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Never underestimate the importance of keeping your vows. Just how a castle will protect the king from being attacked by the enemy, the vows will protect your mind from being attacked by your mental afflictions. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche
Stop thinking of the adverse forces and they will have no power over you. My force is always there to protect you.
~ The Mother
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect. ~ Saint John of the Cross

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BOOKS
Heart_of_Matter
Liber_157_-_The_Tao_Teh_King
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Republic
The_Way_of_Perfection
Twilight_of_the_Idols

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.05_-_MORALITY_AS_THE_ENEMY_OF_NATURE

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
0_0.01_-_Introduction
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
01.08_-_Walter_Hilton:_The_Scale_of_Perfection
0_1958-12-15_-_tantric_mantra_-_125,000
0_1958-12-24
0_1958-12-28
0_1959-01-27
0_1959-06-03
0_1960-01-28
0_1960-11-26
0_1961-02-11
0_1961-04-12
0_1963-08-03
0_1963-08-28
0_1963-12-07_-_supramental_ship
0_1969-10-15
0_1970-01-07
0_1971-05-15
03.03_-_A_Stainless_Steel_Frame
04.28_-_To_the_Heights-XXVIII
06.01_-_The_End_of_a_Civilisation
1.00a_-_Introduction
1.00_-_Main
10.11_-_Savitri
1.01_-_Economy
1.01_-_MAPS_OF_EXPERIENCE_-_OBJECT_AND_MEANING
1.01_-_On_knowledge_of_the_soul,_and_how_knowledge_of_the_soul_is_the_key_to_the_knowledge_of_God.
1.01_-_What_is_Magick?
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.036_-_The_Rise_of_Obstacles_in_Yoga_Practice
1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.040_-_Re-Educating_the_Mind
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_Te_Shan_Carrying_His_Bundle
1.05_-_Christ,_A_Symbol_of_the_Self
1.05_-_Hymns_of_Bharadwaja
1.05_-_MORALITY_AS_THE_ENEMY_OF_NATURE
1.05_-_Ritam
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_War_And_Politics
1.06_-_On_remembrance_of_death.
1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital
1.06_-_The_Four_Powers_of_the_Mother
1.07_-_The_Psychic_Center
1.07_-_TRUTH
1.08_-_Information,_Language,_and_Society
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.09_-_Equality_and_the_Annihilation_of_Ego
1.09_-_Fundamental_Questions_of_Psycho_therapy
1.09_-_Saraswati_and_Her_Consorts
1.09_-_SELF-KNOWLEDGE
1.09_-_The_Secret_Chiefs
1.107_-_The_Bestowal_of_a_Divine_Gift
1.10_-_The_Image_of_the_Oceans_and_the_Rivers
1.12_-_The_Herds_of_the_Dawn
1.13_-_System_of_the_O.T.O.
1.13_-_The_Kings_of_Rome_and_Alba
1.14_-_Noise
1.14_-_ON_THE_FRIEND
1.14_-_The_Structure_and_Dynamics_of_the_Self
1.15_-_On_incorruptible_purity_and_chastity_to_which_the_corruptible_attain_by_toil_and_sweat.
1.15_-_The_Value_of_Philosophy
1.16_-_The_Season_of_Truth
1.16_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.19_-_Tabooed_Acts
1.19_-_The_Curve_of_the_Rational_Age
1.200-1.224_Talks
1.2.08_-_Faith
1.20_-_On_bodily_vigil_and_how_to_use_it_to_attain_spiritual_vigil_and_how_to_practise_it.
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.20_-_Talismans_-_The_Lamen_-_The_Pantacle
1.20_-_The_Hound_of_Heaven
1.21_-_Tabooed_Things
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King
1.25_-_On_the_destroyer_of_the_passions,_most_sublime_humility,_which_is_rooted_in_spiritual_feeling.
1.26_-_On_discernment_of_thoughts,_passions_and_virtues
1.26_-_Sacrifice_of_the_Kings_Son
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
1.3.02_-_Equality__The_Chief_Support
1.31_-_Adonis_in_Cyprus
1.33_-_The_Golden_Mean
1.38_-_Woman_-_Her_Magical_Formula
14.04_-_More_of_Yajnavalkya
1.40_-_Coincidence
1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals
1.52_-_Family_-_Public_Enemy_No._1
1.57_-_Public_Scapegoats
1.59_-_Geomancy
1.63_-_Fear,_a_Bad_Astral_Vision
1.67_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Custom
1.70_-_Morality_1
1.74_-_Obstacles_on_the_Path
1.83_-_Epistola_Ultima
19.15_-_On_Happiness
19.24_-_The_Canto_of_Desire
1954-12-22_-_Possession_by_hostile_forces_-_Purity_and_morality_-_Faith_in_the_final_success_-Drawing_back_from_the_path
1956-01-04_-_Integral_idea_of_the_Divine_-_All_things_attracted_by_the_Divine_-_Bad_things_not_in_place_-_Integral_yoga_-_Moving_idea-force,_ideas_-_Consequences_of_manifestation_-_Work_of_Spirit_via_Nature_-_Change_consciousness,_change_world
1956-03-07_-_Sacrifice,_Animals,_hostile_forces,_receive_in_proportion_to_consciousness_-_To_be_luminously_open_-_Integral_transformation_-_Pain_of_rejection,_delight_of_progress_-_Spirit_behind_intention_-_Spirit,_matter,_over-simplified
1956-07-18_-_Unlived_dreams_-_Radha-consciousness_-_Separation_and_identification_-_Ananda_of_identity_and_Ananda_of_union_-_Sincerity,_meditation_and_prayer_-_Enemies_of_the_Divine_-_The_universe_is_progressive
1957-01-02_-_Can_one_go_out_of_time_and_space?_-_Not_a_crucified_but_a_glorified_body_-_Individual_effort_and_the_new_force
1970_01_06
1.anon_-_Less_profitable
1.anon_-_The_Poem_of_Antar
1f.lovecraft_-_Collapsing_Cosmoses
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Unnamable
1.hs_-_Where_Is_My_Ruined_Life?
1.jk_-_King_Stephen
1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_I
1.lovecraft_-_The_Peace_Advocate
1.sfa_-_How_Virtue_Drives_Out_Vice
1.shvb_-_O_ignis_Spiritus_Paracliti
1.whitman_-_I_Saw_Old_General_At_Bay
1.whitman_-_Poems_Of_Joys
1.whitman_-_Song_of_Myself
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXXV
1.whitman_-_The_Artillerymans_Vision
1.whitman_-_The_Centerarians_Story
20.01_-_Charyapada_-_Old_Bengali_Mystic_Poems
2.01_-_Mandala_One
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.03_-_The_Pyx
2.04_-_The_Secret_of_Secrets
2.05_-_Apotheosis
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.06_-_The_Wand
2.06_-_Works_Devotion_and_Knowledge
2.07_-_I_Also_Try_to_Tell_My_Tale
2.08_-_ON_THE_FAMOUS_WISE_MEN
2.08_-_The_Sword
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.18_-_January_1939
2.21_-_1940
23.11_-_Observations_III
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
3.00.2_-_Introduction
30.09_-_Lines_of_Tantra_(Charyapada)
30.13_-_Rabindranath_the_Artist
3.04_-_LUNA
3.10_-_Of_the_Gestures
33.03_-_Muraripukur_-_I
33.05_-_Muraripukur_-_II
33.14_-_I_Played_Football
33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars
36.07_-_An_Introduction_To_The_Vedas
38.06_-_Ravana_Vanquished
3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations
4.03_-_Prayer_of_Quiet
4.18_-_Faith_and_shakti
4.2_-_Karma
5.1.03_-_The_Hostile_Forces_and_Hostile_Beings
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
7.02_-_Courage
7.15_-_The_Family
Aeneid
Apology
BOOK_I._-_Augustine_censures_the_pagans,_who_attributed_the_calamities_of_the_world,_and_especially_the_sack_of_Rome_by_the_Goths,_to_the_Christian_religion_and_its_prohibition_of_the_worship_of_the_gods
BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice
BOOK_III._-_The_external_calamities_of_Rome
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_IV._-_That_empire_was_given_to_Rome_not_by_the_gods,_but_by_the_One_True_God
Book_of_Exodus
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
Book_of_Psalms
BOOK_V._-_Of_fate,_freewill,_and_God's_prescience,_and_of_the_source_of_the_virtues_of_the_ancient_Romans
BOOK_XVII._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_the_times_of_the_prophets_to_Christ
BOOK_XVI._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_Noah_to_the_time_of_the_kings_of_Israel
BOOK_XX._-_Of_the_last_judgment,_and_the_declarations_regarding_it_in_the_Old_and_New_Testaments
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
City_of_God_-_BOOK_I
COSA_-_BOOK_I
COSA_-_BOOK_IX
COSA_-_BOOK_VIII
COSA_-_BOOK_X
COSA_-_BOOK_XIII
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text
r1912_07_03
r1912_12_04
r1912_12_06
r1912_12_18
r1912_12_21
r1912_12_26
r1912_12_31
r1913_01_10
r1913_01_11
r1913_01_15
r1913_01_18
r1913_02_03
r1914_04_13
r1914_04_15
r1915_06_13
r1918_03_11
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Sophist
Symposium_translated_by_B_Jowett
Talks_051-075
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P1
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P2
The_Book_of_Job
The_Book_of_the_Prophet_Isaiah
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
The_Epistle_of_James
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_Gospel_According_to_Luke
The_Gospel_According_to_Matthew
The_Pilgrims_Progress
The_Waiting
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text
Timaeus

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abattis ::: n. --> A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

.. .Adramelech, the enemy of God [ 9 ]

advantage ::: n. --> Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker&


Agathodaemon, Agathodaimon (Greek) The good genius (represented as a youth holding a horn of plenty and a bowl, or a poppy and ears of corn) to whom at Athens a cup of pure wine was drunk at dinner; in one of his many forms, the kosmic Christos, the serpent of eternity — which in the human mind becomes the serpent of Genesis — which after the fall of Mediterranean civilizations became Satan. Brahma, in order to create hierarchies, becomes fourfold and emanates successively daemons, angels, pitris, and men. Agathodaimon refers to the first of these emanations, sons of kosmic darkness, signifying incomprehensible light which is prior to manifested light. Christian theology has recognized this in making Satan’s host the first sons of God, but has unconsciously perverted their descent in order to enlighten man into a rebellion against Almighty Power. Thus in later times Agathodaimon became the enemy of divine goodness. The same has happened in the case of the asuras in India, and of the kosmic serpent. In Gnostic gems it appears under the name Chnouphis or Chnoubis.

alacrity ::: n. --> A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

Antichrist: The enemy of mankind who will establish a reign of evil in the world, as a punishment for man’s wickedness. His reign, replete with wars, evil doings and miracles of black magic, will last for fifty years, but he will be overthrown by Christ at His second coming.

aware ::: a. --> Watchful; vigilant or on one&

banquette ::: n. --> A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.


bridgehead ::: n. --> A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.

caponiere ::: n. --> A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Colossus (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes). 1. "computer" The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used by {Alan Turing} at {Bletchley Park}, UK during the Second World War to crack the "Tunny" cipher produced by the Lorenz SZ 40 and SZ 42 machines. Colossus was a semi-fixed-program {vacuum tube} calculator (unlike its near-contemporary, the freely programmable {Z3}). ["Breaking the enemy's code", Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, September 1987, pp. 47-51.] 2. The computer in the 1970 film, "Colossus: The Forbin Project". Forbin is the designer of a computer that will run all of America's nuclear defences. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Goliath, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, whereupon the two become a new super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground. {The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177)}. (2007-01-04)

Colossus ::: (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes).1. (computer) The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, UK during the Second World War to crack the Tunny semi-fixed-program vacuum tube calculator (unlike its near-contemporary, the freely programmable Z3).[Breaking the enemy's code, Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, September 1987, pp. 47-51.]2. The computer in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project. Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground. .[Date?](2002-07-28)

Conditions of Transformafirm ::: If you desire this transforma- tion, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you roust have, consciousness, plasti- city, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working ; for although she can and does work in yt)u even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her. All your nature must be plasUc to her touch, — • not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change ; not insisting on its own movements as the vital In man insists and persistently opposes its rcfractoiy desires and ill-wilt to every divine influence ; not obstructing and entrenched m

counterscarf ::: n. --> The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

coupe-gorge ::: n. --> Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.

cover ::: v. t. --> To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
To invest (one&


Crocodile [from Greek champsai, Egyptian emsehiu] In Egypt deified under the name of Sebak (or Sebeq). The principal seat of this worship was the city Crocodilopolis (Arsinoe) where great numbers of mummified beasts have been exhumed. When the canals became dry, the crocodiles would wander about the fields and make such havoc that they were naturally associated with the powers of destruction and evil, the principal malefactor of the pantheon being Set or Typhon. The ancient Egyptians did not regard Set or Typhon, and the crocodile which represented him, as the enemy, the destroyer. In fact, in the earlier dynasties Typhon was one of the most powerful and venerated of the divinities, giving blessings, life, and inspiration to the people, and in especial perhaps to the Royal House or rulers of Egypt. The reason lay in the fact that the earlier mythology showed Typhon or Set mystically as the shadow of Osiris, the god of light and wisdom — Typhon or Set being the alter ego or more material aspect of Osiris himself. “The Crocodile is the Egyptian dragon. It was the dual symbol of Heaven and Earth, of Sun and Moon, and was made sacred, in consequence of its amphibious nature, to Osiris and Isis” (SD 1:409). The crocodile was also named as one of the signs of the zodiac, the regency of which was connected with a group of lofty beings, whose “abode is in Capricornus” (SD 1:219).

deputation ::: n. --> The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.


descent ::: n. --> The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to


dgra lha. (dralha). In Tibetan, literally "enemy god"; a class of Tibetan deities that fights against the enemy of those who propitiate and worship them. Tibetans speak of both a personal dgra lha, which abides on one's right shoulder to protect one from enemies and promote one's social status, as well as various groupings of dgra lha invoked in both Buddhist and BON ritual. Dgra lha is also a common epithet of wrathful DHARMAPĀLAs who protect the dharma against its enemies, both internal and external.

Dutthagāmanī. [alt. Sinhalese: Dutugümunu] (r. 101-77 BCE). Sinhalese king best known for restoring Sinhalese suzerainty over the entire island of Sri Lanka after his first century BCE defeat of King Elāra of the predominantly Hindu Damilas (Tamil). According to the MAHĀVAMSA, Dutthagāmanī had been a monk in his previous life, when he vowed to be reborn as a CAKRAVARTIN. As king, he went to war against the enemies of the dharma, carrying a spear with a relic of the Buddha attached to it. The battle ended when he killed the enemy king, the pious but non-Buddhist Elāra. After his victory, he planted his spear in the earth. When he attempted to extract it, he failed, and so decided to have a STuPA built around it, making the instrument of his victory a site for merit-making. Like AsOKA, Dutthagāmanī was troubled by the carnage he had caused, specifically the death of sixty thousand of his enemies. But a delegation of ARHATs assured him that, because his victims were not Buddhists, he had only accrued the negative KARMAN of having killed just one and a half persons. As a result of meritorious deeds, Dutthagāmanī is said to have been reborn in the TUsITA heaven, awaiting rebirth as a disciple of MAITREYA. The story of Dutthagāmanī continues to be told in Sri Lanka, and was deployed during the late-twentieth century to defend the violence of Sinhalese Buddhists against non-Buddhist Tamils. After his victory over Elāra at his capital of ANURĀDHAPURA, the king began a series of construction projects in support of Buddhism, culminating in the MAHĀTHuPA, the great stupa [alt. Ruwanwelisaya], at the site where the Buddha is thought to have made his third visit to the island of Sri Lanka. Dutthagāmanī fell ill before this massive project was completed, but according to legend his brother Saddhātissa draped the site in white cloth so that the king could visualize it in all its glory prior to his death.

ecoute ::: n. --> One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy&

Existence ::: Existence is not merely a glorious or a vain, a wonderful or a dismal panorama of a constant mutation of becoming. There is something eternal, immutable, imperishable, a timeless self-existence; that is not affected by the mutations of Nature. It is their impartial witness, neither affecting nor affected, neither acting nor acted upon, neither virtuous nor sinful, but always pure, complete, great and unwounded. Neither grieving nor rejoicing at all that afflicts and attracts the egoistic being, it is the friend of none, the enemy of none, but one equal self of all.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 19, Page: 303


fastness ::: a. --> The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
Conciseness of style.
The state of being fast or swift.


