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Alpha Geek "job" The head {geek} or geek's geek. When no one else knows the answer, or several techno-types give conflicting advise, or the error message says "consult your administrator" and you *are* the administrator, you ask the Alpha Geek. (1997-06-25)
Alpha Geek ::: (job) The head geek or geek's geek. When no one else knows the answer, or several techno-types give conflicting advise, or the error message says consult your administrator and you *are* the administrator, you ask the Alpha Geek. (1997-06-25)
anAtman. (P. anattA; T. bdag med; C. wuwo; J. muga; K. mua 無我). In Sanskrit, "no self" or "nonself" or more broadly "insubstantiality"; the third of the "three marks" (TRILAKsAnA) of existence, along with impermanence (ANITYA) and suffering (DUḤKHA). The concept is one of the key insights of the Buddha, and it is foundational to the Buddhist analysis of the compounded quality (SAMSKṚTA) of existence: since all compounded things are the fruition (PHALA) of a specific set of causes (HETU) and conditions (PRATYAYA), they are therefore absent of any perduring substratum of being. In the sutra analysis of existence, the "person" (PUDGALA) is said to be a product of five aggregates (SKANDHA)-materiality (RuPA), physical sensations (VEDANA), perception (SAMJNA), impulses (SAMSKARA), and consciousness (VIJNANA)-which together comprise the totality of the individual's physical, mental, and emotional existence. What in common parlance is called the person is a continuum (SAMTANA) imputed to the construction of these aggregates, but when these aggregates are separated at the time of death, the person also simultaneously vanishes. This relationship between the person and the skandhas is clarified in the MILINDAPANHA's famous simile of the chariot: a chariot is composed of various constituent parts, but if that chariot is broken down into its parts, there is no sense of "chariot" remaining. So it is with the person and his constituent parts, the skandhas. The Buddha is rigorously against any analysis of phenomena that imputes the reality of a person: when a questioner asks him, "Who senses?," for example, the Buddha rejects the question as wrongly conceived and reframes it in terms of conditionality, i.e., "With what as condition does sensation occur?" ("Sensory contact" [SPARsA] is the answer.) Buddhism thus rejects any notion of an eternal, perduring soul that survives death, or which transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime; rather, just as we can impute a conventional continuity to the person over one lifetime, so can this same continuity be imputed over several lifetimes. The continuum of karmic action and reaction ensures that the last moment of consciousness in the present life serves as the condition for the first moment of consciousness in the next. The next life is therefore neither the same as nor different from the preceding lifetime; instead, it is causally related to it. For this reason, any specific existence, or series of existences, is governed by the causes and conditions that create it, rendering life fundamentally beyond our attempts to control it (another connotation of "nonself") and thus unworthy as an object of attachment. Seeing this lack of selfhood in compounded things generates a sense of "danger" (ADĪNAVA) that catalyzes the aspiration to seek liberation (VIMOKsA). Thus, understanding this mark of anAtman is the crucial antidote (PRATIPAKsA) to ignorance (AVIDYA) and the key to liberation from suffering (duḥkha) and the continuing cycle of rebirth (SAMSARA). Although the notion of anAtman is applied to the notion of a person in mainstream Buddhism, in the PRAJNAPARAMITA scriptures and the broader MAHAYANA tradition the connotation of the term is extended to take in the "nonself of phenomena" (DHARMANAIRATMYA) as well. This extension may be a response to certain strands of the mainstream tradition, such as SARVASTIVADA (lit. the "Teaching That All [Dharmas] Exist"), which considered dharmas (i.e., the five skandhas and so on) to be factors that existed in reality throughout all three time periods (TRIKALA) of past, present, and future. In order to clarify that dharmas have only conventional validity, the MahAyAna posited that they also were anAtman, although the nature of this lack of self was differently understood by the YOGACARA and MADHYAMAKA schools.
anytime algorithm ::: (algorithm) An algorithm that returns the best answer possible even if it is not allowed to run to completion, and may improve on the answer if it is allowed to run longer.[Example?] (1998-02-26)
Aspiration ::: Aspiration in everyone, no matter who it is, has the same power. But the effect of this aspiration is different. For aspiration is aspiration: if you have aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only, this aspiration calls down an answer, and this answer, the effect, which is the result of the aspiration, depends upon each one, for it depends upon his receptivity. I know many people of this kind: they say, "Oh! but I aspire all the time and still I receive nothing." It is impossible that they should receive nothing, in the sense that the answer is sure to come. But it is they who do not receive. The answer comes but they are not receptive, so they receive nothing.. . . When you have an aspiration, a very active aspiration, your aspiration is going to do its work. It is going to call down the answer to what you aspire for. But if, later, you begin to think of something else or are not attentive or receptive, you do not even notice that your aspiration has received an answer. This happens very frequently. So people tell you: "I aspire and I don't receive anything, I get no answer!" Yes, you do have an answer but you are not aware of it, because you continue to be active in this way, like a mill turning all the time.
Ref: CWM, Vol. 06, Page:115
avyAkṛta. (P. avyAkata; T. lung du ma bstan pa/lung ma bstan; C. wuji; J. muki; K. mugi 無). In Sanskrit, "indeterminate" or "unascertainable"; used to refer to the fourteen "indeterminate" or "unanswered" questions (avyAkṛtavastu) to which the Buddha refuses to respond. The American translator of PAli texts HENRY CLARKE WARREN rendered the term as "questions which tend not to edification." These questions involve various metaphysical assertions that were used in traditional India to evaluate a thinker's philosophical lineage. There are a number of versions of these "unanswerables," but one common list includes fourteen such questions, three sets of which are framed as "four alternatives" (CATUsKOtI): (1) Is the world eternal?, (2) Is the world not eternal?, (3) Is the world both eternal and not eternal?, (4) Is the world neither eternal nor not eternal?; (5) Is the world endless?, (6) Is the world not endless?, (7) Is the world both endless and not endless?, (8) Is the world neither endless nor not endless?; (9) Does the tathAgata exist after death?, (10) Does the tathAgata not exist after death?, (11) Does the tathAgata both exist and not exist after death?, (12) Does the tathAgata neither exist nor not exist after death?; (13) Are the soul (jīva) and the body identical?, and (14) Are the soul and the body not identical? It was in response to such questions that the Buddha famously asked whether a man shot by a poisoned arrow would spend time wondering about the height of the archer and the kind of wood used for the arrow, or whether he should seek to remove the arrow before it killed him. Likening these fourteen questions to such pointless speculation, he called them "a jungle, a wilderness, a puppet-show, a writhing, and a fetter, and is coupled with misery, ruin, despair, and agony, and does not tend to aversion, absence of passion, cessation, quiescence, knowledge, supreme wisdom, and nirvAna." The Buddha thus asserted that all these questions had to be set aside as unanswerable for being either unexplainable conceptually or "wrongly framed" (P. thapanīya). Questions that were "wrongly framed" inevitably derive from mistaken assumptions and are thus the products of wrong reflection (AYONIsOMANASKARA); therefore, any answer given to them would necessarily be either misleading or irrelevant. The Buddha's famous silence on these questions has been variously interpreted, with some seeing his refusal to answer these questions as deriving from the inherent limitations involved in using concepts to talk about such rarified existential questions. Because it is impossible to expect that concepts can do justice, for example, to an enlightened person's state of being after death, the Buddha simply remains silent when asked this and other "unanswerable" questions. The implication, therefore, is that it is not necessarily the case that the Buddha does not "know" the answer to these questions, but merely that he realizes the conceptual limitations inherent in trying to answer them definitively and thus refuses to respond. Yet other commentators explained that the Buddha declined to answer the question of whether the world (that is, SAMSARA) will ever end because the answer ("no") would prove too discouraging to his audience.
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By 1770, the beginning of his "critical" period, Kant had an answer which he confidently expected would revolutionize philosophy. First dimly outlined in the Inaugural Dissertation (1770), and elaborated in great detail in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787), the answer consisted in the critical or transcendental method. The typical function of reason, on Kant's view, is relating or synthesizing the data of sense. In effecting any synthesis the mind relies on the validity of certain principles, such as causality, which, as Hume had shown, cannot be inductive generalizations from sense data, yet are indispensable in any account of "experience" viewed as a connected, significant whole. If the necessary, synthetic principles cannot be derived from sense data proper, then, Kant argued, they must be "a priori" -- logically prior to the materials which they relate. He also called these formal elements "transcendental", by which he meant that, while they are indubitably in experience viewed as a connected whole, they transcend or are distinct from the sensuous materials in source and status. In the Critique of Pure Reason -- his "theoretical philosophy" -- Kant undertakes a complete inventory and "deduction" of all synthetic, a priori, transcendental forms employed in the knowledge of Nature. The first part, the "Transcendental Aesthetic", exhibits the two forms or "intuitions" (Anschauungen) of the sensibility: space and time. Knowledge of Nature, however varied its sense content, is necessarily always of something in space and time; and just because these are necessary conditions of any experience of Nature, space and time cannot be objective properties of things-in-themselves, but must be formal demands of reason. Space and time are "empirically real", because they are present in actual experience; but they are "transcendentally ideal", since they are forms which the mind "imposes" on the data of sense.
casting out nines: A method of verification of integer arithmetics by checking that the answer matches the equivalent calculations under modulo arithmetic. The modulus of 9 is chosen simply because of our decimal systems (base 10). The difference of 1 between the modulus (9) and the base (10) allows for an easy conversion of a number to modulo 9. (By adding the constituent digits of a number represented in base 10.)
caturnimitta. (P. catunimitta; T. mtshan ma bzhi; C. sixiang; J. shiso; K. sasang 四相). In Sanskrit, the "four signs," "sights," or "portents," which were the catalysts that led the future buddha SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA to renounce the world (see PRAVRAJITA) and pursue liberation from the cycle of birth and death (SAMSARA): specifically, an old man, a diseased man, a dead man, and a religious mendicant (sRAMAnA). According to the many traditional biographies of the Buddha, eight brAhmana seers predicted at the time of his birth that, were Gautama to see all four of these portents, he would be led inexorably toward renunciation of his royal heritage. His father, sUDDHODANA, who wanted SiddhArtha to succeed him, sought to shield the prince from these sights. While distracting his son with all the sensual pleasures available in his palaces, the prince, at the age of twenty-nine, eventually became curious about the world beyond the palace and convinced his father to allow him to go out in his chariot, accompanied by the charioteer CHANDAKA. On four successive chariot rides, the prince saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse being taken to the charnel ground, and a mendicant. Gautama eventually determined to go forth (pravrajita) into homelessness after witnessing the four portents. The first three sights demonstrated to Gautama the vanity of life and the reality of suffering (DUḤKHA), and the sight of a religious mendicant provided him with the prospect of freedom of mind and a model to follow in finding a way leading to liberation. Some versions of the Buddha's biography refer only to the first three of these signs. In some versions, it is said that the four sights were not actually an old man, sick man, corpse, and mendicant, but apparitions of these created by the gods in order to spur the bodhisattva to renounce the world. In the LALITAVISTARA, it is the prince himself who creates the old man, the sick man, the corpse, and the mendicant, and then asks his charioteer who they are, pretending not to know the answer. Biographies of previous buddhas, such as VIPAsYIN, typically mention the role similar encounters played in their own renunciations.
comes ::: n. --> The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
conundrum ::: n. --> A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
decidability ::: (mathematics) A property of sets for which one can determine whether something is a member or not in a finite number of computational steps.Decidability is an important concept in computability theory. A set (e.g. all numbers with a 5 in them) is said to be decidable if I can write a program the program will always terminate with an answer YES or NO after a finite number of steps.Most sets you can describe easily are decidable, but there are infinitely many sets so most sets are undecidable, assuming any finite limit on the size (number allow your program to be there will always be sets which need a bigger program to decide membership.One example of an undecidable set comes from the halting problem. It turns out that you can encode every program as a number: encode every symbol in the all numbers that represent a program that terminates in a finite number of steps.A set can also be semi-decidable - there is an algorithm that is guaranteed to return YES if the number is in the set, but if the number is not in the set, it may either return NO or run for ever.The halting problem's set described above is semi-decidable. You decode the given number and run the resulting program. If it terminates the answer is YES. If it never terminates, then neither will the decision algorithm. (1995-01-13)
decidability "mathematics" A property of sets for which one can determine whether something is a member or not in a {finite} number of computational steps. Decidability is an important concept in {computability theory}. A set (e.g. "all numbers with a 5 in them") is said to be "decidable" if I can write a program (usually for a {Turing Machine}) to determine whether a number is in the set and the program will always terminate with an answer YES or NO after a finite number of steps. Most sets you can describe easily are decidable, but there are infinitely many sets so most sets are undecidable, assuming any finite limit on the size (number of instructions or number of states) of our programs. I.e. how ever big you allow your program to be there will always be sets which need a bigger program to decide membership. One example of an undecidable set comes from the {halting problem}. It turns out that you can encode every program as a number: encode every symbol in the program as a number (001, 002, ...) and then string all the symbol codes together. Then you can create an undecidable set by defining it as the set of all numbers that represent a program that terminates in a finite number of steps. A set can also be "semi-decidable" - there is an {algorithm} that is guaranteed to return YES if the number is in the set, but if the number is not in the set, it may either return NO or run for ever. The {halting problem}'s set described above is semi-decidable. You decode the given number and run the resulting program. If it terminates the answer is YES. If it never terminates, then neither will the decision algorithm. (1995-01-13)
decision problem: A problem whose construction only accepts a "yes or no" answer which is dependent entirely on only the parameters of the problem. (Although the answer may not be actually known, decidable or known to be decidable.)
drag and drop ::: A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time.Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor.The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean copy or move? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus failures with commands (users think stupid machine). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.[Erik Naggum ]
drag and drop A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a {graphical user interface} or {WIMP} environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some {application program}, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a {word processor}. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. {Human computer interaction} studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands. [Erik Naggum "erik@naggum.no"] (2007-06-15)
dux ::: n. --> The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.
film at 11 "jargon" (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "{ITS} crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient. [{Jargon File}] (1998-03-24)
film at 11 ::: (jargon) (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. ITS crashes; film at 11. Bug found in scheduler; film at 11.2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal 11:00 news, if people will just be patient.[Jargon File] (1998-03-24)
howl at night, the answer is: In the Rabbinical book
In vorbeigehen or vorbeireden, a patient will answer a question in such a way that one can tell the patient understood the question, although the answer itself may be very obviously wrong. For example "how many legs does a dog have?" - "six". This condition occurs in Ganser syndrome and has been observed in prisoners awaiting trial. Vorbeigehen (giving approximate answers) was the original term used by Ganser but Vorbeireden (talking past the point) is the term generally in use (Goldin 1955). This behaviour is also seen in people trying to feign psychiatric disorders (hence association with prisoners)
Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God In the New Testament, used by John the Baptist, Jesus, and St. Paul; it indicates a state of relative spiritual completion and attainment, not merely the afterdeath state of the “righteous” or “saved,” as seen in the statement, “the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). Blavatsky interprets the answer in the Gospel of the Egyptians as to when the kingdom of heaven will come — “When the Two has been made One, and the Outward has become as the Inward, and the Male with the Female neither Male nor Female” — as signifying among other things, 1) the union of lower manas with the higher manas, the self-conscious raising of the personality to the individuality; and 2) the return of humankind to the androgynous state in future root-races. “Thus this Kingdom may be attained by individuals now, and by mankind in Races to come” (BCW 13:48-9; 14:55).
language lawyer ::: A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question if only you had thought to look there.Compare wizard, legal, legalese.[Jargon File] (1995-02-15)
language lawyer A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare {wizard}, {legal}, {legalese}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-15)
legalism ::: In the Western sense, an approach to the analysis of legal questions characterized by abstract "logical" reasoning focused on the applicable legal text, such as a constitution, legislation, or case law, rather than on the social, economic, or political context. Legalism has occurred both in civil and common law traditions. Legalism may endorse the notion that the pre-existing body of authoritative legal materials already contains a uniquely pre-determined "right answer" to any legal problem that may arise. In legalism, the task of the judge is to ascertain the answer to a legal question mechanically.[4]
Madhav: “There is in this creation of God an everlasting No. ‘NO’ is negation of the fleeting pleasures of life, unsubstantial movements of life, the attraction of the senses, the hold of ego, ignorance. For that the answer is no. This is not it, this is not it, neti, neti, thou hast only neared this everlasting No.” The Book of the Divine Mother
many are there? The answer (in 3 Enoch) is 4,
mu 1. "networking" The {country code} for Mauritius. 2. "philosophy" /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning "nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from overgeneralisation of the answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen teaching riddle: A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!" See also {has the X nature}, {AI Koan}. [Douglas Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"]. [{Jargon File}] (2000-11-22)
Muchu mondo. (夢中問答). In Japanese, "Questions and Answers in Dreams," a primer on ZEN (C. CHAN) training attributed to the RINZAISHu master MUSo SOSEKI (1275-1351). The Muchu mondo is a record of the answers given by Muso to the questions regarding Zen asked by Ashikaga Tadayoshi (1306-1352), the brother of the shogun Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358). In total, Tadayoshi and Muso exchanged ninety-three sets of questions and answers that covered a wide range of subjects, including everything from praying for merit to the study of koans (C. GONG'AN) and the practice of seated meditation (J. zazen; C. ZUOCHAN). Due to its simple and clear discussion of topics relevant to a lay audience, the Muchu mondo has been widely read within the tradition and republished often.
negative ::: a. --> Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
nondeterministic polynomial time ::: (complexity) (NP) A set or property of computational decision problems solvable by a nondeterministic Turing Machine in a number of steps that is a nondeterminism or trial and error. This may take exponential time as long as a potential solution can be verified in polynomial time.NP is obviously a superset of P (polynomial time problems solvable by a deterministic Turing Machine in polynomial time) since a deterministic algorithm solved in polynomial time? Everyone's first guess is no, but no one has managed to prove this; and some very clever people think the answer is yes.If a problem A is in NP and a polynomial time algorithm for A could also be used to solve problem B in polynomial time, then B is also in NP.See also Co-NP, NP-complete.[Examples?] (1995-04-10)
nondeterministic polynomial time "complexity" (NP) A set or property of computational {decision problems} solvable by a {nondeterministic Turing Machine} in a number of steps that is a {polynomial} function of the size of the input. The word "nondeterministic" suggests a method of generating potential solutions using some form of {nondeterminism} or "trial and error". This may take {exponential time} as long as a potential solution can be verified in {polynomial time}. NP is obviously a superset of P ({polynomial time} problems solvable by a deterministic {Turing Machine} in {polynomial time}) since a deterministic algorithm can be considered as a degenerate form of nondeterministic algorithm. The question then arises: is NP equal to P? I.e. can every problem in NP actually be solved in polynomial time? Everyone's first guess is "no", but no one has managed to prove this; and some very clever people think the answer is "yes". If a problem A is in NP and a polynomial time algorithm for A could also be used to solve problem B in polynomial time, then B is also in NP. See also {Co-NP}, {NP-complete}. [Examples?] (1995-04-10)
NP ::: In computational complexity theory, NP (nondeterministic polynomial time) is a complexity class used to classify decision problems. NP is the set of decision problems for which the problem instances, where the answer is "yes", have proofs verifiable in polynomial time.[240][Note 1]
Objective test: Any test, whether standardized or not, which meets the requirements of a measuring instrument, permitting no reasonable doubt as to the correctness or incorrectness of the answers given. -- J.E.B.
of them qualified. Surely, I comforted myself, there must be some source where the answer
oracle ::: n. --> The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.
Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.
The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.
random numbers ::: 1. (programming) pseudorandom number.2. (jargon) When one wishes to specify a large but random number of things, and the context is inappropriate for N, certain numbers are preferred by hacker tradition (that is, easily recognised as placeholders). These include the following:17 - Long described at MIT as the least random number; see 23.23 - Sacred number of Eris, Goddess of Discord (along with 17 and 5).42 - The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, as revealed in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxly. Note that question, What is 6 x 9?, is indeed 42, showing that in six dimensions white mice have 13 digits.69 - From the sexual act. This one was favoured in MIT's ITS culture.105 - 69 hex = 105 decimal and 69 decimal = 105 octal.666 - The Number of the Beast.For further enlightenment, study the Principia Discordia, The Joy of Sex, and the Christian Bible (Revelation 13:18).See also Discordianism or consult your pineal gland. See also for values of. (1997-02-10)
rebutter ::: n. --> The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff&
redeliver ::: v. t. --> To deliver or give back; to return.
To deliver or liberate a second time or again.
To report; to deliver the answer of.
rescription ::: n. --> A writing back; the answering of a letter.
rescript ::: v. t. --> The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.
The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.
A counterpart.
response ::: n. --> The act of responding.
An answer or reply.
Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another
responsory ::: a. --> Containing or making answer; answering. ::: n. --> The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.
rhetorical question: A question, which does not expect an answer, usually asked for effect or comment. On occasion the speaker or author offers the answer to the question.
riddle: A word puzzle where something is described and then a question is asked. An audience would then have to decipher and guess what the speaker is referring to. The answer to the question is usually an object, person or idea. Riddles have been popular in all cultures, during all ages.
RTFM ::: (jargon) /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to Fine or Friendly) An (unhelpful) guru's traditional response when someone asks a question in a newsgroup or mailing list which he could have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM.The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find the answer in the manual. E.g. How do I interface Unix to my toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the FM didn't help and I can't RTFS.Other derived forms include RTFAQ, RTFB, RTM, and, more recently, STFW. Compare: UTSL.[Earliest use?][Jargon File](2003-06-07)
RTFM "jargon" /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An (unhelpful) {guru}'s traditional response when someone asks a question in a {newsgroup} or {mailing list} which he could have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM. The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the {FM} didn't help and I can't {RTFS}." Other derived forms include {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, {RTM}, {RYFM} and, more recently, {STFW}. Compare: {UTSL}. A web site in the same vein is {(lmgtfy.com)}. [Earliest use?] [{Jargon File}] (2003-06-07)
scholasticism ::: A school of philosophy taught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medieval universities circa 1100–1500. Scholasticism attempted to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with medieval Christian theology. The primary purpose of scholasticism was to find the answer to a question or resolve a contradiction. It is most well known in its application in medieval theology but was applied to classical philosophy and other fields of study. It is not a philosophy or theology on its own, but a tool and method for learning that emphasizes dialectical reasoning.
Sometimes it comes of itself with the deepening of the conscious- ness by bhakti or otherwise, sometimes it comes by practice — a sort of referring the matter and listening for the answer. It does not mean that the answer comes necessarily in the shape of words, spoken or unspoken, though it does sometimes or for some it can take any shape. The main difficulty for many is to be sure of the right answer. For that it is necessary to be able to contact the consciousness of the Guru inwardly — that comes best by bhakti. Otherwise, the attempt to get the feeling from within by practice may become a delicate and ticklish job.
spoiler ::: 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies, thus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie.2. Any remark which telegraphs the solution of a problem or puzzle, thus denying the reader the pleasure of working out the correct answer (see also interesting). Either sense readily forms compounds like total spoiler, quasi-spoiler and even pseudo-spoiler.By convention, Usenet news articles which are spoilers in either sense should contain the word spoiler in the Subject: line, or guarantee via various tricks that the answer appears only after several screens-full of warning, or conceal the sensitive information via rot13, or some combination of these techniques.[Jargon File] (1995-01-18)
spoiler 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies, thus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie. 2. Any remark which telegraphs the solution of a problem or puzzle, thus denying the reader the pleasure of working out the correct answer (see also {interesting}). Either sense readily forms compounds like "total spoiler", "quasi-spoiler" and even "pseudo-spoiler". By convention, {Usenet} news articles which are spoilers in either sense should contain the word "spoiler" in the Subject: line, or guarantee via various tricks that the answer appears only after several screens-full of warning, or conceal the sensitive information via {rot13}, or some combination of these techniques. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-18)
Subjective_probability ::: is a type of probability derived from an individual's personal judgment about whether a specific outcome is likely to occur. It contains no formal calculations and only reflects the subject's opinions and past experience. Subjective probabilities differ from person to person, and contains a high degree of personal bias. BREAKING DOWN 'Subjective Probability' An example of subjective probability is asking New York Yankees fans, before the baseball season starts, about the chances of New York winning the World Series. While there is no absolute mathematical proof behind the answer to the example, fans might still reply in actual percentage terms, such as the Yankees having a 25% chance of winning the World Series. Subjective probability is highly flexible, even in terms of one individual’s belief. While an individual may believe the chance of a specified event occurring is 25%, they could have a different belief when given a specific range from which to choose, such as 25% to 30%. This can occur even if no additional hard data is behind the change. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subjective_probability.asp
Svabhava(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word derived from the verb-root bhu, meaning "to become" -- not so much "tobe" in the passive sense, but rather "to become," to "grow into" something. The quasi-pronominal prefixsva, means "self"; hence the noun means "self-becoming," "self-generation," "self-growing" intosomething. Yet the essential or fundamental or integral Self, although following continuously its ownlofty line of evolution, cannot be said to suffer the changes or phases that its vehicles undergo. Like themonads, like the One, thus the Self fundamental -- which, after all, is virtually the same as the onemonadic essence -- sends down a ray from itself into every organic entity, much as the sun sends a rayfrom itself into the surrounding "darkness" of the solar universe.Svabhava has two general philosophical meanings: first, self-begetting, self-generation, self-becoming,the general idea being that there is no merely mechanical or soulless activity of nature in bringing us intobeing, for we brought ourselves forth, in and through and by nature, of which we are a part of theconscious forces, and therefore are our own children. The second meaning is that each and every entitythat exists is the result of what he actually is spiritually in his own higher nature: he brings forth thatwhich he is in himself interiorly, nothing else. A particular race, for instance, remains and is that race aslong as the particular race-svabhava remains in the racial seed and manifests thus. Likewise is the casethe same with a man, a tree, a star, a god -- what not!What makes a rose bring forth a rose always and not thistles or daisies or pansies? The answer is verysimple; very profound, however. It is because of its svabhava, the essential nature in and of the seed. Itssvabhava can bring forth only that which itself is, its essential characteristic, its own inner nature.Svabhava, in short, may be called the essential individuality of any monad, expressing its owncharacteristics, qualities, and type, by self-urged evolution.The seed can produce nothing but what it itself is, what is in it; and this is the heart and essence of thedoctrine of svabhava. The philosophical, scientific, and religious reach of this doctrine is simplyimmense; and it is of the first importance. Consequently, each individual svabhava brings forth andexpresses as its own particular vehicles its various svarupas, signifying characteristic bodies or images orforms. The svabhava of a dog, for instance, brings forth the dog body. The svabhava of a rose bringsforth the rose flower; the svabhava of a man brings forth man's shape or image; and the svabhava of adivinity or god brings forth its own svarupa or characteristic vehicle.
termination analysis ::: A program analysis which attempts to determine whether evaluation of a given expression will definitely terminate.Evaluation of a constant is bound to terminate, as is evaluation of a non-recursive function applied to arguments which are either not evaluated or to terminate if it can be shown that the arguments of the recursive calls are bound to reach some value at which the recursion will cease.Termination analysis can never guarantee to give the correct answer because this would be equivalent to solving the halting problem so the answer it gives is either definitely terminates or don't know. (1994-10-20)
termination analysis A program analysis which attempts to determine whether evaluation of a given expression will definitely terminate. Evaluation of a constant is bound to terminate, as is evaluation of a non-{recursive} function applied to arguments which are either not evaluated or which can themselves be proved to terminate. A recursive function can be shown to terminate if it can be shown that the arguments of the recursive calls are bound to reach some value at which the recursion will cease. Termination analysis can never guarantee to give the correct answer because this would be equivalent to solving the {halting problem} so the answer it gives is either "definitely terminates" or "don't know". (1994-10-20)
to a first approximation ::: 1. When one is doing certain numerical computations, an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first approximation of the answer, one can write an algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result.2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the comment is only approximately true. The remark To a first approximation, I feel good might indicate that deeper questioning would reveal that not all is perfect (e.g. a nagging cough still remains after an illness).[Jargon File]
to a first approximation 1. When one is doing certain numerical computations, an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first approximation of the answer, one can write an algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result. 2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the comment is only approximately true. The remark "To a first approximation, I feel good" might indicate that deeper questioning would reveal that not all is perfect (e.g. a nagging cough still remains after an illness). [{Jargon File}]
verdict ::: n. --> The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.
wu gong'an. (J. mukoan; K. mu kongan 無公案). In Chinese, "the case 'no'"; an influential CHAN case or precedent (GONG'AN) associated with the Tang-dynasty Chan master ZHAOZHOU CONGSHEN (778-897). In this exchange, once a student came to Zhaozhou and asked, "Does a dog have the buddha-nature (FOXING), or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "No" (lit., "It does not have it"). The complete exchange from which this gong'an is drawn continues: "Everything has buddha-nature, from the buddhas above, to the ants below. Why wouldn't a dog have it?" Zhaozhou replied: "Because he has the nature of karmically conditioned consciousness." This response seems to be associated with Chan debates concerning the Sinitic Buddhist doctrine of the "buddha-nature of the insentient" (wuqing foxing), which presumed that all insentient things, including rocks and tiles, trees, and grass, were also endowed with the buddha-nature; thus, if even rocks have the buddha-nature, why not dogs? Since the answer to the student's question should unequivocally be "Yes, a dog does have the buddha-nature," Zhaozhou's enigmatic response, which Wumen calls a "checkpoint of the patriarchs," seems to challenge one of the foundational beliefs of East Asian Buddhism; in so doing, it engenders a question in the student's mind, which will help to foster inquiry and ultimately a sense of doubt (YIQING). This answer "WU" ("no") became a popular meditative topic (HUATOU) in the Chan meditation practice of "questioning meditation" (KANHUA CHAN) and is one of the most important gong'ans used in kanhua Chan training, especially in the Chinese LINJI ZONG and Japanese RINZAISHu lineages, as well as in the Korean CHOGYE CHONG. The wu gong'an is the first case collected in the gong'an anthology WUMEN GUAN ("Gateless Checkpoint"), and its use in kanhua practice was popularized by the Chinese Linji teacher DAHUI ZONGGAO (1089-1163). See also GOUZI WU FOXING.
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1:The Asker is the Answer. ~ Wei Wu Wei, #KEYS
2:A wise man's questions contain half the answer. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, #KEYS
3:God is the answer to every question.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, [T5],#KEYS
4:Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ~ Albert Camus, #KEYS
5:Silence is the answer, that is, silent presence is the answer." ~ Robert Burton, #KEYS
6:Look for the answer inside your question. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
7:The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer ~ Terence McKenna, [T5], #KEYS
8:Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~ William S Burroughs,#KEYS
9:Why did Jordan Peterson cross the road?
The answer isn't obvious. It's no joke man. ~ Reddit, hardlygospel,#KEYS
10:Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it ~ you got to let it grow. ~ John Lennon, #KEYS
11:One should read Sri Aurobindo and know the answer.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, [T0],#KEYS
12:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
13:At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
14:At the centre of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
15:There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. ~ C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength #KEYS
16:If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,#KEYS
17:Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
18:The Beatitudes are the like the Christian's identity card. So if anyone asks: "What must I do to be a good Christian?" the answer is clear. ~ Pope Francis, #KEYS
19:The answer is the same to all your questions. Whatever form your enquiry may take, you must finally come to the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
20:If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
21:The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #KEYS
22:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ M J Ryan, A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, #KEYS
23:In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T0],#KEYS
24:What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. ~ Jean Klein, #KEYS
25:Seek the answer in God's grace, not in doctrine; in the longing of the will, not in the understanding; in the sighs of prayer, not in research; seek the bridegroom not the teacher; God and not man; darkness not daylight. ~ Bonaventure, #KEYS
26:The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself. ~ Abraham Maslow, #KEYS
27:If you wake up in the morning and say, "Who am I? What is this universe I'm living in all about? Who wakes up? Who sleeps?" If you inquire the answer to all these questions you become free in no time. But most of you do not do this, do you? ~ Robert Adams, #KEYS
28:'What seems to you to be many is one; What seems to you simple is not; What seems to you complex is easy; The answer to you all is: The Sufis.'" ~ Naqshband Buxoriy, (Persian:, (1318-1389) founder of the largest Sufi Muslim orders, the Naqshbandi, Wikipedia, #KEYS
29:Every question about God presupposes what is being asked about; and that which the question presupposes is that which is to be given as the answer… For God is the Absolute Presupposition of all things that are in anyway presupposed. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, De Sapientia II, #KEYS
30:It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." ~ Eugene Ionesco, (1909 - 1994) Romanian-French playwright, one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre; his plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way, Wikipedia., #KEYS
31:You are asking, "Who am I?" and you are not going to get an answer, because the one who will get the answer is false. You may have an idea, a concept, and you will think you have found yourself, but it is only a concept; you can never see your Self. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
32:When you sit in meditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your external mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is there, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you. And if you call upon Divinity, then too you will have the answer.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
33:Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working on. While others were writing blackboard-filling formulas to express the laws of elementary particles, he would just draw a picture and figure out the answer. ~ Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, #KEYS
34:How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? [...] In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
35:When will I have vision of God ?" asked an ardent disciple of the Master. The Master took him to the sea shore and held him completely immersed in water for a while. "How did that feel ?" asked the Master. 'I thought I would die without air to breathe' replied the disciple.
Such a quest of God would reveal Him immediately' is the answer of the Master. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
36:He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask, Musk said. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. The teenage Musk then arrived at his ultralogical mission statement. The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment
~ ?,#KEYS
37:The Prophet related that when Allah loves the voice of His slave when he makes supplication to Him, He delays the answer to his supplication so that the slave will repeat the supplication.
This comes from His love for the slave, not because He has turned away from him. For that reason, the Prophet mentioned the name of the Wise, and the Wise is the one who puts everything in its proper place, and who does not turn away from the qualities which their realities necessitate and demand; so the Wise is the One who knows the order of things. ~ Ibn Arabi,#KEYS
38:Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it ~ and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you ~ for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. ~ Søren Kierkegaard, #KEYS
39:So one of the things I do when a client comes is I just do a rough walk through of those dimensions its like does anybody care if youre alive or dead, you know, do you have any friends, do you have anybody that loves you, do you have an intimate relationship, how are things going with your family, do you have a job, are you as educated as you are intelligent, do you have any room for advancement in the future, do you do anything interesting outside of your job and if the answer to all of those is no.. its like your not depressed my friend you just are screwed. really. ~ Jordan Peterson, 015 Maps of Meaning 4: Narrative, Neuropsychology & Mythology II / Part 1, #KEYS
40:An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct" the answer can only be, "All of them." That is, all of the numerous practices or paradigms of human inquiry - including physics, chemistry, hermeneutics, collaborative inquiry, meditation, neuroscience, vision quest, phenomenology, structuralism, subtle energy research, systems theory, shamanic voyaging, chaos theory, developmental psychology-all of those modes of inquiry have an important piece of the overall puzzle of a total existence that includes, among other many things, health and illness, doctors and patients, sickness and healing. ~ Ken Wilber, #KEYS
41:Aspiration in everyone, no matter who it is, has the same power But the effect of this aspiration is different. For aspiration is aspiration: if you have aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only, this aspiration calls down an answer, and this answer, the effect, which is the result of the aspiration, depends upon each one, for it depends upon his receptivity. I know many people of this kind: they say, "Oh! but I aspire all the time and still I receive nothing." It is impossible that they should receive nothing, in the sense that the answer is sure to come. But it is they who do not receive. The answer comes but they are not receptive, so they receive nothing.. . . When you have an aspiration, a very active aspiration, your aspiration is going to do its work. It is going to call down the answer to what you aspire foR But if, later, you begin to think of something else or are not attentive or receptive, you do not even notice that your aspiration has received an answer. This happens very frequently. So people tell you: "I aspire and I don't receive anything, I get no answer!" Yes, you do have an answer but you are not aware of it, because you continue to be active in this way, like a mill turning all the time. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, #KEYS
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What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us?
You must not feel with your head (because you may think so, but that's something vague); you must feel with your sense-feeling. Naturally one begins by wanting it with the mind, because that is the first thing that understands. And then one has an aspiration here (pointing to the heart), with a flame which pushes you to realise it. But if you want it to be truly the thing, well, you must feel it.
You are doing something, suppose, for example, you are doing exercises, weight-lifting. Now suddenly without your knowing how it happened, suddenly you have the feeling that there is a force infinitely greater than you, greater, more powerful, a force that does the lifting for you. Your body becomes something almost non-existent and there is this Something that lifts. And then you will see; when that happens to you, you will no longer ask how it should be done, you will know. That does happen.
It depends upon people, depends upon what dominates in their being. Those who think have suddenly the feeling that it is no longer they who think, that there is something which knows much better, sees much more clearly, which is infinitely more luminous, more conscious in them, which organises the thoughts and words; and then they write. But if the experience is complete, it is even no longer they who write, it is that same Thing that takes hold of their hand and makes it write. Well, one knows at that moment that the little physical person is just a tiny insignificant tool trying to remain as quiet as possible in order not to disturb the experience.
Yes, at no cost must the experience be disturbed. If suddenly you say: "Oh, look, how strange it is!"...
How can we reach that state?
Aspire for it, want it. Try to be less and less selfish, but not in the sense of becoming nice to other people or forgetting yourself, not that: have less and less the feeling that you are a person, a separate entity, something existing in itself, isolated from the rest.
And then, above all, above all, it is that inner flame, that aspiration, that need for the light. It is a kind of - how to put it? - luminous enthusiasm that seizes you. It is an irresistible need to melt away, to give oneself, to exist only in the Divine.
At that moment you have the experience of your aspiration.
But that moment should be absolutely sincere and as integral as possible; and all this must occur not only in the head, not only here, but must take place everywhere, in all the cells of the body. The consciousness integrally must have this irresistible need.... The thing lasts for some time, then diminishes, gets extinguished. You cannot keep these things for very long. But then it so happens that a moment later or the next day or some time later, suddenly you have the opposite experience. Instead of feeling this ascent, and all that, this is no longer there and you have the feeling of the Descent, the Answer. And nothing but the Answer exists. Nothing but the divine thought, the divine will, the divine energy, the divine action exists any longer. And you too, you are no longer there.
That is to say, it is the answer to our aspiration. It may happen immediately afterwards - that is very rare but may happen. If you have both simultaneously, then the state is perfect; usually they alternate; they alternate more and more closely until the moment there is a total fusion. Then there is no more distinction. I heard a Sufi mystic, who was besides a great musician, an Indian, saying that for the Sufis there was a state higher than that of adoration and surrender to the Divine, than that of devotion, that this was not the last stage; the last stage of the progress is when there is no longer any distinction; you have no longer this kind of adoration or surrender or consecration; it is a very simple state in which one makes no distinction between the Divine and oneself. They know this. It is even written in their books. It is a commonly known condition in which everything becomes quite simple. There is no longer any difference. There is no longer that kind of ecstatic surrender to "Something" which is beyond you in every way, which you do not understand, which is merely the result of your aspiration, your devotion. There is no difference any longer. When the union is perfect, there is no longer any difference.
Is this the end of self-progress?
There is never any end to progress - never any end, you can never put a full stop there. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
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Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:The answer is blowin' in the wind. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 2:The answer is there is no answer. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 3:Love is the answer to any sort of healing. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 4:Alcohol is not the answer to all questions ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 5:Love is always the answer to healing of any sort. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 6:The answer to every vital question is within you. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 7:Never make a calculation until you know the answer. ~ john-wheeler, @wisdomtrove 8:Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 9:What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 10:So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 11:Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be? ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 12:Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 13:Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 14:every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . . ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 15:Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 16:If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 17:When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No". ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 18:If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 19:Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 20:When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 21:Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 22:I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 23:Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 24:To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 25:Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 26:Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 27:One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 28:Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 29:Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 30:The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 31:But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 32:At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 33:There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word& 34:There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 35:What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 36:There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 37:I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 38:For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 39:What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work! ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 40:If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 41:Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 42:He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 43:If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 44:There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 45:An inventor is a man who asks & 46:Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 47:the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 48:But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 49:The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING! ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 50:What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 51:Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 52:Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 53:Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 54:Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 55:If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 56:Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 57:The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 58:If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, & 59:Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 60:I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 61:I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 62:If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 63:Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 64:I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 65:The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 66:Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 67:How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 68:before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed! ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 69:The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 70:My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 71:The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 72:We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 73:It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 74:When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 75:After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 76:You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 77:The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 78:We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 79:We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 80:It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 81:You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 82:One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 83:I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 84:You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 85:& 86:Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 87:& 88:You asked me once,' said O'Brien, & 89:There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 90:One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows... . Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 91:There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 92:Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 93:The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable! ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 94:Who are you? Don't go by formulas. The answer is not in words. The nearest you can say in words is: I am what makes perception possible, the life beyond the experiencer and his experience. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 95:I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 96:Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn’t overreact or underreact. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 97:What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 98:If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 99:Q: When I ask a question and you answer, what exactly happens? M: The question and the answer - both appear on the screen. The lips move, the body speaks - and again the screen is clear and empty. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 100:So if you want to know the truth about the universe, about the meaning of life, and about your own identity, the best place to start is by observing suffering and exploring what it is. The answer isn’t a story. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 101:To ask the & 102:Mad Hatter: Why is a raven like a writing-desk? Have you guessed the riddle yet? the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. No, I give it up, Alice replied: What’s the answer? I haven’t the slightest idea, said the Hatter ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 103:Only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: ‘Why is the universe the way we see it?’ The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here! ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 104:There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 105:When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 106:Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 107:The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 108:& 109:Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 110:Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 111:For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 112:I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 113:[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer... . And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 114:Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 115:Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 116:When people ask me, & 117:A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 118:Ask lots of questions. The greatest ‘adventure’ is the ability to inquire, to ask questions. Sometimes in the process of inquiry, the search is more significant than the answers. The simple act of asking the right questions is the answer. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 119:As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 120:If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 121:Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 122:Classical theology defines sin as & 123:I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 124:Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 125:When you have a problem, a desire exudes forth from you, and Source hears it and answers it immediately. Once you remove your attention from the problem, you then allow the solution. Give birth to the question and let it go - and allow the answer to flow. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 126:Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 127:I find myself immersed in the deep mystery. Then something astonishing happens. The inarticulate question of the heart dissolves into the ocean of mystery. And I feel I’ve found the answer I’m looking for. But this answer, like the question, is more of a feeling than a thought. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 128:I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 129:I asked: & 130:When self-knowledge reveals the answer it will be a living fact in your own experience. At any time you wish to experience the answer it will be there, just as you can say & 131:If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go? ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 132:They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 133:No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us. ~ john-wheeler, @wisdomtrove 134:The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 135:This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine? ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 136:I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 137:How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, & 138:I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 139:An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them." ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 140:Enquire: & 141:The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 142:The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 143:Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 144:Look at what you are doing moment to moment. Ask yourself in the midst of it, “What does this have to do with my real reason for being here? Is this what I have come all the way to the Earth to experience?” If the answer is a resounding Yes, keep doing it. If the answer is No, ask yourself, “What in the world am I doing?” ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 145:This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 146:I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 147:What was the question? ... Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question? ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 148:If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 149:God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 150:You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about & 151:I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ... I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 152:There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet]. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 153:We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 154:One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won’t solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 155:When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 156:For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 157:Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 158:I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 159:Often our lives become derailed from the track we set it on. Or we can get so caught up in a routine that we don’t realize we can change it. Regular self reflection is the answer: think about how your life is going, how you’re spending your time, and decide whether you need to make changes. Then schedule time to make those changes immediately — or make the changes right away if possible. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 160:One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer & 161:he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 162:Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 163:Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and manipulating our world are being stripped away, and we are forced to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are most vulnerable, the peace that is not of this world is mysteriously hidden. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 164:Chris Langan] told me not long ago. I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning. Sometimes I realize what the answer is because I dreamt the answer and I can remember it. Other times I just feel the answer, and I start typing and the answer emerges onto the page. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 165:In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 166:I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars... . And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light... . The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 167:While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 168:Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 169:I'm often asked, Which is more important& 170:Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 171:& 172:Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 173:Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is... No. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 174:If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 175:I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 176:If in the state of witnessing you ask yourself: & 177:Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you! ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 178:I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee's a little help with everything — social, energy, don't know what to do next, don't know how to start my day, don't know how to get through this afternoon, don't know how to stay alert. We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 179:I find myself immersed in the deep mystery. Then something astonishing happens. The inarticulate question of the heart dissolves into the ocean of mystery. And I feel I’ve found the answer I’m looking for. But this answer, like the question, is more of a feeling than a thought. I can’t really express the inarticulate question, because it’s too deep for words. I can’t really express the inarticulate answer, because it’s too deep for words. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 180:The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 181:During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 182:When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘no’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 183:Be patient toward all that unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked room and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 184:As I wonder deeply about life, I find myself immersed in the deep mystery. Then something astonishing happens. The inarticulate question of the heart dissolves into the ocean of mystery. And I feel I’ve found the answer I’m looking for. But this answer, like the question, is more of a feeling than a thought. I can’t really express the inarticulate question, because it’s too deep for words. I can’t really express the inarticulate answer, because it’s too deep for words. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 185:If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 186:At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 187:I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 188:Everyone in the world should sleep without fear at least for one night, sleep without fear. Everyone in the world should eat to their fill, at least for one day, eat to their fill. There should be one day when there is no violence, no one is injured, no one is harmed. All people young and old should serve the poor and needy, at least for one day serve selflessly. This is my dream... .this is my prayer. Love is the answer, love is the way. Love is the answer, love is the way. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 189:Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun! ~ john-wheeler, @wisdomtrove 190:Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 191:The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 192:How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary& 193:The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The & 194:If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude - and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale - would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that & 195:To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally & 196:People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: What is my reason for living? How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life? ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 197:And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer& 198:People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: What is my reason for living? How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life? ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 199:Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 200:If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 201:Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 202:Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: & 203:At some point in life, we all ask the same question: Who am I? And no one really knows the answer. The self is a slippery subject—especially when it’s the subject that is regarding itself as an object! So let’s begin by grounding this airy topic with an experiential activity—taking the body for a walk. Then we’ll investigate the nature of the self in your brain. Last, we’ll explore methods for relaxing and releasing self-ing in order to feel more confident, peaceful, and joined with all things. (For more on this profound matter, which reaches beyond the scope of a single chapter, see Living Dhamma by Ajahn Chah, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, or The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi.) ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 204:The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic, asshole. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 205:Enquire: & *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Love is the answer ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
2:LIVING FROM THE ANSWER ~ Gregg Braden, #NFDB
3:Action is the answer. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
4:The Asker is the Answer. ~ Wei Wu Wei, #NFDB
5:Revenge is never the answer ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
6:The answer to 1984 is 1776. ~ Alex Jones, #NFDB
7:Violence is never the answer. ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB
8:Folly always knows the answer. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
9:Money is the answer for everything. ~ Solomon, #NFDB
10:Love is the answer. Not fear. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
11:solutions are not the answer ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
12:The answer is blowin' in the wind. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
13:Solutions are not the answer. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
14:The answer to most prayers is no. ~ Alex George, #NFDB
15:Whimsy is the answer to tears. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
16:Look for the answer inside your question. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
17:More data is not always the answer. ~ Alan Hirsch, #NFDB
18:When is the answer ever less cheese? ~ Rob Thomas, #NFDB
19:Fear is not the answer, not ever... ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
20:The answer is simpler than you think. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
21:The answer is there is no answer ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
22:Fear is not the answer, not ever. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
23:The answer is there is no answer. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
24:The new plan looked like the answer. ~ Farley Mowat, #NFDB
25:The answer to his problem had come to ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
26:Style is the answer to everything. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
27:Be the answer not the question. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
28:Love is the answer for the team's success. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
29:Love is the answer to any sort of healing. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
30:Maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
31:Whatever the question, love is the answer. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
32:Love is the Answer. What was the Question? ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
33:The answer to a fool is silence. (Proverb) ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
34:The Winner is always part of the answer. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
35:If the answer is simple, God is speaking. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
36:Love is the question; Love is the answer. ~ Daniel Johnston, #NFDB
37:There is no question- love is the answer ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
38:China will be the answer to Japan's problems. ~ Carlos Ghosn, #NFDB
39:If you have a question, then find the answer. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
40:the answer to every problem involved penguins ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
41:But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. ~ Rob Sheffield, #NFDB
42:For me, almost always, the answer was cake. ~ Diana Abu Jaber, #NFDB
43:Literature is the question minus the answer. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
44:Violence is not the answer but neither is peace. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
45:Alcohol is not the answer to all questions ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
46:if management is the problem, chaos is the answer. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
47:Love is always the answer to healing of any sort. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
48:Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
49:No one has the answer: we are answer and question. ~ R D Laing, #NFDB
50:The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
51:And the answer is, of course, “Ugh, patriarchy. ~ Emily Nagoski, #NFDB
52:If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer.. ~ Lindsey Kelk, #NFDB
53:Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
54:Question everything, unless it's the answer ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
55:Sometimes when we don't know the answer, ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
56:The question is just as important as the answer. ~ Charlie Rose, #NFDB
57:Dropping out is not the answer; fucking-up is. ~ Valerie Solanas, #NFDB
58:Love is always the answer when things go wrong. ~ Tanaz Bhathena, #NFDB
59:The answer to our future is a return to our past, ~ Austin Aslan, #NFDB
60:To be and not to be, that is the answer. ~ Piet Pieterszoon Hein, #NFDB
61:To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
62:[Donald] Trump is the answer to, "What do we do?". ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
63:Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
64:Prayer is the answer to every problem there is. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
65:Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
66:The answer came to me as I was boning a quail... ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
67:You’re my reason, the answer to all questions. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
68:Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
69:Genius sees the answer before the question. ~ J Robert Oppenheimer, #NFDB
70:I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
71:Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer. ~ Rowena Cherry, #NFDB
72:Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle, ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
73:Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
74:The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
75:Who are you? I know the answer: zero, shunya, nothingness. ~ Sri M, #NFDB
76:You're the answer to are we alone in the universe? ~ Jonathan Kent, #NFDB
77:Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
78:If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer. ~ Daphne Oz, #NFDB
79:Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems. ~ Sadiq Khan, #NFDB
80:Technology is the answer, but what was the question? ~ Cedric Price, #NFDB
81:the love is always the answer to healing of any sort ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
82:War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
83:He only asks what he already knows the answer to. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
84:How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
85:The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142) ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
86:And married peolpe always think love is the answer. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
87:A wise man's questions contain half the answer. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, #NFDB
88:Be the answer, and everything will change. Part II ~ Michael A Singer, #NFDB
89:If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
90:never ask a question he didn’t know the answer to. At ~ Victor Methos, #NFDB
91:No one has the answer; only you know the way home. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
92:The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
93:You’re the answer to a prayer I didn’t even know I had. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
94:I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
95:If love isn't the answer, you are asking the wrong question. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
96:In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
97:The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
98:The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. ~ Damien Hirst, #NFDB
99:The answer to our existence lies in existence itself. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
100:If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question. ~ T A Uner, #NFDB
101:Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear ~ Kentaro Yabuki, #NFDB
102:The answer is the same for all of your questions. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
103:The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
104:Trusting God is the answer. He will never let you down. ~ Larry Burkett, #NFDB
105:Your questions are false if you already know the answer. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
106:It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
107:It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eug ne Ionesco, #NFDB
108:The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it. ~ Jonah Lehrer, #NFDB
109:The problem is always sin, and the answer is always the Gospel. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
110:To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
111:War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate. ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
112:What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
113:You can't know the answer until you ask the question. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
114:You can’t know the answer until you ask the question. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
115:If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question ~ Bill Murray, #NFDB
116:I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing. ~ Jerome Lawrence, #NFDB
117:It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eug ne Ionesco, #NFDB
118:Power is not the answer. It will only intensify the fight. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
119:The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
120:This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha. ~ Osho, #NFDB
121:War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate. ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
122:You don't always have to have the answer to everything. ~ Robert De Niro, #NFDB
123:Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
124:every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
125:His name was Aaron and he was the answer to all my prayers. ~ Bijou Hunter, #NFDB
126:I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
127:If love is the answer, then I'm changing the question. ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
128:Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer. ~ John Gruber, #NFDB
129:The answer is that the question itself is strictly inapposite. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
130:To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
131:You can either ask the question or experience the answer. ~ Kalki Bhagavan, #NFDB
132:Asking the question matters more than finding the answer. ~ Mark Beauregard, #NFDB
133:Chocolate. It’s always the answer, no matter the question. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
134:God is the answer to every question.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, [T5], #index,#NFDB
135:No one asks what's wrong without wanting to know the answer. ~ Kanae Hazuki, #NFDB
136:The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
137:Ava nodded. If they knew the answer to that question, they’d ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
138:Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving. ~ Jen Lilley, #NFDB
139:Perhaps you will live along some distant day into the answer ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
140:The answer is not more hours, it's less bullshit. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson, #NFDB
141:God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
142:if love is the answer then I don't wanna ask the question ~ Ilsa Madden Mills, #NFDB
143:Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.
