. And I understood: the mosquito had been kind enough to fly from him to me! But in that instance I was able to check it right away (it lasted three or four days)I say check because they claim leprosy sometimes takes fifteen years to surface, so. But now it has been more than fifteen years (Mother laughs), so its finished!
No, the difference, the great difference, is that when one is conscious, the thing is KNOWN immediately and one can react.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Generally speaking, the progress is undeniable, but the physical body has a terrible need of rest. Its annoying, for it prevents me from working.
How to explain it? Its rather strange: the cells attitude and their state of consciousness is changing with extraordinary rapidity; yet from the ordinary viewpoint of health, there is no corresponding progress, quite the contrary. One could say things arent going too well, but I see clearly that its not true. I see that it isnt true, its only an appearance but reconciling the two is difficult.
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He hadnt eaten (probably because no one had given him anything to eat), and when I entered, he asked me if it was possible to have some breakfast. Yes, of course! I said, Ill go get it, expecting to find it ready. Then I had to hunt around to find something: everything was stuffed into cupboards (and misplaced at that), all disarrangeddisgusting, absolutely disgusting. I called someone (who had been napping and came in with sleep-swollen eyes) and told him to prepare Sri Aurobindos breakfast but he had his own fixed ideas and principles (exactly as he is in real life). Hurry up, I told him, Sri Aurobindo is waiting. But hurry? Impossible! He had to do things according to his own conceptions and with a terrible awkwardness and ineptitude. In short, it took an infinite amount of time to warm up a rather clumsy breakfast.
Then I arrived at Sri Aurobindos room with my plates. Oh, said Sri Aurobindo, it has taken so long that I will take my bath first. I looked at my poor breakfast and thought, Well, I went to so much trouble to make it hot and now its going to get cold! All this was so sordid, so sad.
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Its a terrible slavery to the lower mind, and so widespread! Oh, all these goings-on at the School, my child, all the teaching, all the teachers.2 terrible, terrible, terrible! I was trying to turn on the switches to give some light and not one of them worked!
Of course, these scenes are slightly exaggerated because they are seen in isolation from the rest; within the whole many things crisscross and complete each other, diminishing each others importance. But in an experience like last nights, things are taken singly and shown in isolation, as through a magnifying glass. And after all its a good lesson.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not that I was disappointed by his way of being, certainly not; but it has suddenly confronted me with a terrible problem: Is it impossible to live a truth in material consciousness? Is it really impossible? An absolute, I mean an absolute truthnot something entirely subjective and relative, each one living his own truth in his own manner. Will one person always be like this and the other like that and the third like something else? So that only by putting all the pieces together do we actually amount to anything and yet to what?! Is it completely impossible for absolute truth to manifest in the present state of Matter? This is the problem that has seized me.
Why? Probably because I was ready to face it. But it has been posed so intensely. It was so intense that it was painful.
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That risks a terrible misunderstanding; be careful. Perhaps he wont even remember what he said anymore. Its difficult with X because he doesnt say things with his mindit just comes like that, and then he forgets. You know how it is. Something may have made him speak. For instance, I know that with N. he almost always says unpleasant things about people and situations and this entirely results from N.s atmosphere. I have told N., He speaks like that because of your inner attitude. To one person he will say one thing, to another something completely different on the same subjectit depends a great deal on who hes talking to. No, I havent told you all this for you to speak with X about it, I have told you because it has posed a serious problem for me.
Its best to wait and see. I put a certain force into that note I wrote this morning (I wrote it at a very early hour) and you know that a formation4 is created when I write; I willed it to go to himand he may have received it. Well see what happens. Its better not to speak of it because it might speaking is too external.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
But the curious thing is that these vital beings are aware of what is happening. I knew nothing about any of it, neither the story, nor the being, nor the head sticking out of the ground and she wanted me to get her out of it. They feel the atmosphere. They are awarethey may not be conscious on higher planes, but they are conscious on vital planes, aware of vital power and the vital force it represents. Its like this asura from M.: when I came in he suddenly seemed to tremble on his pedestal; then he left his idol and came to seek my alliance.
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One of my most terrible experiences took place in Venice (the cathedrals there are so beautifulmagnificent!). I remember I was painting they had let me settle down in a corner to paintand nearby there was a (what do they call it?) a confessional. And a poor woman was kneeling there in distresswith such a dreadful sense of sin! So piteous! She wept and wept. Then I saw the priest coming, oh, like a monster, a hard-hearted monster! He went inside; he was like an iron bar. And there was this poor woman sobbing, sobbing; and the voice of the other one, hard, curt. I could barely contain myself.
I dont know why, but I have had this kind of experience so very often: either a hostile force lurking behind and swallowing up everything, or else manruthless man abusing the Power.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats my reproach to itwhy does it struggle? Why, suddenly, do I have a terrible fatigue falling over me and have to brace myself? The body, naturally, does only one thingit automatically repeats the mantra; then all becomes quiet, all is set in order. But why is this effort necessary? It should be done automatically [the sweeping away of bad vibrations]. Why is there a need to remember or to put up a struggle? Oh, a battle!
Its not the body complaining, it doesnt complain at all I am the one who complains! I think that its doing its best, but its thwarted by this type of (one can scarcely speak of a mind) this kind of mind-like activity in matter3 interfering. t is sordid. I havent yet been able to eliminate it completely.
0 1961-05-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its obviously a type of filariasis which obstinately refuses to go away, but anyway. It causes only one inconvenience now: it makes the legs very weakvery weak. I go through what seem like terrible gymnastics to climb the stairs. Other than that it doesnt matter. From time to time it pricks, it stings, it bites, it swells up but its nothing.
X said it would go away completely. The doctor said, It will not go away. So my body is observing the phenomenon! (Mother laughs)
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I see that the translation would go quickly if one moved into another domain. In one domain it is laborious, terrible, difficult, and the result is never very satisfying. But contrary to what I had thought, the domain of comprehension does not suffice, even the domain of experience does not suffice: something else is needed (oh, how to explain it?), a state in which effort is left totally behind. There is a state (which probably must be beyond the mind, because one no longer thinks at all, not at all) where everything is smiling and easy, and the sentences come to you all by themselves. Its peculiar I read, and even before I finish reading the sentence to be translated I know whats in it; and then without waitingalmost without waiting to know whats in it I know what to put for it. When its like that I can translate a page in half an hour.
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 sentences! 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.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I will give you a concrete example, then youll understand. When I.B. was killed, I had to gather up all his states of being and activities, which had been dispersed by the violence of the accident2it was terrible, he was in a dreadful state of dispersion. For two or two and a half days the doctors fought in the hope of reviving him, but it was impossible. During those two days I gathered up all his consciousness, all of it; I collected it over his body, to the point where, when it had come and formed itself there, such vitality, such life was coming back into his body that after some hours the doctors believed he would be saved. But it couldnt last (it wasnt possiblea part of the brain had come out). Well, when not only his soul but his mental being, his vital being, and all the rest had been properly collected and organized over his body and had realized that the body had become quite unusable, it was overthey gave up the body and it was over.
I was keeping I.B. near me because I already had the idea of putting him immediately back into another bodyhis soul was not satisfied, it had not finished its experience (there was a whole combination of circumstances) and it wanted to continue to live on earth. Then, that night, his inner being went to find V., lamenting, saying he was dead and hadnt wanted to die, that he had lost his body and wanted to continue to live. V. was very perplexed. He let me know about it in the morning: Heres what has happened. I sent word to him of what I was doing, that I was keeping I.B. in my atmosphere and that he should stay very calm and not get excited, for I was going to put him back into a body as soon as possible I already had something in view. The same evening I.B. again went to find V., with the same complaint. V. told him very clearly, Here is what Mother says, here is what she is going to do; come now, be calm and dont torment yourself. And he saw in I.B.s face that he had understood (the inner being was taking on I.B.s physical appearance, naturally); his face relaxed, he became content.
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Not long ago M.s sister died (psychologically, she was in a terrible stateshe had no faith). Well, on that day,5 just when I came to know that she was passing away, I remember being upstairs in the bathroom communicating with Sri Aurobindo, having a sort of conversation with him (it happens very often), and I asked him, What happens to such people when they die here at the Ashram? Look, he replied, and I saw her passing away; and on her forehead, I saw Sri Aurobindos symbol in a SOLID golden light (not very luminous, but very concrete). There it was. And with the presence of this sign the psychological state no longer matterednothing touched her. And she departed tranquilly, tranquilly. Then Sri Aurobindo told me, All who have lived at the Ashram and who die there have automatically the same protection, whatever their inner state.
I cant say I was surprised, but I admired the mighty power by which the simple fact of having been here and died here was sufficient to help you to the utmost in that transition.
0 1961-09-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats terrible is this organizing mind. Its terrible! It has us so convinced that we cant do without it that its very difficult to resist. Indeed, it has convinced all humanity. The whole so-called elite of humanity has been convinced that nothing worthwhile can be achieved without this mental organizing power.
But Sri Aurobindo wants us to have the same simple joy as a blossoming rose: Be simple, be simple, be simple. And when I hear it or see it, its like a rivulet of golden light, like a fragrant gardenall, all, all is open. Be simple.
0 1961-09-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have the right to 150 pages! The publisher is giving me 150 pages in his collection. terrible. But in this Sri Aurobindo, you understand, I would like to make his whole poetic aspect stand out, that poetry which is like the Veda, like a revelation, so a bit of space is required: it cant be squeezed into a few lines, or reduced to a skeleton.
This analogy between the ancient form of spiritual revelations and Savitri, this blossoming into poetry of his prophetic revelation is what could be called the most exceptional part of his work. And what is remarkable (I saw him do it) is that he changed Savitri: he went along changing it as his experience changed.
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have done my best, all these years, to try to keep him at a distance. He has a powera terrible asuric power. Between you and me, I saw him like that from the start thats why I became involved with him. I never intended to marry him (his family affairs made it necessary), but when we met, I recognized him as an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood that is his origin (what he called the Lord of Nations); and in fact, this being has directed the whole course of world events during the last few centuries. As for Theon, he was.
It was not by choice that I met all the four Asurasit was a decision of the Supreme. The first one, whom religions call Satan, the Asura of Consciousness, was converted and is still at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood; Richard was an emanation, a vibhuti,1 as they say in India, of this Asura.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, I can say one thing about this. Theres a type of woman I have met more or less periodically throughout my life. These beings are under the influence, or are incarnations of, or in any case are responsive to forces which Theon called passivenot exactly feminine forces, but on the Prakriti2 side of the universe: the dark Prakriti side (there is an active dark side, the asuric forces, and a passive dark side). And these are terrible beings, terrible! They have wreaked havoc in life. They represent one of the creations biggest difficulties. And they are attracted to me! Mon petit, they adore me, they detest me, they would like to destroy meand individually they CANNOT do without me! They come to me like like fireflies to light. And they hate me! They would like to crush me. Thats how it is.
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 rotten, 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
But following that, and because of the overwork, an old thing I thought I had cured has come back. It was originally brought on by overwork when I was going to the Playground and resting only two hours out of twenty-four, which wasnt enougha sort of ulcer formed between my nose and throat. Its an old complaint, dating from the removal of adenoids in my childhood; the operation left a kind of small cavity, which was nothing in itself, except that occasionally it would give me a cold. But as a result of overwork it came back in the form of an ulcer, and gave me artificial colds; it was so sour and corrosive, a terrible irritation in the throat and nose. It got much worse when I was giving classes at the Playground, and once I showed it to the doctor. Why, you have an ulcer! he said. A big fuss. He offered to treat me. No thanks! I said. Dont worry, it will pass. And I began my own yogic treatment. It was over in a week and for three years there was no further sign of it. Recently (the last two or three months) I had felt it trying to come back, for exactly the same reason of overwork. And with that little adventure the other day, it did come backit gave me one of those stupid colds: sneezing, coughing. Its not quite over yet. But its nothing, it just gives me an excuse (laughing) to tell people I am still not quite well!
I am resting.
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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 attention; 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?
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And the feeling was so strong that even during his illness (which lasted for months, you know), I had a sense of perfect security; so much so that the idea of his life being really affected in the least by this illness couldnt even occur to me! I didnt want to believe it when the doctor said, Its over. I didnt want to believe it. And as long as I stayed in the room with me in the room he couldnt leave his body. And so there was a terrible tension in himon the one hand the inner will to depart, and then this thing holding him there in his body: the fact that I knew he was alive and could only be alive. He had to signal me to go to my room, supposedly to rest (I didnt rest); and no sooner had I left his room than he was gone.
They immediately called me back. Thats how it was. Then when he came to me, when I really saw what had happened, when he went out of his body and entered into mine (the most material part of him, the part involved with external things) and I understood that I had the entire responsibility for all the work AND for the sadhana7well, then I locked a part of me away, a deep psychic8 part that was living, beyond all responsibility, in the ECSTASY of the realization: the Supreme. I took it and locked it away, I sealed it off and said, Youre not moving until until all the rest is ready.
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This was counterbalanced by a terrible censor which never left me.11 It took Sri Aurobindo to clear it from my path. But I didnt have the sense of sin, of Good and Evil, sin and virtuedefinitely not! My consciousness was centered around right action and wrong action12this should have been done, that shouldnt havewith no question of Good or Evil, from the standpoint of work, of action alone. My consciousness has always been centered on action. It was a vision, a perception of the line to be followedor the many lines to be followed for the action to be accomplished. And any deviation from what to me was the luminous line, the straight line (not geometrically straight: the luminous line, the line expressing the divine Will), the slightest deviation from that, and oh, it was the only thing that tormented me.
And the torment didnt come from me, it came from that character hooked on to my consciousness and constantly whipping me, hounding me, ill-treating mewhat people call their conscience, which has nothing whatsoever to do with consciousness!13 Its an adverse being, and whatever it can change, it changes for the worse; whatever is susceptible to being changed into something antidivine, it changes. And it is constantly repeating the same thing: This is wrong, that is wrong, this is wrong.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And to Theon, the God of the Jews and Christians was an Asura. This Asura wanted to be unique; and so he became the most terrible despot imaginable. Anatole France said the same thing (I now know that Anatole France had never read Theons story, but I cant imagine where he picked this up). Its in The Revolt of the Angels. He says that Satan is the true God and that Jehovah, the only God, is the monster. And when the angels wanted Satan to become the one and only God, Satan realized he was immediately taking on all Jehovahs failings! So he refused: Oh, nothank you very much! Its a wonderful story, and in exactly the same spirit as what Theon used to say. The very first thing I asked Anatole France (I told you I met him oncemutual friends introduced us), the first thing I asked him was, Have you ever read The Tradition? He said no. I explained why I had asked, and he was interested. He said his source was his own imagination. He had caught that idea intuitively.
Well, if you speak this way to philosophers and metaphysicians, theyll look at you as if to say, You must be a real simpleton to believe all that claptrap! But these things are not to be taken as concrete truths they are simply splendid images. Through them I really did come in contact, very concretely, with the truth of what caused the worlds distortion, much better than with all the Hindu stories, far more easily.
0 1962-05-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
2) That he has understood: it has come to his [inner] knowledge that the present period is terrible.
What am I to tell him or give him to understand when I meet him at the station?
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything that happened prior to the experience of April 13 has disappeared, as it were, and the usual functioning of the consciousness has been totally annulled; it is trying little by little to create a new mode of operationnot merely trying: it is in the PROCESS of doing so on a truer foundation; a truer foundation, or truer relations, or vibrations, or functionings (I dont know the right word for it: all these things at once). That presence the other day [the tall white Being] was nothing essentially newit had already intervened a good many times; and yet it was new, because the whole functioning was new. Its like my experience two nights ago [the recharging of batteries], I had it for months on end; well, it was new because it was based on a new functioning. And each time (is it out of habit, or to make me understand, to make me see the difference?), each time the old functioning starts up, first of all I really feel I am losing the true contact, that the TRUE thing is escaping, and then I wonder how anybody can function like that without going insane! Thats what strikes me nowthis feeling of going insane! I mean it grates, it scrapes, it makes no senseit misses the point. It is not the TRUE thing, its beside the point. It tries to imitate something inimitable. And so I ask myself, What is this? Am I going crazy? Am I losing my faculties? And then I realize its not that at all! Above theres a state of immutable and UNSHAKABLE concentration, constant and almighty, and with but a drop of That, a spark of That, all problems are solved. Then I see clearly that its only a demonstration to make me see the inadequacy of the old, habitual functioningto really and truly convince me that its inadequate. Its rather hard to bear, actually. Last night I had it, I have seen it again in recent days: it lasts a few secondsjust enough for a satisfactory lesson! It may also happen to make me understand, but afterwards I wonder, Well, if everybody is in this state they dont know it, but its just terrible! And I realize that the LEAST thing, the slightest circumstance, is COMPLETELY distorted, instantly distorted by the way people work it out, the way they cause events to develop.
Thats an ever-present experience.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When a god takes a human body it must be terrible for him. Or does his divinity become quite veiled to him?
Yes, quite veiled.
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let me tell you in brief one or two things about what I have long seen. My idea is that the chief cause of the weakness of India is not subjection nor poverty, nor the lack of spirituality or dharma [ethics] but the decline of thought-power, the growth of ignorance in the motherl and of Knowledge. Everywhere I see inability or unwillingness to thinkthought-incapacity or thought-phobia. Whatever may have been in the middle ages, this state of things is now the sign of a terrible degeneration. The middle age was the night, the time of the victory of ignorance. The modern world is the age of the victory of Knowledge. Whoever thinks most, seeks most, labors most, can fathom and learn the truth of the world, and gets so much more Shakti. If you look at Europe, you will see two things: a vast sea of thought and the play of a huge and fast-moving and yet disciplined force. The whole Shakti of Europe is in that. And in the strength of that Shakti it has been swallowing up the world, like the tapaswins [ascetics] of our ancient times, by whose power even the gods of the world were terrified, held in suspense and subjection. People say Europe is running into the jaws of destruction. I do not think so. All these revolutions and upsettings are the preconditions of a new creation.
Then look at India. Except for some solitary giants, everywhere there is your simple man, that is, the average man who does not want to think and cannot think, who has not the least Shakti but only a temporary excitement. In India, you want the simple thought, the easy word. In Europe they want the deep thought, the deep word; there even an ordinary laborer or artisan thinks, wants to know, is not satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thought-power can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddlenebulous metaphysics, yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is being made in Europe to surmount even this limitation. We already have the spiritual sensewe owe it to our forefa thersand whoever has that sense has at his disposal such Knowledge and Shakti as with one breath might blow away all the huge power of Europe like a blade of grass. But to get that Shakti one must be a worshiper of Shakti. We are not worshipers of Shakti. We are worshipers of the easy way. But Shakti is not to be had by the easy way. Our forefa thers dived into a sea of vast thought and gained a vast Knowledge and established a mighty civilization. As they went on in their way, fatigue and weariness came upon them. The force of thought diminished and with it also the strong current of Shakti. Our civilization has become an achalayatana [prison], our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of religious intoxication. And so long as this sort of thing continues, any permanent resurgence of India is improbable
0 1962-09-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the middle of the First World War, Sri Aurobindo noted with prophetic force: The defeat of Germany could not of itself kill the spirit then incarnate in Germany; it may well lead merely to a new incarnation of it, perhaps in some other race or empire, and the whole battle would then have to be fought over again. So long as the old gods are alive, the breaking or depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate. Germany overthrew the Napoleonic spirit in France in 1813 and broke the remnants of her European leadership in 1870; the same Germany became the incarnation of that which it had overthrown. The phenomenon is easily capable of renewal on a more formidable scale.2 Today we are finding that the old gods know how to transmigrate. Gandhi himself, seeing all those years of nonviolence culminate in the terrible violence that marked Indias partition in 1947, ruefully observed shortly before his death: The attitude of violence which we have secretly harboured now recoils on us, and makes us fly at each others throats when the question of distribution of power arises. Now that the burden of subjection is lifted, all the forces of evil have come to the surface. For neither nonviolence nor violence touch upon the root of Evil.
Ahimsa: nonviolence.
0 1962-11-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its more a sort of weariness. I spend terrible nights in the subconscient. Over the past six months theres been a really abrupt change in my dreams. Previously I would remember something once in a while; now I remember nothing except the subconscient, and what a subconscient! Im lucky when its not hellish.
Mon petit, from that point of view my nights are abominable toothey cant really be abominable because I live in beatitude, but what I see, what I am forced to see each night is horrible. Just horrible. It seems like an attempt to make me thoroughly disgusted with my work. The subconscient is really a mass of horrors. And its been going on like this for at least six months.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From there you had a panoramic view of everything. And no sooner did I arrive than a storm broke outa terrible storm. I kept watching, and then I saw in this direction (I dont know whether it was north, south or west, but it was this direction: Mother points to the north), I saw two nearly simultaneous flashes of lightning. The first one (I was looking north, I was quite conscious of facing north) the first one, a terrific bolt, came and fell from the east; and just a moment after, very soon after, another came from the west. The two didnt come together, but they fell on the same spotthey didnt meet but they fell on the same spot. It was pitch dark, the earth and everything was dark, you couldnt see a thing, and suddenly those two flashes of lightning lit up the area where they fell, making a dreadful din, and (my field of vision was confined to that area; all the rest was in darkness, you see) it burst into flames! Everything was set ablaze. In the lightning flashes you could distinguish the tops of monuments, houses, all sorts of things, and then everything burst into flames: a dreadful conflagration.
I even remarked to myself (it was a rather curious feeling), Well, its interesting to have such a close view of it. That is, I had the feeling that my station, as Sri Aurobindo calls it, for viewing the world was very high up, and Id had to come down to that place. And thats what made me say, Well, its interesting to have such a close view of things. (I didnt say it to that being, I thought it.) And he was there next to me, gloating, standing some distance off to my right (looking up, I could see his headMo ther looks up at the ceiling). He was jubilant, gloating: You see, you see, you see! Overjoyed. I kept absolutely still; everything was still, calm, motionless (the thought that came was like something passing through me: Its interesting to have such a close view of it). And then I stopped everything, like this (Mother remains as still as a statue, fists clenched). And very soon afterwards (I cant say exactly because time there isnt the same as here), very soon afterwards, everything stopped.1 The storms only purpose was to cause the two thunderbolts, and it stopped after they fell on the earth. And then the flames the whole area was set ablaze (it was like a huge city, but not a city: most likely it was symbolic of a country): vroom! It burst into flames; some flames were leaping up very, very high. But I simply did this, stopped everything (Mother remains motionless, eyes closed, fists clenched), and then looked out once againeverything had returned to order. Then I said (I dont know why, but I was speaking to him in English yes, its because he was speaking English, saying, You see, you see!), I said, Ah, that didnt last long. They quickly brought it under control. With that he turned his back on me (laughing); he went off one way and I the other. Then I regained my outer consciousness, which is why I remember everything exactly.
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Yet people have fought beforepeople have fought everywhere, havent they? Since the last war they have never stopped fighting in one place or another: in Africa, in Asia, everywhere. Theyve been constantly fighting. There was always something, constantly. This whole Algerian story terrible things went on there; and all the trouble in the Congo and so forthbattles everywhere. But I dont know why (its not that I wasnt concerned with these events, they were in my consciousness), but this time two things have happened: a greater Power has descended (something very concrete, almost tangible), a great Power has descended, has been especially sent; and also a certain receptivityeverywhere, even in the Chinese (I dont mean locally: its all over the world). Is it because, materially, theres some anxiety at the idea of? If a new world war starts, its obviously going to be something unspeakable, frightful, frightfulwhole civilizations will be swallowed up. It will put a stop to life on earth in a terrible way. Is that what made people? Has this awakened some aspiration? Possibly. Theres clearly a greater receptivity. I see this from the fact that whenever the Will spreads out (Mother makes a gesture of emanation), well, it has a more concrete and more immediate effect.
The other conflicts were really very superficial, like minor ailmentsskin diseases! Superficial things. There were some appalling horrors, utterly repugnant things, too, everywhere (I remember what happened in Algeria, I was kept informed and I knew what took place: horrible things) and yet they seemed yes, they seemed like skin diseases of the earth! They were very superficial. But then suddenly up there [in Nefa and Ladakh], oh, it became something different.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive been floundering. But you know, for years Ive had the intuition, the premonition, that 1963 would be a terrible yearpersonally.
Sixty-three.
0 1962-11-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats what I am experiencing in my body nowexactly what you say: each step forward forces you to make not a step backward, but a step into the Shadow. And on the physical level its terrible.
(silence)
0 1962-12-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those were terrible days I lived through then.
(silence)
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One wonders how people in Europe can break through that Christian carapace; it seems extremely solidits terrible, really!
Oh, indeed it is.
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Of course! Nothing is more terrible than idealists, theyre the worst. Theyre worse than the bad people.
Oh, if you mean the puritans, the Protestants dreadful! Theyre the worst. Catholicism still retains something of the occult sense, and after all, they have a certain adoration for the Virgin, which keeps them in contact with something thats not asuric.
0 1963-01-02, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
While I would need Oh, at times I withdraw from action altogetherby action, I mean talking and above all receiving swarms of vibrations terrible, terrible vibrations!
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 heightened, 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
0 1963-01-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
terrible. A strange difficulty.
If the inner being the true beingis the ruler, the power of the true being makes the body act automatically; but then it doesnt grow conscious of its own change, it doesnt collaborate in its change, so for the change to happen it would take maybe millennia. The true being has to be like this (gesture to the background, standing back) and the body has to do everything BY ITSELF, in other words, contain the Lord, receive the Lord, give itself to the Lord, BE the Lord. It does aspireoh, its intense, aflame thats very good. But the Lord (smiling) doesnt conform to the ordinary habit! So all the habits, the minute He just tries to take possession of one function or another, even partially (not totally), all the interrelationships, all the movements are changed instantlypanic. Panic at the particular spot. And the result: you faint, or you are just about to faint, or you have an excruciating pain, or anyway something APPARENTLY breaks down completely. So whats to be done? Wait patiently until that small number or large number of cells, that little spot of consciousness, has learned its lesson. It takes one day, two days, three days, then the chaotic, upsetting big event calms down, is explained, and those particular cells say to themselves (or begin saying to themselves), God, how dumb we are! It takes a little while, then they understand.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I realize You see, I need physical help to relieve the body of all effort thats not strictly indispensable. But I cant make their [the attendants] life completely chaotic in appearance: there has to be some schedule. And a schedule means terrible limitations. I cant help it. I cant help it, because for the time being, simply the will expressing itself isnt enough to make matter respond. Once it is like that, time wont matter any more, butBUT.
We mustnt be impatient.
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night or the night before, I was in Sri Aurobindos house and he was telling me, Some things are going wrong. And he showed me around his house. There were some pipesbig pipes that had burst. You see, he told me, people have been careless. In some places they had taken away all the furniture and were cleaning up in a stupid way: See, he said, they dont do things the proper way. Then I understood it was the reflection of the way things happen here. And he was (not angry, he is never angry), but people gave him a lot of bother, they were preventing him from doing his work: I would come in a room and try to arrange a corner because he wanted to write, but it was impossible, the whole setup made it impossible for him to have even a decent corner where he could write then at other times, it would be quite fine. Because it changes continuously. The layout of rooms has an inner meaningit MEANS somethingso it always stays the same as if the setting stayed unchanged (because its not a house built from an architects plan! Its his own house, which he has arranged according to his taste, so it stays that way). But people seem to have unrestricted entry there, and everyone wants to do something, to make himself useful, (laughing) so its terrible! This is what erased my experience or pushed it back into the realm of memories. As though he were saying, Dont be too concerned with universal things, because over here (laughing) things arent too smooth!
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Some are sluggish (theyre the best, because I can make them do what I want them to do); theyre like automatons, so you can get something out of them. But unfortunately they think they are they have the sense of their responsibility, so they think they are very superior then its terrible!
Anyway
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then, they had brought a four-year-old with them. Today was his birthday. They sent me some money for the child and asked for a card of blessings. I refused to give the card and threw the money back at themquite bluntly. I said, Tell these people that they are selfish and stupid, and I want nothing from them. And I banged on the table. Oh, oh! Everyone was petrified. (Mother laughs) The doctor was there, and Nolini, Champaklal, Amrita. Something in me was laughing a lot! Oh, they thought I was in a terrible fit: Theyll see what will happen to them! And you know, those vibrations are familiar to metheyre terrifying, mon petit. Not human. When it comes, its fearsome, people are in a cold sweat. And I watch it all like a spectator!
Fairly often, its Sri Aurobindo. But this time it was entirely impersonal. It was something that WILL NO LONGER tolerate in the world a certain kind of selfish stupidityto trample this childs finer feelings just because she isnt stupidly attached to her family (who didnt even give her a single thought all the time she was here, she didnt exist for them).
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its exactly the universal state of mind: a state of disbelief, oh, terrible! If we didnt know that something will come to replace it, it would be terrible.
This Savitri is wonderful, he foresaw everything, saw everything, everything, absolutely everything, there isnt one point he left unexplored!
0 1963-05-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the necessary and unavoidable everyday contact with people, there is a growing perception that whatever the circumstance (which in itself is so simple, simpler than a child, you knowa perfect simplicity), as soon as it comes into contact with the terrestrial human atmosphere, it becomes ever so complicated! And quite unnecessarily. It seems as if the normal human occupation is to complicate all that could be extremely simple. I see this day after day, for all the small events of every day, of each and every minute. With certain consciousnesses as soon as it touches certain consciousnesses it is twisted, sometimes into terrible knots. Then it takes a fantastic labor to undo it the whole thing PERFECTLY unnecessary!
These last few days, in fact, I have been observing it all and wondering, Why are things this way? It must have been the meansprobably the most effective means, I dont knowto emerge from inertia, from tamas. If everything worked in that Simplicity, that perfect Quietness, well, human consciousness would be in such a state that it would have simply fallen asleep. It would have reached the state not even of an animal, perhaps of a slumbering plant!
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theyre caught in refined but terrible constructions.
Yes. And also they are too aware of being intelligent. Theyre imprisoned in intellectual castles!
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, they rushed to cremate him; they asked me candidly (because his nephew was coming but not before the next morning, that is, a little less than twenty-four hours after M.s deathnearly twenty hours), they asked me, Should we keep him or not? I answered, It depends. If you ask me as far as HE is concerned, certainly the longer you keep him the better. Then I see eyes open wide, a mouth open widedont understand anything! I told them, It takes QUITE A WHILE for the consciousness to come out slowly! Otherwise, when you burn him, its pushed out violently, it gives a terrible shock.
To tell the truth, people burn the dead in that way to destroy the vital, I am sure of it. The idea is not to have any ghosts.
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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But constantly (I make the problem more precise for the sake of clarity), there are constantly in the atmosphere, as I have always said, all the suggestions, all that atmosphere of the physical mind which is full of every possible stupidity. You have to be permanently on your guard and sweep it all away: Go away, dont interfere. The doctors opinions, the example of other people, that whole really, that whole terrible muddle of Ignorance all around, which you have to drive back: Dont meddle, mind your own business.
(silence)
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The work consists, I could say, in either removing or transforming (I am not sure which of the two) all the bodys cells that are or have been under the influence of Falsehood (not lie but falsehood), of the state contrary to the Divine. But since probably a radical purge or transformation would have resulted in nothing but the bodys dissolution, the work goes on in stages, progressively (I am going very far back in time, to my first attacks). So the sequence is the following: first, a series of activities or visions (but those visions are always activities at the same time: both activities and visions) in the subconscious domain, showing in a very living and objective way the Falsehood that has to be removed (transformed or removed). At first, I took them as adverse attacks, but now I see they are states of falsehood to which certain elements in the physical being are linked (at the time, I thought, I am brought into contact with that because of the correspondence in me, and I worked on that level but its another way of seeing the same thing). And it produces certainly there is a dissolution there is a transformation, but a dissolution tooand that dissolution naturally brings about an extreme fatigue or a sort of exhaustion in the body; so between two of those stages of transformation, the body is given time to recover strength and energy.1 And I had noticed that those attacks always come after the observation (an observation I made these last few days) of a great increase in power, energy and force; when the body grows more and more solid, there always follows the next day or the day after, first, a series of nights I could call unpleasant (they are not, for theyre instructive), and then a terrible battle in the body. This time I was consciousnaturally, I am conscious every time, but (smiling) more so every time.
I had observed lately that the body was getting much stronger, much more solid, that it was even putting on weight (!), which is almost abnormal. Then, I had a first vision (not vision: an activity, but very clear), then another, and then a third. Last night, I was fed a subtle food, as if to tell me that I would need it because I wouldnt take any physical food2 (not that I thought about it, I simply noticed I had been fed, given certain foods). And with the visions I had the two preceding nights, I knew that at issue were certain elements forming part of the bodys construction (psychological construction), and that they had to be eliminated. So I worked hard for their elimination. And today, the battle was waged.
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a time when I struggled very strongly against wastage: waste of force, waste of material, waste of time, and also, of course, waste of lives. A terrible waste of lives. But isnt this attitude still one of blinkered sentimentality?? I cant say.
(silence)
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Since then Ive learned that its part of their teaching: that what is terrible in Hell isnt so much the suffering, but that there is no God there; that its the only part of the creation in which there is no Godthere is no God in Hell. And I asserted that He is there too.
But naturally, from an intellectual point of view, all those things are explained and find their placeman has never thought anything that wasnt the distortion of a truth. Thats not the difficulty, its that for religious people there are certain things they have a DUTY to believe, and to allow the mind to discuss them is a sinso naturally they close themselves and will never be able to make any progress. Whereas the materialists, on the other hand, are on the contrary supposed to know and explain everything they explain everything rationally. So (Mother laughs), precisely because they explain everything, you can lead them where you want to.
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.
0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, terrible, as if I were burning within.