". . . for doubt is the mind"s persistent assailant.” Letters on Yoga ::: "The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too is a utility and necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited knowledge and unable to escape from his errors.” The Synthesis of Yoga*

fougasse ::: n. --> A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

hazard ::: n. --> A game of chance played with dice.
The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player&


If it flics away, that is a sign that the enemy is in

interception ::: n. --> The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.

is “the enemy of God, greater in malice, guile,

meet ::: v. t. --> To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
To come into the presence of without contact; to come


Murari (Sanskrit) Murāri [from Mura an asura + ari enemy] The enemy of Mura; Krishna slew Mura, a great asura, and hence received this title.

ogg "games" /og/ ({CMU}) 1. In the multi-player space combat game {Netrek}, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions. Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og". This trick has been roundly denounced by those who would return to the good old days when the tactic of dogfighting was dominant, but as Sun Tzu wrote, "What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy." However, the traditional answer to the newbie question "What does ogg mean?" is just "Pick up some armies and I'll show you." 2. In other games, to forcefully attack an opponent with the expectation that the resources expended will be renewed faster than the opponent will be able to regain his previous advantage. Taken more seriously as a tactic since it has gained a simple name. 3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and almost ogged that oncoming car." (1995-01-31)

On the enemy side, harrying the Hebrews, was the guardian angel of Egypt, once holy but now

outpost ::: n. --> A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
The troops placed at such a station.


pannier ::: n. --> A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy&


patrol ::: v. i. --> To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy&


pavesade ::: n. --> A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

picket ::: n. --> A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other


pierce ::: v. t. --> To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy&


plunder ::: v. t. --> To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. ::: n. --> The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of


privateer ::: n. --> An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
The commander of a privateer. ::: v. i. --> To cruise in a privateer.


proposition ::: n. --> The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting


redan ::: n. --> A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.


refuse ::: v. t. --> To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.


repulse ::: v. t. --> To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer. ::: n. --> The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of


rescue ::: v. t. --> To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. ::: v. --> The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,

retreat ::: n. --> The act of retiring or withdrawing one&

retrenchment ::: n. --> The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.
A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.


sentinel ::: 1. A tower used by the military to watch for the enemy and defend a camp, etc. 2. A person or thing that watches or stands as if watching. 3. A soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack; a sentry. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adjective.) sentinels.

siege ::: n. --> A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Hence, place or situation; seat.
Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy&


stratagem ::: n. --> An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

tete-de-pont ::: n. --> A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.

“The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too is a utility and necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited knowledge and unable to escape from his errors.” The Synthesis of Yoga

tirailleur ::: n. --> Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.

traitor ::: n. --> One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a


Vala ::: a Vedic demon, the "circumscriber" or "encloser"; the enemy who holds back the Light.

Vala ::: the chief of the panis, a demon whose name signifies probably the "circumscriber" or"encloser"; the enemy who keeps for himself the Light; the personification of the subconscient.

Whatever the good spirit makes, the evil spirit mars, even though “the two Spirits created the world, the Good Spirit and the Evil One” (Yasht 13, 76). When the world was created, Angra-Mainyu broke into it, and for every creation of Ahura-Mazda’s, he counter-created by his witchcraft a plague; he killed the firstborn bull that had been the first offspring and source of life on earth, created 99,999 diseases, etc. “Ahriman destroys the bull created by Ormazd — which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the ‘germ of sorrow’ — and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, Ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil”; “Terrestrially, all these allegories were connected with the trials of adeptship and initiation. Astronomically, they referred to the Solar and Lunar eclipses” (SD 2:93, 380).

Wrong Thing "jargon" A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the {Right Thing}; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing." [{Jargon File}]



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   1 Traleg Rinpoche
   1 The Jewel-wreath of Questions and Answers
   1 Sun Tzu
   1 Saint Gregory of Nyssa
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   1 Rabia al-Adawiyya
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   1 Meng-Tse
   1 Jordan Peterson
   1 John F. Kennedy
   1 Imitation of Christ
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   9 George W Bush
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1:The enemy is lack of awareness, lack of presence. ~ Traleg Rinpoche,
2:Mind wrestles with mind - our minds with the mind of the enemy." ~ Philokalia,
3:Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~ John F. Kennedy,
4:The best is the enemy of the good. (Le mieux est lennemi du bien.)
   ~ Voltaire,
5:Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
6:The purpose of the work is to cast the enemy out of the pastures of the heart. ~ Philokalia,
7:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." ~ Sun Tzu,
8:It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
   ~ Voltaire,
9:If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
10:Distracting thoughts are like the enemy in the fortress. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
11:The enemy of faith is doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Faith and Shakti,
12:Who is the enemy? Lack of energy. ~ The Jewel-wreath of Questions and Answers, the Eternal Wisdom
13:The enemy only has images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives.
   Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.
   ~ Bruce Lee,
14:Above all things avoid heedlessness; it is the enemy of all virtues. ~ Fo-shu-hiug-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom
15:Thus little by little the enemy invades the soul, if it is not resisted from the beginning. ~ Imitation of Christ, the Eternal Wisdom
16:The enemy tried to uproot me (destroy me), unaware of the fact that God is always on my side. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path
17:We shall not therefore give occasion to sin, we shall not give any room to the Enemy within us, if by constant recollection we keep God ever dwelling in our hearts. ~ Saint Basil,
18:No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
19:I have seen all the snares of the enemy spread out over the world, and I said with a groan, "Who can get through such snares?" Then I heard a voice say to me, "Humility." ~ Anthony the Great,
20:The enemy of all real religion, is human egoism, the egoism of the individual, the egoism of class and nation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Religion of Humanity,
21:Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path
22:When I return upon myself and find the heart upright, although my adversaries may be a thousand or ten thousand, I would march without fear on the enemy. ~ Meng-Tse, the Eternal Wisdom
23:Never underestimate the importance of keeping your vows. Just how a castle will protect the king from being attacked by the enemy, the vows will protect your mind from being attacked by your mental afflictions. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,
24:There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. ~ Aleister Crowley,
25: Your prayers are your light;
Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.
Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,
You will only turn to dust. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,
26:Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him. ~ Saint Cyprian of Carthage,
27:Our DEEDS or our THOUGHTS or our WORDS are not in harmony with Christ if they issue from passion. They then bear the mark of the enemy who smears the pearl of the heart with the slime of passion, dimming and even destroying the luster of the precious stone. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa,
28:Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
29:Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. ~ C S Lewis,
30:The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,-that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly,-therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. ~ Victor Hugo,
31:By what is man impelled to act sin, though not willing it, as if brought to it by force? It is desire it is wrath born of the principle of passion, a mighty and devouring and evil thing; know this for the enemy. Eternal enemy of the sage, in the form of desire it obscures his knowledge and is an insatiable fire. The senses are supreme in the body, above the senses is the mind, higher than the mind is the understanding and higher than the understanding the spiritual Self. Know then that which is higher than the understanding, by the self control thyself and slay this difficult enemy, desire. ~ Bhagavad Gita III. 36. 37. 39. 42. 43, the Eternal Wisdom
32:Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings home the bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99° C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly. When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,
33:Three things you must have, - consciousness, - plasticity and - unreserved surrender.
   For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working; for although she can and does work in you even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her.
   All your nature must be plastic to her touch, - not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change; not insisting on its own movements as the vital in the man insists and persistently opposes its refractory desires and ill-will to every divine influence; not obstructing and entrenched in incapacity, inertia and tamas as man's physical consciousness obstructs and clinging to the pleasure in smallness and darkness cries out against each touch that disturbs it soulless routine or it dull sloth or its torpid slumber.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [58],
34:We have all a ruling defect, which is for our soul as the umbilical cord of its birth in sin, and it is by this that the enemy can always lay hold upon us: for some it is vanity, for others idleness, for the majority egotism. Let a wicked and crafty mind avail itself of this means and we are lost; we may not go mad or turn idiots, but we become positively alienated, in all the force of the expression - that is, we are subjected to a foreign suggestion. In such a state one dreads instinctively everything that might bring us back to reason, and will not even listen to representations that are opposed to our obsession. Here is one of the most dangerous disorders which can affect the moral nature. The sole remedy for such a bewitchment is to make use of folly itself in order to cure folly, to provide the sufferer with imaginary satisfactions in the opposite order to that wherein he is now lost. Endeavour, for example, to cure an ambitious person by making him desire the glories of heaven - mystic remedy; cure one who is dissolute by true love - natural remedy; obtain honourable successes for a vain person; exhibit unselfishness to the avaricious and procure for them legitimate profit by honourable participation in generous enterprises, etc. Acting in this way upon the moral nature, we may succeed in curing a number of physical maladies, for the moral affects the physical in virtue of the magical axiom: "That which is above is like unto that which is below." This is why the Master said, when speaking of the paralyzed woman: "Satan has bound her." A disease invariably originates in a deficiency or an excess, and ever at the root of a physical evil we shall find a moral disorder. This is an unchanging law of Nature. ~ Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic,
35:Worthy The Name Of Sir Knight
Sir Knight of the world's oldest order,
Sir Knight of the Army of God,
You have crossed the strange mystical border,
The ground floor of truth you have trod;
You have entered the sanctum sanctorum,
Which leads to the temple above,
Where you come as a stone, and a Christ-chosen one,
In the kingdom of Friendship and Love.
II
As you stand in this new realm of beauty,
Where each man you meet is your friend,
Think not that your promise of duty
In hall, or asylum, shall end;
Outside, in the great world of pleasure,
Beyond, in the clamor of trade,
In the battle of life and its coarse daily strife
Remember the vows you have made.
III
Your service, majestic and solemn,
Your symbols, suggestive and sweet,
Your uniformed phalanx in column
On gala days marching the street;
Your sword and your plume and your helmet,
Your 'secrets' hid from the world's sight;
These things are the small, lesser parts of the all
Which are needed to form the true Knight.
IV
The martyrs who perished rejoicing
In Templary's glorious laws,
Who died 'midst the fagots while voicing
The glory and worth of their cause-
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They honored the title of 'Templar'
No more than the Knight of to-day
Who mars not the name with one blemish of shame,
But carries it clean through life's fray.
To live for a cause, to endeavor
To make your deeds grace it, to try
And uphold its precepts forever,
Is harder by far than to die.
For the battle of life is unending,
The enemy, Self, never tires,
And the true Knight must slay that sly foe every day
Ere he reaches the heights he desires.
VI
Sir Knight, have you pondered the meaning
Of all you have heard and been told?
Have you strengthened your heart for its weaning
From vices and faults loved of old?
Will you honor, in hours of temptation,
Your promises noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do battle with wrong,
'And having done all, to stand?'
VII
Will you ever be true to a brother
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as no other
Could stand in the hour of his need?
Will you boldly defend him from peril,
And lift him from poverty's curseWill the promise of aid which you willingly made,
Reach down from your lips to your purse?
VIII
The world's battle field is before you!
Let Wisdom walk close by your side,
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Let Faith spread her snowy wings o'er you,
Let Truth be your comrade and guide;
Let Fortitude, Justice and Mercy
Direct all your conduct aright,
And let each word and act tell to men the proud fact,
You are worthy the name of 'Sir Knight'.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
36:There's an idea in Christianity of the image of God as a Trinity. There's the element of the Father, there's the element of the Son, and there's the element of the Holy Spirit. It's something like the spirit of tradition, human beings as the living incarnation of that tradition, and the spirit in people that makes relationship with the spirit and individuals possible. I'm going to bounce my way quickly through some of the classical, metaphorical attributes of God, so that we kind of have a cloud of notions about what we're talking about, when we return to Genesis 1 and talk about the God who spoke chaos into Being.

There's a fatherly aspect, so here's what God as a father is like. You can enter into a covenant with it, so you can make a bargain with it. Now, you think about that. Money is like that, because money is a bargain you make with the future. We structured our world so that you can negotiate with the future. I don't think that we would have got to the point where we could do that without having this idea to begin with. You can act as if the future's a reality; there's a spirit of tradition that enables you to act as if the future is something that can be bargained with. That's why you make sacrifices. The sacrifices were acted out for a very long period of time, and now they're psychological. We know that you can sacrifice something valuable in the present and expect that you're negotiating with something that's representing the transcendent future. That's an amazing human discovery. No other creature can do that; to act as if the future is real; to know that you can bargain with reality itself, and that you can do it successfully. It's unbelievable.

It responds to sacrifice. It answers prayers. I'm not saying that any of this is true, by the way. I'm just saying what the cloud of ideas represents. It punishes and rewards. It judges and forgives. It's not nature. One of the things weird about the Judeo-Christian tradition is that God and nature are not the same thing, at all. Whatever God is, partially manifest in this logos, is something that stands outside of nature. I think that's something like consciousness as abstracted from the natural world. It built Eden for mankind and then banished us for disobedience. It's too powerful to be touched. It granted free will. Distance from it is hell. Distance from it is death. It reveals itself in dogma and in mystical experience, and it's the law. That's sort of like the fatherly aspect.

The son-like aspect. It speaks chaos into order. It slays dragons and feeds people with the remains. It finds gold. It rescues virgins. It is the body and blood of Christ. It is a tragic victim, scapegoat, and eternally triumphant redeemer simultaneously. It cares for the outcast. It dies and is reborn. It is the king of kings and hero of heroes. It's not the state, but is both the fulfillment and critic of the state. It dwells in the perfect house. It is aiming at paradise or heaven. It can rescue from hell. It cares for the outcast. It is the foundation and the cornerstone that was rejected. It is the spirit of the law.

The spirit-like aspect. It's akin to the human soul. It's the prophetic voice. It's the still, small voice of conscience. It's the spoken truth. It's called forth by music. It is the enemy of deceit, arrogance, and resentment. It is the water of life. It burns without consuming. It's a blinding light.