— Rhett ~ Rowena Cherry,#NFDB
144:The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. ~ Steve Almond, #NFDB
145:The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
146:The emotions were complex, but the answer was simple. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
147:What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
148:What was the big hurry? The answer was simple: bureaucracy. ~ Masaji Ishikawa, #NFDB
149:When in doubt, the answer is always Death. With a capital D. ~ Melissa Albert, #NFDB
150:Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
151:If you can't find the answer, it is most probably right in ur face ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
152:The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto. ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
153:You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end. ~ Jon Anderson, #NFDB
154:You’re looking at me like I’m the answer to all your prayers. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
155:Faith looks beyond the walls of the obstacle and on to the answer. ~ Benny Hinn, #NFDB
156:God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
157:I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. ~ Linda McCartney, #NFDB
158:If it’s a problem of fire, fire might very well be the answer. ~ Philippe Petit, #NFDB
159:If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer. ~ Vivian Amis, #NFDB
160:I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
161:She had become the answer to prayers he hadn’t known he whispered. ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
162:The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong. ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
163:There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
164:Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
165:Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
166:every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . . ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
167:Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
168:Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
169:One always finds the answer to everything in one’s own egotism. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
170:The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
171:Violence is never the answer, unless you don't feel like talking. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
172:We’re not gods; we can’t be the answer to everyone’s problems. ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
173:Whenever we think we have the answer, God asks another question. ~ Carol Vorvain, #NFDB
174:When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
175:who see their hyperlogical worldviews as the Answer for everyone. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
176:Eli, I need to ask you something-” “Yes, Mav. The answer is yes. ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
177:If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
178:In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter. ~ Walter Russell, #NFDB
179:Money is not the answer because it hasn't solved our problems yet. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
180:The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
181:We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known. ~ Lisa Lutz, #NFDB
182:You let go of fear by focusing on love. Love is the answer to fear. ~ Tama Kieves, #NFDB
183:Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
184:I already knew the answer to that. I was just too afraid to admit it. ~ K Langston, #NFDB
185:If peace isn’t the answer, the wrong question is being asked. ~ Robert Chazz Chute, #NFDB
186:If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. ~ John Major, #NFDB
187:Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. ~ Jack Johnson, #NFDB
188:They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question? ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
189:I don’t want to know the answer, but I can’t live without the truth. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
190:Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer ~ Ronnie James Dio, #NFDB
191:What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
192:Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes. ~ Mark Leyner, #NFDB
193:He's looking at her like she's the answer to some sort of riddle. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
194:I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. ~ Debbie Harry, #NFDB
195:Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
196:True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything. ~ Marina Abramovic, #NFDB
197:Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask? ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
198:And if the answer is “let the jackass think he’s right,” then so be it. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
199:Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
200:Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms. ~ Steve Largent, #NFDB
201:Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
202:Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
203:I'm okay," I said. That was the answer people wanted, when they asked. ~ Laura McHugh, #NFDB
204:Is spirituality a necessary component for resilience? The answer is yes. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
205:Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
206:It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
207:Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
208:People often wonder what makes monsters. The answer is other people, ~ Kristy Cunning, #NFDB
209:The answer, he believed, is that we all seek a cause beyond ourselves. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
210:The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
211:The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
212:Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
213:When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is. ~ Larry Burkett, #NFDB
214:Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything? ~ Elizabeth Scott, #NFDB
215:ideal state might look like: “Who could object to that?” The answer, I ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
216:It can be dangerous to ask a question when you already know the answer. ~ Alice Feeney, #NFDB
217:More was never the answer. The answer, it turned out, was always less. ~ Cait Flanders, #NFDB
218:The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. ~ Thomas Friedman, #NFDB
219:What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,#NFDB
220:You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
221:If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
222:If you have a question,” my folks would say, “then find the answer.” The ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
223:Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. ~ Erik Naggum, #NFDB
224:pauses for a moment to get the answer queued up in his output buffer. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
225:The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity... ~ Jens Stoltenberg, #NFDB
226:When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
227:You ask yourself when you’ll learn, and the answer is always,
“Tomorrow. ~ Kris Kidd,#NFDB
228:you don’t wrestle with a problem when the answer doesn’t matter to you. ~ Dee Henderson, #NFDB
229:And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. ~ Jonah Lehrer, #NFDB
230:He made her feel as if she was the answer to every question he'd ever had. ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
231:How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer. ~ C K Prahalad, #NFDB
232:If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
233:It doesn't matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love ~ Victor J Banis, #NFDB
234:Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
235:some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
236:the answer is she knows I know she tries. That’s what makes the difference. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
237:The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
238:When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No". ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
239:Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
240:If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
241:Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
242:The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
243:The answer is simple; if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. ~ Margo Jones, #NFDB
244:These statistics give us the answer, loud and clear: happiness is not normal! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
245:When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you. ~ Andrew X Pham, #NFDB
246:Write down the problem.
Think very hard.
Write down the answer. ~ Genevieve Cogman,#NFDB
247:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
248:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
249:Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
250:Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
251:Divine love always has been, and always will be, the answer that you seek. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
252:Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
253:If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are. ~ William Randolph Hearst, #NFDB
254:If you eliminated all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
255:I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room. ~ Dick Van Dyke, #NFDB
256:She didn’t know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way. ~ Anne Ursu, #NFDB
257:So how do you beat laziness? Once again, the answer is a little greed. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
258:The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically. ~ Phil Collins, #NFDB
259:When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
260:Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
261:Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes', without asking a clear question. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
262:Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else ~ Mae West, #NFDB
263:I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
264:Life is filled with questions, and love is the answer to every one of them. ~ Ryan Winfield, #NFDB
265:A gunslinger never asks that question until he knows what the answer will be, ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
266:And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
267:Freedom is yours when you end the battle. As you can see, the answer is short ~ Vadim Zeland, #NFDB
268:God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
269:How will I go on without her?!
The answer was very simple: one day at a time. ~ Jeff Erno,#NFDB
270:I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
271:I know the answer now, but I’m so frightened I’ve forgotten the question. ~ Michael Robotham, #NFDB
272:I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question. ~ Curtis Hanson, #NFDB
273:I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
274:Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
275:More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer. ~ James Langevin, #NFDB
276:That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
277:The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. ~ Alan Keyes, #NFDB
278:The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
279:But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
280:If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” —LILY TOMLIN ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
281:If you ask fear if something is going to work, the answer will always be no. Fear ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
282:Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
283:saw that finding the unknown word in another context might give me the answer. ~ John Freeman, #NFDB
284:The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve. ~ Herbert Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel, #NFDB
285:There are times when chocolate really is the answer to all of your prayers. ~ Carole Matthews, #NFDB
286:Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
287:And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
288:Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
289:Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
290:Forget men and romance. The answer to my aching loneliness would be all the cats. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
291:Me. The answer whispered across Cheryl’s soul, and chills ran down her arms. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
292:The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice. ~ Paul Robeson, #NFDB
293:The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. ~ Barbara Hambly, #NFDB
294:YES is the answer to the question is: Is it a good idea to have sex every day? ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
295:Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
296:Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
297:Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
298:How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy. ~ William C Brown, #NFDB
299:... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
300:Maybe it’s just that this woman is the answer to a wish I hadn’t known I’d made. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
301:Sometimes, when there’s danger, the answer is to curl into yourself and wait. ~ Lynn Weingarten, #NFDB
302:The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer ~ Terence McKenna, [T5], #index, #NFDB
303:We have to change, Rafiq.” “Islam is the answer!” “Islam is the problem, habibi. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
304:You asked, I answered," he said. "The answer is you. What I want is you - entire. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
305:You can't know the answer until you ask the question.
-Mrs. Patterson ~ Jennifer E Smith,#NFDB
306:For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not? ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
307:For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter, #NFDB
308:How do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
309:If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
310:In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
311:Looking back on one’s life, you see that love was the answer to everything. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
312:Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
313:Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
314:Harvey tackles the answer for her, suggesting in a casual tone, “Go fuck yourself. ~ Linda Nagata, #NFDB
315:I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' ~ Elizabeth Berkley, #NFDB
316:It's a question. And I'm answering it. But I don't know the answer yet, and I'm sorry. ~ A S King, #NFDB
317:Never ask how much I love you, cause the answer will be “I don’t know, I just do. ~ Karuho Shiina, #NFDB
318:One of those questions you don’t want to know the answer to, but still have to ask. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
319:So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
320:The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
321:The answer is no," said Melody firmly. “Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no. ~ Sarah Weeks, #NFDB
322:Time spent praying is never wasted, Midge, even if you don't like the answer. ~ Kelly Eileen Hake, #NFDB
323:You mean why am I forcing you to come with me? The answer is simple. I want you. ~ Jennifer Blake, #NFDB
324:guess some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not. I don’t know the answer. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
325:If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs. ~ Derek Sivers, #NFDB
326:It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
327:It was harder to work out that there was a question than to think of the answer. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
328:Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?"
"Boy, I hope not! ~ Charles M Schulz,#NFDB
329:Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
330:That's what you really need is self-love. That's the answer to a lot of problems. ~ Dolores Cannon, #NFDB
331:This is what we’re going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
332:To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
333:Why do people read? The answer, as regards the great majority, is: 'They don't. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
334:Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does! ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
335:If the answer is not the one you want, maybe you're not asking the right question. ~ Stephen Baxter, #NFDB
336:No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
337:Some days there comes a time that no matter what the question is, the answer is wine.— ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
338:The answer is I am not committed to doing anything in a new administration or not. ~ Chris Christie, #NFDB
339:The answer is simple: it depends. First, it depends on how well you know your Bible. We ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
340:The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
341:The query: “At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?” And the answer: “Where was man? ~ William Styron, #NFDB
342:War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible. ~ Ron Kovic, #NFDB
343:When we align with love and beauty we instantly become the answer to every problem. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
344:But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
345:Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out. ~ Kevin Drum, #NFDB
346:Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second. ~ Emma Straub, #NFDB
347:One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
348:The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
349:They ask - "How much money is too much money?"
The answer always is - "A little more! ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
350:Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
351:We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
352:Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine? ~ Mitali Perkins, #NFDB
353:"Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence." ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
354:How much love is a person capable of giving? I thought I knew the answer until I met you. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
355:I once wondered if two broken souls could heal one another, I hoped the answer was yes. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
356:Is it a good life or a bad one? The answer doesn’t matter. It’s the only life we have. ~ Nancy Holder, #NFDB
357:Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
358:The answer was: "You'll die and all will end. You'll die and know all, or cease asking. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
359:When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
360:Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
361:Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine. ~ Betty Comden, #NFDB
362:Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel. ~ Lesslie Newbigin, #NFDB
363:If “best years ahead” is the answer, then “things stupid people say” is the question. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
364:In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. ~ Richard Saul Wurman, #NFDB
365:Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
366:These are VCR questions. From the outside, the answer is simple: just shut up and do it. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
367:The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
368:This empty and deserted house is a vast enigma of which the answer is known to none. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
369:And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
370:Ask no question, the river shall answer.'
'Question the river, find the answer. ~ Steven Erikson,#NFDB
371:But God had showed her where she needed to be, and the answer was clearer than water. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
372:But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
373:I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
374:Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
375:"One seeks and seeks, but cannot find. One then gives up, and the answer comes by itself." ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
376:One should read Sri Aurobindo and know the answer.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, [T0], #index,#NFDB
377:Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer. Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God. ~ Greg Laurie, #NFDB
378:Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
379:The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
380:You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
381:Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and i still have time to be ~ Anis Mojgani, #NFDB
382:I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. ~ Leonard Bernstein, #NFDB
383:No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth. ~ Suge Knight, #NFDB
384:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
385:Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing! ~ Katherine Mansfield, #NFDB
386:If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you. ~ Andy Dunn, #NFDB
387:Mr Daniels,
The answer to where I want to be in five years? Simple. With you. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,#NFDB
388:pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine? ~ Mitali Perkins, #NFDB
389:Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
390:Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
391:Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
392:But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
393:I think the deepest belief I have . . . is that love really is the answer to all problems. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
394:Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
395:The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
396:There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
397:Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death. ~ Stephen Nichols, #NFDB
398:At the Center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
399:If love is the answer, then I'm changing the question."
Leo Tate Very Bad Things ~ Ilsa Madden Mills,#NFDB
400:It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. The answer is quite simple: To care. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
401:It’s the effort that shows the way, and if you keep trying, one day the answer will be clear. ~ Lee Strauss, #NFDB
402:Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
403:Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you. ~ James Dillet Freeman, #NFDB
404:16“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
405:Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
406:I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn’t even known I had been asking. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
407:Most people think they KNOW the answer. I am willing to ADMIT I don't even know the question. ~ Arsenio Hall, #NFDB
408:Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time. ~ James F Twyman, #NFDB
409:So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no. ~ Kaya McLaren, #NFDB
410:The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. ~ Floyd Red Crow Westerman, #NFDB
411:The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
412:Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~ William S Burroughs,#NFDB
413:You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never. ~ Alice Munro, #NFDB
414:Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
415:And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
416:But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
417:Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB
418:How do you find someone like that?”
Dee looks at me as if the answer is obvious. “You look. ~ Gayle Forman,#NFDB
419:I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted. ~ Amy Bloom, #NFDB
420:It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer. ~ Charles Grodin, #NFDB
421:Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
422:Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
423:When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
424:A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
425:And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB
426:I encourage people to ask whatever question you're most interested in hearing the answer to. ~ Gabrielle Union, #NFDB
427:If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
428:People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. ~ Frederik Pohl, #NFDB
429:What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that," Fuka-Eri said. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
430:Why did Jordan Peterson cross the road?
The answer isn't obvious. It's no joke man. ~ Reddit, hardlygospel,#NFDB
431:At that moment, I realized something I’d always suspected. Boobs were the answer for everything. ~ Tim Marquitz, #NFDB
432:Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. ~ Will Thomas, #NFDB
433:If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
434:Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely. ~ Ivar Giaever, #NFDB
435:I tried to figure out if I felt calmer with a blanket over my head. No I did not was the answer. ~ Jenny Offill, #NFDB
436:Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal. ~ Sam Mendes, #NFDB
437:People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes. ~ Sallie Krawcheck, #NFDB
438:She said life will never go the way you plan. But putting your total trust in God is the answer. ~ Beth Wiseman, #NFDB
439:Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question. ~ Paul Murray, #NFDB
440:The question: What color is my parachute?
The answer: blood red, brains gray, sludge black. ~ Jesse Petersen,#NFDB
441:Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher. ~ Robert Polidori, #NFDB
442:You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
443:All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer. ~ D J Enright, #NFDB
444:does the reader really need to know this piece of information? If the answer is “No,” cut it out. ~ Thomas Emson, #NFDB
445:life had taught him to place one foot before the other and the answer would come when it was time. ~ Kate Danley, #NFDB
446:Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. ~ Greg Child, #NFDB
447:The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
448:There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB
449:What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
450:How can anyone live on such little money? Surely they’d die? And the answer is . . . they do. ~ William MacAskill, #NFDB
451:If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no. ~ John Seagall, #NFDB
452:If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
453:There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
454:Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response. ~ Tanya Huff, #NFDB
455:Why is it that we, as humans, always hope that something will change, even when we know the answer? ~ Bella Jewel, #NFDB
456:Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you’d suspect, the answer you’ll get is, “Sure. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
457:“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
458:Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
459:I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
460:I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is. ~ Fran ois Lelord, #NFDB
461:Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
462:Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof. ~ Clifford A Pickover, #NFDB
463:The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
464:The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
465:There is no precedent for women getting their own "everything" and learning that it's not the answer. ~ Eve Babitz, #NFDB
466:Well,” said the president, “you won’t like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
467:When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, #NFDB
468:Edward wonders why I’m so sympathetic to the monsters. The answer is simple. Because I am one. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
469:Is your skin this tone all over?"
"Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that. ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
470:I was convinced the answer to life's enigmas must lie in connecting our emotional yearnings to nature. ~ Liza Dalby, #NFDB
471:Never, never, never, on crossexamination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
472:What is the answer?"
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question? ~ Gertrude Stein,#NFDB
473:Where's your sister?" Chevy asks like he doesn't care about the answer, but unfortunately, he does. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
474:You think food, dancing, and sex is the answer to everything.
Everything worth anything, duh! ~ Nancy Gideon,#NFDB
475:At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
476:How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
477:How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?” “Plenty,” came the answer, “and more … ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
478:I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
479:It’s fine to pray for a miracle, but don’t be disappointed if the answer comes through a gradual change. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
480:I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
481:Sex may not be the answer to everything, but it’s also not the worst answer to a lot of things. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
482:The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
483:The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
484:When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
485:You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
486:You have heard the old question, "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer is "One bite at a time!" How ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
487:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
488:Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
489:Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
490:Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
491:One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
492:So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
493:The answer, as with so many things those piteous little creatures dredged from the mud, was poison. ~ Brooke Bolander, #NFDB
494:the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes ~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, #NFDB
495:The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:1 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
496:When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. ~ Luc Tuymans, #NFDB
497:When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. ~ Charles Schumer, #NFDB
498:A friend once told me that if you have to ask if you can trust someone, you already know the answer. ~ Greer Hendricks, #NFDB
499:An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question. ~ Eliyahu M Goldratt, #NFDB
500:For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
501:He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no. ~ Jean Thompson, #NFDB
502:how much time should the average believer dedicate to studying doctrine? The answer is simple: it depends. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
503:In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
504:I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things. ~ Daniel Craig, #NFDB
505:What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work! ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
506:What makes you ask that?”
(...) “Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer. ~ Cameron Dokey,#NFDB
507:An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
508:Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
509:A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by! ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, #NFDB
510:But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
511:If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly. ~ Plato, #NFDB
512:It is far quicker to ask a pro for the answer than to struggle to find one in the manual by yourself. Some ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
513:She’s the answer to every question I’ve ever had about who I am and where I belong. I belong here with her. ~ M S Force, #NFDB
514:What is better than pigs in a blanket? Read my next book for the answer; my next book’s title is NOTHING. ~ Amy Schumer, #NFDB
515:If one persists in asking oneself, “Why does it matter?” the answer always eventually becomes, “It doesn’t. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
516:If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
517:If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore ~ Chris Hillman, #NFDB
518:The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
519:You should only ask someone if they love you if you love them, regardless of what the answer might be. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
520:You will know the answer when it sits well with you. It will make you feel calm instead of apprehensive. ~ Erik Orrantia, #NFDB
521:But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing. ~ Lisa Jewell, #NFDB
522:How will I know when I’ve completed my mission?” The answer? “If you are still breathing, you are not done. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
523:Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
524:So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
525:The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
526:The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. ~ John Peers, #NFDB
527:To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
528:Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
529:We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
530:What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
531:He paid his people for their intellect and their opinions, not to play it safe until the answer was obvious. ~ Vince Flynn, #NFDB
532:Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
533:Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer. ~ Lesslie Newbigin, #NFDB
534:live the questions now...you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
535:Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
536:Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
537:Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
538:Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
539:That’s the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
540:The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
541:To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
542:What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
543:When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
544:Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of your body and knows the answer to all problems. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
545:Culture of Error has four key parts: expecting error, withholding the answer, managing your tell, and praising ~ Doug Lemov, #NFDB
546:Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist? ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
547:He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
548:I guess some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not. I don’t know the answer. Maybe there isn’t one. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
549:Keep in mind that I have seen the answer key.I know what I'm supposed to say to stop you from hitting me. ~ Jennifer Echols, #NFDB
550:Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
551:Q: Why do you like chocolate so much?
A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate. ~ Pseudonymous Bosch,#NFDB
552:There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
553:The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
554:A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.' ~ Michael Sheen, #NFDB
555:Always talk, talk, talk with you people," Pearl said. "You know, sometimes violence really is the answer. ~ Sarah Beth Durst, #NFDB
556:Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB
557:His lips are soft and warm and fit mine like the answer to an equation I didn't know I was trying to solve. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
558:It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. ~ Terry Fox, #NFDB
559:I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history. ~ Larry King, #NFDB
560:Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything,’ Ray said once, in an interview. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
561:Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything,” Ray said once, in an interview. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
562:Love is the answer,” Porus told me, when I asked him once. “Love is always the answer when things go wrong. ~ Tanaz Bhathena, #NFDB
563:Oh why is she going away just when I want so much to be with her! She is the answer to the riddle of my life. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
564:Somewhere in the scientific method lies the answer for the needed management techniques. It is obvious. ~ Eliyahu M Goldratt, #NFDB
565:The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book ~ Tammy Blackwell, #NFDB
566:What were you doing when you were eight, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen? The answer is, I suspect: not very much. ~ Tash Aw, #NFDB
567:Who is the best friend to a man and a woman?” The answer is: “A wife to her husband and a husband to his wife. ~ Sudha Murty, #NFDB
568:You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
569:Do you have a brain?” And if the answer was yes, then she said, “Then you could have thought your way out of it. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
570:One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer. ~ Lisa Randall, #NFDB
571:Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask.
"Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
572:Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
573:The answer doesn’t come, but the power of being emotionally stuck is far greater than the power of reason.”2 ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
574:What is the one asset, the one benefit you have today over yesterday? The answer, of course, is experience. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
575:When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say? ~ Clay Aiken, #NFDB
576:Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer. ~ Thomas Campbell, #NFDB
577:You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
578:Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs? ~ Noah Cicero, #NFDB
579:But are constitutional safeguards, by themselves, enough to secure a democracy? We believe the answer is no. ~ Steven Levitsky, #NFDB
580:Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: “Be yourself.” “Follow your heart. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
581:He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer … Man ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
582:How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz, #NFDB
583:I am a nightmare to most, and a dream for the broken; who am I?’ and the answer to that is death.” “Correct. ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
584:Maybe the answer isn’t in another job,” Wendy said. “Maybe the answer is in finding new ways to define manhood. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
585:Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
586:There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
587:Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
588:What does one ever ask an author except: “How?” And the answer, as Less well knows, is obvious: “Beats me! ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
589:-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.
-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer. ~ Patti Smith,#NFDB
590:What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
591:He answers prayers.
Yes, but will it be the answer I want?
I don’t know, but that’s where faith comes in. ~ Lynette Eason,#NFDB
592:Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
593:If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer. ~ Seth, #NFDB
594:It’s better to ask and receive the answer ‘No,’ then to assume the answer is going to be ‘No,’ and never ask. ~ Pauline Creeden, #NFDB
595:Oh gods, Jane, the answer to all those questions is you. You turn me on; you’re what I want; you make me growl. ~ Nicole Peeler, #NFDB
596:Our second argument is “Why should we do good for bad people?” The answer is because “anything else would be bad. ~ Laura Bates, #NFDB
597:Sir, if you ask a Marine if he wants another cigarette, or if he’s ready, the answer is always the same, sir! ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
598:Tell me about yourself.” And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. “There’s nothing to tell.” But ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
599:The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable. ~ Frank Wilczek, #NFDB
600:The heart of strategy is the answer to two fundamental questions: where will you play, and how will you win there? ~ A G Lafley, #NFDB
601:At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.
But she already knew the answer to that.
Nobody was ever ready. ~ L J Smith,#NFDB
602:Does your mind always go there?" I asked even though I knew the answer was yes. Once a pervert, always a pervert. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
603:guess I can put two and two together.” “Sometimes the answer’s four,” I said, “and sometimes it’s twenty-two. ~ Dashiell Hammett, #NFDB
604:How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
605:How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
606:How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
607:I have never lost respect for any individual who replied to a question with the answer, "I just don't know. ~ Charles R Swindoll, #NFDB
608:It is not a ridiculous question. It is a very simple one. The difficulty lies in the answer. Why do you love her? ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
609:I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no. ~ Hideo Kojima, #NFDB
610:Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer. ~ Ravi Zacharias, #NFDB
611:Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that. ~ Susana Martinez, #NFDB
612:Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer. ~ Jonathan Renshaw, #NFDB
613:The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone. ~ Madeleine K Albright, #NFDB
614:Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
615:Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
616:You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again. ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
617:Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
618:For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
619:For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it’s so they can die being right. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
620:I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
621:I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. ~ Matthew Specktor, #NFDB
622:Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems. ~ Mia Moretti, #NFDB
623:Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer. ~ Ser Prince Halverson, #NFDB
624:Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
625:The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB
626:The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
627:The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
628:When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time,” and the answer is invariably dismissed. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
629:Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
630:A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book. ~ Peter Hammill, #NFDB
631:But soon enough I banished this nonsense; some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
632:I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
633:In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer. Our job is simply to answer well. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
634:In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
635:It’s just another stop on the curvy road
the final encounter
for the man who has lived
death is the answer. ~ Mie Hansson,#NFDB
636:Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
637:The answer as to why bubbles form,” Blodget told me, “is that it’s in everybody’s interest to keep markets going up. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
638:You have a brain and two hands, look up the answer yourself. You want to know how to get through life? Pay attention. ~ Weike Wang, #NFDB
639:Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
640:Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
641:Don’t you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don’t follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves! ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
642:Do with me what you want. Take me. Just ask if I want to and see the answer you’ll get, just don’t let me say no. And ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
643:Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
644:I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
645:If you already know the answer, why are you trying to make me say it?"
"Because I'm a girl, an that's what we do. ~ Sara Ney,#NFDB
646:That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
647:"The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after." ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
648:Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!' ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
649:Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
650:A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short. ~ Philip Toshio Sudo, #NFDB
651:But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it. ~ Damien Hirst, #NFDB
652:Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
653:for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
654:God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
655:God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
656:I cross my arms. 'Seriously? That's the answer you're going with? First quantum physics and now nowhere and everywhere? ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
657:I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
658:Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
659:We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
660:you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected? ~ Jean Ure, #NFDB
661:And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
662:And you loved me like I was, and had always been, the answer and the question did not, and would never, matter. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
663:Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
664:I'm going to admit when I'm clueless, and I'm going to ask people for help when I don't know the answer to something. ~ Ryan Reynolds, #NFDB
665:...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. ~ George Stigler, #NFDB
666:Pushing past a first draft lets you put the problem down. Pushing past the first draft is where you’ll find the answer. ~ David Niven, #NFDB
667:The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
668:What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems? ~ Keith Ablow, #NFDB
669:Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
670:Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
671:Beware of searching for the answer to your question, man could not endure life if he was aware of the hour of his death. ~ Axel Munthe, #NFDB
672:But until you make up your mind, I cannot give you the answer you wish to hear since you don't know what that is. ~ Emma Jane Holloway, #NFDB
673:He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
674:If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
675:In Secretary Clinton’s case, the answer to the first question—was classified information mishandled?—was obviously “yes. ~ James Comey, #NFDB
676:It’s the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
677:the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
678:we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
679:What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles. ~ Trey Anastasio, #NFDB
680:What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. ~ Alison Gopnik, #NFDB
681:as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
682:Does a retweet actually mean endorsement? For Dion Nissenbaum, the answer to this question landed him in a Turkish prison. ~ P W Singer, #NFDB
683:I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older. ~ Hugh Masekela, #NFDB
684:Life may bring you to your knees; pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
685:Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people. ~ Jim Highsmith, #NFDB
686:The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
687:Where’s he shooting from? (Syd)
I don’t know. You want to go look out the window and tell me the answer? (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
688:Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question. ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
689:A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself. ~ Beth Gibbons, #NFDB
690:And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question. ~ Eric Hobsbawm, #NFDB
691:Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
692:Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. ~ Clay Christensen, #NFDB
693:When living comes to pass, one wonders: but was that it? And the answer is: that is not only it, that is exactly it. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
694:And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,
And again there was silence, and again the ghost
of summer. ~ Anna Akhmatova,#NFDB
695:Beware the seduction of the quick conclusion. Do not indulge in the answer you desire until you know all you need to know. ~ Anthony Ryan, #NFDB
696:Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
697:How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence.” — ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
698:If snow falls in a city and no one is around to feel it, is it still cold?
Yes. The answer to that question is yes. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB
699:If you would write a book about that and give the answer to that question, that 'why?' - you would have a very great book ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
700:The answer is simple: it’s not the world that is boring and repetitive, it’s your mind that is boring and repetitive. Your ~ Michael Taft, #NFDB
701:The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB
702:Wise man’s mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
703:You find people who just will not follow the logic everywhere. They don’t like the answer so they think wishing makes it so. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
704:You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? ~ Gabrielle Zevin, #NFDB
705:Burke laughed, but there wasn’t any humor in his voice. “Romeo and Juliet died, son. Consider that all the answer you need. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
706:...I guess I can put two and two together."
"Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two... ~ Dashiell Hammett,#NFDB
707:I’m smart enough to know that alcohol isn’t the answer to my problems, but I’m wise enough to accept it as a crutch. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
708:in stressful social situations, when you don't have time to make a decision, time to think, the answer will come on its own. ~ Parul Sheth, #NFDB
709:I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
710:Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel. ~ Angelina Love, #NFDB
711:The answer lay not in faith but in another factor that created trouble for Islam from the very beginning: political power. ~ Mustafa Akyol, #NFDB
712:The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable. ~ Frank Wilczek, #NFDB
713:Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
714:DID YOU FIND THE SECRET MESSAGE HIDDEN IN THIS BOOK? If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t look at the bottom of this page! ~ Ron Roy, #NFDB
715:In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. ~ Francis Ford Coppola, #NFDB
716:Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB
717:It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs. ~ Scott Hawkins, #NFDB
718:King Uthil says steel is the answer. I say his sight is short. Dust is the last answer to every question, now and always. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
719:Let’s pretend the answer is ‘absolutely nothing,’ William,” I replied. Mostly because the answer was “absolutely nothing. ~ John G Hartness, #NFDB
720:My friend laughs. “I don’t think they go with the way you dress.” How do I dress? I wonder. Like a bus driver is the answer. ~ Jenny Offill, #NFDB
721:Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
722:Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.”
-Skulduggery ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
723:The answer is the same to all your questions. Whatever form your enquiry may take, you must finally come to the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
724:The funny thing about the mind is that if you ask a question and then listen quietly, the answer usually appears. ~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, #NFDB
725:Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”
"...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."
"Well reasoned. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
726:Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. ~ Richard Saul Wurman, #NFDB
727:Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself. ~ Omar Saif Ghobash, #NFDB
728:At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this? ~ Ilya Kaminsky,#NFDB
729:But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
730:How Do you spell relax?" I whispered, holding his head with my hands.
I think the answer is f-u-c-k-m-e." He answered. ~ Yasmine Galenorn,#NFDB
731:If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
732:Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The ~ John Medina, #NFDB
733:I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, "How do you write a book?" The answer is, you just write. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
734:I will tell them nothing.” The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. “It is not for them to say what I will do. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
735:Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
736:she thinks Scrabble is the answer to everything. She even has a Scrabble-based plan for lasting peace in the Middle East. ~ Christine Warren, #NFDB
737:Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. ~ J Robert Oppenheimer, #NFDB
738:The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
739:the only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,#NFDB
740:The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer? ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
741:The truth is: If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear. The answer is: NOTHING! ~ Susan Jeffers, #NFDB
742:What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
743:Why does every relationship end the same way?" In most cases the answer is, "Because every relationship started the same way. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
744:Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
745:Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is waste to be asking the question when you are the answer ~ Campbell, #NFDB
746:People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
747:The answer pinged back within seconds. I smiled. How did girls that age type so quickly when they did everything else so slowly? ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
748:The answer was no. I didn’t become any of those things, and the where, how, and who of it all left me disappointed as well. ~ Gabourey Sidibe, #NFDB
749:What about your family?” There’s a serious sorrow in his voice, almost like he already knows the answer to that question. Here ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
750:What am I looking for?" Fern thought...The answer was too easy. Love, home. herself - what else did people go searching for? ~ Ramona Ausubel, #NFDB
751:What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
752:Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. ~ Piet Hein, #NFDB
753:A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home ~ Cindy Woodsmall, #NFDB
754:Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
755:Quinn, that’s the ring from downstairs!” I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. “Did you steal that ring? ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
756:Worrying about complications before ruling out the possibility that the answer was simple would have been damned foolishness. ~ James D Watson, #NFDB
757:Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you’ll ask, ‘Why are bats furry? ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
758:But will being too attentive to your newborn’s cries make him manipulative? Fortunately, the answer to that question is “Hell no! ~ Harvey Karp, #NFDB
759:But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
760:Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
761:I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
762:Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
763:What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
764:Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer. ~ Michael Beckwith, #NFDB
765:Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
766:You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
767:Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much. ~ Gore Verbinski, #NFDB
768:I don’t know if I can ever get past it, Nick.”
His forehead dropped to mine. “What can I do?”
The answer was simple. “Stay. ~ Devney Perry,#NFDB
769:Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy. ~ Craig Johnson, #NFDB
770:I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO. ~ Bill Fitch, #NFDB
771:Love is always the answer to healing of any sort. And the pathway to love is forgiveness. Forgiveness dissolves resentment. There ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
772:The power is in U. The answer is in U. & U R D answer to all UR searches:U R the goal. You R the answer. It’s never outside. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
773:You asked me once if I ever get tired of being who I am,” he reminds me. “And the answer is this: only when I have to leave you. ~ Kelsey Sutton, #NFDB
774:You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer ~ L Frank Baum,#NFDB
775:Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer. ~ Gary Lineker, #NFDB
776:I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked. ~ Johnnie Ray, #NFDB
777:If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
778:I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
779:No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer... ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
780:The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike? ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
781:Walking by faith is never easy. Especially when it’s being tested day after day. All I can say is that giving up is not the answer. ~ Francis Ray, #NFDB
782:Why do we so often fail at this final stage of perception? The answer lies in that very element we were discussing: engagement. ~ Maria Konnikova, #NFDB
783:Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
784:If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
785:If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya, #NFDB
786:No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
787:She’s right – I do know the answer. But neither one of us can put it into words. Putting it into words will destroy any meaning. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
788:This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
789:What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don’t know the answer to such questions anymore. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
790:When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else. ~ Tao Lin, #NFDB
791:Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic panties of language ~ Tony Vigorito, #NFDB
792:Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
793:Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to. ~ Emily Watson, #NFDB
794:Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
795:Grace gave her a gentle smile. "You know what the answer is, don't you? Chocolate. It's always the answer, no matter the question. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
796:He couldn’t deny the hole he was in, but could the uppity young miss who kept his head spinning be the answer he was looking for? ~ Regina Jennings, #NFDB
797:If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
798:It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
799:People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing. ~ Michael Franks, #NFDB
800:There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
801:This is the way I’ve always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away. ~ Jael McHenry, #NFDB
802:To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
803:What is that by knowing which everything in this universe is known?’22 That is the answer that Hindu philosophy seeks to provide. ~ Hindol Sengupta, #NFDB
804:Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
805:You can't reason with them. They think logic is fallacy, a human invention. They think chaos is the one truth, the answer; salvation. ~ Haydn Wilks, #NFDB
806:Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
807:Comfort was the answer to all life’s problems. It didn’t solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
808:Fear isn’t the answer. If we’re afraid of everything, then we’re afraid to do anything, and that means we’re giving up our freedom. ~ Matthew Mather, #NFDB
809:If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
810:I hardly think a seducer of young women is the answer to my niece’s prayers.” “Perhaps she isn’t saying the right ones, then.” Eve ~ Vivienne Lorret, #NFDB
811:In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
812:In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
813:I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they have ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. ~ Khlo Kardashian, #NFDB
814:When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask. ~ Paul Halmos, #NFDB
815:I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no. ~ Natalie Portman, #NFDB
816:I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
817:If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,#NFDB
818:I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government. ~ Jeffrey Rosen, #NFDB
819:Patrick wanted someone else. I wanted him to be happy, but why couldn't he be happy with me? I knew the answer. He couldn't choose me. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
820:The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
821:...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
822:Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf. ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
823:The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
824:The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
825:There is nothing I find more exciting than picking a question that I don’t know the answer to and embarking on a quest for answers. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
826:We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost? ~ Leos Carax, #NFDB
827:What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
828:But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
829:But that’s the thing with the what-if game — you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it’s better that way. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
830:I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on. ~ Susan Stroman, #NFDB
831:If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why." ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
832:People ask me all the time, “How many people have you killed?” My standard response is, “Does the answer make me less, or more, of a man? ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
833:The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that. ~ T Colin Campbell, #NFDB
834:Then the old man with the black eyepatch asked, How many blind persons are needed to make a blindness, No one could provide the answer. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
835:When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way. ~ Jacque Fresco, #NFDB
836:God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
837:I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
838:Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
839:Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
840:One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
841:Shh…come here,” he said, and hugged her gently. “Tania, whatever questions you have, the answer is yes to all of them,” he whispered, ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
842:The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. ~ Mary Augusta Ward, #NFDB
843:The broad truth is that nature and nurture are so interlaced in any realm of athletic performance that the answer is always: it’s both. ~ David Epstein, #NFDB
844:What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
845:Will you gentlemen take breakfast with me?’ asked the Professor. There is little need to record the answer to that particular question. ~ Robert Rankin, #NFDB
846:Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
847:But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly. ~ Kristina Cook, #NFDB
848:Does God know if I am ignored or rejected? Find the answer in the compassionate eyes of Christ as he stands to defend the adulterous woman. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
849:In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun ~ David Crystal, #NFDB
850:Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
851:People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
852:Whatever has you afraid, angry, intimidated or frustrated tonight - take it to our all-powerful and all-capable God. He has the answer. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
853:Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be ~ Anis Mojgani, #NFDB
854:You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
855:And the answer is
not every building that shakes
will collapse.
The answer is
not everything that chips
will crumble. ~ Rudy Francisco,#NFDB
856:Are you wrestling faster than the audience can process? The answer to that question is often times yes. If that is true, then you are failing. ~ Jim Ross, #NFDB
857:Comfort was the answer to all life’s problems. It didn’t solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. “You ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
858:How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years? How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world’s problems? ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
859:I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
860:I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
861:It was from Scott: This guy is brave. :P I wonder if he’s as hot as you? Hard to tell from back here. So what’s the answer about tomorrow? ~ Anyta Sunday, #NFDB
862:On the other hand, maybe the answer wasn’t less chances for people like Officer Strickland, but more chances and understanding for everyone. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
863:When we were kids, Mama used to ask, “If Zeb wanted to jump off the roof, would you do it, too?” And as it turned out, the answer was yes. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
864:Will I be something?
Am I something?
And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be. ~ Anis Mojgani,#NFDB
865:Ask me something that will make me think. Something I'll have to wonder whether I should tell you the answer to or not. ~ Evie Snow ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
866:I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
867:One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
868:When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
869:You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
870:You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
871:and even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to. ~ Elizabeth Noble, #NFDB
872:And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore ~ Donna Leon, #NFDB
873:But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long? ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
874:Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
875:People who care do a better job in everything they do. Why do people care? What inspires them? The answer is almost anything you can imagine. ~ David Niven, #NFDB
876:The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make?
The answer was eerily simple.
I had time to make all of them. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
877:when God calls us to something, the answer is Carpe Diem. And the question we should be asking Him is, “What can I do for you and your kingdom? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
878:Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer?"
She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. "To annoy you, dearest. ~ Kate Elliott,#NFDB
879:Ashleigh was the answer to a prayer I hadn’t even known how to put together. She was all up in my boundaries, and it was a wonderful thing. ~ Annabel Joseph, #NFDB
880:Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’
‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. ~ Jamie O Neill,#NFDB
881:Do you ask why I tortured and tormented myself? The answer is that it was too boring to sit and do nothing, and so I indulged my fancy. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
882:It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July. ~ Iliza Shlesinger, #NFDB
883:Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
884:The answer I got when asking programmers why they don’t like working during the day sounds very asocial indeed - because other people are awake. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
885:The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now. ~ angel Kyodo Williams, #NFDB
886:The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
887:If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
888:If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything. ~ Fred Reichheld, #NFDB
889:I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful ~ Mariah Carey, #NFDB
890:I think that if you've ever asked yourself "Should I?" Then the answer should be "Yes!" Otherwise how would you ever know that you shouldn't ~ Jonas Jonasson, #NFDB
891:Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
892:Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
893:Mina actually shivered when she looked at Brody, feeling as if her body had gone without water for days, and here was the answer to her thirst. ~ Chanda Hahn, #NFDB
894:Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine, #NFDB
895:What are you smiling at?” she smirks from under me. “You,” I tell her, refusing to wipe the grin from my face. “The answer will always be you. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
896:For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
897:If you are wondering if the Rule works if you count forward 1- 2- 3- 4- 5, instead of backwards 5- 4- 3- 2- 1, the answer is no—it doesn’t. Just ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
898:If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
899:Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer. ~ Lani Guinier, #NFDB
900:The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
901:The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt ~ Tony DiTerlizzi, #NFDB
902:The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver. ~ Israel Nathan Herstein, #NFDB
903:What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
904:Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house. ~ John Green, #NFDB
905:Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
906:Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
907:Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
908:If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
909:Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
910:Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
911:Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
912:What kind of racial caste system includes white people within its control? The answer: a racial caste system in the age of colorblindness. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
913:And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war. ~ Gavin Hood, #NFDB
914:A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. ~ B F Skinner, #NFDB
915:How do you recruit and keep volunteers?” Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
916:How's your love life?" I asked.
"What love life? You keep ruining it."
That was the answer I was hoping for. I even hoped it was true. ~ Marshall Thornton,#NFDB
917:How you ask a question and what facts you include when asking your question often influences the answer. This is “framing” your question. There ~ Mike Cernovich, #NFDB
918:Just before she Gertrude Stein died she asked, `What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case, what is the question? ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
919:meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear. His heart already knew he should ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
920:Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it. ~ Nick Bilton, #NFDB
921:Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes. ~ Suzanne Young, #NFDB
922:The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
923:There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
924:What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB
925:As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
926:Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it. ~ Jean M Twenge, #NFDB
927:I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
928:If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
929:I must let go now. Let you go. Love is too often The answer for staying. Too seldom the reason For going. I drop the line And watch you drift away. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
930:In the movie that was her life, he'd just asked her to marry him, and the answer was yes, oh, yes. Definitely-yes!
Cue straitjacket. ~ Cecily von Ziegesar,#NFDB
931:It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
932:"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer." ~ Joseph Campbell#meaning, #NFDB
933:Look to the Bible for the answer. Ancient Jewish wisdom says, “Delight in serving other people.” This is the best career advice you will ever get. ~ Daniel Lapin, #NFDB
934:One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day. Progress is definitely the answer. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
935:....the actions driven by fear and guilt are not an antidote to lukewarm, selfish, comfortable living. I hope you realize that the answer is love. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
936:The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer. ~ Paul Bloom, #NFDB
937:The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
938:Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
939:Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
940:What is the answer, Evan?" Ms Granger asked.
Giraffe, I wanted to answer. It was on the tip of my tongue. Giraffe.
This was in math class, ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
941:what we believe is the key to our relationship, the answer would be vulnerability, love, humor, respect, shame-free fighting, and blame-free living. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
942:Why me, Asher?"
"Sweetheart, when you know the answer to that question, we won't be talking anymore."
"You'll be gone?"
"I'll be inside you. ~ Lexi Ryan,#NFDB
943:Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
944:Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?” Her look was full of pity. “If you have to ask that question, you wouldn’t understand the answer. ~ John Varley, #NFDB
945:Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. ~ Paul Dickson, #NFDB
946:And it was the first time that I believed the claim that you can help a person more by asking them the right question than by giving them the answer. ~ Amy Hempel, #NFDB
947:Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one. ~ Kate DiCamillo,#NFDB
948:Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions. —BILL ALLIN, SOCIOLOGIST AND EDUCATION ACTIVIST ~ Josh Kaufman, #NFDB
949:He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
950:How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea what the answer will be. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
951:Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
952:The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer. ~ Benedict Anderson, #NFDB
953:There is a unique pleasure in obedience. The answer of a good conscience brings into the heart a peace and satisfaction that nothing can destroy. ~ Karen Andreola, #NFDB
954:Um... isn’t the opportunity to hang out in my presence payment enough?” From the look on his face, I gathered the answer was a negative-on-that-one. ~ Kate Danley, #NFDB
955:What is the answer?” Gertrude Stein asked Alice B. Toklas as Stein was dying. There was no reply. “In that case, what is the question?” Stein asked. ~ Nora Ephron, #NFDB
956:How did I get here?” Anna sighs, already knowing the answer. She has gotten here, she has survived, by always doing the thing that needs to be done. ~ Ariel Lawhon, #NFDB
957:When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people. ~ Allen West, #NFDB
958:But allow Riley to boss him around? Multiply "hell, no" by "dream on" and divide by "suck it," and the answer was "the wolf could bite the big one. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
959:If we find the answer to that (why the universe exists), it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason. For then we would know the mind of God. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
960:If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont. ~ Michael Ignatieff, #NFDB
961:I used to wonder if you were a monster. Now I know the answer. If you want power in this world, power enough to change it, it seems you have to be. ~ Seth Dickinson, #NFDB
962:You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
963:You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
964:Are you currently at your house?" he asked.
"Um, no," I said.
"That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house. ~ John Green,#NFDB
965:How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
966:I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
967:If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
968:In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
969:Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer. ~ Joe Frank, #NFDB
970:Mr. Hardy looked out the window of his second-floor study as if searching for the answer somewhere in the town of Bayport, where the Hardys lived. ~ Franklin W Dixon, #NFDB
971:The answers to my questions lie within. There is nothing I can ask that I do not, somewhere within the deep recesses of my soul, know the answer to. ~ Rosemary Altea, #NFDB
972:the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
973:There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now! ~ Ryan Reynolds, #NFDB
974:What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don’t know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another ~ Warren Berger, #NFDB
975:How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?
The answer came in a question, Ruby.
God, in reply, asked, "How can you? ~ Lisa Wingate,#NFDB
976:However, once you realize the answer to most questions is, “It depends,” you are ready to embark on the quest to figure out what it depends on. ~ Michael J Mauboussin, #NFDB
977:If I cannot ask people directly how happy they are, I ask them how satisfied they are with their social relationships, because that gives me the answer. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB
978:If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford. ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
979:In the bathroom, she washed her hands over and over, as if that would somehow give her the answer. Instead, it only gave her exceedingly clean hands. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
980:The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
981:There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures) ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
982:How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
983:I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
984:Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
985:wonderful bit of Chinese wisdom that asks, “When is the best time to plant a tree?” The answer is “20 years ago, but the next best time is right now. ~ Paul S Boynton, #NFDB
986:before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed! ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
987:But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
988:Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
989:If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions. ~ Lee Friedlander, #NFDB
990:I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
991:People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
992:The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy. ~ Eleanor Brown, #NFDB
993:[W]hat is epistemically available simply on the basis of linguistic and conceptual competence [?] To a first approximation, the answer is: nothing. ~ Timothy Williamson, #NFDB
994:Amber leaned into Gavin. Could it be that simple? Could love be the glue that keeps us on the path of righteousness?
“Love is always the answer. ~ Catherine Bybee,#NFDB
995:But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB
996:Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
997:For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
998:It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
999:The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
1000:A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?) ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1001:But isn’t the behavior of psychopaths maladaprive? The answer is that it may be maladaprive for society but it is adaptive for the individuals themselves. ~ Robert D Hare, #NFDB
1002:Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away ~ Ramon Magsaysay, #NFDB
1003:If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1004:In the mind of a scientist, beauty is simplicity. The most elegant experiment is the one that takes no time to set up and gives the answer to every question. ~ Weike Wang, #NFDB
1005:Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1006:The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population ; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1007:The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. ~ Lester Bangs, #NFDB
1008:Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. ~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari, #NFDB
1009:Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1010:You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1011:You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1012:Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
1013:For much of his life, Paul wondered about death—and whether he could face it with integrity. In the end, the answer was yes. I was his wife and a witness. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
1014:It depends on whether the monkey is more intelligent than we are."
"I'm rather afraid of the answer," Harry replied dryly.
- Beatrix & Harry ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1015:Nia, it wasn’t about you.” “Are you sure?” I look down, and the answer is right there in my chest and it’s resounding. “Yes. I have bigger problems than you. ~ Ned Vizzini, #NFDB
1016:Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1017:Sometimes I actually think to myself, I'm dying to freak out here! Do I have enough information to freak out? Will freaking out help? The answer is always no. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1018:The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1019:The man who agrees with us that some question, little regarded by others, is of great importance can be our Friend. He need not agree with us about the answer. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1020:think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we’re angry or scared or in pain. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1021:... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1022:But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. ~ Fisher Stevens, #NFDB
1023:If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name. ~ Richard Brautigan,#NFDB
1024:Lillian laughs and rolls her eyes. “Do I look like I know the answer to that? I always just locked on to the target and then followed it all the way down. ~ Brenna Yovanoff, #NFDB
1025:My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
1026:So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him. ~ Sara Pennypacker, #NFDB
1027:The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1028:The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
1029:We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1030:We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1031:Why did you stop working just now?” The answer from inside the lab was often, “How did you know?” to which we would reply, “We have a window to your soul. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1032:Why was she thinking about such silly stuff at a time like this? She knew the answer. Her mind was spinning its tires, looking for traction on friendly ground. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB
1033:It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
1034:The answer is that each element corresponds to one solution of the main equation of quantum mechanics. The whole of chemistry emerges from a single equation. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
1035:The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That’s rarely a fair trade. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
1036:Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1037:Why do we children of the light so easily become conspirators with the darkness? The answer is quite simple. Our identity, our sense of self, is at stake. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1038:You can’t search for the answer to questions that haven’t been asked yet. And you can’t Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know. ~ Brian Grazer, #NFDB
1039:Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.' ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1040:How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
1041:The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1042:This guy’s a drag.” I spoke under my breath. “He sure is.” “Know what I suggest?” “Yep. And the answer’s no. I’m not going to kill him.” “Oh, you’re no fun. ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
1043:We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot. ~ D Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
1044:Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth it was true, I said it anyway: No one. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1045:Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. ~ Andrew Johnson, #NFDB
1046:Ask me something that will make me think. Something I'll have to wonder whether I should tell you the answer to or not. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher Evie Snow ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
1047:But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. ~ Damien Hirst, #NFDB
1048:I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them. ~ Diego Luna, #NFDB
1049:Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1050:The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is ~ Arthur Leonard Schawlow, #NFDB
1051:There was the answer to why people got tangled with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1052:Thus transcription factors regulate genes. What regulates transcription factors? The answer devastates the concept of genetic determinism: the environment. ~ Robert M Sapolsky, #NFDB
1053:When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1054:You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are ~ Barry White, #NFDB
1055:After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1056:Because as long as you know the rules, you know what’s expected of you, and as long as you have the necessary information, you can always find the answer. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
1057:Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well. ~ Kenya Hara, #NFDB
1058:Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to? ~ Alethea Kontis, #NFDB
1059:How will I ever show the gospel to the world if all I send is my money? Was I really so shallow as to think that my money is the answer to the needs in the world? ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1060:If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. ~ Nora Roberts, #NFDB
1061:Love is stronger than evil. Love is the answer. Love is all there is. Love conquers. Love heals. Love unites. All you need is love. Love makes the world go round… ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
1062:the Mundaka Upanishad says, ‘What is that by knowing which everything in this universe is known?’22 That is the answer that Hindu philosophy seeks to provide. ~ Hindol Sengupta, #NFDB
1063:The tunnel was crowded with people and papered in Nazi propaganda that demonized the Brits and Jews and made the Führer the answer to every question. Suddenly, ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1064:You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1065:Blessed are the wonderers with the courage to live into the questions. Seems to me that sooner or later, whether we like the outcome or not, theirs is the answer. ~ Sarah Bessey, #NFDB
1066:[Science] didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1067:The first question should be, ‘Does it serve? Does it add value to others?’ If the answer to that question is yes, then you can go ahead and ask, ‘Does it make money? ~ Bob Burg, #NFDB
1068:This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence. ~ Bill Clinton, #NFDB
1069:What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command. ~ Eugene V Debs, #NFDB
1070:You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1071:People ask me how many times I've taken LSD--and I don't count. But it's the same thing when they ask me how many times I've made love. The answer is, not enough. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
1072:The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
1073:The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1074:We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1075:Why did love have to be so difficult? Do they not say that love is the answer to everything? That love can survive anything? Apparently, magic is stronger. ~ Konstanz Silverbow, #NFDB
1076:You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?” “No—” “To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.” I ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1077:You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1078:After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it! ~ Babe Ruth, #NFDB
1079:A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend. ~ E L Konigsburg, #NFDB
1080:How much weirder, thought Kline, is it possible for my life to get? And then he pushed the thought down and tried to ignore it, afraid of what the answer might be. ~ Brian Evenson, #NFDB
1081:I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn’t I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1082:Life is hard, and it changes in ways we don't want or expect. Running away isn't the answer. We have to find the good in what we have, and we have to appreciate it. ~ Aimee Carter, #NFDB
1083:Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
1084:Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you’ve got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
1085:Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question? ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
1086:For a moment the pain vanished. Comfort was the answer to all life’s problems. It didn’t solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1087:He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1088:Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
1089:Question everything. I am particularly fond of “stupid” questions. A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
1090:Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done. ~ Benjamin Creme, #NFDB
1091:She wanted them to be on an even playing field. Or were they supposed to balance out each other’s shortcomings? She didn’t even know the answer to that either. Gabe ~ Lisa Phillips, #NFDB
1092:The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1093:You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1094:A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
1095:An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle? ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1096:And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1097:Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words. ~ Philip Toshio Sudo, #NFDB
1098:I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight. ~ Tobin Bell, #NFDB
1099:Liv, do you think you love him?” Kyle looked like she already knew the answer.