Thats it, like red-hot iron claws. And others too had the same thing, the very same thing.
0 1964-01-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Dont be under the illusion that I am not there. I am there, the force, the consciousness are there, but there is no receptivity. During the Chinese trouble, I was in those places in the front, concretely, but I am sorry to say that the only people who were receptive were the Chinese. The impulsion to come forward disappeared. That is receptivity. No one knew why they withdrew! On the Indian side a few were touched and they told me of terrible conditions.
Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali2 quiet, but she is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will only give up their ego!
0 1964-02-13, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, when she tells me, I want the Truth, I want the Divine, I take it as sincere and act accordingly but that gives her terrible thrashings! And I do absolutely nothing but take what she says at its face value. She says she wants the Truth, wants the Divine, that it is the only thing she wants and nothing else. So I act accordingly.
The result is that I have piles of letters with frightful insults: Liar, hypocrite. (Mother laughs) It isnt the first time, she has those fits now and then. But after this letter, I received a sort of inner comm and to make one last attempt, and I wrote to her that it was HER SOUL that had asked me to act as I did. Because when I entrusted this work to Sujata instead of her, I had a moment of hesitation, then I went within to find out, and her soul exerted a very strong pressure for me to act in that way. I had always seen, at every minute, that her aspiration was constantly tainted with that vanityshe always puts on an act for others and for herself. I was waiting patiently for that vanity to go, but her soul wasnt as patien thers is a very beautiful soul (thats the strange thing, you see, her soul is a very beautiful one), but at times she rejects it violently. So I wrote to tell her that now I had something serious to say to her, that it was her soul that had asked me to act in that way in order to break and conquer her egos vanity. She says, I dont want my ego, I dont want my ego but she identifies herself with it to such a degree that when she has those fits, she is the ego; when the fit is over, she clearly sees the difference. And at the end of my letter, I said, Now, it is up to you to choose between Truth and falsehoodit was a hurricane!
0 1964-03-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, if I look, its terrible.
As long as you dont look, you can but if I look, its terrible: to be plunged in that. I dont think you will be able to stay long. Unless youre completely alone with your mother in Brittany.
Whats most worrying is peoples friendliness, far more than their adverse reactions.
0 1964-07-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know why they wanted me to read thisits something quite terrible quite terrible.
For December 1st theyve organized an entire performance at the Theater, with recitation, dances, tableaux vivants, to illustrate it [The Hour of God].
0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He will have gone through a terrible experience.
Oh yes, and very, very dangeroushe knew it. But to some extent I can understand: a surgeon who can no longer use his hands
0 1964-08-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a matter of fact, these last few nights Ive been conducting a sort of review of all the stages my nights went through before being what they areits fantastic! I started working on my nights at the beginning of the century, exactly in 1900, sixty-four years ago now, and the number of nights when I didnt continue my training is absolutely minimalminimal. There had to be something unexpected or I had to be ill; and even then, there was another kind of study going on. I remember (Sri Aurobindo was here), I caught a sort of fever like influenza from contact with the workers, one of those fevers that take hold of you brutally, instantly, and in the night I had a temperature of more than 105. Anyway, it was And then I spent my night studying what people call delirium(laughing) it was very interesting! I was explaining it to Sri Aurobindo (he was there: I was lying on the bed and he was sitting by the bedside), I told him, This is whats going on, that is whats going on and that (such and such and such a thing) is what gives people what doctors call delirium. It isnt delirium. I remember having been assailed for hours by little entities, vital forms that were hideous, vile, and so vicious! An unequaled cruelty. They rushed at me in a troop, I had to fight to repel them: they retreated, moved forward, retreated, moved forward. And for hours like that. Naturally, at that time I had Sri Aurobindos full power and presence, and yet it lasted three or four hours. So I thought, How terrible it must be for the poor devils who have neither the knowledge I have, nor the power I have, nor Sri Aurobindos protective presenceall the best conditions. It must be frightful, oh! I have never in my life seen anything so disgusting.
I had picked it all up in the workers atmosphere. Because I hadnt been careful, it was the festival of arms and I had been in communion with them: I had given them some food and taken something theyd given me, which means it was a terrible communion. And I brought all that back.
I was ill for a long time, several days.
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The famine is much worse than it was when it was supposedly tragic. Now its terrible. Theres not enough to eat; the country is so large, theres so much uncultivated land, there are so many people without work and theres not enough food for everyone! And theyve closed the borders: they stop the food from coming from outside, and theres not enough for everyone to eat.
But then, the number of stupid ideas these people have tried out to mend the situationits unbelievable! And each blunder has made the situation worse. Now its extremely serious.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything must be done all over again, all over again. Thats terrible!
Theres no doubt, the Transformer must carry out the transformation in his lifetime.
0 1964-09-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You remember, I had that in the past (a few months or years ago), I told you, it was something that would suddenly make me bang my fist it was so terrible that I felt as if everything would be smashedits the same thing, but now organized for a definite aim: it comes fully ready, then it acts, and when its finished, it goes. It comes, and sometimes it stays long enough: it insists and insists, as though it were pummeling the resistance; and then suddenly it stops, its finished, its gone. It comes into the consciousness spontaneously, it goes out of it spontaneously, and I am like a witness. Just a witness who is used as a linkan electric plug.
It goes towards the person (I see it with the inner vision, you understand) or towards the circumstances or towards the event, and it pummels it without letting go of it: You will do what the Lord wills, it will be as the Lord wills.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am constantly struggling against pernicious suggestions. This physical mind gives me a lot of troublea lot of trouble. It has terrible apprehensions and fears.
Oh, absolutely.
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But with you, its the same thing, because you were already conscious when you were small (without being conscious of it), and when all those terrible things2 happened to you, there was something that remained conscious, but those things cultivated the pessimism that pessimism of the physical mind. And now you have to undo all that work. And what a work it is, phew!
You understand, it was IMPOSSIBLE, impossible for me to believe in (believeeven understand) all those movements of betrayal, of jealousy, all the movements of negation of the Divine in human beings and thingsit was impossible, I didnt understand! But it came from every side, striking and striking and striking. So all that had to be undone.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They have again made a mess at the School, they are seized with such terrible whims of independence! Do you know the story? They put together a big display board on sleep for the childrens education (thats their affair), but then they put at the bottom, without asking for my permission, a quotation of mine, which I am supposed to have written in 1952 and in which I am supposed to have said that children should be in bed by 9. Now, they show films till 9:30 or 10. So I received a shower of letters, from kids asking me, What should we do? As for me, I dont understand a thing, and I ask what that quotation is. Then I learn that not only did they stick it at the bottom of their display board, but they also circulated a note of mine in which I say, Children should go to bed at 9. I said, What! I never had that circulated! Maybe I said it years ago, but I said it just like that, like a remark that it would be better. It caused quite a to-do, Ive been assailed with protests. So when Z came, I asked him to explain this affair. He told me what they had done; it seems that the teachers, seeing that poster with my quotation (probably the teachers who dont like films or who are against this one or that one and found this was a good opportunity to kick up a row), said and VOTED among themselves that it should be made into a circular! They simply forgot to ask my permission.
I told Z, Well, really, thats going a bit too far! And he was probably upset, because suddenly something came through him: it was like black little darts (they didnt come from him directlymaybe they came from the teachers!), little black darts that rushed at my throat. I felt it: it went ztt! I said, Oh, whats that? And I struggled; but I struggled against a sore throat, and indeed it didnt happenit turned into a cold!
In this School, they have a terrible tendency to turn everything into a system.
Yes, systems, rules.
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If you left, it would be terrible.
They had a meeting with people from England or Europe, in which they said, Oh, the world needs a new religion, now is the time to give it a new religion. And they wanted to take Sri Aurobindos name and make a new religion out of it! So I answered them, The time of religions is over. They didnt understand, mon petit, they were appalled! I wrote it to them without explanation, the way you fling something to shake things up: The time of religions is over, this is the age of universal spirituality (universal in the sense of containing EVERYTHING and adapting to everything). So they answered me, We dont understand, but anyway (laughing) since you tell us, we accept it. So I added an explanation in the Bulletin (the explanation isnt as strong, but I had to try and make myself understood), I said that religions are based on spiritual experiences brought down to a level where mankind can grasp them, and that the new phase must be that of spiritual experience in its purity, not brought down to a lower level.2
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, but there has been a dreadful revolt in the Ashrams atmosphere! Not in their conscious mind, but in the subconscienta terrible revolt. In order to write down my declaration, in order to formulate it, I had to overcome a whole mass of things, it was extraordinary! There have even been individual reactions: Then I am going away. I said, Very well, here is the exact proof.
It was interesting.
0 1964-10-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive never seen a more terrible face.
I have a strong feeling that it isyesa diabolic reaction.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think I lived for years in drama, tragedy, accidents, so theres an old habit: Its going to come back again. The feeling that things cant happen without a drama, a tragedy, without something terrible.
Yes, it must be that.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something interesting (not the faintings!). You know that Z has started a yoga in the body (I didnt ask her to do anything, she did it spontaneously); she wrote to me her first experiences, and there were observations quite similar to those I had made and with an accuracy that interested me I have encouraged her. She is going on. I dont have the time to read her letters: theyre piling up there. But what I found very interesting is that yesterday I was read a letter from an English writer (a lady): she has a little group there, they meditate together, and they had a sort of Indian guru (I dont know who) who was teaching them meditation. Then they came across Sri Aurobindos writings, and they began to study and follow his indications and try to understand. As it happened (about a year ago now), during their meditation, instead of their making an effort of ascent to awaken the Kundalini and rise towards the heights, all of a sudden the Force the Power, the Shaktibegan to descend from above downward. They informed their guru, who told them, Very bad! Very dangerous, stop it, terrible things are going to happen to you! That was about a year ago. They werent quite sure that the gentleman was right and they went on, with very good results. Then, yesterday, that lady wrote, giving a detailed notation of their experiencesalmost the SAME WORDS as Z! Now thats beginning to be interesting. Because it represents an impersonalization of the Action, in other words it doesnt express itself subjectively according to each individual: it has a WAY of acting.
I was very happy, I wrote her a note to congratulate her.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I saw very clearly: some time ago (a year, or maybe more), I believed that the thought and attitude and convictions of certain people [around Mother] were partially the cause of certain difficulties (with regard to age, especially), but thats not true! What people think and what they feel is exactly whats needed to act on this! All that is USED to teach the body what it must know: where its lack of receptivity is, where its inertia is, where Oh, the slavery to the habit of vibration is a terrible thing, terrible!
From the standpoint of health, its terrible. And health doesnt exist, it means nothing; it no longer means anything. Disease no longer means anything, it really doesnt: its distortions of vibrations and shiftings of vibrations, and (what can I call it?) encrustationsfrom the point of view of movement, its like bottlenecks, and from the point of view of the cell, its like encrustations: its what remains of the old Inertia out of which we came.
But its double: there is Inertia on one hand, and on the other vital perversion the NERVOUS perversion of the vital world, of the vital influence. There isnt just Inertia: there is a sort of perverted ill will. You can easily (relatively easily) drive it out and eliminate it entirely from conscious mental and vital life; that work, which in the past was considered as, oh, a tremendously difficult thingchanging an individuals natureis relatively easy; all in the nature that depends on the vital or the mind is relatively easy to change, very easy. I am not saying very easy for the ordinary man, but very easy in comparison with the work in Matter, in the cells of the body. Because, as I told you last time, their goodwill is undeniable and their thrust towards the Divine has become absolutely spontaneous: all that is conscious is luminous but the trouble is all that isnt yet conscious! Its the mass of all that isnt yet conscious and is, then, tossed between two influences, one as odious as the other: the influence of Inertia (gesture of dazed sluggishness), of the MASS that stops you from moving forward, and the influence of vital perversion and ill willits this influence that makes everything crooked, that distorts everything.
0 1965-01-09, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All I can say is that there is a fierceness in the resistance to the descent of the Truth. This descent is totally concrete and evident, of course, and everything averse to it is resisting with terrible fiercenessit cant last. But we must bear up, thats the difficulty.
For me, there is a struggle every minute with all that is most negative in life, in the terrestrial consciousness, with what REFUSES to admit the possibility of divinity. In other words, the materialistic concept in its most stubbornly dark aspect.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are odd phenomena. You didnt meet this B. when he was here? He introduced me to certain things I was unaware of: it seems there are in various corners of the world people who have received messages, and in particular a being who calls himself Truth and who speaks in my name. He says, The Mother says the Mother says and also, The Mother will make declarations, and you will have to take them very seriously. All sorts of things like that (people whom I dont know). Then there is someone, among those same people who receive messages and revelations, a spirit (I dont know if he is that same Truth or someone else, I dont remember in detail), who said, who announced 1967this is interesting. And I dont know those people at all. And it doesnt seem possible to me that they could have had in their hands books by Sri Aurobindo or me, I dont think. He announced that in 67 (I repeat roughly), we would have reached the point of the push button that triggers the destruction (because in those countries, they boast of being able to trigger a terrible destruction by pushing a button), and just when the catastrophe is about to take place, the supreme Power, as he says in a picturesque way, will push its own button and everything will be transformedjust when people expect complete destruction, the complete transformation will come.
Thats the domain in which their imagination works. They receive messages of that sort. Which means that people seem to be feeling very strongly that just before the change there will be an extremely critical moment. Only, of course, they tell you that in a quiet tone, The transformation will come and everything will be saved thats all very well, but
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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 EXTENT. 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.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not even nightmaresits disgusting. Three quarters of the things I remember are kinds of sewers, loathsome places. Its its terrible.
Yes, thats right. If you knew what I am shown!
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
Yes, thats right. But Sri Aurobindo said it to me. I asked him several times how it was that people (who consciously, outwardly, would rather have pleasant things and favorable events) are constantly attracting and attracting unpleasant things, even terrible catastrophes. I know some women (men too, but they are fewer), women who spend their time imagining the worst: they have children they imagine that each of them will meet with the worst catastrophes; someone goes away by caroh, the car will have an accident; they take the trainoh, the train will derail; and so forth. Well, thats why. Thats what Sri Aurobindo explained so well: all those parts of the being are terribly tamasic and it is the violence of the shock that awakens something in them; and that is why they attract those things as though instinctively. The Chinese, for example, have an extremely tamasic vital and an insensate physical: its sensation is totally blunted they are the ones who invented the most frightful forms of torture. It is because they need something extreme in order to feel, otherwise they dont feel. There was a Chinese who had a sort of anthrax, I think, in the middle of the back (generally an extremely sensitive spot, it seems), and because of his heart they couldnt put him to sleep to operate on him, so they were a bit worried. They operated without anesthesiahe was awake, he didnt move, didnt shout, didnt say anything, they were filled with admiration for his courage; then they asked him what he had felt: Oh, yes, I felt some scraping in my back! Thats how it is. Thats what creates the necessity of catastrophesof unexpected catastrophes: the thing that gives you a shock to wake you up.
What you are saying here about those morbid and diseased imaginations, I said it myself not long ago: the imagination is instantly defeatist and catastrophic.
Yes, its terrible.
The whole work for a long, long time has been to heal thatto change it, change it.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
P.S. There may be a certain vanity in saying, Why Sri Aurobindo?Because this and that; that is still our mind trying to catch hold of things in order to put its explanations on them, as if nothing could be without its clarifications. Yet, the most potent events in our lives are those we do not explain, because their force goes on working in us without being frozen by ONE explanation there are many other levels of explanation, and there is a mute explanation that remains quietly in the depths, like an ever-calm water, as clear as a childs gaze. And there is still more vanity in saying that Sri Aurobindo is this but not tha the is this and that, and many other things, too; he is with the yes and the no, the for and the against, and with all that seeks without knowing, because everything seeks after Joy, through the yes and the no, through the darkness or the light, slowly and over the tottering centuries or all at once in an all-seizing light. From age to age, that Light comes down on the earth to help it become sooner what it always was and seeks after in its troubled heart; and that Light is clothed in one word or another, it takes on a sweet or a terrible face, or a vast and powerful one like an all-embracing sea, but it is the same Light always, and the soul that opens itself in that ray secretly recognizes a Face it has loved many a time. From century to century it uncovers itself the same child with folded hands, gazing at the world with love.
August 12, 1965
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All that, all this Matter all the time going (gesture of rising and being swallowed back), making effort, producing forms, producing an element that can manifest consciousness, and then, brff! (gesture of being swallowed back) And again (gesture of rising), and back it goes againwhat a terrible waste! A great waste.
(silence)
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And that was an experience lived every second, for about six hours nonstop. Six hours nonstop and in stillness (not stillness, but the possibility of physical immobility on the bed), then the continuation for more than an hour after getting up, with the activities (limited, but ordinary activities), but then it became terrible! And I say: all, all the elements, whatever they are, whether they belong to the old movement or to the other one, all the elements had the same sense of adoration. Therefore it isnt a moral attitude: the same sense of adoration. Only, some, in their adoration, accepted annulment, while others wanted the Victory, the transformationits not that they wanted: they FELT the victory: and the others accepted the dissolution. And both together Very likely, if I had expressed that (I wasnt in a fit state to do so!), if I had expressed it at the time, I would have been accused of acute delirium I was perfectly conscious. And there, I mean, THERE, above the body, the most wonderful Peace one can imagine, a smiling Peace and
And the fever is going on. Which is to say that I am very, very conscious that this is the maximum of what can be done to advance swiftly towards transformation.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course! But the terrible thing is that there are people like that who DONT KNOW. He was exactly like me, without, for instance, the knowledge of whats here. If I hadnt known you and India, I would have done like him, I would have committed suicide just like him. But those people, its not their fault!
But theres no fault! Its never anybodys fault! (Mother laughs) Its not the Lords fault! The Lord has no faults!
0 1965-12-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) When I see him in the morning, its terrible. It takes him a long time before hes able to move, and he is in a lot of pain.
Yes, it hurts.
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Ultimately, the whole difficulty comes from the amount of unconsciousness left in the Matter we are made of. Thats thats terrible. And then, thats what it takes to pull this Matter out of its unconsciousness: all the suffering, all the disorder, all the pummeling. Thats what I see every day. And the degree of stupidity To us its stupidity, we call it stupidity, but You know, the intermediary to which this unconsciousness responds is the mentality of the cell, the material mentality, but then, when this material mentality is seized with an idea, it is actually possessed by the idea and its almost impossible (not impossible but extremely difficult) for it to free itselfit takes an intervention from another domain.
Diseases are just that. Its the same thing with the doctors illness: this tremor is the possession by an idea, its what in the conscious intelligence is expressed as the possession by an idea, a hypnosisa sort of hypnosis accompanied by a fear in matter. The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, and a fear, a helplessness to resist. And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, Oh, its going to be that way oh, its going to be a disease.
0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Laughing) Hes terrible! He has a knack for demolishing everything.
But its wonderfully true. It immediately puts you in the atmosphere of the relativity of all those human conceptions.
0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just two days ago, I wrote to someone (someone who is a bit under the influence of ascetic ideas), and I told that person, Those thoughtsthose thoughts and that type of actionbelong, from the spiritual standpoint, to the ascetic belief, but it-is-no-longer-true. And I said it with terrible force: IT-IS-NO-LONGER-TRUE. And I saw that at one point in the history of the earth it was necessary to obtain a certain result, but now ITS NO LONGER TRUE. Voil. It has given way to a higher and more complete truth. From that point of view, your book can obviously be the expression of this new force.
Its possible, its by no means impossible.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At the beginning of the conversation, Mother had remarked about a sick disciple: "She is extremely nervous and excited. I told her to take sedatives, I told her her whole trouble was physicalshe says she is the victim of terrible Asuras! It's ridiculous! It's a physical disturbance and she need not go and trouble the Asuras!"
But when the hour of the Divine draws near, The Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time and God be born into the human clay...
0 1966-04-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that, it was so amusing! I saw it all. Oh, it was an extraordinary experience. All of a sudden I was outside and, I cant say above (but it was above), but outside the whole human creation, outside everything, everything man has created in all the worlds, even in the most ethereal worlds. And seen from there, it was I saw that play of all the possible conceptions men have had of God and of the way to approach God (what they call God), and also of the invisible worlds and the gods, all that: one thing came upon another, one upon another, it all went by (as its written in Savitri), one thing upon another went by (gesture as if on a screen), one upon another with its artificiality, its inadequacy to express the Truth. And with such precision! A precision so accurate that you felt in anguish, because the impression was of being in a world of nothing but imagination, of imaginative creation, but in nothing real, there wasnt a feeling of of touching the Thing. To such a point that it became yes, a terrible anguish: But then, what? What? Whats truly TRUE and outside all that we can conceive?
And it came. It was like this: (gesture of self-abandon) the total, complete self-annulment, annulment of that which can know, of that which tries to knoweven surrender isnt an adequate word: a sort of annulment. And suddenly it ended with a slight movement as a child could have who doesnt know anything, doesnt try to know anything, doesnt understand anything, doesnt try to understand but who abandons himself. A slight movement of such simplicity, such ingenuousness, such extraordinary sweetness (words cant express it): nothing, just this (gesture of self-abandon), and instantaneously, THE Certitude (not expressed, lived), the lived Certitude.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is an Italian here, whom I saw the other day with his wife (his wife is nice; he has long hair and a mystic air mystic is a way of speaking: mysticism for a theater stage). I didnt find them very interesting, but they intend to stay here for three or four months. And today, he has written me a letter in French. And in that letter there are many things; first he says he had an experience here and those people are terrible, mon petit, as soon as they have the slightest experience, theyre scared! So naturally, everything stops. But thats beside the point. Then, in that connection, he says he took that drug and he describes the effect (Mother shows Satprem a passage of the letter):
The second time, with a normal dose of LSD (lysergic acid), as I rose in that luminous situation, I had terrible visions, the walls of my room came alive with thousands of malignant and desperate faces that persecuted me till night.
There.
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Because there are indeed those worlds of the vital where you are persecuted terrible worlds, worlds of torture and persecution, arent there?
Ninety percent subjective.
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For external reasons, I was looking at the sorry state in which all countries find themselves, the truly painful and dangerous conditions of the earth, and there was a sort of all-embracing vision showing how nations (men taken as nations) have acted and are increasingly acting in a growing Falsehood, and how they have used all their creative power to create such formidable means of destruction, with, at the back of their minds, the really childish notion that the destruction would be so terrible that no one would want to use them. But they dont know (they ought to know, but they dont) that things have a consciousness and a force of manifestation, and that all those means of destruction are pressing to be used; and even though men may not want to use them, a force stronger than they will be pushing them to do so.
Then, seeing all this, the imminence of the catastrophe, there was a sort of call or aspiration to bring down something that could at least neutralize that error. And it came, an answer I cant say I heard it with my ears, but it was so clear, so strong and precise that it was indisputable. I am obliged to translate it into words; if I translate it into words, I may say something like this: Thats why you have created Auroville.
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A proof what they want is a scientifically demonstrated proof. But in the first place, are they really referring to the soul? You understand, they are all in a terrible confusion: for them, the soul is just anything. Do they want to prove the existence of the soul, which is eternal, immortal, or the existence of an afterlife? The two things are different. Afterlife has been scientifically proved by cases: there have been quite a few cases of people who in their present life carried on with their previous life. There was the story of that father who died, and the child of a neighboring family gave extraordinary details, things that the dead father alone knew. He alone knew them, and as soon as the child was able to move independently, that is, at the age of five or six, he started trying to lead his former life again; he would say, My children are waiting for me in that house, I must go and look after them! He was a child, yet he said, My children are waiting for me over there. And that house was where he had died. There were quite precise details that the dead father alone knew: he would say, But I put that here, why did it go? All kinds of things like that. This is a fairly recent case. There have been at least four or five recorded cases, therefore there is an afterlife. But what is it that lives after? Of course, in the case of that child, its not the soul, it has nothing to do with the soul: its beings of the Vital1 (the mentalized vital) that remained intact and, because of some special circumstance, reincarnated immediately. So their previous life was still quite fresh. The case of that child seems to me scientifically indisputable because they cant say, He is mad, or Its a hallucinationhe is a child and he speaks of his children. There have been other cases as convincing as this one (I dont remember them). But is this what they want to know? Or do they want to know whether there is a soul and whether it is immortal and In reality, they dont know anything. Its a question put by ignorant people. They should be told in the first place, Excuse me! Before asking questions, you should study the problem.
There was the story of Ford, who had sent word to Sri Aurobindo and me that he was coming here to ask us the question that tormented him: What happens after death? And he said he was ready to give his fortune to whoever could answer him. Someone had told him, Yes, Sri Aurobindo can answer you. So Ford had sent word that he was preparing to come and ask us his question. And then he died!
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, there is an insistence (the same insistence 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 often 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 attendants, 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.
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Its the first time this year it has happened to me. Previously, it used to happen fairly often, but its the first time this year. It shows that, all the same, things are improving. Oh, but it was terrible, people cant imagine what it is! It takes hold of everyone and everybody, every circumstance and everything, and it gives shape to disintegrationquite like this Gentleman (I think hes the one!), quite like him. But it doesnt have the poetic form [of Savitri], of course, its not a poet: it has all the meanness of life. And it insists on that a great deal. These last few days it insisted on it a great deal. I said to myself, See, all that is written and said is always in a realm of beauty and harmony and greatness, and, anyway, the problem is put with dignity; but as soon as it becomes quite practical and material, its so petty, so mean, so narrow, so ugly! Thats the proof. When you get out of it, its all right, you can face all problems, but when you come down here, its so ugly, so petty, so miserable. We are such slaves to our needs, oh! For one hour, two hours, you hold on, and after And its true, physical life is uglynot everywhere, but anyway I always think of plants and flowers: thats really lovely, its free from that; but human life is so sordid, with such crude and imperious needsits so sordid. Its only when you begin to live in a slightly superior vision that you become free from that; in all the Scriptures, very few people accept the sordidness of life. And of course, thats what this Gentleman insists on. I said, Very well. This bodys answer is very simple: We certainly arent anxious that life should continue as it is. It doesnt find it very pretty. But we conceive of a lifea life as objective as our material lifewhich wouldnt have all these sordid needs, which would be more harmonious and spontaneous. Thats what we want. But he says its impossiblewe have been told its not only possible but certain. So theres the battle.
Then comes the great argument: Yes, yes, one day it will be, but when? For the time being you are still swamped in all this and you plainly see it cant change. It will go on and on. In millennia, yes, it will be. Thats the ultimate argument. He no longer denies the possibility, he says, All right, because you have caught hold of something, youre hoping to realize it now, but thats childishness.
0 1966-12-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are terrible.
And they said she was dying and they saved her, but that she would start dying again if she came back here. They wrote all this to me (its the husb and who wrote; as for her, she was preparing to come back here). I said, I dont want to take the responsibility, the suggestion is too strong, let her go and get the suggestion cured in Hong Kong.
0 1967-06-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Besides, its the same thing, because That one body can change? It does seem very difficultthough not impossible. Its not impossible, but its such a formidable labour that life is too short. So even there, something needs to change, that habit of wear and tear is a terrible thing.
Yes, but where would a new being come from? He will drop from heaven!
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Naturally, from the mental standpoint, the entire earth atmosphere is like that, but in the mind it hardly matters at all: one ray of light and its swept away. But its INSIDE (pointing to her body), that habit that catastrophic habitwhich is terrible, terrible to contradict. And its INDISPENSABLE that it should disappear so the other can settle in.
So its a battle each and every minute, all the time, all the time.
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, what goings-on The goings-on at the School, oh, those are priceless stories! But yesterday evening, I suddenly became indignant about a boy, the boy who had been accused of copying. He asserted he hadnt copied, and I saw he hadnt (but what I saw was almost worse!), and I said, No more examsa dreadful row everywhere! Then K., who is really a good boy, wrote to me, Should I not rather tell the boy that you decided he hadnt copied, because he must be worrying? I thought, Poor K.! But anyway, it was a nice gesture, so I said yes. Then he called the boy, told him what he had to, also that exams were abolished and the whole matter was over and done with. As soon as the boy left him, he went and told his friends a world of lies: that I had asked K. to apologize, to express regret and reinstate the boy, and a lot of fibs a series of terrible lies (and lies about me). You understand, I had had a movement of sympathy for K. for what he had done; it shows a sort of nobleness of soul in him: he was so convinced, but he accepted what I said and made that gesture because he thought the boy must have been worrying. Then the boys thoroughly disgusting reaction I had to restrain myself (inwardly): I was displeased. I had hoped, on the contrary, that that goodwill would give rise to a somewhat noble response, but all that is a sort of degradation. Yesterday, I was on the point of giving the child an inner slap I stopped myself from doing so, but he has clearly put himself in a bad spot.
Now they write to ask me, How can we know whether the children follow if we dont have exams? I had to explain the difference between a type of individual control based on observation, on a remark, on an unexpected question, etc., which allows the teacher to situate the child, and the other method in which you are forewarned, You will have an exam in eight days and the subject will be on what you have learnedso everyone starts revising what he has learned and preparing himself, and thats that: the one with a good memory is the one who passes. I have explained all that.1
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Actually, there are, inside oneself naturally (and consequently around oneself), forces that oppose ones realization, and the system of those [Tantric] mantras is to look for the support of those Overmind beings against those forces, which are much more powerful than they (the gods)the proof is that despite all their goodwill, they (the Overmind gods) have never been able to make the earth a harmonious place. We cant help noting the fact. So I told him it was a direct fight, all those mantras are a direct fight against the difficulty, whereas (and thats what gave him the terrible headache he complains about: its dangerous, of course, it can unsettle the whole functioning). I told him to stop and use that (Mothers Mantra). I explained it all to him yesterday. I told him he shouldnt wage a direct fight: one must try to find the support in the force one has inside oneself, which is everywhere and can overcome the difficulty: Instead of fighting, live in the other consciousness. But I saw he was closedlocked inwith a hard look. He didnt want to understand. So
For half an hour he kept me here. It was half past twelve!
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No, there are two problems. There is that one on the level of action, and then there is a tre-men-dous pride in the whole family; a terrible pride, its a formation. Thats what was in him yesterday, as if coagulated. So I told him, Have a little more humility, a little more modesty.
One doesnt want to abdicate, you understand.
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To the human consciousness, those things are terrible, but seen from up above, they make you smile. I remember, when I met him during the war (I had ruined his work with Hitler, then I met him), I told him, You know quite well that your time is over. He said, I know it, but until I disappear I will wreak as much havoc as I can.
Childishness.
0 1967-09-09, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, as soon as there is a little power the power of light, power of truth, power of love (the aspect of power in things)as soon as that manifests (gesture of uprising), it creates a terrible confusion: everyone feels full of energy, and with that energy does foolish things! Then, if you withdraw the Power (gesture of flattening) flat outno one does anything anymore!
Anyway
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The most terrible thing is that she believes she is free!
Of course!
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something inexorablewhy? I dont understand. Because Christ came, on the contrary, to speak of brotherhood, goodness, charity, compassion. Yet this expression has something inexorableyes, there is no other word: thin-lipped and the mouth in a straight line like this (same blade-like gesture). It gives the appearance of a terrible nastiness, something inexorable (which found expression in the Inquisition, tortures and so on). Why is it there? But that German, for instance, the light was there when he was a baby, the day after his birthhe didnt have an inexorable mouth at that time!
But the difficulty with all those people the Pope, this German, those Rosicruciansis that basically they only think in terms of a Church.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, here, they hurry to burn people, thats terrible.
Oh! But she was buried. Oh, I know that. I know, I saw two or three cases here, people who were consciousit was horrible for them, frightful, frightful.
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you know when she comes, she is very nice, very kind, very receptive and open, and quite ready to receive and listen, at least in her outer attitude, but it seems she has a group over there, and in that group (I heard it through some sincere people who went there) its terrible! Harsh judgments, you know. And a crushing superiority.
Its a pity.
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not this year, but it says there will be a terrible battle before the second coming of Christ. I know nothing about that myself! But a lady disciple in Holland has written a letter: it seems everyone there is terror-stricken, theres panic all over the country (!) and they say its the year of the battle. And here in India (not concertedly, of course), astrologers have said that September and October are months of a terrible battle (maybe not a war, but a battle) between Truth and Falsehood. There in Holland, it seems its like in the year 1000: they gather for meditations, entreaties, collective prayers. Well. And here, its the same thing, they are panic-stricken.
But battle there is. You cant move a finger without waging a battle.
--
Its like with Auroville: a whole part of the government is absolutely enthusiastic, but there are three or four individuals here, in Madras State, who are dead against, and they have a terrible action: they stop everything. Some ministers (as usual) come, are received, they give you a promise, saying, I am with you, youll have everything you want; they leave the room and send a telegram to their assistant: Dont sign the papers. That kind of lie, you understand, everywhere.
But the amusing point: here they are Hindus, over there they are Christians, and they both came together with the stars to say that its this year, right now.
0 1968-02-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its true, I have noticed it: at times when the Force comes with really all its might, its terrible! Even for those who are most used to it, even for the most courageous its hard. So its always like that: it contains itself so as not to be unbearable.
What do you have to tell me? Nothing? Its a pity. Im always the one who speaks!
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are so attached to their power that they are capable of reverting to their old waysexcommunication, inquisition and the restto prevent things from moving. Thats what I feel. Thats the terrible thing. Whereas the Pope, there was in him an effort to go farther.
There was, did you say?
0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Havent they laid a terrible trap for him?
Hes expecting a sort of interrogation.