That's a very well-developed set of poetic metaphors. These are all...what would you say...glimpses of the transcendent ideal. That's the right way of thinking about it. They're glimpses of the transcendent ideal, and all of them have a specific meaning. In part, what we're going to do is go over that meaning, as we continue with this series. What we've got now is a brief description, at least, of what this is. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,

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1:Attack the enemy's strategy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
2:The best is the enemy of good. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove
3:Know the enemy and know yourself. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
4:Reason is the enemy of faith. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
5:The enemy of creativity is fear. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
6:The enemy of fear is creativity. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
7:Competence is the enemy of change! ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
8:Humor was the enemy of desire. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
9:It's right to learn, even from the enemy. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
10:Success is the enemy of comedy. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove
11:Right it is to be taught even by the enemy. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
12:Facts are the enemy of truth. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove
13:Panic, not the task, is the enemy. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
14:Adequacy is the enemy of excellence. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
15:I fought with my twin, the enemy within. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
16:Good taste is the enemy of creativity. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove
17:If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
18:Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove
19:Daily life is the enemy of greatness. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
20:Activity is the enemy of investment returns. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
21:If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
22:You cannot blame everything on the enemy. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
23:Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
24:Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
25:Do not marry the enemy of your excitement. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove
26:A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
27:The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
28:Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove
29:I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
30:Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
31:If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
32:Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
33:Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
34:The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
35:Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
36:The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
37:Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
38:Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
39:When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
40:The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
41:He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
42:Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
43:What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
44:It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove
45:Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
46:The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
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48:Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
49:It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
50:If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
51:Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
52:Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
53:Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
54:How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
55:If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
56:Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove
57:My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
58:Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
59:It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
60:Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove
61:Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
62:The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
63:Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove
64:Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
65:King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove
66:The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove
67:Your prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove
68:For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
69:Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
70:Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
71:It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove
72:Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
73:If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
74:There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
75:The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
76:Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle ... . They conquer by strategy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
77:When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
78:You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
79:War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
80:When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
81:The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove
82:Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
83:Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
84:If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
85:One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
86:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
87:Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
88:In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
89:The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
90:And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
91:Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
92:Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
93:The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
94:Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove
95:The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
96:Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove
97:All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
98:Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove
99:While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove
100:Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
101:Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
102:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove
103:With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
104:It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
105:Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
106:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
107:We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
108:Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
109:As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
110:If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
111:He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
112:Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
113:To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
114:Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
115:The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
116:The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
117:For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
118:In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
119:Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
120:Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
121:Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove
122:Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
123:Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
124:But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
125:The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
126:If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
127:To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
128:divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
129:A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
130:If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
131:The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove
132:If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
133:Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove
134:When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
135:France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
136:It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
137:The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
138:To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
139:Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
140:Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5). ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove
141:Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
142:That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
143:The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me? ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove
144:Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
145:Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
146:Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
147:The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
148:Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
149:If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
150:Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove
151:It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove
152:It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of destiny,' you not only change its natural laws' but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove
153:Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
154:Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
155:I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove
156:Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
157:To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
158:If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
159:With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
160:At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
161:I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
162:Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
163:It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
164:When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
165:The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove
166:These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
167:Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
168:The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove
169:If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
170:So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
171:There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
172:Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
173:We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground;  (3) temporising ground;  (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
174:There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
175:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
176:As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove
177:From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
178:If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
179:Sympathy for the enemy - a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
180:Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
181:It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
182:Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
183:It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
184:The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
185:When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
186:Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
187:There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
188:What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved - what then? ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove
189:When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
190:The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
191:Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove
192:When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
193:When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
194:Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war... war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
195:The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
196:All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
197:The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
198:The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
199:The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
200:Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
201:Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: &
202:The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
203:I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
204:Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
205:However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
206:Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
207:Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
208:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
209:In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
210:Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
211:If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
212:Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
213:A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
214:Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
215:As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.  Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove
216:Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
217:A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
218:Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
219:Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
220:Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove
221:Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
222:The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
223:The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
224:Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
225:Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
226:To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
227:The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
228:If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
229:Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
230:Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
231:I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
232:What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
233:Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy... By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy to approach of his own accord; or by inflicting damage, he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
234:What’s wrong with death, sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor? Death is not the enemy, gentleman. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. — Patch Adams ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
235:Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove
236:There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
237:What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these &
238:By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
239:This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
240:Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
241:If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
242:The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
243:The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‚Äòwhat is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
244:If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
245:We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, &
246:Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
247:Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
248:On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
249:The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
250:I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way? ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
251:When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances, he will retreat. When the envoys speak in apologetic terms, he wishes a respite. When without a previous understanding the enemy asks for a truce, he is plotting. When the enemy sees an advantage but does not advance to seize it, he is fatigued. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
252:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
253:The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
254:Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
255:Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
256:For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: &
257:Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!' ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
258:There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
259:Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
260:The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And He did battle with Satan face to face. Can you imagine what a show down that was? It was good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. Holiness vs. filth. Here are the two most powerful forces in the universe have come together to do battle for the first time in history. But thank God. The Bible says, "Satan was no match for our Champion". This was no contest. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
261:Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?  That's how we get things done.  Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers.  If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders.  Of course we're non-political.  The real power always is. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
262:I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
263:Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
264:The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents&
265:If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards victory. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
266:And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
267:The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness - that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove

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1:Belief is the enemy. ~ John A Keel,
2:Attack the enemy's strategy. ~ Sun Tzu,
3:Better is the Enemy of Good ~ Voltaire,
4:Better is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire,
5:Perfect is the enemy of done. ~ Unknown,
6:Fear is the enemy of hope. ~ Dave Ramsey,
7:Perfect is the enemy of done. ~ Voltaire,
8:Perfect is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire,
9:The best is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire,
10:The press is the enemy. ~ Richard M Nixon,
11:Taste is the enemy of a good death. ~ Bono,
12:The enemy gate is down. ~ Orson Scott Card,
13:The enemy never sleeps! ~ Donald O Donovan,
14:Fear is the enemy of logic. ~ Frank Sinatra,
15:Glance is the enemy of vision. ~ Ezra Pound,
16:Know the enemy and know yourself. ~ Sun Tzu,
17:Perfect is the enemy of Done".  ~ Anonymous,
18:The good is the enemy of the best. ~ Bill W,
19:The enemy can steal your song. ~ Johnny Hunt,
20:The enemy is Resistance. ~ Steven Pressfield,
21:The enemy's gate is down. ~ Orson Scott Card,
22:Doubt is the enemy of success. ~ Jim Bridwell,
23:Good is the enemy of great. ~ James C Collins,
24:Reason is the enemy of faith. ~ Martin Luther,
25:The best is the enemy of the good. ~ Voltaire,
26:The enemy of creativity is fear. ~ Seth Godin,
27:The enemy of fear is creativity. ~ Seth Godin,
28:The enemy’s gate was down. ~ Orson Scott Card,
29:Faith is the enemy of discovery. ~ Simon Mawer,
30:Memory is the enemy of wonder ~ Michael Pollan,
31:The enemy is a very good teacher. ~ Dalai Lama,
32:The enemy shapes the brand. ~ Martin Lindstrom,
33:War is the enemy of all mankind. ~ Edwin Starr,
34:Certainty is the enemy of growth. ~ Mark Manson,
35:Comfort is the enemy of creativity. ~ T D Jakes,
36:Competence is the enemy of change! ~ Seth Godin,
37:Complacency is the enemy of study. ~ Mao Zedong,
38:Fear is the enemy of curiosity. ~ Warren Berger,
39:Science is the enemy of the certain ~ Brian Cox,
40:The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ~ Dan Wells,
41:Time is the enemy of freedom. ~ Andy Hargreaves,
42:Humor was the enemy of desire. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
43:It's right to learn, even from the enemy. ~ Ovid,
44:remember: the enemy gets a vote. ~ Jocko Willink,
45:Success is the enemy of comedy. ~ Jerry Seinfeld,
46:The enemy just hates our prayers. ~ Francis Chan,
47:The perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Voltaire,
48:Time is the enemy of identity ~ Michael Moorcock,
49:We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly,
50:Clichés are the enemy of taste. ~ William Zinsser,
51:Comparison is the enemy of happiness, ~ Seth King,
52:Fear is the enemy of transparency. ~ Kyle Idleman,
53:Good is the enemy of great. And ~ James C Collins,
54:Poetry is the enemy of the poem. ~ Stanley Kunitz,
55:reality is the enemy of expectation. ~ Sean Platt,
56:Sugar is the enemy of neurogenesis. ~ Dave Asprey,
57:The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ~ Ally Carter,
58:Wear pink. It confuses the enemy. ~ Donita K Paul,
59:Worry worships the words of the enemy ~ T D Jakes,
60:Comfort is the enemy of achievement. ~ Farrah Gray,
61:Free time is the enemy of progress ~ Casey Neistat,
62:mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy ~ Sun Tzu,
63:Perfect is the enemy of done. ~ Catherine Carrigan,
64:Right it is to be taught even by the enemy. ~ Ovid,
65:Silence is the enemy of justice. ~ Aline Ohanesian,
66:The enemy is always in the mind. ~ William Goldman,
67:The enemy is a very good teacher. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
68:Distance is the Enemy of Awareness. ~ J B MacKinnon,
69:Facts are the enemy of truth. ~ Miguel de Cervantes,
70:Fear of our own depths is the enemy. ~ James Hollis,
71:Fight the enemy. Not their people. ~ Patrick Weekes,
72:Food is not the enemy -Society is ~ Amanda Lovelace,
73:Good is often the enemy of best. ~ Edwin Louis Cole,
74:Panic, not the task, is the enemy. ~ Melody Beattie,
75:Pronouns are the enemy of improv. ~ Craig Cackowski,
76:Resistance is the enemy within. ~ Steven Pressfield,
77:Abstraction is the enemy of meaning. ~ Marshall Ganz,
78:Adequacy is the enemy of excellence. ~ Peter Drucker,
79:Casualness is the enemy of pretense. ~ Michael Wolff,
80:Complexity is the enemy of execution! ~ Tony Robbins,
81:Conformity is the enemy of friendship ~ Richard Peck,
82:Depression is the enemy of action. ~ John Ironmonger,
83:I fought with my twin, the enemy within. ~ Bob Dylan,
84:Negativity is the enemy of creativity. ~ David Lynch,
85:Normal is the enemy of interesting. ~ Peter Lerangis,
86:The enemy of execution is complexity. ~ Tony Robbins,
87:The enemy of my enemy… Is my husband. ~ Cynthia Eden,
88:The enemy of persuasion is obscurity. ~ Nancy Duarte,
89:Certainty is the enemy of change. ~ Salvador Minuchin,
90:Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism. ~ Ron Paul,
91:The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ~ Brigid Kemmerer,
92:the enemy of our enemy is our ally, ~ Raymond E Feist,
93:We have met the enemy, and it is us. ~ Glenda Gilmore,
94:You just remember who the enemy is, ~ Suzanne Collins,
95:Coincidence is the enemy of believability. ~ Anonymous,
96:Good taste is the enemy of creativity. ~ Pablo Picasso,
97:I am the enemy of anything parochial. ~ George Brandis,
98:No, lack of competence is the enemy of good ~ Gene Kim,
99:No plan survives contact with the enemy ~ Erwin Rommel,
100:'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'. ~ Meg Whitman,
101:Politics is the enemy of the imagination. ~ Ian Mcewan,
102:Remember, the enemy's gate is down. ~ Orson Scott Card,
103:Success! Success! The enemy of progress! ~ Edgar Degas,
104:Surprise is the enemy of prudence. ~ Goliarda Sapienza,
105:You will learn to defeat the enemy. ~ Orson Scott Card,
106:Belief is the enemy of a storyteller ~ Rabih Alameddine,
107:Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing ~ Mark Manson,
108:Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P ~ Oscar Wilde,
109:Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets. ~ James O Barr,
110:The sofa is the enemy of productivity. ~ Demetri Martin,
111:To identify the enemy is to free the mind. ~ Mari Evans,
112:Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless. ~ Bram Stoker,
113:What… the enemy of my enemy is my friend? ~ Chanda Hahn,
114:Comfort is the enemy of the artist. ~ Stephen Tobolowsky,
115:Fuck death, it’s not the enemy, zombies are. ~ Mark Tufo,
116:If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. ~ Sun Tzu,
117:The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. ~ Tom Robbins,
118:The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ~ Melissa de la Cruz,
119:War itself is the enemy of the human race. ~ Howard Zinn,
120:common sense is the enemy of romance ~ Eric Jerome Dickey,
121:Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism. ~ Francis Crick,
122:Idleness is the enemy of the soul. ~ Anselm of Canterbury,
123:Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability. ~ Mark Cuban,
124:Struggle is the enemy, but weed is the remedy. ~ Kid Cudi,
125:Verbosity is the enemy of eloquence. ~ Rebecca M Douglass,
126:Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away. ~ Fabius Maximus,
127:Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” I ~ Camille Pag n,
128:Fear is only the enemy if you allow it to be ~ Sabaa Tahir,
129:Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard. ~ Monica Crowley,
130:I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend. ~ Nalini Singh,
131:In a crisis, time was always the enemy. ~ Stephen L Carter,
132:Industry is the enemy of melancholy ~ William F Buckley Jr,
133:It's best to know what the enemy are saying. ~ J K Rowling,
134:rule of war – always try and get the enemy ~ Simon Scarrow,
135:Daily life is the enemy of greatness. ~ Marianne Williamson,
136:Damaging the enemy financially is fair game. ~ Alex Pacheco,
137:He however knows when the enemy is stronger. ~ Paulo Coelho,
138:Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion. ~ Eric Metaxas,
139:Never let the enemy pick the battle site. ~ George S Patton,
140:no plan survives contact with the enemy. ~ Philip E Tetlock,
141:no plan survives first contact with the enemy. ~ M D Massey,
142:Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. ~ Amy Dickinson,
143:The enemy is in you, but it is not you. ~ Steven Pressfield,
144:The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! ~ Robert E Lee,
145:The enemy of accountability is ambiguity ~ Patrick Lencioni,
146:the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself ~ John Barth,
147:The good is always the enemy of the best. ~ Oswald Chambers,
148:To surprise the enemy is to defeat him. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
149:After all, desire is the enemy of contentment. ~ Lena Dunham,
150:And the enemy you’ll be fighting is yourself. ~ Louise Penny,
151:Expectations are the enemy of happiness. ~ Kimberley Freeman,
152:Facts are the enemy of truth. ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
153:Idleness is the enemy of the soul. ~ Dennis Patrick Slattery,
154:If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in. ~ Sun Tzu,
155:In politics, purity is the enemy of victory. ~ Haley Barbour,
156:The enemy of the "best" is often the "good." ~ Stephen Covey,
157:You cannot blame everything on the enemy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
158:Activity is the enemy of investment returns. ~ Warren Buffett,
159:Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. ~ Martin Ritt,
160:Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing. ~ Guy Kawasaki,
161:Doubt is the enemy of creativeness. ~ Constantin Stanislavski,
162:Doubt is the enemy of creativeness. ~ Konstantin Stanislavski,
163:Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ~ Joel Osteen,
164:Taylor is the enemy of everything awesome. ~ Becky Albertalli,
165:The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. ~ Stephen R Covey,
166:Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy. ~ E W Howe,
167:Do not marry the enemy of your excitement. ~ Nathaniel Branden,
168:Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”? ~ Ryan Holiday,
169:Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
170:The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ~ Orson Welles,
171:The enemy of my enemy is my friend . - Vincent ~ Penelope King,
172:We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Lee Child,
173:We have met the enemy and they are ours. ~ Oliver Hazard Perry,
174:Why fight the enemy when you could food them? ~ Veronica Rossi,
175:Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. ~ Warren Buffett,
176:Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie? ~ Rick Yancey,
177:Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom. ~ Ron Paul,
178:...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason. ~ Ayn Rand,
179:I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice. ~ Bryan Stevenson,
180:Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. ~ Saul Alinsky,
181:Never trust the enemy that gives you presents ~ Alexandre Dumas,
182:Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. ~ James Altucher,
183:Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love. ~ Karen Horney,
184:The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength ~ Paulo Coelho,
185:A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
186:Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Gretchen Rubin,
187:Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Gretchen Rubin,
188:Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. ~ Ray Bradbury,
189:For emotion is the enemy of rational argument. ~ Steven D Levitt,
190:Government is the enemy until you need a friend. ~ William Cohen,
191:It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you. ~ Robert Jordan,
192:Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity. ~ Ray Bradbury,
193:She's not the enemy. She's just a dirty fighter. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
194:Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don’t. ~ Jim Butcher,
195:He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy. ~ Bertolt Brecht,
196:Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him. ~ Conn Iggulden,
197:Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved. ~ Carl Jung,
198:The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,
199:The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. ~ Derek Landy,
200:The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate. ~ Indira Gandhi,
201:we can’t let “best” be the enemy of “better. ~ Michael C Feathers,
202:Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. ~ Ulysses S Grant,
203:Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,
204:I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
205:Liberalism within ourselves is always the enemy. ~ Jonathan Bowden,
206:Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. ~ Bertrand Russell,
207:Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.- ~ Carl Jung,
208:Self-justification is the enemy of repentance. ~ Spencer W Kimball,
209:The enemy of great writing is distraction ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen,
210:The truth is that reason is the enemy of life. ~ Miguel de Unamuno,
211:Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality. ~ W Edwards Deming,
212:Voltaire wrote, “The perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Anonymous,
213:Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. ~ Alfred Hitchcock,
214:I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
215:The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation. ~ Thomas Harris,
216:Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless. ~ Bram Stoker,
217:When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. ~ Susan Faludi,
218:and the enemy didn’t need line of sight to affect them. ~ M R Forbes,
219:Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility. ~ Martin Fowler,
220:Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies. ~ Jack Vance,
221:Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is. ~ Carol Tavris,
222:Fat is not the enemy in your diet. Fat is your friend. ~ Jimmy Moore,
223:Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief. ~ Max Lucado,
224:Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development. ~ Max Anders,
225:Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness. ~ Hugh Mackay,
226:Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ~ August Bebel,
227:Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great. ~ Don Meyer,
228:If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him? ~ Rick Yancey,
229:Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice ~ Peter D Ward,
230:One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. ~ Orson Scott Card,
231:Self consciousness is the enemy of interestingness ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
232:The enemy of memory isn’t time; it’s other memories. ~ David Eagleman,
233:Voltaire: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” This ~ Howard Marks,
234:Caden might be my partner, but he was also the enemy. ~ Laura Thalassa,
235:Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
236:Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. ~ Sun Tzu,
237:The enemy is a very good teacher. — the Dalai Lama ~ Steven Pressfield,
238:The enemy of her enemy was not necessarily her friend. ~ Thea Harrison,
239:Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? ~ Virgil,
240:I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions. ~ Thucydides,
241:If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. ~ Sun Tzu,
242:No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. ~ George Lopez,
243:Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. ~ Jonathan Ive,
244:self-consciousness is the enemy of “interestingness. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
245:This was a revolution, whether the enemy knew it or not. ~ Shelly Crane,
246:Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan,
247:In the drug war, the enemy is racially defined. The ~ Michelle Alexander,
248:Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you. ~ Markus Zusak,
249:Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ Tim Ferriss,
250:Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare. ~ Sabaa Tahir,
251:Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,
252:The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
253:The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. —ORSON WELLES ~ Dan Roam,
254:The enemy of creation is not uncertainty, it’s inertia. ~ Jocelyn K Glei,
255:Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy. ~ Donita K Paul,
256:Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. ~ Saul Alinsky,
257:Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to? ~ Sherwood Smith,
258:A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected. ~ Chanakya,
259:As Voltaire once wrote, “The best is the enemy of the good. ~ James Clear,
260:Certainty is the enemy of growth and high performance. ~ Brendon Burchard,
261:The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
262:The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
263:What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy. ~ Horatio Nelson,
264:When one is trying to avoid sleep, darkness is the enemy.  ~ Keary Taylor,
265:Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy ~ Gore Vidal,
266:as Voltaire put it, the perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Rutger Bregman,
267:Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is. ~ Norman Cousins,
268:Do you even know who the enemy is?"
"I think... it's me". ~ Ned Vizzini,
269:Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home. ~ Charles Frazier,
270:The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. ~ Dalai Lama,
271:The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. ~ David Nevins,
272:Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery! ~ Lil Wayne,
273:If the enemy were gods, he had to become a godslayer. This ~ Vaughn Heppner,
274:Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won ~ Orson Scott Card,
275:The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” —Orson Welles ~ Todd Henry,
276:The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
277:What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'. ~ Jerry B Jenkins,
278:What I fear is not the enemy’s strategy, but our own mistakes. ~ Thucydides,
279:Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency. ~ Eoin Colfer,
280:Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source. ~ Stuart Kauffman,
281:Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. ~ Sun Tzu,
282:If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
283:No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
284:Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. ~ K b Abe,
285:Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
286:Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won? ~ Orson Scott Card,
287:The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us. ~ Orson Scott Card,
288:Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. ~ William Shakespeare,
289:Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~ John F Kennedy,
290:Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy. ~ Tom Shadyac,
291:I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
292:Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter,
293:No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy. ~ Douglas MacArthur,
294:Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. ~ Mao Zedong,
295:Perfectionism really is the enemy of happiness and success. ~ Valerie Frankel,
296:perhaps pain’s the enemy no matter which side you’re on, ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky,
297:The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us. ~ Robert E Lee,
298:The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. ~ Plutarch,
299:Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. ~ Sun Tzu,
300:'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. ~ William Shakespeare,
301:To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing. ~ Mao Zedong,
302:To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him. ~ Cassandra Clare,
303:What I fear is not the enemy’s strategy but our own mistakes. ~ Robert Greene,
304:When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away... ~ Sun Tzu,
305:Who is the enemy? Lack of energy. ~ The Jewel-wreath of Questions and Answers,
306:Distracting thoughts are like the enemy in the fortress. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
307:If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
308:No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale. ~ Seth Dickinson,
309:One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. ~ Gore Vidal,
310:The enemy inside is far more powerful than the enemy outside. ~ Neel Mukherjee,
311:The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death. ~ Andrei Zhdanov,
312:The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
313:The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
314:The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
315:To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
316:When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy. ~ Warren Buffett,
317:Aggressive confrontation is the enemy of constructive negotiation. ~ Chris Voss,
318:Baggy pants, baggy eyes --anything baggy is the enemy. ~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn,
319:The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is really fear. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
320:The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends. ~ Paul Dale,
321:The enemy of my enemy is my friend ... even if it's a monster. ~ Nnedi Okorafor,
322:thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. ~ Sean Patrick,
323:Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free. ~ Janis Ian,
324:You’re the enemy. You’re the one who’s going to defeat yourself. ~ Paul Russell,
325:But what clouds our view is the Enemy’s skill at cropping photos. ~ Louie Giglio,
326:But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy. ~ Melina Marchetta,
327:He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. ~ Sun Tzu,
328:Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him. ~ Sun Tzu,
329:The best is the enemy of the good. (Le mieux est lennemi du bien.)
   ~ Voltaire,
330:The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without. ~ Stephen Jay Gould,
331:Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. ~ Edward Abbey,
332:War was a democracy, he knew.  The enemy got a vote too. ~ Christopher G Nuttall,
333:Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible. ~ Stonewall Jackson,
334:Don't play with your calling, because the enemy certainly isn't. ~ Andrena Sawyer,
335:[Hillary Clinton] are telling the enemy everything you want to do. ~ Donald Trump,
336:If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory ~ Carlson Gracie,
337:Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) ~ Voltaire,
338:Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning. ~ Jentezen Franklin,
339:The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy. ~ Mao Zedong,
340:What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ~ Sun Tzu,
341:When you're in the arena... you just remember who the enemy is. ~ Suzanne Collins,
342:assume we know how the story ends. Certainty is the enemy of growth. ~ Mark Manson,
343:It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is ~ Plutarch,
344:Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ Winston Churchill,
345:Now my own self is the enemy, and sentient beings are the friends. ~ Thupten Jinpa,
346:The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else. ~ Adrienne Rich,
347:The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu,
348:the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu,
349:They have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. ~ E M Forster,
350:Those skilled in warfare move the enemy, and are not moved by the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
351:You just remember who the enemy is,” Haymitch says. “That’s all. ~ Suzanne Collins,
352:If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
353:It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible? ~ Ford Madox Ford,
354:Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
355:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. ~ Anne Lamott,
356:They can't get their head around 'the better is the enemy of the good. ~ John Ringo,
357:When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat. ~ Oswald Boelcke,
358:Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'. ~ Douglas MacArthur,
359:Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. ~ Stanley Crouch,
360:Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great. ~ James C Collins,
361:It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war. ~ George W Bush,
362:Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack. ~ Mao Zedong,
363:Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. ~ Sun Tzu,
364:Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
365:Never interrupt the enemy when he’s in the middle of making a mistake. ~ Evan Currie,
366:Take heed your actions lest ye become like the enemy ye seek to destroy. ~ Mark Tufo,
367:The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself. ~ Johnny Hunt,
368:Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms. ~ Chanakya,
369:When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. ~ John Mellencamp,
370:When the enemy attacks you, this means that you are on the right road. ~ Enver Hoxha,
371:Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. ~ J E B Stuart,
372:Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
373:If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion. ~ Idries Shah,
374:If you are in favour of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy. ~ Alexander Dugin,
375:It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. ~ Fernando de Rojas,
376:It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack. ~ J R R Tolkien,
377:Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy. ~ Khalil Gibran,
378:One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
379:The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion ~ Stephen Jay Gould,
380:The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures. ~ Saint Jerome,
381:The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. ~ Kristina McMorris,
382:Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. ~ Tertullian,
383:We are not the enemy,” he says. “That’s what the enemy always says. ~ Neal Shusterman,
384:We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity. ~ G K Chesterton,
385:We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women. ~ Karen DeCrow,
386:When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru,
387:Equality before the enemy—first precondition for an honest duel. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
388:Fear is not of the Lord. It is of the Enemy. Do not give in to it. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren,
389:I am in Love with the soul and wisdom.I am the enemy of false images ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
390:If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle ~ Sun Tzu,
391:Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril. ~ Sun Tzu,
392:Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom. ~ Philip K Howard,
393:Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom. ~ Mary E Pearson,
394:Take heed your actions lest ye become like the enemy ye seek to destroy.’  ~ Mark Tufo,
395:The art of war,” I told him, “is to make the enemy do your bidding. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
396:The enemy of faith is doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Faith and Shakti,
397:... the inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy. ~ Daphne du Maurier,
398:They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man ~ William Blake,
399:You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
400:And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy! ~ Christopher Logue,
401:Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
402:Chronic oversupply is the enemy of farmers in both rich and poor countries. ~ Anonymous,
403:Conformity, in Mill’s account, is the enemy of the best way to live. ~ Michael J Sandel,
404:Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; ~ Steven Erikson,
405:I am in Love with the soul and wisdom. I am the enemy of false images ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
406:If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ~ Sun Tzu,
407:In war what you don’t dislike is not usually what the enemy does. ~ Winston S Churchill,
408:     No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~ Jim Benson,
409:The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam. ~ John Cornyn,
410:The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. —SUN TZU ~ Megan Goldin,
411:They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. ~ David Levithan,
412:Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
413:If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. ~ Donald Trump,
414:Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
415:Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part. ~ Pippa DaCosta,
416:The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant. ~ Derek Landy,
417:The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. ~ Orson Welles,
418:The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. —Sun-tzu ~ Michael Lewis,
419:Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ Warren Buffett,
420:Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
421:Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. ~ James Gleick,
422:We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive. ~ Greg Gutfeld,
423:Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,
424:Don't underestimate your own triumphs. Leave it to the enemy.
# Krishn ~ Shinde Sweety,
425:Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God. ~ Yasser Arafat,
426:How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy. ~ Seth Godin,
427:If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win. ~ Sun Tzu,
428:Professionalism is always the enemy of authentic gospel leadership. Leaders ~ Tim Chester,
429:Sometimes the enemy that was hardest to fight was the one within yourself. ~ Aim e Thurlo,
430:The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature. ~ M F Moonzajer,
431:The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me ~ Oscar Wilde,
432:they had encountered the enemy, and in the first two days several thousand ~ Misha Glenny,
433:Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ~ Pablo Picasso,
434:Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways. ~ Melina Marchetta,
435:Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. ~ Mao Zedong,
436:Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. ~ Atul Gawande,
437:I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. ~ Stonewall Jackson,
438:Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us ~ Anna Wickham,
439:Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. ~ Saint Augustine,
440:Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
441:Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
442:the gospel of Christ was given in the promise of the curse of the enemy. That ~ R C Sproul,
443:There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good. ~ Roy Jenkins,
444:Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ Alice Schroeder,
445:To prevent the enemy from fathoming one’s intentions is of the first importance. ~ Sun Tzu,
446:At least we had work to do, and work fills in the time, and time is the enemy. ~ K J Parker,
447:Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. ~ Chuck Close,
448:Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. ~ Thomas Hardy,
449:In battle, the enemy takes you prisoner; and in peace, love and music! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
450:Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Barry Eisler,
451:Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence. ~ Sun Tzu,
452:The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
453:The enemy's power is rendered powerless in the presence of God's promises. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
454:The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist. ~ Louis L Amour,
455:The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. ~ Nate Silver,
456:When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy! ~ Benjamin Netanyahu,
457:When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch ~ Suzanne Collins,
458:You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. ~ Richelle Mead,
459:Above all things avoid heedlessness; it is the enemy of all virtues. ~ Fo-shu-hiug-tsan-king,
460:Comparison is the enemy of happiness, stop measuring yourself against the world. ~ Seth King,
461:Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. ~ Sun Tzu,
462:Maybe I’m not the enemy; maybe marriage is the enemy, and I’m merely its victim. ~ E K Blair,
463:No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke ~ Mike Cohn,
464:The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. ~ Irving Kristol,
465:Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy. ~ Deepak Chopra,
466:A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
467:common soldier must fear his officer more than the enemy’: Frederick the Great) ~ John Keegan,
468:C. P. Snow once argued that foolish faith in authority is the enemy of truth. ~ Naomi Oreskes,
469:Don’t let your obsession with perfection become the enemy of being good enough. ~ Evan Currie,
470:Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing. ~ H W Brands,
471:It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war. ~ Stefan Zweig,
472:keep faith in yourself. You command your own destiny. Not the enemy. Only you. ~ Hazel Gaynor,
473:My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
474:Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. ~ Thomas More,
475:The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within. ~ Arthur Miller,
476:The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. ~ Arthur Miller,
477:They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy. ~ Neal Shusterman,
478:A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
479:Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order ~ Norman Spinrad,
480:I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you. ~ Willie Aames,
481:It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. ~ J R R Tolkien,
482:The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking, and honest writing. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
483:This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception. ~ Victor Hugo,
484:When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play. ~ Bill Maher,
485:Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace. ~ John of Damascus,
486:You can’t win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave. ~ Jim Butcher,
487:A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy. ~ David Lagercrantz,
488:Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
489:Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. JOHN F. KENNEDY ~ Brendon Burchard,
490:Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. ~ Sun Bin,
491:Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. ~ Bill O Reilly,
492:The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him! ~ Pierre Desproges,
493:The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy. ~ Mark Bowden,
494:Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. ~ Hermann Goring,
495:All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say. ~ George W Bush,
496:Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. ~ Sun Tzu,
497:I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do. ~ Tommy Franks,
498:Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu,
499:No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. ~ Horatio Nelson,
500:Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself. ~ Adolf Hitler,
501:Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. ~ Arthur Erickson,
502:Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle. ~ T D Jakes,
503:She made a suck-bad prisoner of war wanting to sleep with the enemy.’ (Abbie) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
504:Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse ~ Pippa DaCosta,
505:The enemy of my enemy is my friend; the earworm of my grandmother is my weapon. ~ Seanan McGuire,
506:The enemy of “the best” is not “the worst.” The enemy of “the best” is “just fine. ~ Dave Ramsey,
507:The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. ~ Saul Alinsky,
508:We have struck the enemy a heavy blow but we have also drawn their attention. ~ Peter A Flannery,
509:We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports ~ Mao Zedong,
510:A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice. ~ Sting,
511:Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames. ~ Billy Bishop,
512:Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. ~ Matt Lucas,
513:Learn to treat doubt as a friend, not the enemy, and thank it for questioning you. ~ Louise L Hay,
514:That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing. ~ Donald Trump,
515:The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ~ Joseph Heller,
516:The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats. ~ Stonewall Jackson,
517:The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. ~ Sun Tzu,
518:A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
519:Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. ~ Emilie Autumn,
520:How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? ~ Elie Wiesel,
521:[...in interaction diagrams], comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility. ~ Martin Fowler,
522:It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
523:Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ~ Anonymous,
524:Plans made without allowance for the intentions of the enemy are liable to miscarry. ~ John Keegan,
525:The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. ~ Joseph Heller,
526:The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you. ~ C S Lewis,
527:We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing. ~ Oliver Hazard Perry,
528:Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
529:Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. ~ Sterling Hayden,
530:First, no plan survives contact with the enemy. Second, the enemy also makes plans. ~ Craig Alanson,
531:Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. ~ Bill Jensen,
532:If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend. ~ Holly Black,
533:Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. ~ Thomas Paine,
534:O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me ~ Aldo Leopold,
535:Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child. ~ Edward O Wilson,
536:Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose. ~ Sun Tzu,
537:The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
538:These other armies, they aren’t the enemy. It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy. ~ Orson Scott Card,
539:Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality. ~ Merlin Mann,
540:We need to make fast decisions here. We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Lee Child,
541:A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great. ~ Jonathan Karl,
542:Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. ~ J F C Fuller,
543:Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up ~ Dalai Lama,
544:I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy. ~ Natalie Dormer,
545:In cases of Defense ‘tis best to weigh
The Enemy more mighty than he seems. ~ William Shakespeare,
546:It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best. ~ Sun Tzu,
547:Love is the enemy of sound judgment, and occasionally this is in service of the good. ~ Tayari Jones,
548:Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. ~ Hugh Hefner,
549:The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Julian of Norwich,
550:The enemy knows better than we do that nothing is bigger or more powerful than our God. ~ Beth Moore,
551:The police have come to resemble an occupying army who see the citizenry as the enemy. ~ Matt Ridley,
552:The Society made it clear: we’re not to injure each other. That’s for the Enemy to do. ~ Ally Condie,
553:Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge. ~ Roger Scruton,
554:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu,
555:If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu,
556:King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." ~ Plutarch,
557:Perfectionism is not only the enemy of the good; it is the enemy of adulthood. ~ Julie Lythcott Haims,
558:The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,
559:to be well-fed while the enemy is famished: — this is the art of husbanding one’s strength. ~ Sun Tzu,
560:How is it I’m the enemy when she’s the other woman? That seems very unfair, doesn’t it? ~ Paula McLain,
561:Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. ~ Milan Kundera,
562:No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,
563:The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you ~ Winston Churchill,
564:When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies. ~ Camille Paglia,
565:When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country. ~ Nhat Hanh,
566:For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. ~ Umberto Eco,
567:For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. ~ Sun Tzu,
568:It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's? ~ James Mattis,
569:It’s easy to rattle the saber if the enemy’s five thousand or more kilometers distant. ~ Jack L Chalker,
570:It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend. ~ Somi Ekhasomhi,
571:Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him ~ Sun Tzu,
572:To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
573:When in the house of the enemy, the best rooms are always the ones with the lights out. ~ Dean F Wilson,
574:you cannot fend off the enemy if you do not have confidence in those who stand behind you. ~ Robin Hobb,
575:Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench! ~ Meg Cabot,
576:Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours. ~ Halsey,
577:Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. ~ Horatio Nelson,
578:It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~ Voltaire,
579:It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. ~ Dalai Lama,
580:It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within."-Nick ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
581:I would rather save the enemy who tells me the truth than the friend who tells me lies. ~ Gena Showalter,
582:Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness. ~ Wayne Johnston,
583:Spike traps are not my friends. Spike traps are the enemy. I will avoid them at all costs. ~ Andrew Rowe,
584:That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. ~ James C Collins,
585:The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A Dark Lord has no friends. The Dark Lord’s Handbook ~ Paul Dale,
586:the enemy of security: repetition leads to patterns, and cryptanalysts thrive on patterns. ~ Simon Singh,
587:The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. ~ Rumi,
588:The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. ~ Rumi,
589:Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ~ Joseph Conrad,
590:As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon ~ Howard Tayler,
591:Complacency is the enemy, and getting started is as triumphant as crossing the finish line. ~ Chip Gaines,
592:Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. ~ Sun Tzu,
593:Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.