“I feel like I’ve always loved him, and now I just got lucky enough to find him. ~ Debra Anastasia,#NFDB
1100:My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different. ~ Arlene Dickinson, #NFDB
1101:Of course beauty has been used as a tool of oppression, but eliminating beauty is not the answer; you can’t liberate people by narrowing the scope of their experiences. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
1102:Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists—probably Ina racists—don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to your daytime problems is melanin. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
1103:The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,#NFDB
1104:we all thought that money would be the answer, that success was the highest prize, that the undying love of a beautiful person would finally make us feel warm inside. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1105:why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
1106:With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1107:In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1108:I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats. ~ Chet Huntley, #NFDB
1109:Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1110:The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, “Our Father which art in heaven. ~ John Hagee, #NFDB
1111:The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!' ~ Naveen Jain, #NFDB
1112:We think olden times were simple because we know how grandpa’s problems were solved, and any problem is simple when you can look up the answer in the back of the book. ~ Gwen Bristow, #NFDB
1113:When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either. ~ Edgar Fiedler, #NFDB
1114:Bzzt!” Eliot pressed an imaginary game-show button on the arm of the chair. “The answer I was looking for was, ‘She’s not my girlfriend, she’s a crazy magic rage-demon. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1115:If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
1116:If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls. ~ Greg Mortenson, #NFDB
1117:I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely." ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1118:I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer. ~ John Lennon,#NFDB
1119:Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ~ Russell Hoban, #NFDB
1120:Rilke knew what was up. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, one distant day, live right into the answer. What’s truer than that... ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
1121:Taking the beer, Jeremy said, “Thanks.” Then he glanced at Francis. “The answer to Reg’s question needs to be no. Say it’s no. It’s midnight, and we have plans.” Appearing ~ Cardeno C, #NFDB
1122:The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1123:The world may be ever-changing and full of uncertainties, but walking away is not the answer. World-rejection, according to the epic, is dangerous and destructive. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1124:You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1125:After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~ Mel Gibson, #NFDB
1126:How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer. ~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz, #NFDB
1127:I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson. ~ Lisette Model, #NFDB
1128:Janice and I were waiting in my room when they all arrived, Buddy giving me a curious “Did ya get lucky?” look. A gentleman never tells, especially if the answer is no. When ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
1129:The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit. ~ Clayton Christensen, #NFDB
1130:Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy. ~ Neil Patrick Harris, #NFDB
1131:You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no. ~ Twyla Tharp, #NFDB
1132:It’s the hardest lesson for someone who’s been taught guns are the answer . . . that they’re only the answer to a pure, simple, direct set of problems: killing someone. I ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1133:My brother maintains," I answered, "that those who wish to look carefully at the earth should stay at the necessary distance," and Voltaire very much admired the answer. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
1134:People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work. ~ Mary Lasker, #NFDB
1135:So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing. ~ Frank E Peretti, #NFDB
1136:Think to yourself, “What do I have to do or not do, or think or not think, right now, to be happy?” And if the answer is “let the jackass think he’s right,” then so be it. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
1137:We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1138:Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?” “Well,” said the president, “you won’t like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
1139:You ask, ‘Why am I really fighting this?’ If the answer is ‘Because I’m scared of what things will be like,’ then, most times, you’re fighting for the wrong reason... ~ David Wroblewski, #NFDB
1140:You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hun dred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no. ~ Twyla Tharp, #NFDB
1141:As an archaeologist, I’ve often wondered how we as a race keep going through all the misery. The answer is revealed: the potential for closeness with strangers. Floating ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
1142:A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create? ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
1143:Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
1144:Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
1145:come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This ~ Dolores Cannon, #NFDB
1146:Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1147:I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet. ~ Todd Burpo, #NFDB
1148:I don’t think we’ll ever have the answer for sure, but I suspect when a woman owns everything she’s always known she wanted, the only place left to turn is the unknown. ~ Rachel Spangler, #NFDB
1149:I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I think, hopefully, she [Hillary Clinton] will be our president. ~ Donna Karan, #NFDB
1150:In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1151:Isn’t the answer not to challenge the system but to try to avoid it? Shouldn’t the focus be on improving ourselves, rather than challenging a biased system? Familiar ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1152:I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.
That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out. ~ Rudy Rucker,#NFDB
1153:One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. ~ Leon Henkin, #NFDB
1154:Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time. ~ Lisel Mueller, #NFDB
1155:So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
1156:We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1157:When you look in the mirror, what do you want to see: yet another reminder of your hopeless attempt to be the girl of his dreams, or you? The answer should always be you. ~ Abby McDonald, #NFDB
1158:Faith had taken an interest in her. She had even said she admired her. And now Faith was giving her permission. But permission to do what? The answer wasn't at all obvious. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
1159:I was in a world of trouble, but none of that mattered tonight. All I knew was that this angel loved me. And that love was the answer to life, the universe, and everything. ~ Debra Dunbar, #NFDB
1160:When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the question is asked then the answer is heard. When we are truly ready to receive then what we need will become available. ~ John Gray, #NFDB
1161:You don't ask, you don't get. So ask. Sometimes the answer will be yes, sometimes it will be no. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. You already gave it to yourself. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
1162:You will find a balance. Whence comes the answer to sadness few can predict, but it does come, in time, and you will learn to appreciate pleasure for the gift that it is. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1163:Commit this question to memory and use it to evaluate everything you do: “Will this help take me where I want to go?” If the answer is no, back off; if yes, press ahead. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1164:How far away was the horizon in flat land? She had no idea — and, being a child of the Internet, felt helpless with no way to Google the answer. Maybe fifty miles? Maybe less? ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB
1165:I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright. ~ Mitchell Hurwitz, #NFDB
1166:Leadership in government doesn’t emerge in a non-resistant vacuum. When the odds appear insurmountable, when the answer is no and should be yes, true leaders reveal themselves. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1167:She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1168:The moral transformation of individuals engaged in economic transactions tend to become, for example, the answer to economic problems: if only our greedy CEOs were saints! ~ Kathryn Tanner, #NFDB
1169:There is ultimately no such thing as unanswered prayer. If the answer at first is “no” or “not yet,” it is because he gives us what we want in ways better than we asked. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1170:Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1171:Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1172:I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
1173:I don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
1174:If you don’t obey the rules, honor them, extol them, why should you expect anyone else to take your game seriously? “The answer is, you can’t expect them to, because they won’t! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1175:I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark. “Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1176:So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher. ~ Kamal Ravikant, #NFDB
1177:the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight? ~ Letitia Baldrige, #NFDB
1178:We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
1179:What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short. ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
1180:With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry. ~ Lucille Roybal Allard, #NFDB
1181:A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen. ~ Doug Benson, #NFDB
1182:In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T0],#NFDB
1183:Is this what you want, Nava? Rough and messy where anyone could see?” He’d asked me that same question the first time we’d had sex and the answer had been an unequivocal yes. ~ Deborah Wilde, #NFDB
1184:The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1185:There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1186:There’s always the right answer, the wrong answer that you want to pick anyway, the silly answer, and the answer that leads to the inevitable tragedy of human experience. ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
1187:What’s the natural state of life in our cosmos: unipolar or multipolar? Is power concentrated or distributed? After the first 13.8 billion years, the answer seems to be “both”: ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
1188:Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: ~ Hank Nuwer, #NFDB
1189:Why do you need me, then? If you’re such an excellent murderer?”
A smile flickers and fades across his face. “One day I’ll introduce you to the answer to that question. ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
1190:You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right. ~ Linda Evans, #NFDB
1191:Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things. ~ Cindy Woodsmall, #NFDB
1192:I don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better. I ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
1193:I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
1194:I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. ~ Naguib Mahfouz, #NFDB
1195:It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street. ~ Paul Davies, #NFDB
1196:The answer to happiness is simply to stop doing the things that are making you unhappy! And the biggest contributor not only to your own unhappiness but to that of all humanity ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1197:The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1198:All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ~ Jacques Lipchitz, #NFDB
1199:Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1200:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ M J Ryan, A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, #NFDB
1201:Gamache had asked not because he didn’t know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he’d lie about that, what else had he lied about? ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1202:I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day. ~ Ben Bradlee, #NFDB
1203:If there is any question of whether it is better to love or be loved, the answer is obvious.....I would trade everything in this house, everything we own, to keep feeling this. ~ Philipp Meyer, #NFDB
1204:Is the person in love the one with all the rights?
Maybe the answer is no. But love, once it reaches such a rare and lived-in state, deserves our prayers and our indulgence. ~ Abdellah Ta a,#NFDB
1205:Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that. ~ Sarah Dalton, #NFDB
1206:You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer. ~ Rita Levi Montalcini, #NFDB
1207:Do I know everything about him already? she thought, bewildered. And back came the answer: Everything. You are branded with this knowledge, you will have it for the rest of time. ~ Eva Ibbotson, #NFDB
1208:I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1209:If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that. ~ Megyn Kelly, #NFDB
1210:I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change. ~ Somaly Mam, #NFDB
1211:Shiva had the answer: ‘Har Ek Hai Mahadev!’ The Meluhans stood astounded. Every single one a Mahadev? ‘Har Har Mahadev!’ bellowed Shiva. The Meluhans roared. All of us are Mahadevs! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1212:[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling. ~ Uday Hussein, #NFDB
1213:When you look in the mirror, what do you want to see: yet another reminder of your hopeless attempt to be the girl of his dreams, or you?
The answer should always be you. ~ Abby McDonald,#NFDB
1214:You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
1215:As I'd discovered this week, Jude was every kind of mystery that appealed to a woman and every kind she could never unveil. He was every enigma to which I wanted the answer to. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
1216:If you want to keep a problem you have, then just keep talking about it. But if you want to get rid of it, then talk about the answer as if you expect it to manifest at any moment. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1217:It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
1218:No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
1219:She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
1220:So why is the minimum wage so popular? The answer is that there are economic effects that are seen and others that are not seen, as the great French economist Frederic Bastiat noted. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1221:That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair?
Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people. ~ Peter Kreeft,#NFDB
1222:The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to power. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
1223:Usually, the answer is, “You can die.” Then I answer back, “I’d rather die doing something I feel is great and amazing rather than be safe and comfortable living a life I hate. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1224:You asked me this morning in the car if I thought you were scary. The answer is yes. You scare me shitless. I don’t know what I’m doing here. But I hate the thought of leaving you. ~ Kylie Scott, #NFDB
1225:Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right. ~ Jean Ferris, #NFDB
1226:I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. ~ Cyndi Lauper, #NFDB
1227:Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply. ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
1228:We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
1229:What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1230:What I couldn’t see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go. Sometimes the answer you need is to a question you don’t know how to ask. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1231:When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1232:How do you let others in when you can't even look in the mirror? The answer is, you can't. But hopefully by showing them that they are lovable, they will start to see the truth. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
1233:How much available data could be relevant to doing those projects “better”? The answer is: an infinite amount, easily accessible, or at least potentially so, through the Internet. On ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1234:If you seek to become indispensable, a similar question is worth asking: “Where do you put the fear?” What separates a linchpin from an ordinary person is the answer to this question. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1235:In your relationship, you should not have to play the detective to get to the truth; you should be able to ask the question and he give you the answer. It should be as simple as that. ~ Amari Soul, #NFDB
1236:I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything. ~ Cindy McCain, #NFDB
1237:My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
1238:People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1239:Signed his name with his left hand, held a paintbrush with his right, handled his knife and fork with either. And his Beretta? Thankfully, Isherwood did not know the answer to that. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
1240:Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody, ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1241:And you? Are you on my side?” Jace could hear the roughness in his own question and was almost overwhelmed by how much the answer meant to him. “I’m with you,” Alec said, “always. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1242:Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
1243:I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces. ~ Ira Glass, #NFDB
1244:I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer. ~ Francine Pascal, #NFDB
1245:Now I don't want to lie to you, there were some Blacks in the neighborhood, but they asses was so uptight I figured if I asked them a question they'd want me to pay for the answer. ~ Sister Souljah, #NFDB
1246:So why is this happening? The answer is like the Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its own tail. When you have followed it all the way round you find yourself back where you started. ~ George Monbiot, #NFDB
1247:There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
1248:To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
1249:When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, ‘What are ‘her surroundings? What has been her life?’ All one’s future happiness lies in the answer. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1250:When you have a decision to make, get all the factors in front of you and look at the situation as a whole. Just look. Don't try to decide. The answer will come to you. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
1251:"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1252:You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1253:At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
1254:God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
1255:I've never been good with people. I've always preferred my lab. I like data. Data is consistent, it's steady, it's easy to understand. With data, you always know what the answer is. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
1256:No, Home is somewhere else,
I don't know if it's a place
I've already been, or one
I've yet to find. But I'm pretty
sure the answer is tangled up
in Where I Came From. ~ Ellen Hopkins,#NFDB
1257:The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1258:The answer is not coming. I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question. ~ Rachel Kushner, #NFDB
1259:Violence isn't the answer to your problems," he said sagely.
"She's the one with the problem. And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence is the answer. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1260:will this business still be around a decade from now? Numbers alone won’t tell you the answer; instead you must think critically about the qualitative characteristics of your business. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1261:But if you admit to not having the answer to any of the problems facing the nation, why should anyone vote of your for President?” “I believe I am the best qualified to wing it.” But ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
1262:Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute. ~ Sharon Creech, #NFDB
1263:I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz, #NFDB
1264:Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
1265:WHO ARE YOU?” This is the first question your constituents want you to answer for them. Your leadership journey begins when you set out to find the answer and are able to express it. ~ James M Kouzes, #NFDB
1266:You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1267:Before you find yourself stranded in the woods with a cranky apex predator, ask yourself: Do I really want to go on a camping trip with a vampire? The answer is probably going to be no. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
1268:I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
1269:... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting. ~ Brian Kernighan, #NFDB
1270:Our purpose is to provide you the way to the answer within that alone can fill the meaningless void. The way to the way is inward, where salvation has awaited your coming for 2000 years. ~ Roy Masters, #NFDB
1271:That's not important,' he said, and when Detective Wilson said that, I was sure he didn't know the answer, 'not important' being just one of the things we call that which we don't know. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
1272:The answer to fear is not to cower and hide; it is not to surrender feebly without contest. The answer is to stand and face it boldly. Look at it, analyze it, and, in the end, act. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
1273:When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff. ~ Richard Kadrey, #NFDB
1274:And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1275:Are you working on something that can change the world? Yes or no? The answer for 99.99999 percent of people is no. I think we need to be training people on how to change the world. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
1276:Breakfast," he muttered. "And I wouldnt care to make you choose between lovingmaking or a hot meal, as the answer would likely be unflattering. Put on your gown, while I got to the door. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1277:Life has a funny way of changing in the blink of an eye. It’s so unsteady. One minute love is the answer to everything, and the next you’re hopelessly trying to use it to fix the unfixable. ~ R J Lewis, #NFDB
1278:Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1279:There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1280:To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1281:I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1282:Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1283:So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
1284:The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~ Leon Edel, #NFDB
1285:The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny. ~ Sean Hannity, #NFDB
1286:There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
1287:The worst part is that I have no idea how to help him. Go see Kathia? That’s not the answer. I feel like I’m swimming through molasses.” “What’s that mean, ‘swimming through molasses’? ~ Franck Thilliez, #NFDB
1288:A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1289:Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1290:Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.
Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. ~ George Packer,#NFDB
1291:I don’t know. I think that the answer to your question lies in a place called Never Land, which is located just east of when hell freezes over and to the north of when pigs sprout wings. ~ Natasha Anders, #NFDB
1292:If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is. ~ Andrew Plotkin, #NFDB
1293:Once again it is clear Paul does not expect that the answer to our prayers will most likely take us out of the problems, but that our hearts and minds will be garrisoned by the peace of God. ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
1294:[O]ne way to discern shonky spiritual systems today is to ask whether they take themselves literally or not. If the answer is yes, then we are in the presence of quackery or indoctrination. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
1295:One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1296:So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology. ~ Ned Vizzini, #NFDB
1297:Standing firmly on the promises of God, faith refuses to yield and continues to pray and wait for the answer even when it is delayed, knowing that the victory is sure (Ephesians 6:12-18). ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
1298:The answer to this question may surprise you, but it is straightforward: you get pleasure (or displeasure) from your car when you think about your car, which is probably not very often. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1299:The irritating question they ask us—us being writers—is: “Where do you get your ideas?” And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1300:I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1301:I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently. ~ Silvan Shalom, #NFDB
1302:When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog. ~ Patrick Demarchelier, #NFDB
1303:You visit your brownies?” I asked. She nodded with satisfaction. “There are many ways to have a relationship with food other than eating it. That’s from the Answer store’s new diet book. ~ Jennifer Coburn, #NFDB
1304:At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1305:Do not go to others for the answers. Look in your own heart, search your own faith. You will either find the answer or come to see that the answer is with the gods themselves, not with man. ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB
1306:Exactly how long can you stand on a street corner showing two drug dealers your scar-tissue-induced radical penis curvature? The answer is twelve seconds. After that it feels weird. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson, #NFDB
1307:I had no idea you had musical tastes, Nick. Why did you keep them from me all these years? Because I never asked, I suppose. One always finds the answer to everything in one’s own egotism. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
1308:I thought then of catechism classes, about chanting the answer to a question, an answer that was "because he has said it and his word is true." I could not remember the question. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1309:Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times. ~ Paul Haggis, #NFDB
1310:But the very ransomed children of God themselves: why do they know so little of that habitual conscious communion with God which the Scriptures seem to offer? The answer is our chronic unbelief. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1311:love made me feel like I knew the answer, but when I raised my hand, I was the only one in the room. What I mean is, have you ever felt the ache of swallowing starlight? that cinnamon burn? ~ Sabrina Benaim, #NFDB
1312:not Brutus. Brooks, Byrd, Dexter, Harrison, and Thornton. Where were they at lunchtime on 24 February? If he knew the answer, he would know which four men were innocent and which man was so ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
1313:Obviously the answer to the threat of communism (or any other enemy) is not a stronger government to defend us but just the opposite. We’d be far safer if there were no government to conquer. ~ Harry Browne, #NFDB
1314:People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don't. The goal is not to get people to share your core values. It's to get people who already share your core values. ~ Robert Spector, #NFDB
1315:People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don’t. The goal is not to get people to share your core values. It’s to get people who already share your core values. ~ Robert Spector, #NFDB
1316:The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer? ~ James Hillman, #NFDB
1317:There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
1318:There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1319:What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.' ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1320:You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business. ~ Mark Cuban, #NFDB
1321:As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
1322:But that's the thing with the -what if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
1323:But that's the thing with the what -if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
1324:Dreams are necessary. Like the air, without realizing it, I, you, and we all need dreams. The dreams that guide us on what we do today because today is the answer to our dreams the other day. ~ Alanda Kariza, #NFDB
1325:How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1326:How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
1327:How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one. They think about their loved ones, their families, and those they have served. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1328:I can’t be fixed.”
“You’re committed to being broken forever?”
“Goddamit, Colton. Why are you doing this? You don’t know me.”
“I want to.” It’s the answer to both of her statements. ~ Jasinda Wilder,#NFDB
1329:I never get involved in something without having first worked out my retreat; then again, I have never gone into a situation and immediately wanted to run straight out again,’ came the answer. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1330:One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
1331:People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends. ~ Vivianne Crowley, #NFDB
1332:There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1333:There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1334:Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1335:Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary. ~ David D Friedman, #NFDB
1336:You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk."
iAm ~ J R Ward Lover At Last ~ J R Ward,#NFDB
1337:A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
1338:As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
1339:I’d asked myself, “Why do habits make it possible for people to change?” and now I knew the answer. Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1340:I'm sorry, all I hear was 'I'm having a really bad day, gorgeous man of mine, so please ignore everything I say until I'm back to your sweet Lizzie.' Which, the answer's 'yes, Siren, I can do that. ~ S E Hall, #NFDB
1341:I thought about it, and you’re right. Fear isn’t the answer. If we’re afraid of everything, then we’re afraid to do anything, and that means we’re giving up our freedom. You were right!” Over ~ Matthew Mather, #NFDB
1342:My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
1343:Sometimes, they would write down a decoder key onto the scarf. By tying it around their hair or neck, these spies held the answer to the mystery and no one was the wiser! functional ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner, #NFDB
1344:The purpose of family is to love God and others. The purpose of marriage is to love God and others. The purpose of parenting is to love God and others. That’s the answer to the question. ~ Sharon Hodde Miller, #NFDB
1345:There will always be a cunt or a revolution around the corner, but the mother who bore me turned many a corner and made no answer, and finally she turned herself inside out and I am the answer. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1346:“We should never hear a voice from another world, the world of inaccessible solitude, if, conscious of the impasse, we were not bent on finding the answer to the riddle by guesswork.” ~ Bataille, Erotism p191, #NFDB
1347:What about you?" he asked. "Are you going to kill me?"
Maddie had to think about the answer.
"Why would I do that when I just have to get out of the way and let Alaska do it for me? ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
1348:What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won’t find the answer in a lighted room. What stands between you and a full-bodied life can be found only in the shadows. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1349:When I moved out of the house at eighteen, I rarely called home to check up on my parents or tell them how I was doing. Why? The answer shocks me as I write it: I didn’t know I was supposed to. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1350:Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn’t function right. ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
1351:Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
1352:Have you been to a place where no one have been before? I give you the answer: Yes! Everywhere changes from one second to another and wherever you go, you will always be the first visitor! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1353:I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to. ~ Joachim Trier, #NFDB
1354:Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1355:No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. ~ Ravi Zacharias, #NFDB
1356:Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1357:The key to this approach is refusing to stand up and speak until you know the answer to two questions: • What is the one thing I want my audience to know? • What do I want them to do about it? ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1358:There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1359:When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1360:Before you start tidying, look at the lifestyle you aspire to and ask yourself, “Why do I want to tidy?” When you find the answer, you are ready to move on to the next step: examining what you own. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
1361:I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
1362:Oh, yes I can!
I’m not sorry!
The answer’s no!
I really don’t care!
And I do not always have to have the last word!
No—I don’t! ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
1363:Good," said Kaz, but the answer didn't come as quickly as Matthias might have expected. He fears for her, Matthias thought, and he does not like it. For once, he could sympathize with the demjin. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1364:I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store. ~ Ali Liebegott, #NFDB
1365:It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1366:love made me feel like i knew the answer, but when i raised my hand, i was the only one in the room. what i mean is, have you ever felt the ache of swallowing starlight? that cinnamon heartburn? ~ Sabrina Benaim, #NFDB
1367:Some people think that asking a question gives them a right to know the answer somehow. Well, it's not true. You've no right to anything. I'll tell you what I want to. I don't care what you ask. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
1368:The affect heuristic is an instance of substitution, in which the answer to an easy question (How do I feel about it?) serves as an answer to a much harder question (What do I think about it?). ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1369:The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1370:We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established. ~ Don Yaeger, #NFDB
1371:Who keeps you safe from the Amyr? The singers? The Sithe? From all that would harm you in the world?” Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1372:You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1373:I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. ~ Sheryl Crow, #NFDB
1374:Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1375:Promise me you won’t leave.” Livvie’s arms gripped me tight.
“I promise. Can you say the same?” I almost dreaded the answer.
“I promise. I’m yours,” she said.
“And I’m yours. ~ C J Roberts,#NFDB
1376:The answer to the partisan deadlock and public disinterest starts, I am convinced, with finding new messengers rather than finding new messages, and then creating the means for them to be heard. ~ George Marshall, #NFDB
1377:There is no simple theological answer to pain; the answer is a relationship with God in the midst of pain. Those who need things in neat little black-and-white packages cannot tolerate such a faith. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1378:What do you do when people don’t get what you’re doing, when they’re confused by a book, or a direction you’re going in? When the critics don’t like it.” The answer was a brief pause, then: “Fuck ‘em. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1379:If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
1380:I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives. ~ Randy Harrison, #NFDB
1381:You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name."
I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading.
Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. ~ Tatiana de Rosnay,#NFDB
1382:You’re clumsy. But it can’t be helped. You are who you are.
It feels like the answer to a question I feared asking, like I’ve been searching every galaxy for this message.
You are who you are. ~ Ann Aguirre,#NFDB
1383:And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1384:Are you giving up your long-term interests or compromising your personal values in exchange for short-term anxiety relief? If the answer is yes to these questions, you’ve found a safety strategy. ~ Jennifer Shannon, #NFDB
1385:As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer. ~ Vilmos Zsigmond, #NFDB
1386:He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1387:I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community. ~ Teri Garr, #NFDB
1388:I’m taking you home.” “I live over there, remember?” “I meant my home.” “Why?” Dylan yanked on Angelo’s arm a little harder. “Because we don’t know the answer to that question. Now come the fuck on. ~ Garrett Leigh, #NFDB
1389:The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it! ~ Martyn, #NFDB
1390:Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1391:What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
1392:What are you reading?” “Visual Basics.” The answer did not fit the picture in his mind. But it should not be surprising, he thought. He, too, had been taking an evening class on Windows applications. ~ Qiu Xiaolong, #NFDB
1393:Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals. ~ Elaine Morgan, #NFDB
1394:A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
1395:And whenever he asked himself that one question—what wouldn’t he do for the welfare of his children—the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn’t do for his children’s sake. ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
1396:At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education." ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
1397:...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day. ~ Amy Hill Hearth, #NFDB
1398:Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1399:Some people discover who they are and what they want to do at 18, others discover the answer at 26. Still others never figure it out all their lives. We all germinate (or fail to) at different times. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1400:The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1401:There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1402:To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1403:Veep is my priority. Veep is my home, but I have nothing but obviously, good thoughts and really want Curb to be Curb. So anything I can do, as long as Veep is not getting hurt, I guess is the answer. ~ David Mandel, #NFDB
1404:And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1405:At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one. ~ Marc Andreessen, #NFDB
1406:At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is 'education.', ~ Lyndon B. Johnson, #NFDB
1407:Before you start trying to pick individual stocks and/or fund managers ask yourself this simple question: “Am I Warren Buffett?” If the answer is “no,” keep your feet firmly on the ground with indexing. ~ J L Collins, #NFDB
1408:How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1409:I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you! ~ Akira Toriyama, #NFDB
1410:I don't answer. I don't run or start screaming, because doing either would be like giving a signal for it to start. And because part of me is expectant, like I'm about to learn the answer to a question. ~ Flynn Berry, #NFDB
1411:I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
1412:Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no. ~ Lincoln Chafee, #NFDB
1413:Maybe this is the answer - maybe this is how to find true contentment - to live your life within confined horizons. To set modest goals, achievable ambitions.
Not all of us can manage it, alas. ~ William Boyd,#NFDB
1414:Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
1415:Quite frankly, so am I, because what I'm about to tell you is a fact.
In this country, there is only one thing that can draw a crown without any shadow of a doubt. The answer?
Beer.
Free beer. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
1416:Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
1417:The Bible has the answer to every problem and to every situation in life. No matter what happens in life, the Bible has the answer. It may not be the answer we want to hear, but it’s the answer. She ~ Kenneth E Hagin, #NFDB
1418:The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man. ~ Richard M Weaver, #NFDB
1419:The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival. ~ Mark Bouris, #NFDB
1420:To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it. ~ Vincent Cassel, #NFDB
1421:We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love. ~ Daniel Gillies, #NFDB
1422:Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1423:By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new. ~ Walter Gilbert, #NFDB
1424:For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
1425:Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1426:I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1427:Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1428:Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1429:The answer is, nothing's going to happen to you. The friend who called, he put in a good word.'
'Oh, yeah?'
'Jail will not make an impression on this woman. Don't waste your time.' That's a quote. ~ Carl Hiaasen,#NFDB
1430:We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1431:What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
1432:Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question. ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
1433:Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall. ~ Paul Strand, #NFDB
1434:fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1435:How am I making you feel?”
She considered the answer. “Like all my nerve endings are on fire. Like I want more, but I don’t exactly know how to ask for what I want.” She swallowed. “Or maybe I do. ~ Rebecca York,#NFDB
1436:I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
1437:I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, ‘discovery’ means you don’t know the answer when you start. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1438:Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell. ~ Paul R Ehrlich, #NFDB
1439:People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally. ~ Stephen Levine, #NFDB
1440:Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.) ~ Jeffrey Cranor, #NFDB
1441:What do you think will happen to IPCA if you take all these creatures out of the world?”
“Hmm. I believe the answer falls somewhere under the categories of Don’t Know and Don’t Care. Take your pick. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
1442:All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1443:a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1444:For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked. And the answer to that question may be one a man cannot hear and live. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1445:Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth?
The answer is no. ~ Leonard Nimoy,#NFDB
1446:It is a pretend question, one he asked so he could give the answer. I relax. This is like when my father complains about his boss. The best thing to do is to stay awake and blink sympathetically. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
1447:Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything,' Ray said once, in an interview.
He gave people so many reasons to love him. We did. And, so far, we have not forgotten. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1448:Play long enough and you might get lucky. In the technology game, tomorrow looks nothing like today. If you survive long enough to see tomorrow, it may bring you the answer that seems so impossible today. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1449:Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers. ~ Roger Schank, #NFDB
1450:The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music. ~ El P, #NFDB
1451:The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1452:The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1453:To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it's that that seems to me to close off the discussion. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1454:Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
1455:We may not recognize it,” the Urban Monk said, looking straight at me. “But the moment we ask the question is the moment the miracle happens. The answer comes with the question, the miracle with the asking. ~ Reba Riley, #NFDB
1456:When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing . . . . Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood. ~ Naomi Weisstein, #NFDB
1457:You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are. ~ Paul Konerko, #NFDB
1458:Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1459:I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me. ~ Brian Williams, #NFDB
1460:I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait. ~ Paul Ormerod, #NFDB
1461:I asked myself a simple question: “Would I rather make decent money and work a job I hated, or play at Internet entrepreneur and be broke for a while?” The answer was immediate and clear for me: the latter. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1462:If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1463:Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn’t overreact or underreact. ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1464:Is what we profess in the Creed true, then?—“I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God … [who] by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary”? The answer is an unequivocal yes. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1465:Q. Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? —Rob B A. I WAS SORT OF surprised to find that the answer was yes! But to really do it right, you’ll want to talk to the Russians. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1466:Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart enough to rise above, okay?
Did you kick her ass? Good girl! ~ Richard Castle,#NFDB
1467:The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1468:The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1469:The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it. ~ Kenneth Patchen, #NFDB
1470:The trouble was, how could you know what question to ask? It seemed to her that you were in a position to ask a really correct question only if you already knew the answer, and what was the point of that? ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1471:But when Samuel Berkovic finally found the answer to the question of what had actually caused the problem, no one noticed. Not a single newspaper, magazine, or radio or television program carried the story. ~ Paul A Offit, #NFDB
1472:I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1473:If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
1474:[The answer of Solon to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']
That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution. ~ Solon,#NFDB
1475:I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. ~ Roddy Doyle, #NFDB
1476:Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
1477:She addressed the book softly, and other times, inquisitively. “Jack, am I crazy for thinking about doing this again? Should I wait?” Each time he gave her the answer she needed with an all-knowing silence. ~ Bryan Mooney, #NFDB
1478:The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two. ~ Boris Johnson, #NFDB
1479:The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition. ~ Herbert Simon, #NFDB
1480:Things didn't feel right; I hadn't been able to relax yesterday, hadn't been able to settle to anything. I just felt on edge, somehow. If my mood was a crossword clue, the answer would be "discombobulated. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
1481:You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
1482:Does Logic deal with things, or is it a science of words? And the answer one gives to these questions has such far reaching implications that it controls every detail of the resulting system of philosophy. ~ Gordon H Clark, #NFDB
1483:God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1484:Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now. ~ Barbara Bush, #NFDB
1485:As she stared at the man she’d once harbored an unhealthy crush on—a crush she was no longer at all sure had dissipated—she realized that the answer to his question was everything. She had everything to lose. ~ Lauren Layne, #NFDB
1486:Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ~ Ivan Pavlov, #NFDB
1487:fraught, adj. Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do? ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1488:I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to! ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1489:I don't know all the answers in life, but the beauty in math is that the answer is always there."
He scoffed. "Yet I never seem to be able to find it."
"Maybe you've been looking in the wrong place. ~ Rachel Hawthorne,#NFDB
1490:Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon—very soon—it will burst into consciousness. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
1491:Oh no," she said, still smiling; her eyes poured over with light, that of compassion. She understood how he felt, that this was not an impulse only. But the answer was still no, and, he knew, it would always ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1492:"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. ~ Patricia Aburdene, #NFDB
1493:The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons - and are also lucky - justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1494:There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that. ~ James Franco, #NFDB
1495:The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1496:The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition. ~ Herbert A Simon, #NFDB
1497:What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1498:Why did we ever force doctors to learn their profession in this exhausting, sleepless way? The answer originates with the esteemed physician William Stewart Halsted, MD, who was also a helpless drug addict. ~ Matthew Walker, #NFDB
1499:Faith will always save you. It's a question, really, and you think the answer could make a good sermon. When won't faith save you?
When you believe too much in this world. In yourself. In anything but God. ~ Stewart O Nan,#NFDB
1500:People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
183 Integral Yoga
37 Occultism
27 Philosophy
21 Christianity
15 Yoga
13 Psychology
11 Poetry
5 Science
4 Integral Theory
4 Education
4 Baha i Faith
2 Mythology
2 Hinduism
2 Cybernetics
1 Theosophy
1 Sufism
1 Mysticism
1 Kabbalah
1 Fiction
1 Alchemy
134 The Mother
82 Satprem
41 Sri Aurobindo
23 Nolini Kanta Gupta
23 Aleister Crowley
12 Plato
9 Sri Ramakrishna
8 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
8 Aldous Huxley
7 Carl Jung
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Saint Augustine of Hippo
6 Plotinus
6 James George Frazer
5 Nirodbaran
4 Swami Vivekananda
4 Jordan Peterson
4 Baha u llah
4 A B Purani
3 Walt Whitman
3 Swami Krishnananda
3 Rudolf Steiner
3 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Norbert Wiener
2 Joseph Campbell
2 H P Lovecraft
2 George Van Vrekhem
2 Franz Bardon
20 Magick Without Tears
12 Agenda Vol 08
10 Questions And Answers 1955
10 Agenda Vol 10
10 Agenda Vol 07
10 Agenda Vol 06
10 Agenda Vol 04
8 The Perennial Philosophy
8 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
8 Talks
8 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
7 Questions And Answers 1956
7 Questions And Answers 1954
7 Letters On Yoga IV
7 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
7 Agenda Vol 11
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Golden Bough
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 Questions And Answers 1953
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
5 City of God
5 Agenda Vol 09
5 Agenda Vol 05
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 The Life Divine
4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
4 Some Answers From The Mother
4 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
3 Whitman - Poems
3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
3 The Phenomenon of Man
3 The Future of Man
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
3 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
3 On Education
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 Agenda Vol 01
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Human Cycle
2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
2 Symposium
2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
2 Raja-Yoga
2 Preparing for the Miraculous
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 Lovecraft - Poems
2 Liber ABA
2 Letters On Yoga I
2 Let Me Explain
2 Labyrinths
2 Cybernetics
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
2 Agenda Vol 13
2 Agenda Vol 03
2 Agenda Vol 02
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the Answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the Answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
In the nirvikalpa samadhi Sri Ramakrishna had realized that Brahman alone is real and the world illusory. By keeping his mind six months on the plane of the non-dual Brahman, he had attained to the state of the vijnani, the knower of Truth in a special and very rich sense, who sees Brahman not only in himself and in the transcendental Absolute, but in everything of the world. In this state of vijnana, sometimes, bereft of body-consciousness, he would regard himself as one with Brahman; sometimes, conscious of the dual world, he would regard himself as God's devotee, servant, or child. In order to enable the Master to work for the welfare of humanity, the Divine Mother had kept in him a trace of ego, which he described — according to his mood — as the "ego of Knowledge", the "ego of Devotion", the "ego of a child", or the "ego of a servant". In any case this ego of the Master, consumed by the fire of the Knowledge of Brahman, was an appearance only, like a burnt string. He often referred to this ego as the "ripe ego" in contrast with the ego of the bound soul, which he described as the "unripe" or "green" ego. The ego of the bound soul identifies itself with the body, relatives, possessions, and the world; but the "ripe ego", illumined by Divine Knowledge, knows the body, relatives, possessions, and the world to be unreal and establishes a relationship of love with God alone. Through this "ripe ego" Sri Ramakrishna dealt with the world and his wife. One day, while stroking his feet, Sarada Devi asked the Master, "What do you think of me?" Quick came the Answer: "The Mother who is worshipped in the temple is the mother who has given birth to my body and is now living in the nahabat, and it is She again who is stroking my feet at this moment. Indeed, I always look on you as the personification of the Blissful Mother Kali."
Sarada Devi, in the company of her husband, had rare spiritual experiences. She said: "I have no words to describe my wonderful exaltation of spirit as I watched him in his different moods. Under the influence of divine emotion he would sometimes talk on abstruse subjects, sometimes laugh, sometimes weep, and sometimes become perfectly motionless in samadhi. This would continue throughout the night. There was such an extraordinary divine presence in him that now and then I would shake with fear and wonder how the night would pass. Months went by in this way. Then one day he discovered that I had to keep awake the whole night lest, during my sleep, he should go into samadhi — for it might happen at any moment —, and so he asked me to sleep in the nahabat."
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But during his third visit Narendra fared no better. This time, at the Master's touch, he lost consciousness entirely. While he was still in that state, Sri Ramakrishna questioned him concerning his spiritual antecedents and whereabouts, his mission in this world, and the duration of his mortal life. the Answers confirmed what the Master himself had known and inferred. Among other things, he came to know that Narendra was a sage who had already attained perfection, and that the day he learnt his real nature he would give up his body in yoga, by an act of will.
A few more meetings completely removed from Narendra's mind the last traces of the notion that Sri Ramakrishna might be a monomaniac or wily hypnotist. His integrity, purity, renunciation, and unselfishness were beyond question. But Narendra could not accept a man, an imperfect mortal, as his guru. As a member of the Brahmo Samaj, he could not believe that a human intermediary was necessary between man and God. Moreover, he openly laughed at Sri Ramakrishna's visions as hallucinations. Yet in the secret chamber of his heart he bore a great love for the Master.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
There are repetitions of teachings and parables in the book. I have kept them purposely. They have their charm and usefulness, repeated as they were in different settings. Repetition is unavoidable in a work of this kind. In the first place, different seekers come to a religious teacher with questions of more or less identical nature; hence the Answers will be of more or less identical pattern. Besides, religious teachers of all times and climes have tried, by means of repetition, to hammer truths into the stony soil of the recalcitrant human mind. Finally, repetition does not seem tedious if the ideas repeated are dear to a man's heart.
I have thought it necessary to write a rather lengthy Introduction to the book. In it I have given the biography of the Master, descriptions of people who came in contact with him, short explanations of several systems of Indian religious thought intimately connected with Sri Ramakrishna's life, and other relevant matters which, I hope, will enable the reader better to understand and appreciate the unusual contents of this book. It is particularly important that the Western reader, unacquainted with Hindu religious thought, should first read carefully the introductory chapter, in order that he may fully enjoy these conversations. Many Indian terms and names have been retained in the book for want of suitable English equivalents. Their meaning is given either in the Glossary or in the foot-notes. The Glossary also gives explanations of a number of expressions unfamiliar to Western readers. The diacritical marks are explained under Notes on Pronunciation.
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
me, and I still haven't found the Answer to this problem.
Enlighten me, Sweet Mother.
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My reply contained the Answer to your question, for I understood very well that you were not claiming anything, but had
expressed yourself poorly.
01.06 - Vivekananda, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
the Answer is as old as that of Nachiketas: "These horses and these songs and dances of yours, let them remain yours, man is not appeased with riches"; or that of Maitreyi, "What am I to do with that which will not bring me immortality?" This is then man's mission upon earth:
"Man is higher than all animals, than all angels: none is greater than man. Even the Devas will have to come down again and attain to salvation though a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas." Indeed, men are gods upon earth, come down here below to perfect themselves and perfect the worldonly, they have to be conscious of themselves. They do not know what they are, they have to be actually and sovereignly what they are really and potentially. This then is the life-work of everyone:
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And since the Answer to all these questions will be the same,
namely, "NO", the honest and sincere conclusion must be: "I
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of the Answer they receive, and there are those whose aspiration is sufficiently strong and sincere for them to be constantly
conscious of the help they are given.
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If it is said that this is an ideal for the few only, not for the mass, our answer to that is the Answer of the GitaYad yad acharati sreshthah. Let the few then practise and achieve the ideal: the mass will have to follow as far as it is possible and necessary. It is the very character of the evolutionary system of Nature, as expressed in the principle of symbiosis, that any considerable change in one place (in one species) is accompanied by a corresponding change in the same direction in other contiguous places (in other associated species) in order that the poise and balance of the system may be maintained.
It is precisely strong nuclei that are needed (even, perhaps, one strong nucleus is sufficient) where the single and integrated spiritual consciousness is an accomplished and established fact: that acts inevitably as a solvent drawing in and assimilating or transforming and re-creating as much, of the surroundings as its own degree and nature of achievement inevitably demand.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
No problem is so vital to the human consciousness as the problem of Evilits why and wherefore It is verily the Sphinx Riddle. In all ages and in all climes man has tried to answer; the Answers are of an immense variety, but none seems to be sure and certain. Goethe's was an ardent soul seeking to embrace the living truth whole and entire; the problem was not merely of philosophical interest to him, but a burning question of life and deathlife and death of the body and even of the soul.
One view considers Evil as coeval with Good: the Prince of Evil is God's peer, equal to him in all ways, absolutely separate, independent and self-existent. Light and Darkness are eternal principles living side by side, possessing equal reality. For, although it is permissible to the individual to pass out of the Darkness and enter into Light, the Darkness itself does not disappear: it remains and maintains its domain, and even it is said that some human beings are meant eternally for this domain. That is the Manichean principle and that also is fundamentally the dualistic conception of chit-achit in some Indian systems (although the principle of chit or light is usually given a higher position and priority of excellence).
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
mind could set to work to find the Answer, the reply that
Series Eleven - To a Sadhak
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I read your letter yesterday, and here is the Answer that immediately came to me. I add to it the assurance that nothing has changed, nor can change, in my relationship with you, and that you are and always will be my child for that is the truth of your being.
Here is what I wrote:
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In the outer, practical domain, I might suddenly think of someone, so I know that this person is calling or thinking of me. When you left on your trip, I created a special link-up so that if ever, at any moment, you called me for anything, I would know it instantly, and I remained attentive and alert. But I do that only in exceptional cases. Generally speaking, when I havent made this special link-up, things keep coming in and coming in and coming in and coming in, and the Answer goes out automatically, here or there or there or therehundreds and hundreds of things that I dont keep in my memory because then it would really be frightful. I dont keep these things in my consciousness; it is rather a work that is done automatically.
When you asked me if X4 were thinking of me, I consulted my atmosphere and saw that it was true, that even many times a day Xs thoughts were coming. So I know that he is concentrating on me, or something: it simply passes through me, and I answer automatically. But I dont particularly pay attention to X, unless you ask me a question about him, in which case I deliberately tune into him, then observe and determine whether its like this or like that. Whereas this vision the other day was something that thrust itself on me; I was in another region altogether, in my inner contemplation, my concentrationa very strong concentrationwhen I was forced to enter into contact with this being whose vision I had and who was obviously a very powerful being. After telling me what he had to tell me, he went away in a very peculiar way, not at all suddenly as most people appear and disappear, not at all like that. When I first saw him, there was a living form the being himself was there but upon leaving (probably to see the effect, to find out whether he had truly succeeded in making himself understood), he left behind a kind of image of himself. Afterwards, this image blurred and it left only a silhouette, an outline, then it disappeared altogether leaving only an impression. That was the last thing I saw. So I kept the impression and analyzed it to find out exactly what was involved; all this was filed away, and then it was over. I began my concentration once again.
0 1960-06-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When a question is put to me, the Answer does not come from a will; what happens is that materials come which I then use to give shape to the Answer, but its only a shape. The thing itself is there, but it needs to be shaped. The difference between one and the other is rather like the difference between a picture and an apparition.
Sometimes the Force comes direct. And it picks up words, any words at all, that makes no difference; the nature of the words changes, and they become expressive BECAUSE of the power entering into them. This happens when I look directly at the thing.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You can even receive the Answer yourself and know where this dream comes fromsimply turn towards the supreme Truth, remain like that (immobile) and say, May Your Will be done. It has to go very high, very high, to the highest, to that which is supreme Freedom. And then, if you are absolutely silent, you will have, not a thought or a word, but a kind of feeling, and you will know.
For me, at the moment, your dream does not correspond to a precise fact.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must say that there was a time when, as Sri Aurobindo had entrusted his work to me, there was a kind of tension to do it (it cant be called an anxiety); a tension in the will. This too has now ended (Mother stretches her arms into the Infinite). Its finished. But there MAY still be something tense lurking somewhere in the subconscient or the inconscient I dont know, its possible. Why? I dont know. I mean I have never been told, at any time, neither through Sri Aurobindo nor directly, whether or not I would go right to the end. I have never been told the contrary, either. I have been told nothing at all. And if at times I turn towards Thatnot to question, but simply to know the Answer is always the same: Carry on, its not your problem; dont worry about it. So now I have learned not to worry about it; I am consciously not worried about it.
(silence)
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came after the vision of the great divine Becoming.2 Since this world is progressive, I was wondering, since it is increasingly becoming the Divine, wont there always be this deeply painful sense of the nondivine, of the state that, compared with the one to come, is not divine? Wont there always be what we call adverse forces, in other words, things that dont harmoniously follow the movement? Then came the Answer, the vision of That: No, the moment of this very Possibility is drawing near, the moment for the manifestation of the essence of perfect Love, which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and this ill will that goes with it into a luminous and joyous progression, wholly progressive, wholly comprehensive, thirsting for perfection.
It was very concrete.
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You may ask me questions, but you will find all the Answers in what he has written, dont you think?
Yes and no.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I tried once again (theyre leaving today, I believe), I had something conveyed to them, the Answer was, The father finds his daughter has forgotten him and no longer loves him, so he doesnt want to leave her here and will take her away. I replied, Does he think by bullying her he can force her to love him? The fool just wont understand, nothing sinks in.
I didnt see the gentleman.
0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So you came (you see, its the Answer) to manifest (its very good, I like this answer very much), to manifest the bliss above. You understand? He goes beyond all past attempts to unite with the Supreme, because none of them satisfies himhe aspires for something more. So when everything is annulled, he enters a Nothingness, then comes out of it with the capacity to unite with the new Bliss.
Thats it, its good!
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If, out of the need to enlarge, the Pope accepts, for instance, all the different sects (theyve already started to accept the Protestants), if he accepts all those sects, (laughing) little by little they will either break apart or be drowned! You follow, if we look at it from above Lets even assume its an Asuric powerit isnt (Mother hesitates) it isnt clearly and distinctly an Asuric power, because by his very position, the Pope is OBLIGED to recognize a god higher than himself; that god may, of course, be an Asura, but I have a sort of memory the memory of a very ancient story no one ever told me in which the first Asura challenged the supreme Lord and told him, I am as great as You! And the Answer was, I wish you would become greater than I, because then there will be no more Asura.
This memory is very living, somewhere. If you become the Whole, its finishedyou see, the Asuras ambition is to be greater than the supreme Lord: Become greater than I, then there will be no more Asura.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet it has a spontaneous tendency to find itself incapable; and it receives the same answer all the time: Thats still the ego. That happens so often, it says to the Lord, Look how incapable I am of doing what You want, and pat comes the Answer, direct, in a flash: Dont bother about that, its not your business! Naturally, I put it into words to express myself, but it isnt words, its only sensationsnot even sensations: vibrations.
Voil.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the question arose for this body [Mothers], just to see, you know. And I saw all kinds of things, and finally the Answer was always the same (you see, the problem was presented to me to enable me to understand the situation in all its aspects and see the necessities), that naturally everything would be for the best! (Laughing) Without a doubt. But I mean it was presented very concretely and, I could say, very personally to make me understand the problem. And there was that old thing I was told the other day (old, that is, a few days old! i: I was told that THE CELLS THEMSELVES would be given a free choice. So the conclusion of all that meditation was that there must be a new element in the consciousness of the cellular aggregatesa new element a new experience that must be in progress. The result: last night, I had a series of fantastic cellular experiences, which I cannot even explain and which must be the beginning of a new revelation.
When the experience began, there was something looking on (you know, there is always in me something looking on somewhat ironically, always amused) which said, Very well! If that happened to someone else, he would think he was quite sick! (laughing) Or half mad. So I stayed very quiet and thought, All right, let it be, Ill watch, Ill see Ill see soon enough! It has started, so it will have to end! Indescribable! Indescribable (the experience will have to recur several times before I can understand), fantastic! It started at 8:30 and went on till 2:30 in the morning; that is to say, not for a second did I lose consciousness, I was there watching the most extraordinary things for six hours.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the Answer I received to my problem.
Because that was my question, I wondered, But why? I who am Any second I just have to do this (gesture upward) and its theres only the Lord, all is THATbut in such an absolute way that all that is not It vanishes! So the proportion at present.. (laughing) is that too many things would have to disappear!
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Answer was a smile.
Afterwards it came to me that it was a transition. So I hope it wont last too long.3
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And the Answer is invariably a smile full of such patience, oh! That patience gives me a sense of wonder every second.
Now and then, a great power comes (the body is deliberately given the experience to make it feel and grow aware that that exists), a great power comes, and along with it the impression that you would only have to do this (Mother brings down her two arms in a sovereign gesture) for everything to change. But
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive witnessed the most complete panorama of all the idiotic things in this life,1 they were shown to me as in a complete panorama: passing from one to another, seeing each of them separately and how they combined with each other. And then: Why? Why should one choose this? (A childs question, which one asks immediately.) And immediately, the Answer: But the more (lets say central to be clearer) the more central the origin and the more pure in its essence, the greater the ignoble complexity below, as we could call it. Because the lower down you go, the more it takes an essential light to change things.
Once youve been told this very nicely, youre satisfied, you stop worryingits all right, you take things as they are: Thats how things are, its my work and I do it; I ask only one thing, it is to do my work, all the rest doesnt matter.
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And even this body, which has been worked on and kneaded for years Its in the subconscient of the body. And so that was the Answer, it was said to the body:
AWAKE AND WILL
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It doesnt matter, we arent bored, are we? (To Sujata:) Are you bored? Tell me frankly, are you bored? (Sujata laughs) I dont need to ask HIM, I know the Answer: Oh, its endless, it lasts forever, nothing happens, nothing takes place. (laughter) Anyway, my children, thats the way it is. I am going as fast as I can, I am the one most concerned! But you cant hurry, its not possible. Not possible.
In fact, in Savitri, Sri Aurobindo went through all the worlds, and it so happens that I am following that without knowing it (because I never rememberthank God, I really thank heaven!I asked the Lord to take away my mental memory and He took it away entirely, so I am not weighed down), but I follow that description in Savitri without mentally knowing the sequence of the worlds, and these last few days I was in that Muddle of Falsehood (I told you last time), it was really painful, and I was tracking it down to the most tenuous vibrations, those that go back to the origin, to the moment when Truth could turn into Falsehoodhow it all happened. And it is so tenuous, almost imperceptible, that deformation, the original Deformation, that you tend to lose heart and you think, Its still really quite easy to topple over the slightest thing and you can still topple over into Falsehood, into Deformation. And yesterday, I had in my hands a passage from Savitri that was brought to meits a marvel, but its so sad, so miserable, oh, I could have cried (I dont easily cry).
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And last night, there was the Answer, as it were. This morning, when I got up, I didnt remember clearly, but in the middle of the night I knew it very well. (Its not going from sleep to the waking consciousness: it is coming out of one state to enter another one, and when I came out of that state to enter the so-called normal one, I remembered very well.) I was as if made to live the WAY of turning that Falsehood into Truth, and it was so joyful! So joyful. In the sense that its a vibration similar to joy that is capable of dissolving and overcoming the vibration of Falsehood. That was very important: it isnt effort, it isnt righteousness, or scruple or rigidity, none of that, none of that has any effect on that sadness (it is a sadness) of Falsehoodits something so sad, so helpless, so miserable so miserable. And only a vibration of Joy can change it.