0 1968-07-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel all luminous, the Divine Grace is so powerful that at times I think my body is incapable of holding it; Mothers Presence is so real; the bliss is so serene, so tranquil. The little ADVENTURE begun at the Samadhi becomes so worthy of being lived, the CONSCIOUSNESS has widened so much. Darkness, fear, scruples, mortifications are so far away! A few weeks ago, I had a very painful dream: my body was being torn apart, the pain was excruciating; my feet, my hands, my head were being pulled apart. Today, when I read your letter, I understood the meaning: I had to grow. Just two words to inform you about my situation. As I told you, I found two currents in the Vatican, the first one quite raging against me; we thought that my assuming a new post would calm them down but a few days later, they managed to demand a Collegiate examination (by a neurologist, who, I believe, had been ordered to declare me ill, an endocrinologist, an expert in general medicine, and the Popes physician] hence the cry of the child running to his mother: my telegram asking for Mothers protection. On Sunday the 7th, I had a dream: Mother came into a sort of huge warehouse, where I was lying on the ground, and told me, Quick, get away and leave me your place. I flew away (without my body, which was still on the ground): it was my soul that went away, and, from on high, very high up, I saw Mother taking possession of my body, entering it, and staying put. Suddenly an army of doctors in white robes makes a beeline for my body (in which Mother is still hidden); no sooner have they surrounded and begun examining it than a terrible explosion sends them flying into the air.
(Mother laughs)
0 1968-09-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, here, like this (gesture around the head). And at times, it can annul everything, but everything: thought, memory, everything is annulled. And no later than this morning, it turned all inner movements (movements of the nerves, muscles, all that) into soundssounds and wordsand with what malice! You could see a will to drive you insane. But its terrible! A terrible thing, I have never seen that. Naturally, all you have to do is to repel it, but it compels you to constant concentration.
At times it yields (thats very recent, it began two or three days ago) and it goes away. Once I asked, I said, But why? Why is this permitted? And its always the same thing: difficulties must result in an increase in the Power.
0 1968-10-05, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At times, in the space of a few seconds it falls on you in such a way as to make you think youre going mad. Last night, it was terrible.
And you, are you better?
0 1968-10-23, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a terrible work to do.
No, if one takes that attitude, one is never done with it! It will never reach the end. One revises following a certain current, then when one has reached the end, one enters another current, and then Its endless.
0 1968-11-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, it was even very interesting, because I told her, I said to her mind, Yes, if you like, you can settle in and make use of this instrument [Mother], but you know, you will have to renounce your preferences and prejudices! She still used to have terrible reactions when she found that people didnt behave properly with her. So I told her, All that will have to go! (Mother laughs).
But now she is quiet. Last night I succeeded in quieting her.
0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everywhere there is still the cult of the mind, thats the terrible thing.
In Europe its terrible! They would have the intelligence needed to understand, but theyre shut inside their mental fortress.1
Yes.
0 1968-12-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if Ill ever be able to say things in an expressive way for the time being, words are terrible veils.
The body is something very, very simple and very childlike, and it has that experience so imperatively, you understand, it doesnt need to seek: it just has to stop its activity for a minute and its there. So then, it wonders why people havent been aware of that since the beginning? It wonders, Why, why have they sought all kinds of thingsreligions, gods all kinds of thingswhen its so simple! So simple, for the body its so simple, so self-evident.
0 1968-12-14, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He was about to leave for Spain to do an opinion poll about the Church reforms, and he just wrote me: I have had a terrible experience, which, with Sweet Mother, ended happily. On my return from Spain I will tell you what happened.1
***
0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am entirely convinced that things are as they must be, and that its simply the body that lacks suppleness, tranquillity, trust. So I cant even say that things grate (they dont grate at all), but You understand, the work consists in changing the conscious base of all the cells but not all at once! Because that would be impossible; even little by little is very difficult: the moment when the conscious base is changed is There is almost a sort of panic in the cells, and the impression, Ooh! Whats going to happen? And since there are still lots and lots of them So now and then, its difficult. Its by group, almost by faculty or part of faculty, and some of them are a little difficult. I dont know (since its quite new), I dont know if it would be easier if I werent doing anything? Probably not, because its not so much the work [to be done], its not that: its peoples general attitude. It makes for a kind of collective support at the moment of the transition. At the moment when the consciousness that ordinarily supports the cells fades away for the new one to take the place, the cells need (the cells, I dont know if its them), but there has to be the support of (how can I put it?) in people it gets expressed as the need of the Presence, but thats not what is necessary: its a sort of collaboration of the collective forces. Its not much, its not indispensable, but it helps a little, in some measure. There is a moment when theres almost an anguish, you know, youre suspended like that; it may be a few seconds, but those few seconds are terrible. This morning again there was a moment like that. I remember that at the time of the darshans, for two days Sri Aurobindo didnt want me to do any work for others (to see them, read letters, reply, all that), but he was here, so it was he who acted as support. Because I see that the work began long ago (in a subordinate and very little conscious way), but now its in full swing. So the cells feel some slight panic. Generally, a few minutes concentration is enough, but it causes a sort of wearinessweariness in the cells, a need not to do anything (Mother points at the clock, which reads 11).
If I hadnt known, if the body hadnt known what it was, well, ordinarily I would have lain down without seeing anyone. But the consciousness was there to say that the unpleasantness of it [the second of transition], the unpleasant consequence of it would have been worse than the fact of being tired.
0 1969-04-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These intellectuals are terrible.
Oh, theyre stupid.
0 1969-04-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it seems that in three States the Communists WANT the Chinese to come. Thats dreadful. The Chinese, mon petit, you cant imagine what it is. Horrible! Theyre horrible. With a cold, terrible cruelty.
So its been very, very difficult these last few days.
0 1969-04-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you know, you cant stop them from talking! They cant help it: theyre terrible, theyll talk rubbish on any subject under the sun. They even said, it seems, about that poor man, the chief minister1 of Madras who died of cancer, that I had said he was a very bad man, and thats why he died! That sort of thing, you understand.
Now Ive grown used to it. All the rubbish in the world they will tellits the whole system that should be dissolved!
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, yes. But both are there. Its true. A CONFUSIONits a confusiona dark confusion, yes. A dark confusion, but thats what Sri Aurobindo always said: the confusion becomes much more intense and dark just when the light is to come. Thats correct. It looks like a dark chaos. And especially in this country terrible, oh, unbelievable things. Its because serious people said them to me (they arent newspaper gossip) that I am obliged to believe them. There are really dreadful things going on in the government and in the organizationdreadful. Unbelievable. And the Chinese
But Mother, do you know in the West, the influential books (not only influential, theyre read and devoured by all the young) are those of Mao Tse-tung?
--
According to what others say or write or experience, I have seen that what the vast majority of humanity fears the most is this perception of the Falsehood of it all, and all that leads to it. I know people (theyve written to me) who just these last few days have had terrible frights, because all of a sudden they were forcibly seized, something was beginning to touch them: the perception of the unreality of life. So that shows the immensity of the path still ahead. Which means that any hope of a solution near at hand seems childishness. Unless things take place differently.
If things must follow the movement theyve followed till now How many centuries and centuries and centuries there have been. So the superman would only be one more stage, and after him there would be many other more things.
0 1969-06-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Dieu [God, in French] is a terrible word. God is an even more terrible word (!) And in Italian, what is it going to become!
(silence)
0 1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive just had a vision of what a life will be like in which beings of the supramental will mingle with physical life It will be You know, for three quarters of humanity, it will be a terrible panic! Someone appears all of a sudden (Mother laughs), and just when you want to say something to him, ploff! nobody there!
You can picture that. The brig and about to do his mischief, someone appears and just when he wants to defend himself, poff! (Mother laughs) nobody there.
0 1969-09-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He thought, But I have nothing left, neither a pendulum nor my hands nor anything. And all of a sudden he had a revelation: You have nothing left because you no longer need anything! Then he began, and he noticed that when his thought met with someones thought or call, it was done in a split second. For instance, one day a woman sent him a wire in Paris: she had given birth and had a torn perineum. He got the wire, thought, and said, Shes cured. The next morning he went and saw her: the perineum had healed. Another extraordinary case: a woman was dying in the fifth month of her pregnancy, dying of meningeal tuberculosis. The hospital was helpless, they brought her home. In reality, she didnt want her child. He went and saw her several times, and one day, she had terrible convulsions and died in his arms. Then, he says, I had a sort of prayer at the bottom of my heart, I said, But this woman hasnt followed the law of love, its right that she should die, but why should this child in her die? He had a sort of prayer. And five minutes later, the woman came back to life in his arms. She opened her eyes and said, I am cured. She was indeed cured, but unable to move anymore. Two weeks later, she gave birth to a child, who was not only normal but viable and full-grown, which means that in those fifteen days, the gestation had accelerated and the child was just as full-grown as a nine-month-old child.
Five months old
0 1969-10-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We always try to express our experiences in the old state of consciousness, thats the misery! We think its necessary, indispensable and its stultifying. Its a terrible hindrance.
(silence)
0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The bodythis bodyis undergoing a discipline, you know, oh, terrible. But it doesnt complain, its happy, it asks for it. And it sees how we are full of VERY SMALL THINGS that are ceaselessly hindering the action of the Force. Well, the first thing is to get rid of all that. We must be like this (gesture of surrender, open) and receive the Force. Then all inspirations will come, and not only inspirations but the MEANS of execution, and the TRUE THING. Otherwise
And since not all of them are quite ready, I do what the Consciousness does: I apply the Pressure and say nothing I wait (Mother laughs).
0 1970-04-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, in my case (I dont know whether all cases are similar), the trouble is that In lifes ordinary condition, the body has a sort of stable base as a result of which it isnt uncomfortable, it can be quite busy with other things while remaining neutral: its existence goes unnoticed, and it doesnt require a continuous attention in order to be in a favorable state, lets say. In ordinary life, normally you live while being as little concerned with your body as possible; its an automatically functioning instrument. But in this present condition [of Mothers], the minute the bodys attention stops being wholly turned to the Divine, relying on the Divine, it becomes VERY miserable. Thats the So then, when it does nothing, its concentrated; when I see people, its also concentratedall thats quite fine. But the whole rest of the time, if its not ACTIVELY concentrated, its enough to make it feel quite miserable. Then it becomes terrible.
Almost all night long, there is a concentrated rest in the Divine and thats very fine, but at times the body still slips into something resembling sleep, and then it becomes so miserable! Dreadful.
0 1970-06-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But theres the fact that my last experience in hospital has left a terrible imprint.
Oh!
0 1970-09-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
THE terrible AGENDA
(Mother looks exhausted. She speaks with great difficulty, as if out of breath.)
--
terrible! You know. So that night, I said to myself, Yes, this is how hell is.
terrible, its terrible.
I dont see why Ive had to go through this. Because, you understand, that way, it was death that wasnt a solution. That was frightful.
0 1970-09-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, its like this (Mother gestures as if suffocating): an Anguish weighing down, and thats terrible.
Its not in the thought, you understand (same suffocated gesture).
0 1970-09-12, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, thats right! Ah, when I start doing this (gesture of rising above the body), instantly, instantly a terrible discomfort: its NO.
Its exactly like that.
--
When you do that in good health and in movement, in action, its quite fine, quite lovely; but like this, as I am here, you know, with a physical helplessness, its terrible!
I dont think that, I dont think that, but I am there, not knowing, not knowing whats going on. So then its not particularly pleasant.
0 1970-09-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for the end,3 thats terriblewe cant put that.
Ill leave only what I told you: We shall conquer, Mother, and your answer, Yes. And thats all.
0 1971-03-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What should be done for these books is to put a note in, to insert a note in each book saying that this particular word used here corresponds to that word used in the other booksto let people know. Because if its the same word as mental, that leads to terrible confusion terrible, the worst confusion. There has to be a distinction, its imperative: either T.K. has to put a note or. Because you see, if they put mental for both words, or even another word that means the same thing, it distorts the teaching immediately. It immediately creates terrible confusion.
In any event, there should be a note explaining that the word is taken in a particular sense.
0 1971-03-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
terrible.
Yes, its resisting as much as it can.
Oh, but its terrible, Mother! One gets the impression of a self-sufficient power that listens to nothing, over which one has no control, which scoffs at everything, which is only oriented towards destructivenessbecause it is really a power of destruction and it scoffs at everything: nothing matters. Its something in the depths of the being that is ready to do anythingto kill, to anything.
(Mother nods her head)
--
Ah, thats it. We dont know. If we could become transparent instrumentswe have so many dark spots! Thats whats terrible, those dark spots. If we could be like a something like a searchlight of the Divine shining constantly, which nothing could dim thats the only way. To be like a searchlight casting the Divine onto the world. He is there, but the world as you say, doesnt see Him, doesnt care about Him. Such a blinding searchlight should be made of Him that one is forced, compelled to acknowledge Him.
But is there a point THERE that can understand reason?
0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres only. Its only by clinging desperately to the Divine but to the purest and most powerful Divine that we can avoid a general conflagration. Its terrible.
Theres an impression that not a single minute should be lost, that we should constantly, constantly cling to the Divine to compel his descent here. Otherwise otherwise its terrible.
So I need I need all those who love me to understand me.
0 1971-05-08, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
terrible.
(Mother raises her arms) Well, it will take a few hundred years.
0 1971-05-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theyre creating a terrible Karma for themselves!
Yes, theyre heaping troubles on their own head.
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is where we are today. That which we want to avoid returns upon us with tenfold force. The hour for political calculation, for the pros and cons of our petty mathematics of expediency (which always goes awry) is past. The time has come to rediscover the Great Direction of India, which is really the Great Direction of the world, and to place our faith in the Spirit that guides her Destiny, rejecting petty fears of a phantom world opinion and doing away with the little supports which only lend support to the Enemy. Tomorrow America will perhaps resume her economic aid to Pakistan on the pretext of counteracting the Chinese presence. The Bangladesh slaughter will be honorably justified by a pseudoregime which will operate with the blessings of the international community. But one does not cheat the tide of history: for the third time our little compromises will crumble and we will find ourselves confronted with a terrible ordeal, its intensity nourished by our own successive failures in the past. The sooner not only India, but America and Russia too, understand the unreality of Pakistan and the magnitude of what is at stake at the borders of India, the sooner may the looming catastrophe be halted before it becomes totally and definitely irrevocable. One thing is certain, wrote Sri Aurobindo a few months before his passing, that if there is too much shilly-shallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea [we could say even more: the defense of Bangladesh] she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war.
For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the worlds tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light.
0 1971-05-19, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its terrible the way people come into his room, take papers lying on his table and proceed to pass them around!
But why does he leave them on the table! (Mother looks very angry) Its disastrous. A dreadful blunder. Its going to get me into big, big troublejust what I wanted to avoid.
0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem:) T. said some rather terrible things about my book.
Ah? (Mother laughs merrily)
0 1971-05-30, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Falsehood has become acute and terrible. It has to go, so its clinging. Since yesterday its become so terrible that no one can be trusted.
***
0 1971-07-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience in the body is very interesting. All so-called moral, intellectual, psychological suffering, in other words, the suffering of the consciousness that is not purely material, seems childish to the body. Yesterday, it had (what shall I say? I dont know how to explain it). It doesnt feel things in relation to itself, it feels things (silence) IN others, but with a general consciousness, not a personal one; and it has such a horror of physical suffering, that is to say illnesses, accidents, that it wondered why, why the world exists like that.1 It then understood why some people dont want to have a body anymore (that always seemed absurd before), it understood why. It was such an intense experience! It had an aspiration, something like a prayer, but its not a prayer: May the world change! May the world change. It HAS to changeor else disappear. The idea of disappearing had not come before, it seemed it used to think that the world was moving towards a harmonious perfection; but, you see, its long the length of time is terrible! There was an aspiration of incredible intensity for the transformation. Everything looks so dreadful because because the transformation must, MUST take place. That anyone can be satisfied with a world like this is impossibleits impossible to a physical consciousness that is conscious of the Divine. Its impossible, it absolutely has to change. And that was so vivid I was gripped by it all night and all day, even while seeing people, with such an intensity: it must change, it must change.
The being, the inner consciousness can say and be conscious that that suffering is unreal, but the physical consciousness cantit cant, it HAS to change. Its not a matter of merging with a consciousness, leaving this physical consciousness to disappear: it has to change, it has to change. I cant put it into words, I cant say it.
0 1971-07-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a terrible mess up there [in Delhi].
(Mother plunges again)
0 1971-08-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its terrible!
(long silence)
0 1971-08-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the time, all the time, there is the thought of the Divine, but like a a kind ofthirst to be and to understand. All mental notions seem artificial to me. At times there is terrible anguish; at times there is perfect peace.
(long silence)
0 1971-09-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And at the same time there is the solution: an im-per-turb-able calm. Its as if it wanted to teach the body a lesson. But ridiculous squabbles, you know, everyone, absolutely everyone. Some accusing others they accuse each other and everyone telling lies! Everything is twisted. Everything is twisted, nothing is clear. I have never (my God, Ive been here a long time), I have never seen that to such a degree, with such a terrible restlessness. And my body is aware that if it loses the inner calm for one minute, it will fall very sick. Its just like this (gesture suspended on a crest), as though it were about to tip over into a pit.
Its disgusting.
0 1971-09-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, its more likely. Hes thrown himself into rather terrible things.
(after a silence)
0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had an experience. Thats all right, I was happy, I was very happy because that requires some integrality, you knowan absolute sincerity and integralityo therwise. But the experience itself was terrible.
(long silence)
0 1971-11-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres something interesting, I dont know if you know this. The government of Orissa before was completely for Sri Aurobindo, and they were very faithful. Then there was a terrible cyclone that came straight at them, but it was deflected, went to Bengal [East-Pakistan] instead and killed an enormous number of people (that was last year, I think).5 Then, the government of Orissa changed. Theyve become aggressive, dark, just the opposite. Theyve turned against Sri Aurobindo. And this time, a few days ago, the cyclone struck and did terrible damage.
Some have understood.
0 1971-11-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It happened again yesterday, I saw the same thing. I was told about a child who was very ill, incurable, and they said he was in terrible pain, he was very miserable the parents wanted him to pass away. He passed away an hour later. This morning I knew. I thought: Well, its like in the Notesei ther the person himself wants to go, or those who are looking after him find hes too miserable, and they ask; so instead of suffering for a long time, he leaves. Thats what I meant.
***
0 1972-01-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Cant eat, you know, not a morsel. This physical world is terrible, terrible, terrible.
Its the mind and vital that make it bearable and permit us to go on, but once theyre goneawful!
0 1972-03-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its become terrible. Another Auroville child died (a one-and-a-half-year-old baby) because his parents didnt have the right attitude. He has just died. Thats how it works. Its getting terrible. terrible. A kind of Pressurea frightening Pressurewhich compels the necessary progress. I feel it in myself, on my body. But my body isnt afraid; it says (Mother opens her hands), Well, if I must be finished, Ill be finished.
Thats how it is at every instant: the truth (Mother brings down her fist) or the end.
--
Yes. Because it cant be stable unless it is POSITIVELY anchored to the Divine. When you are like this (gesture, fists clenched in the air as if clinging to a rope), then, automatically, all the critical moments take the right turn. The right turn. Its like a constant feeling of hovering between life and death, and the minute you take the right attitude the minute the PART CONCERNED takes the right attitudeall is well. All is well, quite naturally and easily. Really extraordinary. But its also terrible because it means perpetual danger. I dont know, perhaps a hundred times a day, a sensation like: life or dissolution (I mean a sensation in the cells). And if they become tense as is their wont, it gets awful. But theyre learning to (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of surrender). Then things are fine.
Its as if the body were being practically obliged to learn eternity. Its truly interesting. And then I see external circumstances becoming DREADFUL (from an ordinary standpoint).
0 1972-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That fire was symbolic I suppose you know about it: theres been a terrible fire.
(R.:) Yes, yes. And I wanted to know what is the symbolic significance.
0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In your reply to the Swedish magazine, you emphasize, The major obstacle to tolerance is not agnosticism but Manichaeism. That is also why religions will never be able to unite humanity, because they have remained Manichaean in their principle, because they are founded on morality, on a sense of good and evil, necessarily varying from one country to the next. Religions will not reconcile men with one another any more than they have reconciled men with themselves, or reconciled their aspiration to be with their need for action and for the same reasons, for in both cases they have dug an abyss between an ideal good, a being they have relegated to heaven, and an evil, a becoming, which reigns supreme in a world where all is vanity. I would like to quote here a passage from Sri Aurobindos Essays on the Gita which throws a clear light on the problem: To put away the responsibility for all that seems to us evil or terrible on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent Devil, or to put it aside as part of Nature, making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and God-Nature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices in which the religious thought of India has never taken refuge. We have to look courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and evil on which we are racked is his touch as much as happiness and sweetness and pleasure. It is only when we see with the eye of the complete union and feel this truth in the depths of our being that we can entirely discover behind that mask too the calm and beautiful face of the all-blissful Godhead and in this touch that tests our imperfection the touch of the friend and builder of the spirit in man. The discords of the worlds are Gods discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony.2 I believe that the characters of your books would not be seeking sacrifice and death so intensely if they did not feel the side of light and joy behind the mask of darkness in which they so passionately lose themselves.
Sri Aurobindo has constantly stressed that, through progressive evolutionary cycles, humanity must go beyond the purely ethical and religious stage, just as it must go beyond the infrarational and rational stage, in order to reach a new spiritual and suprarational ageotherwise we will simply remain doomed to the upheavals, conflicts and bloody sacrifices that shake our times, for living according to a code of morality is always a tragedy, as one of the characters in Hope notes.
0 1972-04-02b, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If the Divine had only for one hour the same feelings as men have, there would be no more world. That I can tell you. I have seen clearlyyou believe me if you want I have seen the world with the eye of the Divine. It is something so terrible, you know, so contrary to what it must be, that if the Divine said only He, brrt! everything would go, there would be no world, there would be no men, there would be only That. Des ego pulverises [smashed egos].
It is difficult, it is the most difficult thingwe are here to do difficult things. We are in the period of transition. I cant tell you: be like this or be like that, because there is no example as yet. It is being done, and we are just at the time of the transition. It is very, very difficult but very interesting.
0 1972-04-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I read once again, in speechless outrage: The Mothers body belonged to the old creation. It was not meant to be the New Body I looked at all those people staring at me in Nolinis room. A terrible silence fell. And then I said NO. I will NOT translate that. They looked at me as if I had gone mad I left.
The battery of droning fans, the huge crowd, the glaring lights reflected on the zinc ceiling. Her little white figure, which seemed to be absorbed in a powerful, almost fierce concentration. Scream? Scream what? To WHOM? Could my screams bring her back to her room? Were they going to cancel their messages and prepared statements? There was no one to listen. They had arranged everything to perfection. There was not a single dissenting voice. The collusion was total.
0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You feel THAT. But then when you leave it to go back into Matter, its terrible.
(Mother laughs)
0 1972-05-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But naturally, it would be quite disastrous if human intellectual capacities, mental capacities, were to gain control of that powerit would be terrifying! It would cause terrible havoc. Hence the need to consent in all humility to become imbecile before being able to acquire it.
(silence)
0 1972-07-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have gone through all sorts of terrible things in my life.
Yes, so does everyone.
0 1972-07-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Entrapped in an opaque cloud its terrible.
But all you have to do is feel that divine Presence within you, you know, stronger than everything. One feels It could revive all the dead if It wantedjust like that, you know. To that Presence it doesnt make any difference.1
0 1972-08-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Herein, we are therefore trying to find out what happened on November 17, 1973: the why of things. A tragedy does not occur at a particular minute or hour in History. It is the result of all the hours and little minutes that have prepared that particular minute or made it inevitable. As I said earlier, I was thunderstruck on that November 18, 1973. I was certainly the blindest of all the characters taking part in the tragedy, for they all seemed to know in advance that she was going to dieat least those in her immediate entourage. But that knowing in advance bears a terrible implication. Here we put our finger on the formation of death Mother was imbibing dailya perpetual discomfort, she used to say. In those repeated little minutes we can pinpoint the cause of what happened at 7:25 p.m. on November 17,1973.
There is no better eyewitness than Pranab, Mothers bodyguard since he was almost constantly physically present and even slept in Mothers room. Asked about the cause of Mothers departure, this is what he stated in a public speech on December 4, 1973 [in English]:
0 1972-08-09, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body is in a curious condition (Mother touches her fingertips): it feels a terrible Forceit is full of strength and it cant do a thing!
It is in a bizarre kind of state.
0 1972-08-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Often, very often I ask the Lord: how can I help now that I cant see so well, cant hear so well, cant speak clearly and need help to get around? This state is. Yet the body doesnt sense any decline! It is convinced that if tomorrow the Lord wanted it to resume its regular activity, it could do so. The Force is there (Mother touches her arms, her muscles), a terrible force sometimes! So why?
This state is intentional so that (smiling) so that people will leave me alone!
0 1972-09-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything is becoming I cant say a suffering, but a discomfort: a discomfort, theres perpetual discomfort, as if my body were made to live through every single thing that must disappear. Nonstop. From time to time, for a few seconds theres (Mother opens eyes filled with wonder), but not even long enough to be able to define it. And its very rare. Whereas the other condition is almost constant. Everythingexternal things, internal things, things in so-called others, things concerning this bodyall, all is terrible, terrible, terrible.
Thats certainly how Buddha saw things, and why he said that life was a falsehood and had to disappear but I know better! I KNOW it isnt a falsehood. But it must change must change. But in the meantime.
0 1973-04-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem leaves the room. He holds the white lotus tightly in his hands. Something terrible has just happened, he does not know what. It was not a man who was standing in that room. On his way out, he meets Sujatas brother and spontaneously, as if he suddenly saw it all, tells him, One day they are going to close Mothers door on us.)
Satprem had heard, "Will THEY believe you?" But Mother did say "he" = Pranab.
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Of their beautiful or terrible delight.
All thought can know or widest sight perceive
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And gargoyle masques obscene and terrible
Trampled to tormented postures the torn sense.
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Revealed the endless terrible Inane.
A spiritless blank Infinity was there;
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For terrible agencies the Spirit allows
And there are subtle and enormous Powers
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Today at the beginning of the New Year we have to bear in mind what aim, what purpose inspired us to enter into this tremendous terrible work, what force, what strength has been leading us to victory. They who consider themselves as collaborators in the progressive evolution of Nature must constantly realise the truth that if victory has come within the range of possibility, it has done so in just proportion to their sincerity, by the magic grace of the Mahashakti, the grace which the aspiration of their inner consciousness has called down. And what is now but possible will grow into the actual if we keep moving along the path we have so far followed. Otherwise, if we falter, fail and break faith, if we relapse into the old accustomed track, if under pressure of past habits, under the temptation of immediate selfish gain, under the sway of narrow parochial egoism, we suppress or maim the wider consciousness of our inner being or deny it in one way or another, then surely we shall wheel back and fall into the clutches of those very hostile powers which it has been our determined effort to overthrow. Even if we gain an outward victory it will be a disastrous, moral and spiritual defeat. That will mean a tragic reversalto be compelled to begin again from the very beginning. Nature will not be baulked of her aim. Another travail she will have to undergo and that will be far more agonising and terrible.
But we do not expect such a catastrophe. We have hope and confidence that the secret urge of Nature, the force of the Mahashakti will save man, individually and collectively, from ignorance and foolishness, vouchsafe to him genuine good sense and the true inspiration.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The leaders overhead should be actuated by the truth of the soul (indeed for that they should have first a soul). A mainly political deal covers up the fissure, an apparent solution or easing of the situation hides a festering sore. We should have understood by now, it has been the bitter lesson of the epoch comprising the last two great wars that mere politics does not save, on the contrary, it leads you into a greater and greater mess. And still if governments have not learnt the lesson, if they follow the old system of real-politick, well, we can say only God save us, for we are heading straight over the precipicea final crash or a terrible revolution.
The Pact has to be implemented not only at the top but equally at the bottom. Here the matter seems somewhat easier. For in reality the common people have no interest in quarrels, they would prefer to live and let live peacefully; the burden of daily life is sufficient for them and they are not normally inclined to be busy about things that would disturb their routine work. Difference in religion or caste or creed is not such a serious matter with them. They tolerate and accommodate themselves to any variety easily and if there is a clash on an occasion, they forget it soon, and live amicably together as before. That has been the life in the villages for millennia. And if there is a formal Pact on the upper levels, it is what is normal and natural to the common mass.
04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Greece and Rome may be taken to represent two types of culture. And accordingly we can distinguish two types of elevation or crest-formation of human consciousness one of light, the other of power. In certain movements one feels the intrusion, the expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and understanding of the period. There was a brightness, a brilliance, a happy agility and keenness in the movements of the brain. A largeness of vision, a curious sensibility, a wide and alert consciousness: these are some of the fundamental characteristics of this remarkable New Birth. It is the birth of what has been known as the scientific outlook, in the- broadest sense: it is the threshold of the modern epoch of humanity. All the modern European languages leaped into maturity, as it were, each attaining its definitive form and full-blooded individuality. Art and literature flooded in their magnificent creativeness all nations and peoples of the whole continent. The Romantic Revival, starting somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive sensibility, it evoked more vibrant, living and powerful perceptions, created varied and dynamic sense-complexes, new idealisms and aspirations. The manifestation of Power, the descent or inrush of forcemighty and terriblehas been well recognised and experienced in the great French Revolution. A violence came out from somewhere and seized man and society: man was thrown out of his gear, society broken to pieces. There came a change in the very character and even nature of man: and society had to be built upon other foundations. The past was gone. Divasa gatah. Something very similar has happened again more recently, in Russia. The French Revolution brought in the bourgeois culture, the Russian Revolution has rung in the Proletariate.
In modern India, the movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially the magnitude, the manifest scope or scale of either the Renaissance or the Great Revolutions we mention. But it carried a deeper import, its echo far-reaching into the future of humanity. For it meant nothing less than the spiritual awakening of India and therefore the spiritual regeneration of the whole world: it is the harbinger of the new epoch in human civilisation.
04.07 - To the Heights VII (Mahakali), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
terrible Mother who presses her children through blazing fire,
The sooner to burn out the dross and free the gold
05.11 - The Soul of a Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are periods in the life cycle of a nation, critical moments, when it is in deadly peril, when its very existence is threatened, attacked by enemy forces either from within or from without. Such was the case when, for example, Britain was invaded by the Spanish Armada or when France was being subjugated by England. Those were very anxious times, but in each instance the soul of the nation came forward and inspired the nation to react and go through the ordeal and survive. Jeanne d'Arc may be considered as the embodiment of France's national soul, as on a still earlier occasion that same soul embodied itself in St. Genevieve. But a nation may fall on much more evil days, namely, when it loses contact with its very soul, goes astray, its life movement taking a wrong curve. A nation can deny its soul, even as an individual may and the result is disaster. Germany is a terrible example of such a tragedy in our own day.
India is offering a spectacle, of another tragedy. What is happening here is the attack of a disease that is convulsing the body politic: it seems to be a cancerous disease, the limbs seeking to grow independently at the expense of each other. The patient is passing through a very critical period and it is indeed a question of life and death. But we hopewe are : sure that the soul of this ancient nation will assert itself and I through whatever vicissitudes re-establish health and harmony: for that soul's mission is yet to be done.
05.26 - The Soul in Anguish, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It seems that the School of Anguish is on the borderl and between the second and the third stage, that is to say, the vital rising into the mental or the mental still carrying an impress of the vital consciousness. It is the emergence of the Purusha consciousness, the individual being in its heart of hearts, in its pure status: for it is that that truly evolves, progresses from level to level, deploying and marshalling according to its stress and scheme the play of its outward nature. Now the Purusha consciousness, as separate from the outward nature, has certain marked characteristics which have been fairly observed and comprehended by the exponents of the school we are dealing with. Sartre, for example, characterises this beingtre en soi, as distinguished from tre pour soi which is something like dynamic purusha or purusha identified or associated with prakrtias composed of the sense of absolute freedom, of full responsibility, of unhindered choice and initiation. Indeed, Purusha is freedom, for in its own status it means liberation from all obligations to Prakriti. But such freedom brings in its train, not necessarily always but under certain conditions, a terrible sense of being all alone, of infinite loneliness. One is oneself, naked and face to face with one's singleness and unbreakable, unsharable individual unity. The others come as a product or corollary to this original sui generisentity. Along with the sense of freedom and choice or responsibility and loneness, there is added and gets ingrained into it the sense of fear and anxiety the anguish (Angst). The burden that freedom and loneliness brings seems to be too great. The Purusha that has risen completely into the mental zone becomes wholly a witness, as the Sankhyans discovered, and all the movements of his nature appear outside, as if foreign: an absolute calm and unperturbed tranquillity or indifference is his character. But it is not so with regard to the being that has still one foot imbedded in the lower region of the vital consciousness; for that indeed is the proper region of anguish, of fear and apprehension, and it is there that the soul becoming conscious of itself and separate from others feels lone, lonely, companionless, without support, as it were. The mentalised vital Purusha suffers from this peculiar night of the soul. Sartre's outlook is shot through with very many experiences of this intermediary zone of consciousness.
The being immersed in Prakriti, as normally it is, in relation and communion with others, may entertain as a pleasure and luxury, the illusion of its separateness and freedom: it can do so at ease, because it feels it has the secret support of its environment, it is courageous because it feels itself in good company. But once it rises out of the environmental level and stands truly apart and outside itit is the mental being which can do so more or less successfully the first feeling is that of freedom, no doubt, but along with it there is also the uncanny sense of isolation, of heavy responsibility, also a certain impotence, a loss of bearings. The normal Cartesian Co-ordinates, as it were, are gone and the being does not know where to look for the higher multi-dimensional co-ordinates. That is the real meaning of the Anguish which suddenly invades a being at a certain stage of his ascending consciousness.