"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree ~ Hanns Heinz Ewers,
594:If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ Sun Tzu,
595:One of his sayings is, ‘When the walls fall down, all we have left is the enemy within. ~ Scott Nicholson,
596:Sometimes I feel I am living with the Enemy. Sometimes I know I am living with the Enemy. ~ Kate Zambreno,
597:Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else. ~ Jay Roach,
598:Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency. ~ Anonymous,
599:The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. ~ Democritus,
600:The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have. ~ T D Jakes,
601:There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. ~ George Washington,
602:Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy. ~ Sun Tzu,
603:With us [...] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around. ~ Markus Zusak,
604:Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
605:Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
606:If you’re not still learning, you’re already dying." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 104 ~ Ryan Holiday,
607:In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath. ~ Breyten Breytenbach,
608:I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. ~ J G Ballard,
609:Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,
610:The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. ~ Voltaire,
611:The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ~ Anais Nin,
612:There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,
613:To stop the terrorist, we need to give born to our own terrorist; Ruthless than the enemy. ~ M F Moonzajer,
614:When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. ~ Sun Tzu,
615:You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
616:An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ~ Mao Zedong,
617:elevate learning as a core metric. The enemy of creation is not uncertainty, it’s inertia. ~ Jocelyn K Glei,
618:Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too. ~ Steve Earle,
619:I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. ~ Ken Buck,
620:It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
   ~ Voltaire,
621:It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like. ~ Natalie Portman,
622:I won’t be captured. The finest way to die is in the excitement of fighting the enemy. ~ William Manchester,
623:Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed. ~ William C Brown,
624:of Turenne, deception of the enemy, especially as to the numerical strength of his troops, took a ~ Sun Tzu,
625:The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering. ~ Bruce Lee,
626:The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk. ~ Mark Lawrence,
627:The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have. ~ Truman Capote,
628:True joy is never the enemy of godly grief. Joy is what trains and equips us to bear it. ~ Hannah K Grieser,
629:with one goal, seeking information of some movement of the enemy, whether anyone was shifting ~ Jeff Shaara,
630:But in the fourth century, as in any other, ‘no plan survives first contact with the enemy’. ~ Peter Heather,
631:Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls. ~ Mark Dever,
632:If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen,
633:I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex. ~ Hugh Hefner,
634:Let the enemy see the sword in my hand,but not the long dagger which I keep behind the back ~ Giles Kristian,
635:Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. ~ John Updike,
636:Sometimes there is no alternative but to dress like the enemy so you can defeat him.” She, ~ Michael R Hicks,
637:The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers. ~ Christopher Dorner,
638:The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ~ Ana s Nin,
639:War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. ~ George Washington,
640:We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
641:When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. ~ Sun Tzu,
642:If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
643:It is because of this enemy, the enemy of time, that I have forsaken the luxury of hindsight and ~ Max Brooks,
644:It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. ~ Orson Scott Card,
645:Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. ~ William Shakespeare,
646:Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ~ Bono,
647:The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. ~ Jubal Early,
648:The enemy of forming new habits is past behaviors, and research suggests that old habits die hard. ~ Nir Eyal,
649:The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. ~ Quentin Crisp,
650:Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ~ Paul Fussell,
651:We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy. ~ Joseph Boyden,
652:Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ~ George Santayana,
653:Being right is the enemy of staying right because it leads you to forget the way the world works ~ Jason Zweig,
654:Che Guevara’s manual: Know the terrain; hit the enemy at its weakest; never use brute strength. ~ Ted Kerasote,
655:Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor. ~ Steven Pressfield,
656:Emet grunted, flooring the brakes, finally halting only a heartbeat away from the enemy hull. ~ Daniel Arenson,
657:He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. ~ Socrates,
658:If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
659:In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko,
660:Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. ~ Bob Dylan,
661:Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~ Henry Kissinger,
662:Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Pippa DaCosta Muse ~ Pippa DaCosta,
663:The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie. ~ Brother Andrew,
664:The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
665:To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
666:We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland. ~ Petro Poroshenko,
667:How I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy. ~ Meghan McCain,
668:I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. ~ Duke of Wellington,
669:If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. ~ Sun Tzu,
670:It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. ~ Chris Cleave,
671:No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~ Henry A Kissinger,
672:One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him. ~ Sun Tzu,
673:People remember the Enemy of Death," said Alma. "But they forget the man who made him who he was. ~ Holly Black,
674:Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin’ good. ~ Bren Brown,
675:Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house! ~ Rick Riordan,
676:Until you know that you’re tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don’t commit to battle. ~ Orson Scott Card,
677:War is a democracy, Commissioner,” Marius said, shrugging. “The enemy gets a vote, too. ~ Christopher G Nuttall,
678:We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. ~ Oswald Chambers,
679:Words were not the enemy or the monster under my bed, but they held such power over me. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
680:Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to the living. ~ William Shakespeare,
681:Those who are able to adapt and change in accord with the enemy and achieve victory are called divine. ~ Sun Tzu,
682:To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy. ~ Oswald Chambers,
683:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ~ Sun Tzu,
684:You, there, girl! Halt!"
Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to? ~ Sherwood Smith,
685:If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself? ~ Toba Beta,
686:Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland. ~ Adolf Hitler,
687:The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid. ~ Terry Pratchett,
688:The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid. ~ Terry Pratchett,
689:The fact is the enemy right now is within the Muslim community. A small percentage but it`s there. ~ Donald Trump,
690:Thus little by little the enemy invades the soul, if it is not resisted from the beginning. ~ Imitation of Christ,
691:Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
692:When there were more of the enemy than you had bullets, you knew that you were in a bad, bad place. ~ Evan Currie,
693:A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow. ~ Adolf Hitler,
694:Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
695:In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. ~ Kate Adie,
696:Like the vampire Lothaire, the Enemy of Old, with his white-blond hair and eerily sinister hotness. ~ Kresley Cole,
697:Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~ Henry Kissinger,
698:Tis best to weight the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
Or she, as was this particular case. ~ Kerrigan Byrne,
699:Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?” “Because they so often behave like an alien species? ~ Tess Gerritsen,
700:In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
701:Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ~ Betty Friedan,
702:Since when,” asked the man, his voice soft and rasping, “do you have to tell the enemy when be has won? ~ Anonymous,
703:The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you. ~ Mark Hart,
704:the search for a ‘suitable’ church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil. What ~ C S Lewis,
705:War isn’t about dying for your country. It’s about making the enemy die for his.” Gen. George S. Patton ~ Lee Child,
706:Early in the morning a guard taps me awake. “So far, so good,” she whispers. “Remember who the enemy is. ~ Anonymous,
707:I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman ~ James Patterson,
708:No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. ~ Laozi,
709:The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
710:We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God. ~ David Wilkerson,
711:We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything.” Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 99 ~ Ryan Holiday,
712:While you are able, never hesitate to inflict hurt upon the enemy. There is no fairness in war. ~ Marc Alan Edelheit,
713:And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him. ~ Sun Tzu,
714:Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. ~ Sun Tzu,
715:I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy. ~ Matt Dillon,
716:I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks. ~ George W Bush,
717:If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that’s a given. ~ William Goldman,
718:I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear. ~ Wes Craven,
719:Law enforcement is uniformly a weapon of the state, and the state is universally the enemy of its people. ~ S M Reine,
720:Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3 ~ Beth Moore,
721:No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt. ~ Tim Harford,
722:The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe. ~ Bob Dylan,
723:There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer. ~ Orson Scott Card,
724:the trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick. ~ Gordon R Dickson,
725:thought of her grandsons. For their sake, she would challenge the enemy when they banged on her gates ~ Carol McGrath,
726:Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy. ~ Martin van Creveld,
727:Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. … Sun Tzu, Art of War ~ Dennis E Taylor,
728:You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
729:Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. ~ Mao Zedong,
730:Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. ~ Sun Tzu,
731:Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ~ Betty Friedan,
732:Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen ~ George S Patton,
733:The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf,
734:The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. ~ Thomas Hobbes,
735:Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. ~ G K Chesterton,
736:As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. ~ Slavoj Zizek,
737:Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1837),
738:I can't imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are. ~ Emily P Freeman,
739:I can’t imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are. ~ Emily P Freeman,
740:If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak. ~ Sun Tzu,
741:I’m not sure if it’s because of us or because of the Enemy. I wonder who they think is the bigger threat. ~ Ally Condie,
742:overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it. ~ Neal Stephenson,
743:The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. ~ Sun Tzu,
744:The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. ~ Bayard Rustin,
745:To win our races, we will dare! The enemy may try every means to stop us, but look, "we won't care! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
746:Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless. ~ Raymond E Feist,
747:When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. ~ Mao Zedong,
748:While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard. ~ B H Liddell Hart,
749:Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art.
It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack. ~ Toba Beta,
750:Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. ~ James Q Wilson,
751:Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose. ~ Daniel Bruhl,
752:I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy. ~ Karen Traviss,
753:Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. ~ Mel Bochner,
754:Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. ~ John Derbyshire,
755:Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin’ good. Nicholas ~ Bren Brown,
756:The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
757:There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later. ~ Jane Lindskold,
758:The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. ~ A J Liebling,
759:The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. —Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans ~ Steven Pressfield,
760:We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy. ~ Michael Savage,
761:When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly,
762:Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. ~ James C Collins,
763:Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. ~ Oliver Goldsmith,
764:[T]he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you. ~ Azar Nafisi,
765:All the enemy has to do to spread a lie is to twist the truth. Stay alert and open-minded. His Word is alive! ~ Beth Moore,
766:Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. ~ Rand Paul,
767:Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great. ~ James C Collins,
768:Hope lies beyond inaction! When inaction ends, hope rises like the sun! Inertia is the enemy of hope! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
769:I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
770:No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength, ~ Philip E Tetlock,
771:Our safety lies, not in making terms with the enemy, but in dwelling alone with our best Friend. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
772:That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. ~ August Strindberg,
773:The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. ~ John Wycliffe,
774:The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
775:To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. ~ Sun Tzu,
776:As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win. ~ John McCain,
777:It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. ~ Chester W Nimitz,
778:Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. ~ Sun Tzu,
779:We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. ~ George W Bush,
780:We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition. ~ Ivan Konev,
781:You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down. ~ Donna Lynn Hope,
782:Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. ~ Adolf Hitler,
783:Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
784:He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight. ~ Ian Fleming,
785:I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
786:If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
787:Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he’'s already taken your secret weapon.” ~ Greg Iles,
788:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. ~ Anne Lamott,
789:Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,
790:We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this. ~ James Mattis,
791:We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God. ~ Christine Caine,
792:When army review its forces more than 6 months and not attacking the enemy, know it is a danger to his people ~ Adolf Hitler,
793:You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch. ~ J F Lawton,
794:All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. ~ Sun Tzu,
795:Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend. ~ Terry Pratchett,
796:Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
797:It is theologically false to believe that satan is a counterpart to God, he is rather the enemy to Abraham. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim,
798:No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,
799:such astonishing rapidity that he was able to occupy a commanding position on the "North hill" before the enemy had ~ Sun Tzu,
800:The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan. ~ William G Boykin,
801:We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible. ~ Pat Benatar,
802:A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy. ~ E L Doctorow,
803:I was still screaming at the enemy, promising them death. I was Thor, I was Odin, I was the lord of battle. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
804:no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared. ~ Genevieve Cogman,
805:One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon. ~ Takeda Nobushige,
806:The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him. ~ James McBride,
807:Truth is the perfect tranquilizer. The enemy’s power is rendered powerless in the presence of God’s promises. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
808:We can be for peace without supporting the enemy. We can be against this war without rooting for the other side. ~ Tim Russert,
809:If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me. ~ Toba Beta,
810:I wish the enemy would hesitate to shoot when they see me, but you can't expect humanitarianism on the battlefield. ~ Carlo Zen,
811:No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,
812:Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ~ Oliver Goldsmith,
813:The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy is the one who wants you to give up. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd,
814:There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance. ~ Akhmad Kadyrov,
815:They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth. ~ Sidney Sheldon,
816:We’re on the enemy’s doorstep. We’re being asked to split up. Isn’t that how people get killed in horror movies? ~ Rick Riordan,
817:While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. ~ Aesop,
818:Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength. ~ Sun Tzu,
819:His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument. ~ Steven D Levitt,
820:Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth. ~ Henry Hazlitt,
821:Interesting is the enemy of the uninteresting! When these two come together, no one will notice the latter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
822:Is the colonel seriously telling us,’ Granger said, ‘that he’s had time to count the enemy dead and not his own? ~ Graham Greene,
823:Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa,
824:Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. ~ Mao Zedong,
825:They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. ~ Marianne Moore,
826:To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite. ~ C S Lewis,
827:What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid? ~ Hermann Goring,
828:You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer. ~ Maxwell Perkins,
829:You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave. ~ Leon Degrelle,
830:All their wishes centred in one, which was, that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back. ~ Thomas Paine,
831:Lord, I do not believe all that my eyes see, all that my body feels, and all that the enemy would bring against me. ~ John Osteen,
832:Remember, boy. From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From ~ Orson Scott Card,
833:Righteousness is like a weapon. It deflects the enemy’s attacks and positions you, God’s warrior, for victory. ~ Priscilla Shirer,
834:Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. ~ Sun Tzu,
835:When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well. ~ Jane Fonda,
836:how to quickly stuff my panic into a little black box and ignore it. Panic was the enemy of clear, quick thought and ~ Bobby Adair,
837:Interesting is the enemy of the non-interesting! When these two come together, no one will notice the latter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
838:Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf,
839:it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said. ~ Monica Ferris,
840:The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue ~ Mao Zedong,
841:The enemy’s ways are anything but original. He’s been trapping people the same way since the beginning of time. ~ Priscilla Shirer,
842:When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy. ~ Greg Iles,
843:While the enemy was distracted with the earl and his knights, Rhys moved through them like God smiting sinners. ~ Kathryn Le Veque,
844:Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. ~ Saul Alinsky,
845:If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy. ~ R C Sproul,
846:Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,
847:In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
848:It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau,
849:It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. ~ Charles de Lint,
850:Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. ~ Gloria Steinem,
851:On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. ~ Sun Tzu,
852:The one who’d hit the light was handsome and his head was shaved; a soldier in a war where the enemy was everyone else. ~ Anonymous,
853:When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy…. ~ Greg Iles,
854:Yes, God knew the number of a man’s days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. ~ Karen Kingsbury,
855:You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home. ~ gota Krist f,
856:Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. ~ Andre Maurois,
857:death is not the enemy; snakes are. And cheese: it is addictive and irresistible. I have had three kinds so far today. ~ Anne Lamott,
858:So long as I fail to view this [the self] as the enemy, so long will I continue to seek the well-being of this self. ~ Thupten Jinpa,
859:The light died on the window-sill as the last survivor of a charge dies on the enemy parapet, murdered but glorious. ~ Josephine Tey,
860:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
861:28  Awake, my soul!  No longer droop in sin.  Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul. ~ Joseph Smith Jr,
862:Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth. ~ Llewellyn Rockwell,
863:Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour. ~ Vo Nguyen Giap,
864:If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
865:It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one. ~ John Flanagan,
866:Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. ~ Hunter S Thompson,
867:Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did. ~ Rutherford B Hayes,
868:Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this. ~ Philip K Dick,
869:The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. ~ Bryant McGill,
870:The Jap,” as MacArthur called the enemy—nearly everyone else called Japanese “Nips,” short for “Dai Nippon,” the ~ William Manchester,
871:Time is short, Doctor,” said Dax. “And the perfect is the enemy of the good. Make do with what we’ve got—and do it fast. ~ David Mack,
872:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy’s "center of gravity ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
873:Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown? ~ G S Jennsen,
874:A military exists to kill the enemy. When it is used to keep order among its own people, the people become the enemy. ~ Mark E Henshaw,
875:God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick. ~ Thomas Watson,
876:It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
877:it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy. ~ Edward Gibbon,
878:It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy ~ Edward Gibbon,
879:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, ~ Anonymous,
880:Puck blinked, looking incredulous. "Uh, running toward the enemy? Isn't that like the opposite of what fall back means? ~ Julie Kagawa,
881:the worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks? ~ Charles Bukowski,
882:When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
883:You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
884:American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy. ~ George W Bush,
885:Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things. ~ Atul Gawande,
886:Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can. ~ Van Jones,
887:If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well. ~ George Friedman,
888:Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. ~ Karl Donitz,
889:The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God. ~ Mike Bickle,
890:Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
891:Absolute focus is the key to all great human achievement. Its opposite, preoccupation, is the enemy of all achievement. ~ Steve Chandler,
892:Be it concluded,
No barricado for a belly. Know't,
It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage. ~ William Shakespeare,
893:By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy. ~ Donald Trump,
894:Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. ~ Stephen King,
895:Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners. ~ Miroslav Volf,
896:If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us. ~ John Conyers,
897:I got the feeling he liked remembering the old days when the enemy was the Soviets and everybody knew what the rules were. ~ Terry Hayes,
898:It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging. ~ Michael Lewis,
899:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). ~ Pablo Picasso,
900:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life. ~ Anne Lamott,
901:Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; on the contrary, it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed. ~ Umberto Eco,
902:The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants ~ Richard Eberhart,
903:Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened—and even then, it’s still debatable. ~ Mark Manson,
904:Silence isn’t the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It’s a reminder of time for what it is … presence. ~ Kim Holden,
905:Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. ~ R C Sproul,
906:The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not ~ Sun Tzu,
907:The fatal historical mistake of liberalism is to see no enemy on the left, to consider that the enemy is always on the right. ~ Anonymous,
908:We must all know that each mediocrity, each surrender, each act of complacency will harm us as much as the enemy's rifles. ~ Albert Camus,
909:With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
910:Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened- and even then, it's still debatable. ~ Mark Manson,
911:If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are now ~ Sun Tzu,
912:It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. ~ Thomas Merton,
913:One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd,
914:President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right. ~ Pete Hegseth,
915:The enemy hides in Shadow, Master of the Hunt. Therefore be as wise as a serpent, having seen the face of the Adversary. ~ Katherine Kurtz,
916:The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we’ll ruin the one we have. ~ Beth Moore,
917:and it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.  ~ Edward Gibbon,
918:"...and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness — that I myself am the enemy who must be loved — what then?" ~ Carl Jung,
919:A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
920:Everyone is afraid of something. The enemy must be, too. The more powerful they are, the more they have to lose to their fears. ~ Liu Cixin,
921:Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. ~ Terry Pratchett,
922:If you don`t have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the enemy;
you are not dangerous to him. ~ Sunday Adelaja,
923:it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy. From ~ Edward Gibbon,
924:Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
(about Guernica). ~ Pablo Picasso,
925:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life ... ~ Anne Lamott,
926:The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,
927:The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. ~ E M Forster,
928:We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy. ~ Harriet Lerner,
929:You're the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So... So don't... Don't cry like that in front of me! Damn it... ~ Masashi Kishimoto,
930:Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit. ~ Lisa Bevere,
931:Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. ~ Isaac Asimov,
932:In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while. ~ James Mattis,
933:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
934:I will go to my grave with honor. It will be written that my woman loved me, my children admired me, and the enemy feared me. ~ Cliff Graham,
935:Long before the enemy can steal your victory, he steals your song. Long before he can steal your joy, he steals your praise. ~ Joseph Prince,
936:Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy’s plan set up for its demise. ~ Stormie Omartian,
937:One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ~ Quintus Ennius,
938:Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there. ~ Anthony Horowitz,
939:The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
940:The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
941:This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men. ~ Stonewall Jackson,
942:To study the enemy you have to get under his skin. When you're under his skin you start to see the world through his eyes. ~ Terry Pratchett,
943:Unfortunately, you didn’t always get to pick your fights, and that meant that sometimes the enemy got to pick the battlefield. ~ Evan Currie,
944:...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49) ~ Maulana Wahiduddin Khan,
945:Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ~ J R R Tolkien,
946:If we are to conquer the enemy and claim our inheritance in Christ, we must have spiritual strength and spiritual courage. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,
947:It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. ========== The Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela) ~ Anonymous,
948:The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
949:19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. ~ Anonymous,
950:holding a position from which the enemy is trying to dislodge you, or perhaps, as Tu Yu says, when he is trying to entice you into a ~ Sun Tzu,
951:Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible. ~ Rod Dreher,
952:If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three. ~ Edwin M Stanton,
953:Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. ~ Pablo Picasso,
954:Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. ~ Adam Grant,
955:The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
956:The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. ~ Frans de Waal,
957:The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. ~ Winston Churchill,
958:To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko,
959:When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, ~ Robin Hobb,
960:You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. ~ Michael Cunningham,
961:As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
962:How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized. ~ Stormie Omartian,
963:Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
964:No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote. ~ James Mattis,
965:Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. ~ Ray Bradbury,
966:The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on ~ Joseph Heller,
967:There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. ~ Saul Bellow,
968:Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. ~ Ben Horowitz,
969:We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States. ~ Peter Kuznick,
970:A war was coming. No, it had already started. Vampires versus demons. Demons versus wolves. The enemy of my enemy… Is my husband. ~ Cynthia Eden,
971:Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. ~ Sun Tzu,
972:If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide. ~ Sun Tzu,
973:If the enemy begins to love one of the king’s generals, the king may half suspect that his general is turning traitor. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
974:Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future ~ B H Liddell Hart,
975:Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. ~ Lawrence Durrell,
976:Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe,
977:Our body is completely loyal to us, but we judge our body and abuse our body; we treat it as if it’s the enemy when it’s our ally. ~ Miguel Ruiz,
978:The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn’t have a good plan for us. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
979:The enemy only has images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives.
   Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.
   ~ Bruce Lee,
980:Therefore, the skillful commander imposes his will on the enemy by making the enemy come to him instead of being brought to the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
981:Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
982:To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu,
983:An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. ~ James Mattis,
984:Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. ~ David Korten,
985:in Him we have the opportunity to defuse bombs the enemy has planted that are set to destroy what God has joined together. Are ~ Stormie Omartian,
986:In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark. ~ Stormie Omartian,
987:In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
988:The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things. ~ Toni Morrison,
989:Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves. ~ Fulton J Sheen,
990:When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack. ~ Takeda Nobushige,
991:At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favourable credit-balance in the Enemy’s ledger by allowing himself to be converted, ~ C S Lewis,
992:[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them. ~ Elvis Costello,
993:If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have? ~ Stormie Omartian,
994:Maybe that’s another one of the enemy’s weapons. Making us so fixated on what was that we aren’t able to step forward into what is. ~ K E Ganshert,
995:Never lose yourself in battle, it isn't what the enemy is going to do that matter. If you know what you are doing, you're in control. ~ Tara Brown,
996:shiver and sweat from the malaria.” She put her hand to her throat. “One night he tried to strangle me. He thought I was the enemy. ~ Gail Lukasik,
997:The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously. ~ George W Bush,
998:To fight and conquer one hundred times is not the perfection of attainment, for the supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
999:To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~ Sun Tzu,
1000:Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. ~ Sheryl Sandberg,
1001:2. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu,
1002:Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force" remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare. ~ Mao Zedong,
1003:[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
1004:Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. ~ Franz Grillparzer,
1005:He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1006:John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying. ~ Paul Galanti,
1007:Just know that if you’re out, you’re part of the enemy, and I won’t rest until my enemy goes down. Every single last one of them. ~ Charmaine Pauls,
1008:Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total. ~ Sun Tzu,
1009:To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. ~ Sun Tzu,
1010:To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ~ Sun Tzu,
1011:Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. ~ Anonymous,
1012:Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success. ~ Ryan Holiday,
1013:Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line. ~ Chrissie Hynde,
1014:Don't let the enemy convince you to pick up the invoice for your past mistakes. You owe nothing. Jesus already paid the bill. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd,
1015:I knew we must stay in absolute sync, for the enemy had grown so subtle, its camouflage so chameleon, we had to be on constant watch. ~ Paul Monette,
1016:Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. ~ Sun Tzu,
1017:The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ~ George Orwell,
1018:The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
1019:According to the Geneva Convention”—Dmitri pointed his finger at the valley floor—“they are not soldiers and therefore not the enemy. ~ Toni Anderson,
1020:I’m starting to get the enemy and the auditors muddled up in my mind. I’m terrified of both of them, but the auditors know where I live. ~ K J Parker,
1021:In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it “red on red.” Soldiers didn’t have to pretend to be sad about it. ~ Edward Conlon,
1022:Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit... ~ Stonewall Jackson,
1023:For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~ Sun Tzu,
1024:Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
1025:I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. ~ Tim Robbins,
1026:Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you. ~ Priscilla Shirer,
1027:Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down. ~ Jack Campbell,
1028:We are told by drug warriors that the enemy in the war is a thing – drugs – not a group of people, but the facts prove otherwise. ~ Michelle Alexander,
1029:We should always be prepared for attacks by the enemy and be capable of looking into the eye of death so that death may light our path. ~ Paulo Coelho,
1030:What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. ~ Sun Tzu,
1031:From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1032:God can give us words of comfort or direction, and we can be very excited, filled with faith, feeling bold and able to conquer the enemy. ~ Joyce Meyer,
1033:I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. ~ Sun Myung Moon,
1034:In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~ Sun Tzu,
1035:just had my first kiss in a stronghold of the Enemy of Death, in a room full of his dead brother’s stuff, Call thought. Story of my life. ~ Holly Black,
1036:...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset. ~ Thucydides,
1037:Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned. ~ Sun Tzu,
1038:The clay of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind. ~ Jack London,
1039:When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1040:Winter was traditionally a quiet time for armies, summer being the accepted and most civilized season to recommence killing the enemy. ~ Alexander Rose,
1041:For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~ Anonymous,
1042:Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality. ~ Marco Rubio,
1043:I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ... ~ Paul Russell,
1044:Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries ~ Howard Tayler,
1045:Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll,
1046:The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time! ~ Douglas MacArthur,
1047:The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment. ~ Laszlo Moholy Nagy,
1048:The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us. —Chicago Tribune, 1975 ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,
1049:We must never lose our sense of urgency in making improvements. We must never settle for “good enough,” because good is the enemy of great, ~ Tony Hsieh,
1050:You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first. ~ Rafael Eitan,
1051:Being scared wasn’t a weakness. But letting it force my head down and my voice quiet was. Fear wasn’t the enemy. It was the teacher. I ~ Penelope Douglas,
1052:...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him. ~ Ulysses S Grant,
1053:Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight ~ Sidney Sheldon,
1054:Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime ~ Ben Horowitz,
1055:We pray because our own solutions don’t work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. ~ Priscilla Shirer,
1056:Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve. ~ Adolf Hitler,
1057:Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1058:Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. ~ George Orwell,
1059:Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines. ~ Richard Madden,
1060:He remembered Sun Tzu and repeated the lesson over and over in his mind. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Nick Stephenson,
1061:Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,
1062:The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford. ~ P G T Beauregard,
1063:The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. ~ Oswald Chambers,
1064:The highest form of warfare Is to attack [the enemy’s] Strategy itself; The next, To attack [his] Alliances. The next, To attack Armies; ~ Henry Kissinger,
1065:Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. ~ Anthony Bourdain,
1066:Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. ~ Anthony Bourdain,
1067:When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1068:Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy. ~ George W Bush,
1069:Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack. ~ Sun Tzu,
1070:Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. ~ Sun Tzu,
1071:But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade! ~ J R R Tolkien,
1072:Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful. ~ Oscar Niemeyer,
1073:In mordern war we sow our harbors and coasts thick with hidden mines ready to explode should the enemy venture within our boarders. ~ Grace Livingston Hill,
1074:The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American,” the Chicago Tribune noted in 1975. “It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us. ~ Eula Biss,
1075:The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death. ~ J R R Tolkien,
1076:By discovering the enemy’s dispositions and remaining invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated, while the enemy’s must be divided. ~ Sun Tzu,
1077:Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time. ~ Idries Shah,
1078:We pray because our own solutions don’t work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We ~ Priscilla Shirer,
1079:And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely. ~ Anna Akhmatova,
1080:Grieving is something we have to live with, it's a constant battle. And the enemy is the rest of our lives. All those nights. All those hours. ~ Karin Fossum,
1081:I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers. ~ George Armstrong Custer,
1082:I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat. ~ Hannah Brencher,
1083:If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue. ~ Sun Tzu,
1084:Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you. That’s ~ Priscilla Shirer,
1085:The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back. ~ Paulo Coelho,
1086:To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1087:We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek.” Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22 ~ Ryan Holiday,
1088:Arthur!' I cried, but my voice was lost in the battle roar. The seething waters of the enemy host closed over the place where he had been. ~ Stephen R Lawhead,
1089:Course I'm scared. I'm always scared when we go somewhere we've not been before. It's good to be scared. Keeps you alive." - Ollie, The Enemy ~ Charlie Higson,
1090:God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused. ~ Mike Pilavachi,
1091:I can't forget. I miss him. I know he's the enemy, and we broke all kinds of rules, but I don't care. I miss him so much, Puck."