It was a vibration that flowed like silvery waterit rippled and flowed like silvery water.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when you perceive this, you also see that the human way (the human doctors way) of seeing the illness isnt in accord with the higher vision of the SAME condition of the body; and that in each and every case (not in a general way for all cases), in each case there is ONE thing to be told, which is the True Thing, even if it is, for example, giving the patient the sense of a duration of life. You can shift your consciousness and place it inside that part of the patients being that lasts. It is difficult to explain, but I am saying this from experience because its a problem I have encountered very often. Just now, there is a person here who has had several cancers, who was operated on and was made to last for years with operations and treatments; only, she is told the usual lies; but she asks me, she asks me what I see and what I know. So I had the opportunity to see the Answer that should be given.
It is, so to speak, the practical means to compel the doctor to enter a higher consciousness. That must be the crisis that has come to your brother; he has come to a point when he is imperatively obligedprofessionally obligedto enter a higher consciousness. Because, in his present state, he must be lying very badlyhe says he is a very good liar, but with the perception he has now, the result must be that, along with his lie, doubt enters the patients consciousness. So he isnt doing whats considered to be the useful thing.
0 1964-10-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its as if a fantastic amount of things were made known to me: people whom I dont know physically, things that I dont know physically. And with the clear vision of the true Consciousness behind it all: the workings of the Consciousness. Its interesting, but anyway It would be wonderful for a writer, he would have books and books to write! I even hear sentences; when things are written, I see them writtenits even more precise than in a film. And all the Answers. And then the two consciousnesses side by side: the superficial consciousness, the way it works in people, and the true Consciousness that moves it all as it would puppets.
Its interesting, obviously.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, I had the Answer. I have a calendar with quotations from Sri Aurobindo, and I had the Answer in the evening. I dont remember the exact words, but he said, The Spirit will change this human body too into a divine reality. That was the Answer; he said, THE SPIRIT. I said to myself, Obviously, but how can THIS be transformed?
Thats the problem.
And the Answer is always the same: it CANNOT depend on our effort. Naturally, it goes without saying that we must make ourselves as plastic and well-disposed as possible (I am speaking of the body), but the change CANNOT depend on it, it doesnt have the knowledge and it doesnt have the power; therefore, the change can only depend on the divine Will.
Thats exactly it. This has been the experience of the past few days.
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God knows, never, not one minute in my life, even when things were the darkest, the blackest, the most negative, the most painful, not once did the thought come, I would like to die. And ever since I had the experience of psychic immortality, the immortality of consciousness, that is, in 1902 or 3, or 4 at the latest (sixty years ago now), all fear of death went away. Now the bodys cells have the sense of their immortality. There was also a time when I almost had a sort of curiosity about death; it was satisfied by my two experiences in which, according to the surface illusion, my body was dead, while, within, I had a wonderfully intense life (the first time, it was in the vital, the other time, way up above2). So that even that curiosity (I cant call it curiosity), even that question is no longer asked by the cells. But the possibility does present itself: according to the ordinary outer logic, if this isnt transformed, it must necessarily come to an end. And always, always, I receive the same answer, which isnt an answer with words, but an answer with a knowledge (how can I put it?), a FACTUAL knowledge: Its no solution. To say things in quite a banal way, this is the Answer: Its no solution.
So we are after another solution, since death isnt considered to be a solution. And its obvious that it is no solution.
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So the Answer comes (not from me, it comes from very far and its quite ABSOLUTE as a vibration): Its no solution. It means it isnt, in the present case, considered to be the solution.
There must be another one.
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the Answer is always the same, which can be translated like this (but there arent any words): Dont concern yourself with that.
It is still a remnant of the old tension.
0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It started in a strange way: I have a beeswax candle, which smells of honey when it burns, a big candle I was sent from Switzerland. I have already burned half of it: I light it for the meditations. But there was a defect in the wick, it was carbonized, and yesterday it refused to burn. We lighted itlighted it twice just before and it went out just at the start of the meditation when they rang the gong. So the body consciousness said, O Lord, we are so impure that we cannot even burn in front of You! It was full of spontaneous simplicity: O Lord, we are so impure And immediately, the Answer (gesture of massive descent): everything stopped.
Perhaps it was that very childlike, but very spontaneous and very simple movement of the body, conscious of Matters imperfection, We are so impure that we cannot even burn in front of You!perhaps thats what provoked that answer.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like those messages people ask me every other minute: Send me a message. Thats it: you drop two coins into the box, and out it must come! I have nothing for the first page of my magazine, send me a message, or else, My daughter is getting married, send me a message, or else, Its the anniversary of the opening of my school, send me a message. Its at the rate of three or four a day. This made me suddenly write a note the other day; I saw the image of those music boxes, you know, you dropped two coins into them and then the music would come out. So I said, For ordinary men, the sage is like a music box of Wisdom: you only have to insert two coins worth of question and automatically the Answer comes out. Because, really, it has become ridiculous: Were moving into a new house, send us a message.
But why do you let yourself get snowed under? You shouldnt send any messages!
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, its always the same thing: I dont think I dont think, I dont try to answer, I dont have any questions; when I read something, a letter, I let it enter into the Silence, and thats all. Then, suddenly, at any moment, prrt! up comes the Answer. It doesnt come from my head, which is perfectly still: it just comes. And it pesters me: it comes and repeats itself until Ive written it down. So I have papers in every corner and pens in every corner! I take a paper and write, then its over; and as soon as its written down, I have peace. And when I have time to start writing a letter, I settle down, I choose a good piece of paper and I write it out again.
But the papers and pens depend on the place where Ive written!
0 1965-06-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are all kinds! Complications, lots of complications; there are all kinds of ill will, at least of people who go round in circles instead of going forward. And stupid inventions. The other night Because the head is always still, like this (gesture to the forehead, palms open to the Light from above); I give thanks to the Lord for that, and its always like that; so I dont decide whats to be done, I dont decide whats to be answerednothing: when it comes, it comes. And some people had played a really nasty trick ([laughing] I couldnt care less!) and I wasnt budging. And as it happens, in the middle of the night, a force comes, takes hold of me and tells me, Heres the Answer, here is what you must say. I say, Very well (I was lying in bed, of course) and I dont budge. (Mother puts on a more imperative tone:) Here is what you must say.Oh, very well! And I still dont budge. (In a still more imperious tone:) Here is what you must say. (Mother laughs)
So I got up, went over there, and in the dark I wrote what I had to say!
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was part of a very long activity, but that thing struck me very much because it was like the Answer [to what I said some time ago]. He said, Yes, its true, you are right, it is like that. And that change in his body over the three times: the first time he was as I knew him, but younger and more agile; the second time, he was already stronger; and the third time, he was magnificent.
I wanted to tell you this.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have nothing to boast about, you know! I am preaching to this body as much as to others. I should be upright, strong, solid. Why am I stooped like this? I know why, but its not a compliment. I know why, its because all this is still subject to all those suggestions from the world, all the medical thought and all that derives from it and all the suggestions from life. And habits. And all these people here So theres nothing to boast about. Only, I know (the advantage is that I know it), I know it should be otherwise. I know it and the cells also know it, and I told you, yesterday evening they were crying over it, there on my bed; they kept moaning and groaning: I was not made for this life of darkness and disorder, I was made for Light, for Strength and Love. And the Answer: Ah! Take it, then! And they were moaning, Why am I compelled to be like this? And all of a sudden, instead of giving them free play: the full Presencein one second it was all gone. But the collective suggestion, the collective atmosphere is so rotten, I may say, that it acts all the time.
But you (speaking to Sujata) are one of those who can say that when I come at night, I am tall and strong. And at night, I work, I am tall, I am strong. And it goes on moaning! Its idiotic. Not only idiotic, but there is still that sort of self-pity (Mother strokes her cheek), which of all things is the most repugnant: Oh, poor little thing, how tired you are. Oh, poor little thing, how people tire you, how hard life is, how difficult things are. And then moaning and groaning like an idiot. If it were just for me, I would give them a good thrashing! But I am asked not to do it, so I dont do it. But I do feel that before the eyes of this wonderful Graceof this resplendent divine Love and this omnipotent Powerwe are deeply ridiculous, thats all.
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is still a bit of friction, but anyway its better. Just before you came You know, there are two, three of them hurling at me everyones demands, the work to be done, the Answers to be given, the checks to be signed; its quite a task you are harassed, mauled as though by claws. And there is this fatigue I feel every day, always, and because of which I need to be left absolutely undisturbed (you seem to be clawed); and I saw it was because all the work this body is made to do doesnt come from That to which it aspiresit doesnt come from up above: it comes from here, from all around, and thats why it grates, as if something were being ground. Then, very consciously, this mind called on that aspiration and on equanimity, on cellular equality: Well, this is the time to be in equality, and instantly a sort of quiet immobility was established, and things were better, I was able to go to the end.
I feel as if the tail of the solution had been caught.1 Now, naturally, we must work it out.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If they have some intelligence, they will publish it. If they publish it, it will be good for everyone. I havent told you this little story which resembles yours: some two years ago, The Illustrated Weekly asked questions on where India stood, and in their questionnaire they had asked for the Answers to be put in as few words as possible. Very well. As for me, I answered with one word, two words, three words, because things can be put in very few words.2 They published it in a box in the middle of peoples answers, which were columns long! Mon petit, it seems it had more effect than all the rest. They said to themselves, It has forced us to think. It will be the same thing for you if you have the courage to put just what has to be put, in as few words as possible: the thing as exact as possible.
If they have the courage to publish it, it will do a lot of good, a lot.3
0 1965-10-16, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, for precise problems, a decision to be made, the problem is put to me; I dont answer materially right away, I send the Answer like this (gesture of inner communication), then I wait. Well, it has happened (rather rarely, but anyway it has happened) that the person wrote to me, I have received the Answer, its this and that. Then I say, Thats good. But when I write words and because I write words, they say the same thing, it doesnt prove anything. Its an artificial obedience.
And I am not talking about those who immediately feel, Oh, Mother is wrong, I am not even talking about those; I am talking about those who truly have goodwill, but who are up to here (gesture to the mouth), even up to here (gesture to the forehead) fully in Ignorance and Falsehood, and who cover that with the cloak of a knowledge they have learned but dont even feel.
0 1965-11-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the Answer comes, but then with extraordinary solidity and certaintyquite extraordinary. Why the creation? Why the creation? And the Answer isnt at all sentences as in philosophies (thank God! There is nothing of all that): its just vibrations.
And then, all of a sudden, in all this chaos, this struggle, this friction, this suffering, and this ignorance and this darkness and this effort and this and that (oh, its much worse than when it takes place in the mind: its here [in the body] and its a question, yes, of life and death in the true sense of the phrase, that is to say, of existence or nonexistence, of consciousness or total unconsciousness and then how much it costs to find out anything!), and then, all of a sudden, just one drop its not even a drop (its not liquid!), its not even a flash of lightning, its yes, its a vibration, a DIFFERENT vibrationluminous, so wonderfully sweet, peaceful, powerful, absolute. Its like something lighting up (gesture like a burst of light or a luminous pulsation). And then theres no need anymore of discussion or explanation or anything: youve understoodits to become conscious of THAT, its to live THAT.
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I now have with Sri Aurobindo an intimacy I didnt have when he lived in a physical body: he was busy on his side, I was busy on mine, we never used to speak to each other. We were very close, as close as can be, as one as can be, ON THE SAME PLANE AS WE ARE NOW. And now when I want to know something, when I want an answer to a question, I just have to do this (gesture of immobile silence) and I have the Answer. Before, I might have been busy in one room and he in another, and I didnt even have the time or the possibility to ask him for the information.
Not that I approve of death! I fight it as much as I can, for me its a falsehooddeath and falsehood go together. But its an appearance.
0 1965-12-15, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this king1 is a remarkable man. He has a remarkable history, but it would be too long to tell. I was in contact with him before (gesture of mental communication), and I had said, I wont speak and I didnt speak. When he came he looked at me, then suddenly (he was standing), he remained standing in meditation, he closed his eyes and remained motionless. And then he asked me his questions mentally I received them. And the Answer came from up above, magnificent. An answer with a golden, superb force, and a power telling him that he had a great role to play and had to be strong and so on.
A very, very intelligent man.
0 1966-02-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Heres the Answer:
Truth does not depend
0 1966-03-04, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was like a justification of the creation, which made possible a certain mode of perception (which we could describe with the words precision, exactness in the objectification), which couldnt have existed without that. Because when that Consciousness the perfect Consciousness, the true Consciousness, THE Consciousness was there, present and lived to the exclusion of any other, there was a something, like a vibratory mode, if I may say so, a vibratory mode of objective precision and exactness, which couldnt have existed without this material form of creation. You know, there was always that great Why?the great Why like this?, Why all this? which resulted in what is expressed in the human consciousness by suffering and misery and helplessness and all, all the horrors of the ordinary consciousness why? Why this? And then, the Answer was like this: In the true Consciousness, there is a vibratory mode of precision, exactness, clearness in the objectification, which couldnt have existed without that, which wouldnt have had an opportunity to manifest. Thats certain. It is the Answer the all-powerful answer to the Why?
It is clearvery clear that what for us is translated as progress, as progressive manifestation, is not only a law of the material manifestation as we know it, but is the very principle of the eternal Manifestation. If we want to climb down again to the level of terrestrial thought, we may say that there is no manifestation without progress. But what WE call progress, whats progress to our consciousness, up above, is it may be anything: a necessity, anything we like. There is a sort of absolute that we dont understand, an absolute of being: thats how it is because thats how it is, thats all. But to our consciousness, its more and more, better and better (and these words are stupid), more and more perfect, better and better perceived. Its the very principle of the manifestation.
0 1966-03-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, quite a few times, several times, the body did ask the question, Why dont I feel Your Power and Your Force in me? And the Answer was always a smiling answer (I am putting it into words, but its wordless), the Answer is always: Patience, patience, you must be READY for that to be.
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0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, a few days ago the consciousness was under attack. All that is petty, sordid, ugly, oh poor, helpless, all thatit was such an avalanche! This poor body, it cried over its incapacity to express anything superior. And then, the Answer was very simpleit was very clear, very strong and the experience came: the only solution the only way out of the difficulty is to BECOME divine Love. And the experience was there at the same time for a few moments (it lasted long enough, maybe more than half an hour). Then you understand that everything you have to go through, all these ordeals, all this suffering, all these miseries, is nothing in comparison with the experience of what will be (and what is). But we are still incapable, meaning that the cells havent the strength yet. They are beginning to have the capacity to be, but not the strength to keep ThatThat cannot stay yet.
And That has such an extraordinary power to transform what is! All our notions (and this had become visible), our notions of miracle, of marvelous change, all the stories of miracles that have been told, all of it becomes a childs prattleits nothing! Nothing. All that we try to have, all that we aspire to have, all that is childishness.
0 1966-08-10, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had seen the man two days earlier: he is very fine. If I hadnt seen him I wouldnt have answered, but as I saw him and he happens to be fine, I suspected from the way he asked the question that he must be a-gentleman-born-in-a-Catholic-family. So I answered, This question may be asked of EVERY human being, and the Answer is, yes, potentially. And out of consideration for his goodwill, I added (I dont remember the exact words): This is the task everyone must accomplish.
Since then, he has been quite silent.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I say its amusing, but I know, its like that all the timeall the time, all the time, for everything. I am in a state of (what should I call it?) of contemplative stillness, with that sort of constant aspiration for for the Perfection we want to have: That which we want to bring down into this world. Thats all. And then, from every side, from just everywhere, all kinds of things come (gesture of communication): I am suddenly thinking of that, or I suddenly have an answer to this, or I suddenly And when the work is over, I immediately see: this (gesture to the forehead) has remained quiet, still, not even interested. Its like a transmittera receiver-transmitterin a telephone set. And I simply transmit. But I dont even have the curiosity to know why this or that came. Thats how it is: it goes out and comes; the Answer goes out, the transmission, then the Answer. And everything remains quiet (gesture to the forehead). So I know how things happen, but as I dont say to myself, Oh, this or that or this is the reason, when the outward proof comes [such as this Talk about money], its amusing!
Its a strange thing. The state of consciousness of the bodys cells is a sort of keen, constant thirst for what must be: the vibration of Harmony, of Consciousness, of Light, Beauty, Purity. It isnt even expressed in words, but its an aspiration, and nothing but that. Nothing but that, nothing else. And then, [in that silent aspiration] things come like that, from every side. And the rather peculiar thing is that there are also pains, discomforts, appearances of illnessand it all comes from outside. And with always the same answer (gesture of Descent): put the divine Consciousness put the divine Consciousness, on everything. The Consciousness that contains the Peace, the Light, the Force.
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now I know, I remember, this whole experience came after I saw a book that was published quite recently in India, in English, which they entitled The Roll of Honour, and in which there is a photo and a short biography of all those who died in the fight against the British, for Indias freedom. There were photos everywhere, lots of them (some were only photos the police took after they had just been killed and were lying on the ground). And it all brought a certain atmosphere: the atmosphere of those disinterested goodwilled people who meet with a tragic fate. It had the same impression on me as the horrors of the Germans during the war over there. These things are obviously under the direct influence of certain adverse forces, but we know that the adverse forces are, so to say, permitted to workthrough the sense of horror, in factin order to hasten the awakening of consciousness. So then, that experience, which was very strong and was very like the one I had when I saw the photographs of German atrocities in France, put me in contact with the vision of the human, terrestrial, modern error (its modern: it began these last one thousand years and has become more and more acute in the last hundred years), with the aspiration to counterbalance that: How to do it? What is to be done? And the Answer: Thats why you have created Auroville.
There is a perception of forces the forces that act directly in events, material events, which are illusory and deceptive. For instance, the man who fought for his countrys freedom, who has just been assassinated because he is a rebel, and who looks defeated, lying there on the edge of the roadhe is the real victor. Thats how it is, it clearly shows the kind of relationship between the truth and the expression. Then, if you enter the consciousness in which you perceive the play of forces and see the world in that light, its very interesting. And thats how, when I was in that state, I was told, clearly shown (its inexpressible because it isnt with words, but these are facts): Thats why you have created Auroville. Its the same thing as with that photo.3
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was asked the question (by someone who sent me the article in the hope I would answer), I said, No! They arent ready for the Answer; let them do their homework first, then well answer them.
They are ignorant people who want to be taught things the ready-cooked dinner! (Laughing) That wont do.
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There, the problem comes up again. Because there are various detailed experiences (in tiny details), detailed experiences of different attitudes of consciousness to find out which of them is effective. Its a whole field of study. Its microscopic, of course, but extremely interesting. And then, the Answer is always the same; its so lovely: When you forget that you are, when there only remains the Lord, all difficulties instantly disappear. Instantly: the previous second, the difficulty was there; the next second, gone. But its not something that can be done artificially; its not some mental or personal will to take this attitude: it must be spontaneous. And when its spontaneous, then all difficulties INSTANTLY disappear.
Stop existing the Lord alone exists.
0 1966-12-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in what Ive read of yours (I set apart the book on Sri Aurobindo because that was a very special case: all sensitive people have instantly been brought into contact with Sri Aurobindo; that was a very special case), but in your first book [The Goldwasher] which I read, I felt it came from above. I feel that. Only, of course, it would be unreadable: it has to be concretized, materialized. But if one has oneself a relationship with this plane above, one must feel it in what is written: many people feel a something that suffuses the whole thing. Thats why I want you to read me your new book, its to see if that is there. You know, I am like this (gesture to the forehead showing a vast stillness), it has become a constant state: a screen. A screen for absolutely everything. And really nothing comes from within: its either this way (horizontal gesture around Mother) or this way (gesture from above); horizontally from outside, or the response from above. Here (gesture to the level of the emotive heart), its something so neutral as to be nonexistent; and here (gesture to the forehead), its vast, even, still. So if I stop (gesture turned upward), right away, instantly, it comes in waves: a continuous light which comes down and through, comes down and through, comes down (gesture of a circulation through Mother as through a transmitter-receiver device). When something is read out to me or people ask me questions or they tell me about some matter or other, its always like that (a screen). And whats very interesting is that when its a question that deserves no answer or a matter that doesnt require my intervention, or anyway anything that can be expressed by Its no concern of mine, its none of my business, then theres an absolute blank: absolutely empty, neutral, without answer. I am obliged to say that there is no answer (if I were to tell the truth I should say, I cant hear anything, I dont understand). So its absolutely still and neutral, and if it remains like that, it means theres nothing, I have nothing to do with it. Otherwise, when there is an answer no time even elapses, theres hardly any lapse of time: the Answer seems to come even as I am spoken to. Then I take the paper or letter right away and answer. Its automatic. The whole work is done like that. Theres nothing here (gesture to the forehead).
Obviously we have to reconcile ourselves to it. The world is in a state of considerable imperfection, so everything that manifests in the world partakes of that imperfectionwhat can we do about it? The only thing we can do is to slowly try and transform but thats slow, so slow, unceasingtransform this body.
0 1967-01-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not very diplomatically, by the way. I said it had nothing to do with Tantrism. But the strange thing is that despite all this sexual atmosphere, the man still has an opening: one day, about twelve years ago, as he had a problem, instead of writing to Sri Aurobindo (he had read Sri Aurobindo), he said to himself, But why dont I concentrate on Sri Aurobindo to get the Answer to my problem? He concentrated, and in the night he suddenly saw a big golden disk come and fill him, and a voice of extraordinary force told him the words he was waiting for, words of revelation. So the man has an opening.
Oh, yes.
0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive received a certain number of questions from the older students (not the young children, the older students) on death, the conditions of death, why are there are so many accidents at present, and so on. I have already answered two persons. Of course, the Answer is on a mental level, but with an attempt to go beyond.
It is that sort of mental logic which wants yes, which wants things to be deduced one from the other according to that logic, and so they have arrived at impossible questions.
0 1967-04-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the Answer to a question. Have you heard what I said to the School teachers?1 Theyve asked me another question. This is the beginning of my answer:
It is the division between ordinary life and spiritual life which is antiquated and obsolete.
0 1967-04-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But what this Burmese man has said is fine thats much more interesting: this idea that its high time human nature changed. Thats good. Because in ordinary life, ordinary people tell you, I cant help it, thats the way I am! Its the Answer you always get.
(silence)
0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw Y. on the 31st. She stayed for about an hour and told me of her hopes: she sees the possibility of a sort of world television (I dont know how that would be arranged), with a telephone, and there would be a central office with a collection of answers to all possible questionseach question answered by someone eminent or qualified. The result would be the organization of a universal educationwell, terrestrial that would really be an education for all countries, in which the knowledge and best qualities of every country in the artistic, literary and scientific fields would be gathered in a kind of transmitting centre, and all you would have to do would be to get into communication with it. So then, instead of having more or less incapable teachers to teach what they also know more or less, you would have the Answer to every question, the most competent and best answer. Thus there would really be all over the earth an education that would be the best possible, from which everyone would receive only what he wants; you wouldnt have to attend classes, a number of useless classes, in order to catch the little you want to know: you would have it just by getting into communication with the centre; you would ask for such and such a number and would get your answer.
If it could be realized, it would be very good. It means that the most beautiful works of art, the most beautiful teachings, all the best of what humanity is GOING to produce, would be collected and within reach of all those who had a television. There would be the image along with the explanation, or the text or speech. A kind of imposing central building where everything would be gathered. I found it rather attractive. I told her that we would have that in Auroville (not the central office: just a receiving set). She said that instead of teachers who teach poorly what they know, there would be the best teaching on each subject. (I didnt ask her WHO would select those people that remains the somewhat delicate point.) But I found the idea very attractive. She said things are moving in that direction.
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Yes, that would be the true education. Its not finding answers in a super-library, but catching hold of something up above and you have all the Answers.
But thats more difficult, isnt it?
Maybe not. When I was a kid, I was quite conscious of being able to PULL something down from above, and that the Answer was there, above. Children just dont know, in fact. If they were told, if they were shown and made to understand that the knowledge is there, that you can catch hold of it
Yes.
0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Answer:
All these are mental speculations and once you enter the domain of mental imaginations there is no end to the problems and to their solutions. But all that does not bring you one step closer to the truth.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Wait, theres something else again. Oh, poor K., he held examinations (theyre out of their minds with their exams!), he held examinations on a text or a subject he had dictated to the students in his class. In other words, they had the Answer quite ready. Two of the boys (one of whom K. finds very intelligen the is, moreover and has a liking for, while he doesnt like the other) were late, and K. asked the boy he doesnt like to bring to him at home the result of their work. He brought it. K. read it, and to one of the questions, the two boys answers were not quite identical but extremely similar. It was precisely the subject K. had dictated to them, so it was natural enough that the Answers should be similar. K. felt right away that the boy had copied from the other, and told him so! The boy lost his temper and spoke to him rather rudely. So K. writes to tell me the whole story in his own way, and the boy writes to tell me the whole story, in his own way, moreover expressing regret that he was rude to his teacher. But K. remains convinced that he copied. So, a flood of letters Finally I wrote to K., Send me the two texts, I will see (not see with my eyes, but like that, feeling the thing). The boy did NOT copy. But to me, its far worse, because it means K. made a mental formation with wordswords put in a certain order and stuffed it into their brains. And they repeat it parrot fashionnaturally, it bears an extraordinary similarity to his teaching. Finally, K. told me, If I accept that the boy didnt copy, I am obliged to give him a very good mark, which I cant do! (Mother laughs) And he asks me, What should I do? I replied yesterday evening: There is a very simple way out: cancel the exam. Take all the papers, tie them into a bundle, put them away in your cupboard, and pretend it never existed and in future, no more exams! And at the end of the year, when you have to give marks to the students, well, instead of using such an artificial method, you will be obliged to observe attentively, follow the childs inner development, have a deeper contact with him (Mother laughs mockingly), and know if he has really understood or not! Then you will be able to give marks instead of basing yourself on the parrot-like repetition of something they have learned without understanding. And I sent that. So now, theyre in a fix! (Mother laughs) I find it so funny, its very amusing!
They had to hold a teachers meeting to face up to my answer! (Mother laughs) I upset the whole School!
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The students point of view: they learn just to appear to know and to pass their exams and pad out their heads with all kinds of things. The teachers point of view is to have as easy a control as possible and to be able to give marks without giving themselves too much trouble, with a minimum of effort. As for me, I say: each student is an individuality, each student should come not because he wants to be able to say, I have studied and I am going to take my exams, but because he is eager to know and he comes with the will to know. And the teacher must not follow the easy method of giving a subject and seeing how each one answers, and whether the Answer is good or bad, and conforms to what he has taught or not: he must find out whether the students interest and effort are sincere, and everyone according to his own nature for the teacher its infinitely more difficult, but thats education. And they protest.
As regards the teachers point of view, I certainly agree entirely
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I said to myself, There is the Answer to everything She has put herself at the very top, on the summit of the Catholic religion.
Yes, she told me the same thing.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Did you feel anything special? Because the last two or three days, but especially last night and this morning, it was the body learning, the cells have learnt I told you that the work till now has been the change the transferfrom acting out of habit and reaction to letting the divine Consciousness act. And this morning, for a part of the night and the whole morning until people started coming, with every action, every movement, every gesture, all the tiny little things (when, for instance, a problem is put by someone or a decision has to be taken, since years the Answer comes from above), but now with all material movements, also the inner movements, with the attitude of the body, the attitude of the cells, the absolutely material consciousness, with everything, everything the old method was gone.
It began with the perception of the remaining difference between how things were and how they should be, then that perception disappeared and there only remained that. Something (how can I explain?) The English word smooth is the most expressive; everything is done smoothly, everything without exception: bathing, brushing ones teeth, washing ones face, everything (eating, since long has been worked on in order for it to be done in the true way). It always begins with this sort of (Mother opens her hands) surrender (I dont know the right word, its neither abdication nor offering but between the two; I dont know, there is no French word for it), the surrender of the WAY in which we do things: not of the thing in itself, which is quite unimportant (in that state there is no big and small, no important and unimportant). And its something so (even gesture) uniform in its multiplicity, there is nothing that clashes or grates or causes difficulties anymore or (all those words express things so crudely): its something that moves forward, on and on in a movement so (same even gesture) the nearest word is smooth, that is, without resistance. I dont know. And its not an intensity of delight, its not that: that also is so even, so regular (same even gesture), but not uniform: its innumerable. And EVERYTHING is like that (same gesture), in one same rhythm (the word rhythm is violent). Its not uniformity, but something so even, and which feels so sweet, you know, and with a TREMENDOUS power in the smallest things.
0 1967-11-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because with all this accumulation of work, I have only one possible methodit is at every minute to transfer and wait for the Impulsion to answer or not. For certain things the response comes right away: I immediately write a line and its over; with others, I am obliged to keep it aside and wait in order to know what I should do. And among those, some I keep aside and find again, and another day, the Answer comes and I reply; but with others, its as if (gesture of vanishing) as if something took them away! They disappear, I dont see them anymore. Naturally, the mental answer, the invisible action is done instantly, in every case I know what I answered her, or rather what I DID: that goes without saying and it never fails, because it doesnt take any time, its immediate. Its only a question in reality, answering is only a concession to the external consciousness. You understand, there are a good hundred cases every day, so What I lack is material time.
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0 1967-11-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very often like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have time to read eight or ten, and at the time of reading them, most often there is no answer: theyre at least ninety-eight percent useless. When there is something, the Answer comes right away. Or when there is no answer right away, sometimes (often) I put it aside, and when I am alone, Sri Aurobindo comes and says to me, Why dont you tell him this? Then I immediately write it down. It happens very often. And always an answer, oh, with a sense of ridiculousness, of humour, touching the exact point where the weakness or unconsciousness lies. Its very amusing. So I never try to find, naturally, never ever, it comes like that quite simply. When I have to answer, it comes; then I just have to take a paper, my pen, and I write it down. Thats the part of the work which isnt work, but amusement.
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0 1968-01-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was Pavitra who read me the gentlemans letter yesterday evening, and while he was reading it, Sri Aurobindo came, and he started laughing! He laughed when the man asked for my reminiscences, and instantlyinstantly I got the Answer, instantly. It came like that: Its quite simple, there isnt much to tell. But those people dont understand! And Sri Aurobindo told me, Its high time they learned it. So it was over in five minutes.
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0 1968-03-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a very concrete experience of the cells, with the feeling (not feelingnei ther feeling nor sensation), a sort of perception of being on the very edge of the great secret. All of a sudden, a group of cells or a bodily function finds it amusing to go wrongwhy? What meaning does that hold? And the Answer was, its as if all that helped break limits.
But why, how?
0 1968-09-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, those who are fully conscious of their psychic cannot possibly deceive themselves, because if they refer their problem to the psychic, they can find the divine answer there. But even for those who are in contact with their psychic, the Answer doesnt have the same character as the mental answer, which is precise, categorical, absolute, and imposes itself the psychic answer is more a TENDENCY than an assertion. Its something that can still have different interpretations in the mind.
Which brings me back to my experience of yesterday. After looking at the problem, I reached the conclusion that its impossible to reproach a human being who does the best he can according to his consciousness, because how can he go beyond his own consciousness? Thats precisely the error most people make: they judge someone else according to their own consciousness, but the other person doesnt have their consciousness! Therefore they cant judge (I am only talking about people of goodwill, of course). To the vision of a more complete or higher consciousness, someone else is in error, but to the person himself, hes doing as best as he can what he thinks he has to do.
0 1968-10-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He made me have the experience these last few days. It was the Answer to your question.
It goes on indefinitely (Mother draws an immense road), so Where do I stand? (same immense gesture)theres as much of the path behind as there is ahead! (Mother laughs)
0 1968-12-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body is very simple, it has a childs simplicity. This morning it was assailed with visionsnot visions, I dont know what to call them they werent exactly recollections, but things coming and all of them expressing hatred, violence (all that side, you know), and the body saw, it saw and felt, and said so spontaneously (it continues to be in this constant communion with the divine Presence), it said to the Lord, Why do You carry all that in Yourself? With a childs candor and simplicity: Why do You carry all that in Yourself? And just when it said that, there was a sort of vision, a vision extended over the whole earth of all the horrors constantly committed on it: Why do You carry? So then, the Answer is always, always the same (its like this, its here like this [gesture around the head]): In my Consciousness, things are different. Or, In my Consciousness, things have a different appearance. And there was this insistence: Work to have the true consciousness. The TRUE consciousness that contains everything.
And this morning, the body understood: the problem was very clearly understood. (None of this is thought out, I dont know how to explain its not positively sensations, but its perceptions I dont know [Mother feels the air with her fingers].) But the body clearly understood why division is, for a while, for the growth of the being, necessary. Because if there were from the start the perception it now has of everything within the Lord, absolutely everything, for instance all the things that even not so long ago (though in a different way) were still giving it a sort of horrorcertain kinds of cruelty, certain things were really giving the body a sense of horror Now its no longer like that, but it still cant be happy with such things; it can be indifferent (gesture of a Witness),but it cant be happy. And it has understood why that horror was necessary; why there was a time when the manifested world, the world of manifestation, needed to appear outside and separate from the Lord. (After a silence) One must one must have that immutable Peace, one must be as vast as the universe to be able to bear the idea that EVERYTHING is the supreme Lord.
0 1969-03-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, while the vision was developing, there was the Answer to all possible objections, based precisely on the presence of this new consciousness which CHANGES things but changes things while leaving them as they are! I dont know how to explain.
Our whole way of feeling and reacting to things doesnt exist in this Consciousness, thats whats new with it! Theres always a harmonious rhythm (same gesture), and with anything! Even with what we find disgusting (same gesture).
0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There would seem to be a rage among the adverse forces; they feel that something radical is now going on and want to prevent it at any costwhich is idiotic, by the way, completely stupid. But we might say its fine, because they actually give an opportunity they put themselves in the conditions needed to receive the Answer: the backlash.
You know, I saw something last night.
0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Consciousness for instance if someone writes and puts a question to me, through this Consciousness I instantly get the Answer; and when I write it down, its this Consciousness that speaks. These last few days I have written a number of answers, and all of them so far AHEAD of all that has been said up till now the Answers are so far ahead of the state of consciousness of the people who put a question that And that happens spontaneously, effortlessly, just like that (Mother lets her pen flow).
(silence)
0 1969-10-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You dont know I saw a flash of lightning outside before going to sleep, so I thought maybe But I am not sure; the thunderclap too may have taken place in the subtle physical. It fell like this (Mother strikes her stomach). I felt it fall (Mother smiles), I smiled and said, He cant! (Mother laughs) And it didnt hurt me in the least! Then he left. And it was as if to teach me I looked, wondering, How could I receive it? Then the Answer was so clear: it was to teach my body that it can be attacked but wont feel anything.
I felt it, but it didnt hurl! And theres no trace. And theres nothing there was enough to crush you! (Mother laughs) And there was nothing. The body was tranquil, tranquil, tranquil. It woke me up, and I wondered if Id been hurt, but there was nothing. And where it fell, I saw it, I felt the shock I felt it, thats what woke me up: a shock and a sort of weight, and a gap in the wall as big as a door. So then, the bodys reaction, but instantaneous (that is, without reflecting or anything), instantaneous, was Oh, Lord, like this (Mother opens her arms upward), smiling. Not at all frightened or Then I took a good look and wondered, Am I hurt anywhere? There was nothing. Because I kept the two together: the state of vision and the physical state at the same time; in the state of vision I wanted to know whether Id been hurt (it hadnt done anything), and in both states the reaction was the same, like this (same gesture, arms open), with a smile. So it shows that the thing is really done.
Later this morning, when I was fully awake, I wondered, How could I get that? How could that being do it? (Because it did take place, I received it! [Mother laughs] He wasnt stopped from doing it.) Then the Answer was very clear: it was for your body to learn that its really and effectively protected, even if something takes place.
It was interesting.
0 1969-10-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now, you see, people have made it a habit to ask me for a message on every occasion, and lots of people write to me, asking for answers. So I remain like that, and almost instantly (except in a few rare cases), the Answer comes like this (gesture of descent). And if I dont feel like writing, it persists and persists and wont let go of me until Ive written! Once Ive written, its over! To such a point that I dont even remember what Ive written.
Id like to learn the knack!
0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in your case its your mission, you understand. I dont know how to explain. I always, always see you in direct and constant contact with with this Consciousness expressing itself; so when it reaches the mental level, youre as if arranging pawns on a chessboard. Ive looked very, very often: its indispensable, its an indispensable work, and extremely useful. Naturally, my body, too, might say, If instead of seeing all these people I were all the time like this (gesture huddled in the Lord), working to hasten the transformation, it would be very pleasant! For you too, its like that, but were here to do something. Thats it. And its a certainty, a certainty because several times when things became critical, I have told the Lord, There, its for You to decidewhe ther to stay on or to go and rest blissfully. And the Answer has ALWAYS, always been the same: Theres work to be done.
We are here because we were sent to do the work, and as long as work is necessary, we must do it. When its time for the work to stop, we will be free to go and rest blissfully
0 1969-12-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, I am all the time (I dont know, at least ten times a day) asked questions, and the Answer comes instantly, like this (gesture of descent), with an ease I never had before. All it takes is a few seconds of attention, and it comes. And the Answers are much bolder something that touches an inner truth and isnt bothered by external reactions. The words are much bolder than before, much clearer Sometimes, when I write them, I say to myself that it would be amusing if you could see themmost of the time its quite personal things, but the form is interesting.
Couldnt we ask those two girls for your answersnot their questions but your answers?
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its amusing because it doesnt correspond (I cant say to what I think, because, to tell the truth, I no longer think) to my experience, but to the OTHER persons need. the Answer is dictated FOR the other person. Words, expressions, the turn of phrase, the presentation vary completely according to the person its written to. And this consciousness [of Mother] which is there (gesture above) has nothing to do with it at all. It just receives. It receives, and then it comes down and goes like this (hammering gesture) until Ive written! It wont go away until its written down. Thats very amusing . That way, one can do a lot of work without getting tired!
Id like to take a leaf out of your book!
0 1969-12-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came in the wake of a question: What is death? But then, the Answer wasnt at all on the ordinary plane, which means that the mind was perfectly silent.
It came like this, imperative (Mother laughs):
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Then (Mother takes other notes) I am continuing the Answers to the Aphorisms, and yesterday (those Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo are extremely interesting, I had forgotten), yesterday T. asked me a question (because in those Aphorisms, Sri Aurobindo speaks of courage and love, meanness and selfishness, nobleness and generosity1), so she asked me, Could you give me the definition of these words? At first, I thought it wouldnt come, but all of a sudden it came. So I noted it down, its interesting.
(Mother reads)
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then, the Answer is always the same: We have no money!
But Mother, what I think, and what Paolo too has put his finger on, is that if these say, twenty or fifty Aurovilians sincerely unite their hearts in the construction of this pyramid or temple of the new world, it will ATTRACT money, the millions.
0 1970-03-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, very often the Answer comes to me in English because it comes to me from Sri Aurobindo. When I read, I listen, and then he speaks. And then I am the one who translates while writing! I translate into French. But I could write it in English at the same time.
Yesterday again Have you read yesterdays aphorism? But yesterday, he was going at the doctors with a will! So I said, For people spontaneously not to need medicines, nature must change. Its too old a habit.
0 1970-03-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, for me, the Answer is this sense of humor! (Mother laughs)
(Satprem:) Yes, you write to T., Sri Aurobindo had the genius of humor and one only has to admire and be silent.
0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Several times like that, when people tell me they feel as if in front of an ineluctable law, There is this and this, and therefore that is inevitable, the Answer is always the same: IF YOU WANT IT SO!
You are the ones who decide its ineluctable!
0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, yesterday I wrote (I forget the words), But when You want to transform the IMAGE into Your likeness, what happens?1 Something like that. And I got the Answer last night! Two activities of the subtle physical.
Oh, Ill tell the first (laughing): I killed someone point-blank!
0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, when I am asked a question, nothing, nothing responds, and then all of a sudden the Answer comes (gesture of descent) in words; but if I am not very attentive, prrt! nothing remains, I cant even recapture the words. The consciousness of the Answer is there (gesture above), it doesnt budge, its always there, this consciousness, but the materialization of it is very fleeting.
Original English.
0 1970-07-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, A. must have seen the Answer, and through me he sends you a letter.
Saying?
0 1970-07-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must say that two days ago, I had an experience (it was with R. again, she was here), an experience of the whole universe, like a general vision of an Immensity, and then, suddenly the consciousness seemed to become a point taking up no room, and that point was the Eternal Consciousness. But then, it was so strong! So strong how all this, this whole unfolded universe was the result of this Consciousness (Mother shows a point). You understand, the consciousness here became this Eternal Consciousness (for a few seconds perhaps, I dont think it lasted even a minute, but time had nothing to do with it), it was the Eternal, it was the Consciousness. And that experience already prepared something [in Mother], because the two were simultaneous; one didnt abolish the other, the two were simultaneous: this Point that was taking up no room but was eternal, was everything, and at the same time, the unfolding [of the universe]. That was a very intense experience. Then there only remained this vagueness that is the whole, but it didnt lose its impression of vagueness, that is to say, of something imprecise. Since that time, there has been something changed [in Mother]. And today, in this consciousness, when the Answer came, it wasnt the knowledge of thatit wasnt the knowledge, it was the working. All of a sudden, I had BECOME the working. So then, I expressed it as best I could in this notebook. It had such simplicity, you know, a marvelous, all-powerful simplicity!
Words are approximations. I had to use words because I had to write for him, but the experience came like that, the working: the experience of this universal Immensity returning to the Divine Consciousness, how it returnsand innumerably, of course, with all possible experiences, but with a marvelous sim-plic-i-ty.
0 1971-10-02, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Last year, after the death of General de Gaulle, Satprems friend Y.L. had met Andr Malraux at Verrires; he immediately asked her, Is the Mother still alive? As Y.L. was a little taken aback, he added, I went there before you, 33 years ago. So I assume you know what they have been looking for in India. Again a few days ago, Y.L. met Andr Malraux after his cry Volunteer for Bengal; he said to her, What is essential in the fight Im going to wage for Bengal is to know the attitude and action of Pondicherry. Y.L. therefore came to put the question directly to Mother. Mother asked, When is Andr Malraux meeting Indira Gandhi? In November, in Paris. Mother again asked, When is Andr Malraux thinking of coming to India? I dont know. Then Mother remained absorbed a long time and said, He will only get the Answer when he arrives in India, because the Answer is in him. After meeting Indira Gandhi in Paris, Andr Malraux will renounce his plan of action. Let us note that when Y.L. met him, he leafed through the Auroville pressbook and said, All this is familiar Im part of it I know this. And closing the book, Its as if the sun had risen. And it goes down. And we begin again. Y.L. simply replied: And what if the sun has risen for good?)
[These notes are taken from Y.L.s travel diary.]
0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I received a letter from Y.L. You remember, last year she came to ask you Malrauxs question about BangladeshMalraux wanted to participate in the struggle for Bangladesh. You told her to tell him he would have the Answer when he came to India
(Mother nods)
0 1973-03-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the Answer was immediately YES, but it wasnt I who gave the Answer.
(Mother is absorbed again and comes back almost immediately with a movement of suffocation)
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
As are the questions so are the Answers, equally enigmatic and obscure.
About the Word, the mystery which Dirghatama unveils is an extraordinary revelationso curious, so illuminating. In later times many lines of spiritual discipline have adopted his scheme and spread it far and wide. Dirghatama himself was an uncommon wizard of words. The truths he saw and clothed in mantras have attained, as I have already said, general celebrity. He says: "The Word is off our categories. It has four stations or levels or gradations." The Rishi continues: "Three of them are unmanifested, unbodied; only the fourth one is manifest and bodied, on the tongue of man." This terminology embodying a fundamental principle has had many commentaries and explanations. Of these the most well-known is that given by the Tantras. They have named the fourfold words as (1) par, supreme; (2) payant, the seeing one; (3) madhyam, the middle one or the one within and (4) vaikhar, the articulate word. In modern language we may say that the first one is the self-vibration of the Supreme Being or Consciousness; the second is the vibration of the higher-mind or the pure intelligence; the third is the vibration of the inner heart; and the fourth the vibration of physical sound, of voice. In philosophical terms of current English we may name these as (1) revelatory, (2) intuitive, (3) inspirational and (4) vocal.
02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We may ask in this connection which deity does our poet invoke here, to whom does he raise his offerings, to whomkasmai devya? One need not be startled at the Answer: it is the toadstool. But the mushroom growth assumes a respectable figure in the guise of its Sanskrit name,chatraka. Kalidasa did one better. His magic touch gave the insignificant flora a luminousrobeilndhra, a charming name. The great poet tells us that the earth is not barren or sterilekartum yat camahmucchilndhrmabandhym. The next pertinent question is: why does the poet worship a toadstool? What is his purpose? Does a toadstool possess any special power? This leads us to a hidden world, to the 'mysteries' spoken of by the poet himself.
In ancient days and in some spiritual practice and discipline this fungus had a special use for a definite purpose. Its use produces on one a drowsy effect, perhaps a strong and poisonous intoxicating effect. What is the final result of this drugging? We know that in our country among the sadhus and some sects practising occult science, taking of certain herbal drugs is recommended, even obligatory. Today Aldous Huxley has taken up the cue, in the most modern fashion indeed, and prescribed mescalin in the process of Yoga and spiritual practice. Did the Vedic Rishis see in the same way a usefulness of Soma, the proverbial creeper secreting the immortal drink of delight? However, the Tantriksadhaks hold that particular soporifics possess the virtue of quieting the external senses and dulling and deadening the sense organs, and thereby freeing the inner and subtler consciousness in its play and manifestation.
03.13 - Dynamic Fatalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If it is so, then what is the necessity at all of work and labour and travailthis difficult process of sadhana? The question is rather naive, but it is very often asked. the Answer also could be very simple. The change decreed is precisely worked out through the travail: one is the end, the other is the means; the goal and the process, both are decreed and inevitable. If it is argued, supposing none made the effort, even then would the change come about, in spite of man's inaction? Well, first of all, this is an impossible supposition. Man cannot remain idle even for a moment: not only the inferior Nature, but the higher Nature too is always active in himremember the words of the Gita though behind the veil, in the inner consciousness. Secondly, if it is really so, if man is not labouring and working and making the attempt, then it must be understood that the time has not yet come for him to undergo the change; he has still to wait: one of the signs of the imminence of the change is this very intensity and extensiveness of the labour among mankind. If, however, a particular person chooses to do nothing, prefers to wait and seehopes in the end to jump at the fruit all at once and possess it or hopes the fruit to drop quietly into his mouthwell, this does not seem to be a likely happening. If one wishes to enjoy the fruit, one must share in the effort to sow and grow. Indeed, the process itself of reaching the higher consciousness involves a gradual heightening of the consciousness. The means is really part of the end. The joy of victory is the consummation of the joy of battle.
Man can help or retard the process of Nature, in a sense. If his force of consciousness acts in line with Nature's secret movement, then that movement is accelerated: through the soul or self that is man, it is the Divine, Nature's lord and master who drives and helps Nature forward. If, on the contrary, man follows his lesser self, his lower ego, rajasic and tamasic, then he throws up obstacles and barriers which hamper and slow down Nature's march.
04.06 - To Be or Not to Be, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"A moral problem, un cas de conscience (a case of conscience), as they say in French. To defend yourself against your attacker and kill him who comes to kill you or stand disarmed and let yourself be killedwhich is better, which has the greater moral value? To fight your enemy is normal, is human. To preserve yourself, that is to say, your body, is the very first injunction of Nature. That is Nature's primary and fundamental demand. And to preserve one's life one has to take others' life. That is also Nature. But then, it is said, man is meant to rise above Nature, live (even if it means to die) according to a higher lawnot the biological law, the law of tooth and claw. The higher law is for the preservation of life indeed, but others' life, not one's own, if it comes to that; it is not self-centred, but wholly other-regarding, it is for harmony, for peace and amity, not violence and battle. If one demurs and points out that it requires two to be friends and at peace, the Answer is that one side must begin, and the merit goes to him who begins. One need not worry about the other side, which may be left to follow its own law of life, which, however, can be gained over only in this way and not by compulsion or coercion or violence. Na hi vairea vairai smyantha kadcana. Never by enmity is enmity appeased, says the Dhammapada.1
This is a way of cutting the Gordian knot. But the problem is not so simple as the moralist would have it. Resist not evil: if it is made an absolute rule, would not the whole world be filled with evil? Evil grows much faster than good. By not resisting evil one risks to perpetuate the very thing that one fears; it deprives the good of its chance to approach or get a foothold. That is why the Divine Teacher declares in the Gita that God comes down upon earth, assuming a human body,2to protect the good and slay the wicked,3 slay not metaphorically but actually and materially, as he did on the field of the Kurus.
05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed the second way of approach to the problem is the positivist's own way. That is to say, let us take our stand on the terra firmaof the physical and probe into it and find out whether there are facts there which open the way or point to the other side of nature, whether there are signs, hints, intimations, factors involved there that lead to conclusions, if not inevitable, at least conformable to supraphysical truths. It is usually asserted, for example, that the scientist the positivist par excellencefollows a rigid process of ratiocination, of observation, analysis and judgment. He collects facts and a sufficient number of them made to yield a general law the probability of a generic factwhich is tested or exemplified by other correlate facts. This is however an ideal, a theoretical programme not borne out by actual practice, it is a rationalisation of a somewhat different actuality. The scientist, even the most hard-headed among them, the mathematician, finds his laws often and perhaps usually not by a long process of observation and induction or deduction, but all on a sudden, in a flash of illumination. The famous story of Newton .and the falling apple, Kepler's happy guess of the elliptical orbit of the planetsand a host of examples can be cited as rather the rule than the exception for the methodology of scientific discovery. Prof. Hadamard, the great French mathematician the French are well-known for their intransigent, logical and rational attitude in Science,has been compelled to admit the supreme role of an intuitive faculty in scientific enquiry. If it is argued that the so-called sudden intuition is nothing but the final outburst, the cumulative resultant of a long strenuous travail of thinking and reasoning and arguing, Prof. Hadamard says', in reply, that it does not often seem to be so, for the Answer or solution that is suddenly found does not lie in the direction of or in conformity with the, conscious rational research but goes against it and its implications.
This faculty of direct knowledge, however, is not such a rare thing as it may appear to be. Indeed if we step outside the circumscribed limits of pure science instances crowd upon us, even in our normal life, which would compel one to conclude that the rational and sensory process is only a fringe and a very small part of a much greater and wider form of knowing. Poets and artists, we all know, are familiar only with that form: without intuition and inspiration they are nothing. Apart from that, modern inquiries and observations have established beyond doubt certain facts of extra-sensory, suprarational perceptionof clairvoyance and clairaudience, of prophecy, of vision into the future as well as into the past. Not only these unorthodox faculties of knowledge, but dynamic powers that almost negate or flout the usual laws of science have been demonstrated to exist and can be and are used by man. The Indian yogic discipline speaks of the eight siddhis, super-natural powers attained by the Yogi when he learns to control nature by the force of his consciousness. Once upon a time these facts were challenged as facts in the scientific world, but it is too late now in the day to deny them their right of existence. Only Science, to maintain its scientific prestige, usually tries to explain such phenomena in the material way, but with no great success. In the end she seems to say these freaks do not come within her purview and she is not concerned with them. However, that is not for us also the subject for discussion for the moment.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And waits the Answer of the human heart,
And death that climbs to immortality.
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.
07.11 - The Problem of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The universe and its creator are not separate things, they are one and identical in their origin. The universe is God himself projected into Space (and Time). So the universe is the Divine in one aspect or another. You cannot divide the two, making one the creator and the other, his work, the watch-maker and his watch. You put your idea of the Divine upon him and ask, why he has created such a nasty world. If the Divine were to answer, It is not I, it is yourself. Become myself again, you will no longer feel and see as you do now you are not yourself, therefore your question and your problem! Indeed, when you unite your consciousness with the divine consciousness there is no longer any problem. Everything appears then natural and simple, and correct and as it should be. It is when you cut yourself from your origin and stand outside, in front of him and against him that all the trouble begins. Of course you may ask, how is it that the Divine has tolerated a part of himself going out and separating itself and creating all this disorder? I would reply on behalf of the Divine, If you want to know, you had better unite yourself with the Divine, for that is the only way of knowing why he has done so. It is not by questioning him by your mind that you will get the Answer. The mind cannot know. And repeat, when you come to this identification, all problems are solved. The feeling, one can explain, that things are not all right, that they should be otherwise comes precisely from the fact that there is a divine will unfolding itself in a continuous progression, that things that were and are have to give place to things that shall be and shall be better and better than they have been. The world that was good yesterday will no longer be so tomorrow. The universe might have appeared quite harmonious in some other age but now appears quite discordant: it is because we see the possibility of a better universe. If we found it as it should be, we would not do what we have to do, we would not try to make it better. Even so, we would conceive the Divine in a very human way; for we remain imprisoned within ourselves, confined to this consciousness of ours which is like a grain of sand in the infinite immensity. You want to understand the immensity? That is not possible. It is possible only under one condition; be one with the immensity. The drop of water cannot very well ask how the ocean is: it has to lose itself into the ocean.