05.32 - Yoga as Pragmatic Power, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
People ask about the practical value of Yoga, but do not always wait for an answer. For, according to some, Yoga means "introversion", escapismillusion, delusion, hallucination. And yet the truth of the matter is that Yoga is nothing but a downright practical affair, that its proof is in the very eating of it. To judge a Yogin you are to ask, as did Arjuna, a very prince of pragmatic men, how he sits, how he walks aboutkim sta vrajeta kim. Indeed the very definition of Yoga is that it is skill in works. To do works and not to run away from them has always been the true and natural ideal even (and particularly, as we shall see), for the spiritual man: the ideal is as old as the Upanishadic injunction, "Doing verily works in this world one should wish to live a hundred years." The Yogi as a world-shunner was not always the only ideal or the highest ideal. To do works, yes; but, with skill, it is pointed out, that is to say, in the way in which they can be most effectively done. Sri Krishna teaches Arjuna the skill and shows how to apply it in the crudest and the most terrible action, viz ., a bloody battle. But the skill that he demands, that is demanded of a Yogi, is not mere cleverness, craftiness or business policy including deceit, duplicity, sharpness; it means quite another spirit and faculty.
The ordinary man does works, achieves the object he aims at, through processes and means which, however powerful and effective, can be only moderately and approximately so. The amount of time and energy wasted is not proportionate to the result obtained. Man knows to utilise only a fraction of the energy collected in a system: the best of dispositions and organisation can harness just a modicum of the total stock, the rest is frittered away or locked up, whether it is vital energy or mental energy or even physical energy. That is because the central power that drives, the consciousness that controls the whole mechanism is of an inferior quality, of a lower potential. The Yogi views all energy as various forms and gradations of consciousness. So what he proposes, as a good scientist, is to lift up the consciousness and thus raise its potential and effectivity and minimise the waste. The higher the consciousness, the greater the effectivity, that is to say, the pragmatic value. As we rise in the scale there is less and less waste and greater and greater utilisation until we reach a climax, a critical degree, where there is absolutely no waste and where there is the utmost, the total utilisation of the whole energy. This supreme peak of consciousness that is absolute energy Sri Aurobindo names the Supermind. But on lesser levels too the spiritual consciousness is dynamic and effectivepragmatic in a way that the ordinary, limited, externally pragmatic consciousness cannot hope to be.
06.05 - The Story of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine Consciousness Aditisaw the terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that is to grow and unfold itself, shine more and more into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away.
The birth of Matter coincided with another descent of the Supreme Consciousness; it is a descent in graded stages linking up the highest to the lowest through intermediate formations: they are telescoped into Matter so that Matter might lodge and express them gradually through its inherent developing consciousness till the highest is revealed and embodied here as it is always self-revealed at the highest.
06.12 - The Expanding Body-Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A young man, in Paris, a clerk at a railway station, used to receive there his fiance and her mother from time to time. One day he was expecting them and waiting for the train time; they had to come by train. As he was busy with his work at the table, at about the appointed hour, people around saw him all on a sudden bending down his head with a loud scream and then resting it on the table; he lay unconscious. In the meantime, what happened on the other side was a terrible railway disaster: the two women were involved in it.
The trains were smashed and all the passengers killed or mortally wounded. But, curious to say, the young woman, the fiance, was found, living and almost unscathed, in the midst of the debris, within a sort of cover made by a fallen beam that lay across over her. She was pulled out with only a few bruises upon her body. Here is, however, the young man's version of the story. He said that as he was working at the table, suddenly he heard the voice of his fiance calling loudly for help and he saw in a flash, as it were, the situation she was in, he rushed out, not physically indeed, and ran and threw himself over the body of his fiance to protect her; that is the only thing he could do. As a result he did in fact protect her. True, he did not rush out in his body, for that matter, if he had done, it would have been of no use. What rushed out of him was his vital body, a formation of that life energy which is most close to the body and almost as concrete as physical energy but much more powerful and effective. This vital power concentrated and projected out of him acted as a veritable shield over the woman. The young man himself, curious to say, bore marks of bruises upon his head as if a huge load had fallen upon it. A strong impact upon the vital can and does leave scars upon the material body: it is not an uncommon phenomenon. Many of the Christian saints (Saint Francis of Assisi, for example) are reported to have borne on their body the marks the stigmataof crucifixion of Christ's body; Ramakrishna, too, it is said, once showed marks of scourging on his back when a boy was whipped in his presence.
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Into the sweet or terrible Beyond.
For those sad parents still would need her here
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Impotent to quell his terrible prisoners,
Appalled the householder helpless sits above,
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The terrible Angel smites at every door:
An awful laughter mocks at the world's pain
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life,
I am Kali black and naked in the world,
07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Not necessarily, to be sure. Illnesses are, as I have told you, generally a dislocation among the different parts of the being, a kind of disharmony. It may well be that the body has not followed the movement of progress, it might have lagged behind while the other parts have, on the contrary, made progress. In that case there is an unbalance, a breaking of harmony and that produces an illness, I mean, in the body, for the mind and the vital also might remain all right. There are many people who have been ill for years, suffering from terrible and incurable diseases, and still maintained their mental power marvellously clear and active and continuing to make progress in that domain. There was a French poet, a very good poet, named Sully Prudhomme; he was mortally ill and it was during that time that he wrote his most beautiful poems. He was always in a very good humour, charming, smiling, pleasant to everyone even while his body was going to bits. You may remember how the great Louis XIV used to joke and laugh, while, in his last days, his body was being lacerated and given over to leeches by his doctors and surgeons. It depends upon individual and individual. For there are people of the other type who get thoroughly disturbed from head to foot if there is the slightest bodily indisposition. Each one has his own combination of the elements.
There is of course a relation between the mind and the body, quite a close relation. In most cases it is the mind that makes the body ill, at least it is the most important factor in the illness. I have said, there are people who keep their mind clear although their body suffers. But it is very rare and very difficult to keep the body healthy when the mind suffers or is un-balanced. It is not impossible, but very, very exceptional. For I explained to you that it is the mind which is the master of the body, the body is an obedient and obliging servant. Unfortunately, one does not usually know how to make use of one's mind, not only so, one makes bad use of it and as bad as possible. The mind possesses a considerable power of formation and of direct action on the body. It is precisely this power which is used by people to make their body ill. As soon as there is something which does not go well, the mind begins to worry about it, makes formations of coming catastrophes, indulges in all kinds of imaginary dangers ahead. Now, instead of thus letting the mind run amuck and play havoc, if the same energy were used for a better purpose, if good formations were made, namely, giving self-confidence to the body, telling it that there is nothing to be anxious about, it is only a passing unease and so on, in that case, the body would be put in a right condition of receptivity and the illness pass away quietly even as it came. That is how the mind is to be taught to give good suggestions to the body and not to throw mud into it. Marvellous results follow if you do it properly.
07.13 - Divine Justice, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You must understand once for all that the Divine, when he acts is not moved by human notions. Possibly he does things even without what we call reason. In any case the reasons are not of the human kind; above all, the Divine has not that sense of justice which man has. For example, when you see a man full of greed for money, trying to cheat people just for the sake of getting a few rupees, your idea of justice cries out that such a man should be deprived of all money, he must be reduced to poverty. But actually you find things happening to the contrary. Although that is only the appearance of the situation; behind there is an altogether different picture. The greedy gets the object of his greed, but he has to make an exchange, give up some other possibilities. He gets money but he loses in his consciousness. And then it also happens very often that when he does get what he desired so much, he finds himself not so happy, generally he is even less happy than before: he is tormented by the wealth he has gained. You must not judge things by apparent success or by apparent failure. One can say, on the whole, that the Divine gives what one asks for and that is the best way in which one gets his lesson. If your desire is ignorant, unconscious, obscure, selfish, you increase in yourself ignorance, unconsciousness, obscurity and selfishness, that is to say, you move away more and more from truth and consciousness and happiness, in other words, away from the Divine. For the Divine, however, there is only one thing which is true, the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Union. Each time you put material things in front of you, you become more and more material, you push behind more and more the Divine. To the eye of the ignorant you may have all the appearance of wonderful success, but this success, from the standpoint of truth, is a terrible defeat, you have bartered truth for falsehood.
To judge by appearances, by apparent success is an act of complete ignorance. Even in the case of a person hardened to the core, who has apparently the utmost success, there is a counterpart: exactly this hardening, this evil that is put up thicker and thicker between the outer consciousness and the inner truth becomes also more and more unbearable. The outer success has to be paid for very dearly. One must be very great, very pure, one must have a very high, very unselfish spiritual consciousness to be able to succeed and yet not be affected. There is nothing so difficult to bear than success. That is the true test in life. When you are not successful, you turn very naturally to yourself, go within you, seek there comfort for the outer failure. And they who have the Flame within them and the Divine helping them truly, that is to say, if they are mature enough to get the help, if they are ready to follow the path, must expect blows coming upon them one after another, because that helps. Indeed that is the most powerful, most direct and most effective help. But if you have 'Success, take care! Ask yourself, at what price you have had it? What is the thing you have paid for the success? Of course, there are people of a different kind. They who have gone beyond, who are conscious of their soul, who are entirely surrender they can succeed and success does not touch them. But one has to rise very high to be able to shoulder the burden of success. It is perhaps the last and final test that the Divine puts to anyone. He says: Now that you are noble and high and unselfish, you belong to Me alone. I shall make you triumph. We shall see if you can bear the blow!
07.19 - Bad Thought-Formation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular species. Nature is conscious in the sense that she knows what she wants, she knows her whither and her how, her end and the way to go towards it. To man much of Nature seems incoherent, because his consciousness is narrow and he has not an overall vision. When you look at the small details, the little fragments, you do not understand; you do not find any link, sequence, sense. But Nature has a conscious will, she is a conscious being. Perhaps the word being is too human. When we speak of Nature's being, we naturally think of the human being, only a little bigger, or perhaps much bigger but working more or less in the same way. But it is not so. Instead of the word being, I would prefer the word entity. The conscious entity that is Nature has a conscious will and it does things much more deliberately and purposively than map, and it has formidable forces at its disposal. Man speaks of blind and violent Nature. But it is man who is blind and violent, not nature. You say an earthquake is a terrible affair. Thousands of houses crash into dust, millions of people are killed, whole cities devastated, entire portions of earth are swallowed up etc., etc. Yes, from the human point of view Nature seems monstrous. But what has she done after all? When you get a knock on your body somewhere there appears a blue patch. Are you worried about it? Your earthquake is nothing more than a reshuffling of a cell in your body. You destroy thousands of cells every moment of your life. You are monstrous! That is the relative proportion. And consider, we are speaking of earth alone and earthly events. But what is this earth itself in the bosom of the universe? A point, a zero. You are walking on the ground and are not looking down. You place one step forward and then another and you trample thousands of innocent ants under your feet. If you were an ant you would have cried out, what a cruel and stupid force! Imagine other forces stalking about much bigger than yourself and under their casual steps millions of creatures like you are crushed, continents are pressed down and mountains kicked up. They do not even notice such catastrophic happenings! The only difference between man and ant is that man knows what happens to him and the ant does not. But even there are you sure?
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07.22 - Mysticism and Occultism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
All that signifies that occultism is not a joke or a mere play; you cannot take to it simply to amuse yourself. It must be done as it ought to be done, under proper conditions and with great care. The one thing absolutely essential is, I repeat once more, to be totally fearless. If you happen to meet in your dreams terrible scenes and are frightened, then you must not approach occultism. If, on the contrary, you can remain perfectly tranquil in the face of the most frightful menaces, they simply amuse you; if you can handle such situations safely and successfully, that would show that you have some capacity and then you can try seriously. There are people who are real fighters in their sleep; if they meet an enemy they can face him, they can not only defend themselves, but can attack and conquer.
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07.31 - Images of Gods and Goddesses, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have seen some of these forms in the vital world and also in the mental world; they are truly creations of man. There is a Power from beyond that manifests, but in this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so un-understandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali. What has man made of her, wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far off reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls down into it a form, an emanation of a god, through an inner invocation there is usually a whole ceremony in this connectionif the priest is someone having the power of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramakrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All the idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family Kalis that are real monsters. I have even advised some to throw such an image into the Ganges to get rid of the evil influence emanating from it. But of course it is always the fault of man and not of the divinity. For man wishes so much to make his gods in his own image.
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08.08 - The Mind s Bazaar, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You can't imagine what a bazaar there is in the head. It is something terrible. If you look truly objectively at what passes there you will be shocked. You have then to put it in order, see into it clearly and arrange, you have to note that two contradictory ideas do not run concurrently on parallel lines.
I know a considerable number of persons who shelter in their head contrary ideas, not at all synthesized there is no question of synthesis here but dwelling together like two brothers engaged in eternal quarrels and contradictions, that is to say, the two ideas cannot get on together, unless you lift them up and reconcile and unify them in a higher and wider view; but that means work of a superior kind. People often do not even perceive that they are contradicting themselves with their conflicting ideas, they are not disturbed in any way. If I should give you examples they are innumerableyou would laugh at the ridiculousness of incompatible ideas associating together.
08.27 - Value of Religious Exercises, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But if you take a truly divine being, that is not the thing he likes or appreciates. He does not like to be worshipped; worship does not give him special pleasure. But if he sees anywhere a fine intuitive sense, a good feeling, a movement of unselfishness or spiritual enthusiasm, he considers that as infinitely more valuable than prayers and Pujas. I tell you seriously, if you place a true god upon a chair and compel him to remain there all the time you are doing him Puja, he can amuse himself by letting you do it, but surely it gives him no happiness, none! He feels neither flattered nor satisfied nor glorified by your Puja. You must get that idea out of your head. There is an entire region between the spiritual world and the material, belonging to the vital beings and it is this region that is full of such things as are liked by them, because they are their food. They are happy, they feel important when men call them, pray to them, make their offerings to them: the being that has the largest number of adorers is the most satisfied, the most glorified, the most puffed up. How can you imagine that a true god, a god even of the Overmindalthough those of this region are already somewhat touched by human frailties that is to say, one who has the higher consciousness, would get any pleasure out of these things? I repeat, an act of real kindness, intelligence, unselfishness or fine understanding or sincere aspiration is for him an altogether higher and more valuable thing than any petty religious ceremony. There is no comparison. You speak of religious ceremonies. There is, for example, a being called Kali; there are many Kalis, of many varieties, installed in temples and homes. All of them almost are vital beings and forces, some are ugly and terrible. I have known people who had such a fear of Kalitheir household Kali that they trembled at the thought of offending her in any way, of committing the least fault that would displease her; for that means Kali's vengeance. I know, I know very well these entities: they are beings of the vital world, they are vital formations the forms are given by the human mind and what forms! To think that men worship such terrible and demoniac things!
From this standpoint it is good that for a time humanity should come out of the religious atmosphere, full of fear and blind superstitious submission by which the adverse forces have profited so monstrously. The age of negation, of atheism and positivism is from this view quite indispensable for man's liberation from sheer ignorance. It is only when you have come out of this, this abject submission to the evil forces of the Vital that you can rise to truly spiritual heights and then become there collaborators and right instruments of the forces of the Truth and Consciousness and Power. The superstitions of the lower levels you must leave far behind to rise high.
09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is said the tiger's need to devour is one of the first expressions of love in the world. What is likely to prove that this is not quite false is that when a tiger or a serpent catches its victim, the victim usually gives himself up in a kind of delight of being eaten. A testimony comes in the experience of a man in the following true story. He happened to be in the midst of bushes with his comrades. He was a little behind, away from others and a tiger caught hold of him. The others returned when they noticed that he had disappeared. They found and followed the traces and arrived just in time to save him from the jaws of the tiger. When he had recovered a little, he was asked what a terrible experience he must have had! He replied that it was nothing of the kind: "Just imagine, I don't know what happened to me, but as soon as the tiger seized me and began to drag me along the ground, I felt an intense love for him and a great desire that he should eat me up." This is, I say, a true story.
As a matter of fact, long before the tiger came on the scene, there must have been early creatures dwelling at the bottom of the sea that had only one function, the stomach. They existed only as stomachs and their only activity was to swallow. One may say that these are the first expressions of love seeping through matter. For, before that there was nothing, except perfect inconscience, complete immobility, nothing was moving. It is with love that movement began, consciousness awakened, transformation started. Love is the power of the world.
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Necessarily, the love between two human beings is always made of ignorance, misunderstanding, weakness and a terrible sense of isolation. It would be as if you wanted to gain entrance into the presence of a unique Splendour and the first thing you do is to put a screen between yourself and this Splendour and you are very much astonished that you do not have even a vague impression of it! The first thing then to do is to do away with the screen, pass through and stand in the presence of the Splendour. Then you know what it is. But if you go on piling veil after veil between yourself and That, you will never see it. You may have just a vague impression, "there is something" and that is all.
One of the highest expressions of love in human beings is the giving of oneself entirely to the person loved. That is to say, to sacrifice oneself for the motherland, give one's life in defending another person, etc. This may not be the very highest form, but it is already something. From there you have to climb very high up to arrive at the true expression which is on the summit of the ascent. The ultimate expression of love is in the felicity of union.
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At once Harimohon could see into the mans mind. He saw, as in an opulent city ravaged by a victorious enemy, innumerable terrible-looking demons and ogres who had entered into that brilliant intelligence, disturbing its peace and composure, plundering its happiness. The old man had quarrelled with his young son and turned him out; the sorrow of losing his beloved child had cowed down his spirit, but anger, pride and vanity had shut the door of his heart and were guarding it. Forgiveness had no entry there. Hearing calumnies against his own daughter he had driven her away and was lamenting over the cherished one he had lost. He knew that she was chaste but the fear of social censure and a feeling of shame coupled with his own arrogance and selfishness had put a curb on his affection. Frightened by the memory of a thousand sins the old man was trembling, but he did not have the courage or the strength to mend his evil ways. Now and then thoughts of death and of the other world came to him and filled him with terror. Harimohon saw also that from behind these morbid thoughts the hideous messenger of death was constantly peeping out and knocking at the door. Whenever this happened, the old mans heart sank and he frantically screamed with fear.
Horrified by this sight Harimohon looked at the boy and exclaimed, Why, Keshta! I used to think this man the happiest of all! The boy replied, Just there lies my power. Tell me now which of the two is mightierthis Tinkari Sheel or Sri Krishna, the master of Vaikuntha? Look, Harimohon, I too have the police, sentinels, government, law, justice, I too can play the game of being a king; do you like this game? No, my child, answered Harimohon, it is a very cruel game. Why, do you like it? The boy laughed and declared, I like all sorts of games; I like to whip as well as to be whipped. Then he continued. You see, Harimohon, people like you look at the outward appearance of things and have not yet cultivated the subtle power of looking inside. Therefore you grumble that you are miserable and Tinkari is happy. This man has no material want; still, compared to you, how much more this millionaire is suffering! Can you guess why? Happiness is a state of mind, misery also is a state of mind. Both are only mind-created. He Who possesses nothing, whose only possessions are difficulties, even he, if he wills, can be greatly happy. But just as you cannot find happiness after spending your days in dry piety, and as you are always dwelling upon your miseries so too this man who spends his days in sins which give him no real pleasure is now thinking only of his miseries. All this is the fleeting happiness of virtue and the fleeting misery of vice, or the fleeting misery of virtue and the fleeting happiness of vice. There is no joy in this conflict. The image of the abode of bliss is with me: he who comes to me, falls in love with me, wants me, lays his demands on me, torments mehe alone can succeed in getting my image of bliss. Harimohon went on eagerly listening to these words of Sri Krishna. The boy continued, And look here, Harimohon, dry piety has lost its charm for you, but in spite of that you cannot give it up, habit4 binds you to it; you cannot even conquer this petty vanity of being pious. This old man, on the other hand, gets no joy from his sins, yet he too cannot abandon them because he is habituated to them, and is suffering hells own agonies in this life. These are the bonds of virtue and vice; fixed and rigid notions, born of ignorance, are the ropes of these bonds. But the sufferings of that old man are indeed a happy sign. They will do him good and soon liberate him.
1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
We are gradually led by this proclamation of the Veda into a tremendous vision of life which requires of us to have a superhuman power of will to grasp the interrelationship of things. This difficulty of grasping the meaning of the interrelationship of things is obviated systematically, stage by stage, gradually, by methods of practice. These methods are called yoga the practice of yoga. I have placed before you, perhaps, a very terrible picture of yoga; it is not as simple as one imagines. It is not a simple circus-master's feat, either of the body or the mind, but a superhuman demand of our total being. Mark this definition of mine: a superhuman demand which is made of our total being not an ordinary human demand of a part of our being, but of our total being. From that, a demand is made by the entire structure of life. The total structure of life requires of our total being to be united with it in a practical demonstration of thought, speech and action this is yoga. If this could be missed, and of course it can easily be missed as it is being done every day, then every effort, from the smallest to the biggest, becomes a failure. All our effort ends in no success, because it would be like decorating a corpse without a soul in it. The whole of life would look like a beautiful corpse with nicely dressed features, but it has no vitality, essence or living principle within it. Likewise, all our activities would look wonderful, beautiful, magnificent, but lifeless; and lifeless beauty is no beauty. There must be life in it only then has it a meaning. Life is not something dead; it is quite opposite of what is dead. We can bring vitality and life into our activity only by the introduction of the principle of yoga.
Yoga is not a technique of sannyasins or monks, of mystics or monastic disciples it is a technique of every living being who wishes to succeed in life. Without the employment of the technique of yoga, no effort can be successful. Even if it is a small, insignificant act like cooking food, sweeping the floor, washing vessels, whatever it is even these would be meaningless and a boredom, a drudgery and a stupid effort if the principle of yoga is not applied.
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are the ominous masks, the terrible powers;
There it is greatness to create the gods.
1.007 - Initial Steps in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
But if we are social bodies with commitments and duties, a subconscious itching will be there at the bottom that, "I have to start work at eight o'clock." And that will be worrying us, though we will not be aware of it. The subconscious activity of the mind is a terrible activity and, therefore, when we actually start sitting for meditation, it is necessary that the period be a little before this time of commitment for catching the train, going to the court, etc. These commitments should not be very imminent or just near. The period of sitting should be such that it should be removed as far as possible from the point of activity which is of a distractive nature. And if it is towards the later part of the day when our commitments are over and the only commitment left is that we have to go to bed and sleep as there is nothing else to do, then the agitations will be a little less, because we have no other thing to do except to go to bed. Whatever it is, these are only minor details which have to be chalked out, each for oneself. The point is that there should be no feature, condition or factor that will even remotely cause distraction to the mind and draw attention away from the point of concentration. Thus, a particular time has to be chosen.
Yoga scriptures tell us that we must also choose a particular place, as far as possible not that today we meditate in Haridwar, tomorrow in Delhi and the day after tomorrow in Benares. That is not all right if we want real success. We must be in one place. As a matter of fact, people who practise mantra purascharana, or disciplinary chanting of mantras for a chosen period, do this and what can be a greater purascharana than meditation? So when we take to exclusive spiritual practice as a very serious affair and not merely as a hobby, it would be necessary, I would say for beginners, that a period of at least five years is called for. If we are very serious and in dead earnest about it not taking it only as a kind of educational procedure for informative purposes and not being very earnest about achieving anything substantially we may have to stick to one place for five years continuously, and not less than that. If our point is to achieve something substantial, concrete and definite, then this amount of discipline is called for, which is a definite place, a definite time, and a chosen method of meditation a definite system, arranged in one's own mind, which should not be changed continuously.
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Patanjali mentions that these are terrible obstacles in our spiritual progress. We are caught up and we do not know how we are caught up. First of all there is the self-affirmative principle which reinforces itself, like hard concrete, by repeated hammering upon loves and hatreds throughout the day and night; and the love of this individual life and the consequent fear of the death that may come upon it are natural consequences of this ego-ridden individuality. Therefore, we can say the whole problem of life is the ego of man. This has to be tackled with caution.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Our own Order is the only exception of importance; and the reason for this is that it is much more difficult to retain one's purity if one is living in the world than if one simply cuts oneself off from it. It is far easier to achieve technical attainments if one is unhampered by any such considerations. These regulations operate as restrictions to one's usefulness in helping the world. There are terrible dangers, the worst dangers of all, associated with complete retirement. In my own personal judgment, moreover, I think that our own ideal of a natural life is much more wholesome.
When you have found out a little about your past incarnations, you should be able to understand this very clearly and simply.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor. We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim. Should he repent, God will, no doubt, forgive him. If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one who will deal mercilessly with him. terrible, indeed, is God in punishing! Whosoever interpreteth this verse otherwise than its obvious meaning is deprived of the Spirit of God and of His mercy which encompasseth all created things. Fear God, and follow not your idle fancies. Nay, rather, follow the bidding of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Erelong shall clamorous voices be raised in most lands. Shun them, O My people, and follow not the iniquitous and evil-hearted. This is that of which We gave you forewarning when We were dwelling in Iraq, then later while in the Land of Mystery, and now from this Resplendent Spot.
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1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
capabilities. Someone or something was making terrible plans. Why? Theoretically normal and welladapted people were going about their business prosaically, as if nothing were the matter. Why werent
they disturbed? Werent they paying attention? Wasnt I?
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actually done something so terrible. How could the man I had talked to who was so apparently normal
(and so seemingly inconsequential) have done such an awful thing?
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was not overwhelming luckily but it was powerful enough to disturb me. What sort of terrible person
would have an impulse like that? Not me. I had never been aggressive. I had been smaller and younger than
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answer: how can men do terrible things to one another? I meant other men, of course bad men but I
had still asked the question. There was no reason for me to assume that I would receive a predictable or
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I had a terrible thought. I rushed downstairs to my cousin. The dogs had butchered her, and were
offering the meat to the survivors of the disaster. I woke up with my heart pounding.
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else at that moment to wake up, and make my terrible dreams go away.
I have been trying ever since then to make sense of the human capacity, my capacity, for evil
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learned, finally, that the terrible aspect of life might actually be a necessary precondition for the existence
of life and that it is possible to regard that precondition, in consequence, as comprehensible and
1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
What solitude, what coldness of desolation you lay upon me when you speak such! Reflect on the destruction of being and the streams of blood from the terrible sacrifice that the depths demand. 14
But the spirit of the depths said: "No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back, and if you were fettered to the world of this time with iron, the call of the desert would break all chains. Truly, I prepare you for solitude.
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15 Beginning in October of the year 1913 as I was leaving alone for a journey; that during the day I was suddenly overcome in broad daylight by a vision: I saw a terrible flood that covered all the northern and low-lying lands between the North Sea and the Alps. It reached from England up to Russia, and from the coast of the North Sea right up to the Alps. I saw yellow waves, swimming rubble, and the death of countless thousands.
This vision lasted for two hours, it confused me and made me ill. I was not able to interpret it. Two weeks passed then the vision returned, still more violent than before, and an inner voice spoke:
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From then on the anxiety toward the terrible event that stood directly before us kept coming back. Once I also saw a sea of blood over the northern lands.
In the year 1914 in the month of June, at the beginning and end of the month, and at the beginning of July, I had the same dream three times: I was in a foreign land, and suddenly, overnight and right in the middle of summer, a terrible cold descended from space. All seas and rivers were locked in ice, every green living thing had frozen.
The second dream was thoroughly similar to this. But the third dream at the beginning of July went as follows:
I was in a remote English land. 17 It was necessary that I return to my homel and with a fast ship as speedily as possible. 18 I reached home quickly 19 In my homel and I found that in the middle of summer a terrible cold had fallen from space, which had turned every living thing into ice. There stood a leaf-bearing but fruitless tree, whose leaves had turned into sweet grapes full of healing juice through the working of the frost. 20 I picked some grapes and gave them to a great waiting throng. 21
In reality, now, twas so: At the time when the great war broke out between the peoples of Europe, I found myself in Scotland, 22 compelled by the war to choose the fastest ship and the shortest route home. I encountered the colossal cold that froze everything, I met up with the flood, the sea of blood, and found my barren tree who's leaves the frost had transformed into a remedy. And I plucked the ripe fruit and gave it to you and I do not know what I poured out for you, what bitter-sweet intoxicating drink, which left on your tongues an aftertaste of blood.
10.12 - Awake Mother, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Mother awakes with a terrible cry.
The Mother awakes; opens Her frightful eyes, As though a pair of suns.
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To rise with a terrible cry?
When the Mother fell asleep, who ever hoped
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Suddenly a terrible cry is heard, the cry of the Mother;
Suddenly like the roar of hundreds of oceans is heard the voice of the Mother;
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Devotees of the terrible Mother,
To anoint with their own blood
1.012 - Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
If we have such desires which cannot be fulfilled in this life on account of prevailing conditions, we will take another birth. But we do not want another birth that is another point. Do we want to go on increasing the number of births because we have got intense desires? Here comes the need for a Guru. If we have such terrible desires that are, reasonably speaking, impossible to fulfil, and yet they cannot simply be ignored from the point of view of spiritual practice, a Guru's direct guidance is absolutely necessary. The point is that desires cannot be completely neglected. We cannot simply turn a deaf ear, or close our eyes to their cries. They have to be very rationally dealt with and sublimated.
There are three ways of dealing with a desire. Psychologically, the terms used in this connection are 'suppression', 'substitution' and 'sublimation'. We can suppress a desire. Suppose we have got a desire just now, and we cannot fulfil it because we are in an audience and cannot fulfil the desire right here; we will suppress it. We will push it inside because society does not permit it. We cannot simply start fulfilling any desire in an audience or in a parliament it has no meaning. So we suppress it and push it inside, but this is no solution. We have pushed it inside, so it is sitting within us like a coiled-up snake, and it will show its hood when the audience is over.
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We now come to a very crucial point. All of this amounts to saying that we cannot easily practise self-control. It is not so cheap an affair; it is a terrible job. It is terrible, no doubt, but there is a way out. The way out is to reshuffle the ways in which we think under given conditions. Emotions rise up under certain conditions, and under certain other conditions they may not be so forceful. The meaning that the emotion reads into its object is to be transformed. Are we correct in reading this meaning in the object? This is a philosophical question that we have to ask ourselves. Is it correct that because we see a meaning in something we can regard it as real? This is a simple question, for which there is a simple answer. But, another question can be raised are we sure that our perception is correct?.
Perceptions need not always be correct, though perceptions may insist that as long as they are there, the object is real. As long as the perceptions are there, their objects certainly will look real. Otherwise, it would not be a perception. But is the perception correct? This is the question. Here we raise a very fundamental question which is philosophical, and even deeper than philosophical. When the emotion, the consciousness, directs itself towards an object for the achievement of its purpose, is it being motivated by a correct perception of values, or is it blundering in its attitude towards things due to certain other factors? Perhaps it is mistaken. Yet it will not accept the mistake as long as it sees things by an identification of itself with the object in front of it.
Here, we feel that the withdrawal of consciousness from its object would be something like tearing off our own skin from our body. How can we tear off our own skin? It would be terrible, but this is what is happening when we practise self-control. We are tearing off our flesh, and it is so painful. But the pain is lessened if the consciousness is properly educated and made to reasonably accept the background of its attitudes and the incorrectness of its perceptions, for reasons which are superior to the one that it is adopting at the present moment.
1.013 - Defence Mechanisms of the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
A political manoeuvre is adopted by the mind by the manufacture of certain mechanisms psychologically, which are usually called by psychologists as defence mechanisms. These defence mechanisms are very peculiar structures like bulldozers and tanks which we have in armies and public works which the mind manufactures for its stability, security, sustenance and permanent establishment in the world of diversities. These defence mechanisms are terrible machineries which the mind manufactures and keeps secret, unknown to people, like secret weapons which one may wield, not allowing them to come to the knowledge of other people. If everyone knows what weapons we have got, then they won't be effective, because others also may manufacture the same weapons. So we keep our weapons very secret and use them only when they are necessary, in warfare or on a battlefield. Everyone has these weapons, and they are not made of material objects. They are psychological apparatuses which the mind always keeps ready at hand, whenever there is any kind of threat to the psychological security or individual happiness. The adepts who have made deep study of this subject are the psychoanalysts in the Western world and the teachers of yoga in the East, particularly Sage Patanjali; and certain other texts like the Upanishads have made a study of the subtle devices that the mind employs for the purpose of its individual security and permanent satisfaction.
These mechanisms of the mind are to be studied very well before we try to adopt the method of self-control. Otherwise, we will be pursuing what they call a wild goose chase and we will get nothing out of our efforts. The mind is a terrible trickster, and it cannot be easily tackled by open methods. Frontal attacks will not always succeed, because these mechanisms of the mind are invisible weapons; they are not visible to the eye. The reactions that the mind sets up in respect of persons outside and things around are indications of the presence of these defence mechanisms. Even when these reactions are set up by the mind in respect of externals, the mechanisms are not made visible we see only reactions, and not the source or the cause of the reactions. They will all be kept hidden so that the nature of a person cannot be known, and even when the person sets up a reaction, that nature is kept secret always. That is another device of the mind. Through all of our outward behaviour and conduct, we cannot be studied properly by a mere look at our faces, because we are very secret inside, looking like something else outside. This deep-rooted secrecy of the mental structure has to be dug out and brought to the surface of consciousness before any successful effort can be made in the direction of self-control.
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
his ecstasy there was revealed to Brother Klaus a sight so terrible
that his own countenance was changed by it so much so, in-
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that was the reason why his face was now terrible to others.
H This vision has rightly been compared 15 with the one in
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wondrous and terrible boon of original experience befell him.
In this situation the dogmatic image of divinity that had been
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Like one guilty of a terrible offence, M. sat motionless, his eyes fixed on the ground. He thought, "Is it such a wicked thing to get married?"
The Master continued, "Have you any children?"
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"Listen to a story. Some cowherd boys used to tend their cows in a meadow where a terrible poisonous snake lived. Everyone was on the alert for fear of it. One day a brahmachari was going along the meadow. The boys ran to him and said: 'Revered sir, please don't go that way. A venomous snake lives over there.' 'What of it, my good children?' said the brahmachari. 'I am not afraid of the snake. I know some mantras.'