-Meghan ~ Julie Kagawa,
1092:Prewar education, reputation, influence, and rank matter little when the enemy is gaining ground and very few know how to turn him back. ~ Victor Davis Hanson,
1093:The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom. ~ Victor Villasenor,
1094:The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom. ~ Victor Villase or,
1095:The past one year saw people turning Twitter into a battlefield of clashing opinions by creating hashtags against the enemy and making them trend. ~ Anonymous,
1096:To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1097:Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The ~ Anthony Bourdain,
1098:We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek.” Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22 ~ Ryan Holiday,
1099:16. While we keep away from such places, we should get the enemy to approach them; while we face them, we should let the enemy have them on his rear. ~ Sun Tzu,
1100:America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1101:As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do. ~ Duke of Wellington,
1102:do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life. ~ Ann Bridge,
1103:If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ~ Sun Tzu,
1104:It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed. ~ Stieg Larsson,
1105:The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock. ~ Thomas a Kempis,
1106:War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge. ~ David Gemmell,
1107:We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds. ~ Chester W Nimitz,
1108:What distinguishes the “war on terror” is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. ~ Mohsin Hamid,
1109:When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy. ~ George S Patton,
1110:If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. ~ Sun Tzu,
1111:If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act. ~ James Mattis,
1112:Lupa and her wolves are trying to slow them down, but this force is too strong even for them. The enemy will be here soon—by the Feast of Fortuna ~ Rick Riordan,
1113:No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. ~ Winston Churchill,
1114:O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. ~ Sun Tzu,
1115:Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf,
1116:Poor whims of fancy, tender and unharsh. They are the enemy to bitterness and regret, and sweeten this exile we have brought upon ourselves. ~ Daphne du Maurier,
1117:So when war can’t be avoided, you fight in such a way as to reveal to the enemy how war is destroying him. When he finally sees it, he stops. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1118:The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose. ~ James A Owen,
1119:[T]o fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1120:Until a man knows that he is the righteousness of God, he will never take advantage of his privileges. He will always live in bondage to the enemy. ~ E W Kenyon,
1121:You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare. ~ John McCain,
1122:By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations. ~ Carl von Clausewitz,
1123:How do I know I can trust you?'