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07.37 - The Psychic Being, Some Mysteries, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It depends. As I have told you now, there are psychic beings that are just on the way of formation and growth, they usually cannot choose at the beginning, they cannot choose very much. But when they have come to a certain degree of development and consciousness, they make a choice; generally when they are still in the body, when they have gathered a certain amount of experience, they decide what is to be their next field of experience. I shall give you an illustration, although somewhat external. A psychic being, for example, needed the experience of power, authority, comm and and wanted to know the reactions of these movements and also how to turn them towards the Divine, to learn, in a word, what these things can teach. So the soul took the body of a king (or a queen). When it had the necessary experience, learnt what it had to learn, it gave up the body, being no longer useful. It is at that moment, when it decides to leave the body, that the soul still in the body makes the choice of the next experience. The choice very often takes a course of action and reaction. If the soul has experienced and studied a particular field, its choice falls upon a contrary field on the following occasion. Thus if the soul has had the experience of a kingly position and worked through that to enter into a conscious relation with the Divine, then at the moment of leaving the body that served with Power and authority and command, it perhaps would say: This time I shall take a middle position, neither high nor low, where there will be no need to lead mostly an external life, where one is neither in great luxury nor in great misery. With that resolution it returns to the psychic world for the necessary rest, for the assimilation of past experiences and preparation for the future. When the time comes for return upon earth, for the descent into a physical body, it remembers naturally the choice it had made, but from that higher and subtler plane at that moment the material world is not seen in the way we see it, it appears in a different form; still one can notice the differences in the surroundings and activities. One has not the vision of the details, but a total or global vision is there. It can choose an atmosphere, it can choose even a particular country. It has in view a certain kind of education, civilisation and influence, the kind of life that it wishes to lead. Then as it comes down and looks about, it distinguishes very clearly the different kinds of vibrations and makes its way accordingly. It aims, as it were, at the place where to drop. But it can hit the target only approximately. For there are one or two other factors besides which come into play. For there is not only its own choice, from above, there must also be a receptivity from below, an aspiration that draws to it the particular being or the particular type of being. Usually the call is from a mother, sometimes from both the parents. If the parent has some aspiration or receptivity, something that is sufficiently passive and open and looking up towards something higher, in that case, the thing appears to the psychic being as a luminous vibration which beckons it. It is the Answer to its will. It shows the place it is to go to. It cannot fix the day of its birth. There will naturally be a period of uncertainty, but that is not expected to go beyond a year. The second factor that somewhat modifies or qualifies his choice comes from the nature of the birth itself. The soul, the conscious being, precipitates into the inconscience, for the physical world, even human consciousness, at its very best, is an inconscient thing when compared to the psychic consciousness. It is as though the soul fell head down-most. That makes it dazed and for a long time it does not know what is what. It does not know where it is, what it is doing nor why it is there; a complete blank possesses it. It is unable to express itself, especially as a baby, it has not the proper amount of brain to understand or manifest anything. Very rarely do children show the exceptional being that they have within them. Cases do occur indeed, but they are very few and far between. Generally it takes time for the soul to come to its own. It wakes up but slowly from its numbness, it is only gradually that it begins to understand that it is there for some reason and by choice. This oblivion is occasioned by the presence of the mind and mental education which completely shuts off the psychic consciousness. All kinds of circumstances, happenings, experiencesexternal and emotionalare then needed to strike open the doors; within, to bring the memory that one has come from elsewhere and for a very special reason. It is the normal longer process. But one may have the chance of meeting early enough some one who knows; then instead of groping and fumbling through ignorance and darkness, you get the light and the help that give you the swift and straight contact.
The psychic will and psychic development are things that are completely outside the range of common notions. Ideas of justice and reward and punishment have no place here at all. Any people come to me and complain: What have I done in my past life that I have to be under such difficult conditions now, to suffer so much! I always reply: But don't you see it is a blessing for you, the divine grace upon you? In your past life perhaps you yourself asked for such conditions so that you may make greater progress through them! This way of looking at the thing may seem very novel. But truth lies that way.
08.04 - Doing for Her Sake, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
If you had asked this, you should have gone and sought for the Answer somewhere within you. For the Answer is within you, nowhere outside. If you go deep enough you will find an answer very clear, very interesting. If you go deep down, into a silence where all external things are silenced, you will see there within, a Flame of which I speak so often and within this Flame you will see your destiny. You will see that the aspiration of centuries that has been accumulating little by little to lead you through countless births to the great day of Realisation. This preparation has taken thousands of years and it is now arriving at its fruition.
And when you have gone deep enough to find that, you will see and feel that all your incapacities, weaknesses, all that in you denies and does not understand, all that is not yourself; it is simply a robe which fits you to certain extent only and which you have put on for the occasion only.
08.05 - Will and Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To say "no" does not cure, but to say "yes" does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their children to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything he could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and cured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day got hold of a match-box and as he was not prevented, burnt himself in playing with it, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may be even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils most children are soand when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the world. Some are fond of walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some have an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some who love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such children are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes. There are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take the risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied anything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that a thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be better, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual liberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed before beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own experiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once I remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible accident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted in saying that the child might get killed, the Answer was, "What if? Each one must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to meddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will suffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one's own accordwhich is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop." But naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way expected or wished for.
The matter gets difficult and involved, if you make a theory and try to follow it. In reality, each case is different and to be able to deal with each adequately needs a whole lifetime's occupation.
09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Generally, when people think of the Divine, the first thing they do is to pull as much as they can and they receive nothing. They tell you: "Oh, I have called, I have prayed and I have had no answer". If they are asked: "Have you offered yourself?", they reply: "No, I have pulled." "But that is why you have not received." It is not that the Answer did not come. But when you pull, you are so much shut up within your ego that you raise a wall between what is to be received and yourself. You confine yourself within a prison and yet you are astonished that in your prison you feel nothing.
Throw yourself out of yourself. Give yourself without holding back anything, simply for the joy of the self-giving. Then there is a chance of your feeling something.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Please refrain from the obvious retort: "Then, in the long run, you can't possibly go wrong: so it doesn't matter what you do." Perfectly true, of course! (There is no single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood:" with some such words did the debauched old reprobate seek to console himself when Time began to take its revenge.) But the Answer is simple enough: you happen to be the kind of being that thinks it does matter what course you steer; or, still more haughtily, you enjoy the pleasure of sailing.
No, there is this factor in all success: self-confidence. If we analyze this, we find that it means that one is aware that all one's mental and physical faculties are working harmoniously. The deadliest and subtlest enemy of that feeling is anxiety about the result; the finest gauze of doubt is enough to dim one's vision, to throw the entire field out of focus. Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence. As you will know, all our automatic physiological functions are deranged if one is aware of This then, is the difficulty, to enjoy consciously while not disturbing the process involved. The obvious physical case is the sexual act: perhaps its chief importance is just that it is a type of this exceptional spiritual-mental condition. I hope, however, that you will remember what I have said on the subject in paragraphs 1517 of my 3rd Lecture on Yoga for Yellowbellies (pp. 71-72); there is a way of obtaining ecstacy from the most insignificant physiological function. Observe that in transferring the whole consciousness to (say) one's little finger or big toe is not trying to interfere with the normal exercise of its activities, but only to realize what is going on in the organism, the exquisite pleasure of a function in its normal activity. With a little imagination one can conceive the analogical case of the Universe itself; and, still less fettered by even the mildest limitation which material symbols necessarily (however little) suggest, "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; ..." (AL, II, 9).
1.00g - Foreword, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
"This memorandum is to ask for your collaboration and support. A list, indicating briefly the subject of each letter already written, is appended. Should you think that any of those will help you in your own problems, a typed copy will be sent to you at once ... Should you want to know anything outside the scope, send in your question (stated as fully and clearly as possible) ... the Answer should reach you, bar accidents, in less than a month ... It is proposed ultimately to issue the series in book form."
This has now been done.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
The inscription on these rings should read, for men: "Unto God belongeth all that is in the heavens and on the earth and whatsoever is between them, and He, in truth, hath knowledge of all things"; and for women: "Unto God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them, and He, in truth, is potent over all things". These are the verses that were revealed aforetime, but lo, the Point of the Bayan now calleth out, exclaiming, "O Best-Beloved of the worlds! Reveal Thou in their stead such words as will waft the fragrance of Thy gracious favours over all mankind. We have announced unto everyone that one single word from Thee excelleth all that hath been sent down in the Bayan. Thou, indeed, hast power to do what pleaseth Thee. Deprive not Thy servants of the overflowing bounties of the ocean of Thy mercy! Thou, in truth, art He Whose grace is infinite." Behold, We have hearkened to His call, and now fulfil His wish. He, verily, is the Best-Beloved, the Answerer of prayers. If the following verse, which hath at this moment been sent down by God, be engraved upon the burial-rings of both men and women, it shall be better for them; We, of a certainty, are the Supreme Ordainer: "I came forth from God, and return unto Him, detached from all save Him, holding fast to His Name, the Merciful, the Compassionate." Thus doth the Lord single out whomsoever He desireth for a bounty from His presence. He is, in very truth, the God of might and power.
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1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
or the man who hates him?" And the Answer is: "He who loves
God takes seven reincarnations to reach perfection, and he who
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (Smiling): "Oh, no! You mustn't go that far, my child! (Laughter). God dwells in all beings. But you may be intimate only with good people; you must keep away from the evil-minded. God is even in the tiger; but you cannot embrace the tiger on that account. (Laughter). You may say, 'Why run away from a tiger, which is also a manifestation of God?' the Answer to that is: 'Those who tell you to run away are also manifestations of God - and why shouldn't you listen to them?'
Parable of the "elephant God"
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
We can ask: What are the laws that govern the development of the world beyond humankind? However, none of the Answers come close to the essence of what lives within the limits of the human skin. Answers are so inadequate that people today havent a clue about the ways that external natural processes are actually transformed within the human being through breathing, blood circulation, nutrition, and so on.
Consequently, we have come to the point where, even in terms of the soul, we do not look at the soul itself, but study its exter- nal manifestations in the human body. Today people experiment with external means on human beings. However, I dont intend to criticize psychological or pedagogical experimentation. We have to acknowledge what can be accomplished in this way, but mostly this approach is a symptom of our cultural milieu, since in fact the results of such experiments should at least be mentioned.
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
To go back to the poem, the Answer to the first question is
that, within limits, we do know how many stars there are. In
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ics? the Answer is interesting and not too obvious. Our obser-
vations of the stars are through the agency of light, of rays or
1.01 - Soul and God, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Society on January 31,1913, Jung said: The dream is not only the fulfillment of infantile desires, but also symbolizes the future... The dream provides the Answer through the symbol, which one must understand" (MZS, p. 5). On the development of Jung's dream theory, see my
Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science, 2.
1.01 - the Call to Adventure, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
men.' And when he heard the Answer, he said, 'Shame on birth,
since to every one that is born old age must come.' And agitated
1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
In regard to Orestes, the Answer is obvious. He and the image of the
Tauric Diana, which could only be appeased with human blood, were
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
When Dr. Manilal arrived after his breakfast, he asked Sri Aurobindo how he felt. There was no complaint and the Answer was brief. Soon after, Dr. Rao arrived. On hearing the story of the fall he proposed that an orthopaedic surgeon from Madras be called for consultation. He had a friend Dr. Narasimha Ayer, well known for his efficiency. The Mother approved and he left for Madras.
We now had nothing else to do except wait. The day rolled on. We were counting hours and minutes for Dr. Rao's return. Any sound of a car horn would make us run to the window. Pondicherry in 1938 was, by the way, far from what it is today. The number of cars could almost be counted and they drove by at long intervals, So we could easily be deceived by the sound of a horn, particularly in our anxious anticipation. Dr. Manilal would give us fatherly admonition not to be so restless, both his age and experience must have taught him some samat and an objective outlook on things. Meanwhile, Sri Aurobindo, the divine patient, was lying quietly in his spacious bed, apparently quite at ease. To Dr. Manilal's occasional enquiries he gave monosyllabic answers, and the rest of us were perhaps nothing more than shadowy forms moving about, having no names and awaking no interest. Only when the Mother came from time to time and asked with a sweet smile, "Is it paining you?" we saw some difference on an otherwise impassive face! At last after many deceptions, we were informed that the doctors had arrived. It was evening. They explained that they were delayed because they wanted an expert radiologist friend to accompany them, and when he was hunted down in the labyrinthine Madras metropolis, the radiologist agreed to follow soon.
10.29 - Gods Debt, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, we go beyond the gods, to the very origin, God himself, the Supreme. What is the debt that God, the Supreme, the Divine, owes to us human beings? We owe to God everything, our life, our very existence, our soul and substance given to us by him, then how is he indebted to us? What kind of debt he has incurred which he has to pay to his creature, the human being? Primarily because he is the Divine Father, he has to take charge of his own creation, see to its growth and fruition and fulfilment. Indeed that is the role of the Divine in us (and above us and around us): that is his work, the Divine Work. Since he has put us out of his consciousness (for a special experience of growth and development), it is also his work (and duty) to bring us back to him: after a process of self-separation a process of self-integration. Man, so long as he is a separate consciousness has to dedicate, lift up and unify this separative conscious being to the whole being and consciousness. This is how he discharges his debt to the Divine, and the Answering grace of the Divine is the clearing of the debt which He owes to His creatures.
What has been said of man is equally applicable to earth. The destiny of man is the destiny of earth as also the destiny of earth is the destiny of man. For man is an earthly creature, is born out of earth and he grows with the growth of the earth; equally the earth grows with the growth of man.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
might seem logical to assume that the Answer is none something unexplored cannot have meaning,
because none has yet been attri buted to it. The truth, however, is precisely opposite. Those things we do not
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according to its current frame of reference or system of belief? the Answer to this question sheds
substantial light on the nature of the orienting reflex, in its full manifestation. Modern experimental
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lurks there. If the Answer is no, then the space is defined, once again, as home territory (which is that
place where commonplace behaviors produce desired ends). The rats transform the dangerous unknown
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decreases). Perhaps the Answer is something along the lines of the simplest solution that does not generate
additional evident problems wins which I suppose is a variant of Occams razor. So the simplest
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It is then (you will say) impossible to "do wrong", since all phenomena are equally "Illusion" and the Answer is always "Nothing." In theory one can hardly deny this proposition; but in practice how shall I put it? "The state of Illusion which for convenience I call my present consciousness is such that the course of action A is more natural to me that the course of action B?"
Or: A is a shorter cut to Nothing; A is less likely to create internal conflict.
1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
" I can only say that physical science has turned its back on all such models, regarding them now rather as a hindrance to the apprehension of the truth behind phenomena. . . . And if to-day you ask a physicist what he has finally made out the rether or the electron to be, the Answer will not be a description in terms of billiard balls or flywheels or anything concrete; he will point instead to a number of symbols and a set of mathematical equations which they satisfy. What do the symbols stand for? The mysterious reply is given that physics is indifferent to that;
it has no means of probing beneath the symbolism. To understand the phenomena of the physical world it is necessary to know the equations which the symbols obey but not the nature of that which is being symbolized."
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
6:It is therefore of good augury that after many experiments and verbal solutions we should now find ourselves standing today in the presence of the two that have alone borne for long the most rigorous tests of experience, the two extremes, and that at the end of the experience both should have come to a result which the universal instinct in mankind, that veiled judge, sentinel and representative of the universal Spirit of Truth, refuses to accept as right or as satisfying. In Europe and in India, respectively, the negation of the materialist and the refusal of the ascetic have sought to assert themselves as the sole truth and to dominate the conception of Life. In India, if the result has been a great heaping up of the treasures of the Spirit, - or of some of them, - it has also been a great bankruptcy of Life; in Europe, the fullness of riches and the triumphant mastery of this world's powers and possessions have progressed towards an equal bankruptcy in the things of the Spirit. Nor has the intellect, which sought the solution of all problems in the one term of Matter, found satisfaction in the Answer that it has received.
7:Therefore the time grows ripe and the tendency of the world moves towards a new and comprehensive affirmation in thought and in inner and outer experience and to its corollary, a new and rich self-fulfilment in an integral human existence for the individual and for the race.
1.032 - Our Concept of God, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
But wholly dedicating ourself for the sake of God these feelings for God, in a whole-souled fashion, though in a rarefied form of the ordinary loves in the world, are called the bhavas in bhakti yoga. A bhava is a feeling. Our feeling for God is called a bhava. Here, the basic difference that seems to be there between man and God is taken for granted, and it is not solved, because it cannot be solved so easily. If we go on trying to solve this question, our whole life will be spent in only answering this question. Therefore, the teachers of the path of devotion emphasised the necessity to love God, somehow or other, even if it be a magnified form of human love; and the Answer to the difficulty as to whether human love is really divine love was that when human love gets magnified into infinity, it becomes divine love. There is a great point in this answer, because when the finite is lifted up into an unconditioned expanse to the extent possible for the mind, it loses the sting of finitude. The doctrine here is that when this human affection is expanded into the vastness of creation, though it may be true that in quality it has not changed, because of the fact that it has transformed itself into an utterly inconceivable magnitude of quantity, it will be free from the stigma of finitude of affection, and will be able to achieve certain miraculous results which finite love cannot.
These bhavas or feelings of love for God are, therefore, human affections diverted to God in an all-absorbing manner, so that the conditioning factors of human affection are removed as far as possible, and God is taken for granted as a permanent Being - not like an ordinary object in the world which can die one day or the other, but as a perpetually existent Being and the necessity for loving that permanent Being is emphasised. Here, the feeling for God is similar to the feeling we have towards human relationships. These bhavas of bhakti are the central features of one path of yoga, called bhakti yoga, where God can be loved as a father, for instance. This is called shanta bhava, where emotions are least present.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
communicated?). the Answer to the question what constitutes the highest value? or what is the highest
good? is in fact the solution to the meta-problem, not the problem, although solutions to the latter have
1.03 - Man - Slave or Free?, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is from these false and dangerous doctrines of materialism which tend to subvert mans future and hamper his evolution, that Yoga gives us a means of escape. It asserts on the contrary mans freedom from matter and gives him a means of asserting that freedom. The first great fundamental discovery of the Yogins was a means of analysing the experiences of the mind and the heart. By Yoga one can isolate mind, watch its workings as under a microscope, separate every minute function of the various parts of the antakaraa, the inner organ, every mental and moral faculty, test its isolated workings as well as its relations to other functions and faculties and trace backwards the operations of mind to subtler and ever subtler sources until just as material analysis arrives at a primal entity from which all proceeds, so Yoga analysis arrives at a primal spiritual entity from which all proceeds. It is also able to locate and distinguish the psychical centre to which all psychical phenomena gather and so to fix the roots of personality. In this analysis its first discovery is that mind can entirely isolate itself from external objects and work in itself and of itself. This does not, it is true, carry us very far because it may be that it is merely using the material already stored up by its past experiences. But the next discovery is that the farther it removes itself from objects, the more powerfully, surely, rapidly can the mind work with a swifter clarity, with a victorious and sovereign detachment. This is an experience which tends to contradict the scientific theory, that mind can withdraw the senses into itself and bring them to bear on a mass of phenomena of which it is quite unaware when it is occupied with external phenomena. Science will naturally challenge these as hallucinations. the Answer is that these phenomena are related to each other by regular, simple and intelligible laws and form a world of their own independent of thought acting on the material world. Here too Science has this possible answer that this supposed world is merely an imaginative reflex in the brain of the material world and to any arguments drawn from the definiteness and unexpectedness of these subtle phenomena and their independence of our own will and imagination it can always oppose its theory of unconscious cerebration and, we suppose, unconscious imagination. The fourth discovery is that mind is not only independent of external matter, but its master; it can not only reject and control external stimuli, but can defy such apparently universal material laws as that of gravitation and ignore, put aside and make nought of what are called laws of nature and are really only the laws of material nature, inferior and subject to the psychical laws because matter is a product of mind and not mind a product of matter. This is the decisive discovery of Yoga, its final contradiction of materialism. It is followed by the crowning realisation that there is within us a source of immeasurable force, immeasurable intelligence, immeasurable joy far above the possibility of weakness, above the possibility of ignorance, above the possibility of grief which we can bring into touch with ourselves and, under arduous but not impossible conditions, habitually utilise or enjoy. This is what the Upanishads call the Brahman and the primal entity from which all things were born, in which they live and to which they return. This is God and communion with Him is the highest aim of Yogaa communion which works for knowledge, for work, for delight.
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1.03 - The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For ordinary men, the sage is a sort of music box of wisdom into which it is enough to put the penny of a question in order to receive the Answer automatically.
For them to recognise a god, he must have a halo behind his head; for them to recognise a king, he must have a sceptre in his hand.
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
sight, the Answer is less clear. There is nothing contradictory in it-
self in the idea of human ecstasy sundered from material things.
1.03 - The Tale of the Alchemist Who Sold His Soul, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
"You lock your gates in vain"-this was the Answer that could be expected from the water-bearer. "I take care not to enter a City where all is of solid metal. We who live in what is fluid visit only elements that flow and mingle."
Was she a water nymph? Was she the queen of the elves of the air? An angel of the liquid fire in the earth's center?
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"You may ask, 'How, then, can one explain misery and sin and unhappiness?' the Answer is that these apply only to the jiva. Brahman is unaffected by them. There is poison in a snake; but though others may die if bitten by it, the snake itself is not affected by the poison.
Brahman cannot be expressed in words
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"Why does a vijnni keep an attitude of love toward God? the Answer is that 'I-consciousness' persists. It disappears in the state of samdhi, no doubt, but it comes back. In the case of ordinary people the 'I' never disappears. You may cut down the Awattha tree, but the next day sprouts shoot up. (All laugh.) Ego causes our sufferings
"Even after the attainment of Knowledge this 'I-consciousness' comes up, nobody knows from where. You dream of a tiger. Then you awake; but your heart keeps on palpitating! All our suffering is due to this 'I'. The cow cries, 'Hamba!', which means 'I'.
1.040 - Re-Educating the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
It is very well known why we practise yoga, or for the matter of that, why we engage ourselves in any activity at all. The purpose is to fulfil a wish, whether it is a particularised one or a larger one. This wish is supposed to be fulfilled by the practice of concentration of mind. Here, it would be advantageous to note how a wish can be fulfilled by mere concentration of mind. If that had not been the case, why should be there any attempt at all at concentration? Is it possible to fulfil a desire, or come to the attainment of any wish, for the matter of that, by concentration of mind? the Answer is yes, as given by the science of yoga. Any wish can be fulfilled, whatever it be, on earth or in heaven, provided we can adjust our thoughts properly, in a prescribed manner. The absence of success in the pursuit of any objective is due to absence of sufficient concentration on the objective. We are not fully interested in anything, as I mentioned sometime back. That is the reason why we cannot achieve anything fully. There is nothing in this world which can draw our attention wholly, and that is why nothing comes to us as we expect it. A half-hearted friendship with anything in this world cannot lead to a permanent success in the matter of union with that object, or utilisation of that object for one's purpose.
We have a wrong notion that our secret feelings are not known to others, and that we can dupe people by showing an external form of friendship, though inwardly there may not be that friendship. It is not true that we love all people, but yet we show that we are fraternal in our attitude. This is called political relationship, or social etiquette, etc., which will not succeed always, because things of the world have a peculiar sense, and this sense is ingrained even in inanimate objects. There is nothing absolutely senseless in this world. Everything has a sense, and that sense is peculiar to its own structure. The vibrations produced by things are the senses which these things possess, and any kind of disharmonious vibration that emanates from ourselves, in respect of those things or persons outside, would be an expression of an unfriendly attitude. This has nothing to do with what we speak with our mouths or the gestures that we make with our hands. We may shake hands or we may have tea on a common table, and yet all people sitting there may be enemies. It has nothing to do with common tea, etc., because the sense of internal structure and relationship with others is something deep-rooted more deep-rooted than is visible outside. Sometimes we get repelled by certain things even when nothing is happening, and sometimes we are pulled or attracted even if there is no obvious cause behind it. That is because of something else happening inside. Some people use the term 'prehension' for this peculiar sensibility present in things, to distinguish it from 'apprehension', or conscious understanding of the nature of things by means of sensation and mental cognition. Everything reacts to everything else in a subtle manner, notwithstanding the fact that it cannot be detected by ordinary observation through the waking mind or the active senses of the waking life.
1.04 - KAI VALYA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
Karmas go when I became a god? the Answer is that desires
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1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
failed so often? the Answer seems to be that the fallacy was far
from easy to detect, the failure by no means obvious, since in many,
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
questions have been answered in a final manner. The limitations of the domain or the Answers to the
questions make up the axiomatic statements of the paradigm, which are, according to Kuhn, explicitly
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Now we come to a different field of activity altogether, one whose place in Yoga will be strongly challenged, especially when the Mother herself used it as a means of sadhana: her playing tennis. I won't discuss the issue, for the quotation cited above gives the Answer. Before she started playing tennis the Mother joined our young group in playing table-tennis. When a young boy asked her if he could install a table in his house for the game, the Mother replied, "Why not at Nanteuil?[4] then I can come and play too." He was much surprised and delighted at the divine proposal! She must have found it a good light exercise as well as an admirable means of contact with the young set which was gradually increasing; it was perhaps also her yogic means of action upon them. After a year or so the Mother decided to have a tennis court. She might have felt that she needed some more brisk exercise in the open air. She often talked of her project to Sri Aurobindo. One day we heard that the entire wasteland along the north-eastern seaside was taken on a long lease from the Government and a part of it would be made into tennis courts and the rest into a playground. One cannot imagine now what this place was like before. It was one of the filthiest spots of Pondicherry, full of thistles and wild undergrowth, an open place for committing nuisance as well as a pasture for pigs! The stink and the loathsome sight made the place a Stygian sore and a black spot on the colonial Government. The Mother changed this savage wasteland into a heavenly playground, almost a supramental transformation of Matter. The sea-front was clothed in a vision of beauty and delight. If for nothing else, for this transformation at least, Pondicherry should be eternally grateful to the Mother. But who remembers the past? Gratitude is a rare human virtue. I was particularly very happy, first, because I was fond of tennis; secondly, I fancied that Yoga would be now made easy. Who could ever think of tennis in Yoga! But woe to me, how it completely upset my balance!
All this, however, is by the way. My point was to demonstrate the Mother's method of working. As soon as the plot was acquired, she went about the work in her usual one-pointed manner. And what a job it was! To build a long rampart against the surges of the sea was itself a gigantic enterprise for a private institution like our Ashram without any income of its own. But I shall confine myself to the construction of the tennis courts only. She did not count the expense; men and money were freely employed, for the courts had to be made ready within a minimum period of time. We have observed that when the Mother feels the need for a work to be done, she goes ahead, confident that the required resources will come. In the present case, there was also the question of the right worker to see the project through. The Mother said to Sri Aurobindo, "I know there is one man who can do it." It was Monoranjan Ganguli, a sadhak. I saw him at this work and was really amazed at his wonderful devotion to the Mother, his determination to fulfil the trust she had placed in him. He supervised the operation with unfailing love and duty and cool temper, making the tennis ground his home and passing many sleepless nights sitting on a stool. When I asked him why he should be in such a hurry, he replied, "Mother wants it so. I must finish it within the appointed time." "Is it possible? Only a few days are left!" I voiced my doubt. "Oh, I must!" and he did. A singular feat indeed, and again the Mother's right choice.
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It was a new experience indeed, for till then our approach to her was individual and restricted mostly to practical guidance; there was no intellectual communication and the Mother would always discourage intellectual questions. This was the first time she became collectively expansive and was ready to respond to intellectual seekings, but mainly on spiritual matters. These talks naturally reminded me of Sri Aurobindo's talks for their vivid contrast and I could not but make a mental comparison between them; they sharply bring out the characteristics of two different personalities though their consciousness is one. Here the Mother's personality dominated the whole atmosphere; her tone, mood and manner were stamped with a seriousness, energy and force that demanded close attention. Humour did not play a conspicuous role, but there were flashes of wit. Her eyes were on everybody, her answers, though meant for the questioner, were directed towards all so that there was no room for being inattentive or indifferent. When a play by the Mother was staged by our students, she strictly enjoined on the young children to keep complete silence. The striking difference with Sri Aurobindo, as I have pointed out, was his impersonality. He asked questions or answered them without looking at the questioner. He spoke slowly in a subdued voice with no stress in it. There was no constraint upon you, you were having a talk with a friend, and in friendship, levity, gravity, all were in order. Still, Sri Aurobindo remained Sri Aurobindo to us; there was no loss of reverence. Some of us had hotly discussed topics even to the point of losing our temper before his Witness-Purusha consciousness. That would be very unusual before the Mother. To put a homely simile, they were like a father and mother, both loving but one indulgent, liberal, large, the other a firm though not inconsiderate disciplinarian. Both are aspects of the one Divine Impersonal and Personal, Purusha and Prakriti and both have their ineffable charm. Though all were free to ask her questions, it was not always easy to ask them, as the Answers instead of having a direct bearing on the questions were sometimes directed against the consciousness of the person involved; for to her, it was that which was more important, and our consciousness was an open book to her inner sight. These talks continued for quite a long time; the hall used to be packed. Unfortunately no regular record has been kept, first because they flowed very fast and secondly, there were only a few who understood French well. In later days, some talks were held in English out of a special consideration for a few people. I shall quote one or two of them from my scanty records.
Q: What is the origin of anger and how to get rid of it?
1.04 - The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now don't you dare to come round crawling to me for the Answers; work it out yourself what sort of words they ought to be, and then check your result by looking up those numbers in the Sepher Sephiroth: Equinox Vol. I, No. 8, Supplement.
When you are a real adept at all these well-known calculations "prepare to enter the Immeasurable Region" and dig out the Unknown.
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
en to satisfy the human mind because the Answer requires
a consciousness vaster than ours, a cosmic consciousness,
1.05 - Computing Machines and the Nervous System, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
that by this time they have found the Answer.
Very many of the methods of storage of information already
1.05 - On the Love of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
The seventh test is that lovers of God will love those who obey Him and hate the infidels and the disobedient, as the Koran says: "They are strenuous against the unbelievers and merciful to each other." The Prophet once asked God and said, "O Lord! who are Thy lovers?" and the Answer came, "Those who cleave to Me
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1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
noted previously463 that the Answer to the question what is the good? must in fact be sought in the metadomain, so to speak: the more fundamental mystery given the context-dependent nature of the good is
how are answers to the question what is the good? endlessly and appropriately generated? The good,
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traditionalists assume that the Answer to the question what is the good? can be has been answered
permanently, and concretely, with the list of laws. Such a list is always insufficient, however, for the
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functions)]. The question in mind, implicit or explicitly formulated, determines in part the Answer given
by the object. The object is always capable of superseding the constraint, in some unpredictable fashion.
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he worked in the absence even of the basic tools of modern science). The alchemist posited that the Answer
lay outside the Church, in the unknown. Exploration of the unknown and forbidden meant generation of
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It is one thing to be unconscious of the Answers, and quite another to be unable to even consider the
question.
1.05 - THE MASTER AND KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTEIR (to Keshab): "Look here. There is Vijay. Your quarrel seems like the fight between iva and Rama. iva was Rama's s guru. Though they fought with each other, yet they soon came to terms. But the grimaces of the ghosts, the followers of iva, and the gibberish of the monkeys, the followers of Rama, would not come to an end! (Loud laughter.) Such quarrels take place even among one's own kith and kin. Didn't Rama fight with His own sons, Lava and Kusa? Again, you must have noticed how a mother and daughter, living together and having the same spiritual end in view, observe their religious fast separately on Tuesdays, each on her own accountas if the welfare of the mother were different from the welfare of the daughter. But what benefits the one benefits the other. In like manner, you have a religious society, and Vijay thinks he must have one too. (Laughter.) But I think all these are necessary. While Sri Krishna, Himself God Incarnate, played with the gopis at Vrindvan, trouble-makers like Jatila and Kutila appeared on the scene. You may ask why. the Answer is that the play does not develop without trouble-makers. (All laugh.) There is no fun without Jatila and Kutila. (Loud laughter.)
"Ramanuja upheld the doctrine of Qualified Non-dualism. But his guru was a pure non-dualist. They disagreed with each other and refuted each other's arguments. That always happens. Still, to the teacher the disciple is his own."
1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
D. We also tend to think of the Universe as containing things of which we are not aware; but this is altogether unjustifiable, although it is difficult to think at all without making some such assumption. For instance, one may come upon a new branch of knowledge say, histology or Hammurabi or the language of the Iroquois or the poems of the Hermaphrodite of Panormita. It seems to be there all ready waiting for us; we simply cannot believe that we are making it all up as we go along. For all that, it is sheer sophistry; we may merely be unfolding the contents of our own minds. Then again, does a thing cease to exist if we forget it? the Answer is that one cannot be sure.
Personally, I feel convinced of the existence of an Universe outside my own immediate awareness; but it is true, even so, that it does not exist for me unless and until it takes its place as part of my consciousness.
1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Thus, we see, Sri Aurobindo was not simply a passive witness, a mere verbal critic of the Allied war policy. When India was asked to participate in the war effort, and the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, much to the surprised indignation of our countrymen, contributed to the War Fund, he, for the first time, made clear to the nation what issues were involved in the War. I remember the Mother darting into Sri Aurobindo's room quite early in the morning with a sheet of paper in her hand. I guessed that something private was going to be discussed and discreetly withdrew. Then Purani came most unexpectedly. "Ah! here is something afoot," I said to myself. A couple of days later the secret was revealed in all the newspapers: Sri Aurobindo had made a donation to the War Fund! Of course, he explained why he had done so. He stated that the War was being waged "in defence of civilisation and its highest attained social, cultural and spiritual values and the whole future of humanity...." Giving the lead, he acted as an example for others to follow. But, all over the country, protests, calumnies and insinuations were his lot. Even his disciples were nonplussed in spite of his explanation why he had made that singular gesture. A disciple wrote to the Mother, "The Congress is asking us not to contribute to the War Fund. What shall we do?" the Answer given was: "Sri Aurobindo has contributed for a divine cause. If you help, you will be helping yourselves." Some were wishing for the victory of the Nazis because of their hatred for the British. The Mother had to give a stern admonition. She wrote: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura."
Here I may quote a fellow-sadhak's report on the Mother's pro-Allies attitude:
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It will be very pertinent indeed to ask oneself how this identification took place, how and why this date was selected, what the reason behind it was. Surely, there must have been a process or occasion which led to the selection of this date. It may not have been very important to the general public, but it was of great importance to us, the disciples of Sri Aurobindo. Most accidentally I found the Answer though the fact was well-known, perhaps, to the historians of India's freedom movement. The occasion has been mentioned in the book Freedom at Midnight.[8] "Partition of India had been decided upon by Lord Mountbatten the Viceroy of India and the Indian leaders had agreed to it. Now the question that remained to be decided was the Transfer of Power: on which date should it be done? A Press Conference was called by the Viceroy. Three hundred journalists from various countries had gathered. When he had concluded his talk, it was followed by a burst of applause....
"Suddenly... the anonymous voice of an Indian newsman cut across the chamber. His was the last question awaiting an answer.
1.05 - Work and Teaching, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One should read Sri Aurobindo and know the Answer.
19 October 1972
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If one reads Sri Aurobindo carefully one finds the Answers to all that one wants to know.
25 October 1972
1.06 - Dhyana and Samadhi, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
But it does not end here. There is a still higher plane upon which the mind can work. It can go beyond consciousness. Just as unconscious work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above consciousness, and which also is not accompanied with the feeling of egoism. The feeling of egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind is above or below that line, there is no feeling of "I", and yet the mind works. When the mind goes beyond this line of self-consciousness, it is called Samdhi or superconsciousness. How, for instance, do we know that a man in Samadhi has not gone below consciousness, has not degenerated instead of going higher? In both cases the works are unaccompanied with egoism. the Answer is, by the effects, by the results of the work, we know that which is below, and that which is above. When a man goes into deep sleep, he enters a plane beneath consciousness. He works the body all the time, he breathes, he moves the body, perhaps, in his sleep, without any accompanying feeling of ego; he is unconscious, and when he returns from his sleep, he is the same man who went into it. The sum total of the knowledge which he had before he went into the sleep remains the same; it does not increase at all. No enlightenment comes. But when a man goes into Samadhi, if he goes into it a fool, he comes out a sage.
What makes the difference? From one state a man comes out the very same man that he went in, and from another state the man comes out enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined. These are the two effects. Now the effects being different, the causes must be different. As this illumination with which a man comes back from Samadhi is much higher than can be got from unconsciousness, or much higher than can be got by reasoning in a conscious state, it must, therefore, be superconsciousness, and Samadhi is called the superconscious state.
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All ethics, all human action and all human thought, hang upon this one idea of unselfishness. The whole idea of human life can be put into that one word, unselfishness. Why should we be unselfish? Where is the necessity, the force, the power, of my being unselfish? You call yourself a rational man, a utilitarian; but if you do not show me a reason for utility, I say you are irrational. Show me the reason why I should not be selfish. To ask one to be unselfish may be good as poetry, but poetry is not reason. Show me a reason. Why shall I be unselfish, and why be good? Because Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so say so does not weigh with me. Where is the utility of my being unselfish? My utility is to be selfish if utility means the greatest amount of happiness. What is the Answer? The utilitarian can never give it. the Answer is that this world is only one drop in an infinite ocean, one link in an infinite chain. Where did those that preached unselfishness, and taught it to the human race, get this idea? We know it is not instinctive; the animals, which have instinct, do not know it. Neither is it reason; reason does not know anything about these ideas. Whence then did they come?
We find, in studying history, one fact held in common by all the great teachers of religion the world ever had. They all claim to have got their truths from beyond, only many of them did not know where they got them from. For instance, one would say that an angel came down in the form of a human being, with wings, and said to him, "Hear, O man, this is the message." Another says that a Deva, a bright being, appeared to him. A third says he dreamed that his ancestor came and told him certain things. He did not know anything beyond that. But this is common that all claim that this knowledge has come to them from beyond, not through their reasoning power. What does the science of Yoga teach? It teaches that they were right in claiming that all this knowledge came to them from beyond reasoning, but that it came from within themselves.
1.06 - Psychic Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When a child asks a question, he should not be answered by saying that it is stupid or foolish, or that the Answer will not be understood by him. Curiosity cannot be postponed, and effort should be made to answer the question truthfully and in such a way as to make the Answer accessible to the brain of the hearer.
With the growing awareness, the child should be taught to concentrate on the inner psychic presence and make it more and more a living reality.
1.07 - A MAD TEA-PARTY, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the Answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
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"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the Answer?"
"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.
1.07 - The Three Schools of Magick 2, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
A fairly pure example of the first stage of this type of thought is to be found in the Vedas, of the second stage, in the Upanishads. But the Answer to the question, "How is the illusion of evil to be destroyed?", depends on another point of theory. We may postulate a Parabrahm infinitely good, etc. etc. etc., in which case we consider the destruction of the illusion of evil as the reuniting of the consciousness with Parabrahm. The unfortunate part of this scheme of things is that on seeking to define Parabrahm for the purpose of returning to Its purity, it is discovered sooner or later, that It possesses no qualities at all! In other words, as the farmer said, on being shown the elephant: There ain't no sich animile. It was Gautama Buddha who perceived the inutility of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. Since our Parabrahm, he said to the Hindu philosophers, is actually nothing, why not stick to or original perception that everything is sorrow, and admit that the only way to escape from sorrow is to arrive at nothingness?
We may complete the whole tradition of the Indian peninsula very simply. To the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Tripitaka of the Buddhists, we have only to add the Tantras of what are called the Vamacharya Schools. Paradoxical as it may sound the Tantrics are in reality the most advanced of the Hindus. Their theory is, in its philosophical ultimatum, a primitive stage of the White tradition, for the essence of the Tantric cults is that by the performance of certain rites of Magick, one does not only escape disaster, but obtains positive benediction. The Tantric is not obsessed by the will-to-die. It is a difficult business, no doubt, to get any fun out of existence; but at least it is not impossible. In other words, he implicitly denies the fundamental proposition that existence is sorrow, and he formulates the essential postulate of the White School of Magick, that means exist by which the universal sorrow (apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be unmasked, even as at the initiatory rite of Isis in the ancient days of Khem. There, a Neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the pouting buttocks of the Goat of Mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste lips of a virginal priestess of that Goddess at the base of whose shrine is written that No man has lifted her veil.
1.081 - The Application of Pratyahara, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
In every branch of learning there is the theory aspect and the practical aspect, whether it is in mathematics, or physics, or any other aspect of study. Here it is of a similar nature. Why is it that the mind is to be withdrawn from the object? the Answer to this question is in the theoretical aspect which is the philosophy. What is wrong with the mind in its contemplation on things? Why should we not think of an object? Why we should not think of an object cannot be answered now, at this stage, when we have actually taken up this practice. We ought to have understood it much earlier. When we have started walking, it means that we already know why we are walking and where is our destination. We cannot start walking and say, Where am I walking to? Why did we start walking without knowing the destination? Likewise, if our question as to why this is necessary at all is not properly answered within our own self, then immediately there will be repulsion from the mind and it will say, You do not know what you are doing. You are merely troubling me. Then the mind will not agree to this proposal of abstraction.
Hence, there should be a very clear notion before we set about doing things; and this is a principle to be followed in every walk of life. Without knowing what is to be done, why do we start doing anything? Even if it is cooking, we must know the theory first. What is it about? We cannot run about higgledy-piggledy without understanding it. The purpose of the withdrawal of the mind or the senses from the objects is simple; and that simple answer to this question is that the nature of things does not permit the notion that the mind entertains when it contacts an object. The idea that we have in our mind at the time of cognising an object is not in consonance with the nature of Truth. This is why the mind is to be withdrawn from the object. There is a peculiar definition which the mind imposes upon the object of sense at the time of cognising it, for the purpose of contacting it, etc. This definition is contrary to the true nature of that object. If we call an ass a dog, that would not be a proper definition; it would be a misunderstanding of its real essence. The object of sense is not related to the subject of perception in the manner in which the subject is defining it or conceiving it.
1.08 - RELIGION AND TEMPERAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
IT SEEMS best at this point to turn back for a moment from ethics to psychology, where a very important problem awaits usa problem to which the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy have given a great deal of attention. What precisely is the relation between individual constitution and temperament on the one hand and the kind and degree of spiritual knowledge on the other? The materials for a comprehensively accurate answer to this question are not availableexcept, perhaps, in the form of that incommunicable science, based upon intuition and long practice, that exists in the minds of experienced spiritual directors. But the Answer that can be given, though incomplete, is highly significant.
All knowledge, as we have seen, is a function of being. Or, to phrase the same idea in scholastic terms, the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower. In the Introduction reference was made to the effect upon knowledge of changes of being along what may be called its vertical axis, in the direction of sanctity or its opposite. But there is also variation in the horizontal plane. Congenitally by psychophysical constitution, each one of us is born into a certain position on this horizontal plane. It is a vast territory, still imperfectly explored, a continent stretching all the way from imbecility to genius, from shrinking weakness to aggressive strength, from cruelty to Pickwickian kindliness, from self-revealing sociability to taciturn misanthropy and love of solitude, from an almost frantic lasciviousness to an almost untempted continence. From any point on this huge expanse of possible human nature an individual can move almost indefinitely up or down, towards union with the divine Ground of his own and all other beings, or towards the last, the infernal extremes of separateness and selfhood. But where horizontal movement is concerned there is far less freedom. It is impossible for one kind of physical constitution to transform itself into another kind; and the particular temperament associated with a given physical constitution can be modified only within narrow limits. With the best will in the world and the best social environment, all that anyone can hope to do is to make the best of his congenital psycho-physical make-up; to change the fundamental patterns of constitution and temperament is beyond his power.
1.08 - Stead and the Spirits, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
From this point of view Mr. Steads bizarre experiments are to be deprecated. The one redeeming feature about them is that, as conducted, they seem to remove the first elementary difficulty in the way of investigation, the possibility of human deceit and imposture. We presume that he has got rid of professional mediums and allows only earnest-minded and honourable investigators to be present. But the other elements of error and confusion are encouraged rather than obviated by the spirit and methods of Mr. Steads Bureau. First, there is the error and self-deception of the sitters. The spirit does not express himself directly but has to give his thoughts at third hand; they come first to the intermediary spirit, Julia or another, by her they are conveyed to the human medium and through him conveyed by automatic or conscious speech or writing to the listeners. It is obvious how largely the mind of the medium and, to a smaller but still great extent, the thought-impressions of the other sitters must interfere, and this without the least intention on their part, rather in spite of a strong wish in the opposite direction. Few men really understand how the human mind works or are fitted to watch the processes of their own conscious and half-conscious thought even when the mind is disinterested, still less when it is active and interested in the subject of communication. The sitters interfere, first, by putting in their own thoughts and expressions suggested by the beginnings of the communication, so that what began as a spirit conversation ends in a tangle of the mediums or sitters ideas with the little of his own that the spirit can get in now and then. They interfere not only by suggesting what they themselves think or would say on the subject, but by suggesting what they think the spirit ought dramatically to think or say, so that Mr. Gladstone is made to talk in interminable cloudy and circumambient periods which were certainly his oratorical style but can hardly have been the staple of his conversation, and Lord Beaconsfield is obliged to be cynical and immoral in the tone of his observations. They interfere again by eagerness, which sometimes produces replies according to the sitters wishes and sometimes others which are unpleasant or alarming, but in neither case reliable. This is especially the case in answers to questions about the future, which ought never to be asked. It is true that many astonishing predictions occur which are perfectly accurate, but these are far outweighed by the mass of false and random prediction. These difficulties can only be avoided by rigidly excluding every question accompanied by or likely to raise eagerness or expectation and by cultivating entire mental passivity. The last however is impossible to the medium unless he is a practised Yogin, or in a trance, or a medium who has attained the habit of passivity by an unconscious development due to long practice. In the sitters we do not see how it is to be induced. Still, without unemotional indifference to the nature of the Answer and mental passivity the conditions for so difficult and delicate a process of communication cannot be perfect.
Error and self-deception from the other side of the veil cannot be obviated by any effort on this side; all that we can do is to recognise that the spirits are limited in knowledge and cabined by character, so that we have to allow for the mental and moral equation in the communicant when judging the truth and value of the communication. Absolute deception and falsehood can only be avoided by declining to communicate with spirits of a lower order and being on guard against their masquerading under familiar or distinguished names. How far Mr. Stead and his circle have guarded against these latter errors we cannot say, but the spirit in which the sittings are conducted, does not encourage us to suppose that scrupulous care is taken in these respects. It is quite possible that some playful spirit has been enacting Mr. Gladstone to the too enthusiastic circle and has amused himself by elaborating those cloudy-luminous periods which he saw the sitters expected from the great deceased Opportunist. But we incline to the view that what we have got in this now famous spirit interview, is a small quantity of Gladstone, a great deal of Stead and a fair measure of the disembodied Julia and the assistant psychics.
1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
History of humankind? the Answer I arrive at is yes, for two separate reasons. One has to do with economics, and the other has to do with what is termed the 'struggle for recognition.'"62
The "struggle for recognition" is simply the theme, developed from Hegel to Habermas to Taylor, that mutual recognition-what we have also been calling the free exchange of mutual self-esteem among all peoples (the emergence of the rational-egoic self-esteem needs)-is an omega point that pulls history and communication forward toward the free emergence of that mutual recognition. Short of that emergence, history is a brutalization of one self or group of selves trying to triumph over, dominate, or subjugate others.
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And the Answer is that It does exist, and we are not heading toward it. Or away from It. Or around It. Uncreate
Spirit, the causal unmanifest, is the nature and condition, the source and support, of this and every moment of evolution. It does not enter the stream of time at a beginning or exit at the end. It upholds all times and supports all places, with no partiality at all, and thus exerts neither push nor pull on history.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The word vja, usually rendered by Sayana, food or ghee,a sense which he is swift to foist upon any word which will at all admit that construction, as well as on some which will not admit it,has in other passages another sense assigned to it, strength, bala. It is the latter significance or its basis of substance & solidity which I propose to attach to vja in every line of the Rigveda where it occursand it occurs with an abundant frequency. There are a number of words in the Veda which have to be rendered by the English strength,bala, taras, vja, sahas, avas, to mention only the most common expressions. Can it be supposed that all these vocables rejoice in one identical connotation as commentators and lexicographers would lead us to conclude, and are used in the Veda promiscuously & indifferently to express the same idea of strength? The psychology of human language is more rich and delicate. In English the words strength, force, vigour, robustness differ in their mental values; force can be used in offices of expression to which strength and vigour are ineligible. In Vedic Sanscrit, as in every living tongue, the same law holds and a literary and thoughtful appreciation of its documents, whatever may be the way of the schools, must take account of these distinctions. In the brief list I have given, bala answers to the English strength, taras gives a shade of speed and impetuosity, sahas of violence or force, avas of flame and brilliance, vja of substance and solidity. In the philological appendix to this work there will be found detailed reasons for concluding that strength is in the history of the word vja only a secondary sense, like its other meanings, wealth and food; the basic idea is a strong sufficiency of substance or substantial energy. Vja is one of the great standing terms of the Vedic psychology. All states of being, whether matter, mind or life and all material, mental & vital activities depend upon an original flowing mass of Energy which is in the vivid phraseology of the Vedas called a flood or sea, samudra, sindhu or arnas. Our power or activity in any direction depends first on the amount & substantiality of this stream as it flows into, through or within our own limits of consciousness, secondly, on our largeness of being constituted by the wideness of those limits, thirdly, on our power of holding the divine flow and fourthly on the force and delight which enter into the use of our available Energy. The result is the self-expression, ansa or vyakti, which is the objective of Vedic Yoga. In the language of the Rishis whatever we can make permanently ours is called our holding or wealth, dhanam or in the plural dhanni; the powers which assist us in the getting, keeping or increasing of our dhanni, the yoga, s ti & vriddhi, are the gods; the powers which oppose & labour to rob us of this wealth are our enemies & plunderers, dasyus, and appear under various names, Vritras, Panis, Daityas, Rakshasas, Yatudhanas. The wealth itself may be the substance of mental light and knowledge or of vital health, delight & longevity or of material strength & beauty or it may be external possessions, cattle, progeny, empire, women. A close, symbolic and to modern ideas mystic parallelism stood established in the Vedic mind between the external & the internal wealth, as between the outer sacrifice which earned from the gods the external wealth & the inner sacrifice which brought by the aid of the gods the internal riches. In this system the word vja represents that amount & substantial energy of the stuff of force in the dhanam brought to the service of the sacrificer for the great Jivayaja, our daily & continual life-sacrifice. It is a substantial wealth, vjavad dhanam that the gods are asked to bring with them. We see then in what sense Saraswati, a goddess purely mental in her functions of speech and knowledge, can be vjebhir vjinvat. Vjin is that which is composed of vja, substantial energy; the plural vj h or vj ni the particular substantialities of various composed. For the rest, to no other purpose can a deity of speech & knowledge be vjebhir vjinvat. In what appropriateness or coherent conceivable sense can the goddess of knowledge be possessed of material wealth or full-stored with material food, ghee & butter, beef & mutton? If it be suggested that Speech of the mantras was believed by these old superstitious barbarians to bring them their ghee & butter, beef & mutton, the Answer is that this is not what the language of the hymns expresses. Saraswati herself is said to be vjinvat, possessed of substance of food; she is not spoken of as being the cause of fullness of food or wealth to others.