So saying, he continued on his way along the meadow. But the cowherd boys, being afraid, did not accompany him. In the mean time the snake moved swiftly toward him with upraised hood. As soon as it came near, he recited a mantra, and the snake lay at his feet like an earthworm. The brahmachari said: 'Look here. Why do you go about doing harm? Come, I will give you a holy word. By repeating it you will learn to love God. Ultimately you will realize Him and so get rid of your violent nature.' Saying this, he taught the snake a holy word and initiated him into spiritual life. The snake bowed before the teacher and said, 'Revered sir, how shall I practise spiritual discipline?'
1.01 - Proem, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
And what it is so terrible that breaks
On us asleep, or waking in disease,
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
time-he had a terrible toothache. Tara appearing to
him in a dream said, "You have no particular
1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
26:The Hindu discipline of spirituality provides for this need of the soul by the conceptions of the Ishta Devata, the Avatar and the Gum. By the Ishta Devata, the chosen deity, is meant, -- not some inferior Power, but a name and form of the transcendent and universal Godhead. Almost all religions either have as their base or make use of some such name and form of the Divine. Its necessity for the human soul is evident. God is the All and more than the All. But that which is more than the All, how shall man conceive? And even the All is at first too hard for him; for he himself in his active consciousness is a limited and selective formation and can open himself only to that which is in harmony with his limited nature. There are things in the All which are too hard for his comprehension or seem too terrible to his sensitive emotions and cowering sensations. Or, simply, he cannot conceive as the Divine, cannot approach or cannot recognise something that is too much out of the circle of his ignorant or partial conceptions. It is necessary for him to conceive God in his own image or at some form that is beyond himself but consonant with his highest tendencies and seizable by his feelings or his intelligence. Otherwise it would be difficult for him to come into contact and communion with the Divine.
27:Even then his nature calls for a human intermediary so that he may feel the Divine in something entirely close to his own humanity and sensible in a human influence and example. This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest in a human appearance, the Incarnation, the Avatar-Krishna, Christ, Buddha. Or if this is too hard for him to conceive, the Divine represents himself through a less marvellous intermediary, -- Prophet or Teacher. For many who cannot conceive or are unwilling to accept the Divine Man, are ready to open themselves to the supreme man, terming him not incarnation but world-teacher or divine representative.
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
The traveller is at the edge of the gulf. All his efforts have been in vain. After a supreme struggle he falls... from his bed. A young student had a long essay to prepare for the following morning. A little tired by his day's work, he had said to himself as he arrived home, "I shall work later." Soon afterwards he thought that if he went to bed early, he could get up early the next morning and quickly finish his task. "Let's go to bed," he said to himself, "I shall work better tomorrow; I shall sleep on it." He did not know how truly he spoke. His sleep was troubled by the terrible nightmare we have described, and his fall awoke him with a start. Thinking over what he had dreamt, he exclaimed, "But it's quite clear: the path is called the path of 'later on', the road is the road of 'tomorrow' and the great building the castle of 'nothing at all'." Elated at his cleverness, he set to work, vowing to himself that he would never put off until tomorrow what he could do today.
1893
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
After the incident, mother and son both acted as though nothing had happened. But later that night, at about eleven o'clock, Shinkichir suddenly broke into loud screams that shook and convulsed his entire body. "How terrible! Please forgive me! It's all my fault!" he moaned over and over. Violent sweat began pouring down his body, increasing as the night wore on. He fell in and out of consciousness. His screams resounded through the streets, causing a flurry of excitement to pass through the village.
By morning the fever had subsided, and people began coming by to see how he was. "It sounded like you were in terrible agony last night," they said. "Actually," he replied, "I was in some kind of a trance. An old man appeared to me wearing the headdress, white court garments, and black footwear of ancient times. Crowds of monstrous-looking creatures were milling around him, so ghastly I was forced to turn my eyes away. 'This is an emissary from hell. Do exactly as he says,' the creatures
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"You mean she did this terrible thing and she didn't kill herself?" he replied bitterly. "Harming your own flesh and blood is an unpardonable offense." Half out of his mind, he kept repeating, "I'll avenge my son's injury. I'll avenge my son's injury."
The very next day, Shu-liang visited his brother's home. "I understand our mother is staying here,"
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It was impossible for anyone to get near. Shu-liang's terrible screams were heard over half a mile away. After three days and three nights of continual agony, death finally came. When the fires died out and the villagers came and peered into the hole, they found that although the earth and grass inside were untouched by the flames, Shu-liang had been burned so badly that his body resembled a lump of charcoal.
There is also the story of a priest who was passing an old shrine late one night and saw crowds of tall, strange-looking people within the precincts. Their heads were wrapped in yellow silk and they were sweeping and cleaning the approaches to the shrine with sacred branches of the sakaki tree.
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In contrast to these terrible tales of retri bution, there are also accounts of children who thanks to heaven's miraculous intervention were enabled to carry out acts of great filial devotion: the story of a rare medicinal stone suddenly appearing in the garden of a son who needed it to cure an ailing father; of midwinter ice breaking up and fresh carp leaping into the arms of a son whose stepmo ther had a craving for minced fish; of a poor man whose shovel struck a cauldron filled with gold as he was about to bury his child alive to ensure his mother would be adequately fed; of bamboo shoots emerging in midwinter for a son anxious to feed them to his mother; of a carp-filled fountain gushing up in the garden of a son who wanted to satisfy his mother's yearning for fine water and minced fish.
But even if you don't perform acts of filial devotion like these, of a caliber that elicits heavenly intervention, I devoutly hope you do not commit acts of an unfilial nature that will bring punishment down upon you. A person who ignores or refuses to acknowledge what takes place right under his nose and insists on merely doing as he pleases must be either a stupid man or an evil one.
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Accounts of the Miraculous Effects describes wondrous escapes from disaster and death thanks to recitation of the Ten Phrase Kannon Sutra, all but one of the stories in The Cloth Drum Refitted are of the retri butive type and recount instead the terrible punishments meted out to unfilial sons and daughters.
In the preface Hakuin wrote for The Cloth Drum Refitted, he alludes briefly to his friendship with
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed Death is not merely a destruction of the body, it is in reality nothingness, non-being. The moment being, existence, reality manifested itself, established itself as a material fact, simultaneously there came out and stood against it, its opposite non-being, non-existence, non-reality; against an everlasting 'yes' there was posited an everlasting 'no'. And in fact, this everlasting No proves to be a greater effective reality, it has wound itself around every constituent atom of the universe. That is what has expressed itself in the material domain as the irreversible degradation of energy and in the mortal world it is denial and doubt and falsehoodit is that which brings about failure in life, and frustration, misery and grief. But then Savitri's vision penetrated beyond and she saw, Death is a way of achieving the end more swiftly and more completely. The negation is an apparent obstacle in order to increase, to purify and intensify the speed of the process by which the world and humanity is being remodelled and recreated. This terrible Godhead pursues the human endeavour till the end; until he finds that nothing more is to be done; then his mission too is fulfilled.1 So a last cry, the cry of a desperate dying Death, pierces the universe and throws the final challenge to Savitri:
Who must goad and tease
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Your encounter with the terrible unknown has shaken the foundations of your world-view. You have
been exposed, involuntarily, to the unexpected and revolutionary. Chaos has eaten your soul. This means
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experimental environment even though nothing terrible had yet happened there. After he is allowed to
explore, he calms down. It is only then that he is regarded as normal. The experimenter then jars the rat
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new situation). If nothing terrible happens to it (nothing punishing, threatening, or additionally
unpredictable) it will begin to sniff, to look around, to move its head, to gather new information about the
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situation, such as a new object placed in its cage, it first freezes, watching the object. If nothing terrible
happens, while it is immobile nothing punishing, or additionally threatening it moves, slowly and at a
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cultural protection from the terrible forces of nature, security for the weak, and wisdom for the foolish.
Simultaneously, however, he is the force who devours his own offspring, who rules the kingdom with a
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releasing stimuli (those that characterize erotic beauty), is of terrible power, and has an existence
transcending that of any individual who is currently possessed. Pan, the Greek god of nature,
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The angry Tiamat the unknown, chaos, in its terrible or destructive aspect produces eleven species of
monsters to aid her in her battle including the viper, the dragon, the great lion, the rabid dog, the
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down. This act of destruction, disguised as a blow for freedom, lets the terrible unknown flood back in. The
Great Mother is a terrible force, in the absence of patriarchal protection. The Enuma elish makes this
vital point, implicitly. This state of affairs is represented schematically in Figure 20: The Death of
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upper hand, it is by definition because of a current paucity of heroism. It can be said, therefore, that the reappearance of the Great Mother, in her terrible guise, the death of the Great Father (who serves as
protection from his creative and destructive wife), and the absence of the hero (who turns chaos into order)
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Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
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Everything outside occupies the same categorical space as the dragon of chaos, or the terrible mother. The
early Indo-Europeans equated the destruction of enemies in battle to the slaying of Vrtra by Indra;282 the
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and terrible Mother of All Things promises endlessly; she also threatens, absolutely. The outcome of an
encounter with the unknown which constitutes the necessary precondition for the generation of new
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control. The desire to exist permeates all that lives, and expresses itself in terrible fashion, in uncontrollable
impulse, in an endless counterpoint of fecundity and decay. The most basic, fundamental and necessary
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The terrible aspects of the primordial Great Mother have been represented, symbolized, in variety of
manners, but her underlying reality and essential ideation remain immediately recognizable. Neumann
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life and birth are always bound up with death and destruction. That is why this terrible Mother is
Great, and this name is also given to Ta-Urt, the gravid monster, which is hippopotamus and
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primordial age, or of the unconscious. Thus the terrible Ta-Urt, as well as the terrible Hathor, Isis,
Neith,a and others, can be reconstituted from their pictures that have been painted over, but cannot be
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judgment of the dead, points by its parallelism to the terrible aspect of Ta-Urt. Am-mit was described as
follows: Her forepart (is that of) crocodiles, her hinderpart (is that of) hippopotamus, and her middle (is
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that of the monster wielding the terrible knife, which guards one of the underworld gates through which
the souls of the departed must pass.
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originally she was the terrible ancestral spirit of the matriarchal culture, in which the Feminine takes
back what has been born of it just as among the primitive inhabitants of the Melanesian island of
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The terrible Mother challenges and threatens the individual, absolutely. She is goddess of anxiety,
depression, and psychological chaos goddess of the possibility of pain and death. She is horror, insofar as
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experience of life as a female exacting blood. This terrible Mother is the hungry earth, which devours
its own children and fattens on their corpses; it is the tiger and the vulture, the vulture and the coffin, the
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The terrible feminine has been represented by figures such as the chimera, the sphinx, the griffin, and
the gorgon, which combined and unified the most disparate, yet related, aspects of nature (those aspects
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composed of skulls, the terrible Mother was goddess of death and dismemberment, object of sacrificial
homage. As Goddess of the Snake, she was sacred in ancient Crete, and worshipped by the Romans. Her
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Medusa, Greek monster, with her coif of snakes, manifests a visage so terrible that a single exposure turns
strong men to stone paralyzes them, permanently, with fear.
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mythological representation is another. Consideration of the figure of the Great and terrible Mother is
salutary; helps breed understanding of just what it is that our cultures that is, our ritual identification with
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parents. She is the branches that claw at the night traveler, in the depths of the forest. She is the terrible
force that motivates the commission of atrocity planned rape and painful slaughter during the waging of
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and the smile of the criminally insane. The Great and terrible Mother stars in every horror movie, every
black comedy; she lies in wait for the purposefully ignorant like a crocodile waits in the bog. She is the
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the terrible aspects of the unknown allow us to conceptualize what has not yet been encountered, and to
practice adopting the proper attitude towards what we do not understand.
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contrast to the terrible Mother. The beneficial unknown is the source of eternal plenitude and comfort. It is
positive femininity, metaphorically speaking, that constitutes the ground for hope itself for the faith and
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equivalent to that of the terrible Mother. The beneficient aspect of the matrix of all things the eternally
fecund virgin (because eternally renewed), the mother of the savior serves as the embodiment of the
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The terrible unknown compels representation; likewise, the beneficial unknown. We are driven to
represent the fact that possibility resides in every uncertain event, that promise beckons from the depths of
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suffering on the part of those still striving to succeed. The terrible unknown, which paralyzes when it
appears, is also succour for the suffering, calm for the troubled, peace for the warrior, insight and discovery
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The ability to restrict the appearance of the terrible Mother, and foster the realization of her
Benevolent Sister (that is, the ability to decrease threat, and maximize promise and satisfaction) might
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something to be juxtaposed into creative encounter with the terrible unknown. The offering, in ritual, was
often devoured, in reality or symbolically, as aid to embodiment of the immortal human spirit; as aid to
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offers himself voluntarily to the cross, to the grave, to suffering and death, to the terrible mother. Such a
spirit is, above all, humble which is a very paradoxical term, in this context. Arrogance is belief in
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take back what he produced. The Great and terrible Mother, daughter of chaos, destroys those who
approach her accidentally, incautiously, or with the inappropriate attitude, but showers upon those who love
her (and who act appropriately) all good things. The Great and terrible Father, son of chaos, gives rise to
sons of his own, but then attempts to crush, or even to devour them: he is precondition for existence, but
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encounter with the Great and terrible Mother, and death and resurrection of the Son and the Father.
A new manner of dealing with (that is, behaving with regards to or classifying) an emergent unknown is
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(re)appearance or discovery of one of the manifestations of the terrible Mother: a flood, an earthquake, a
war, a monster (some type of dragon), a fish, a whale anything unpredictable or unexpected, that
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dangerous childhood, faces the terrible Mother in single combat, and is devoured. He is swallowed by a
great fish, or snake, or whale, and spends time underground, in the dark, in the winter, in the kingdom of
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behavior, whenever it shows its terrible but promising face. Culture is constructed in spite of (in
cooperation with, in deference to) this omnipresent force, and serves as a barrier, quelling emotion,
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Deluge and destruction threaten us. Our King died a week ago, and since that time a terrible rain has
come down upon our gorgeous town. We cant even make fires in our houses, because so much water
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heroic journey into the terrible unknown. The sword is a tool which might find its use in the battle with
negative forces. The loaf is magical, in the same manner as the loaves and fishes in the story of Christs
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mythic Great and terrible Father, tyrant and wise king, as intermediary between the vulnerable individual
and the overwhelming natural world. This Father is the consequence of voluntary heroic action
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Great Father as Wise King keeps one foot on the terrible Mother keeps the monsters of chaos locked up
in his dungeon or banished to the nether regions of the kingdom. He is the personality of dead heroes (that
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formal authority for the terrible judgment he delivered. The normal pattern of the day would have called
for him to be struck down by bodyguards on the spot. But the fact that he was speaking for an
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
You are afraid to open the door? I too was afraid, since we had forgotten that God is terrible. Christ taught: God is love. 66 But you should know that love is also terrible.
I spoke to a loving soul and as I drew nearer to her, I was overcome by horror, and I heaped up a wall of doubt, and did not anticipate that I thus wanted to protect myself from my fearful soul.
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65. In Black Book 2, Jung noted here: Here, someone stands beside me and whispers terrible things into my ear: You write to be printed and circulated among people. You want to cause a stir through the unusual. Nietzsche did this better than you. You are imitating Saint Augustine (p.
20). The reference is to Augustine's Confessions (400CE), a devotional work written when he was forty-five years old, in which he narrates his conversion to Christianity in an autobiographical form (Confessions, tr. H. Chadwick [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991]). The Confessions are addressed to God, and recount the years of his wandering from God and the manner of his return. Echoing this in the opening sections of Liber Novus, Jung addresses his soul and recounts the years of his wandering away from her, and the manner of his return. In his published works,
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Supreme and terrible God,
Who makest the Gods and Death
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
faces; it is terrible. If you have a clouded face do not go out
that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you
1.02 - The Divine Teacher, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HE PECULIARITY of the Gita among the great religious books of the world is that it does not stand apart as a work by itself, the fruit of the spiritual life of a creative personality like Christ, Mahomed or Buddha or of an epoch of pure spiritual searching like the Veda and Upanishads, but is given as an episode in an epic history of nations and their wars and men and their deeds and arises out of a critical moment in the soul of one of its leading personages face to face with the crowning action of his life, a work terrible, violent and sanguinary, at the point when he must either recoil from it altogether or carry it through to its inexorable completion. It matters little whether or no, as modern criticism supposes, the Gita is a later composition inserted into the mass of the Mahabharata by its author in order to invest its teaching with the authority and popularity of the great national epic. There seem to me to be strong grounds against this supposition for which, besides, the evidence, extrinsic or internal, is in the last degree scanty and insufficient. But even if it be sound, there remains the fact that the author has not only taken pains to interweave his work inextricably into the vast web of the larger poem, but is careful again and again to remind us of the situation from which the teaching has arisen; he returns to it prominently, not only at the end, but in the middle of his profoundest philosophical disquisitions. We must accept the insistence of the author and give its full importance to this recurrent preoccupation of the Teacher and the disciple.
The teaching of the Gita must therefore be regarded not merely in the light of a general spiritual philosophy or ethical doctrine, but as bearing upon a practical crisis in the application of ethics and spirituality to human life. For what that crisis stands, what is the significance of the battle of Kurukshetra and its effect on
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Avatar is unseen or appears only for occasional comfort and aid, but at every crisis his hand is felt, yet in such a way that all imagine themselves to be the protagonists and even Arjuna, his nearest friend and chief instrument, does not perceive that he is an instrument and has to confess at last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in the language and received by the thoughts of the Ignorance. Until the moment when all has been pushed to the terrible issue of the struggle on the field of Kurukshetra and the Avatar stands at last, still not as fighter, but as the charioteer in the battle-car which carries the destiny of the fight, he has not revealed Himself even to those whom he has chosen.
Thus the figure of Krishna becomes, as it were, the symbol of the divine dealings with humanity. Through our egoism and ignorance we are moved, thinking that we are the doers of the work, vaunting of ourselves as the real causes of the result, and that which moves us we see only occasionally as some vague or even some human and earthly fountain of knowledge, aspiration, force, some Principle or Light or Power which we acknowledge and adore without knowing what it is until the occasion arises that forces us to stand arrested before the Veil.
1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
seems unnatural to the average Indian, who will bow respectfully before Christ (with as much spontaneous reverence as before his own image of God), but who will see also the face of God in the laughter of Krishna, the terror of Kali, the sweetness of Saraswati, and in the thousands upon thousands of other gods who dance, multicolored and mustachioed, mirthful or terrifying, illuminated or compassionate, on the deliriously carved towers of Indian temples. A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe,13 said Sri Aurobindo. All is His face, all is His play, terrible or beautiful, as many-faceted as our world itself. For this country so teeming with 13
Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:138
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The first sign announcing a new being, probably, is the dawning sense of a terrible lack of something, which neither his science nor his churches nor his garish pleasures can ever fulfill. Man cannot be dispossessed of his secrets with impunity. This, too, was a living testimonial India imparted to Sri Aurobindo, unless he knew it already in his own flesh.
However, if we expect India, the land where ancient Mysteries survive, to give us the practical solution we are seeking, we may be disappointed. Sri Aurobindo, who soon learned to appreciate the freedom, spiritual breadth, and immense experimental knowledge India offers a seeker, did not subscribe to everything there, far from it;
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
4.: O souls, redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, take these things to heart; have mercy on yourselves! If you realize your pitiable condition, how can you refrain from trying to remove the darkness from the crystal of your souls? Remember, if death should take you now, you would never again enjoy the light of this Sun. O Jesus! how sad a sight must be a soul deprived of light! What a terrible state the chambers of this castle are in! How disorderly must be the senses-the inhabitants of the castle-the powers of the soul its magistrates, governors, and stewards-blind and uncontrolled as they are! In short, as the soil in which the tree is now planted is in the devil's domain, how can its fruit be anything but evil? A man of great spiritual insight once told me he was not so much surprised at such a soul's wicked deeds as astonished that it did not commit even worse sins. May God in His mercy keep us from such great evil, for nothing in this life merits the name of evil in comparison with this, which delivers us over to evil which is eternal.
5.: This is what we must dread and pray God to deliver us from, for we are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labour to defend it.20' The person of whom I spoke21' said that she had learnt two things from the vision granted her. The first was, a great fear of offending God; seeing how terrible were the consequences, she constantly begged Him to preserve her from falling into sin. Secondly, it was a mirror to teach her humility, for she saw that nothing good in us springs from ourselves but comes from the waters of grace near which the soul remains like a tree planted beside a river, and from that Sun which gives life to our works. She realized this so vividly that on seeing any good deed performed by herself or by other people she at once turned to God as to its fountain head-without whose help she knew well we can do nothing-and broke out into songs of praise to Him. Generally she forgot all about herself and only thought of God when she did any meritorious action.
6.: The time which has been spent in reading or writing on this subject will not have been lost if it has taught us these two truths; for though learned, clever men know them perfectly, women's wits are dull and need help in every way. Perhaps this is why our Lord has suggested these comparisons to me; may He give us grace to profit by them!
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12.: Alas, my daughters, what loss the devil must have caused to many a soul by such thoughts as these! It thinks such ideas and many others of the same sort I could mention arise from humility. This comes from not understanding our own nature; self-knowledge becomes so warped that, unless we take our thoughts off ourselves, I am not surprised that these and many worse fears should threaten us. Therefore I maintain, my daughters, that we should fix our eyes on Christ our only good, and on His saints; there we shall learn true humility, and our minds will be ennobled, so that self-knowledge will not make us base and cowardly. Although only the first, this mansion contains great riches and such treasures that if the soul only manages to elude the reptiles dwelling here, it cannot fail to advance farther. terrible are the wiles and stratagems the devil uses to hinder people from realizing their weakness and detecting his snares.
13.: From personal experience I could give you much information as to what happens in these first mansions. I will only say that you must not imagine there are only a few, but a number of rooms, for souls enter them by many different ways, and always with a good intention. The devil is so angry at this that he keeps legions of evil spirits hidden in each room to stop the progress of Christians, whom, being ignorant of this, he entraps in a thousand ways. He cannot so easily deceive souls which dwell nearer to the King as he can beginners still absorbed in the world, immersed in its pleasures, and eager for its honours and distinctions. As the vassals of their souls, the senses and powers bestowed on them by God, are weak, such people are easily vanquished, although desirous not to offend God.
1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquitos wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated in the meridian shallows. Weather this danger and you are safe, for the rest of the way is down hill. With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses. If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through
Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call _reality_, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a _point dappui_, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The whole thing is made still more difficult by another condition which Patanjali puts in a subsequent sutra:mdu madhya adhimtravt tata api viea (I.22). Even in this tremendous aspiration, this impetuous asking, there are degrees of intensity. There can be mild asking, there can be middling asking, and there is the most intense type of asking. Firstly, it was said that our wanting, or asking, or our aspiration should be turbulently vehement unconditionally forceful. Now, here he says there can even be degrees all which make it appear that perhaps we are unfit for the practice of yoga or the attainment of God. It looks terrible better to bid goodbye and go and have lunch. Sometimes it looks as if it is not meant for us. But the difficulty of the whole matter is also the worth and value of it. It is difficult to get gold and diamonds, and yet we know the value of them. Once we get them, they will support us for our entire life.
The attainment of that higher reality is difficult merely because of its inseparability from us. Everything that is connected with us is most difficult to understand. We can understand everything connected with others. We can be masters in the psychology of others' minds, but about our own minds we are the biggest fools we cannot understand anything. Likewise, we may be very clear about all things in this world, but completely idiotic about things connected with our own self, and so the difficulty has arisen. The object of the quest is somehow or other subtly connected with our self that is the difficulty of the whole matter. If it had been really far off, unconnected with us, that would be a different thing altogether. But it is connected with us, and so there is a necessity to reorganise our way of thinking.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
adaptation to, explanation of, and protection against the unknown, the Great and terrible Mother. This
introduction reaches its culmination with initiation, the primary ritual signifying cultural transmission the
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intense punishment, subjected to intense dread. They symbolically pass into the maw of the terrible
Mother and are reborn as men, as adult members of the tribe, which is the historical cumulation of the
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historical structure that humanity has erected between the individual and the terrible unknown. Intrapsychic
representation of culture establishment of group identity protects individuals from overwhelming fear
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intercession of the mythic Great Father against the terrible world of the Great Mother. This intercession is
provision of a specific goal-schema, allowing for the transformation of the vagaries of individual
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Whilst all around, in terrible array,
His thunders rattle, and his light'nings play.
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And in the terrible embrace expir'd.
But, to preserve his offspring from the tomb,
1.03 - Fire in the Earth, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which
you caused me- to undergo: through all these I have
1.03 - Master Ma is Unwell, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
down his hook in the four seas, he only fishes for terrible drag
ons." This one line has already been completed (the verse);
1.03 - .REASON. IN PHILOSOPHY, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
says _Yea_ to everything questionable and terrible, he is Dionysian.
[1] Nietzsche here refers to the concept "free will" of the Christians;
1.03 - The Desert, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he were not struck, he would not need the weapon. Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simplemindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it.
That is why we are scornful. But mockery fol. iii(r)/iii(v) does not attain simplemindedness. The mockery falls on the mocker, and in the desert where no one hears and answers, he suffocates from his own scorn.
1.03 - The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love.
24 February 1965
1.03 - The Human Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
From the beginning of the Gita this characteristic temperament of the disciple is clearly indicated and it is maintained throughout. It becomes first evident in the manner in which he is awakened to the sense of what he is doing, the great slaughter of which he is to be the chief instrument, in the thoughts which immediately rise in him, in the standpoint and the psychological motives which make him recoil from the whole terrible catastrophe. They are not the thoughts, the standpoint, the motives of a philosophical or even of a deeply reflective mind or a spiritual temperament confronted with the same or a similar problem.
They are those, as we might say, of the practical or the pragmatic man, the emotional, sensational, moral and intelligent human being not habituated to profound and original reflection or any sounding of the depths, accustomed rather to high but fixed standards of thought and action and a confident treading through all vicissitudes and difficulties, who now finds all his standards failing him and all the basis of his confidence in himself and his life shorn away from under him at a single stroke. That is the nature of the crisis which he undergoes.
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Arjuna breaks out impatiently, - for here is no rule of conduct such as he sought, but rather, as it seems to him, the negation of all action, - "If thou holdest the intelligence to be greater than action, why then dost thou appoint me to an action terrible in its nature? Thou bewilderest my understanding with a mingled
The Human Disciple
1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[24] This motif of wounding is taken up by Honorius of Autun in his commentary on the Song of Songs.166 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck (DV).167 The sponsa says (1 : 4): I am black, but comely, and (1 : 5) Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath scorched me. This allusion to the nigredo was not missed by the alchemists.168 But there is another and more dangerous reference to the bride in 6 : 4f.: Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me . . . 10: Who is this that looketh forth as the rising dawn [quasi aurora consurgens],169 fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?170 The bride is not only lovely and innocent, but witch-like and terrible, like the side of Selene that is related to Hecate. Like her, Luna is all-seeing, an all-knowing eye.171 Like Hecate she sends madness, epilepsy, and other sicknesses. Her special field is love magic, and magic in general, in which the new moon, the full moon, and the moons darkness play a great part. The animals assigned to herstag, lion, and cock 172are also symbols of her male partner in alchemy. As the chthonic Persephone her animals, according to Pythagoras, are dogs,173 i.e., the planets. In alchemy Luna herself appears as the Armenian bitch.174 The sinister side of the moon plays a considerable role in classical tradition.
[25] The sponsa is the dark new moonin Christian interpretation the Church in the nuptial embrace 175and this union is at the same time a wounding of the sponsus, Sol or Christ. Honorius comments on Thou hast wounded my heart as follows:
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
*rom her neck hangs a garl and of skulls, and round her waist is a girdle of human arms - made of gold. In her lower left hand she holds a decapitated human head, also made f gold, and in the upper a sword. With her lower right hand she offers boons to her devotees, with the upper a symbol to fear naught. The skulls and the sword represent er terrible destructive side, Kali ; and her right hands offering boons and fearlessness, her benignant side similar to that conveyed by the Egyptian conception of Isis. She is both terrible and sweet-like Nature, alternately destroying and creating.
In the Theosophical system, one aspect of Binah is
1.03 - THE STUDY (The Exorcism), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
With fiery eyes, teeth terrible to see:
O, now am I sure of thee!
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
"Watch the way a mother hen warms an egg. When she has warmed the egg sufficiently so that the conditions are ripe for hatching, instead of pecking the egg, she waits, she holds back until she hears faint pecking sounds inside the shell. She gives the shell a single peck, and the baby chick emerges. It is truly heartwarming to watch her forthrightly attending to her task, cocking her head this way and that, up and down, as she restrains herself from pecking. Yet if she did not hold back, if she pecked the shell too early, she would have ruined everything, producing a sight too terrible to behold.
"Or consider the case of a pregnant woman. Although her time has not yet arrived, she and her husb and have taken every possible precaution and secured in advance the services of a physician.
1.040 - Re-Educating the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Most people cannot succeed in meditation because a satisfactory answer cannot be given to this question. Why should we reject something when the mind feels that there is a great point in thinking about it? Unless there is some meaning in it, why should we think of it? It sees something; some meaning, some significance, some purpose, some wish-fulfilment is practicable, and we are doing contrary work by saying, "It should not be thought. It is not good. It is untraditional, unreligious." Merely making a statement of this kind is not going to be acceptable to the mind, because the mind cannot be terrified by orders of this nature. It is a very terrible thing by itself, and so it requires a gradual training from inside, rather than an order issued from outside.
The mind is intelligent; it is not a corpse which can be dragged as we like, in the direction we please. As it is difficult to control anything that is intelligent, merely because it is intelligent, we have to apply intelligence itself to control intelligence. An intelligent person can be subdued only by intelligence, and not by force, because intelligence will not yield to any kind of external pressure. So mere pressure will not succeed here in this context of meditation, because the mind is intelligent, it is capable of understanding, and it knows where to find its wish fulfilment. Therefore, any kind of whipping which is meted out to it in an illogical manner will bring about a resentment in the mind in such a way that it may completely upset the whole practice after sometime.
1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
M. (to the Master): "This world is a terrible place indeed."
MASTER (to the devotees): "That is the reason Chaitanya said to his companion Nityananda, 'Listen, brother, there is no hope of salvation for the worldly-minded.' "
1.04 - A Leader, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He excused himself in a hastily written note. Too closely watched, under suspicion, tracked down after he had changed his lodgings many times, this gentle, just man had to return to his own country, a terrible country where perhaps a tragic end awaited him.
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1.04 - Descent into Future Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
But who can withstand fear when the divine intoxication and madness comes to him? Love, soul, and God are beautiful and terrible. The ancients brought over some of the beauty of God into this world, and this world became so beautiful that it appeared to the spirit of the time to be fulfillment, and better than the bosom of the Godhead. The frightfulness and cruelty of the world lay under wraps and in the depths of our hearts. If the spirit of the depths seizes you, you will feel the cruelty and cry out in torment. The spirit of the depths is pregnant with ice, fire, and death. You are right to fear the spirit of the depths, as he is full of horror.
You see in these days what the spirit of the depths bore. You did not believe it, but you would have known it if you had taken counsel with your fear. 91
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quickens the dead earth, so the sun of the depths quickened the dead, and thus began the terrible struggle between light and darkness. Out of that burst the powerful and ever unvanquished source of blood. This was what was to come, which you now experience in your life, and it is even more than that. (I had this vision on the night of 12 December 1913.)
Depths and surface should mix so that new life can develop. Yet the new life does not develop outside of us, but within us. What happens outside us in these days is the image that the peoples live in events, to bequeath this image immemorially to far-off times so that they might learn from it for their own way; just as we learned from the images that the ancients had lived before us in events.
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Amazed by the wisdom of that holy man, I asked him when we were alone: Why did you make such an extraordinary show? That true physician replied: For two reasons: firstly, in order to deliver the penitent himself from future shame by present shame; and it really did that, Brother John. For he did not rise from the floor until he was granted remission of all his sins. And do not doubt this, for one of the brethren who was there confided to me, saying: I saw someone terrible holding a pen and writing-tablet, and as the prostrate man told each sin, he crossed it out with a pen. And this is likely, for it says: I said, I will confess against myself my sin to the Lord; and Thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my heart.1 Secondly, because there are others in the brotherhood who have unconfessed sins, and I want to induce them to confess too, for without this no one will obtain forgiveness.
I saw much else too that was admirable and worth remembering with that ever-memorable pastor and his flock. And a large part of it I shall try to bring to your knowledge also. For I stayed a considerable time with him, following their manner of life, and was greatly astonished to see how those earth-dwellers were imitating the heavenly beings.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
unknown, and led to the production of complex systems of action and belief designed to take that terrible
possibility into account.
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defend our societies and ourselves against the return of the terrible Dragon of Chaos. [It is frequently the
case, however, that our attempts to bolster the security of part of our protective identity undermine our
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despotism387 (or, frequently, by fear of the terrible Mother), the kingdom remains stagnant, while the
princess nature, in her benevolent guise waits for the kiss of the hero to wake. Her awakened and
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Nightly, ths sun-hero battles the terrible forces of chaos, cuts himself out of the belly of the beast, and is
reborn triumphant in the morning.
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unknown from the abysmal forces of the Great and terrible Mother, from unbearable affect itself
evolved to structure social relationships and render them predictable, to provide a goal and the means to
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threatened, however, the unbearable, terrible unknown once again rises up, and once firm ground begins to
give way.