This explanation of vjebhir vjinvat leads at once to the figurative sense of maho arnas. Arnas or samudra is the image of the sea, flood or stream in which the Vedic seers saw the substance of being and its different states. Sometimes one great sea, sometimes seven streams of being are spoken of by the Rishis; they are the origin of the seven seas of the Purana. It cannot be doubted that the minds of the old thinkers were possessed with this image of ocean or water as the very type & nature of the flux of existence, for it occurs with a constant insistence in the Upanishads. The sole doubt is whether the image was already present to the minds of the primitive Vedic Rishis. The Europeans hold that these were the workings of a later imagination transfiguring the straightforward material expressions & physical ideas of the Veda; they admit no real parentage of Vedantic ideas in the preexistent Vedic notions, but only a fictitious derivation. I hold, on the contrary, that Vedantic ideas have a direct & true origin & even a previous existence in the religion & psychology of the Vedas. If, indeed, there were no stuff of high thinking or moral sensibility in the hymns of the Vedic sages, then I should have no foundation to stand upon and no right to see this figure in the Vedic arnas or samudra. But when these early minds,early to us, but not perhaps really so primitive in human history as we imagine,were capable of such high thoughts & perceptions as these three Riks bear on their surface, it would be ridiculous to deny them the capacity of conceiving these great philosophical images & symbols. A rich poetic imagery expressing a clear, direct & virgin perception of the facts of mind and being, is not by any means impossible, but rather natural in these bright-eyed sons of the morning not yet dominated in their vision by the dry light of the intellect or in their speech & thought by the abstractions & formalities of metaphysical thinking. Water was to them, let us hold in our hypothesis, the symbol of unformed substance of being, earth of the formed substance. They even saw a mystic identity between the thing symbolised & the symbol.
1.09 - Sleep and Death, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
emphasizing the rather bizarre coincidence that seemed to occur between nocturnal events and waking. This was the Answer he received: Understand that these experiences are not mere imaginations or dreams but actual happenings. . . . It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness,
meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results we prepare have an incalculable importance and effect, unknown to us upon our outer life.
1.09 - The Greater Self, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Gradually, he entered an all, but, oh, quite an odd all, which had nothing to do with a cosmic or transcendent or dazzling consciousness yet which was like a million little bursts of gold, fleeting, elusive, almost mocking. Perhaps we should say a microscopic consciousness? and warm: a sudden sweetness of recognition, an eruption of gratefulness, an incomprehensible flush of tenderness, as if it were living, vibrating, responding in every corner and every direction. Strangely, when a question arose, or a doubt, or an uncertainty about something or someone, a problem about a course of action, an anxiety about what to do or not to do, it seemed as if the Answer came to him as living facts not as an illumination or inspiration, a revelation or thought, nothing of that sort: a material answer in external circumstances, as though the earth itself, like itself, supplied the Answer. As if the very circumstances came and took his hand and said, Here, you see? And not great circumstances, not sensational flashes: very little facts, while going from one end of the street to the other. All of a sudden the thing came to him, the person or the encounter, the money, the book, or the unexpected development the living answer. Or, on the contrary, when he was so much hoping for certain news (if he had not yet been cured of the disease of hope), when he was looking forward to some arrangement, a peaceful retreat, a clear-cut solution, he was suddenly engulfed in a still greater chaos, as if everything turned against him people, things, circumstances or he fell ill, met with an accident, opened the door to an old weakness and seemed to be treading the old road of suffering again. Then, two hours or two days or two months after, he realized that that adversity was exactly what was needed, which led, by a circuitous route, to a goal larger than he had foreseen; that that illness had purified his substance, cut him off from a wrong course, and brought him back, lighter, onto the sunlit path; that that fall had exposed old hiding places in himself and clarified his heart; that that unfortunate encounter was a perfection of exactness to bring forth a whole new network of possibilities or impossibilities to overcome; and that everything concurred meticulously to prepare his strength, his breadth, his extreme swiftness, through a thousand and one detours the all prepared him for the all. He then begins to experience a succession of unbelievable little miracles, of strange happenings, bewildering coincidences... as if, really, everything knew, each thing knew what it had to do and went straight to its microscopic goal amidst millions of passersby and trifling events. At first, the seeker does not believe it; he shrugs his shoulders and dismisses it, then he opens one eye, then the other, and doubts his own amazement. It is of such microscopic exactness, such fabulously unbelievable precision in the midst of this gigantic crisscrossing of lives and things and circumstances, that it is simply impossible it is like an explosion of total knowledge embracing in one fell swoop this ant walking down Main Street and the thousands of passersby and all their possible itineraries, all their particular circumstances past, present and future to create this unique conjunction, this incredible perfect little second in which everything accords and agrees, is inevitably, and provides the unique answer to a unique question.
And the same thing happens again and again; the coincidences multiply. Chance gradually reveals an innumerable smile or, perhaps, another self, a great self, which knows its totality, and each fragment of its totality and each second of its world, as much as our body knows the least quiver of its cells, and the passing fly, and the rhythm of its heart. With eyes wide open, the seeker begins to enter an innumerable wonder. The world is a single body, the earth, a single consciousness in motion. But not a body whose consciousness is centered in a few gray cells upstairs: an innumerable consciousness centered everywhere and as total in a little ephemeral cell as in the gesture that will alter the destiny of nations. In each point consciousness answers consciousness. The seeker has left the cutting little truths of the mind, the dogmatic and geometric lines of thought. He enters an inexpressible fullness of view, a comprehensive truth in which each fragment has its meaning and each second, its smile, each darkness, its light, each harshness, its awaiting sweetness. He gropingly discovers the honeycombs covered by the rock.22 Each fall is a degree of widening, each footstep, a blossoming of the inevitable efflorescence, each adversity, a lever of the future. Being wrong is a crack in our armor through which a flame of pure love shines which understands everything.
1.10 - Fate and Free-Will, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The first is the Answer of the devout and submissive mind in its dependence on God, but, unless we adopt a Calvinistic fatalism, the admission of the guiding and overriding will of God does not exclude the permission of freedom to the individual. The second is the Answer of the scientist; Heredity determines our Nature, the laws of Nature limit our action, cause and effect compel the course of our development, and, if it be urged that we may determine effects by creating causes, the Answer is that our own actions are determined by previous causes over which we have no control and our action itself is a necessary response to a stimulus from outside. The third is the Answer of the Buddhist and of post-Buddhistic Hinduism. It is our fate, it is written on our forehead, when our Karma is exhausted, then alone our calamities will pass from us;this is the spirit of tamasic inaction justifying itself by a misreading of the theory of Karma.
If we go back to the true Hindu teaching independent of Buddhistic influence, we shall find that it gives us a reconciliation of the dispute by a view of mans psychology in which both Fate and Free-will are recognised. The difference between Buddhism and Hinduism is that to the former the human soul is nothing, to the latter it is everything. The whole universe exists in the spirit, by the spirit, for the spirit; all we do, think and feel is for the spirit. Nature depends upon the Atman, all its movement, play, action is for the Atman.
1.10 - GRACE AND FREE WILL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
St. Paul drew a very useful and illuminating distinction between the psyche and the pneuma. But the latter word never achieved any degree of popularity, and the hopelessly ambiguous term, psyche, came to be used indifferently for either the personal consciousness or the spirit. And why, in the Western church, did devotional writers choose to speak of mans anima (which for the Romans signified the lower, animal soul) instead of using the word traditionally reserved for the rational soul, namely animus? the Answer, I suspect, is that they were anxious to stress by every means in their power the essential femininity of the human spirit in its relations with God. Pneuma, being grammatically neuter, and animus, being masculine, were felt to be less suitable than anima and psyche. Consider this concrete example; given the structure of Greek and Latin, it would have been very difficult for the speakers of these languages to identify anything but a grammatically feminine soul with the heroine of the Song of Songsan allegorical figure who, for long centuries, played the same part in Christian thought and sentiment as the Gopi Maidens played in the theology and devotion of the Hindus.
Take note of this fundamental truth. Everything that works in nature and creature, except sin, is the working of God in nature and creature. The creature has nothing else in its power but the free use of its will, and its free will hath no other power but that of concurring with, or resisting, the working of God in nature. The creature with its free will can bring nothing into being, nor make any alteration in the working of nature; it can only change its own state or place in the working of nature, and so feel or find something in its state that it did not feel or find before.
1.10 - Life and Death. The Greater Guardian of the Threshold, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
In the above the Answer will be found to the question why man works his way only gradually through error and imperfection to the good and true. His actions, feelings, and thoughts are at first dominated by the perishing and the mortal. The latter gave rise to his sense-organs. For this reason, these organs and all things activating them are doomed to perish The imperishable will not be found in the instincts, impulses, and passions, or in the organs belonging to them, but only in the work produced by these organs. Man must extract from the perishable everything that can be extracted, and this work alone will enable him to discard the background out of which he has grown, and which finds its expression in the physical sense-world.
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1.10 - Theodicy - Nature Makes No Mistakes, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
even if possible it should have been accepted, the Answer
nearest to the Cosmic Truth which the human intelligence
1.11 - GOOD AND EVIL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Philosophers and theologians have sought to establish a theoretical basis for the existing moral codes, by whose aid individual men and women pass judgment on their spontaneous evaluations. From Moses to Bentham, from Epicurus to Calvin, from the Christian and Buddhist philosophies of universal love to the lunatic doctrines of nationalism and racial superiority the list is long and the span of thought enormously wide. But fortunately there is no need for us to consider these various theories. Our concern is only with the Perennial Philosophy and with the system of ethical principles which those who believe in that philosophy have used, when passing judgment on their own and other peoples evaluations. The questions that we have to ask in this section are simple enough, and simple too are the Answers. As always, the difficulties begin only when we pass from theory to practice, from ethical principle to particular application.
Granted that the ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence, and granted that this divine Ground is an ineffable Godhead that manifests itself as personal God or even as the incarnate Logos, what is the ultimate nature of good and evil, and what the true purpose and last end of human life?
1.11 - On Intuitive Knowledge, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
It should be observed that, in all cases of general principles, particular instances, dealing with familiar things, are more evident than the general principle. For example, the law of contradiction states that nothing can both have a certain property and not have it. This is evident as soon as it is understood, but it is not so evident as that a particular rose which we see cannot be both red and not red. (It is of course possible that parts of the rose may be red and parts not red, or that the rose may be of a shade of pink which we hardly know whether to call red or not; but in the former case it is plain that the rose as a whole is not red, while in the latter case the Answer is theoretically definite as soon as we have decided on a precise definition of 'red'.)
It is usually through particular instances that we come to be able to see the general principle. Only those who are practised in dealing with abstractions can readily grasp a general principle without the help of instances.
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
the nature and working of mentality supplies us with the Answer.
For mentality is composed of three principal elements, thought,
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the Gods? the Answer is evident. I am a representation in the
cosmos, but for all purposes of the cosmos a real representation
1.12 - Delight of Existence - The Solution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
17:If it then be asked why the One Existence should take delight in such a movement, the Answer lies in the fact that all possibilities are inherent in Its infinity and that the delight of existence - in its mutable becoming, not in its immutable being, - lies precisely in the variable realisation of its possibilities. And the possibility worked out here in the universe of which we are a part, begins from the concealment of Sachchidananda in that which seems to be its own opposite and its self-finding even amid the terms of that opposite. Infinite being loses itself in the appearance of non-being and emerges in the appearance of a finite Soul; infinite consciousness loses itself in the appearance of a vast indeterminate inconscience and emerges in the appearance of a superficial limited consciousness; infinite selfsustaining Force loses itself in the appearance of a chaos of atoms and emerges in the appearance of the insecure balance of a world; infinite Delight loses itself in the appearance of an insensible Matter and emerges in the appearance of a discordant rhythm of varied pain, pleasure and neutral feeling, love, hatred and indifference; infinite unity loses itself in the appearance of a chaos of multiplicity and emerges in a discord of forces and beings which seek to recover unity by possessing, dissolving and devouring each other. In this creation the real Sachchidananda has to emerge. Man, the individual, has to become and to live as a universal being; his limited mental consciousness has to widen to the superconscient unity in which each embraces all; his narrow heart has to learn the infinite embrace and replace its lusts and discords by universal love and his restricted vital being to become equal to the whole shock of the universe upon it and capable of universal delight; his very physical being has to know itself as no separate entity but as one with and sustaining in itself the whole flow of the indivisible Force that is all things; his whole nature has to reproduce in the individual the unity, the harmony, the oneness-in-all of the supreme Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
18:Through all this play the secret reality is always one and the same delight of existence, - the same in the delight of the subconscious sleep before the emergence of the individual, in the delight of the struggle and all the varieties, vicissitudes, perversions, conversions, reversions of the effort to find itself amid the mazes of the half-conscious dream of which the individual is the centre, and in the delight of the eternal superconscient self-possession into which the individual must wake and there become one with the indivisible Sachchidananda. This is the play of the One, the Lord, the All as it reveals itself to our liberated and enlightened knowledge from the conceptive standpoint of this material universe.
1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
One day taking courage in both hands, Dr. Satyendra asked, "Why are you so serious, Sir?" Sri Aurobindo answered gravely, "The time is very serious." the Answer left us more mystified; we could not probe further. This would mean that, as we will see later, he had taken the decision to leave his body and that was the first and last verbal indication of the gravity of the situation, not that he could be attached to his own personal existence in the body no Yogi is but there were vaster issues connected with the decision and demanded attention.
Meanwhile, urinary symptoms were worsening and now a trace of albumin was detected. He was informed, but made no comment. Then acetone appeared, a grave signal. He heard it in silence and said, "Tell the Mother." The Mother too heard it quietly. It all seemed so terribly mysterious. I was perplexed by their seeming indifference as compared with their former concern. Something must have gone amiss, surely. The mystery was too deep for my plummet to fathom, but I had faith that everything would turn out all right in the end.
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Then came the 1st and 2nd December programmes for the School Anniversary. The entire Ashram was busy and bustling. The Mother also had no rest. Nobody suspected that a profound tragedy was being enacted in the closed chambers of Sri Aurobindo. His ailment had been kept a guarded secret. On 1st December, some improvement was noticed; the temperature was normal. He was in a more cheerful mood and even joked with Sanyal. When the doctor suggested that a detailed blood examination would be advisable, Sri Aurobindo smiled and retorted, "You doctors can think only in terms of disease and medicine, but always there is much more effectual knowledge beyond and above it. I don't need anything." We were very happy with the Answer, but missed its ambiguous import and thought that it carried a consoling assurance. Next evening the temperature shot up. It had been a heavy day for the Mother because of the Annual Physical Display in the Playground where more than two hundred people took part. The function went off well. When Sri Aurobindo was informed of it, he remarked with a contented smile, "Ah, it is finished!" As soon as the activities were over, the Mother came to Sri Aurobindo's room, placed the garland from her neck at his feet and stood there quietly. Her countenance was very grave. He was indrawn with his eyes closed. Later Sanyal expressed a desire to use some drugs in order to fight the infection. The Mother warned him against the use of any violent drugs or drastic methods not only because Sri Aurobindo would not like them, but they would be, on the contrary, positively harmful. "He will work out whatever is necessary. Give some simple medicines," was her instruction.
On 3rd December, the temperature again dropped to normal. Thinking that Sri Aurobindo was improving, Sanyal proposed to leave that evening. The Mother heard him gravely, but gave no reply. He took the hint and added quickly, "I would rather stay for a few more days, Mother." A smile lit up her face. In the afternoon the picture rapidly changed. The temperature shot up, respiratory distress showed itself for the first time. Sri Aurobindo refused to take any liquid. At the Mother's persuasion he sipped some fruit juice and immediately lapsed into a trance. Almost the whole day he remained in that condition. The Mother, owing to this set-back, did not go to the Playground.
1.12 - Independence, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Suppose I have made the three kinds of Karma, good, bad, and mixed, and suppose I die and become a god in heaven. The desires in a god body are not the same as the desires in a human body; the god body neither eats nor drinks. What becomes of my past unworked Karmas which produce as their effect the desire to eat and drink? Where would these Karmas go when I become a god? the Answer is that desires can only manifest themselves in proper environments. Only those desires will come out for which the environment is fitted; the rest will remain stored up. In this life we have many godly desires, many human desires, many animal desires. If I take a god body, only the good desires will come up, because for them the environments are suitable. And if I take an animal body, only the animal desires will come up, and the good desires will wait. What does this show? That by means of environment we can check these desires. Only that Karma which is suited to and fitted for the environments will come out. This shows that the power of environment is the great check to control even Karma itself.
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1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Actually, the Answers are fairly simple.
As far as the achievement or attainment is concerned, the two Paths are in fact identical. In fact, one almost feels obliged to postulate some inmost falsity, completely impossible to detect, inherent at the very earliest stages.
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And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the Answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom?
And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the desert, it shall not heed for the wind of the desert, although it be but sand. For the worker of works hath worked thereupon; and because it is clear, it is invisible; and because it is hard, it moveth not.
1.12 - The Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Since cosmic consciousness and Nirvana do not give us the evolutionary key we are seeking, let us resume our quest, with Sri Aurobindo, where he had left it at Baroda prior to his two great experiences. The first step is the ascent into the Superconscient. As we have said, as silence settles in the seeker's mind, as he quiets his vital and frees himself from his absorption in the physical, the consciousness emerges from the countless activities in which it was indiscernibly commingled, scattered, and it takes on an independent existence. It becomes like a separate being within the being, a compact and increasingly intense Force. And the more it grows, the less it is satisfied with being confined in a body; we notice that it radiates outward, first during sleep, then during meditation, and finally with our eyes wide open. But this outward movement is not just lateral, as it were, toward the universal Mind, universal Vital, and universal Physical; the consciousness also seeks to go upward. This ascending urge may not even be the result of a conscious discipline; it may be a natural and spontaneous need (we should never forget that our efforts in this life are the continuation of many other efforts in many other lives, hence the unequal development of different individuals and the impossibility of setting up fixed rules). We may spontaneously feel something above our head drawing us, like an expanse or a light, or like a magnetic pole that is the origin of all our actions and thoughts, a zone of concentration above our head. The seeker has not silenced his mind to become like a slug; his silence is not dead, but alive; he is tuned in upward because he senses a life there. Silence is not an end but a means, just as learning to read notes is a means to capture music, and there are many kinds of music. Day after day, as his consciousness becomes increasingly concrete, he has hundreds of almost imperceptible experiences springing from this Silence above. He might think about nothing, when suddenly a thought crosses his mind not even a thought, a tiny spark and he knows exactly what he has to do and how he has to do it, down to the smallest detail, as if the pieces of a puzzle were suddenly falling into place, and with a sense of absolute certainty (below, everything is always uncertain, with always at least two solutions to every problem). Or a tiny impulse might strike him: "Go and see so-and-so"; he does, and "coincidentally" this person needs him. Or "Don't do this"; he persists, and has a bad fall. Or for no reason he is impelled toward a certain place, to find the very circumstances that will help him. Or, if some problem has to be solved, he remains immobile, silent, calling above, and the Answer comes, clear and irrefutable.
When he speaks or writes, he can feel very tangibly an expanse above his head, from which he draws his thoughts like the luminous thread of a cocoon; he does not move, simply remaining under the current and transcribing, while nothing stirs in his own head. But if he allows his mind to become the least involved, everything vanishes or, rather, becomes distorted, because the mind tries to imitate the intimations from above (the mind is an inveterate ape) and mistakes its own puny fireworks for true illuminations. The more the seeker learns to listen above and to trust these intimations (which are not commanding and loud but scarcely perceptible, like a breath, more akin to feelings than thoughts, and astonishingly rapid), the more numerous, accurate, and irresistible they will become. Gradually, he will realize that all his acts, even the most insignificant, can be unerringly guided by the silent source above, that all his thoughts originate from there, luminous and beyond dispute, and that a kind of spontaneous knowledge dawns within him. He will begin to live a life of constant little miracles. If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature to forbid the turning away of our feet from less ordinary pastures.173
1.12 - TIME AND ETERNITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Tell me who you are. the Answer is clear and unequivocal.
I am come as Time, the waster of the peoples,
1.13 - Conclusion - He is here, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Along with his mysterious self-immolation another question which is also somewhat mysterious puzzles us: Why did he choose the "natural way" to leave his body when he could have easily left it in the yogic way, as Yogis usually do? the Answer that I have found is that Sri Aurobindo's life has respected the rules and laws of Nature, what he has called the conditions of the game. But even these conditions are adapted to a new direction of which Nature, though not pursuing it, is secretly capable. Thus Nature is put to a supernatural use. Whenever any directly miraculous or special intervention has been made either in his own case or in the case of others, then too it is not by utter flouting of those rules and laws, a freakish and ultimately inconsequential movement. A process is still followed. Sri Aurobindo sums up the several sides of the Divine's action thus: "The Divine also acts according to the conditions of the game. He may change them, but he has to change them first, not proceed, while maintaining the conditions, to act by a series of miracles." In following this course of Nature, he probably wanted to have the concrete experience of Death which would help him in the conquest of the Power of Death for the world from across the barrier. Also this natural way created conditions of crisis which would bring about an urgent and extraordinary response from the spiritual Force so that side by side with the progression towards death there would be the precipitation of the Supramental Light. A sign of what was being done may be seen from the Mother's statement: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised in me." We can understand also how after death and as a result of it, the Supramental Light suffused his body for several days.
The shock and desolation, however, that we felt can be more imagined than described. Though we could see the Master only four times a year, his Presence was vibrant in the very air we breathed, in our sleep, in every moment of our life; particularly after the accident, even physically he seemed to have come nearer. So the sudden absence was felt like a yawning abyss ready to engulf our very existence. I wonder what would have happened to the vast life qf the Ashram, if the Mother was not there to envelop all of us, the whole earth, in the embrace of her infinite love and compassion. Yet, have we any measure of knowing what she must have felt, though she is the Divine? Just as he "worked, struggled, suffered", so did she suffer and bear. We witnessed it in the early period of the accident; but the command was upon her from the Lord to carry on his work. And the immense vacuum that was created could be filled by her alone. From these verses in Savitri in a different context we get such an indication:
1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
SALVATIONbut from what? Deliveranceout of which particular situation into what other situation? Men have given many answers to these questions, and because human temperaments are of such profoundly different kinds, because social situations are so various and fashions of thought and feeling so compelling while they last, the Answers are many and mutually incompatible.
There is first of all material salvationism. In its simplest form this is merely the will to live expressing itself in a formulated desire to escape from circumstances that menace life. In practice, the effective fulfilment of such a wish depends on two things: the application of intelligence to particular economic and political problems, and the creation and maintenance of an atmosphere of good will, in which intelligence can do its work to the best advantage. But men are not content to be merely kind and clever within the limits of a concrete situation. They aspire to relate their actions, and the thoughts and feelings accompanying those actions, to general principles and a philosophy on the cosmic scale. When this directing and explanatory philosophy is not the Perennial Philosophy or one of the historical theologies more or less closely connected with the Perennial Philosophy, it takes the form of a pseudoreligion, a system of organized idolatry. Thus, the simple wish not to starve, the well-founded conviction that it is very difficult to be good or wise or happy when one is desperately hungry, comes to be elaborated, under the influence of the metaphysic of Inevitable Progress, into prophetic Utopianism; the desire to escape from oppression and exploitation comes to be explained and guided by a belief in apocalyptic revolutionism, combined, not always in theory, but invariably in practice, with the Moloch-worship of the nation as the highest of all goods. In all these cases salvation is regarded as a deliverance, by means of a variety of political and economic devices, out of the miseries and evils associated with bad material conditions into another set of future material conditions so much better than the present that, somehow or other, they will cause everybody to be perfectly happy, wise and virtuous. Officially promulgated in all the totalitarian countries, whether of the right or the left, this confession of faith is still only semiofficial in the nominally Christian world of capitalistic democracy, where it is drummed into the popular mind, not by the representatives of state or church, but by those most influential of popular moralists and philosophers, the writers of advertising copy (the only authors in all the history of literature whose works are read every day by every member of the population).
1.13 - System of the O.T.O., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I do beg you to mark well, dear sister, that a true Magical Operation is never "against Nature." It must go smoothly and serenely according to Her laws. One can bring in alien energies and compel an endothermic reaction; but "Pike's Peak or bust?" the Answer will always be BUST!
To return for a moment to that question of Secrecy: there is no rule to prohibit you from quoting against me such of my brighter remarks as "Mystery is the enemy of Truth;" but, for one thing, I am, and always have been, the leader of the Extreme Left in the Council-Chamber of the City of the Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IX is concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is beyond question a point of common prudence, both because the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general knowledge the Order itself might be in danger of calumny and persecution; for the secret is even easier to misinterpret that to profane.
1.14 - The Stress of the Hidden Spirit, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Why should the seed produce a tree and not some other form of existence? the Answer is, because that is its nature. But why is that its nature? Why should it not be its nature to produce some other form of existence, or some other kind of tree? That is the law, is the Answer. But why is it the law? The only answer is that it is so because it is so; that it happens, why no man can say. In reality when we speak of Law, we speak of an idea; when we speak of the nature of a thing, we speak of an idea. Nowhere can we lay our hands on an object, a visible force, a discernible momentum and say "Here is an entity called Law or Nature."
The seed evolves a tree because tree is the idea involved in the seed; it is a process of manifestation in form, not a creation. If there were no insistent idea, we should have a world of chances and freaks, not a world of law - there would be no such idea as the nature of things, if there were not an originating and ordering intelligence manifesting a particular idea in forms. And the form varies, is born, perishes; the idea is eternal. The form is the manifestation or appearance, the idea is the truth. The form is phenomenon, the idea is reality.
1.15 - THE DIRECTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FUTURE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ence supplies the Answer (which theory can easily explain) it or-
ganizes itself. To adapt themselves to, and in some sort to escape
1.15 - The Value of Philosophy, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
But it would seem that, whether answers be otherwise discoverable or not, the Answers suggested by philosophy are none of them demonstrably true. Yet, however slight may be the hope of discovering an answer, it is part of the business of philosophy to continue the consideration of such questions, to make us aware of their importance, to examine all the approaches to them, and to keep alive that speculative interest in the universe which is apt to be killed by confining ourselves to definitely ascertainable knowledge.
Many philosophers, it is true, have held that philosophy could establish the truth of certain answers to such fundamental questions. They have supposed that what is of most importance in religious beliefs could be proved by strict demonstration to be true. In order to judge of such attempts, it is necessary to take a survey of human knowledge, and to form an opinion as to its methods and its limitations. On such a subject it would be unwise to pronounce dogmatically; but if the investigations of our previous chapters have not led us astray, we shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. We cannot, therefore, include as part of the value of philosophy any definite set of answers to such questions. Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.
1.1.5 - Thought and Knowledge, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Such [mental] questions should not be allowed to stop the flow [of higher knowledge]. Afterwards one can consider them and get the Answer. The knowledge that comes is not necessarily complete or perfect in expression; but it must be allowed to come freely and amplifications or corrections can be made afterwards.
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1.16 - Dianus and Diana, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
personate? the Answer of antiquity is that he represented Virbius,
the consort or lover of Diana. But this does not help us much, for
1.16 - MARTHAS GARDEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Ask priest or sage the Answer to declare,
And it will seem a mocking play,
1.17 - Astral Journey Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Confidence being thus established, you inquire why he as appeared to you at this time and at this place; and the Answer to this question is of course your original idea, that is to say, he is presenting to you in other terms that "mountainous Fugue" which invoked him. You listen to him with attention, make such enquiries as seem good to you, and record the proceedings.
The above example is, of course, pure imagination, and represents a very favourable case. You are only too likely, and that not only at the beginning, to meet all sorts of difficulties and dangers.
1.17 - Religion as the Law of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Since the infinite, the absolute and transcendent, the universal, the One is the secret summit of existence and to reach the spiritual consciousness and the Divine the ultimate goal and aim of our being and therefore of the whole development of the individual and the collectivity in all its parts and all its activities, reason cannot be the last and highest guide; culture, as it is understood ordinarily, cannot be the directing light or find out the regulating and harmonising principle of all our life and action. For reason stops short of the Divine and only compromises with the problems of life, and culture in order to attain the Transcendent and Infinite must become spiritual culture, something much more than an intellectual, aesthetic, ethical and practical training. Where then are we to find the directing light and the regulating and harmonising principle? The first answer which will suggest itself, the Answer constantly given by the Asiatic mind, is that we shall find it directly and immediately in religion. And this seems a reasonable and at first sight a satisfying solution; for religion is that instinct, idea, activity, discipline in man which aims directly at the Divine, while all the rest seem to aim at it only indirectly and reach it with difficulty after much wandering and stumbling in the pursuit of the outward and imperfect appearances of things. To make all life religion and to govern all activities by the religious idea would seem to be the right way to the development of the ideal individual and ideal society and the lifting of the whole life of man into the Divine.
A certain pre-eminence of religion, the overshadowing or at least the colouring of life, an overtopping of all the other instincts and fundamental ideas by the religious instinct and the religious idea is, we may note, not peculiar to Asiatic civilisations, but has always been more or less the normal state of the human mind and of human societies, or if not quite that, yet a notable and prominent part of their complex tendencies, except in certain comparatively brief periods of their history, in one of which we find ourselves today and are half turning indeed to emerge from it but have not yet emerged. We must suppose then that in this leading, this predominant part assigned to religion by the normal human collectivity there is some great need and truth of our natural being to which we must always after however long an infidelity return. On the other hand, we must recognise the fact that in a time of great activity, of high aspiration, of deep sowing, of rich fruit-bearing, such as the modern age with all its faults and errors has been, a time especially when humanity got rid of much that was cruel, evil, ignorant, dark, odious, not by the power of religion, but by the power of the awakened intelligence and of human idealism and sympathy, this predominance of religion has been violently attacked and rejected by that portion of humanity which was for that time the standard bearer of thought and progress, Europe after the Renascence, modern Europe.
1.17 - The Spiritus Familiaris or Serving Spirits, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
Why then, one might ask, is it necessary to deal with the magic of evocation; is it not better to work for one's personal development and to leave the beings where they are? the Answer to this
- question is that the genuine magician may, if he likes, get into contact with any beings, positive ones or negative ones, and that he should even regard it as his duty to practise the true magic of evocation, but he must never be tempted to bind himself to any being. He can use his connections to enlarge his knowledge about the various spheres, to learn about the laws of such spheR:S,
1.18 - Evocation, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The magician converses with a being in his own familiar language. Since he is, in any case, in an elevated state, in the state of trance, his language automatically changes into the spiritual language, into the so-called metaphorical language and is so understood by the being. The being, too, who normally uses its own language, will converse in this spiritual language, which again will be translated automatically into the language with which the magician is familiar. Due to this fact the magician will at first have the feeling that the Answers by the being come from his own subconscious much in the same manner as a person's inner voice is heard. By and by the magician will get used to this and will finally realise that the being is actually speaking outside him, and after repeated work in this field it will appear to him to be the same as if he were talking to one of his fellow-men.
The unwanted accompanying factors mentioned in the grimoires, for instance the vandalism of beings, creakings, thunderstorms, flashes of lightning and other disturbances which are said to usually accompany evocations are totally unknown to the genuine magician and may only occur with necromancers and sorcerers who have undergone no magical training, or with people who have left the necessary preparatory operations unobserved or who have made only little preparation for a true evocation.
1.18 - The Perils of the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
child's soul should get into one of them? the Answer was that breath
being exhaled as well as inhaled through the nostrils, the soul
1.19 - GOD IS NOT MOCKED, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
In the past the nations of Christendom persecuted in the name of their faith, fought religious wars and undertook crusades against infidels and heretics; today they have ceased to be Christian in anything but name, and the only religion they profess is some brand of local idolatry, such as nationalism, state-worship, boss-worship and revolutionism. From these fruits of (among other things) historic Christianity, what inferences can we draw as to the nature of the tree? the Answer has already been given in the section on Time and Eternity. If Christians used to be persecutors and are now no longer Christians, the reason is that the Perennial Philosophy incorporated in their religion was overlaid by wrong beliefs that led inevitably, since God is never mocked, to wrong actions. These wrong beliefs had one element in commonnamely, an overvaluation of happenings in time and an undervaluation of the everlasting, timeless fact of eternity. Thus, belief in the supreme importance for salvation of remote historical events resulted in bloody disputes over the interpretation of the not very adequate and often conflicting records. And belief in the sacredness, nay, the actual divinity, of the ecclesiastico-politico-financial organizations, which developed after the fall of the Roman Empire, not only added bitterness to the all too human struggles for their control, but served to rationalize and justify the worst excesses of those who fought for place, wealth and power within and through the Church. But this is not the whole story. The same overvaluation of events in time, which once caused Christians to persecute and fight religious wars, led at last to a wide-spread indifference to a religion that, in spite of everything, was still in part preoccupied with eternity. But nature abhors a vacuum, and into the yawning void of this indifference there flowed the tide of political idolatry. The practical consequences of such idolatry, as we now see, are total war, revolution and tyranny.
Meanwhile, on the credit side of the balance sheet, we find such items as the following: an immense increase in technical and governmental efficiency and an immense increase in scientific knowledgeeach of them a result of the general shift of Western mans attention from the eternal to the temporal order, first within the sphere of Christianity and then, inevitably, outside it.
1.19 - ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE AHEAD OF US OF AN ULTRA-HUMAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
thousand years, since the Answer to this is clearly evident. It is far
more a matter of determining whether, having reached the physi-
1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"It may be asked, 'How has Satchidananda become so hard?' This earth does indeed feel very hard to the touch. the Answer is that blood and semen are thin liquids, and yet out of them comes such a big creature as man. Everything is possible for God. First of all reach the indivisible Satchidananda, and then, coming down, look at the universe. You will then find that everything is Its manifestation. It is God alone who has become everything. The world by no means exists apart from Him.
"All elements finally merge in ka. Again, at the time of creation, ka evolves into mahat and mahat into Ahamkra. In this way the whole world-system is evolved. It is the process of involution and evolution. A devotee of God accepts everything. He accepts the universe and its created beings as well as the indivisible Satchidananda.
1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Can there be a soul for the souls? How many souls are there? the Answer must be, There are many individual souls and One Supreme
Soul. What is soul in that case? It cannot be the body, etc. What remains over after all these are eliminated must be said to be the soul.
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M.: It contains the Answer to your question.
D.: My mind cannot be made steady by any amount of effort. I have been trying it since 1918.
1.201 - Socrates, #Symposium, #Plato, #Philosophy
Even a child would know the Answer to that by now, she replied.
It is those who are in between, and Love is one of them. For wisdom is
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If I knew the Answer, Diotima, I replied, I wouldnt be so admiring of you for your wisdom, or coming to you to learn these very things.
Then I shall tell you, she said. It is giving birth in the beautiful, in respect of body and of soul.
1.21 - My Theory of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It seems a long while since I set up your Nativity, and read it, but it is very clear in my mind that you were astonished, as so many others have been, by the simplicity and correctness of my reading. It began, you remember, by your giving me the usual data when we dropped in for tea at the Anglers' Rest. I calculated the Ascendant on the spot, and remarked "Rubbish!" I looked at you again very carefully; and, after many grunts, observed, "More likely half-past ten within an hour one way or the other." You insisted; I insisted. Unwilling to make a Fracas in the Inn, we decided to put you to the trouble of writing to your mother to settle the dispute. Back came the Answer: "within a few minutes of eleven. I remember because your father had hung on as long as he could he had to take the morning service."
This occurrence is very common in my experience; I have contradicted what sounded like ascertained fact and proved on enquiry to have been right; so, considering that the statistics I made many years ago showed me to have been right 109 times out of 120, I think two things are fairly near probation; firstly, I am not guessing that doesn't matter much; but, secondly, which is of supreme importance, there is a definite connection between the personal appearance and manner of the native, and the Sign of the Zodiac which was rising when he first drew air into his lungs.
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Modern astrologers multiply their charts until their desks remind me of a Bargain Basement in the rush hour! They compare and contrast until they are in bat-eyed bewilderment bemused; and when the Answer turns out absolutely false, exclaim, what a shout: "By Ptolemy, I forgot to look at the last Luniation for Buda-Pesth!" But then they can always find something or other which will explain how they came to go wrong: naturally, when you have several hundred factors, helplessly bound and gagged, it would be just too bad if you couldn't pick out one to serve your turn after the event! No, dear girl, it should be obvious to an unweaned brat: (a) they can't see the wood for the trees, (b) they are using Ruach on a proposition which demands Neschamah. Intellect is quite inadequate; the problem requires mother-wit, intuition, understanding.
Here is my system in a Number 000 Ampoule.
1.22 - ADVICE TO AN ACTOR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to Bannerji, pointing to M.): "He also lives in a separate house. You two will get along very well. Once two men happened to meet. One said to the other, 'Who are you?' 'Oh, I am away from my country', was the other's reply. The second man then asked the first, 'And who are you, pray?' 'Oh, I am away from my beloved', was the Answer. Both were in the same plight; so they got along very well. (All laugh.) "But one need not have any fear if one takes refuge in God. God protects His devotee."
HARI: "Well, why does it take many people such a long time to realize Him?"
1.22 - EMOTIONALISM, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
What is true of the sweet emotions is equally true of the bitter. For as some people enjoy bad health, so others enjoy a bad conscience. Repentance is metanoia, or change of mind; and without it there cannot be even a beginning of the spiritual life for the life of the spirit is incompatible with the life of that old man, whose acts, whose thoughts, whose very existence are the obstructing evils which have to be repented. This necessary change of mind is normally accompanied by sorrow and self-loathing. But these emotions are not to be persisted in and must never be allowed to become a settled habit of remorse. In Middle English remorse is rendered, with a literalness which to modern readers is at once startling and stimulating, as again-bite. In this cannibalistic encounter, who bites whom? Observation and self-analysis provide the Answer: the creditable aspects of the self bite the discreditable and are themselves bitten, receiving wounds that fester with incurable shame and despair. But, in Fenelons words, it is mere self-love to be inconsolable at seeing ones own imperfections. Self-reproach is painful; but the very pain is a reassuring proof that the self is still intact; so long as attention is fixed on the delinquent ego, it cannot be fixed upon God and the ego (which lives upon attention and thes only when that sustenance is withheld) cannot be dissolved in the divine Light.
Eschew as though it were a hell the consideration of yourself and your offences. No one should ever think of these things except to humiliate himself and love Our Lord. It is enough to regard yourself in general as a sinner, even as there are many saints in heaven who were such.
1.22 - The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Nietzsches idea that to develop the superman out of our present very unsatisfactory manhood is our real business, is in itself an absolutely sound teaching. His formulation of our aim, to become ourselves, to exceed ourselves, implying, as it does, that man has not yet found all his true self, his true nature by which he can successfully and spontaneously live, could not be bettered. But then the question of questions is there, what is our self, and what is our real nature? What is that which is growing in us, but into which we have not yet grown? It is something divine, is the Answer, a divinity Olympian, Apollonian, Dionysiac, which the reasoning and consciously willing animal, man, is labouring more or less obscurely to become. Certainly, it is all that; but in what shall we find the seed of that divinity and what is the poise in which the superman, once self-found, can abide and be secure from lapse into this lower and imperfect manhood? Is it the intellect and will, the double-aspected buddhi of the Indian psychological system? But this is at present a thing so perplexed, so divided against itself, so uncertain of everything it gains, up to a certain point indeed magically creative and efficient but, when all has been said and done, in the end so splendidly futile, so at war with and yet so dependent upon and subservient to our lower nature, that even if in it there lies concealed some seed of the entire divinity, it can hardly itself be the seed and at any rate gives us no such secure and divine poise as we are seeking. Therefore we say, not the intellect and will, but that supreme thing in us yet higher than the Reason, the spirit, here concealed behind the coatings of our lower nature, is the secret seed of the divinity and will be, when discovered and delivered, luminous above the mind, the wide ground upon which a divine life of the human being can be with security founded.
When we speak of the superman, we speak evidently of something abnormal or supernormal to our present nature, so much so that the very idea of it becomes easily alarming and repugnant to our normal humanity. The normal human does not desire to be called out from its constant mechanical round to scale what may seem to it impossible heights and it loves still less the prospect of being exceeded, left behind and dominated,although the object of a true supermanhood is not exceeding and domination for its own sake but precisely the opening of our normal humanity to something now beyond itself that is yet its own destined perfection. But mark that this thing which we have called normal humanity, is itself something abnormal in Nature, something the like and parity of which we look around in vain to discover; it is a rapid freak, a sudden miracle. Abnormality in Nature is no objection, no necessary sign of imperfection, but may well be an effort at a much greater perfection. But this perfection is not found until the abnormal can find its own secure normality, the right organisation of its life in its own kind and power and on its own level. Man is an abnormal who has not found his own normality,he may imagine he has, he may appear to be normal in his own kind, but that normality is only a sort of provisional order; therefore, though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning.
1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the Answer within reasonable limits; even to give it form at all is no easy matter. For this is probably the symptom of the earliest stirring of the mind of the cave-man to reflection, thereunto moved by other symptoms those of the morning after following upon the night before. It is have we not already dealt with that matter after a fashion? evidence of disease when an organ become aware of its own modes of motion. Certainly the mere fact of questioning Life bears witness to some interruption of its flow, just as a ripple on an even stream tells of a rock submerged. The fiercer the torrent and the bigger the obstacle, the greater the disturbance to the surface have I not seen them in the Bralduh eight feet high? Lethargic folk with no wild impulse of Will may get through Life in bovine apathy; we may well note that (in a sense) the rage of the water seems to our perturbed imagining actually to increase and multiply the obstructions; there is a critical point beyond which the ripples fight each other!
That, in short, is a picture of you!
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: Your question furnishes the Answer. First, with regard to the first part of the question, you say you concentrate, but do not succeed.
You means the Self. On what do you concentrate? Where do you fail? Are there two selves, for the one self to concentrate on the other? Which is the self now complaining of failure? There cannot be two selves. There is only one Self. That need not concentrate.
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M.: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the Answer to this question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, including the Self. The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.
D.: How is the investigation to start?
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Consider the following: A man sleeps. He says on waking that he slept. The question is asked: Why does he not say in his sleep that he is sleeping? the Answer is given that he is sunk in the Self and cannot speak, like a man who has dived in water to bring out something from the bottom. The diver cannot speak under water; when he has actually recovered the articles he comes out and speaks. Well, what is the explanation?
Being in water, water will flow into his mouth if he were to open the mouth for speaking. Is it not simple? But the philosopher is not content with this simple fact. He explains, saying that fire is the deity presiding over speech; that it is inimical to water and therefore cannot function! This is called philosophy and the learners are struggling to learn all this! Is it not a sheer waste of time? Again the
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Now they say that the world is unreal. Of what degree of unreality is it? Is it like that of a son of a barren mother or a flower in the sky, mere words without any reference to facts? Whereas the world is a fact and not a mere word. the Answer is that it is a superimposition on the one Reality, like the appearance of a snake on a coiled rope seen in dim light.
But here too the wrong identity ceases as soon as the friend points out that it is a rope. Whereas in the matter of the world it persists even after it is known to be unreal. How is that? Again the appearance of water in a mirage persists even after the knowledge of the mirage is recognised. So it is with the world. Though knowing it to be unreal, it continues to manifest.
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M.: Your original statement contains the Answer to your question.
Both the questioners jointly asked: The action is disagreeable. Can it be done?
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M.: Let the mind be first made pure. If the same question arises thereafter the Answer may then be sought.
26th December, 1937
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M.: How can you know sleep when you are awake? the Answer is to go to sleep and find out what it is.
D.: But I cannot know it in this way.
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The Self is free from all these. Here is the Answer for the former question also.
D.: I sought to know the state of sthita prajnata (unshaken knowledge).
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M.: the Answer is contained in the question. The question itself shows it to be worship of qualified God.
D.: I is felt in the waking and dream states but not in deep sleep.
1.25 - Critical Objections brought against Poetry, and the principles on which they are to be answered., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
Things are censured either as impossible, or irrational, or morally hurtful, or contradictory, or contrary to artistic correctness. the Answers should be sought under the twelve heads above mentioned.
author class:Aristotle
1.26 - Sacrifice of the Kings Son, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
as the Answer of the god that the dearth would never cease till the
children of Athamas by his first wife had been sacrificed to Zeus.
1.27 - CONTEMPLATION, ACTION AND SOCIAL UTILITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
A question now, quite naturally, presents itself: Who is called to that highest form of prayer which is contemplation? the Answer is unequivocally plain. All are called to contemplation, because all are called to achieve deliverance, which is nothing else but the knowledge that unites the knower with what is known, namely the eternal Ground or Godhead. The oriental exponents of the Perennial Philosophy would probably deny that everyone is called here and now; in this particular life, they would say, it may be to all intents and purposes impossible for a given individual to achieve more than a partial deliverance, such as personal survival in some kind of heaven, from which there may be either an advance towards total liberation or else a return to those material conditions which, as all the masters of the spiritual life agree, are so uniquely propitious for taking the cosmic intelligence test that results in enlightenment. In orthodox Christianity it is denied that the individual soul can have more than one incarnation, or that it can make any progress in its posthumous existence. If it goes to hell, it stays there. If it goes to purgatory, it merely expiates past evil doing, so as to become capable of the beatific vision. And when it gets to heaven, it has just so much of the beatific vision as its conduct during its one brief life on earth made it capable of, and everlastingly no more. Granted these postulates, it follows that, if all are called to contemplation, they are called to it from that particular position in the hierarchy of being, to which nature, nurture, free will and grace have conspired to assign them. In the words of an eminent contemporary theologian, Father Garigou-Lagrange, all souls receive a general remote call to the mystical life, and if all were faithful in avoiding, as they should, not only mortal but venial sins, if they were, each according to his condition, generally docile to the Holy Ghost, and if they lived long enough, a day would come when they would receive the proximate and efficacious vocation to a high perfection and to the mystical life properly so called. This view that the life of mystical contemplation is the proper and normal development of the interior life of recollectedness and devotion to Godis then justified by the following considerations. First, the principle of the two lives is the same. Second, it is only in the life of mystical contemplation that the interior life finds its consummation. Third, their end, which is eternal life, is the same; moreover only the life of mystical contemplation prepares imme thately and perfectly for that end.
There are few contemplatives, because few souls are perfectly humble.
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: Your question furnishes the Answer. First, with regard to the first part of the question, you say you concentrate, but do not succeed.
'You' means 'the Self'. On what do you concentrate? Where do you fail? Are there two selves, for the one self to concentrate on the other? Which is the self now complaining of failure? There cannot be two selves. There is only one Self. That need not concentrate.
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M.: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the Answer to this question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, including the Self. The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.
D.: How is the investigation to start?
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Consider the following: A man sleeps. He says on waking that he slept. The question is asked: 'Why does he not say in his sleep that he is sleeping?' the Answer is given that he is sunk in the Self and cannot speak, like a man who has dived in water to bring out something from the bottom. The diver cannot speak under water; when he has actually recovered the articles he comes out and speaks. Well, what is the explanation?
Being in water, water will flow into his mouth if he were to open the mouth for speaking. Is it not simple? But the philosopher is not content with this simple fact. He explains, saying that fire is the deity presiding over speech; that it is inimical to water and therefore cannot function! This is called philosophy and the learners are struggling to learn all this! Is it not a sheer waste of time? Again the
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Now they say that the world is unreal. Of what degree of unreality is it? Is it like that of a son of a barren mother or a flower in the sky, mere words without any reference to facts? Whereas the world is a fact and not a mere word. the Answer is that it is a superimposition on the one Reality, like the appearance of a snake on a coiled rope seen in dim light.
But here too the wrong identity ceases as soon as the friend points out that it is a rope. Whereas in the matter of the world it persists even after it is known to be unreal. How is that? Again the appearance of water in a mirage persists even after the knowledge of the mirage is recognised. So it is with the world. Though knowing it to be unreal, it continues to manifest.
1.32 - How can a Yogi ever be Worried?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Yes, although you can scarcely evade indictment for unnecessarily employing the language of hyperbole, I see what you mean. Yet the Answer is adequate; the very terms of his Bargain with Destiny not only allow for, but imply, some such reaction on the part of the Master to the Bludgeonings of Fate. (W. E. Henley*[AC36])
There are two ways of looking at the problem. One is what I may call the mathematical. If I have ten and sixpence in the world and but a half-guinea cigar, I have no money left to buy a box of matches. To "snap out of it" and recover my normal serenity requires only a minute effort, and the whole of my magical energy is earmarked for the Great Work. I have none left to make that effort. Of course, if the worry is enough to interfere with that Work, I must detail a corporal's file to abate the nuisance.
1.39 - Prophecy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It must be so perfectly unintelligible at the time that the elucidation of the Answer makes it certain that the prophet knew precisely the whole riddle.
I feel that this condition is itself expressed in a somewhat oracular form; I will try to clarify by citing what I consider a perfect example. Perfect, I say, because the "must" is a little too strong; there are degrees of excellence.
1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: Your original statement contains the Answer to your question.
Both the questioners jointly asked: The action is disagreeable. Can it be done?
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M.: Let the mind be first made pure. If the same question arises thereafter the Answer may then be sought.
26th December, 1937
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M.: How can you know sleep when you are awake? the Answer is to go to sleep and find out what it is.
D.: But I cannot know it in this way.
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The Self is free from all these. Here is the Answer for the former question also.
D.: I sought to know the state of sthita prajnata (unshaken knowledge).
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M.: the Answer is contained in the question. The question itself shows it to be worship of qualified God.
D.: "I" is felt in the waking and dream states but not in deep sleep.
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M.: the Answers will be according to the capacity of the seeker. It is said in the second chapter of Gita that no one is born or dies: but in the fourth chapter Sri Krishna says that numerous incarnations of His and of Arjuna had taken place, all known to Him but not to
Arjuna. Which of these statements is true? Both statements are true, but from different standpoints. Now a question is raised: How can jiva rise up from the Self? I must answer. Only know Your Real
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Therefore the dream illustration is set forth. The dream world has no objective existence. How then is it created? Some mental impressions should be admitted. They are called vasanas. How were the vasanas in the mind? the Answer is: they were subtle. Just as a whole tree is contained potentially in a seed, so the world is in the mind.
Then it is asked: A seed is the product of the tree which must have existed once in order that it may be reproduced. So the world also must have been there some time. the Answer is, No! There must have been several incarnations to gather the impressions which are re-manifested in the present form. I must have existed before as I do now. The straight way to find an answer will be to see if the world is there. Admitting the existence of the world I must admit a seer who is no other than myself. Let me find myself so that I may know the relation between the world and the seer.
When I seek the Self and abide as the Self there is no world to be seen.
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The scriptures say that the realised state admits of no limits. So then, the only way to understand his state is to realise the Self and experience the state. If the question arises afterwards the Answer will be found.
Another visitor asked: There is differentiation made between the sentient and the insentient (chit and jada) in the opening verse of
1.4.01 - The Divine Grace and Guidance, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As you have seen one can't claim that one has only to shout and the Answer must come. Besides I have always seen that there has been really a long unobserved preparation before the Grace intervenes and, also, after it has intervened one has still to put in a good deal of work to keep and develop what one has got
- as it is in all other things - until there is the complete siddhi.
1.40 - Coincidence, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
A waited impatiently, and rang up once more. Again the series of nonsense-difficulties about getting the connection. At last the Answer came. This time yet one more girl friend D. "Oh, what a pity! You've just missed her; she left the box not five minutes ago." "Box," screamed A, "what box? Have I got mixed up in a Trunk Murder?" "Why, this box," replied D, calmly. "What box?" shouted A. "Isn't that her flat?" "Her flat! are you crazy? This is a call-box in Shaftesbury Avenue." Collapse of A's confidence in the sanity of Nature.
One may note that there was no similarity in the names of the exchanges, or in the numbers.
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Everything that happens, no matter what, is an inconceivably improbable coincidence. You remember how you had to begin when you first came to me for help. I said to you, "Here are you, and no other person, come to see me, and no other person, in this room, and no other room, at this time, and not other time. Hod did that come about?" the Answer to that question is the first entry in your Magical Diary: and, with a slightly different object in view, the first step in the practice of Liber Thisharb and the acquisition of Magical Memory.
Why, hang it all; the events of the last hour, even, might have gone just an infinitesimally little bit different, and the interview would not have taken place as it did. Consider then, that factors stretching back into Eternity all the factors there are! have each one contri buted in its degree to bringing this interview about. What a fantastic improbability! Yet here we are.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: the Answers will be according to the capacity of the seeker. It is said in the second chapter of Gita that no one is born or dies: but in the fourth chapter Sri Krishna says that numerous incarnations of His and of Arjuna had taken place, all known to Him but not to
Arjuna. Which of these statements is true? Both statements are true, but from different standpoints. Now a question is raised: How can jiva rise up from the Self? I must answer. Only know Your Real
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Therefore the dream illustration is set forth. The dream world has no objective existence. How then is it created? Some mental impressions should be admitted. They are called vasanas. How were the vasanas in the mind? the Answer is: they were subtle. Just as a whole tree is contained potentially in a seed, so the world is in the mind.
Then it is asked: A seed is the product of the tree which must have existed once in order that it may be reproduced. So the world also must have been there some time. the Answer is, No! There must have been several incarnations to gather the impressions which are re-manifested in the present form. I must have existed before as I do now. The straight way to find an answer will be to see if the world is there. Admitting the existence of the world I must admit a seer who is no other than myself. Let me find myself so that I may know the relation between the world and the seer.
When I seek the Self and abide as the Self there is no world to be seen.
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The scriptures say that the realised state admits of no limits. So then, the only way to understand his state is to realise the Self and experience the state. If the question arises afterwards the Answer will be found.
Another visitor asked: There is differentiation made between the sentient and the insentient (chit and jada) in the opening verse of
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M.: the Answer to the question depends on what the Purusha is understood to be. Is he the ego or the Self?
D.: Purusha is svarupa.
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D.: I know the Answer to the question.
M.: Let us have it.
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Answer: the Answer to this question is contained in the other sheet.
Be still and know that I AM GOD.
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Sri Bhagavan added after a few minutes: the Answer, according to sastras, will be that the body is due to karma. The question will be how did karma arise? We must say from a previous body and so on without end. The direct method of attack is not to depend on invisible hypotheses but to ask Whose Karma is it? Or whose body? Hence
I answered in this manner. This is more purposeful.
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Mr. Lorey was struck by the Answer although he was already familiar with the Masters ways. He was even visibly moved. He prayed that the Grace of the Master might abide with him.
Sri Bhagavan: The Master being the Self. Grace is inseparable from the Self.
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M.: Now what is family? Whose family is it? If the Answers to these questions are found the other questions solve themselves.
Tell me: Are you in the family, or is the family in you?
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M.: Refer these questions to yourself and the Answer will be found.
After a pause, Sri Bhagavan continued: if we first know our Self then all other matters will be plain to us. Let us know our Self and then enquire concerning the Creator and creation. Without first knowing the Self, to seek knowledge of God, etc., is ignorance.
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M.: Dialectics are not wanted. Consider the Answer and see.
D.: How?
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have not said what I am, the Answer will be, It is not said you are
not a man. He must find out for himself that he is a man. So you
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M.: On the other hand, this is the Answer to elucidate the point and
all other doubts as well.
1.44 - Serious Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Do you see what is my mark? It is you that I am going to put in the dock about "being serious;" and that will take a separate letter part of the Answer to yours received March 10th, 1944 and in general to your entire course of conduct since you came to me now over a year ago.[84]
Love is the law, love under will.
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
M.: the Answer to the question depends on what the Purusha is understood to be. Is he the ego or the Self?
D.: Purusha is svarupa.
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D.: I know the Answer to the question.
M.: Let us have it.
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Answer: the Answer to this question is contained in the other sheet.
Be still and know that I AM GOD.
1.45 - Unserious Conduct of a Pupil, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
1. The Cloud on the Sanctuary. On reading this book, Mr. X.,[86] who was desperate from the conviction that no success in life was worth a tinker's dam, decided: "This is the Answer to my problem; the members of the Secret Fraternity which this book describes have solved the riddle of life. I must discover them, and seek to be received amongst them."
2. X., hearing a conversation in a caf which made him think that the speaker[87] might be such an one as he sought, hunted him down he had gone on his travels caught him, and made him promise an interview at the earliest possible date.
1.55 - Money, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
A couple of Japanese wrestlers may be worth more than Phidias, Robert Browning, Titian and Mozart in terms of butchers' meat. We might alter that incorrect truism "money cannot by anything worth having" to "things worth having cannot be estimated in terms of money." You see, no counting. The operation to save your child's life: do you care if the surgeon wants five pounds or fifty? Of course, you may not have the fifty, or be obliged to retrench in other ways to get it; but it makes no odds as to what you feel about it. What is the value of a University Education? the Answer is that it is a pure gamble. The student may use his advantages to make a rich marriage, to attract the wife of a millionaire, to earn a judgeship or a post in the Cabinet, to earn 500 a year as a doctor, 150 as a schoolmaster or he may die in the process. So with all the spiritual values; they are, in the most literal sense, inestimable. So don't start to count!
Most obviously of all, when it comes to The Great Work, money does not count at all. I do not write of any Magical work, in the restricted sense of the phrase. Shaw says: "Admirals always want more battleships" and J.F.C. Fuller: "if a lawyer, more wretches to hang." It applies to any one whose heart is in his job. (Of course, in this case, money is like all other things of value; nothing counts but the Job.) This, too, is sound Magical doctrine.
1.59 - Geomancy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When I pointed out that the Answers to Geomantic questions were so vague and indeterminate he had already devised a method whereby this difficulty (which he admitted as existing) could be overcome.
It is of course of the very first importance in Geomancy to frame your questions accurately; for the Intelligences serving the Art delight in tricksome gambols. If there is a possibility of assigning a double meaning to the question you can bank on their finding it, and deceiving you.
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The next question was the distance involved, and he could think of no way of framing questions which would inform him on that very important point. He got at it indirectly, however, by asking as to his means of transport, and as to that the Answer was quite clear and unmistakable.
He was to use a horse.
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
No: I am not at all sure that all this is the Answer that you need about white rages. Yet it is certainly contained herein, or, at the least, implied. (Of course, it is all here, my love, and may God bless you, whereever you are.)
Try another aspect.
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Alas! I fear me much this was no Astral journey at all; it reads like weak imagination tinged by desire. All you got of interest was the Answer to your question: and that you should have gripped, made more precise, analysed, interpreted. Dear me, no!
Final shot: my instinct is all against the "lying in bed." These visions are intensely active: the hardest kind of work. Read Liber CDXVIII, 2nd Aethyr (and others) to understand the appalling physical strain, when you reach remote, well-guarded, and exalted confines of the Universe.
1.67 - The External Soul in Folk-Custom, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
their life outside their bodies? the Answer can only be that, like
the giant in the fairy tale, they think it safer to do so than to
1.75 - The AA and the Planet, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
My dear child, that is all very sensibly put; and the Answer is that Convenience would decide. Then you go on, after a digression:
"Then how are They acting at present? What impact has the new Word, Thelema, made upon the planet? What are we to expect as a result? And can we poor benighted outsiders help Them in any way? I know it's 'cheek' to ask."
1929-06-16 - Illness and Yoga - Subtle body (nervous envelope) - Fear and illness, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the ordinary life of man a progressive dislocation is the rule. The mental and the vital beings of man follow as best they can the movement of the universal forces, and the stream of the worlds inner transformation and evolution carries them a certain way; but the body bound to the law of the most material nature, moves very slowly. After some years, seventy or eighty, a hundred or two hundred, and that is perhaps the maximum, thedislocation is so serious that the outer being falls to pieces. The divergence between the demand and the Answer, the increasing inability and irresponsiveness of the body, brings about the phenomenon of death. By Yoga the inner transformation that is in slow constant process in the creation is rendered more intense and rapid, but the pace of the outer transformation remains almost the same as in ordinary life. As a result, the disharmony between the inner and the outer being in one who is doing Yoga tends to be all the greater, unless precautions are taken and a protection secured that will help the body to follow the inner march as closely as possible. Even then it is the very nature of the body to hold you back. It is for this reason that to many we are obliged to say, Do not pull, do not hurry; you must give your body time to follow. Some have to be kept back even for years and not allowed to do much or progress far. Sometimes, to avoid the disequilibrium becomes impossible; and then you have a disturbance which varies according to the nature of the resistance and the measure of the care you have taken or your negligence. This too is the reason why each time that there is a strong movement of progress, it is almost invariably followed by a period of immobility, which seems to those who are not warned a spell of dullness and stagnation and discouragement in which all progress is stopped, and they think anxiously, What is the matter? Am I losing time? Nothing is being done. But the truth is that it is the time needed for assimilation; a pause is made for the body to open itself more and become receptive and approach nearer to the level attained by the inner consciousness. The parents have been walking too far ahead; they must halt so that the child left behind may run up and catch them by the hand; only then can they start again on the journey together.
Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner movement; there is there a world of subtle correspondences. But this is a long and complex subject and we cannot enter into its details just now. The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed. It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go.
1929-06-23 - Knowledge of the Yogi - Knowledge and the Supermind - Methods of changing the condition of the body - Meditation, aspiration, sincerity, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In your meditation the first imperative need is a state of perfect and absolute sincerity in all the consciousness. It is indispensable that you should not deceive yourself or deceive or be deceived by others. Often people have a wish, a mental preference or vital desire; they want the experience to happen in a particular way or to take a turn that satisfies their ideas or desires or preferences; they do not keep themselves blank and unprejudiced and simply and sincerely observe what happens. Then if you do not like what happens, it is easy to deceive yourself; you will see one thing, but give it a little twist and make it something else, or you will distort something simple and straightforward or magnify it into an extraordinary experience. When you sit in meditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your external mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is there, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you. If you ask from within for peace, it will come; if for strength, for power, for knowledge, they too will come, but all in the measure of your capacity to receive it. And if you call upon the Divine, then tooalways admitting that the Divine is open to your call, and that means your call is pure enough and strong enough to reach him,you will have the Answer.
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1951-01-27 - Sleep - desires - repression - the subconscient. Dreams - the super-conscient - solving problems. Ladder of being - samadhi. Phases of sleep - silence, true rest. Vital body and illness., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here I am going to correct one word: it is not the subconscient which has more knowledge than our normal consciousness but the superconscient, that which escapes our consciousness, not because it is lower but because it is higher. When at night we put a problem to ourselves, the problem goes to the higher regions of our being and in the morning we get the Answer, the solution, because there, in the depths of our consciousness, we know things which we do not know in our external consciousness.
During sleep one has often the impression of entering into a region of light, of higher knowledge, but on waking up one brings back only the impression, the memory. Why?
1951-02-12 - Divine force - Signs indicating readiness - Weakness in mind, vital - concentration - Divine perception, human notion of good, bad - Conversion, consecration - progress - Signs of entering the path - kinds of meditation - aspiration, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is yet another sign: when you concentrate and have an aspiration, you feel something coming down into you, you receive an answer; you feel a light, a peace, a force coming down; and almost immediatelyyou need not wait or spend a very long timenothing but an inner aspiration, a call, and the Answer comes. This also means that the relation has been well established.
If there is an upsetting when the force descends, does it not mean that the vital is not ready and should it not be forced to be ready?
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You must particularly not be violent, for if you are violent, you will come out of it tired, exhausted, without any result. You must concentrate all the forces of aspiration. If you are conscious of the inner flame, you should put into this flame all that you find strongest in you by way of aspiration, of a call, and hold yourself as quiet as you can, calling, with a deep reliance that the Answer will come; and when you are in this state, with your aspiration and concentrated force, with your inner flame, press gently upon this kind of outer crust, without violence, but with insistence, as long as you can, without getting agitated, irritated or excited. You must be perfectly quiet, must call and push.
It will not succeed the first time. You must begin again as many times as is necessary, but suddenly, one day you are on the other side! Then you emerge in an ocean of light.
1951-03-05 - Disasters- the forces of Nature - Story of the charity Bazar - Liberation and law - Dealing with the mind and vital- methods, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Obviously, but the problem remains. You aspire for a change, perhaps for a specific change; but the Answer to your aspiration will not come immediately and in the meantime your nature will resist. Things happen like this: at a given moment the nature seems to have yielded and you think you have got the desired result. Your aspiration diminishes in intensity because you think you have the desired result. But the other fellow, who is very cunning and is waiting quietly in his corner, when you are off your guard, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box, and then you must begin all over again.
But if one can tear out completely the root of the thing?
1951-03-31 - Physical ailment and mental disorder - Curing an illness spiritually - Receptivity of the body - The subtle-physical- illness accidents - Curing sunstroke and other disorders, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of the things which makes you most illa sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing ones body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of ones body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the Answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces into the body, like that, regularly, until you see the body receiving them (for, the first few moments they dont enter, because the body is quite upset by the illness, it is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the body. But you must not be disturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they cant disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less timeten minutes, half an hour, one hour, two hoursdepends upon the seriousness of the disorder which has set in), slowly, from above, you concentrate the Force until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesnt function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the spiritual force and knows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured. I dont say it just like that in the air; it is said from experience with the thing. Of course, you will say you dont know how to go out of the body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery. It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if one is helped In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help.
But the condition in every casein every casewhe ther one does it oneself and depending only on oneself or whether one does it by asking someone to do it for one, the first condition: not to fear and to be calm. If you begin to boil and get fidgety in your body, it is finished, you can do nothing.
1953-05-06, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The truth is that these are small vital entities, a class of beings formed by the decomposition of desires that have persisted after a mans death and retained their form; of imaginations that have remained coagulated and try to manifest and reappear. Sometimes they are small beings of the vital world, not very well-disposed; as soon as they see people playing at such thingsautomatic writing, spirit-communication they come and play. And as they are in a domain from where it is easy to read human thought, they tell you very well what you have in your head. They respond to what you expect. You wish to have a particular answer: they give you the Answer even before you have put the question! They can give you precise details, they can tell you that such and such a thing happened to you, that such and such a member of your family They know quite well. They do excellent thought-reading and tell you things altogether convincingly. I did not say that I was married and had three sons and four daughters, how did he know all that?Because it was in your head.
Psychic memories have a very special character and a wonderful intensity. But that cannot be narrated in this way. They are unforgettable moments of life when the consciousness is intense, luminous, strong, active, powerful, and sometimes turning-points in life that have changed the direction of ones life. But one will never be able to say what dress one was wearing or the gentleman with whom one spoke and the neighbours and the kind of field where one was.
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You could have put to me a very interesting question: Why am I fourteen years old today? Intelligent people will say: It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born. That is the Answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone. I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
If one finds the truth in things, does it mean that one has found the Divine?
1953-05-20, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But that moment should be absolutely sincere and as integral as possible; and all this must occur not only in the head, not only here, but must take place everywhere, in all the cells of the body. The consciousness integrally must have this irresistible need. The thing lasts for some time, then diminishes, gets extinguished. You cannot keep these things for very long. But then it so happens that a moment later or the next day or some time later, suddenly you have the opposite experience. Instead of feeling this ascent, and all that, this is no longer there and you have the feeling of the Descent, the Answer. And nothing but the Answer exists. Nothing but the divine thought, the divine will, the divine energy, the divine action exists any longer. And you too, you are no longer there.
That is to say, it is the Answer to our aspiration. It may happen immediately afterwards that is very rare but may happen. If you have both simultaneously, then the state is perfect; usually they alternate; they alternate more and more closely until the moment there is a total fusion. Then there is no more distinction. I heard a Sufi mystic, who was besides a great musician, an Indian, saying that for the Sufis there was a state higher than that of adoration and surrender to the Divine, than that of devotion, that this was not the last stage; the last stage of the progress is when there is no longer any distinction; you have no longer this kind of adoration or surrender or consecration; it is a very simple state in which one makes no distinction between the Divine and oneself. They know this. It is even written in their books. It is a commonly known condition in which everything becomes quite simple. There is no longer any difference. There is no longer that kind of ecstatic surrender to Something which is beyond you in every way, which you do not understand, which is merely the result of your aspiration, your devotion. There is no difference any longer. When the union is perfect, there is no longer any difference.
Is this the end of self-progress?
1953-08-26, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That is the Answer to your question. That is, no matter how high you may climb back, at the Origin you will find love. But not what men call love.
Mother, what kind of love is that which says, If you love me, I shall love you?
1953-10-21, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, a painter, someone who can draw, it is the same thing. of a painter, a sculptor, thats all? Painter and sculptor? Not of a musician or a writer or I am asking you because the Answer would be different according to the instances.
I had thought of someone who can draw.
1953-11-25, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Even an atom of sincerity suffices, and it comes. And if, truly, one calls very sincerely (not just calling and at the same time saying, We are going to see now if it is going to succeed that naturally is not a very good condition), but if one calls very sincerely and sincerely needs the Answer, one waits and it always comes. And if one can silence ones mind and be a little quiet, one even perceives the coming of the help and what form it takes.
From where do the gods come?
1954-02-03 - The senses and super-sense - Children can be moulded - Keeping things in order - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, if someone is very ill, has no strength to spare, then thats different. And yet even here, there are limits. I knew ill people who could tell you, Open this drawer and in the left corner at the back you will find such and such a thing under such another; the man could not move and take it himself, but he knew very well where it was. But apart from that, the ideal is to have some organization, as for instance of the kind found in libraries where there are hundreds of thousands of books and where everything is classified (naturally it is not done by just one man), but it is a work in which each thing is so well classified that, despite all, if you bring a card and say I want this book, a quarter of an hour later you have it or sometimes in five minutes. That is organization. And yet there are rooms full of books there. But all this is the result of work perfected by a large number of men, the result of a professional organization. Well, for oneself, one must organise ones own thingsand at the same time ones own ideasin the same way, and must know exactly where things are and be able to go straight to them, because ones organization is logical. It is your own logicit may not be your neighbours logic, not necessarily, it is your own logic but your organization being logical, you know exactly where a thing is and, as I told you, if that thing is displaced, you know it immediately. And those who can do that are generally those who can put their ideas into order and can also organise their character and can finally control their movements. And then, if you make progress, you succeed in governing your physical life; you begin to have a control over your physical movements. If you take life in that way, truly it be comes interesting. If one lives in a confusion, a disorder, an inner and outer chaos in which everything is mixed up and one is conscious of nothing and still less is master of things, this is not living. This is not living, it is being in a sea of Inconscience, being tossed about by the waves, caught by the currents, thrown against rocks, seized again by another wave and thrown against another rock; and one goes on thus with bruises and blows and bumps. And then, should one ask you, Why is it like this?I dont know.Why did you do that?I dont know.Why do you think in this way?I dont know.Why did you make that movement?I dont know. All the Answers are I dont know.
Essentially there is but one single true reason for living: it is to know oneself. We are hereto learn to learn what we are, why we are here, and what we have to do. And if we dont know that, our life is altogether empty for ourselves and for others.
1954-04-28 - Aspiration and receptivity - Resistance - Purusha and Prakriti, not masculine and feminine, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I did not understand very well the Answer to this questions: Does the power of aspiration vary in different sadhaks according to their natures?1
Ah! Yes.
You see, I think the question has been put badly. I believe the one who asked the questions wanted to say the effect of aspiration and he put power. That is, aspiration in everyone, no matter who it is, has the same power. But the effect of this aspiration is different. For aspiration is aspiration: if you have aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only, this aspiration calls down an answer, and this answer, the effect, which is the result of the aspiration, depends upon each one, for it depends upon his receptivity. I know many people of this kind: they say, Oh! But I aspire all the time and still I receive nothing. It is impossible that they should receive nothing, in the see that the Answer is sure to come. But it is they who do not receive. the Answer comes but they are not receptive, so they receive nothing.
There are people, you know, who have a lot of aspiration. They call the force. The force comes to themeven enters deeply into them and they are so unconscious that they dont know it! That indeed happens quite frequently. It is their state of unconsciousness, which prevents them from even feeling the force which enters into them. It enters into them, and does its work. I knew people who were gradually transformed and yet were so unconscious that they were not even aware of it. The consciousness comes latervery much later. On the other hand, there are people who are more passive, so to speak, more open, more attentive, and even if a very slight amount of force comes, they become aware of it immediately and use it fully.
When you have an aspiration, a very active aspiration, your aspiration is going to do its work. It is going to call down the Answer to what you aspire for. But if, later, you begin to think of something else or are not attentive or receptive, you do not even notice that your aspiration has received an answer. This happen very frequently. So people tell you: I aspire and I dont receive anything, I get no answer! Yes, you do have an answer but you are not aware of it, because you continue to be active in this way, like a mill turning all the time.
Mother, doesnt the Purusha commit mistakes like the Prakriti?
1954-05-19 - Affection and love - Psychic vision Divine - Love and receptivity - Get out of the ego, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The surest means is to give oneself to the Divine; not to try to draw the Divine to oneself but try to give oneself to the Divine. Then you are compelled at least to come out a little from yourself to begin with. Usually, you know, when people think of the Divine, the first thing they do is to pull as much as they can into themselves. And then, generally, they receive nothing at all. They tell you, Ah! I called, I prayed and I did not have the Answer. I had no answer, nothing came. But then, if you ask, Did you offer yourself?No, I pulled.Ah, yes, that is why it did not come! It is not that it did not come, it is that when you pull you remain so shut up in your ego, as I told you just now, that it raises a wall between what is to be received and yourself. You put yourself in prison and then you are astonished that in your prison you feel nothing.
Prison, and still more, with no windows on the street.
1954-06-16 - Influences, Divine and other - Adverse forces - The four great Asuras - Aspiration arranges circumstances - Wanting only the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Also they do not usually work upon one man. But they try to get hold of the earth-atmosphere, you understand, and without getting hold of men, they cant get hold of the earth-atmosphere, because it is in man that the highest terrestrial force manifests. As for taking a human body for conversion, that indeed is quite the Answer is quite simple. It is because in man there is a psychic being and there is no Asura who can eternally resist the influence of the psychic being, even were he to refuse as much as he could to surrender and bind himself closely. Thats exactly the contradiction of their existence.
Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo has said that one can pass from human love to divine Love.
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You mean the desire to read it? Because one probably needs what is in it! If you have an attraction for something, usually it is that you need to read it, and it is exactly the thing you need to understand which comes to you. You can use this even with an altogether material method which I have often given you. See, you concentrateif you have a difficulty or want to be helped, you concentrate and then insert a marker in a book and you alight upon the thing which is the Answer to what you have asked. That is the most material means; but if the mind is well disposed, then, quite naturally, when it reads the titles, it will say, Oh, this is what I want to read, without even knowing what is within, because it will feel that this is what has to be read to answer its questions or its need.
Some people have this power even without having tried to make any progress, and somebody will always come along to give them a book and tell them, without even knowing why, Here, read this book, it will interest you; or else they will enter a house and see a book lying on the tableit is just the one thing they will want to read. It depends a great deal on the intensity of the inner aspiration. If you are in a state of conscious aspiration and very sincere, well, everything around you will be arranged in order to help in your aspiration, whether directly or indirectly, that is, either to make you progress, put you in touch with something new or to eliminate from your nature something that has to disappear. This is something quite remarkable. If you are truly in a state of intensity of aspiration, there is not a circumstance which does not come to help you to realise this aspiration. Everything comes, everything, as though there were a perfect and absolute consciousness organising around you all things, and you yourself in your outer ignorance may not recognise it and may protest at first against the circumstances as they show themselves, may complain, may try to change them; but after a while, when you have become wiser, and there is a certain distance between you and the event, well, you will realise that it was just what you needed to do to make the necessary progress. And, you know, it is a will, a supreme goodwill which arranges all things around you, and even when you complain and protest instead of accepting, it is exactly at such moments that it acts most effectively.
1954-06-30 - Occultism - Religion and vital beings - Mothers knowledge of what happens in the Ashram - Asking questions to Mother - Drawing on Mother, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, most of the questions are badly worded, because you really do not know what you want to know. I mean, you are not quite clearly aware of the thing you want to know. Theres a grouping of words in your head, not the consciousness of an idea trying to become clear; there are only words knocking about in your brain which you cannot manage to fit in, so as to be able to understand what they mean. So you cannot speak easily, because you do not think. It does not proceed from thought. It is a kind of automatic thing coming from the brain; if you have a clear awareness of an experience you want to state accurately or some knowledge you want to arrange in your head, then you can state it very clearly and at the same time your brain is ready to receive the Answer; but if, merely with the clash of wordswords come like that, dont they? You connect three or four words and then launch an idea.. I answer, because I think there will always be someone that it could drop into a brain somewhere; but otherwise, most of the time, the head is not ready to understand even what I say. You must think well and be well concentrated and see very clearly what you want to ask before asking. Otherwise, it is not the part of the mind which can understand that asks. It is just a surface which is in a perpetual movement of words linking up more or less aptly, coming and going and passing on, and it is this which speaks, its this which asks and this, indeed, cannot understand.
How many times have I told you things the same thing, and if I ask you about it, sometimes just a week later, you do not remember it! How many times you ask me the same questions, because you asked the questions but were not at all in a condition to understand the Answer. Nothing remain inside, these are only passing words, just that. Its as when you learn a lesson by heart: they are only passing words. There is nothing, theres nothing which enters within, gets settled somewhere in the real thought, and so it has no effect and does not help you to understand anything at all. The proof: how many times I have asked you, said to you, But indeed I have told you this; you dont even remember it!
It has often happened, hasnt it?but usually with the very small children and well, even with you it has sometimes happened, that someone has asked me a questions, I have answered. Another person asks me the same questions in different words. If you had listened to what I just said, I have already replied to what you are asking me! All that goes by like that, you know, altogether passingly like that, absolutely in the superficial thought, nothing enters within and gets settled in an inner understanding. That is why you cannot ask questions: it is because you dont think only words playing about
1954-07-14 - The Divine and the Shakti - Personal effort - Speaking and thinking - Doubt - Self-giving, consecration and surrender - Mothers use of flowers - Ornaments and protection, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Self-giving, consecration and surrender? I believe we have read this somewhere, havent we? There was already some explanation like that, wasnt there? We have already spoken about it. It was in Elements of Yoga also. Someone had asked about it and the reply was in this book. Sri Aurobindo has given the Answer, the difference between So, my children, if you
That was about belief.
1954-08-04 - Servant and worker - Justification of weakness - Play of the Divine - Why are you here in the Ashram?, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you (Silence) If you asked yourselves this, you would be obliged to seek the Answer somewhere, withinbecause it is within you, the Answer. What is there in us that has made us come here? the Answer is within. There is nothing outside. And if you go deep enough, you will find a very clear answer (Silence) and an interesting answer. If you go deep enough, into a sufficiently complete silence from all outer things, you will find within you that flame about which I often speak, and in this flame you will see your destiny. You will see the aspiration of centuries which has been concentrated gradually, to lead you through countless births to the great day of realisation that preparation which has been made through thousands of years, and is reaching its culmination.
And as you will have gone very deep to find this, all your incapacities, all your weaknesses, everything in you that denies and does not understand, all thatyou will feel that it is not yourself, it is just like a garment which serves in some way and which you have put on for the time being. But you will understand that in order to be truly capable of profiting fully by the opportunity to do what you wanted to do, what you have aspired to do for such a long time, you must gradually bring the light, the consciousness, the truth into all these obscure elements of the external garment, so that you may be able to understand integrally why you are here! And not only that you may understand it, but that you may be able to do it. For centuries this has been prepared in you, not in this (Mother pinches the skin of her forearm) this is quite recent, isnt it? but in your true self. And for centuries it has been awaiting this opportunity.
1954-11-24 - Aspiration mixed with desire - Willing and desiring - Children and desires - Supermind and the higher ranges of mind - Stages in the supramental manifestation, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, one has an aspiration for Light, for Knowledge, for all kinds of things. Now, if a desire is mixed with your aspiration, instead of simply aspiring and awaiting the Answer, you begin to pull, as one draws things when one desires them-you draw them to yourself. So instead of waiting for the Force and Light and Consciousness and Truth to answer your aspiration, you pull them down like that, towards yourself with a very egoistical movement, as though you were pulling a rope or something, and so anything at all can come in answer. Instead of its being, for example, a true light, it can be a false light which takes brilliant appearances to deceive you; instead of its being a true force, it can be an adverse force of the vital which wants to take possession of you. It means that when one has an aspiration, it is better that no desires get mixed up in it, because desires always spoil everything.
What does "inner tapasya" mean, exactly?
1955-02-09 - Desire is contagious - Primitive form of love - the artists delight - Psychic need, mind as an instrument - How the psychic being expresses itself - Distinguishing the parts of ones being - The psychic guides - Illness - Mothers vision, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Obviously it is someone who had written an experience in which he was in contact with a sun and a light, and he wanted to take the support of these as a help in the sadhana. It is the Answer to an experience.
Sweet Mother, is desire contagious?
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There is only one way for the outer being. Let us take the physical being the physical being, the poor little physical being, the outer being, which knows nothing, can do nothing by itself. Well, for it there is only one way of allowing the psychic being to manifest: with the candid warmth of a child (Mother speaks very softly) to aspire, pray, ask, want with all its strength, without reasoning or trying to understand. One cant imagine how great an obstruction reasoning and this effort to understand put in the experience. At the moment when you are on the point of reaching a state in which something will happen, some vibration will be changed in the consciousness of the being you are all tense in an aspiration and have succeeded in fastening your aspiration, and you are standing there awaiting the Answer, if this wretched mind begins to stir and to wonder, What is happening, and whats going to happen, when is it going to happen, how is it going to happen, and why is it like that, and in what order will things manifest? it is all over, you may get up and sweep out your room, you are not fit for anything else.
Sweet Mother, can the psychic express itself without the mind, the vital and the physical?
1955-02-16 - Losing something given by Mother - Using things well - Sadhak collecting soap-pieces - What things are truly indispensable - Natures harmonious arrangement - Riches a curse, philanthropy - Misuse of things creates misery, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have given the Answer. (Laughter) How should we use things?
Ah, this is First, to use things with an understanding of their true utility, the knowledge of their real use, with the utmost care so that they do not get spoilt and with the least confusion.
1955-03-02 - Right spirit, aspiration and desire - Sleep and yogic repose, how to sleep - Remembering dreams - Concentration and outer activity - Mother opens the door inside everyone - Sleep, a school for inner knowledge - Source of energy, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is always, as soon as theres an aspiration it may be very sincere and spontaneous but immediately the mind and vital are there, watching like robbers behind the door; and if a force answers they rush upon it for their own satisfaction. So there one must take very, very, very great care, because though the aspiration might be sincere, the call absolutely spontaneous and sincere and very pure, as soon as the Answer comes the two brigands are there, trying to take possession of what comes for their own satisfaction. And what comes is very good but they immediately pervert it, they use it for personal ends, for the satisfaction of their desires or ambitions, and they spoil everything. And naturally, not only do they spoil everything but they stop the experience. So unless one takes good care, one is stuck there, and cannot move forward. If some Grace is above you, when the Grace sees this it automatically gives you a terrible blow to recall you to the reality, to your senses; it gives you a good knock on the head or in the stomach or the heart or anywhere else so that all of a sudden you say, Oh, that wont do any more.
No questions?
1955-03-30 - Yoga-shakti - Energies of the earth, higher and lower - Illness, curing by yogic means - The true self and the psychic - Solving difficulties by different methods, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If the difficulty comes from one part of the being wanting one thing and another part of the being knowing that one must not have it, then it becomes complicated because the part which wants can try to introduce its own will into the Answer. So when one sits down, first one must begin by persuading it to make a little act of sincere surrender, and it is here that one can make true progress, saying, Now I am conscious that it is this that I desire, but I am ready to give up my desire if that should be done. But you must do this not only in the head, it must be done sincerely, and then you proceed as I said. Then one knowsknows whats to be done.
Sometimes it is easier when you write it down; you imagine that I am there and then take a paper and write on it what you wanted to tell me. Then just the very fact of formulating it clearly sometimes gives you the true picture of the situation and you can have the Answer more easily. It depends, sometimes it is necessary, sometimes not, but if you are in a confusion, a kind of whirlwind, above all, if there is a vital upsurge, the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the work of purification.
In fact, one should always do this, when he feels that he is caught by an impulse of some kind or other, particularly impulses of anger. If one takes as an absolute discipline, instead of acting or speaking (because speech is an action), instead of acting under the impulse, if one withdraws and then does as I said, one sits down quietly, concentrates and then looks at his anger quietly, one writes it down, when one has finished writing, it is gonein any case, most often.
1955-04-13 - Psychoanalysts - The underground super-ego, dreams, sleep, control - Archetypes, Overmind and higher - Dream of someone dying - Integral repose, entering Sachchidananda - Organising ones life, concentration, repose, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think there is an entire category of dreams which are absolutely commonplace, useless and simply tiring, which one can avoid if, before going to sleep, one makes a little effort of concentration, tries to put himself in contact with what is best in him, by either an aspiration or a prayer, and to sleep only after this is done even, if one likes, try to meditate and pass quite naturally from meditation into sleep without even realising it Usually there is a whole category of dreams which are useless, tiring, which prevent you from resting wellall this might be avoided. And then, if one has truly succeeded well in his concentration, it is quite possible that one may have, at night, not exactly dreams but experiences of which one becomes conscious and which are very useful, indications, as I just told you, indications about questions you asked yourself and of which you did not have the Answers; or else a set of circumstances where you ought to take a decision and dont know what decision to take; or else some way of being of your own character which does not show itself to you clearly in the waking consciousness because you are so accustomed to it that you are not aware of it but something that harms your development and obscures your consciousness, and which appears to you in a symbolic revelatory dream, and you become clearly aware of the thing, then you can act upon it.
It depends not on what one was during the day, because this doesnt always have much effect upon the night, but on the way one has gone to sleep. It is enough just to have at the moment of sleeping a sincere aspiration that the night, instead of being a darkening of the consciousness, may be a help to understand something, to have an experience; and then, though it doesnt come always, it has a chance of coming.
1955-06-29 - The true vital and true physical - Time and Space - The psychics memory of former lives - The psychic organises ones life - The psychics knowledge and direction, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Absolutely unconsciously for the individual, most of the time; but it is the psychic which organises his existenceonly in what may be called the main lines, because for intervening in the details there would have to be a conscious union between the outer being, that is, the vital and physical being, and the psychic being, but usually this does not exist. So externally, in the details for example, there was someone who in deep perplexity said to me, Well, if it is the psychic being or rather the Divine in the psychic who directs our life, is it He who decides the number of pieces of sugar I put in my tea-cup? That was the question, verbatim. So the Answer had to be, No, because it is not a detailed intervention of this kind.
It is as when you push your fist into a heap of iron filings or saw-dust, all the infinitesimal little elements of the iron filings or saw-dust are organised to take on the form of your fist, but they do not do this either deliberately or consciously. It is through the work of the consciousness which pushes that this kind of thing happens. There is no decision that each element is going to be exactly in this place, like that; it is the effect of the energy which has pushed the fist that organises the elements. But thats how it is. There is the psychic consciousness at work in life, organising all the circumstances of your life but not with a deliberate choice of the details; and in fact very few things are deliberate and conscious in the organisation of the physical life of human beings. Most of the time thats what happens. If you ask someone, Why have you done this?Thats how it happened. It is always like that: Thats how it happened. At least seventy-five times out of a hundred. Only, one is so used to going, moving, and doing things like that that one doesnt even notice it. But if one begins to observe himself, he sees that it is true. There are very few things which were the result of a clear and willed decision, very few, only what one considers important things, and even here there is a wide margin. The amount of inconscience thats mixed with the physical consciousness is tremendous, but because we are used to it we do not notice it. But as soon as you begin to analyse, look, study, you are terrified. How many times you are just faced with a question. You see, you do things automatically, by habit, perhaps sometimes by choice sometimes, but suddenly you find yourself facing an absolutely insignificant detail: Should I do this or should I do that? Simply this. You can take very small things like you are in the course of eating, and you ask yourself, Should I continue eating or should I stop? How many times can you take a motivated and conscious decision? And you suddenly realise, Why, I know nothing about it, and I dont know; I can do this, I can do that; I can do that and that and that. But what will choose in me? Unless you have mental constructions. But then if you have mental constructions ruling your life, you dont even ask yourself these questions, you live like an automaton, in a habitual routine you have made for yourself. But its not just once, it happens a thousand times daily.
1955-10-05 - Science and Ignorance - Knowledge, science and the Buddha - Knowing by identification - Discipline in science and in Buddhism - Progress in the mental field and beyond it, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had the intention of leaving out the last speeches and going straight to the Answer of the Unknown Man. But I shall tell you, because it didnt raise it seemed to me that it didnt give rise to enough questions to justify all the time we would spend in reading it but it happens that, for this one, The Scientist, someone who, by the way, is not here, has urgently asked two questions which seem interesting to me. So I shall read The Scientist today, and next week we shall directly take up The Unknown Man.
(After Mother has read The Scientist, Pavitra gets ready to read the questions.)
1955-10-19 - The rhythms of time - The lotus of knowledge and perfection - Potential knowledge - The teguments of the soul - Shastra and the Gurus direct teaching - He who chooses the Infinite..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, it makes a differencepeople dont realise itit makes a considerable difference to be able to ask the question of someone who has realised the thing, that is, one who has had all the experiences and has reached the end and has the knowledge of the thing. You can ask him: Is this good? Is this useful, is this harmful? Then in one minute you have the Answer: Yes, no, do this, read that, dont do that. And it is so convenient.
But when you are all aloneusually not amidst very favourable surroundings, or in any case where people understand nothing of this, dont think about itif they are not hostileyou have to find out everything by yourself; you have nobody to tell you, Well, read this book, it is better, it is truer than that one. You have to read a huge number of things, be able to compare them in your own thought, compare the effect they have on you, how far they help you or dont.
1955-11-16 - The significance of numbers - Numbers, astrology, true knowledge - Divines Love flowers for Kali puja - Desire, aspiration and progress - Determining ones approach to the Divine - Liberation is obtained through austerities - ..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For example, when you ask me for the explanation of a word, I find that this is not an interesting question, because you have only to open a dictionary. When you ask me the Answer to a question which has been given by Sri Aurobindo or by someone else in published books, it doesnt seem to be an interesting question to me, because you have only to open the book and read.
But when, for instance, you have a personal experience which you do not understand very well and for which you need clarification, then your question can become interesting.
1956-04-04 - The witness soul - A Gita enthusiast - Propagandist spirit, Tolstoys son, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, excuse me, he is convinced. He had neglectedperhaps out of politenessto tell me about the fourth state, which was still worse: that in which after having asked the question, one begins to discuss the Answer. That is really the limit!
If you arrive at the conception of the world as the expression of the Divine in all His complexity, then the necessity for complexity and diversity has to be recognised, and it becomes impossible for you to want to make others think and feel as you do.
1956-04-25 - God, human conception and the true Divine - Earthly existence, to realise the Divine - Ananda, divine pleasure - Relations with the divine Presence - Asking the Divine for what one needs - Allowing the Divine to lead one, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only, if instead of all that, you simply have an aspiration within you, an urge, an intense ardent need to find That, which you conceive more or less clearly to be the Truth of your being, the Source of all things, the supreme Good, the Answer to all we desire, the Solution to all problems; if there is this intense need in you and you aspire to realise it, you wont any longer say to the Divine, Give me this, give me that, or, I need this, I must have that. You will tell Him, Do what is necessary for me and lead me to the Truth of my being. Give me what Thou in Thy supreme Wisdom seest as the thing I need.
And then you are sure of not being mistaken, and He will not give you something which harms you.
1956-06-06 - Sign or indication from books of revelation - Spiritualised mind - Stages of sadhana - Reversal of consciousness - Organisation around central Presence - Boredom, most common human malady, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For, in books of this kind (Mother shows The Synthesis of Yoga), books of revelation, there is always an accumulation of forcesat least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge. Every book, on account of the words it contains, is like a small accumulator of these forces. People dont know this, for they dont know how to make use of it, but it is so. In the same way, in every picture, photograph, there is an accumulation, a small accumulation representative of the force of the person whose picture it is, of his nature and, if he has powers, of his powers. Now, you, when you are sincere and have an aspiration, you emanate a certain vibration, the vibration of your aspiration which goes and meets the corresponding force in the book, and it is a higher consciousness which gives you the Answer.
Everything is contained potentially. Each element of a whole potentially contains what is in the whole. It is a little difficult to explain, but you will understand with an example: when people want to practise magic, if they have a bit of nail or hair, it is enough for them, because within this, potentially, there is all that is in the being itself. And in a book there is potentiallynot expressed, not manifest the knowledge which is in the person who wrote the book. Thus, Sri Aurobindo represented a totality of comprehension and knowledge and power; and every one of his books is at once a symbol and a representation. Every one of his books contains symbolically, potentially, what is in him. Therefore, if you concentrate on the book, you can, through the book, go back to the source. And even, by passing through the book, you will be able to receive much more than what is just in the book.
There is always a way of reading and understanding what one reads, which gives an answer to what you want. It is not just a chance or an amusement, nor is it a kind of diversion. You may do it just like that, and then nothing at all happens to you, you have no reply and it is not interesting. But if you do it seriously, if seriously your aspiration tries to concentrate on this instrumentit is like a battery, isnt it, which contains energiesif it tries to come into contact with the energy which is there and insists on having the Answer to what it wants to know, well, naturally, the energy which is there the union of the two forces, the force given out by you and that accumulated in the bookwill guide your hand and your paper-knife or whatever you have; it will guide you exactly to the thing that expresses what you ought to know. Obviously, if one does it without sincerity or conviction, nothing at all happens. If it is done sincerely, one gets an answer.
Certain books are like this, more powerfully charged than others; there are others where the result is less clear. But generally, books containing aphorisms and short sentencesnot very long philosophical explanations, but rather things in a condensed and precise formit is with these that one succeeds best.
Naturally, the value of the Answer depends on the value of the spiritual force contained in the book. If you take a novel, it will tell you nothing at all but stupidities. But if you take a book containing a condensation of forcesof knowledge or spiritual force or teaching poweryou will receive your answer.
So now, what do you want to know? I have explained the mechanism to you; you want me to do it? Is that what you wanted, or did you only want to know how it is done?
1956-07-25 - A complete act of divine love - How to listen - Sports programme same for boys and girls - How to profit by stay at Ashram - To Women about Their Body, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So this question was brought to me. I believe that person has been given the Answer which I have just told you, that there are only group records and no records of sexes.
But that is not all. I am told that some have heardnot once but hundreds of times, especially from those who come from outside with all the ideas of the world outsidethis question:
1956-08-01 - Value of worship - Spiritual realisation and the integral yoga - Symbols, translation of experience into form - Sincerity, fundamental virtue - Intensity of aspiration, with anguish or joy - The divine Grace, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here is one which has been asked in English, to which the Answer is very short. I am asked:
What is the fundamental virtue to be cultivated in order to prepare for the spiritual life?
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I dont know if several or many of you have a similar experience, but it is very real, this experience, very spontaneous. And the Answer is very simple.
As soon as the presence of the psychic consciousness is united with the aspiration, the intensity takes on quite a different character, as if it were filled with the very essence of an inexpressible joy. This joy is something that seems contained in everything else. Whatever may be the outer form of the aspiration, whatever difficulties and obstacles it may meet, this joy is there as though it filled up everything, and it carries you in spite of everything.
1956-10-17 - Delight, the highest state - Delight and detachment - To be calm - Quietude, mental and vital - Calm and strength - Experience and expression of experience, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One could justifiably add a question: You tell us Be calm, but what should we do to be calm? the Answer is always more or less the same: you must first of all feel the need for it and want it, and then aspire, and then try! For trying, there are innumerable methods which have been prescribed and attempted by many. These methods are generally long, arduous, difficult; and many people get discouraged before reaching the goal, for, the more they try, the more do their thoughts start whirling around and being restless in their heads.
For each one the method is different, but first one must feel the need, for whatever reason it may bewhether because one is tired or because one is overstrained or because one truly wants to rise beyond the state one lives inone must first understand, feel the need of this quietude, this peace in the mind. And then, afterwards, one may try out successively all the methods, known ones and new, to attain the result.
1956-12-26 - Defeated victories - Change of consciousness - Experiences that indicate the road to take - Choice and preference - Diversity of the manifestation, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You are placed in certain circumstances; one thing or another may happen, and you yourself have an aspiration, you ask to be guided, but within you there is something which prefers the Answer to be of a certain kind, the indication to be a particular one, or the event to come about in one way rather than another; but all this is not a question of choice, it is a preference. And when the Answer to your aspiration or prayer is not in accord with your desire, this preference makes you feel unhappy, you find it difficult to accept the Answer, you must fight to accept it; whereas if you had no preferences, whatever the Answer to your aspiration, when it comes, you cling to it joyfully, spontaneously with a sincere lan. Otherwise you are compelled to make an effort to accept what comes, the decision which comes in answer to your aspiration; you wish, desire, prefer things to be like this and not like that. But that, indeed, is not a choice. The choice is there at every minute; every minute you are faced with a choice: the choice to climb up or go down, the choice to progress or go backwards. But this choice does not imply that you prefer things to be like this or like that; it is a fact of every moment, an attitude you take.
Choice means a decision and an action. Preference is a desire. A choice is made and ought to be made, and if it is truly a choice, it is made without care for the consequences, without expecting any result. You choose; you choose according to your inner truth, your highest consciousness; whatever happens does not touch you, you have made your choice, the true choice, and what comes about is not your concern. While, on the contrary, if you have preferences, you will choose through preference in one way or another, your preference will distort your choice: it will be calculation, bargaining, you will act with the idea that a particular thing must happen because this is what you prefer and not because that is the truth, the right thing to do. Preference is attached to the result, acts with a view to the result, wishes things to be in a particular way and acts to bring about its wish; and so this opens the door to all kinds of things. Choice is independent of the result. And certainly, at every minute you can choose, you are faced with the necessity of choosing at every second. And you do not choose really well, in all sincerity, unless it is the truth of the choice which interests you, and not the result of your choice. If you choose with the result in view, that falsifies your choice.
1957-01-16 - Seeking something without knowing it - Why are we here?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, to find out what one truly is, to find out why one is on earth, what is the purpose of physical existence, of this presence on earth, of this formation, this existence the vast majority of people live without asking themselves this even once! Only a small lite ask themselves this question with interest, and fewer still start working to get the Answer. For, unless one is fortunate enough to come across someone who knows it, it is not such an easy thing to find. Suppose, for instance, that there had never come to your hands a book of Sri Aurobindos or of any of the writers or philosophers or sages who have dedicated their lives to this quest; if you were in the ordinary world, as millions of people are in the ordinary world, who have never heard of anything, except at timesand not always nowadays, even quite rarelyof some gods and a certain form of religion which is more a habit than a faith and, which, besides, rarely tells you why you are on earth. Then, one doesnt even think of thinking about it. One lives from day to day the events of each day. When one is very young, one thinks of playing, eating, and a little later of learning, and after that one thinks of all the circumstances of life. But to put this problem to oneself, to confront this problem and ask oneself: But after all, why am I here? How many do that? There are people to whom this idea comes only when they are facing a catastrophe. When they see someone whom they love die or when they find themselves in particularly painful and difficult circumstances, they turn back upon themselves, if they are sufficiently intelligent, and ask themselves: But really, what is this tragedy we are living, and whats the use of it and what is its purpose?
And only at that moment does one begin the search to know.
1957-03-27 - If only humanity consented to be spiritualised, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in the very next paragraph Sri Aurobindo gives the Answer: If man could once consent to be spiritualised. If only the individual could consent to be spiritualised could consent.1
Something in him asks for it, aspires, and all the rest refuses, wants to continue to be what it is: the mixed ore which needs to be cast into the furnace.
1957-06-05 - Questions and silence - Methods of meditation, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the Answer to every question. But there are certain moments and certain ways of presenting ideas which have a dynamic effect on the consciousness and help you to make a spiritual progress. The presentation, to be effective, must necessarily be the spontaneous expression of an immediate experience. If things which have already been said are repeated in the same manner, things which belong to past experiences, it becomes a sort of teaching, what could be called didactic talk, and it sets off some cells in the brain, but in fact is not very useful.
For me, for what I am trying to do, action in silence is always much more important. The force which is at work is not limited by words, and this gives it an infinitely greater strength, and it expresses itself in each consciousness in accordance with its own particular mode, which makes it infinitely more effective. A certain vibration is given out in silence, with a special purpose, to obtain a definite result, but according to the mental receptivity of each person it is expressed in each individual consciousness exactly in the form which can be the most effective, the most active, the most immediately useful for each individual; while if it is formulated in words, this formula has to be received by each person in its fixity the fixity of the words given to itand it loses much of its strength and fullness of action because, first, the words are not always understood as they are said and then they are not always adapted to the understanding of each one.
1957-08-21 - The Ashram and true communal life - Level of consciousness in the Ashram, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So that is the Answer.
There may appear to be movements which seem to contradict what I have just told you, but that it is always like that, for every time one wants to realise something, the first difficulty one meets is the opposition of all that was inactive before and now rises up to resist. All that does not want to accept this change naturally wakes up and revolts. But that is of no importance. It is the same thing as in the individual being: when you want to progress, the difficulty you want to conquer immediately increases tenfold in importance and intensity in your consciousness. There is but to persevere, thats all. It will pass.
1957-10-16 - Story of successive involutions, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It could almost be said that the Answer to this question depends on the mental attitude of the person who asks it. Scholars will tell you that there are different schools which have spoken about these things in ways that are also very different. There are the metaphysicians who deny any history, minds that are essentially speculative, philosophical and, as I said, metaphysical, abstract, who consider that histories are only for children. There are the psychologists who translate everything into movements of consciousness, and finally there are those who love images and for whom universal history is a great development which might be described as cinematographic, and this development in pictures is for them something much more living and tangible, for even if it is only symbolic, it makes them understand things in a more intimate and real way.
It goes without saying that the three explanations are equally true, and that the important thing is to be able to synthesise and harmonise them in ones thought. But we shall put aside the aridities of metaphysics, for it is better to read about them in the books of scholars who tell you things in a very precise, very exact and very dry fashion! The psychological point of view it is better to live it than speak about it. So we are left with the story for children. It is good to be always a child. And although we must take care not to believe in it as a dogma in which nothing should be changed if one doesnt want to be sacrilegious, we can at least take these stories as a means to make living to our childlike consciousness something which would otherwise be too remote from us.
1957-11-27 - Sri Aurobindos method in The Life Divine - Individual and cosmic evolution, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Can you give the Answer?
Unless one is conscious of the principle that is eternal in oneself, how can one know whether
1958-08-13 - Profit by staying in the Ashram - What Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us - Finding the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, if you ask the question, you receive the Answer.
Why?
1958-09-24 - Living the truth - Words and experience, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When one is truly and exclusively turned to the spiritual Truth, whatever name may be given to it, when all the rest becomes secondary, when that alone is imperative and inevitable, then, one single moment of intense, absolute, total concentration is enough to receive the Answer.
The experience comes first, in this case, and it is only later, as a consequence and a memory that the formulation becomes clear. In this way one is sure not to make a mistake. The formulation may be more or less exact, that is of no importance, so long as one doesnt make a dogma out of it.
1962 01 21, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This experience came after the vision of the great divine Becoming,1 and I asked myself, Since this world is progressive, since it is becoming more and more the Divine, will there not always be this intensely painful feeling of the thing which is undivine, of the state which is undivine compared to the one which is to come? Will there not always be what we call adverse forces, that is, something which is not following the movement harmoniously? Then the Answer came, the vision came: no, indeed the time for this possibility is near, the time for the manifestation of that essence of perfect Love which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and the bad will which results from it into a progression that is luminous, joyful, eager for perfection and allinclusive.
It was very concrete.
1963 08 11? - 94, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the Answer that I have received to my problem.
Because it was that, I was wondering, Why? I who am At any instant all I have to do is this (gesture upwards) and it is there is nothing left but the Lord, everything is That but so absolutely that everything which is not That disappears! But at the moment the proportion is such (laughing), that too many things would have to disappear!
1965 12 26?, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was like a justification of the creation that has made possible a certain mode of perceptionwhich might be described by the words precision, exactness in objectivisationwhich could not have existed without it. Because when this Consciousness the perfect Consciousness, the true Consciousness, the Consciousness was there, present and lived to the exclusion of any other, there was something like a mode of vibration, so to say, a mode of vibration with objective precision and exactness, which could not have existed without this material form of creation. You see, there was always this great Why?Why is it like this? Why is there all this, which brought about everything that the human consciousness interprets as suffering, misery and helplessness and everything, all the horrors of ordinary consciousness why? Why is it? And so this was the Answer: in the true Consciousness there is a mode of vibration, of precision and exactness and clarity in objectivisation, which could not have existed without that, which would not have had any opportunity to manifest. That is certain. That is the Answer the all-powerful answer to the why.
It is obviousobvious that what we experience as progress, as a progressive manifestation, is not simply a law of the material manifestation as we know it, but the very principle of the eternal Manifestation. To come down to the level of terrestrial thought, one might say that there is no manifestation without progress. But what we call progress, what is progress to our consciousness, up there it is it can be anything, a necessity, whatever you likethere is a kind of absolute that we do not understand, an absolute of being: it is like that because it is like that, that is all. But for our consciousness it is more and more, better and better and these words are stupidit is more and more perfect, better and better perceived. That is the very principle of manifestation.
1.ac - The Garden of Janus, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Thy name! cried I. the Answer that gave
Was but one tempest-whisper - "If!"