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of behavior and abstracted conceptualization thereof which inhibits fear of novelty, the terrible Mother,
source of all nightmares. The group is the historical structure that humanity has erected between the
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criminal; like Raskolnikov, unable to bear the terrible beauty411 of their deeds. Nietzsche states:
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness that means
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(unconscious) constraints of habit, custom and belief; is response to the re-emergence of the terrible
unknown; is reaction of a spirit no longer able, as a consequence of abstract critical ability, to manifest
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My position was terrible. I knew that I could find nothing in the way of rational knowledge except a
denial of life; and in faith I could find nothing except a denial of reason, and this was even more
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breaks down begins the journey, so speak, to the land of the dead, the terrible unknown the shaman is
there to serve as guide, to provide rationale for current experience, to reunite the suffering individual with
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canon of assumptions and values that underlie behavior, the eternal shield against the terrible unknown.
The hero is the first person to have his internal structure (that is, his hierarchy of values and his
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mythological terms, expressed as involuntary incest (destructive union) with the terrible Mother.
The revolutionary hero opens himself up to the possibility of advancement to furtherance of his
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vulnerability to the terrible nature of reality. In psychological terms: the hero discovers the limitations of
history; discovers the nakedness of the father (Genesis 9:20-25). He must, therefore, challenge history, and
face what it had previously protected him from. Contact with the terrible Mother means exposure to
absolute mortal vulnerability to the existence and consequences of ignorance, insanity, cruelty, disease,
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certain adult perspective. But it is also the case that the child has a terrible vulnerability, which the adult
has transcended. The child does not explicitly perceive his vulnerability, and therefore does not suffer, until
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vulnerable bodies, and the terrible world of experience. This emergent fear of vulnerability a direct
consequence of the development of self-consciousness (no, an intrinsic aspect of self-consciousness)
1.04 - The Core of the Teaching, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Arjuna must do is one from which his moral sense recoils. It is his duty to fight, you say? But that duty has now become to his mind a terrible sin. How does it help him or solve his difficulty, to tell him that he must do his duty disinterestedly, dispassionately? He will want to know which is his duty or how it can be his duty to destroy in a sanguinary massacre his kin, his race and his country. He is told that he has right on his side, but that does not and cannot satisfy him, because his very point is that the justice of his legal claim does not justify him in supporting it by a pitiless massacre destructive to the future of his nation. Is he then to act dispassionately in the sense of not caring whether it is a sin or what its consequences may be so long as he does his duty as a soldier? That may be the teaching of a State, of politicians, of lawyers, of ethical casuists; it can never be the teaching of a great religious and philosophical Scripture which sets out to solve the problem of life and action from the
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1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
only of the beneficent Durga, but of the terrible Kali in her
blood-stained dance of destruction and to say, This too is
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9 These quotations and the following in this section are from Essays
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that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction;
it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and
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are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws, and some
are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between
1.053 - A Very Important Sadhana, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Austerity, tapas, does not merely mean control of the senses in the sense of putting an end to their activity. There should be an end to even their tendency towards objects; otherwise, they will create a twofold difficulty. Firstly, they will find the least opportunity provided as an occasion for manifesting their force once again; secondly, they will shake us from the core of all the faith that we have in God and the power of spiritual practice. The powers of sense are terrible indeed. They work on one side as a subtle pressure exerted towards further enjoyment of things in many ways, and on the other side as a feeling that, after all, this practice is not going to bring anything. This is a dangerous doubt that can arise in ones mind, because it is contrary to truth.
Nehbhikramanosti pratyavyo na vidyate (B.G.II.40), says the Bhagavadgita. Even a little good that we do in this direction has its own effect. Even if we credit one paisa (one-hundredth of an Indian rupee) to our account in the bank, it is a credit, though it is very little. It is only one paisa that we have put there, but still it is there. We cannot say it is not there. Likewise, even a little bit of sincere effort that is put forth in the direction of sense control and devotion to God is a great credit indeed accumulated by the soul. There should not be a doubt whether it will yield fruit. We should not expect fruit in the way we would dream in our mind, because the nature of the response that is generated by the practice depends upon the extent of obstacles that are already present and not eliminated. The peculiar impressions created inside by frustrated feelings will also act as an obstacle. The frustrated feelings are the subtle longings of the mind, deeper than the level of conscious activity, which create a sense of disquiet and displeasure in the mind.
1.056 - Lack of Knowledge is the Cause of Suffering, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Now, what happens in dream? This ignorance of what we really are does not simply keep quiet like that. We are not simply in a sleepy condition where we are completely oblivious of our true nature. There is a mischievous activity taking place simultaneously with this ignorance, and that is what is called the dream perceptions. Not only are we not allowed to know what we really are, but we are told that we are what we are not. This is a terrible type of brainwashing that is going on there, where we become stupid to the utmost, and become totally helpless. We become a tool of forces over which we can have absolutely no control. This is what happens to us in dream. We have forgotten what we really are, and are seeing something which is not there. Then we cling to it, run after it, believe in its reality and then cry for it, and get involved in it as if that is the only reality. So there is a tremendous vikshepa or projection, a violent rajasic activity taking place a tempestuous wind that blows in a wrong direction as a consequence of the dark clouds covering the light of knowledge. Thus avidya, or ignorance, which is the obscuration of the knowledge of our true nature, at the same time produces a counter-effect that is deleterious to the knowledge of our own being the perception of a wrong externality, as happens in dream.
We know how fantastically and frantically we run about in dream for the purpose of fulfilment of the desires manifest in the dream mind and the avoidance of the pain that is also manifest there. The joys and sorrows, the loves and hatreds of the dream world become so real that the experiencing unit there gets involved in it, gets submerged into it and becomes one with it, which is the direct effect of the forgetfulness of what one really is in waking. This is exactly what has happened in the waking condition also. This so-called waking consciousness is similar to the dream condition as far as its structure and mode of operation is concerned. This external activity of the mind in waking life, this engagement of the mind in the objects of sense and this pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain in life are the consequences of the obscuration of the knowledge of what we really are. That is avidya.
1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3. Faultless is thy seeing like the sun's; terrible marches thy thought when blazing with light thou neighest aloud like a force of battle. This Fire was born in the pleasant woodl and and is a rapturous dweller somewhere in the night.
4. Fiery-sharp is his march and great his body, - he is like a horse that eats and champs with his mouth: he casts his tongue like an axe to every side, like a smelter he melts the log that he burns.
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5. Then the tongue of the Bull leaps constantly like the thunderbolt loosed of the God who fights for the herds of the Light. The destruction of Fire is like the charge of a hero; he is terrible and irresistible, he hews the forests asunder.
6. Thou hast spread out the earthly speed-ranges by thy light and the violence of thy mighty scourge. Repel by thy forceful powers all dangerous things; turn to conquer those who would conquer us, shatter our confronters.
1.05 - Morality and War, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Atomic bomb is in itself the most wonderful achievement and the sign of a growing power of man over material nature. But what is to be regretted is that this material progress and mastery is not the result of and in keeping with a spiritual progress and mastery which alone has the power to contradict and counteract the terrible danger coming from these discoveries. We
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1.05 - MORALITY AS THE ENEMY OF NATURE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
by a state of certainty, of even terrible certainty. Or the expression
of ripeness and mastery in the midst of a task, of a creative work, of
1.05 - ON ENJOYING AND SUFFERING THE PASSIONS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
is jealous of the others, and jealousy is a terrible thing.
Virtues too can perish of jealousy. Surrounded by the
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Most terrible and pitiful was the sight of their last hour. When his fellow-defaulters learnt that one of their number was ready to precede them by finishing his course, they gathered round him while his mind was still active and with thirst, with tears, with love, with a tender look and sad voice, shaking their heads, they would ask the dying man, and would say to him, burning with compassion: How are you, brother and fellow criminal? What will you say? What do you hope? What do you expect? Have you accomplished what you sought with such labour or not? Has the door been opened to you, or are you still under judgment? Have you attained your object, or not yet? Have you received any sort of assurance, or is your hope still uncertain? Have you obtained freedom, or is your thought clouded with doubt? Have you felt any enlightenment in your heart or is it still dark and ashamed? Has any inner voice said: Behold thou art made whole,1 or: Thy sins are forgiven thee, 2or: Thy faith has saved thee?3 Or, have you heard a voice like this: Let the sinners be turned into hell,4 and: Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness,5 and again: Let the wicked man be removed that he may not see the glory of the Lord?6 What, quite simply, can you say, brother? Tell us, we beg you, that we too may know in what state we shall be. For your time is already closed, and you will never find another opportunity. To this some of the dying would reply: Blessed is God who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. 7Others again: Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.8 Others said dolefully: Will our soul pass through the impassable water9 of the spirits of the air?not having complete confidence, but looking to see what would happen in that rendering of accounts. Others still more dolefully would answer and say: Woe to the soul that has not kept its vow intact! In this hour, and in this only, it will know what is prepared for it.
But when I had seen and heard all this among them, I nearly despaired of myself, seeing my own indifference and comparing it with their suffering. For what a place and habitation theirs was! All dark, reeking, filthy and squalid. It was rightly called the prison and house of convicts. The very sight of the place was sufficient to teach all penitence and mourning. But what is hard and intolerable for others becomes easy and acceptable for those who have fallen away from virtue and spiritual riches. For the soul that has lost its former confidence; that has lost hope of dispassion; that has broken the seal of chastity; that has allowed its treasury of gifts to be robbed; that has become a stranger to divine consolation; that has rejected the commandment of the Lord; that has extinguished the beautiful fire of spiritual10 tears, and is wounded and pierced with sorrow by the remembrance of this will not only undertake the above-mentioned labours with all readiness, but will even devoutly resolve to kill itself
1.05 - The Activation of Human Energy, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
quantum' of man, a terrible waste. But let us put aside any
sentimental feelings or virtuous indignation. Let us look very
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
who made German society take such a terrible turn. Even Hitler how could Hitler fail to believe that he
was correct, when everyone around him bowed to his orders? Would it not take character of exceptional
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heaven, preceding the establishment of hell; nothing of any consequence regarding the terrible afterlife that
theoretically awaits all sinners).
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the terrible underworld of mythology and its denizens in intrapsychic space. It is no wonder that this idea
has become unpopular: nonetheless, evil exists somewhere. It remains difficult not to see hypocrisy in the
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Refusal of the good is, I think, most effectively and frequently justified by reference to the terrible
affective consequences of (self)consciousness. This means that comprehension of the vulnerabilty and
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and pointlessness of life may be utilized as rationale for evil. Life is terrible, and appears, at some
moments, ultimately terrible: unfair, irrational, painful and meaningless. Interpreted in such a light,
existence itself may well appear as something reasonably eradicated. Goethes Mephistopheles, prince of
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the well is the terrible beast so there is no turning back. The travellers arms grow weak, clinging to the
vine, but he still holds on. Then he sees two mice one black, one white gnawing at either side of the
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I found that for the people of my class there were four means of escaping the terrible situation in
which we all find ourselves.
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Thus the people of my class save themselves from a terrible contradiction in these four ways. No
matter how much I strained my intellectual faculties, I could see no escape other than these four.477
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sheltered, as well, from the terrible world. Culture intercedes, in the form of proscriptions for behavior,
when mortality nonetheless threatens, but adherence to such requirements means increased responsibility,
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long run, however, the lie has terrible consequences. The avoidance or suppression of novel or
unexpected experience, which is the abstract equivalent of running away, transforms it perforce into
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Sacrifice of the hero to the great and terrible father means abandonment of identification with the process
that makes cosmos out of chaos. Rejection of the process whereby the endlessly negative and terrifying is
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this psychological catastrophe is accidental reunion with the terrible mother, on territory of her choosing.
This Oedipal incest culminates in certain suffering, on the part of the unwilling hero: culminates in
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The identity of the individual with his culture protects him from the terrible unknown, and allows him to
function as an acceptable member of society. This slavish function streng thens the group. But the group
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the terrible unknown into the sustenant and productive world. Acceptance (at least recognition) of the
mortal limitation characterizing human experience therefore constitutes the precondition for proper
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predeceased us, as paradise has already been spread before us. This is a terrible position, as the axiom of
faith we are redeemed makes human suffering itself (which can never be eradicated, as a consequence of
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seeing the source of human evil in social regulation, because he cannot imagine the terrible Mother, as
soul-devouring force. So he abandons his father in the belly of the beast, unredeemed and has no tools to
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without discipline and responsibility, because he is ignorant of the terrible nature of the undifferentiated
ground of reality, and is unwilling to bear the burden of order. When he starts to suffer as he certainly
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himself from the terrible world of incarceration and slavery; no model of desire and expectation to inhibit
his mortal terror, to guide his activity and to channel his hope. He has been forcibly ejected from paradise,
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Its terrible that the collective farmers are starving.
But have you looked in all their ovens?
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to define it and, in a more general sense, to define oneself. To avoid is to say that is too terrible, and
that means too terrible for me. The impossibility of a task is necessarily determined in relationship to
the abilities of the one faced with it. The act of turning away therefore means willful opposition to the
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something more comprehensible but not yet understood. The terrible central message of this mode of
thought is this: do not lie, particularly to yourself, or you will undermine the process that gives you the
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protective enclave of history. In consequence, he suffers re-exposure to the terrible unknown. Such reexposure engenders mortal terror, but allows for union with possibility allows for inspiration,
reconstruction, and advancement. It is the disintegration and disinhibition of meaning (preceding its
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The Great Father, positive aspect of history, protects man from the terrible Mother. He is civilized
order, education and wisdom embodied, and represented; is the abstracted and integrated personification of
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Tyrant, the Bureaucrat. This is history as the terrible Father, dead weight of the past, crushing mass of
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Mother, the creative aspect of life itself. The terrible Father opposes anything new, anything that threatens
his integral structure and absolute dominance. Identification of the well-adapted man with his culture
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maintain that culture to the terrible forces of the unknown to mortal anxiety and dread, to fear of the void,
to terror of insanity, physical destruction, and annihilation.
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reverts to the unknown. This does not mean that the terrible Mother herself sleeps under human
consciousness; it means rather that the reasons for her existence thousands of years ago are still
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inevitable contact with the terrible unknown, to live in a hole that grows smaller and darker.
The significance of the Christian passion is the transformation of the process by which the goal is to be
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unfortunately, a terrible thing to ask.
In sterquiliniis invenitur in filth it will be found. This is perhaps the prime alchemical dictum.
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matriarchal system is the intrapsychic representative of the Queen, the Great and terrible Mother, who is
sea, toad, fish or dragon, lioness, earth, depth, the cross, death and matter:
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conditionally known to the domain of the terrible and promising unknown:
In order to enter into Gods Kingdom the king must transform himself into the prima materia in the
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individual is a terrible force for evil. Recognition of that force real recognition, the kind that comes as a
staggering blow is a precondition for any profound improvement in character. By such improvement, I
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strong enough to do it. And you dont use the terrible vulnerability of children as an excuse for the
rejection of existence, and the perpetration of conscious evil.
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cruelty at the hands of nature and society? Why do terrible things happen to everyone? These are, of
course, unanswerable questions. But they must be answered, somehow, if we are to be able to face our own
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Should the world exist? Are the preconditions of experience so terrible that the whole game should be
called off? (and there is never any shortage of people working diligently towards this end).
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to continue up the staircase up the axis mundi. Thus awareness of death, the grim reaper the terrible
face of God compels us inexorably upwards, towards a consciousness sufficiently heightened to bear
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voluntarily bear the terrible weight of our mortality. We turn from that capacity and degrade ourselves
because we are afraid of responsibility. Thus the necessarily tragic preconditions of existence are made
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withstand that terrible thing. This idea granted me by the grace of God allowed me to believe that I
could find what I most wanted (if I could tolerate the truth; if I was willing to follow wherever it led me; if I
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literally, from the terrible forces of the unknown. It is for this reason that every individual who is not
decadent will strive to protect his territory, actual and psychological. But the tendency to protect means
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Formulation and understanding of this terrible paradox devastated me. I had always been convinced that
sufficient understanding of a problem any problem would lead to its resolution. Here I was, however
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Then, one night, my dreams came back, with a vengeance. I had the following nightmare, as terrible and
potent as the dreams of destruction that had started my quest, several years before:
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over the mass of mankind and the great and terrible mother. The bodhisattva, the central character in this
figure, is an Oriental Christ-equivalent (or, perhaps, an image of the paraclete or Holy Ghost). The creator
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delusion; to withdraw into the comforts of denial from a world terrible beyond what can be borne.
Imagination is not always insanity, however; its use does not always imply regression. Imagination and
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of the dark marsh a squall of terrible sound
that sent a tremor through both shores of Hell;
1.05 - THE MASTER AND KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
She is the Dispenser of boons and the Dispeller of fear. People worship Raksha-Kli, the Protectress, in times of epidemic, famine, earthquake, drought, and flood. Smasana-Kli is the embodiment of the power of destruction. She resides in the cremation ground, surrounded by corpses, jackals, and terrible female spirits. From Her mouth flows a stream of blood, from Her neck hangs a garl and of human heads, and around Her waist is a girdle made of human hands.
Beginning of a cycle
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We need not suppose that all Germany thought in this strenuous fashion, as it was too long represented, or that the majority thought thus consciously; but it is sufficient that an energetic minority of thinkers and strong personalities should seize upon the national life and impress certain tendencies upon it for these to prevail practically or at the least to give a general trend subconsciously even where the thought itself is not actually proposed in the conscious mind. And the actual events of the present hour seem to show that it was this gospel that partly consciously, partly subconsciously or half articulately had taken possession of the collective German mind. It is easy to deride the rigidity of this terrible logic or riddle it with the ideas and truths it has ignored, and it is still easier to abhor, fear, hate and spew at it while practically following its principles in our own action with less openness, thoroughness and courage. But it is more profitable to begin by seeing that behind it there was and is a tremendous sincerity which is the secret of its force, and a sort of perverse honesty in its errors; the sincerity which tries to look straight at ones own conduct and the facts of life and the honesty to proclaim the real principles of that conduct and notexcept as an occasional diplomacyprofess others with the lips while disregarding them in the practice. And if this ideal is to be defeated not merely for a time in the battle-field and in the collective person of the nation or nations professing it, as happened abortively in the War, but in the mind of man and in the life of the human race, an equal sincerity and a less perverse honesty has to be practised by those who have arrived at a better law.
The German gospel has evidently two sides, the internal and the external, the cult of the State, nation or community and the cult of international egoism. In the first, Germany, even if for a time entirely crushed in the battle-field, seems to have already secured the victory in the moral sense of the human race. The unsparing compulsion as against the assistance of the individual by the State7for his and the common good, of course, but who professes to compel for harm?is almost everywhere either dominant or else growing into a strong and prevailing current of opinion; the champions of individual freedom are now a morally defeated and dwindling army who can only fight on in the hope of a future reaction or of saving something of their principle from the wreck. On the external side, the international, the battle of ideas still goes on, but there were from the beginning ominous signs;8 and now after the physical war with its first psychological results is well over, we are already able to see in which direction the tide is likely to flow. War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. Germany, defeated in the war, has won in the after war; the German gospel rearisen in a sterner and fiercer avatar threatens to sweep over all Europe.
It is necessary, if we are not to deceive ourselves, to note that even in this field what Germany has done is to systematise certain strong actual tendencies and principles of international action to the exclusion of all that either professed to resist or did actually modify them. If a sacred egoism and the expression did not come from Teutonic lipsis to govern international relations, then it is difficult to deny the force of the German position. The theory of inferior and decadent races was loudly proclaimed by other than German thinkers and has governed, with whatever assuaging scruples, the general practice of military domination and commercial exploitation of the weak by the strong; all that Germany has done is to attempt to give it a wider extension and more rigorous execution and apply it to European as well as to Asiatic and African peoples. Even the severity or brutality of her military methods or of her ways of colonial or internal political repression, taken at their worst, for much once stated against her has been proved and admitted to be deliberate lies manufactured by her enemies, was only a crystallising of certain recent tendencies towards the revival of ancient and mediaeval hardheartedness in the race. The use and even the justification of massacre and atrocious cruelty in war on the ground of military exigency and in the course of commercial exploitation or in the repression of revolt and disorder has been quite recently witnessed in the other continents, to say nothing of certain outskirts of Europe.9 From one point of view, it is well that terrible examples of the utmost logic of these things should be prominently forced on the attention of mankind; for by showing the evil stripped of all veils the choice between good and evil instead of a halting between the two will be forced on the human conscience. Woe to the race if it blinds its conscience and buttresses up its animal egoism with the old justifications; for the gods have shown that Karma is not a jest.
But the whole root of the German error lies in its mistaking life and the body for the self. It has been said that this gospel is simply a reversion to the ancient barbarism of the religion of Odin; but this is not the truth. It is a new and a modern gospel born of the application of a metaphysical logic to the conclusions of materialistic Science, of a philosophic subjectivism to the objective pragmatic positivism of recent thought. Just as Germany applied the individualistic position to the realisation of her communal subjective existence, so she applied the materialistic and vitalistic thought of recent times and equipped it with a subjective philosophy. Thus she arrived at a bastard creed, an objective subjectivism which is miles apart from the true goal of a subjective age. To show the error it is necessary to see wherein lies the true individuality of man and of the nation. It lies not in its physical, economic, even its cultural life which are only means and adjuncts, but in something deeper whose roots are not in the ego, but in a Self one in difference which relates the good of each, on a footing of equality and not of strife and domination, to the good of the rest of the world.
1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
We used to have discussions on the international political situation from the very start. Hitler's insane lust for power, England's political bankruptcy, America's suicidal policy of non-intervention, Russia's shrewd Machiavellian diplomacy: all were subjects of the verbal to-and-fro in Sri Aurobindo's room. Chamberlain's ill-famed peace mission, Colonel Beck's militant interview with Hitler, France's betrayal of Czechoslovakia evoked vigorous protests or praises from us. Sri Aurobindo observed how one nation after another was hypnotised by Hitler's asuric my and submitted to his diabolical charm, how the intellectuals did not raise any voice against the Hitlerian menace. On seeing a photograph of Chamberlain and Hitler taken during their meeting at Munich, Sri Aurobindo said that Chamberlain looked like a fly before a spider, on the point of being caught and he actually was caught! Of course, the German dictator had already put Mussolini in his pocket. Only Colonel Beck seemed to have kept some manly individuality. Many other issues Sri Aurobindo discussed with us, as will be evident from the book Talks with Sri Aurobindo, as though we were all keen-sighted states-men and generals; and the talks were usually enlivened by Sri Aurobindo's genial humour. In these talks he imparted to us a clear vision of the issues at stake, but never imposed his views. When we dared to differ or failed to follow him, he patiently explained to us where we were wrong. His physical nearness made us realise, with an extraordinary lucidity, what terrible inhuman forces were trying to overcast the world with an abysmal darkness from which a supreme Divine Power alone could save it.
For all the war-news we had to depend on the daily newspapers, since members of the Ashram were not supposed to have radios. Somebody in the town began to supply us with short bulletins; when the War had taken a full-fledged turn, the radio news was transmitted to Sri Aurobindo's room so he might follow the war-movements from hour to hour. Here we find a notable instance of the spiritual flexibility of his rules and principles. What had been laid down for a particular time and condition, would not be inviolable under altered circumstances. Sri Aurobindo, who was once a mortal opponent of British rule in India, came to support the Allies against the threat of world-domination by Hitler. "Not merely a non-cooperator but an enemy of British Imperialism", he now listened carefully to the health bulletins about Churchill when he had pneumonia, and, we believe, even helped him with his Force to recover. It is the rigid mind that cries for consistency under all circumstances. I still remember Sri Aurobindo breaking the news of Hitler's march and England's declaration of war. For a time the world hung in suspense wondering whether Hitler would flout Holland's neutrality and then penetrate into Belgium. We had very little doubt of his intention. It was evening; Sri Aurobindo was alone in his room. As soon as I entered, he looked at me and said, "Hitler has invaded Holland. Well, we shall see." That was all. Two or three such laconic but pregnant remarks regarding the War still ring in my ears. At another crucial period when Stalin held a threatening pistol at England and was almost joining hands with Hitler, we were dismayed and felt that there would be no chance for the Divine, were such a formidable alliance to take place. Sri Aurobindo at once retorted, "Is the Divine going to be cowed by Stalin?" When, seeing Hitler sweeping like a meteor over Europe, a sadhak cried in despair to the Guru, "Where is the Divine? Where is your word of hope?" Sri Aurobindo replied calmly, "Hitler is not immortal." Then the famous battle of Dunkirk and the perilous retreat, the whole Allied army exposed to enemy attack from land and air and the bright summer sun shining above. All of a sudden a fog gathered from nowhere and gave unexpected protection to the retreating army. We said, "It seems the fog helped the evacuation." To which Sri Aurobindo remarked, "Yes, the fog is rather unusual at this time." We, of course, understood what he meant. It was after the fall of Dunkirk and the capitulation of France that Sri Aurobindo began to apply his Force more vigorously in favour of the Allies, and he had "the satisfaction of seeing the rush of German victory almost immediately arrested and the tide of war begin to turn in the opposite direction".
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Sri Aurobindo was not only fighting Hitler, he had also the onerous task of conquering the extreme antipathy of his own disciples towards the British. The Ashram ran the danger of being disbanded for our anti-British and pro-Hitler feelings. How many letters had Sri Aurobindo to write to his disciples to show their grave error and the danger of the Nazi victory! I quote only one such letter he wrote to a disciple, in 1942, "...You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself on earth in the life of humanity, for a Truth that has yet to realise itself fully and against a darkness and falsehood that are trying to overwhelm the earth and mankind in the immediate future. It is the forces behind the battle that have to be seen and not this or that superficial circumstance.... There cannot be the slightest doubt that if one wins; there will be an end of all such freedom and hope of light and truth and the work that has to be done will be subjected to conditions which would make it humanly impossible; there will be a reign of falsehood and darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura."
In a talk in 1940, Sri Aurobindo said: "There are forces which are trying to destroy the British and their empire forces above and here in this world, I mean inner forces. I myself had wished for its destruction; but at that time I did not know such forces would arise. These forces are working for the evolution of a new world-order which would come following upon the liquidation of the Empire. But, for the advent of this new arrangement, the Empire needn't be destroyed. The new arrangement can be achieved more quietly by a change in the balance of forces, without much destruction. Had it not been for Hitler, I wouldn't have cared what power remained or went down. Now the question is whether the new world-order is to come after much suffering and destruction or with as little of it as possible. Destruction of England would mean victory for Hitler and in that case, perhaps after a great deal of suffering and oppression, and reaction to them, that world-order may come or may not, or it may come only after pralaya! Of course the issue has been decided by the Divine Vision and there can be no change. But nobody knows what the decision is."
1.06 - Hymns of Parashara, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
like one shooting arrows, terrible like an assailant charging,
he is a splendour in our battles.
1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
9:MAHAKALI is of another nature. Not wideness but height, not wisdom but force and strength are her peculiar power. There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is there for swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything before it. terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she deals roughly with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all that is obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker. If her anger is dreadful to the hostile and the vehemence of her pressure painful to the weak and timid, she is loved and worshipped by the great, the strong and the noble; for they feel that her blows beat what is rebellious in their material into strength and perfect truth, hammer straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure or defective. But for her what is done in a day might have taken centuries; without her Ananda might be wide and grave or soft and sweet and beautiful but would lose the flaming joy of its most absolute intensities. To knowledge she gives a conquering might, brings to beauty and harmony a high and mounting movement and imparts to the slow and difficult labour after perfection an impetus that multiplies the power and shortens the long way. Nothing can satisfy her that falls short of the supreme ecstasies, the highest heights, the noblest aims, the largest vistas. Therefore with her is the victorious force of the Divine and it is by grace of her fire and passion and speed if the great achievement can be done now rather than hereafter.
10:Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the supreme Mother there is a subtler mystery of her nature and without it Wisdom and Force would be incomplete things and without it perfection would not be perfect. Above them is the miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of an irresistible universal charm and attraction that draws and holds things and forces and beings together and obliges them to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from behind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures. This is the power of MAHALAKSHMI and there is no aspect of the Divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of embodied beings. Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi. For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow out from her like light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss. Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
1.06 - The Greatness of the Individual, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not as the slow process of Time that Sri Krishna manifests himself; it is as the Zeitgeist consummating in a moment the work carefully prepared for decades that He appears to Arjuna. All have been moving inevitably towards the catastrophe of Kurukshetra. Men did not know it: those who would have done everything possible to avert the calamity, helped its coming by their action or inaction; those who had a glimpse of it strove in vain to stop the wheels of Fate; Sri Krishna himself as the nikma karmayogin who does his duty without regard to results, went on that hopeless embassy to Hastinapura; but the Zeitgeist overbore all. It was only afterwards that men saw how like rivers speeding towards the sea, like moths winging towards the lighted flame all that splendid, powerful and arrogant Indian world with its clans of Kings and its weapons and its chariots and its gigantic armies were rushing towards the open mouths of the destroyer to be lost in His mighty jaws, to be mangled between His gnashing teeth. In the ll of the Eternal there are movements that are terrible as well as movements that are sweet and beautiful. The dance of Brindaban is not complete without the death-dance of Kurukshetra; for each is a part of that great harmonic movement of the world which progresses from discord to accord, from hatred and strife to love and brotherhood, from evil to the fulfilment of the evolution by the transformation of suffering and sin into beauty, bliss and good, ivam, ntam, uddham, nandam.
Who could resist the purpose of the Zeitgeist? There were strong men in India then by the hundred, great philosophers and Yogins, subtle statesmen, leaders of men, kings of thought and action, the efflorescence of a mighty intellectual civilisation at its height. A little turning to the right instead of to the left on the part of a few of these would, it might seem, have averted the whole catastrophe. So Arjuna thought when he flung aside his bow. He was the whole hope of the Pandavas and without him their victory must seem a mere dream and to fight an act of madness. Yet it is to him that the Zeitgeist proclaims the utter helplessness of the mightiest and the sure fulfilment of Gods decree. Even without thee all they shall not be, the men of war who stand arrayed in the opposing squadrons. For these men are only alive in the body; in that which stands behind and fulfils itself they are dead men. Whom God protects who shall slay? Whom God has slain who shall protect? The man who slays is only the occasion, the instrument by which the thing done behind the veil becomes the thing done on this side of it. That which was true of the great slaying at Kurukshetra is true of all things that are done in this world, of all the creation, destruction and preservation that make up the ll.
1.06 - Wealth and Government, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can save humanity from the terrible plight into which it is plunged.
All the so-called practical means are a childishness by which men blind themselves so as not to see the true need and sole remedy.
1.06 - WITCHES KITCHEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
down through the flame, with terrible cries.)
THE WITCH
1.07 - Bridge across the Afterlife, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
psychologically in a terrible state, said the Mother: Elle
navait pas la foi she did not have the faith. This led the
1.07 - On mourning which causes joy., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
years in a life of great austerity. This place was bereft of every comfort, and was almost untrodden by the foot of man, being about seventy miles from the fort.1 Towards the end of his life the elder returned to his cell on the holy mountain where he had two extremely pious disciples from Palestine who took care of the elders cell. Having passed a few days there he fell into the illness from which he died. On the day before his death, he went into ecstasy of mind and with open eyes he looked to the right and left of his bed and, as if he were being called to account by someone, in the hearing of all the bystanders he said: Yes indeed, that is true; but that is why I fasted for so many years. And then again: Yes, it is quite true; but I wept and served the brethren. And again: No, you are slandering me. And sometimes he would say: Yes, it is true. Yes, I do not know what to say to this. But in God there is mercy. And it was truly an awful and horrible sightthis in visible and merciless inquisition. And what was most terrible, he was accused of what he had not done. How amazing! Of several of his sins the hesychast and hermit said: I do not know what to say to this, although he had been a monk for nearly forty years and had the gift of tears. Alas, alas! Where was then the voice of Ezekiel to say to the tormentor: As I find you, I will judge you, says God.2 Truly he could not say anything of the sort. Why? Glory to Him who alone knows! And some, as before the Lord, told me that he even fed a leopard from his hand3 in the desert. And while being thus called to account he was parted from his body, leaving us in uncertainty as to his judgment, or end, or sentence, or how the trial ended.
Just as a widow bereft of her husb and and having an only son finds in him her sole comfort after the Lord, so for a soul that has fallen there is no other consolation at the time of its departure but the toils of fasting and tears.
1.07 - THE .IMPROVERS. OF MANKIND, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
even this organisation found it necessary to be terrible,--not this
time in a struggle with the animal-man, but with his opposite, the
1.07 - THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"One must admit the existence of tendencies inherited from previous births. There is a story about a man who practised the sava-sadhana.l He worshipped the Divine Mother in a deep forest. First he saw many terrible visions. Finally a tiger attacked and killed him. Another man, happening to pass and seeing the approach of the tiger, had climbed a tree. Afterwards he got down and found all the arrangements for worship at hand. He performed some purifying ceremonies and seated himself on the corpse. No sooner had he done a little japa than the Divine Mother appeared before him and said: 'My child, I am very much pleased with you. Accept a boon from Me.' He bowed low at the Lotus Feet of the Goddess and said: 'May I ask You one question, Mother? I am speechless with amazement at Your action. The other man worked so hard to get the ingredients for Your worship and tried to propitiate You for such a long time, but You didn't condescend to show him Your favour. And I, who don't know anything of worship, who have done nothing, who have neither devotion nor knowledge nor love, and who haven't practised any austerities, am receiving so much of Your grace.' The Divine Mother said with a laugh: 'My child, you don't remember your previous births. For many births you tried to propitiate Me through austerities. As a result of those austerities all these things have come to hand, and you have been blessed with My Vision. Now ask Me your boon.'