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
over the garden and the city, and the Answer of the horns and viols and
voices peals out from the seven lodges by the garden gates, there issue
1.fs - The Veiled Statue At Sais, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
"Truth!" was the Answer. "What!" the young man cried,
"When I am striving after truth alone,
1.fua - The Dullard Sage, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady Original Language Persian/Farsi Lost in myself I reappeared I know not where a drop that rose from the sea and fell and dissolved again; a shadow that stretched itself out at dawn, when the sun reached noon I disappeared. I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of the moth. In the candle flame of his face I have forgotten all the Answers. In the way of love there must be knowledge and ignorance so I have become both a dullard and a sage; one must be an eye and yet not see so I am blind and yet I still perceive, Dust be on my head if I can say where I in bewilderment have wandered: Attar watched his heart transcend both worlds and under its shadow now is gone mad with love. [1501.jpg] -- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady <
1.lovecraft - Laeta- A Lament, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And the willows complain to the Answering hill,
And the thrushes that once were so happy are still.
1.rb - A Toccata Of Galuppi's, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
So, an octave struck the Answer. Oh, they praised you, I dare say!
``Brave Galuppi! that was music! good alike at grave and gay!
1.wby - The Man And The Echo, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And never get the Answers right.
Did that play of mine send out
1.whitman - A Broadway Pageant, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
When the summons is madewhen the Answer that waited thousands of
years, answers;
1.whitman - Now List To My Mornings Romanza, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
NOW list to my morning's romanzaI tell the signs of the Answerer;
To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before
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He is the Answerer:
What can be answer'd he answersand what cannot be answer'd, he
1.whitman - The Indications, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
of poems, the Answerer,
(Not every century, or every five centuries, has contain'd such a
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The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer;
The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artistall
these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.
The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
2.01 - Isha Upanishad All that is world in the Universe, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
Our first verse is the Answer of the Upanishad to this question. "All that is world in the Universe by the Lord must be
pervaded." The very object of our existence is to pierce beyond
2.02 - On Letters, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: There is no one in Nirvana to get tired! A was asking me the same question: "Who has the experience of Nirvana, if there is no being in that state ?" the Answer is: "Nobody has it. Something in you drops off and Nirvana takes its place." In fact, there is no "getting" but blotting out of "what one is". A was probably thinking that he would be sitting with his mental personality somewhere looking at Nirvana and saying: "Ah! this is Nirvana!" The reply is: "So long as you are there, no Nirvana can be." One has to get rid of all attachments and all personalities before Nirvana can come and that is extremely difficult for one attached to his mental personality like A.
Disciple: If Nirvana is such a negative state, what is the difference between one who has it and one who has not?
2.03 - DEMETER, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
definition of the primate, the Answer to the problem which led
us to study the primates. ' After the mammals, at the end of
2.03 - The Christian Phenomenon and Faith in the Incarnation, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
that it is the Answer to an inspiration and a revelation from on
high. (A.E. (Oeuvres VII), p. 154.)
2.03 - The Naturalness of Bhakti-Yoga and its Central Secret, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
Those who with constant attention always worship You, and those who worship the Undifferentiated, the Absoluteof these who are the greater Yogis?Arjuna asked of Shri Krishna. the Answer was: Those who concentrating their minds on Me worship Me with eternal constancy, and are endowed with the highest faiththey are My best worshippers, they are the greatest Yogis. Those that worship the Absolute, the Indescribable, the Undifferentiated, the Omnipresent, the Unthinkable, the All-comprehending, the Immovable, and the Eternal, by controlling the play of their organs and having the conviction of sameness in regard to all things, they also, being engaged in doing good to all beings, come to Me alone. But to those whose minds have been devoted to the unmanifested Absolute, the difficulty of the struggle along the way is much greater, for it is indeed with great difficulty that the path of the unmanifested Absolute is trodden by any embodied being. Those who, having offered up all their work unto Me, with entire reliance on Me, meditate on Me and worship Me without any attachment to anything else them, I soon lift up from the ocean of ever-recurring births and deaths, as their mind is wholly attached to Me. JnanaYoga and Bhakti-Yoga are both referred to here. Both may be said to have been defined in the above passage. JnanaYoga is grand; it is high philosophy; and almost every human being thinks, curiously enough, that he can surely do every thing required of him by philosophy; but it is really very difficult to live truly the life of philosophy. We are often apt to run into great dangers in trying to guide our life by philosophy. This world may be said to be divided between persons of demoniacal nature who think the care-taking of the body to be the be-all and the end-all of existence, and persons of godly nature who realise that the body is simply a means to an end, an instrument intended for the culture of the soul. The devil can and indeed does quote the scriptures for his own purpose ; and thus the way of knowle.dge appears to offer justification to. what the bad man does. as much as it offers inducements to what the good man does.
This is the great danger in Jnana-Yoga. But Bhakti-Yoga is natural, sweet, and gentle; the Bhakta does not take such high flights as the Jnana-Yogi, and, iherefore, he is. not apt to have such big falls. Until the bondages of the soul pass away, it cannot of course be free, whatever may be the nature of the path that the religious man takes. Here is a passage showing how, in the case of one of the blessed Gopis, the soul-binding chains of both merit and demerit were broken. The intense pleasure in meditating on God took away the binding effects of her good deeds. Then her intense misery of soul in not attaining unto Him washed off all her sinful propensities; and then she became free. (Vishnu-Purna).
2.04 - Positive Aspects of the Mother-Complex, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
cial question, and I do not find the Answer easy. Instead of a real
answer I can only make a confession of faith: I believe that,
2.05 - Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
but the Answer is already given in the text, and is clear enough.
"When the Holy One, Blessed be He, created the first man, He
2.05 - Aspects of Sadhana, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother probably dictated the Answers to these questions thus the reference to herself in the third person.
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2.06 - The Wand, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
100:The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite to every thought that may arise. In conversation always disagree. See the other man's arguments; but, however much your judgment approves them, find the Answer.
101:Let this be done dispassionately; the more convinced you are that a certain point of view is right, the more determined you should be to find proofs that it is wrong.
2.07 - The Mother Relations with Others, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Each case is seen individually, and the Answer given for the best of each one from the spiritual point of view.
Go to your parents and at the same time you will be able to see and decide if sincerely you want the Divine Life more than anything else.
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All your letters are answered, but in the silence of your heart; you must learn to hear the Answers there and not through the mouth of others. All help is given to you always, but you must learn to receive it in the silence of your heart and not through exterior means. It is in the silence of your heart that the Divine will speak to you and will guide you and will lead you to your goal.
But for that you must have full faith in the Divine Grace and Love.
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You must understand one thing. Before giving an answer to a question, I look at all the sides of the problem present and future, so when the Answer is given it is final. It is no use coming back to the question any more.
12 June 1955
2.08 - Victory over Falsehood, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Indeed the very act of bringing it out and showing it to the Light would be in itself a momentous conversion and pave the way to the final victory. For the laying bare of each falsehood is in itself a victoryeach acknowledgment of error is the demolition of one of the lords of Darkness. It may be an acknowledgment to oneself, provided it is absolutely honest and is no subtle regret apt to be forgotten the next moment and without the strength to make an unbreakable resolution not to repeat the mistake. Or it may be the acknowledgment to the Divine embodied in the Guru. As a result of direct personal confession to the Guru, your resolution remains no longer your own, because, if you are sincere, the Divines fiat goes forth in your favour. To give you an idea of what this means I shall relate an experience of mine when I first met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. I was in deep concentration, seeing things in the Supermind, things that were to be but which were somehow not manifesting. I told Sri Aurobindo what I had seen and asked him if they would manifest. He simply said, Yes. And immediately I saw that the Supramental had touched the earth and was beginning to be realised! This was the first time I had witnessed the power to make real what is true: it is the very same power that will bring about the realisation in you of the truth when you come in all sincerity, saying, This falsehood I want to get rid of, and the Answer which you get is Yes.
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2.09 - Meditation, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When you sit in meditation you must be as candid and simple as a child, not interfering by your external mind, expecting nothing, insisting on nothing. Once this condition is there, all the rest depends upon the aspiration deep within you. And if you call upon Divinity, then too you will have the Answer.
26 January 1935
2.1.03 - Man and Superman, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
These are the queries it is proposed to answer here; but the Answer can come only from intuition itself, from a direct seeing and experience, for if intuition exists, it and its way of working must obviously be something beyond the reasoning intelligence and therefore not entirely seizable by the reasoning intelligence.
I know myself because I am myself, I know the movements of my mind, joy, anger, love, thought, will, because they are myself or parts of myself; I have a direct knowledge of myself, a knowledge by identity. Observation, reasoning there can be as a subsidiary process; but it is not by observation or reasoning that
2.10 - THE MASTER AND NARENDRA, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER; "That's the Answer of a calculating mind."
PALTU: "If I don't say, 'I shall try', I may be a liar."
2.12 - On Miracles, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: Generally, no spirits come from outside. The will of the medium and of the men participating creates a force which brings about the manifestation. the Answers generally are from the minds of men who are present. They come from the subconscious mind as also from the subliminal mind which knows many more things than men are aware of. The concentration of men produces the necessary atmosphere, as I said. Genuine cases of intervention of spirits from outside are very rare. Dead persons can communicate with the living if they feel interested in life, or in men, and are sufficiently near. The Mother knows about sances. She herself could make a table move across a room by her will-force.
But the idea that all sorts of departed persons are hanging about for centuries and respond to table-rapping is ridiculously absurd.
2.1.3 - Wrong Movements of the Vital, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is mostly when the sadhana condition is interrupted that the vital becomes agitated or impatient and restless. Instead of remaining quiet and waiting or calling down the real push from above, it begins to get vexed and restless and begins to ask questions: Why this? why that? These things do not mean that you are going astrayit means only that these defects are still not worked out, that is all. Also the old vital mental egoism rises up and if the Answers do not please it, it becomes challenging, disputatious, insistent on its own point of view. These are old defects which are part of the external nature and therefore difficult to root out. You must learn to recognise them and get rid of them by a quiet rejection and disuse.
***
2.1.4.2 - Teaching, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At first nothing happens. You must stay like that: not activelybe in an aspiration towards the Divine. There must be no movement in the mind; it is not even surrender, it is a movement of perfect something between self-giving and self-abdication. And if the mind makes an offering of its way of being, one day the Answer comes spontaneously. It falls like a light.
The calmer you are, the more confidence you have, the more attentive you are, the more clearly it comes. A time comes when one has only to do that (gesture of opening). The student asks a question. You remain (same gesture).
--
Then you will always get the Answer for the student. Perhaps not the Answer to the question he has asked, but the Answer he needs. And it will always be interesting.
Up there, one knows. When you come to believe that the mind is powerless, that it knows nothing, you fall silent. You are more and more convinced that up there, there is a consciousness that not only knows but has the power, perceives the smallest detail and consequently the students need, and replies to that. When you are convinced of that, you give up your personal intervention and say: Take my place.1
2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: Well, that is not the Answer. It is an epigram. I do not know why one should not recognise achievement wherever it is found.
Disciple: But what is the idea behind Hatha Yoga?
2.1.5.1 - Study of Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If one reads Sri Aurobindo carefully one finds the Answers to all that one wants to know.
25 October 1972
2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: Maurice Maeterlinck went to see it and said that he himself did not believe it before he saw it. He examined the animals by giving his own figures and the Answers given by the horses were correct. [Ref. his book 'L'hte inconnu'.]
Sri Aurobindo: They say animals can't think or reason. It is not true. Their intelligence has been made to act in the narrow limits of life, according to their needs. So these faculties have not been developed, thats all.
2.2.02 - Becoming Conscious in Work, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As for the feeling from within, it depends on being able to go inside. Sometimes it comes of itself with the deepening of the consciousness by bhakti or otherwise; sometimes it comes by practicea sort of referring the matter and listening for the Answerlistening is of course a metaphor but it is difficult to express it otherwiseit doesnt mean that the Answer comes necessarily in the shape of words, spoken or unspoken, though it does sometimes or for some; it can take any shape. The main difficulty for many is to be sure of the right answer. For that it is necessary to be able to contact the consciousness of the Guru inwardly that comes best by bhakti. Otherwise it may become a delicate and ticklish job. Obstacles, (1) normal habit of relying on outward means for everything, (2) ego, substituting its suggestions for the right answer, (3) mental activity, (4) intruder nuisances. I think you need not be eager for this, but rely on the growth of the inner consciousness. The above is only by way of general explanation.
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2.2.03 - The Divine Force in Work, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What happened is a thing that often happens andtaking your account of itit reproduced in your case the usual stages. First you sat down in prayer that means a call to the Above, if I may so express it. Next came the necessary condition for the Answer to the prayer to be effectivelittle by little a sort of restfulness came, in other words, the quietude of the consciousness which is necessary before the Power that has to act can act. Then the rush of the Force or Power, a flood of energy and sense of power and glow and the natural concentration of the being in inspiration and expression, the action of the Power. This is the thing that used to happen daily to the physical workers in the Asram. Working with immense energy and enthusiasm, with a passion for the work they might after a time feel tired then they would call the Mother and a sense of rest came into them and with or after it a flood of energy so that twice the amount of work could be done without the least fatigue or reaction. In many there was a spontaneous call of the vital for the Force, so that they felt the flood of energy as soon as they began the work and it continued so long as the work had to be done.
The vital is the means of effectuation on the physical plane, so its action and energy are necessary for all workwithout it, if the mind only drives without the cooperation and instrumentation of the vital, there is hard and disagreeable labour and effort with results which are usually not at all of the best kind. The ideal state for work is when there is a natural concentration of the consciousness in the special energy, supported by an easeful rest and quiescence of the consciousness as a whole. Distraction of the mind by other activities disturbs this balance of ease and concentrated energy,fatigue also disturbs or destroys it. The first thing therefore that has to be done is to bring back the supporting restfulness and this is ordinarily done by cessation of work and repose. In the experience you had that was replaced by a restfulness that came from above in answer to your station of prayer and an energy that also came from above. It is the same principle as in sadhana the reason why we want people to make the consciousness quiet so that the higher peace may come in and on the basis of that peace a new Force from above.
2.20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All the known circumstances and results of birth presuppose an unknown before, and there is a suggestion of universality, a will of persistence of life, an inconclusiveness in death which seem to point to an unknown hereafter. What were we before birth and what are we after death, are the questions, the Answer of the one depending upon that of the other, which the intellect of man has put to itself from the beginning without even now resting in any final solution. The intellect indeed can hardly give the final answer: for that must in its very nature lie beyond the data of the physical consciousness and memory, whether of the race or the individual, yet these are the sole data which the intellect is in the habit of consulting with something like confidence. In this poverty of materials and this incertitude it wheels from one hypothesis to another and calls each in turn a conclusion. Moreover, the solution depends upon the nature, source and object of the cosmic movement, and as we determine these, so we shall have to conclude about birth and life and death, the before and the hereafter.
The first question is whether the before and the after are purely physical and vital or in some way, and more predominantly, mental and spiritual. If Matter were the principle of the universe, as the materialist alleges, if the truth of things were to be found in the first formula arrived at by Bhrigu, son of Varuna, when he meditated upon the eternal Brahman, "Matter is the Eternal, for from Matter all beings are born and by Matter all beings exist and to Matter all beings depart and return," then no farther questioning would be possible. The before of our bodies would be a gathering of their constituents out of various physical elements through the instrumentality of the seed and food and under the influence perhaps of occult but always material energies, and the before of our conscious being a preparation by heredity or by some other physically vital or physically mental operation in universal Matter specialising its action and building the individual through the bodies of our parents, through seed and gene and chromosome. The after of the body would be a dissolution into the material elements and the after of the conscious being a relapse into Matter with some survival of the effects of its activity in the general mind and life of humanity: this last quite illusory survival would be our only chance of immortality. But since the universality of Matter can no longer be held as giving any sufficient explanation of the existence of Mind, - and indeed Matter itself can no longer be explained by Matter alone, for it does not appear to be self-existent, - we are thrown back from this easy and obvious solution to other hypotheses.
2.21 - The Three Heads, The Beard and The Mazela, #General Principles of Kabbalah, #Rabbi Moses Luzzatto, #Kabbalah
tained the Answer to what type of guidance is necessary
in order to properly establish ZO.
2.21 - Towards the Supreme Secret, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If we ask why this reservation, why this indulgence to the dynamic principle when our object is to become the pure self and the pure self is described as inactive, akarta, the Answer is that that inactivity and divorce of self from Nature are not the whole truth of our spiritual release. Self and Nature are in the end one thing; a total and perfect spirituality makes us one with all the Divine in self and in nature. In fact this becoming Brahman, this assumption into the self of eternal silence, brahma-bhuya, is not all our objective, but only the necessary immense base for a still greater and more marvellous divine becoming, madbhava. And to get to that greatest spiritual perfection we have indeed to be immobile in the self, silent in all our members, but also to act in the power, Shakti, Prakriti, the true and high force of the Spirit. And if we ask how a simultaneity of what seem to be two opposites is possible, the Answer is that that is the very nature of a complete spiritual being; always it has this double poise of the Infinite. The impersonal self is silent; we too must be inwardly silent, impersonal, withdrawn into the spirit.
The impersonal self looks on all action as done not by it but by Prakriti; it regards with a pure equality all the working of her qualities, modes and forces: the soul impersonalised in the self must similarly regard all our actions as done not by itself but by the qualities of Prakriti; it must be equal in all things, sarvatra.
2.2.3 - Depression and Despondency, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is certainly not the Answering of questions that will remove the underlying cause of this recurrence. Even if the Answers satisfy, it could only be for a time. The same questionings would arise either in a mechanical reiteration for it is not truly the reason from which they arise, it is a certain part of the vital consciousness affected by the surrounding atmosphereor else presented from a shifted ground or a somewhat changed angle of vision. The difficulty can only disappear if you remain resolute that it shall disappear,if you refuse to attach any value to the justifications which the mind is made to put forward for your sadness under this atmospheric influence and, as you did in certain other matters, stick fast to the resolution to make the Yogic change, to awake the psychic fully, not to follow the voices of the mind but to do rather what the Mother asks of you, persisting however difficult it may be or seem to be. It is so that the psychic can fully awaken and establish its influencenot on your higher vital where it is already awake and growing through your poetry and music and certain experiences so that whenever your higher vital is active you are in good condition, full of delight and creativeness and open to experience; but it is the influence on the lower vital, for it is there as I have already told you that your difficulties are and that this vital depression recurs.
***
2.28 - The Divine Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
86: the Answer might, indeed, be only individual; it might result in a multiplication of spiritualised individuals or even, conceivably though not probably, a gnostic individual or individuals isolated in the unspiritualised mass of humanity. Such isolated realised beings must either withdraw into their secret divine kingdom and guard themselves in a spiritual solitude or act from their inner light on mankind for what little can be prepared in such conditions for a happier future. The inner change can begin to take shape in a collective form only if the gnostic individual finds others who have the same kind of inner life as himself and can form with them a group with its own autonomous existence or else a separate community or order of beings with its own inner law of life. It is this need of a separate life with its own rule of living adapted to the inner power or motive force of the spiritual existence and creating for it its native atmosphere that has expressed itself in the past in the formation of the monastic life or in attempts of various kinds at a new separate collective living self-governed and other in its spiritual principle than the ordinary human life. The monastic life is in its nature an association of other-worldly seekers, men whose whole attempt is to find and realise in themselves the spiritual reality and who form their common existence by rules of living which help them in that endeavour. It is not usually an effort to create a new life-formation which will exceed the ordinary human society and create a new world-order. A religion may hold that eventual prospect before it or attempt some first approach to it, or a mental idealism may make the same endeavour. But these attempts have always been overcome by the persistent inconscience and ignorance of our human vital nature; for that nature is an obstacle which no mere idealism or incomplete spiritual aspiration can change in its recalcitrant mass or permanently dominate. Either the endeavour fails by its own imperfection or it is invaded by the imperfection of the outside world and sinks from the shining height of its aspiration to something mixed and inferior on the ordinary human level. A common spiritual life meant to express the spiritual and not the mental, vital and physical being must found and maintain itself on greater values than the mental, vital, physical values of the ordinary human society; if it is not so founded, it will be merely the normal human society with a difference. An entirely new consciousness in many individuals transforming their whole being, transforming their mental, vital and physical nature-self, is needed for the new life to appear; only such a transformation of the general mind, life, body nature can bring into being a new worthwhile collective existence. The evolutionary nisus must tend not merely to create a new type of mental beings but another order of beings who have raised their whole existence from our present mentalised animality to a greater spiritual level of the earth-nature.
87: Any such complete transformation of the earth-life in a number of human beings could not establish itself altogether at once; even when the turning-point has been reached, the decisive line crossed, the new life in its beginnings would have to pass through a period of ordeal and arduous development. A general change from the old consciousness taking up the whole life into the spiritual principle would be the necessary first step; the preparation for this might be long and the transformation itself once begun proceed by stages. In the individual it might after a certain point be rapid and even effect itself by a bound, an evolutionary saltus; but an individual transformation would not be the creation of a new type of beings or a new collective life.
2.3.04 - The Mother's Force, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Mother has already given you orally the Answer to your letter and the directions you asked for. As she told you, your concentration should be in the heart centre and all the rest - the rising above the head etc. - should come of itself in the natural process of the sadhana. Through the heart you will get the closer and closer touch of the Mother and the working of her Force in the whole being.
9 December 1934
2.3.07 - The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The heart is part of the vital - it has to be controlled in the same way as the rest, by rejection of the wrong movements, by acceptance of the true psychic surrender which prevents all demand and clamour, by calling in the higher light and knowledge. It is not usually however the heart that bothers about mental questions and the Answer to them.
Pure and true thoughts and emotions and impulsions can rise from the human mind, heart and vital, because all is not evil there. The heart may be unpurified, but that does not mean that everything in it is impure.
2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What came down to the centre of the forehead was the Answer, let us say the touch of the Mother's presence, - her consciousness, her force working in you to open the centre of the inner vision. For in the centre of the forehead between the eyebrows is the centre of the inner mind, inner will, the inner vision and when that opens one begins to see and know what is to the physical eye invisible and to the surface mind unknowable.
11 October 1935
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Mother, even though all the details she relates in her letter might not have been present to the Mother's physical mind. Always calls of this kind are coming to the Mother, sometimes a hundred close upon each other and always the Answer is given. The occasions are of all kinds, but whatever the need that occasions the call, the Force is there to answer it. That is the principle of this action on the occult plane. It is not of the same kind as an ordinary human action and does not need a written or oral communication from the one who calls; an interchange of psychic communication is quite sufficient to set the Force at work. At the same time it is not an impersonal Force and the suggestion of a divine energy that is there ready to answer and satisfy anybody who calls it is not at all relevant here. It is something personal to the Mother and if she had not this power and this kind of action she would not be able to do her work; but this is quite different from the outside practical working on the material plane where the methods must necessarily be different, although the occult working and the material working can and do join and the occult power give to the material working its utmost efficacy. As for the one who is helped not feeling the force at work, his knowing might help very substantially the effective working, but it need not be indispensable; the effect can be there even if he does not know how the thing is done. For instance, in your work in Calcutta and elsewhere my help has been always with you and I do not think it can be said that it was ineffective; but it was of the same occult nature and could have had the same effect even if you had not been conscious in some way that
24 March 1949 my help was with you.
2.3.1 - Ego and Its Forms, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Your surprise at your cousin Xs behaviour shows that you do not yet know what kind of thing is the average human nature. Did you never hear of the Answer of Vidyasagar when he was told that a certain man was abusing him: Why does he abuse me? I never did him a good turn (upakra). The unregenerate vital is not grateful for a benefit, it resents being under an obligation. So long as the benefit continues, it is effusive and says sweet things, as soon as it expects nothing more it turns round and bites the hand that fed it. Sometimes it does that even before, when it thinks it can do it without the benefactor knowing the origin of the slander, fault-finding or abuse. In all these dealings of your uncles and cousins with you there is nothing unusual, nothing, as you think, peculiar to you. Most have this kind of experience, few escape it altogether. Of course, people with a developed psychic element are by nature grateful and do not behave in this way.
***
24.05 - Vision of Dante, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Heaven is composed of many circles or regions, tier upon tier, a hierarchy of worlds. They are inhabited by saints and holy persons of various degrees of merit; the greater the merit the higher the status of their dwelling. Dante describes the first Heaven, it is the moon; and then follow one by one many of the planets. He saw the habitat of saints and holy persons each busy with his own occupation, some studying, some meditating, some assembled in a group engaged in conversation and so on. We too, we have in India many heavenly lokas,Brahmaloka, Shivaloka, Vishnuloka, Janaloka, Goloka, inhabited by various types of gods and spiritual siddhas. We have Hell too in India, an underworld Patala or Rasatala - they are supposed to be seven in number! Our Heavens too are seven. Dante became very curious to know more of the mind of the holy persons - their thoughts and experiences. When they reached one of these worlds, he told Beatrice: "I would like to talk to one of these saints." "Yes, you can." Then he approached one and asked him: "You are happy here?" - "Yes" - "You do not feel monotonous and bored?" the Answer was, "No, not at all." "You do not long to rise higher and higher upward in your ascent to greater heavens? You have no impulse to progress in this way?" Answer: "No, I am content with what I have and where I am. I rely on God's will, whatever He has decided I accept without question. As long as 'He wishes me to be in a particular place or in a particular condition I obey unquestioningly. All things and happenings are equal to me. This is what I have learnt. In His will lies our peace. E'n la sua volontade nostra pace.3
Apart from the saints and sages and wise men (theologians) of Christendom, the higher Heavens sheltered also non-human, that is to say, godly or divine beings - angels and archangels, cherubs and seraphs - powers of Love, powers of Knowledge - Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Principalities, as Dante names them - various grades and modes of the divine force and energy - or, as we say, Personalities and Emanations.
2.4.1 - Human Relations and the Spiritual Life, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The first [question] was about a complementary soul and marriage. the Answer is easy to give; the way of the spiritual life lies for you in one direction and marriage lies in quite another and opposite. All talk about a complementary soul is a camouflage with which the mind tries to cover the sentimental, sensational and physical wants of the lower vital nature. It is that vital nature in you which puts the question and would like an answer reconciling its desires and demands with the call of the true soul in you. But it must not expect a sanction for any such incongruous reconciliation from here. The way of the supramental Yoga is clear; it lies not through any concession to these things,not, in your case, through the satisfaction, under a spiritual cover if possible, of its craving for the comforts and gratifications of a domestic and conjugal life and the enjoyment of the ordinary emotional desires and physical passions, but through the purification and transformation of the forces which these movements pervert and misuse. Not these human and animal demands, but the divine Ananda which is above and beyond them and which the indulgence of these degraded forms would prevent from descending, is the great thing that the aspiration of the vital being must demand in the sadhaka.
***
3.00.2 - Introduction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
bottles? Where are the Answers to the spiritual needs and troubles of a
new epoch? And where the knowledge to deal with the psychological
3.01 - Natural Morality, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
accepted, the Answer is quite simple. For the human unity,
the initial basis of obligation is the fact of being born and
3.01 - THE BIRTH OF THOUGHT, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
It is our task to divine and to measure the Answers to these
questions before we follow step by step the march of mankind
3.02 - Aspiration, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
you can and must always call for help and the rest the Answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful.
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3.02 - The Practice Use of Dream-Analysis, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
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Animegataris -- -- WAO World -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Parody School -- Animegataris Animegataris -- After dreaming about an anime she used to watch as a child, Minoa Asagaya could not forget a particularly memorable scene. However, despite her best efforts, she cannot recall the name of the show. Due to this, Minoa asks for help from her fellow classmates at Sakaneko High School. Her conversation is overheard by Arisu Kamiigusa, the most popular and wealthy girl in class who is also a hardcore otaku. Yet even with her vast knowledge, Arisu does not recognize the show. -- -- After discovering that there isn't an anime club at their school, Minoa and Arisu create the Anime Research Club, as they may obtain the answer to Minoa's mystery if they gather people who share the same interest. Thus, Minoa is exposed to a bizarre new world—the world of anime! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 62,728 6.40
Digimon X-Evolution -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi -- Digimon X-Evolution Digimon X-Evolution -- A virtual world was created by the present-day network called the "Digital World." The "Digital Monster," which is a digital life object, was born, and the host computer Yggdrasil managed the different Digital World areas. However, it developed the X Program of fear to eliminate all Digimon in the old world and develop a new Digital World for only certain Digimon... Now, the greatest crisis ever approaches the Digital World. -- -- The X-Digimon, a new type of Digital Monster, is hunted by the Royal Knights who protect the Digital Worlds. Their master, the network overseer Yggdrasil, seeks to set in motion Project Ark to renew the Digital Worlds and create new Digimon, but at the cost of all other digital life. This new X-Digimon will seek out the answers to its own existence as it tries to protect the life of all Digimon, and in the process it will change the Digital Worlds forever. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jan 3, 2005 -- 18,291 7.10
Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen -- -- Ajia-Do -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Romance Historical Drama Seinen -- Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma: Molders-hen -- In the faraway village of Haworth, a new chapter in Emma's life has begun. Now employed by the wealthy Molders family, Emma has resolved to put the past behind her. She'll have to adjust to a new house, a charming (but eccentric) new mistress, and a host of fellow servants, some with buried pasts of their own. -- -- Meanwhile, back in London, William is doing his best to uphold his father's wishes as the Jones family heir, but try as he might, he can't forget Emma. Yet, whenever he feels at his worst, Eleanor is always there to comfort him with a warm, shy smile. Could the answer to his broken heart be right before his eyes? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Apr 17, 2007 -- 21,300 7.86
Flag -- -- The Answer Studio -- 13 eps -- Original -- Mecha Military -- Flag Flag -- In 20xx, a civil war broke out in a small country in Asia in spite of the dispatch of UN forces. But a picture taken by accident in the battlefield accelerates the peace process: a photograph of a flag, which became the symbol of peace. However, just before the peace agreement is finalized, the flag is stolen by an armed extremist group in order to obstruct the truce. To rescue the flag, the UN sends the Special Development Command (SDC, which is armed with the High Agility Versatile Weapon Carrier (HAVWC)), along with an embedded photojournalist to record their activities. That photojournalist is Saeko Shirasu—the young camerawoman who took the picture of the flag. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- ONA - Jun 16, 2006 -- 17,237 7.20
Golgo 13 (TV) -- -- The Answer Studio -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Thriller Seinen -- Golgo 13 (TV) Golgo 13 (TV) -- Golgo 13 is not his real name. Then again, neither is Duke Togo, Tadashi Togo, or any number of the aliases he goes by. A man of mystery, not even the world’s most prominent intelligence agencies can determine who Golgo really is, or just where he came from. But all agree that his skills are nothing short of legendary. -- -- Armed with a custom M16, Golgo is willing to take any job for any agency, from the FBI to the KGB. He has completed every contract he has ever taken and will work for anyone who can meet his price. He is both the greatest weapon and the greatest threat to any nation; no one is safe once they are in Golgo’s sights. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 12, 2008 -- 34,312 7.53
GS Mikami -- -- Toei Animation -- 45 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural -- GS Mikami GS Mikami -- In a world plagued with malicious ghosts, how is it possible to combat the existence of such evil spirits? The answer is to hire a "Ghost Sweeper"—a professional exorcist, whose duty is to exterminate any unwanted ghoul or poltergeist. -- -- When it comes to Ghost Sweepers, Reiko Mikami is considered to be a cut above the rest. After receiving an offer to examine a haunting near Jinkotsu Hot Spring, she sets off to put her skills to work. Accompanied by her assistants, the underpaid and perverted high school student Tadao Yokoshima and the friendly teenage ghost Kinu Himuro, GS Mikami details the wacky exploits and adventures of these three as they go about investigating paranormal activities. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 10,148 7.18
Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken -- -- Rockwell Eyes, Steve N' Steven -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Mystery Slice of Life -- Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken -- After transferring to Ishinomori Middle School, Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa overhears her classmates discussing a strange rumor. The previous occupant of her seat, a nondescript "Judas," is missing and presumed murdered—poisoned by one of his four wives. Amidst dealing with her mother's undesired meddling in her affairs and warding off her classmates' bullying, the troubled Alice starts to investigate the mystery surrounding Judas' disappearance. -- -- The trail of clues leads her to the house of her next-door neighbor, the quirky and reclusive Hana Arai. After an awkward introduction, Hana agrees to help Alice and formulates a plan that may lead them to the answers they seek. The two girls embark on a journey to uncover what happened to Judas, and perhaps a friendship may start to blossom between the two along the way. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS -- Movie - Feb 20, 2015 -- 29,201 7.30
Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken -- -- Rockwell Eyes, Steve N' Steven -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Mystery Slice of Life -- Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken -- After transferring to Ishinomori Middle School, Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa overhears her classmates discussing a strange rumor. The previous occupant of her seat, a nondescript "Judas," is missing and presumed murdered—poisoned by one of his four wives. Amidst dealing with her mother's undesired meddling in her affairs and warding off her classmates' bullying, the troubled Alice starts to investigate the mystery surrounding Judas' disappearance. -- -- The trail of clues leads her to the house of her next-door neighbor, the quirky and reclusive Hana Arai. After an awkward introduction, Hana agrees to help Alice and formulates a plan that may lead them to the answers they seek. The two girls embark on a journey to uncover what happened to Judas, and perhaps a friendship may start to blossom between the two along the way. -- -- Movie - Feb 20, 2015 -- 29,201 7.30
High School Fleet OVA -- -- Production IMS -- 2 eps -- Original -- Action Military School -- High School Fleet OVA High School Fleet OVA -- The mutinous Musashi has been defeated, and the girls from Yokosuka Girls' Marine High School are safely back home. However, the Harekaze sustained critical damage during its final encounter with the Musashi and may not be able to sail again. Moreover, rumors spread that the Harekaze-class will be dissolved due to it lacking a ship. -- -- Other classes' attempts to scout members from the Harekaze's crew only make the situation even more uncertain. The answer to this dire problem may be found in the sealed orders that the secretary of the Harekaze, Kouko Nosa, is to deliver to its crewmembers. But time is running short... -- -- OVA - Mar 31, 2017 -- 16,327 7.21
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni -- -- Studio Deen -- 26 eps -- Visual novel -- Mystery Dementia Horror Psychological Supernatural Thriller -- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Higurashi no Naku Koro ni -- Keiichi Maebara has just moved to the quiet little village of Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983, and quickly becomes inseparable friends with schoolmates Rena Ryuuguu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Houjou, and Rika Furude. However, darkness lurks underneath the seemingly idyllic life they lead. -- -- As the village prepares for its annual festival, Keiichi learns about the local legends surrounding it. To his horror, he discovers that there have been several murders and disappearances in the village in the recent years, and that they all seem to be connected to the festival and the village's patron god, Oyashiro. Keiichi tries to ask his new friends about these incidents, but they are suspiciously silent and refuse to give him the answers he needs. As more and more bizarre events occur, he wonders just what else his friends might be keeping from him, and if he can even trust them at all. -- -- When madness and paranoia begin taking root in Keiichi's heart, he will stumble straight into the mysteries at work in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, a story that is told across multiple arcs. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA, Sentai Filmworks -- 657,914 7.94
Jujutsu Kaisen -- -- Yokohama Animation Lab -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Shounen -- Jujutsu Kaisen Jujutsu Kaisen -- Just where do "Curses," the fiendish spirits invisible to normal humans, come from? What is Sukuna Ryoumen, whose very existence grips the "Jujutsu" world in fear? And who exactly is Yuuji Itadori, the boy who recently became the center of attention in Jujutsu society? -- -- No need to fear, for Satoru Gojou, the strongest Jujutsu sorcerer, has the answers! From the new sorcerers in training to the enemies they face, Gojou provides all you need to know about Jujutsu and the inner workings of the institution who protect us from Curses: the Tokyo Jujutsu High School. -- -- ONA - Dec 3, 2018 -- 20,935 7.22
Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu Deluxe -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Slice of Life -- Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu Deluxe Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu Deluxe -- After the events in the city, Haré and family come back to the Jungle. But it is never calm for Haré as he first must deal with an unstable substitute teacher, then with some big news: Weda is pregnant. The answer to how and who will change his family forever. Poor Haré, now has to deal with a father in addition to his drunk mother and Guu, and soon a sibling too. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Aug 25, 2002 -- 11,275 7.82
Kemono Friends -- -- Yaoyorozu -- 12 eps -- Game -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy -- Kemono Friends Kemono Friends -- Japari Park is an untamed paradise where many humanoid animals, known as "Friends," live their everyday lives in all corners of the natural environmental park. -- -- One lazy afternoon in the savannah area, the energetic Serval encounters a peculiar new Friend. Curious, she swiftly takes down the Friend, named Kaban, to try and discover what species she is. To Serval's disappointment, not even Kaban herself knows the answer. -- -- The two become friends and set out on a grand adventure through the many habitats, landmarks, and attractions of Japari Park. Their destination is the park library, where they hope to shed some light on Kaban’s identity. Along the way, they meet many other Friends, looking into their lives and helping them out. However, they soon begin to uncover the sinister reality behind the park and their own existence. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Discotek Media -- 69,154 7.57
Kemurikusa (TV) -- -- Yaoyorozu -- 12 eps -- Original -- Fantasy Sci-Fi -- Kemurikusa (TV) Kemurikusa (TV) -- A few young girls with strange powers and a tree that has grown through a railcar cling onto life in a desolate land, searching for its last reservoirs of water. Their routine struggle to survive is interrupted by the arrival of Wakaba, a boy with no memory beyond his own name. -- -- The girls and their new companion commit to a perilous journey across seas of burning red fog—all in order to find what they need to sustain themselves on the more distant, dangerous islands swarming with robotic bugs. Their ultimate fate will be decided by their own strength, along with Wakaba's curious ability to understand the Kemurikusa: mysterious glowing leaves with wondrous powers. Besides the girls, Wakaba, and the hordes of ravenous bugs, the Kemurikusa are the last sparks of life surviving in this land. How did things end up this way? Why are there so many empty buildings with no one to live in them? Wakaba and the girls lack the answers to these questions, which means the truth can only be found within the Kemurikusa. -- -- 24,115 7.07
Kidou Senkan Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness -- -- Xebec -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Comedy Drama Mecha Psychological Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Kidou Senkan Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness Kidou Senkan Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness -- Two years have passed since the end of the "Martian Successor Nadesico." Akito and Yurika have disappeared. The Jovians and the Earthlings have joined forces and Ruri is now captain of Nadesico B. As the popularity of Boson Jumping grows, a vast transportation network has been developed. Dubbed the Hisago Plan, this network of Chulip portals holds the answers to the mysteries behind Bose particles and their power. If those secrets should fall into the wrong hands, it could mean big trouble. And big trouble there is. A Martian splinter group has launched an offensive, leaving the United Forces befuddled and desperate. So much so, in fact, that the former crew of the Nadesico is called back to active duty for a special unsanctioned mission-to save us all. Does this menagerie of misfits have what it takes? Who will win the race for the Boson technology? And what the heck happened to Akito and Yurika? -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Nozomi Entertainment -- Movie - Aug 1, 1998 -- 13,629 6.77
Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Supernatural Drama Shounen -- Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho -- Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty. -- -- (Source: VIZ Media) -- 41,741 6.70
Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Supernatural Drama Shounen -- Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho -- Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty. -- -- (Source: VIZ Media) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 41,741 6.70
No Game No Life: Zero -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Game Supernatural Drama Romance Fantasy -- No Game No Life: Zero No Game No Life: Zero -- In ancient Disboard, Riku is an angry, young warrior intent on saving humanity from the warring Exceed, the sixteen sentient species, fighting to establish the "One True God" amongst the Old Deus. In a lawless land, humanity's lack of magic and weak bodies have made them easy targets for the other Exceed, leaving the humans on the brink of extinction. One day, however, hope returns to humanity when Riku finds a powerful female Ex-machina, whom he names Schwi, in an abandoned elf city. Exiled from her Cluster because of her research into human emotions, Schwi is convinced that humanity has only survived due to the power of these feelings and is determined to understand the human heart. Forming an unlikely partnership in the midst of the overwhelming chaos, Riku and Schwi must now find the answers to their individual shortcomings in each other, and discover for themselves what it truly means to be human as they fight for their lives together against all odds. Each with a powerful new ally in tow, it is now up to them to prevent the extinction of the human race and establish peace throughout Disboard! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Jul 15, 2017 -- 638,129 8.29
Noir -- -- Bee Train -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Drama -- Noir Noir -- Noir—a name that strikes fear in the hearts of those who know the history behind the moniker. Long ago it was the code name of a very successful and feared assassin and now it is being used by two women who want answers to questions they have about their lives. -- -- The main character in this series is a highly skilled assassin named Mireille Bouquet who is based out of France. One day, she receives a mysterious email from a girl named Kirika. Following up on the message, Mireille goes to meet this girl and discovers that not only does the girl have no idea who she really is, but she also has no idea why she is so skilled at killing people and why she feels no remorse when she does. Realizing that their lives are linked somehow, Mireille and Kirika team up and begin traveling the world together as they seek out the answers to their shared histories, while avoiding the grip of an organization known as Les Soldats. Will the two find the answers they are looking for? And will that truth free them, or ruin them? -- 95,495 7.31
Noir -- -- Bee Train -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Drama -- Noir Noir -- Noir—a name that strikes fear in the hearts of those who know the history behind the moniker. Long ago it was the code name of a very successful and feared assassin and now it is being used by two women who want answers to questions they have about their lives. -- -- The main character in this series is a highly skilled assassin named Mireille Bouquet who is based out of France. One day, she receives a mysterious email from a girl named Kirika. Following up on the message, Mireille goes to meet this girl and discovers that not only does the girl have no idea who she really is, but she also has no idea why she is so skilled at killing people and why she feels no remorse when she does. Realizing that their lives are linked somehow, Mireille and Kirika team up and begin traveling the world together as they seek out the answers to their shared histories, while avoiding the grip of an organization known as Les Soldats. Will the two find the answers they are looking for? And will that truth free them, or ruin them? -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 95,495 7.31
Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon -- -- Okuruto Noboru -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Harem Ecchi Fantasy -- Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon -- Despite his noble title, Noir Starga is at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Because of this, his fellow nobles oppress him and treat him like garbage. However, he possesses a rare yet powerful ability to communicate with the Great Sage, an oracle who grants Noir the answer to absolutely anything. -- -- After failing to secure a job as a librarian, Noir decides to join the Hero Academy. He knows he must become stronger to enter the institution. The Great Sage advises him to explore a hidden dungeon deep within the mountains. There, Noir meets Olivia Servant, a beautiful yet enchained maiden trapped within the labyrinth. Olivia bestows upon Noir a set of ridiculously powerful skills that grants him virtually total control over reality. Naturally, there is a catch—every time Noir attempts to use his powers, his life points decrease, putting his life at risk. To replenish his energy, he must give in to worldly pleasures such as kissing his childhood friend! -- -- With his newfound powers, Noir begins his journey as a student in the Hero Academy, meeting new acquaintances and helping them through the dire situations ahead. -- -- 189,648 6.26
Popotan -- -- Shaft -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Ecchi Supernatural -- Popotan Popotan -- Beautiful sisters Ai, Mai, Mii, their android maid Mea and slippery pet ferret Unagi make an amazing journey together through time and space without ever leaving their beloved mansion behind! Following the clues of the strange dandelion-like "Popotan," the girls are theoretically seeking the person who has the answers to their most personal questions, but they seem to have more than enough time to take side trips, meet new friends, visit hot springs and occasionally operate the X-mas shop they keep in the house along the way! -- -- Yet, the girls' ultimate destiny holds more than a few surprises of its own, and not every moment is filled with hilarity, as moving through time means having to leave friends behind as well. -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Mar 18, 2003 -- 21,221 6.29
Popotan -- -- Shaft -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Ecchi Supernatural -- Popotan Popotan -- Beautiful sisters Ai, Mai, Mii, their android maid Mea and slippery pet ferret Unagi make an amazing journey together through time and space without ever leaving their beloved mansion behind! Following the clues of the strange dandelion-like "Popotan," the girls are theoretically seeking the person who has the answers to their most personal questions, but they seem to have more than enough time to take side trips, meet new friends, visit hot springs and occasionally operate the X-mas shop they keep in the house along the way! -- -- Yet, the girls' ultimate destiny holds more than a few surprises of its own, and not every moment is filled with hilarity, as moving through time means having to leave friends behind as well. -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- TV - Mar 18, 2003 -- 21,221 6.29
Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season -- -- MAPPA -- 16 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Mystery Super Power Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season -- Gabi Braun and Falco Grice have been training their entire lives to inherit one of the seven titans under Marley's control and aid their nation in eradicating the Eldians on Paradis. However, just as all seems well for the two cadets, their peace is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Eren Yeager and the remaining members of the Survey Corps. -- -- Having finally reached the Yeager family basement and learned about the dark history surrounding the titans, the Survey Corps has at long last found the answer they so desperately fought to uncover. With the truth now in their hands, the group set out for the world beyond the walls. -- -- In Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season, two utterly different worlds collide as each party pursues its own agenda in the long-awaited conclusion to Paradis' fight for freedom. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,003,199 9.05
Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Military Mystery Super Power Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 -- Second part of Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season. -- TV - Jan ??, 2022 -- 161,248 N/A -- -- Tenjou Tenge -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Ecchi Martial Arts Comedy Super Power School Shounen -- Tenjou Tenge Tenjou Tenge -- For some people, high school represents the opportunity for a fresh start. You can take new classes and make new friends. For Souichiro Nagi and Bob Makihara, though, high school means something different: the chance to become the top fighters in the entire student body! Too bad Toudou Academy is the hardest possible place to realize their dreams. Their new high school is no ordinary academic institution. Rather than concentrating on classic subjects like math and science, Toudou Academy was created for the sole purpose of reviving the martial arts in Japan! -- -- As a result, Souichiro's aspirations to become top dog are cut short when he runs afoul of Masataka Takayanagi and Maya Natsume. The two upperclassmen easily stop the freshmen duo's rampage across school, but rather than serving as a deterrent, it only stokes their competitive fire. What kind of monstrous fighters attend Toudou Academy? Are there any stronger than Masataka and Maya? And why in the world is Maya's younger sister stalking Souichiro? Learn the answers to these questions and more in Tenjou Tenge! -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Apr 2, 2004 -- 161,119 6.92
Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Military Mystery Super Power Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2 -- Second part of Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season. -- TV - Jan ??, 2022 -- 161,248 N/A -- -- Tenjou Tenge -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Ecchi Martial Arts Comedy Super Power School Shounen -- Tenjou Tenge Tenjou Tenge -- For some people, high school represents the opportunity for a fresh start. You can take new classes and make new friends. For Souichiro Nagi and Bob Makihara, though, high school means something different: the chance to become the top fighters in the entire student body! Too bad Toudou Academy is the hardest possible place to realize their dreams. Their new high school is no ordinary academic institution. Rather than concentrating on classic subjects like math and science, Toudou Academy was created for the sole purpose of reviving the martial arts in Japan! -- -- As a result, Souichiro's aspirations to become top dog are cut short when he runs afoul of Masataka Takayanagi and Maya Natsume. The two upperclassmen easily stop the freshmen duo's rampage across school, but rather than serving as a deterrent, it only stokes their competitive fire. What kind of monstrous fighters attend Toudou Academy? Are there any stronger than Masataka and Maya? And why in the world is Maya's younger sister stalking Souichiro? Learn the answers to these questions and more in Tenjou Tenge! -- TV - Apr 2, 2004 -- 161,119 6.92
Soukou Kihei Votoms: Pailsen Files -- -- The Answer Studio -- 12 eps -- Original -- Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Soukou Kihei Votoms: Pailsen Files Soukou Kihei Votoms: Pailsen Files -- OVA release from anime series "Armored Trooper Votoms" utilizing the latest in 3D CG animation. Created by the original staff of the series, with an all new story about the end of the 100 year war. -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- OVA - Oct 26, 2007 -- 4,316 7.28
Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 3rd Season: Tenchi Seirou naredo Namitakashi? -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Harem Space Comedy Shounen -- Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 3rd Season: Tenchi Seirou naredo Namitakashi? Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 3rd Season: Tenchi Seirou naredo Namitakashi? -- After a 'modified' ending to the Choubimaru incident, the punishments for the offending parties is metted-out, as well as a surprise marriage proposal by Misao to Mashisu. It almost didn't happen... until Mihoshi and Misao's mother Mitoto steps in and gives her and her family's approval, much to the dismay of FORMER G.P. Marshall Minami Kuramitsu. Otherwise, life goes on as usual for the Masaki clan. But soon when the question of how Tenchi's mother had died is presented, the answer nearly causes a rift between Tenchi, his father and his grandfather, for which only Tenchi's future mother-in-law Rea can solve... as well as the resolution of Noike's unusual secret. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Sep 14, 2005 -- 10,162 7.25
Tenjou Tenge -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Ecchi Martial Arts Comedy Super Power School Shounen -- Tenjou Tenge Tenjou Tenge -- For some people, high school represents the opportunity for a fresh start. You can take new classes and make new friends. For Souichiro Nagi and Bob Makihara, though, high school means something different: the chance to become the top fighters in the entire student body! Too bad Toudou Academy is the hardest possible place to realize their dreams. Their new high school is no ordinary academic institution. Rather than concentrating on classic subjects like math and science, Toudou Academy was created for the sole purpose of reviving the martial arts in Japan! -- -- As a result, Souichiro's aspirations to become top dog are cut short when he runs afoul of Masataka Takayanagi and Maya Natsume. The two upperclassmen easily stop the freshmen duo's rampage across school, but rather than serving as a deterrent, it only stokes their competitive fire. What kind of monstrous fighters attend Toudou Academy? Are there any stronger than Masataka and Maya? And why in the world is Maya's younger sister stalking Souichiro? Learn the answers to these questions and more in Tenjou Tenge! -- TV - Apr 2, 2004 -- 161,119 6.92
The Sky Crawlers -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Drama Military -- The Sky Crawlers The Sky Crawlers -- In an alternate timeline, the world has seemingly achieved peace. Bereft of international conflicts, wars are now waged between private corporations in place of peaceful nations. Yuuichi Kannami, a recent transfer in Area 262, simply does his job as a contracted fighter pilot. However, the more time he spends at his new base, the more mysteries come to light. -- -- The Sky Crawlers exhibits this reality through the eyes of Kannami as he endeavors to understand the "Kildren," humans genetically altered to be teenagers forever with faster reflexes, and his predecessor, the ace pilot known as "Teacher." However, what troubles Kannami the most is how all this connects to the base commander, Suito Kusanagi. Area 262 has the answers, but the truth comes with a price the young pilot may not be ready to pay. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sony Pictures Entertainment -- Movie - Aug 2, 2008 -- 48,129 7.30
Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? -- -- Shaft -- 1 ep -- Other -- Romance Sci-Fi -- Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? -- It's summer, and Norimichi Shimada and his friends want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They forge a plan to find the answer at Moshimo Festival's fireworks display. However, Norimichi finds himself conflicted when his classmate, Nazuna Oikawa, plans to run away from home and wants Norimichi to join her. When things go awry in their attempt to escape, a strange orb in Nazuna's possession gives them another chance at staying together. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS, NYAV Post -- Movie - Aug 18, 2017 -- 145,506 6.10
Urara Meirochou -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Fantasy Seinen -- Urara Meirochou Urara Meirochou -- Labyrinth Town is a legendary city composed of ten districts, home to witches and diviners alike. In the outermost district of this maze, many young girls begin training to join the ranks of the "Urara," a group of women known far and wide for their ability to divine the answers to the world's most difficult questions. Chiya, a wild girl raised amongst the animals in the mountains, is invited to take her rightful place as a first rank urara. By joining them, she hopes to divine the location of her long-lost mother. -- -- Chiya quickly makes three friends: studious Kon Tatsumi, aspiring witch Koume Yukimi, and reticent Nono Natsume. Armed with only their own ingenuity and a vague connection to the gods, they begin their journey in the way of the urara. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 108,856 7.13
Vampire Knight: Guilty -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Mystery Romance Shoujo Supernatural Vampire -- Vampire Knight: Guilty Vampire Knight: Guilty -- When the missing Zero Kiryuu returns to Cross Academy, Yuuki Cross is relieved to see him safe, but finds that Zero has changed in more ways than one. As a result of choices he made, Zero is plagued by visions, and he seeks to uncover the reason behind them—unaware that the answers may be much closer than he thinks. -- -- Soon Yuuki also begins to be tormented by ghastly hallucinations, and she seeks an explanation about her shrouded past from the only one who can provide clarity: Pureblood vampire Kaname Kuran, who is closest to her heart. But what will happen when the truth is finally revealed? -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- TV - Oct 7, 2008 -- 312,148 7.19
Zettai Karen Children -- -- SynergySP -- 51 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Shounen -- Zettai Karen Children Zettai Karen Children -- They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 6, 2008 -- 40,173 7.34
Zettai Karen Children -- -- SynergySP -- 51 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Shounen -- Zettai Karen Children Zettai Karen Children -- They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- TV - Apr 6, 2008 -- 40,173 7.34
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