Suicide after the vision of God
1.07 - The Process of Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The law is the same for the mass as for the individual. The process of human evolution has been seen by the eye of inspired observation to be that of working out the tiger and the ape. The forces of cruelty, lust, mischievous destruction, pain-giving, folly, brutality, ignorance were once rampant in humanity, they had full enjoyment; then by the growth of religion and philosophy they began in periods of satiety such as the beginning of the Christian era in Europe to be partly replaced, partly put under control. As is the law of such things, they have always reverted again with greater or less virulence and sought with more or less success to re-establish themselves. Finally in the nineteenth century it seemed for a time as if some of these forces had, for a time at least, exhausted themselves and the hour for sayama and gradual dismissal from the evolution had really arrived. Such hopes always recur and in the end they are likely to bring about their own fulfilment, but before that happens another recoil is inevitable. We see plenty of signs of it in the reeling back into the beast which is in progress in Europe and America behind the fair outside of Science, progress, civilisation and humanitarianism, and we are likely to see more signs of it in the era that is coming upon us. A similar law holds in politics and society. The political evolution of the human race follows certain lines of which the most recent formula has been given in the watchwords of the French Revolution, freedom, equality and brotherhood. But the forces of the old world, the forces of despotism, the forces of traditional privilege and selfish exploitation, the forces of unfraternal strife and passionate self-regarding competition are always struggling to reseat themselves on the thrones of the earth. A determined movement of reaction is evident in many parts of the world and nowhere perhaps more than in England which was once one of the self-styled champions of progress and liberty. The attempt to go back to the old spirit is one of those necessary returns without which it cannot be so utterly exhausted as to be blotted out from the evolution. It rises only to be defeated and crushed again. On the other hand the force of the democratic tendency is not a force which is spent but one which has not yet arrived, not a force which has had the greater part of its enjoyment but one which is still vigorous, unsatisfied and eager for fulfilment. Every attempt to coerce it in the past reacted eventually on the coercing force and brought back the democratic spirit fierce, hungry and unsatisfied, joining to its fair motto of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity the terrible addition or Death. It is not likely that the immediate future of the democratic tendency will satisfy the utmost dreams of the lover of liberty who seeks an anarchist freedom, or of the lover of equality who tries to establish a socialistic dead level, or of the lover of fraternity who dreams of a world-embracing communism. But some harmonisation of this great ideal is undoubtedly the immediate future of the human race. On the old forces of despotism, inequality and unbridled competition, after they have been once more overthrown, a process of gradual sayama will be performed by which what has remained of them will be regarded as the disappearing vestiges of a dead reality and without any further violent coercion be transformed slowly and steadily out of existence.
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1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
If, even for one second in a lifetime, we have felt this Sun within, this flame, this living life for there are so many dead lives then everything changes for us; all memories pale before that memory. It is the Memory. If we are faithful to this burning Agni, it will grow ever stronger, like a living being in our flesh, like a relentless need. It will feel increasingly compact within us, pressing, poignant, like something that cannot burst out: A terrible sensation that something restricts your sight and your movements; you try to force the passage,
but to no avail, says Mother. Then, one day, through sheer need, sheer resolve, or sheer agony of feeling that imprisonment, the psychic tension will reach its breaking point, and we will have the experience:
1.083 - Choosing an Object for Concentration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The very first step is the most difficult step. This requires a very terrible adjustment of ideas. The sadhaka, the seeker, has to work very hard to introduce some sort of an organisation in the midst of the variegated ideas which run hither and thither in disparity just as the head of a family, if he is wise enough, may bring about some sort of an organisation in the family in spite of the fact that the members disagree among themselves, as otherwise there will be only disagreement and no such thing as a family. The very purpose of there being a head of the family is to introduce system into the chaos that would be there otherwise. The aspiration for the realisation of a higher goal acts like the head of a family which brings this disparity of ideas into a focused attention. It does not mean that the mind is really united in the act of concentration, or dharana. It is still disunited inside; therefore, there is a vast difference between the stage of dharana and the further advanced stages, which are yet to be reached, where there is a complete union of ideas. There is no such complete union in dharana there is still restlessness. But there is a force exerted upon the mind as a whole by the aspiration that is at the background of this effort at concentration.
The fixing of the mind on the point also implies the choosing of the point. What is the point on which we are concentrating? We have the traditional concept of the ishta devata, a term designating the nature of the object of meditation, which gives a clue as to what sort of object it should be. It should be ishta and it should be our devata. Only then we can allow the mind to move towards it entirely. We must worship that object as our god or goddess, our deity, our alter-ego, our centre of affection, our love, our everything; that should be the object. And, it is the dearest conceivable. There is nothing in this world so dear to us as that such a thing is called the ishta devata. What is there in this world which is so dear to us, which we worship as God Himself? Is there anything like that? If there was no such thing as that, it would have to be there; otherwise, the mind will not move towards the object. How can the mind move towards an object which it does not regard as the highest ideal, which it regards as only one among the many? If the idea is that there is a possibility of other objects also, equally valuable as the one here presented, why should not the mind turn to other directions?
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The murmur hoarse, and terrible the roar.
Oft have I seen herds with their shelt'ring fold
1.08 - RELIGION AND TEMPERAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
With cerebrotonia, the temperament that is correlated with ectomorphic physique, we leave the genial world of Pickwick, the strenuously competitive world of Hotspur, and pass into an entirely different and somewhat disquieting kind of universe that of Hamlet and Ivan Karamazov. The extreme cerebrotonic is the over-alert, over-sensitive introvert, who is more concerned with what goes on behind his eyeswith the constructions of thought and imagination, with the variations of feeling and consciousness than with that external world, to which, in their different ways, the viscerotonic and the somatotonic pay their primary attention and allegiance. Cerebrotonics have little or no desire to dominate, nor do they feel the viscerotonics indiscriminate liking for people as people; on the contrary they want to live and let live, and their passion for privacy is intense. Solitary confinement, the most terrible punishment that can be inflicted on the soft, round, genial person, is, for the cerebrotonic, no punishment at all. For him the ultimate horror is the boarding school and the barracks. In company cerebrotonics are nervous and shy, tensely inhibited and unpredictably moody. (It is a significant fact that no extreme cerebrotonic has ever been a good actor or actress.) Cerebrotonics hate to slam doors or raise their voices, and suffer acutely from the unrestrained bellowing and trampling of the somatotonic. Their manner is restrained, and when it comes to expressing their feelings they are extremely reserved. The emotional gush of the viscerotonic strikes them as offensively shallow and even insincere, nor have they any patience with viscerotonic ceremoniousness and love of luxury and magnificence. They do not easily form habits and find it hard to adapt their lives to the routines, which come so naturally to somatotonics. Owing to their over-sensitiveness, cerebrotonics are often extremely, almost insanely sexual; but they are hardly ever tempted to take to drink for alcohol, which heightens the natural aggressiveness of the somatotonic and increases the relaxed amiability of the viscerotonic, merely makes them feel ill and depressed. Each in his own way, the viscerotonic and the somatotonic are well adapted to the world they live in; but the introverted cerebrotonic is in some sort incommensurable with the things and people and institutions that surround him. Consequently a remarkably high proportion of extreme cerebrotonics fail to make good as normal citizens and average pillars of society. But if many fail, many also become abnormal on the higher side of the average. In universities, monasteries and research laboratorieswherever sheltered conditions are provided for those whose small guts and feeble muscles do not permit them to eat or fight their way through the ordinary rough and tumble the percentage of outstandingly gifted and accomplished cerebrotonics will almost always be very high. Realizing the importance of this extreme, over-evolved and scarcely viable type of human being, all civilizations have provided in one way or another for its protection.
In the light of these descriptions we can understand more clearly the Bhagavad Gitas classification of paths to salvation. The path of devotion is the path naturally followed by the person in whom the viscerotonic component is high. His inborn tendency to externalize the emotions he spontaneously feels in regard to persons can be disciplined and canalized, so that a merely animal gregariousness and a merely human kindliness become transformed into charitydevotion to the personal God and universal good will and compassion towards all sentient beings.
1.08 - Sri Aurobindos Descent into Death, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
prevent him from departing. So there was a terrible tension
in him: the inner will to leave and then this kind of thing
1.08 - The Change of Vision, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But how do those clear little seconds help change the world? Perhaps exactly the way the brief distracted second of the ape distracted from its immediate interests helped give birth to the first thought. For a whole world starts pouring into that transparency, but in imperceptible little breaths, in little drops of nothing to be sure, the uselessness of things is a terrible snare, an ever-present trap, the old mistake that engulfs the world in its dark false vision. At every moment the seeker must struggle against the old way of looking, correct himself, catch himself in the act. The new vision demands a long apprenticeship. One knows neither where it leads nor its use. What was the use of the ape's reflection, except to disturb its immediate acrobatics? And yet, the seeker comes back to it, as if drawn in spite of himself; he receives little signs, demonstrations in the flesh. It is as if somebody or something were there, watching over everything and taking advantage of the least crack in the old machinery to slip in a drop of light a hole is needed, a crack in the shell, a lapse in the old habit of being, for the new world to get in! Little by little the seeker yields. He lets himself go, he turns his look on the thousands of everyday useless things, the meaningless incidents, the senseless encounters, the multitude of microscopic unconnected events. He is in his fire of being and he looks; he looks at each thing as a would-be revelation, a truth concealed; and if nothing is revealed, he still persists, he observes everything, records everything: the futile steps, the useless detours, the closed faces, the accidents without reason. Instead of jumping at the desirable, he watches its movement, how it follows its course and attains its goal; instead of rejecting an unpleasant encounter, he watches it come, welcomes it, lets it give out its little drop of truth, its message beneath the falsehood or confusion; instead of running away from the darkness, evil or negation flung at him, he waits calmly for the darkness to disclose its lesson for him, the evil its drop of good beneath its venom, the negation, its vaster yes awaiting its hour. And finally he discovers a YES everywhere, a good everywhere, a meaning everywhere, and that everything is ascending, moving in the Great Direction, beneath the good and the evil, the black and the white, the useful and the harmful. Gradually, the world teems with a thousand little truths twinkling here and there, filling this vacuum, plugging that useless hole, connecting things to one another, dropping the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle into place, and everything ties together as one continuous message every moment things whisper in our ear and destiny speaks in a dove feather lifted by the wind.
But once more we are struck by the same peculiarity. What we discover are not eternal and sublime truths, not triumphs of the geometrical mind that confines the world in an equation, not seeds of dogma or revelations atop the Sinais of the world, but minuscule little truths, vivid and light, smiles of truth along the path and in everyday commonplaceness a minuscule, contagious truth which seems to spread from place to place and light up even the rocks: a truth of the earth, a truth of matter. And when we can trap a single one of these little whimsical smiles, we are richer than if the illuminations of all the sages put together were bestowed on us, because we have touched the truth with our eyes wide open and with our body maybe because the Supreme Truth is also there, in an infinitesimal wisp of straw as much as in the totality of all the ages.
1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
But each new stage of growth, we have seen, introduces new types of possible pathology, and so it is with the little butterfly. Many people think that the famous "Dark Night of the Soul," a phrase introduced by Teresa's friend and collaborator Saint John of the Cross, is that terrible dark period before one finds Uncreate Spirit. But not so; the
Dark Night occurs in that period after one has tasted Universal Being but before one is established in it, for one has now seen Paradise . . . and seen it fade.
1.08 - Wherein is expounded the first line of the first stanza, and a beginning is made of the explanation of this dark night, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
2. The first purgation or night is bitter and terrible to sense, as we shall now show. 58 The second bears no comparison with it, for it is horrible and awful to the spirit, as we shall show 59 presently. Since the night of sense is first in order and comes first, we shall first of all say something about it briefly, since more is written of it, as of a thing that is more common; and we shall pass on to treat more fully of the spiritual night, since very little has been said of this, either in speech60 or in writing, and very little is known of it, even by experience.
3. Since, then, the conduct of these beginners upon the way of God is ignoble,61 and has much to do with their love of self and their own inclinations, as has been explained above, God desires to lead them farther. He seeks to bring them out of that ignoble kind of love to a higher degree of love for Him, to free them from the ignoble exercises of sense and meditation (wherewith, as we have said, they go seeking God so unworthily and in so many ways that are unbefitting), and to lead them to a kind of spiritual exercise wherein they can commune with Him more abundantly and are freed more completely from imperfections. For they have now had practice for some time in the way of virtue and have persevered in meditation and prayer, whereby, through the sweetness and pleasure that they have found therein, they have lost their love of the things of the world and have gained some degree of spiritual strength in God; this has enabled them to some extent to refrain from creature desires, so that for God's sake they are now able to suffer a light burden and a little aridity without turning back to a time62 which they found more pleasant. When they are going about these spiritual exercises with the greatest delight and pleasure, and when they believe that the sun of Divine favour is shining most brightly upon them, God turns all this light of theirs into darkness, and shuts against them the door and the source of the sweet spiritual water which they were tasting in God whensoever and for as long as they desired. (For, as they were weak and tender, there was no door closed to them, as Saint John says in the Apocalypse, iii, 8). And thus He leaves them so completely in the dark that they know not whither to go with their sensible imagination and meditation; for they cannot advance a step in meditation, as they were wont to do afore time, their inward senses being submerged in this night, and left with such dryness that not only do they experience no pleasure and consolation in the spiritual things and good exercises wherein they were wont to find their delights and pleasures, but instead, on the contrary, they find insipidity and bitterness in the said things. For, as I have said, God now sees that they have grown a little, and are becoming strong enough to lay aside their swaddling clothes and be taken from the gentle breast; so He sets them down from His arms and teaches them to walk on their own feet; which they feel to be very strange, for everything seems to be going wrong with them.
1.094 - Understanding the Structure of Things, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
We are all present here as human beings with different personalities. We have a body; we have a mind; we have our own individuality. Each individuality of each person sitting here is a present condition assumed by the characters of a substance of which we are made. It is not the entirety of our nature that is manifest here, because we have a past, and we also have a future. The past has been submerged by the preponderance of the forces that have become present, and similarly, the characters that are going to be manifest in the future are also put down, for the time being, by the force of the characters that are manifest in the present. There are potentialities, latent powers, potencies present in each form in you, in me, in everything which have the peculiarity in them of releasing only certain particular features at a particular time, and pressing down, not allowing to manifest, other features which are not required to manifest at that time. These features which are not manifest may be either past or future. This is a very strange thing, and is also something very terrible.
What the sutra intends to tell us is that it is stupid on the part of any person to imagine that he is this personality which is manifest now at the present moment. He or she, as appearing now at the present moment, is only one feature that is manifest by the potentialities that are inside. There are so many potentialities which are yet to be manifested in the future. We will become another person altogether after some time, and we will be thinking that we are another person this person has gone. We were another person in the past, we are one thing now in the present, and we will be some third thing in the future. So, to which form are we going to be attached? Or, to put it more concretely, do we know what we were in our previous birth? Man, woman, king or beggar, rich or poor, tall or short, from the West or the East what were we? Nobody can say anything. We were something quite different from what we are today. We have completely ignored that which we were in the past, and now we are clinging to that which we are at present. How is it that we have completely ignored what we were in the past? We were clinging to that, once upon a time, as our real personality. How is it that we have completely forgotten that and now we are fixing our attention on something which is present? And do we know what we will be in our future? Nobody knows. We will be something else, and afterwards we will cling to that, forgetting the present.
1.09 - FAITH IN PEACE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
for the terrible upheavals we have undergone; not an irresistible in-
crease in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old dis-
1.09 - ON THE PREACHERS OF DEATH, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
There are the terrible ones who carry around within
themselves the beast of prey and have no choice but
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yet, these terrible ones: let them preach renunciation
of life and pass away themselves!
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
fearless attitude towards that which is terrible and questionable?
This attitude is in itself a highly desirable one; he who has once,
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and terribleness in morals may be the result of a surplus of life.
When the latter state prevails, much is dared, much is challenged,
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and terrible instincts which challenge the _maximum_ amount of
authority and discipline to oppose them--the finest example of this
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Chandala, but because they themselves feel the terrible chasm which
separates them from all that is traditional and honourable. Almost
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and even terrible nature and naturalness; such a nature as can play
with great tasks and _may_ play with them.... To speak in a _parable._
1.09 - The Ambivalence of the Fish Symbol, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
a solid plate, shining like terrible crystal, spread out above their
heads," and (1 : 26, RSV): "And above the solid plate that was
1.09 - The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle Heresiarchs., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Full of distress and torment terrible.
Even as at Arles, where stagnant grows the Rhone,
1.09 - The Guardian of the Threshold, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
A truly terrible spectral being confronts him, and he will need all the presence of mind and faith in the security of his path which he has had ample opportunity to acquire in the course of his previous training.
The Guardian proclaims his signification somewhat in the following words: "Hitherto, powers invisible to thyself watched over thee. They saw to it that in the course of thy lives each of thy good deeds brought its reward, and each of thine evil deeds was attended by its evil results. Thanks to their influence thy character formed itself out of thy life-experiences and thy thoughts. They were the instruments of thy destiny. They ordained that measure of joy and pain allotted to thee in thine incarnations, according to thy conduct in lives gone by. They ruled over thee as the all-embracing
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preparation must aim at enabling him to endure the terrible sight without a trace of timidity and, at the moment of the meeting, to feel his strength so increased that he can undertake fully conscious the responsibility for transforming and beautifying the Guardian.
If successful, this meeting with the Guardian results in the student's next physical death being an entirely different event from the death as he knew it formerly. He experiences death consciously by laying aside the physical body as one discards a garment that is worn out or perhaps rendered useless through a sudden rent. Thus his physical death is of special importance only for those living with him, whose perception is still restricted to the world of the senses. For them the student dies; but for himself nothing of importance is changed in his whole environment. The entire supersensible world stood open to him before his death, and it is this same world that now confronts him after death.
11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Had outlined from the terrible unknown
The obscure disastrous figure of a god,
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In beautiful things and terrible desire.
The pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss,
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Turbulent in will and terrible in love.
Eyes in which Nature's blind ecstatic life
11.01 - The Opening Scene of Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"It was the hour before the Gods awake". Only when the Gods awake, does the light begin to appear on earth. Otherwise it is all night here, black, impenetrable and unfathomable. Indeed the very creation begins with the awakening of the Gods. When the Gods are asleep, it is the non-existencetamast tamas ghamagre'in the beginning darkness was engulfed in darkness'. This is the asat, non-being, this is the acit, the inconscience, this is the blackest night. The Bible also speaks of a similar darknessJob's terrible vision: "A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness."1 The lamp of consciousness is not yet lit. The dark vacancy stretches across the path of creation yet to be, the light that is to come. This shadow is the negation of the light behind, it is the original of the creation. It is presented as the mere material universe apparently dead and dry, the utter inconscience with no sign of consciousness anywhere. And earth seems to be there part of it, a shadow within the shadow, a dark spot wheeling in a dark mass.
It is the pre-creation, one might say, the creation before the creation the shadow creation. We know coming events cast their shadow before, as a kind of forewarning, foreboding: that is the dark messenger, the bright messenger will follow. For after all, it is His shadow"And into the midnight his shadow is thrown."
1.1.04 - Philosophy, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Both the logician and the philosopher are apt to forget that they are dealing with words and words divorced from experience can be the most terrible misleaders in the world. Precisely because they are capable of giving us so much light, they are also capable of lighting us into impenetrable darkness. Tato bhuya iva te tamo ya u vidyayam ratah; "Deeper is the darkness into which they enter who are addicted to knowledge alone." This sort of word worship and its resultant luminous darkness is very common in India and nowhere more than in the intellectualities of religion, so that when a man talks to me about the One and
Maya and the Absolute, I am tempted to ask him, "My friend, how much have you experienced of these things in which you instruct me or how much are you telling me out of a vacuum or merely from intellectual appreciation? If you have merely ideas and no experience, you are no authority for me and your logic is to me but the clashing of cymbals good to deafen an opponent into silence, but of no use for knowledge. If you say you have experienced, then I have to ask you, 'Are you sure you have measured all possible experience?' If you have not, then how can you be sure that my contradictory experience is not equally true? If you say you have, then I know you to be deluded or a pretender, one who has experienced a fragment or nothing; for
1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
By the practice of cleanliness, the Sattva material prevails, and the mind becomes concentrated and cheerful. The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. A pleasurable feeling is the nature of the Sattva. Everything is pleasurable to the Sttvika man, and when this comes, know that you are progressing in Yoga. All pain is caused by Tamas, so you must get rid of that; moroseness is one of the Exults of Tamas. The strong, the well knit, the young, the healthy, the daring alone are fit to be Yogis. To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world? When your mind has become controlled, you have control over the whole body; instead of being a slave to this machine, the machine is your slave. Instead of this machine being able to drag the soul down, it becomes its greatest helpmate.
1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The king could not procure the fee and was compelled to sell Saibya, his royal consort, to a brahmin. With her went Prince Rohitasva. But since even that was not enough to redeem his pledge to the sage, Harischandra sold himself to an untouchable who kept a cremation ground. He was ordered to supervise the cremations. One day, while plucking flowers for his brahmin master, Prince Rohitasva was bitten by a venomous snake and that very night died. The cruel brahmin would not leave his bed to help the poor mother cremate the body. The night was dark and stormy. Lightning rent the black clouds. Saibya started for the cremation ground alone, carrying the body of her son in her arms. Smitten with fear and overpowered with grief, the queen filled heaven and earth with her wailing. Arriving at the cremation ground, she did not recognize her husband, who demanded the usual fee for the cremation. Saibya was penniless and wept bitterly at her unending misfortunes. The impenetrable darkness was illumined only by the terrible flames of the cremation pyres. Above her the thunder roared, and before her the uncouth guardian of the cremation ground demanded his fee. She who had once been queen of the world sat there with her only child dead and cold on her lap.
The devotees burst into tears and loudly lamented this tragic episode of a royal life. And what was the Master doing? He was listening to the recital with rapt attention. Tear-drops appeared in his eyes and he wiped them away.
1.10 - The Revolutionary Yogi, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate. Germany overthrew the Napoleonic spirit in France in 1813 and broke the remnants of her European leadership in 1870; the same Germany became the incarnation of that which it had overthrown. The phenomenon is easily capable of renewal on a more formidable scale.7 We now know that the old gods are capable of transmigrating. Seeing all the years of nonviolence ending in the terrible violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, Gandhi himself said with a touch of sadness just before his death, "The attitude of violence we have secretly harbored comes back on us, and we fly at each other's throats when the question of distribution of power arises. . . . Now that the yoke of subjection is lifted, all the forces of evil have come to the surface." For neither violence nor nonviolence goes to the root of Evil. Right in the middle of the Second World War, while Sri Aurobindo was taking a public stand in favor of the Allies,109 because it was the only practical thing to do, he wrote to a disciple: You write as if what is going on in Europe were a war between the powers of the Light and the powers of Darkness but that is no more so than during the Great War. It is a fight between two kinds of Ignorance. . . . The eye of the yogin sees not only the outward events and persons and causes, but the enormous forces which precipitate them into action. If the men who fought were instruments in the hands of rulers and financiers, etc.,
these in turn were mere puppets in the clutch of these forces. When one is habituated to see the things behind, one is no longer prone to be touched by the outward aspects or to expect any remedy from political, institutional or social changes.110 Sri Aurobindo had become aware of these "enormous forces" behind, of the constant infiltration of the supraphysical into the physical. His energies were not focused on a moral problem violence versus nonviolence which after all would be rather superficial, but on a problem of effectiveness. He saw clearly, again through experience, that in order to cure the world's evil it is first necessary to cure "what is at its roots in man." Nothing can 109
1.10 - THINGS I OWE TO THE ANCIENTS, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
itself in terrible and reckless hostility outside the state: the
various states mutually tore each other to bits, in order that each
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making one's self terrible.... Fancy judging the Greeks in the German
style, from their philosophers; fancy using the suburban respectability
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even its most strange and most terrible problems, the will to life
rejoicing over its own inexhaustibleness in the _sacrifice_ of its
1.11 - Correspondence and Interviews, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Let me quote an instance to illustrate how Yogis have more insight into politics than politicians themselves. Surendra Mohan writes, "When I came here in October or November 1949, he asked me, 'Why have you not asked me anything about the communal situation in Bengal?' I said, 'There is nothing to report, it is all very quiet.' 'No, no, be careful. Something may happen.' And something terrible did happen the communal killings." Yet, not even great leaders paid any heed to it; they thought it impossible even when Surendra Mohan apprised them of Sri Aurobindo's warning. Sri Aurobindo predicted also "the Russo-Chinese rift and the disintegration of China one day".
We ridicule the idea of Yogis having any knowledge of affairs outside their own "limited" spiritual field. Sri Aurobindo's intervention during the Cripps' Proposals was stigmatised as such an ignorant and illegitimate interference. More than once he demonstrated how false this notion is. Not only are Yogis aware of world-affairs, but those who ordinarily claim cognizance of them are actually ignorant and incompetent. For, according to Sri Aurobindo, unless one knows the domain of the Spirit, one's knowledge of the world remains incomplete.
1.11 - Delight of Existence - The Problem, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
7:Sachchidananda, it may be reasoned, is God, is a conscious Being who is the author of existence; how then can God have created a world in which He inflicts suffering on His creatures, sanctions pain, permits evil? God being All-Good, who created pain and evil? If we say that pain is a trial and an ordeal, we do not solve the moral problem, we arrive at an immoral or nonmoral God, - an excellent world-mechanist perhaps, a cunning psychologist, but not a God of Good and of Love whom we can worship, only a God of Might to whose law we must submit or whose caprice we may hope to propitiate. For one who invents torture as a means of test or ordeal, stands convicted either of deliberate cruelty or of moral insensibility and, if a moral being at all, is inferior to the highest instinct of his own creatures. And if to escape this moral difficulty, we say that pain is an inevitable result and natural punishment of moral evil, - an explanation which will not even square with the facts of life unless we admit the theory of Karma and rebirth by which the soul suffers now for antenatal sins in other bodies, - we still do not escape the very root of the ethical problem, - who created or why or whence was created that moral evil which entails the punishment of pain and suffering? And seeing that moral evil is in reality a form of mental disease or ignorance, who or what created this law or inevitable connection which punishes a mental disease or act of ignorance by a recoil so terrible, by tortures often so extreme and monstrous? The inexorable law of Karma is irreconcilable with a supreme moral and personal Deity, and therefore the clear logic of Buddha denied the existence of any free and all-governing personal God; all personality he declared to be a creation of ignorance and subject to Karma.
8:In truth, the difficulty thus sharply presented arises only if we assume the existence of an extra-cosmic personal God, not Himself the universe, one who has created good and evil, pain and suffering for His creatures, but Himself stands above and unaffected by them, watching, ruling, doing His will with a suffering and struggling world or, if not doing His will, if allowing the world to be driven by an inexorable law, unhelped by Him or inefficiently helped, then not God, not omnipotent, not allgood and all-loving. On no theory of an extra-cosmic moral God, can evil and suffering be explained, - the creation of evil and suffering, - except by an unsatisfactory subterfuge which avoids the question at issue instead of answering it or a plain or implied Manicheanism which practically annuls the Godhead in attempting to justify its ways or excuse its works. But such a God is not the Vedantic Sachchidananda. Sachchidananda of the Vedanta is one existence without a second; all that is, is He. If then evil and suffering exist, it is He that bears the evil and suffering in the creature in whom He has embodied Himself. The problem then changes entirely. The question is no longer how came God to create for His creatures a suffering and evil of which He is Himself incapable and therefore immune, but how came the sole and infinite Existence-Consciousness-Bliss to admit into itself that which is not bliss, that which seems to be its positive negation.
1.11 - Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
whether we will it or no, something is crushed and broken, in which every breath of life is a breath too of death. To put away the responsibility for all that seems to us evil or terrible on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent Devil, or to put it aside as a part of Nature,
making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and Godnature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices. . . . We erect a God of Love and Mercy, a God of good, a God just, righteous and virtuous according to our own moral conceptions of justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the fault of selfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God . . . . We have to look courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in His being and that so He has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children,
1.11 - The Kalki Avatar, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
everything before it. terrible is her face to the Asura, dan-
gerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Di-
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Who is this terrible Woman, dark as the sky at midnight?
Who is this Woman dancing over the field of battle.
1.11 - Works and Sacrifice, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Krishna seems quite to admit it when he says that works are far inferior to the Yoga of the intelligence. And yet works are insisted upon as part of the Yoga; so that there seems to be in this teaching a radical inconsistency. Not only so; for some kind of work no doubt may persist for a while, the minimum, the most inoffensive; but here is a work wholly inconsistent with knowledge, with serenity and with the motionless peace of the self-delighted soul, - a work terrible, even monstrous, a bloody strife, a ruthless battle, a giant massacre. Yet it is this that is
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1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
unknown Power, the terrible beyond good and evil for whom
good and evil are instruments towards His final self-expression.
--- Overview of adj terrible
The adj terrible has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (11) awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible ::: (causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse")
2. (2) atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable ::: (exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room")
3. (1) severe, terrible, wicked ::: (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough")
4. frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous ::: (extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money")
--- Similarity of adj terrible
4 senses of terrible
Sense 1
awful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
=> alarming (vs. unalarming)
Sense 2
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
=> bad (vs. good)
Sense 3
severe, terrible, wicked
=> intense (vs. mild)
Sense 4
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
=> extraordinary (vs. ordinary)
--- Antonyms of adj terrible
4 senses of terrible
Sense 1
awful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
INDIRECT (VIA alarming) -> unalarming
Sense 2
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
INDIRECT (VIA bad) -> good
Sense 3
severe, terrible, wicked
INDIRECT (VIA intense) -> mild
Sense 4
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
INDIRECT (VIA extraordinary) -> ordinary
--- Pertainyms of adj terrible
4 senses of terrible
Sense 1
awful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Sense 2
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
Sense 3
severe, terrible, wicked
Sense 4
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
--- Derived Forms of adj terrible
4 senses of terrible
Sense 1
awful, dire, direful, dread(prenominal), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
RELATED TO->(noun) terribleness#1
=> awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
Sense 2
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
RELATED TO->(noun) terribleness#1
=> awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
Sense 3
severe, terrible, wicked
RELATED TO->(noun) terribleness#1
=> awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
Sense 4
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
RELATED TO->(noun) terribleness#1
=> awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
--- Grep of noun terrible
enfant terrible
ivan the terrible
terribleness
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Parts Per Billion(2014) - In the midst of a manmade biological disaster and a terrible fate, three couples try to find meaning in their lives.
The Devil's Rain(1975) - A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. However one of the children of an earlier victim vows to destroy them.
The Plague Of The Zombies(1966) - Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen ne...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip(2015) - Four years after "Chipwrecked", the Chipmunks believe that Dave plans to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami--and dump them. They have three days to get to him and save themselves not only from losing Dave but also from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 May 2015 (USA) -- When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan. Director: Joss Whedon Writers:
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) ::: 7.7/10 -- Passed | 1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 13 February 1955 (Canada) -- A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. Director: John Sturges Writers: Millard Kaufman (screen play), Don McGuire (adaptation) | 1 more
Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004) ::: 6.9/10 -- Cazuza: O Tempo No Pra (original title) -- Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop Poster The life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Baro Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs. Directors: Walter Carvalho, Sandra Werneck Writers: Lucinha Arajo (book) (as Lcia Arajo), Fernando Bonassi | 1 more
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 51min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 12 August 2016 (USA) -- The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Director: Stephen Frears Writers: Nicholas Martin, Julia Kogan
From Beyond (1986) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 25min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 24 October 1986 (USA) -- A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms. Director: Stuart Gordon Writers:
Guardian of the Sacred Spirit ::: Seirei no moribito (original tit ::: TV-PG | 25min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2007- ) Episode Guide 26 episodes Guardian of the Sacred Spirit Poster -- The Second Empress hires a spear-wielding woman to save her son from the Mikado (emperor) who believes the young prince is possessed by a water demon foretold to bring a terrible drought upon the land should he live.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 32min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 November 2001 (USA) -- An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Director: Chris Columbus Writers:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 2h 32min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 November 2001 (USA) -- An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Director:
Jane Eyre (2011) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 2h | Drama, Romance | 22 April 2011 (USA) -- A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret. Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Writers: Charlotte Bront (novel), Moira Buffini (screenplay)
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-G | 1h 6min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Movie 28 November -- Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time Poster -- The new school year starts off terrible for Kim. In her ordinary life her best friend is moving away, and in her heroic crime-fighting life, three of the most notorious villains in her world plan to use time travel as a weapon against her. Director: Steve Loter
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) ::: 7.1/10 -- Les enfants terribles (original title) -- Les Enfants Terribles Poster The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games. Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Writers: Jean Cocteau (novel), Jean Cocteau (adaptation)
Moana (2016) ::: 7.6/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 23 November 2016 (USA) -- In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | 2 more credits Writers:
Nailed It! ::: TV-PG | 33min | Reality-TV | TV Series (2018 ) Season 5 Premiere Friday, March 26 -- Home bakers with a terrible track record take a crack at re- creating edible masterpieces for a $10,000 prize. It's part reality contest, part hot mess.
Phantasm (1979) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 29min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 28 March 1979 (USA) -- A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him. Director: Don Coscarelli Writer:
Populaire (2012) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6 September 2013 (USA) -- 1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world. Director: Rgis Roinsard Writers: Rgis Roinsard (scenario), Daniel Presley (scenario) | 1 more credit
Spectre (2015) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 28min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6 November 2015 (USA) -- A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions. Director: Sam Mendes Writers:
The Blue Gardenia (1953) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 28 March 1953 (USA) -- A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess. Director: Fritz Lang Writers: Charles Hoffman (screenplay), Vera Caspary (story) Stars:
The Fisher King (1991) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 27 September 1991 (USA) -- A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. Director: Terry Gilliam Writer:
The Nightingale (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 19 November 2019 (Canada) -- Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. Director: Jennifer Kent
The Red House (1947) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 40min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 1947 (UK) -- An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods. Director: Delmer Daves Writers: George Agnew Chamberlain (novel), Delmer Daves (written for the screen by)
Trash (2014) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 9 October 2015 (USA) -- Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong. Directors: Stephen Daldry, Christian Duurvoort (co-director) Writers:
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AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission -- -- Studio Fantasia -- 3 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Comedy -- AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission AIKa R-16: Virgin Mission -- Aika is a smart and athletic high school girl. She is so competent that she successfully passes the salvagers license test, obtaining a C-class license. Yet, she is young and hotheaded, so much so that Gota still treats her as a child. Due to this personality, no one is willing to hire her for salvaging jobs. -- -- Since she had taken the trouble to get her license, she decides to post an ad in her school to attract clients. She manages to get the attention of Erika, a daughter of a rich family and the leader of the treasure hunting club. She asks Aika to salvage something from the sea and Aika delightfully accepts the request. -- -- However, upon seeing the state-of-the-art submarine loaded onto Erika's private cruiser and discovering their destination, Aika realizes the terrible nature of her assignment. This results in a clash with a group of high school girls in the southern islands. -- -- Who is the mysterious girl named Karen? So begins Aika's newest challenge! -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Apr 25, 2007 -- 19,953 5.96
Aoharu x Kikanjuu -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Sports Shounen -- Aoharu x Kikanjuu Aoharu x Kikanjuu -- Hotaru Tachibana has a strong sense of justice and just cannot help confronting those who choose to perform malicious acts. Furthermore, Hotaru is actually a girl who likes to disguise herself as a boy. After hearing rumors that her best friend was tricked by the popular host of a local club, Hotaru seeks to punish the evildoer. Upon arriving at the club, however, she is challenged to a so-called "survival game" by the host Masamune Matsuoka, where the first person hit by the bullet of a toy gun will lose. -- -- After a destructive fight which results in Hotaru's loss, Masamune forces the young "boy" to join his survival game team named Toy Gun Gun, in order to repay the cost of the damages that "he" has caused inside the club. Although she is initially unhappy with this turn of events, Hotaru quickly begins to enjoy what survival games have to offer and is determined to pay off her debt, much to the dismay of Tooru Yukimura, the other member of Toy Gun Gun. As time goes on, Hotaru begins to develop a close friendship with the rest of the team and hopes to take part in realizing their dream of winning the Top Combat Game (TCG), a tournament to decide the best survival game team in Japan. -- -- Although Hotaru tries her best, there are just two little problems: she is absolutely terrible at the game, and Toy Gun Gun doesn't allow female members on their team! -- -- 188,845 7.18
Aoharu x Kikanjuu -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Sports Shounen -- Aoharu x Kikanjuu Aoharu x Kikanjuu -- Hotaru Tachibana has a strong sense of justice and just cannot help confronting those who choose to perform malicious acts. Furthermore, Hotaru is actually a girl who likes to disguise herself as a boy. After hearing rumors that her best friend was tricked by the popular host of a local club, Hotaru seeks to punish the evildoer. Upon arriving at the club, however, she is challenged to a so-called "survival game" by the host Masamune Matsuoka, where the first person hit by the bullet of a toy gun will lose. -- -- After a destructive fight which results in Hotaru's loss, Masamune forces the young "boy" to join his survival game team named Toy Gun Gun, in order to repay the cost of the damages that "he" has caused inside the club. Although she is initially unhappy with this turn of events, Hotaru quickly begins to enjoy what survival games have to offer and is determined to pay off her debt, much to the dismay of Tooru Yukimura, the other member of Toy Gun Gun. As time goes on, Hotaru begins to develop a close friendship with the rest of the team and hopes to take part in realizing their dream of winning the Top Combat Game (TCG), a tournament to decide the best survival game team in Japan. -- -- Although Hotaru tries her best, there are just two little problems: she is absolutely terrible at the game, and Toy Gun Gun doesn't allow female members on their team! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 188,845 7.18
Cike Wu Liuqi -- -- - -- 10 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Comedy Super Power Drama Romance Martial Arts -- Cike Wu Liuqi Cike Wu Liuqi -- To the casual eye, the amnesiac bounty hunter Wu Liuqi looks quite intimidating. With his deadly telekinetic scissor techniques and his ability to seamlessly transform into anything, one would not expect his modest demeanor. In fact, Wu is quite terrible at his job. Often times the freelancer can be found botching an assassination or targeting the wrong person. While his failures could be due to his subpar skills, it usually boils down to him being a normal kid, with a heart unsuited for his line of work. -- -- Accompanied by his feathered friend Dai Bo, Wu is on a simple quest to regain his memories. Although his inconspicuous day job as a hairdresser and his after-hours occupation are simply a means for him to repay debt, his various ventures seem to intertwine with his pursuit to recover his lost past. -- -- ONA - Apr 25, 2018 -- 23,321 7.91
Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Mystery Police Shounen Sports -- Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker -- In Touto Stadium, a J. League soccer match is taking place. During this, Detective Kogorou Mouri receives a bomb threat from an unknown caller and a mysterious riddle that points to its location. Conan Edogawa must now save the fans of the game before the time runs out. -- -- Fortunately, with Conan's quick actions and clever thinking, the bomb is discovered and the explosion is evaded. The culprit does not stop there; Detective Kogorou is informed of another hidden bomb set to explode at a large event in the city. Forced into a race against time, with thousands of more lives at stake, Conan must decipher another riddle, discover the place of the bomb, and catch the culprit in order to escape a terrible tragedy. -- -- Movie - Apr 14, 2012 -- 33,061 7.73
Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami -- Following the defeat of a great adversary, Gokuu Son and his friends live peaceful lives on Earth. Meanwhile, in space, Beerus the God of Destruction awakens from his long slumber, having dreamed of an entity known as a Super Saiyan God. With the help of his assistant, Whis, Beerus looks for this powerful being, as he wishes to fight a worthy opponent. After discovering that the Saiyan home planet was destroyed, he tracks down the remaining Saiyans on Earth, looking for Gokuu specifically. -- -- Having only heard of the Super Saiyan God in legends, Gokuu and his comrades summon Shen Long the Eternal Dragon, who they find out is afraid of Beerus. After learning the secret of the Super Saiyan God, an intense battle between Gokuu and Beerus commences, the immense power of which puts the Earth in terrible danger. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Mar 30, 2013 -- 161,588 7.40
Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Kami to Kami -- Following the defeat of a great adversary, Gokuu Son and his friends live peaceful lives on Earth. Meanwhile, in space, Beerus the God of Destruction awakens from his long slumber, having dreamed of an entity known as a Super Saiyan God. With the help of his assistant, Whis, Beerus looks for this powerful being, as he wishes to fight a worthy opponent. After discovering that the Saiyan home planet was destroyed, he tracks down the remaining Saiyans on Earth, looking for Gokuu specifically. -- -- Having only heard of the Super Saiyan God in legends, Gokuu and his comrades summon Shen Long the Eternal Dragon, who they find out is afraid of Beerus. After learning the secret of the Super Saiyan God, an intense battle between Gokuu and Beerus commences, the immense power of which puts the Earth in terrible danger. -- -- Movie - Mar 30, 2013 -- 161,588 7.40
Firestorm -- -- Trans Arts -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Mecha -- Firestorm Firestorm -- It is the year 2104 AD. The terrible war is over and peace seemed close in the world. However, there is one thing that can bring down this peace. That is the criminal organisation who's power and actions are widespread across the world... The Black Orchid. -- -- From the main countries of the world, the "Storm Force" was formed to take down the Black Orchid. They are also known under the code name "Fire Storm". -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Enoki Films -- 1,161 5.60
Fruits Basket -- -- Studio Deen -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Supernatural Drama Romance Shoujo -- Fruits Basket Fruits Basket -- After the accident in which she lost her mother, 16-year-old Tooru moves in with her grandfather, but due to his home being renovated, is unable to continue living with him. Claiming she will find someone to stay with but also fearing the criticism of her family and not wanting to burden any of her friends, Tooru resorts to secretly living on her own in a tent in the woods. -- -- One night on her way back from work, she finds her tent buried underneath a landslide. Yuki Souma, the "prince" of her school, and his cousin Shigure Souma, a famous author, stumble across Tooru's situation and invite her to stay with them until her grandfather's home renovations are complete. -- -- Upon arriving at the Souma house, Tooru discovers their secret: if a Souma is hugged by someone of the opposite gender, they temporarily transform into one of the animals of the zodiac! However, this strange phenomenon is no laughing matter; rather, it is a terrible curse that holds a dark history. As she continues her journey, meeting more members of the zodiac family, will Tooru's kindhearted yet resilient nature be enough to prepare her for what lies behind the Souma household's doors? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 439,385 7.69
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -- -- Bones -- 64 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Adventure Comedy Drama Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -- "In order for something to be obtained, something of equal value must be lost." -- -- Alchemy is bound by this Law of Equivalent Exchange—something the young brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric only realize after attempting human transmutation: the one forbidden act of alchemy. They pay a terrible price for their transgression—Edward loses his left leg, Alphonse his physical body. It is only by the desperate sacrifice of Edward's right arm that he is able to affix Alphonse's soul to a suit of armor. Devastated and alone, it is the hope that they would both eventually return to their original bodies that gives Edward the inspiration to obtain metal limbs called "automail" and become a state alchemist, the Fullmetal Alchemist. -- -- Three years of searching later, the brothers seek the Philosopher's Stone, a mythical relic that allows an alchemist to overcome the Law of Equivalent Exchange. Even with military allies Colonel Roy Mustang, Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, and Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes on their side, the brothers find themselves caught up in a nationwide conspiracy that leads them not only to the true nature of the elusive Philosopher's Stone, but their country's murky history as well. In between finding a serial killer and racing against time, Edward and Alphonse must ask themselves if what they are doing will make them human again... or take away their humanity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America, Funimation -- 2,372,958 9.18
Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- - -- Horror -- Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari -- The horrid stories that remain in many conversations, the chilling urban legends come to life thanks to the Ga-nime. -- -- The terrible anecdote of an old fridge thrown by a dried up river bed in “Refrigerator”. -- The grotesque encounter with an out of place sculpture standing on top of a building in “The Dharma Statue”. -- The ghost encounter experience by a boy on a long bridge at night in “The Night Bridge” -- A purchase at the flea market that brings a man to an ironic end in “US Army Surplus” -- The enigma of continuous deadly accidents near a railroad in “The Railroad Crossing” -- The mysterious experience of a boy on summer vacation in a peaceful countryside in “I Want Friends”. -- -- 6 pieces of horror put on 1 film. The Japanese urban legends, put on screen in the characteristic drawing of KIMURA Toshiyuki, whose fame reaches outside the borders of Japan, call for a scream, with the talented collaboration for the ending theme of an artist produced by SUDOH Akira, Leilani. -- -- (Source: Toei-anim.co.jp) -- OVA - Aug 1, 2006 -- 1,097 N/A -- -- Mirai Choujuu Fobia -- -- - -- 2 eps -- - -- Hentai Horror -- Mirai Choujuu Fobia Mirai Choujuu Fobia -- Iijima is no ordinary coed. She's a tempestuous time traveler from a future ruled by hideous replinoid monsters. She has come to this past to find a hero, a man strong enough to wield her futuristic sword and save the women of Earth from a grisly doom! -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - Oct 27, 1995 -- 1,065 4.88
Hanada Shounen-shi -- -- Madhouse -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Seinen Slice of Life Supernatural -- Hanada Shounen-shi Hanada Shounen-shi -- Ichiro Hanada is a hyperactive little boy who lives with his parents, sister, and grandfather in a rural town. He is always up to some kind of mischief, often teasing his sister or making rude comments to others. Consequently, his mother constantly scolds him, and even the neighbours express disturbance from time to time on how rowdy he can be. -- -- One day, after pulling a terrible prank, Ichiro sprints onto the streets as his mother chases him. He steals a nearby bicycle and takes on a dangerous route, eventually being hit by a truck. Miraculously, he survives the crash, requiring nine stitches to the back of his head and balding for the surgery. However, the near-death experience gains him the ability to see ghosts—the last thing he needs in his life. -- -- Since Ichiro is the only one who can communicate with them, several ghosts of people who have recently died come to him, seeking help to fulfill their last wishes before achieving enlightenment. Each adventure with a ghost leaves the young and curious boy with a different lesson that gradually makes him wiser. -- -- TV - Oct 2, 2002 -- 12,081 8.00
Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls -- -- Arms -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Harem Comedy Ecchi Samurai School -- Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls -- With its gorgeous landscape and prosperous people, Great Japan is the envy of all other nations. But a serious threat hovers over the country. Mysterious guardians known as Master Samurai are Great Japan's only defense. -- -- At the behest of the student council, young samurai Muneakira Yagyuu arrives at Buou Academic School. Run by the Tokugawa Shogunate, here children of warriors are given aristocratic education required to run the country. The school is led by the student council president Yoshihiko Tokugawa and his sister Sen, who also happens to be Muneakira's childhood friend. -- -- Upon arriving at the academy, Muneakira finds himself in the midst of a terrible fight. During the chaos, the sky fills with a peculiar white light and a mysterious girl named Juubei Yagyuu appears and suddenly kisses Muneakira. With his kiss, she awakens an unknown power that protects them. -- -- Just who is this girl, and where did she come from? Muneakira finds himself entangled in the fate of the country and a threat that will shake Great Japan to its core. He must learn the secret behind the Master Samurai and the kiss that awakened Juubei's power in order to protect his country. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Sep 4, 2010 -- 154,911 6.81
Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls -- -- Arms -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Harem Comedy Ecchi Samurai School -- Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls -- With its gorgeous landscape and prosperous people, Great Japan is the envy of all other nations. But a serious threat hovers over the country. Mysterious guardians known as Master Samurai are Great Japan's only defense. -- -- At the behest of the student council, young samurai Muneakira Yagyuu arrives at Buou Academic School. Run by the Tokugawa Shogunate, here children of warriors are given aristocratic education required to run the country. The school is led by the student council president Yoshihiko Tokugawa and his sister Sen, who also happens to be Muneakira's childhood friend. -- -- Upon arriving at the academy, Muneakira finds himself in the midst of a terrible fight. During the chaos, the sky fills with a peculiar white light and a mysterious girl named Juubei Yagyuu appears and suddenly kisses Muneakira. With his kiss, she awakens an unknown power that protects them. -- -- Just who is this girl, and where did she come from? Muneakira finds himself entangled in the fate of the country and a threat that will shake Great Japan to its core. He must learn the secret behind the Master Samurai and the kiss that awakened Juubei's power in order to protect his country. -- -- TV - Sep 4, 2010 -- 154,911 6.81
Inu x Boku SS -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Shounen -- Inu x Boku SS Inu x Boku SS -- Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a renowned family. With her petite build and wealthy status, Ririchiyo has been a protected and dependent girl her entire life, but now she has decided to change all that. However, there is just one problem—the young girl has a sharp tongue she can't control, and terrible communication skills. -- -- With some help from a childhood friend, Ririchiyo takes up residence in Maison de Ayakashi, a secluded high-security apartment complex that, as the unsociable 15-year-old soon discovers, is home to a host of bizarre individuals. Furthermore, their quirky personalities are not the strangest things about them: each inhabitant of the Maison de Ayakashi, including Ririchiyo, is actually half-human, half-youkai. -- -- But Ririchiyo's troubles have only just begun. As a requirement of staying in her new home, she must be accompanied by a Secret Service agent. Ririchiyo's new partner, Soushi Miketsukami, is handsome, quiet... but ridiculously clingy and creepily submissive. With Soushi, her new supernatural neighbors, and the beginning of high school, Ririchiyo definitely seems to have a difficult path ahead of her. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 13, 2012 -- 416,781 7.45
Inu x Boku SS -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Shounen -- Inu x Boku SS Inu x Boku SS -- Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a renowned family. With her petite build and wealthy status, Ririchiyo has been a protected and dependent girl her entire life, but now she has decided to change all that. However, there is just one problem—the young girl has a sharp tongue she can't control, and terrible communication skills. -- -- With some help from a childhood friend, Ririchiyo takes up residence in Maison de Ayakashi, a secluded high-security apartment complex that, as the unsociable 15-year-old soon discovers, is home to a host of bizarre individuals. Furthermore, their quirky personalities are not the strangest things about them: each inhabitant of the Maison de Ayakashi, including Ririchiyo, is actually half-human, half-youkai. -- -- But Ririchiyo's troubles have only just begun. As a requirement of staying in her new home, she must be accompanied by a Secret Service agent. Ririchiyo's new partner, Soushi Miketsukami, is handsome, quiet... but ridiculously clingy and creepily submissive. With Soushi, her new supernatural neighbors, and the beginning of high school, Ririchiyo definitely seems to have a difficult path ahead of her. -- -- TV - Jan 13, 2012 -- 416,781 7.45
Karneval (TV) -- -- Manglobe -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Fantasy Josei Mystery Sci-Fi -- Karneval (TV) Karneval (TV) -- While in search of his precious friend, a young boy named Nai falls captive to a beautiful woman, whose looks are matched only by her taste for human flesh. Meanwhile Gareki, a clever thief, is in the midst of robbing her luxurious home. After causing a distraction, Gareki agrees to help Nai escape, but they are discovered upon the woman's return. As she transforms into a ghoulish monster, the boys flee. -- -- On the run, Nai and Gareki are found by "Circus," a government defense agency that deals with criminal activity too difficult for the police to handle and protects civilians from "varuga"—terrible monsters that devour humans for sustenance. In the hope that it will lead Nai to his missing friend, he and Gareki decide to join Circus. On their perilous journey, they face dangerous varuga and begin to uncover the secrets behind a shadowy organization known as Kafka. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 4, 2013 -- 183,160 7.13
Koko wa Green Wood -- -- Ajia-Do, Studio Pierrot -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo Slice of Life Supernatural -- Koko wa Green Wood Koko wa Green Wood -- Hasukawa Kazuya is in a terrible bind. His brother's new wife is also the woman that Kazuya secretly loves. Determined to avoid them both, Kazuya leaves home to live in the student dorm called Greenwood. There, he hopes to find peace of mind. Unfortunately for Kazuya, stability and peace are the last things one might find at Greenwood - home of the weirdest characters on campus. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Nov 22, 1991 -- 7,934 6.83
Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder -- At the behest of the Queen, Earl Ciel Phantomhive hosts a lavish dinner party attended by several of the finest members of polite society—as well as struggling author, Arthur. But as the party reaches its high, a terrible murder takes place and none other than the Earl himself is suspected of the crime. -- -- As a violent storm rages on outside, the death count continues to climb. The Phantomhive household and their eminent guests find they must cooperate in order to solve this mystery before they too fall prey to the mysterious murderer. However, it seems that not even the perfect butler, Sebastian Michaelis, is safe from this horror. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Jan 28, 2015 -- 190,776 8.10
Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder -- At the behest of the Queen, Earl Ciel Phantomhive hosts a lavish dinner party attended by several of the finest members of polite society—as well as struggling author, Arthur. But as the party reaches its high, a terrible murder takes place and none other than the Earl himself is suspected of the crime. -- -- As a violent storm rages on outside, the death count continues to climb. The Phantomhive household and their eminent guests find they must cooperate in order to solve this mystery before they too fall prey to the mysterious murderer. However, it seems that not even the perfect butler, Sebastian Michaelis, is safe from this horror. -- -- OVA - Jan 28, 2015 -- 190,776 8.10
Machikado Mazoku -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Magic -- Machikado Mazoku Machikado Mazoku -- After a strange dream of a mysterious ancestor, high school student Yuuko Yoshida wakes to see that she has grown demonic horns and a tail. Dazed and confused, her mother reveals to her a dark family secret: her family is descended from a Dark Clan that was banished to live powerless and destitute by their mortal enemies, the magical girls of the Light Clan. The only way to lift their ancestry's curse is for Yuuko to find a magical girl, murder her, and splatter her blood all over her ancestor's Demon God statue. -- -- Fortunately for "Shadow Mistress Yuuko," a magical girl saves her from being run over by an oncoming truck. Unfortunately, Momo Chiyoda happens to be Yuuko's classmate at Sakuragaoka High and is much stronger than her in both strength and endurance. Taking pity on her wimpy assailant, the magical girl agrees to train Yuuko and help her unlock her dormant powers. Now, Yuuko must rise up and defeat her generous frenemy to save her family from the terrible grip of poverty. -- -- 98,599 7.67
Machikado Mazoku -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Magic -- Machikado Mazoku Machikado Mazoku -- After a strange dream of a mysterious ancestor, high school student Yuuko Yoshida wakes to see that she has grown demonic horns and a tail. Dazed and confused, her mother reveals to her a dark family secret: her family is descended from a Dark Clan that was banished to live powerless and destitute by their mortal enemies, the magical girls of the Light Clan. The only way to lift their ancestry's curse is for Yuuko to find a magical girl, murder her, and splatter her blood all over her ancestor's Demon God statue. -- -- Fortunately for "Shadow Mistress Yuuko," a magical girl saves her from being run over by an oncoming truck. Unfortunately, Momo Chiyoda happens to be Yuuko's classmate at Sakuragaoka High and is much stronger than her in both strength and endurance. Taking pity on her wimpy assailant, the magical girl agrees to train Yuuko and help her unlock her dormant powers. Now, Yuuko must rise up and defeat her generous frenemy to save her family from the terrible grip of poverty. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 98,599 7.67
MÄR -- -- SynergySP -- 102 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- MÄR MÄR -- Dreaming of a magical world every night, the young Toramizu Ginta yearns to be able to go there. With only his friend Koyuki believing in his dreams, Ginta remains positive despite the slander he receives from others over his dreams. But his wishes are answered, as one day a large door appears in front of Ginta, summoning him to the land of MAR Heaven. In this land, the weapons known as ARMS exist. While initially Ginta greatly enjoyed the discovery of this magical world, he soon learns of the terrible wars that have once plagued MAR Heaven and the upcoming war that may soon appear. -- 44,353 7.28
MÄR -- -- SynergySP -- 102 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- MÄR MÄR -- Dreaming of a magical world every night, the young Toramizu Ginta yearns to be able to go there. With only his friend Koyuki believing in his dreams, Ginta remains positive despite the slander he receives from others over his dreams. But his wishes are answered, as one day a large door appears in front of Ginta, summoning him to the land of MAR Heaven. In this land, the weapons known as ARMS exist. While initially Ginta greatly enjoyed the discovery of this magical world, he soon learns of the terrible wars that have once plagued MAR Heaven and the upcoming war that may soon appear. -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 44,353 7.28
Mezzo Forte -- -- Arms -- 2 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Hentai Sci-Fi -- Mezzo Forte Mezzo Forte -- For some individuals, baseball is more than just a game. Momokitchi Momoi, an underworld boss and the owner of a professional team known as the "Peach Twisters," seems to be the perfect example. There is only one punishment for players who have let him down: death. Terrible as he may sound, there is someone even more wicked than him—his daughter, Momomi. -- -- The three members of the Danger Service Agency—Mikura Suzuki, Tomohisa Harada, and Kenichi Kurokawa—are tasked with kidnapping Momokitchi and taking down his criminal empire. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, he is bound to be a risky target. However, born with a gun in hand, Mikura is used to dancing with danger. The only unknown quantity is Momomi, reputed to be a cold-blooded killer with a twisted mind. Should she stand in the DSA's way, Suzuki might finally find herself a worthy opponent. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters, SoftCel Pictures -- OVA - May 25, 2000 -- 25,176 6.64
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity of the Battlefront -- -- Sunrise -- 3 eps -- - -- Mecha Sci-Fi -- Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity of the Battlefront Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity of the Battlefront -- MS igLoo 2 goes back to the first MS igLoo and tells the story of the Federation soldiers side that has to fight against the monstrous Zakus. Each episode tells a story of a different federation soldier that is cursed by a Death God that came down to earth with the Zakus and shows the desperate struggle against mobile suits with only conventional weapons such as tanks and missiles. Each soldier, fueled with revenge, and a Death God looming over their backs, fights against the odds that is the terrible might of a Zaku. -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- OVA - Oct 24, 2008 -- 10,311 6.72
Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Martial Arts Mystery Shounen Super Power -- Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison -- During their discussion of a sensitive investigation A, the Fourth Raikage, and his subordinates are ambushed by a cloaked intruder. As the Kumogakure leader repels the assault, he is shocked to discover that the culprit is Naruto Uzumaki! -- -- However, the assassination attempt is not the only crime attributed to the young ninja, who vigorously denies the accusations. To avoid a diplomatic conflict, Tsunade forcibly sends him to Kusagakure's Houzuki Castle—a maximum-security penitentiary dedicated to ninja criminals—until the situation is resolved. -- -- Despite his powers being immediately suppressed by Mui, the prison's warden who possesses the ability to seal chakra, Naruto recklessly engages in futile escape attempts. But with the help of two fellow inmates, he realizes that there is more to this legendary detention facility than meets the eye. Uncovering a terrible secret, the trio embarks on a dangerous operation that may be Naruto's only chance to break free and prove his innocence. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Jul 30, 2011 -- 169,645 7.45
Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Martial Arts Mystery Shounen Super Power -- Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison -- During their discussion of a sensitive investigation A, the Fourth Raikage, and his subordinates are ambushed by a cloaked intruder. As the Kumogakure leader repels the assault, he is shocked to discover that the culprit is Naruto Uzumaki! -- -- However, the assassination attempt is not the only crime attributed to the young ninja, who vigorously denies the accusations. To avoid a diplomatic conflict, Tsunade forcibly sends him to Kusagakure's Houzuki Castle—a maximum-security penitentiary dedicated to ninja criminals—until the situation is resolved. -- -- Despite his powers being immediately suppressed by Mui, the prison's warden who possesses the ability to seal chakra, Naruto recklessly engages in futile escape attempts. But with the help of two fellow inmates, he realizes that there is more to this legendary detention facility than meets the eye. Uncovering a terrible secret, the trio embarks on a dangerous operation that may be Naruto's only chance to break free and prove his innocence. -- -- Movie - Jul 30, 2011 -- 169,645 7.45
Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan -- -- OLM -- 1 ep -- Game -- Adventure Comedy Kids Drama Fantasy -- Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan Pokemon Movie 02: Maboroshi no Pokemon Lugia Bakutan -- An ancient prophecy tells of a day when the titans of ice, lightning, and fire are disturbed. When this occurs, Lugia, the guardian of the sea, will rise up and restore harmony. Enchanted by the words of the prophecy, Gelardan, a Pokémon collector, sets out on his airship with a dreadful plan to capture Lugia by going after these three titans. -- -- After Gelardan makes his move, drastic climate change begins to take place, as terrible storms start popping up all over the globe. One such storm causes the ship carrying Pokémon trainers Satoshi, Kasumi, and Kenji to drift off course and land on Earthia Island. Upon arriving, Satoshi is told of the ancient prophecy, and of his destiny as the chosen one who will help Lugia restore balance to the world. -- -- With the fate of the world in his hands, Satoshi must summon the courage to face the chaos that threatens to tear everything apart and stop Gelardan. -- -- -- Licensor: -- 4Kids Entertainment, Warner Bros. Japan -- Movie - Jul 17, 1999 -- 150,877 7.35
Ranma ½ -- -- Studio Deen -- 161 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Ranma ½ Ranma ½ -- Ranma Saotome is a top-class martial artist and prodigy at the Saotome "Anything-Goes" school of martial arts. While training in China, he and his father meet a terrible fate when they accidentally fall into a cursed spring. Now, Ranma is cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and only hot water can turn him back into a boy. -- -- Things are only complicated further when Ranma discovers that his father has arranged for him to marry one of Soun Tendo's three daughters in order to secure the future of the Tendo dojo. Though Soun learns of Ranma's predicament, he is still determined to go ahead with the engagement, and chooses his youngest daughter Akane, who happens to be a skilled martial artist herself and is notorious for hating men. -- -- Ranma ½ follows the hilarious adventures of Ranma and Akane as they encounter various opponents, meet new love interests, and find different ways to make each other angry, all while their engagement hangs over their head. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- TV - Apr 15, 1989 -- 200,792 7.76
Ranma ½ -- -- Studio Deen -- 161 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Martial Arts Fantasy Shounen -- Ranma ½ Ranma ½ -- Ranma Saotome is a top-class martial artist and prodigy at the Saotome "Anything-Goes" school of martial arts. While training in China, he and his father meet a terrible fate when they accidentally fall into a cursed spring. Now, Ranma is cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and only hot water can turn him back into a boy. -- -- Things are only complicated further when Ranma discovers that his father has arranged for him to marry one of Soun Tendo's three daughters in order to secure the future of the Tendo dojo. Though Soun learns of Ranma's predicament, he is still determined to go ahead with the engagement, and chooses his youngest daughter Akane, who happens to be a skilled martial artist herself and is notorious for hating men. -- -- Ranma ½ follows the hilarious adventures of Ranma and Akane as they encounter various opponents, meet new love interests, and find different ways to make each other angry, all while their engagement hangs over their head. -- -- TV - Apr 15, 1989 -- 200,792 7.76
Re:cycle of the Penguindrum -- -- Brain's Base, Lapin Track -- 1 ep -- Original -- Mystery Comedy Dementia Psychological Drama -- Re:cycle of the Penguindrum Re:cycle of the Penguindrum -- Compilation of Mawaru Penguindrum, including new scenes. -- Movie - ??? ??, ???? -- 4,530 N/A -- -- Warau Salesman -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 103 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Warau Salesman Warau Salesman -- Each episode follows Fukuzou Moguro, a traveling salesman, and his current customer. Moguro deals in things that give his customers their heart's desire, and once his deals are made and their unhealthy desires are satisfied, Moguro's customers are often left with terrible repercussions, especially if they break the rules of his deals... -- TV - Oct 17, 1989 -- 4,528 6.65
Soul Buster -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Samurai -- Soul Buster Soul Buster -- Keishuu, China. -- -- The history books say that in the era of the Three Kingdoms, this land was a place of never-ending war. A young high school boy, Sonshin, who hates his city's history, is troubled by a certain dream. When he wakes up from the dream, strange things begin to happen one after another, and without understanding what's going on, he suddenly finds himself facing Gien, one of the generals from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, who's trying to kill him! Just before Gien's blade strikes home, a mysterious beautiful woman appears in front of Sonshin. What trials await Sonshin, as he witnesses this terrible battle between two generals of the Three Kingdoms? -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- 19,640 5.80
Uchuu Densetsu Ulysses 31 -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Sci-Fi Space -- Uchuu Densetsu Ulysses 31 Uchuu Densetsu Ulysses 31 -- It is the thirty-first century. Ulysses killed the giant Cyclops when he rescued the children and his son, Telemachus. -- But the ancient gods of Olympus are angry and threaten a terrible revenge: Ulysses is sentenced to travel through the universe of Olympus with a frozen crew on a quest to find the Kingdom of Hades. Only when he has found the Kingdom of Hades will his crew be free of their curse and he will be able to return to Earth and to his beloved Penelope. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- TV - Oct 3, 1981 -- 4,507 7.07
Uchuu Kaizoku Sara -- -- - -- 4 eps -- Visual novel -- Hentai Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Uchuu Kaizoku Sara Uchuu Kaizoku Sara -- Sarah is a most terrible pirate knight who dances her way around the galaxy empire that has been ravaged by war. In the galaxy ruled by a number of power-hungry rival warlords, an evil sadistic web is woven around Sarah, who is slowly guided down to her destruction. When the silver knight Sylia comes across the evil aristocrats who have run the gamut of corruption in the galaxy and the slave traders of darkness, the demonic twins, a desperate predicament is visited upon Sarah!! -- -- (Source: dlsite) -- OVA - Apr 26, 2008 -- 9,857 6.87
Wakusei Daikaiju Negadon -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Fantasy Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Wakusei Daikaiju Negadon Wakusei Daikaiju Negadon -- A world of the future, madly over populated, searches for a new home on Mars to help support humanity. After terraforming Mars into a habitable landscape a Japanese ship returning from the planet crash-lands on a Tokyo street, unleashing a terrible monster. The only man who can stop Negadon is Dr. Narasaki, and his robot Miroku... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media, NYAV Post -- Movie - Oct 16, 2005 -- 1,235 5.56
Wo de Ni Tian Shen Qi -- -- Haoliners Animation League, Pb Animation Co. Ltd. -- 16 eps -- Web manga -- Adventure Comedy Supernatural Magic Romance Fantasy -- Wo de Ni Tian Shen Qi Wo de Ni Tian Shen Qi -- One day, while being attacked, Chang Tian unintentionally invokes an artifact called Xiao Bai that protects him from a terrible fate. After this, he finds himself on a battlefield, where he will fight alongside several other people like him, able to invoke artifacts... -- ONA - Apr 26, 2018 -- 10,279 6.51
Wolf Guy -- -- J.C.Staff -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi -- Wolf Guy Wolf Guy -- Akira lnugami is infected with a terrible poison. The only known antidote has an unfortunate side effect-it turns him into a werewolf. He opts for survival but then has to cope with his new desires and with the attention of the military, which is in terested in using his affliction for its own purposes. -- -- (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia) -- OVA - Dec 17, 1992 -- 1,088 5.41
Youma -- -- J.C.Staff -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Fantasy Horror Supernatural -- Youma Youma -- A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fueled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these demons inflict upon humanity, but to do this he must fight against his undead former best friend and fellow ninja who was killed in battle and has been resurrected to serve the Yoma. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- OVA - May 1, 1989 -- 7,129 6.08
Youma -- -- J.C.Staff -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Fantasy Horror Supernatural -- Youma Youma -- A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fueled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these demons inflict upon humanity, but to do this he must fight against his undead former best friend and fellow ninja who was killed in battle and has been resurrected to serve the Yoma. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - May 1, 1989 -- 7,129 6.08
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