'You can't,' he said bluntly. 'You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. ~ Richelle Mead,
1124:Innovation (and enjoyment) flourishes when teachers collaborate to learn and practice new strategies. Isolation is often the enemy of innovation. ~ George Couros,
1125:It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy. ~ N K Jemisin,
1126:O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. ~ Sun Tzu,
1127:Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us. ~ Seymour Sarason,
1128:That is going to be so nice,” the XO murmured. “Something about not suicidally charging into the teeth of the enemy is going to feel so relaxing. ~ Glynn Stewart,
1129:A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
1130:Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses. ~ Franz Halder,
1131:Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?”
“No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale. ~ Seth Dickinson,
1132:Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
1133:The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. ~ Beth Moore,
1134:The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; ~ Sun Tzu,
1135:What's wrong?" asked Scott.
"It's the way I treated Julie, like she was the enemy. But she's not. She's the one I'm trying to save from the enemy. ~ Bill Myers,
1136:When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1137:You aren’t the enemy,” Henry said, dropping his arm to his side once more and taking a step back. “That doesn’t mean our goals are aligned. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes,
1138:And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
~ Aeschylus,
1139:And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely. ~ Anna Akhmatova,
1140:Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation. ~ Frank Sinatra,
1141:If you want someone to help you heal then you don’t go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don’t help you. ~ Shannon L Alder,
1142:Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ~ Pierre Berton,
1143:The enemy [in Iraq] pulls back. We think we're doing well. Well, they pull back. They're not stupid. And then after we leave, you see what happened. ~ Donald Trump,
1144:The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. ~ Phyllis McGinley,
1145:Enable me to take up the shield of faith as constant protection from the enemy. My soul waits for You, Lord, my help and my shield (Psalm 33:20). ~ Stormie Omartian,
1146:Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1147:Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1148:If the desert allows the trees to proliferate, the desert shall disappear! Therefore the desert has no choice but to be the enemy of the trees! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1149:If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. ~ Sun Tzu,
1150:I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment. ~ Terry Eagleton,
1151:My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. ~ George S Patton,
1152:The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women. ~ Democritus,
1153:The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. ~ Stanley Baldwin,
1154:There is a deep and corrosive tribal impulse to act as if "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." But sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a jackass. ~ Ben Sasse,
1155:When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man. ~ Arthur Miller,
1156:When I return upon myself and find the heart upright, although my adversaries may be a thousand or ten thousand, I would march without fear on the enemy. ~ Meng-Tse,
1157:When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. ~ C S Lewis,
1158:And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy. ~ David Frum,
1159:Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching. ~ George S Patton,
1160:There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene. ~ Maxime Weygand,
1161:Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
1162:We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy. ~ William G Boykin,
1163:although it is true that after three weeks of heavy fighting the enemy was driven off, it was the impact of the initial blow that resonated most loudly. ~ Mark Bowden,
1164:Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid. ~ Frederick The Great,
1165:Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. “Gradual reduction” of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell. ~ Barbara W Tuchman,
1166:But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1167:Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1168:Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose. ~ Frank Herbert,
1169:I believe the best way the Enemy gets to you is when you don't have a full understanding of how amazing, beautiful and valuable you are in Christ! ~ Alisa Hope Wagner,
1170:If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak. ~ Sun Tzu,
1171:It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was. ~ Neal Shusterman,
1172:More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air. ~ Nick Lampson,
1173:Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ Winston Churchill,
1174:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” -Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird ~ Danny Gregory,
1175:Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. ~ Steven Pressfield,
1176:The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but he might be willing to hold the bastard down while I kick him, and there’s something to be said for that. ~ J A Sutherland,
1177:The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on your innovations. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1178:- "What's wrong?" Scott asked.
- "It's the way I treated Julie.Like she was the enemy. But she's not. She's the one I'm trying to save from the enemy. ~ Bill Myers,
1179:When we respond to attacks of doubt, distortion, and deceit with the truth of God’s Word, the fiery dart is extinguished and the enemy takes another hit. ~ Beth Moore,
1180:As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously. ~ Alexander Suvorov,
1181:Don’t confuse creativity and imagination with “thinking” either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. ~ Sean Patrick,
1182:Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind. ~ Bruce Lee,
1183:fighting the enemy is futile when you inhabit a system that has the endless generation of enemies built into it. That is a recipe for endless war. ~ Charles Eisenstein,
1184:Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. 3. ~ Sun Tzu,
1185:His tactic of forcing the enemy to watch, wait, and wonder when he would strike strained their resources and their nerves more than an outright battle. ~ Jessica James,
1186:Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music. ~ Christofer Drew,
1187:Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1188:Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English. ~ Stephen Clarke,
1189:The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge! ~ Winfield Scott,
1190:The globalisation of food (or production of any commodity) is not the enemy per se, although it could and should certainly be more rationally planned. ~ Leigh Phillips,
1191:The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground. ~ Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor,
1192:Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind. ~ Voltaire,
1193:The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has. ~ Genghis Khan,
1194:Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy. ~ Rick Allen,
1195:When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope. ~ Robin Hobb,
1196:Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind. ~ Bruce Lee,
1197:Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another. ~ Stormie Omartian,
1198:The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed. ~ Giulio Douhet,
1199:This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. ~ Aleister Crowley,
1200:[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated. ~ Mark Steyn,
1201:Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1202:When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
1203:but after years of tactical study Jean Louise knew her enemy. Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy’s damage. ~ Harper Lee,
1204:He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones. ~ Iain Banks,
1205:My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I’m not bullshitting. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1206:There was a difference between having defeated the enemy and being victorious. One required killing and death. The other meant simply living another day. ~ Chris Dietzel,
1207:The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy. ~ Robert Ferrigno,
1208:While it would be great if the enemy kept on treating them like they were dumb and dumber, there came a point where acting stupid just became being stupid. ~ Evan Currie,
1209:[Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life. ~ Donald Trump,
1210:Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light. ~ Eugene Delacroix,
1211:The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat! ~ Erwin Rommel,
1212:The enemy of all real religion, is human egoism, the egoism of the individual, the egoism of class and nation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Religion of Humanity,
1213:The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people. ~ Pope John Paul II,
1214:Emotions, as always, were the enemy, dangerous and deceptive. They clouded judgments, they altered reality, they directed focus from what was important. ~ Brianna Labuskes,
1215:He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones. ~ Iain M Banks,
1216:I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy! ~ Blake Shelton,
1217:...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140) ~ Sebastian Junger,
1218:The pains they took to make themselves smooth! The rashes the creams left! The futility of it all! The enemy, hair, was invincible. It was life itself. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
1219:When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope. ~ Robin Hobb,
1220:Condemnation is a trick of the enemy, not the language of the heavens. Shame is not God’s tool, so if we are slaves to it, we’re way off the beaten path. And ~ Jen Hatmaker,
1221:Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready. ~ Steven Pressfield,
1222:France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
1223:I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. ~ Tennessee Williams,
1224:Some of them screamed for locks of his hair, to which the blushing general replied, “Really, ladies, this is the first time I was ever surrounded by the enemy! ~ S C Gwynne,
1225:The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~ Leos Carax,
1226:We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them. ~ Richelle Mead,
1227:When you encounter trouble of any kind, reach into your arsenal of prayers and speak one or more of them boldly. The enemy will retreat, and I will draw near. ~ Sarah Young,
1228:General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down". ~ Joseph Heller,
1229:his brother the benefit of the doubt. Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump to conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,
1230:Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia,
1231:I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. ~ Tennessee Williams,
1232:I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories. ~ Maggie Shipstead,
1233:It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you. ~ John Jay Chapman,
1234:It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two. ~ Sun Tzu,
1235:I turned to the guard. “Keep her here, Rodrick. Unless she comes up with a plan to destroy the remainder of the enemy. In which case you’re to let her do it. ~ Mark Lawrence,
1236:Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive! ~ Xenophon,
1237:Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it does not imply that men were the enemy. ~ bell hooks,
1238:The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard. ~ Jacqueline Carey,
1239:The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. ~ Marquis de Sade,
1240:This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1241:We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions. ~ Charles Kettering,
1242:After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre’s body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
1243:Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy's elephants and causing them to trample him to death. ~ Alan Bradley,
1244:Hard to imagine, but . . . well, we have so many bureaucrats, so many people in high places like Lord Hauksberg who insists the enemy doesn't really mean harm ~ Poul Anderson,
1245:The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do. ~ Sun Tzu,
1246:The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists. ~ Porter Goss,
1247:To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood. ~ Sun Tzu,
1248:Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ~ Barbara Deming,
1249:Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else. If the enemy goes after you, he goes after me too. ~ Harlan Coben,
1250:Satan, you are the enemy of my soul, and I refuse to allow you to ensnare me in your hidden and baited trap of offense against my brothers and sisters in Christ. ~ John Bevere,
1251:When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn ~ Howard Tayler,
1252:You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams. ~ Tina Fey,
1253:A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1254:Fear of the enemy, so this argument went, had been good for Rome; without any significant external threat, ‘the path of virtue was abandoned for that of corruption ~ Mary Beard,
1255:Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ~ Sun Tzu,
1256:Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment. ~ Rajneesh,
1257:Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one. ~ John Jakes,
1258:The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1259:we assume we know how the story ends. Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened— and even then, it’s still debatable. ~ Mark Manson,
1260:For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1261:I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. ~ Mark Cuban,
1262:In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy. ~ Thomas Harris,
1263:It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love. ~ Elizabeth George Speare,
1264:Never enter into spiritual combat lightly. We must engage the enemy only under the direction and protection of God because victory by human means is impossible. ~ Brother Andrew,
1265:One must understand the difference between a fear-ridden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves. I ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,
1266:Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate. ~ Henry H Arnold,
1267:The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism. ~ Salman Rushdie,
1268:The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy. ~ Abraham Lincoln,
1269:Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. ~ Sun Tzu,
1270:When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1271:As we look then at these two powerful tools of the enemy, we see that doubt causes a person to waver between two opinions, whereas unbelief leads to disobedience. I ~ Joyce Meyer,
1272:Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ~ Ray Bradbury,
1273:As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1274:Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the enemy plan of the day might be. ~ Charlaine Harris,
1275:Fear is the enemy, fear is the foe, if you run before it down you’ll go. But if you stand and look it in the face, God will pour into you the bravery of grace. ~ Catherine Cookson,
1276:If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,
1277:It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one,
to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two. ~ Sun Tzu,
1278:The new is unfamiliar. It may be the friend, it may be the enemy, who knows? There is no way to know! The only way to know is to allow it; hence the apprehension, the fear. ~ Osho,
1279:The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy. ~ Vladimir Lenin,
1280:Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased. ~ C S Lewis,
1281:I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,
1282:No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
1283:Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards. [Tu Mu says: "Rewards ~ Sun Tzu,
1284:Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed. ~ Jay Baruchel,
1285:the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. ~ Tom Robbins,
1286:The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
1287:There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.        – General William Thornson, U.S. Army ~ Jay Allan,
1288:War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ Karl Kraus,
1289:When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1290:You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu,
1291:Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things. ~ Ray Bradbury,
1292:No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
1293:The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1294:The enemy wasn’t men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin’ stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1295:You win battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies’ timing, and thus using a timing which the enemy does not expect. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1296:General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
1297:Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now. ~ Jenny Hval,
1298:Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position. ~ Adolf Galland,
1299:So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'. ~ John Eldredge,
1300:That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. ~ Henri Nouwen,
1301:The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me? ~ Plutarch,
1302:The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. ~ Christopher Hitchens,
1303:Your first task as a strategist is to widen your concept of the enemy, to include in that group those who are working against you, thwarting you, even in subtle ways. ~ Robert Greene,
1304:But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy. ~ Ali Khamenei,
1305:I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy. ~ Donald Trump,
1306:Life is never perfect. Even a good society is not perfect, and perfection is the enemy of all that is good. Those who seek perfection will destroy an imperfect good. ~ L E Modesitt Jr,
1307:You mean that collective safety’s more important than collective morality?’ ‘Go downstairs.’ ‘Which makes us actually no better than the enemy that we purport to despise ~ Lissa Evans,
1308:You, there, girl! Halt!”
Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?
Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could. ~ Sherwood Smith,
1309:A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God. ~ Ray Comfort,
1310:Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. ~ Sun Tzu,
1311:Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat. ~ Sun Tzu,
1312:In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first. ~ Kay Granger,
1313:The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. ~ Stormie Omartian,
1314:The greatest defense against the storm of lies that the enemy would use to drain every moment of joy from your life is to surround yourself with the truth of God's Word. ~ Sheila Walsh,
1315:The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer. ~ Ferdinand Foch,
1316:The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. ~ Joshua Chamberlain,
1317:to avoid it or fill it with needless bullshit. Silence isn’t the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It’s a reminder of time for what it is … presence. ~ Kim Holden,
1318:What’s our situation?” “The technical military term for what we’re doing is hiding,” Terleman lectured.  “We’re where the enemy isn’t, hoping that they don’t notice us. ~ Terry Mancour,
1319:When boys played “guerrilla warfare,” which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say “hello” all the time. ~ Jung Chang,
1320:Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have. ~ Josip Broz Tito,
1321:Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. ~ Simon Bolivar,
1322:God, as much as I’ve needed your power to kill the Enemy, I need your power to fix me. It’s not enough that power goes out from me; I need the power of God to work in me. ~ Louie Giglio,
1323:I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury. ~ David Brainerd,
1324:The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo ~ Erwin Rommel,
1325:The brutality was shocking. Disgraceful acts of inhumanity. No one wanted to fall into the hands of the enemy. But it was growing harder to distinguish who the enemy was. ~ Ruta Sepetys,
1326:Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good. ~ Lisa Gardner,
1327:Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general. ~ Sun Tzu,
1328:There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy. ~ Sean Hannity,
1329:When you read that familiar verse you come to the conclusion that the enemy comes in like a flood. But I’ve got news for you: the flood is the Holy Ghost, not the devil.You ~ Benny Hinn,
1330:communion with God is so vital and prayer so effective in the fulfillment of God’s plan, the enemy attempts constantly to introduce errors into our understanding of ~ John F MacArthur Jr,
1331:I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility. ~ Anthony the Great,
1332:It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything. ~ Ann Voskamp,
1333:The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
1334:The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls. ~ Roger Zelazny,
1335:The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this. ~ Ryan Holiday,
1336:THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! ~ Tom Stoppard,
1337:Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein. ~ C D Wright,
1338:Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. ~ Sun Tzu,
1339:Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal.” Sebec ~ Terry Brooks,
1340:A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited. ~ Rajneesh,
1341:I called the fake news "the enemy of the people" - and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up when there are none. ~ Donald Trump,
1342:If this now broken relationship was Your best, You wouldn’t have kept me from it. And if it is Your best sometime in the future, the enemy won’t be able to keep us apart. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
1343:Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5). ~ Sivananda Saraswati,
1344:The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace. ~ Kristina McMorris,
1345:The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love. ~ John Astin,
1346:Though we are keenly aware of the abuses that have grown up around the holiday season, we are still not willing to surrender this ancient and loved Christmas Day to the enemy. ~ A W Tozer,
1347:Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates. ~ Joseph Conrad,
1348:a failure to understand how powerful and extraordinary God’s plans for you are will lead to you being taken advantage of by the enemy and failing to live up to your potential. ~ Levi Lusko,
1349:An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
1350:I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away? ~ Ally Condie,
1351:In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.' ~ D James Kennedy,
1352:Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. ~ Ann Coulter,
1353:Perhaps that's why men did it. You didn't do it to save duchesses, or countries. You killed the enemy to stop him killing your mates, that they in turn might save you ... ~ Terry Pratchett,
1354:to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it. ~ Victor Hugo,
1355:We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
1356:A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1357:I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy. ~ George Verwer,
1358:One might say that the ability to evaluate one’s own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.” Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 21 ~ Ryan Holiday,
1359:There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it. ~ Mark Lawrence,
1360:To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
1361:If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage. ~ Sun Tzu,
1362:Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. ~ Rumi,
1363:Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy. ~ Tommy Chong,
1364:The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict. ~ James O Fraser,
1365:The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . . He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will. ~ William R Forstchen,
1366:The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy. ~ Napol on Bonaparte,
1367:Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy. ~ Frank Miller,
1368:He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself. ~ Amber Smith,
1369:It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ~ Thomas Paine,
1370:It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception. ~ Douglas Hofstadter,
1371:Now, in my experience there is only one way to fight a ship, and that is to get below on the side opposite to the enemy and find a snug spot behind a stout bulkhead. ~ George MacDonald Fraser,
1372:I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again. ~ Jan Karon,
1373:I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy. ~ Constance Markievicz,
1374:Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close. ~ Rick Riordan,
1375:One who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it. ~ Sun Tzu,
1376:She didn’t get angry with anyone, because that would mean having to react, having to do battle with the enemy and then having to face unforeseen consequences, such as vengeance. ~ Paulo Coelho,
1377:The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human? ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater,
1378:The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious. ~ Walter Benjamin,
1379:Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about. ~ Anthony Hopkins,
1380:History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult. ~ A A Gill,
1381:I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies. ~ A W Tozer,
1382:I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again. ~ Jan Karon,
1383:It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate. ~ Hannah Arendt,
1384:Nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind, in given circumstances, to move a particular patient at a particular moment nearer to the Enemy or nearer to us. ~ C S Lewis,
1385:Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
1386:That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker... ~ Plutarch,
1387:I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware... ~ Anne Sexton,
1388:PSA107.1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. PSA107.2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ~ Anonymous,
1389:The biggest difference between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy. ~ Jefferson Bethke,
1390:The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected. ~ Chester W Nimitz,
1391:The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
1392:And yet the enemy is the one who set up the circumstances to make you believe that in the first place. First he gets us to make a vow, then beats us up when we continue to agree. ~ James L Rubart,
1393:Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. ~ Archilochus,
1394:Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people. ~ August Bebel,
1395:Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
1396:Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact. ~ James Mattis,
1397:It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. ~ Jonathan Swift,
1398:My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. ~ Lech Walesa,
1399:No," he said, "that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them. ~ Anna Sewell,
1400:The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. ~ Davy Crockett,
1401:I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. ~ Henry Miller,
1402:Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War. ~ Max Brooks,
1403:Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~ Betty Friedan,
1404:Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~ Betty Friedan,
1405:[Once war is declared, he will not waste precious time in waiting for reinforcements, nor will he return his army back for fresh supplies, but crosses the enemy's frontier without delay. ~ Sun Tzu,
1406:Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. ~ Elie Wiesel,
1407:That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. ~ June Jordan,
1408:The New York Herald reported that a German soldier had been seen carrying a bagful of ears. Another newspaper accused Germany of melting down the enemy dead to manufacture soap. ~ Joseph E Persico,
1409:The secret to keeping one's actions concealed from the enemy is, in most cases, to learn what he thinks you will do, and then seem to be doing it, for that is what he'll believe ~ Susanna Kearsley,
1410:To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. ~ George Orwell,
1411:We can be saved, the Holy Spirit can dwell in us, and yet we can continually live in defeat because the enemy can outwit us if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. ~ Beth Moore,
1412:Grandma Singer was a fearsome creature. If we ever did have a war under my rule, my plan was to send her to the front lines. She’d come home holding the enemy by his ear within a week. ~ Kiera Cass,
1413:Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you. ~ Paul David Tripp,
1414:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ Sun Tzu,
1415:In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond. ~ Sharon Kay Penman,
1416:I want to be the girl in Indiana Jones. I would love to do an adventure movie where I was saving the world. It might be cool if I used a lot of kitchen tools to fight off the enemy. ~ Roseanne Barr,
1417:A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will. ~ Winkie Pratney,
1418:If something

goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Don't be like Pharaoh chopping off the heads

of innocent babies, when the enemy he is looking for, Moses, was in his own house. ~ Rumi,
1419:Pike hung up and immediately walked the girl back to his Jeep. He felt the passing minutes like a race he was losing. Once you engaged the enemy, speed was everything. Speed was life. ~ Robert Crais,
1420:Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes. ~ Jonathan Ive,
1421:The choice,” he insisted, “boils down to this: ‘Christ or Communism.’ There is really no other. Those in between—playing neutral—are literally playing into the hands of the enemy.”24 ~ Kevin M Kruse,
1422:There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy. ~ Scott McClellan,
1423:With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage. ~ Sun Tzu,
1424:If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ~ Anonymous,
1425:In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose. ~ B H Liddell Hart,
1426:Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent. ~ Saint Francis de Sales,
1427:Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people ~ Mao Zedong,
1428:The enemy was not waiting for death, they hit back, concentrating all their fire on the cruiser Never Tell Me The Odds, knocking back that ship’s shields and forcing it to break away. ~ Craig Alanson,
1429:Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. 4. Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it. ~ Sun Tzu,
1430:At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you. ~ Sun Tzu,
1431:I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander ~ Janet Fitch,
1432:Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive." He adds: "Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack. ~ Sun Tzu,
1433:Sun Tzu said: Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. ~ Sun Tzu,
1434:The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not. ~ Stephen Jay Gould,
1435:The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect. ~ B H Liddell Hart,
1436:At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,  until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you. ~ Sun Tzu,
1437:Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord. ~ Saint Ephrem the Syrian,
1438:I do not think the Colonel will approve of your engaging the enemy,” Ivo said. Cinderella pointed her head skyward. “I agree. But Friedrich rarely approves of my actions the way it is.” “You ~ K M Shea,
1439:In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko,
1440:I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can. ~ George W Bush,
1441:Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. ~ Richard M Nixon,
1442:Sure, military combat is scary... but in some ways combat seems a little easier than personal relationships. At least in combat, the enemy is honest enough to claim themselves as such. ~ Steve Maraboli,
1443:The basic aim of a nation at war is establishing an image of the enemy in order to distinguish as sharply as possible the act of killing from the act of murder. —Glenn Gray The Warriors ~ Dave Grossman,
1444:The enemy wants us unable to forget the terrible things that occurred in the past and instead remember them as though they happened yesterday. God has healing for upsetting memories. ~ Stormie Omartian,
1445:The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord. ~ Mao Zedong,
1446:There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves. ~ Brian Van Reet,
1447:Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. ~ Pratibha Patil,
1448:Defending the United States was important and there were few higher honours, yet ... was it worth making such a commitment when one’s political leaders were worse than the enemy? ~ Christopher G Nuttall,
1449:Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. ~ Anne Lamott,
1450:Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary. ~ C S Lewis,
1451:Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us. ~ Shari Wiedmann,
1452:The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy. ~ Jefferson Bethke,
1453:The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. We overcome by focusing on changing the latter not attacking the former. ~ Anthony Venn Brown,
1454:The neat binary categories of white and black or male and female are not there when it comes to class. How will they identify the enemy. How will they know who to fear or who the challenge. ~ bell hooks,
1455:There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it—the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as two become one against the enemy, pain ~ Laini Taylor,
1456:My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I pause, wondering how Demos defines infiltration.

'Not that way', Alicia answers. ~ Sarah Alderson,
1457:The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science. ~ Criss Jami,
1458:It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein. ~ Anne Rice,
1459:Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.” He adds: “Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.” It ~ Sun Tzu,
1460:Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy. ~ Sun Tzu,
1461:I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us. ~ Pol Pot,
1462:It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible. ~ Sun Tzu,
1463:It was the mistakes one made at the beginning of a case that were the worst. They were the irretrievable ones, the ones that got you off on the wrong foot, that gave the enemy the first game. ~ Ian Fleming,
1464:Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. ~ Paul Theroux,
1465:One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace. ~ Zbigniew Brzezi ski,
1466:So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
1467:So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
1468:The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people. ~ Deborah Cox,
1469:We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy. ~ Kenneth E Hagin,
1470:When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you. ~ Sun Tzu,
1471:But I say that we are the enemies of society, and so much the worse for society. We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity, its oldest and its most pitiless enemy. ~ G K Chesterton,
1472:If you’re going to to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl — because the enemy’s there, and not because you don’t like his hairdo or his goddam necktie. ~ J D Salinger,
1473:In the French Wars of Religion, Henry of Navarre began to train his Huguenot pistoliers to charge home with the sword, firing their pistols and then hurling them at the enemy at the last moment. ~ Anonymous,
1474:I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver. ~ Erich Hartmann,
1475:My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay. ~ Raoul Vaneigem,
1476:People at the top are self-conscious about what they say (and rightfully so) because they have position and privilege to protect — and self-consciousness is the enemy of “interestingness. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
1477:To say that they are the enemy of the people, among the worst human beings on earth, it encourages and legitimizes an anger towards the press that, you know, I think, fosters this attitude. ~ Tom Rosenstiel,
1478:When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once. ~ George W Bush,
1479:I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy". ~ Chris Cleave,
1480:People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers). ~ Raniero Cantalamessa,
1481:The first Victus taught his followers that to fight and win every battle is not a matter of supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. ~ Jeff Wheeler,
1482:The Texans were head-butting the Coloradoans. The Missouri branch was arguing with Illinois. The chances were pretty good the whole army would end up fighting each other rather than the enemy. ~ Rick Riordan,
1483:We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good. ~ Stephen Covey,
1484:When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?" ~ Hillary Clinton,
1485:All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, pretend to be incapable; when active, inactive; when near, make the enemy believe that you are far away; when far away; that you are near. ~ Sun Tzu,
1486:Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner. ~ Robert Ferrigno,
1487:If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too. ~ Curtis LeMay,
1488:If you're going to go to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl- because the enemy's there, and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddam necktie. ~ J D Salinger,
1489:In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy. ~ Erich Fromm,
1490:The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends. ~ Craig M Mullaney,
1491:There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.” There ~ Brian Van Reet,
1492:They are called the enemy for a reason. They will do anything they can to make our lives harder, and an intelligent enemy will never show his full strength until it is too late for you to react. ~ Evan Currie,
1493:When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others. ~ Desmond Tutu,
1494:Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes. ~ Randy Ingermanson,
1495:But at that point, the media was the military's worst enemy. They were the enemy, no more and no less. They never reported anything straight and always took the side of whoever was shooting at us. ~ John Ringo,
1496:He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way. ~ Lynn Kurland,
1497:If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part? ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1498:It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing. ~ B H Liddell Hart,
1499:I’ve always thought that Binding was a bit like a war − both sides think they’re right, and neither wants to back down…the only difference is that you’re sleeping with the enemy.”

-Evan ~ Suzanne Wright,
1500:The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality. ~ Justine Musk,

IN CHAPTERS [218/218]



   65 Integral Yoga
   29 Occultism
   20 Christianity
   16 Poetry
   12 Philosophy
   7 Psychology
   5 Yoga
   4 Fiction
   4 Baha i Faith
   1 Sufism
   1 Mythology
   1 Cybernetics
   1 Alchemy


   41 Sri Aurobindo
   21 The Mother
   18 Satprem
   17 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   17 Aleister Crowley
   12 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   10 James George Frazer
   7 Plato
   6 Walt Whitman
   6 Saint John of Climacus
   5 H P Lovecraft
   5 Carl Jung
   5 Anonymous
   4 Friedrich Nietzsche
   4 Baha u llah
   3 Swami Krishnananda
   3 Sri Ramakrishna
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 Aldous Huxley
   2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 John Keats
   2 A B Purani


   16 Record of Yoga
   15 Magick Without Tears
   10 The Golden Bough
   8 City of God
   7 The Bible
   7 Agenda Vol 01
   6 Whitman - Poems
   6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   5 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   5 Lovecraft - Poems
   4 Vedic and Philological Studies
   4 The Secret Of The Veda
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   3 The Perennial Philosophy
   3 The Book of Certitude
   3 Talks
   3 Questions And Answers 1956
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Liber ABA
   3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   3 Agenda Vol 04
   2 Words Of Long Ago
   2 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   2 The Secret Doctrine
   2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   2 Letters On Yoga II
   2 Keats - Poems
   2 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   2 Essays On The Gita
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   2 Anonymous - Poems
   2 Aion
   2 Agenda Vol 02


0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Or become one more nauseating little worshipper - which was not on our program. 'We are the Enemy of our own conception of the Divine,' She told us one day with her mischievous little smile.
  The whole time - or for seven years, in any event - we fought with our conception of God and the

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   For the householders Sri Ramakrishna did not prescribe the hard path of total renunciation. He wanted them to discharge their obligations to their families. Their renunciation was to be mental. Spiritual life could not be acquired by flying away from responsibilities. A married couple should live like brother and sister after the birth of one or two children, devoting their time to spiritual talk and contemplation. He encouraged the householders, saying that their life was, in a way, easier than that of the monk, since it was more advantageous to fight the Enemy from inside a fortress than in an open field. He insisted, however, on their repairing into solitude every now and then to strengthen their devotion and faith in God through prayer, japa, and meditation. He prescribed for them the companionship of sadhus. He asked them to perform their worldly duties with one hand, while holding to God with the other, and to pray to God to make their duties fewer and fewer so that in the end they might cling to Him with both hands. He would discourage in both the householders and the celibate youths any lukewarmness in their spiritual struggles. He would not ask them to follow indiscriminately the ideal of non-resistance, which ultimately makes a coward of the unwary.
   --- FUTURE MONKS

01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the Enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
   This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme intensity and sweetness and exquisiteness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
   The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
   If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!

0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Mother, things are far from being what they were the first time in Rameswaram, and I am living through certain moments that are hell the Enemy seems to have been unleashed with an extraordinary violence. It comes in waves, and after it recedes, I am literally SHATTEREDphysically, mentally and vitally drained. This morning, while going to the temple, I lived through one of these moments. All this suffering that suddenly sweeps down upon me is horrible. Yes, I had the feeling of being BACKED UP AGAINST A WALL, exactly as in your vision I was up against a wall. I was walking among these immense arcades of sculptured granite and I could see myself walking, very small, all alone, alone, ravaged with pain, filled with a nameless despair, for nowhere was there a way out. The sea was nearby and I could have thrown myself into it; otherwise, there was only the sanctuary of Parvati but there was no more Africa to flee to, everything closed in all around me, and I kept repeating, Why? Why? This much suffering was truly inhuman, as if my last twenty years of nightmare were crashing down upon me. I gritted my teeth and went to the sanctuary to say my mantra. The pain in me was so strong that I broke into a cold sweat and almost fainted. Then it subsided. Yet even now I feel completely battered.
   I clearly see that the hour has come: either I will perish right here, or else I will emerge from this COMPLETELY changed. But something has to change. Mother, you are with me, I know, and you are protecting me, you love me I have only you, only you, you are my Mother. If these moments of utter darkness return and they are bound to return for everything to be exorcised and conqueredprotect me in spite of myself. Mother, may your Grace not abandon me. I want to be done with all these old phantoms, I want to be born anew in your Light; it has to beotherwise I can no longer go on.

0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Your last letter was a great comfort to me. If you were not there, with me, everything would be so absurd and impossible. I am again disturbing you because Swami tells me that you are worried and that I should write to you. Not much has changed, except that I am holding on and am confident. Yesterday, I again suffered an agonizing wave, in the temple, and I found just enough strength to repeat your name with each beat of my heart, like someone drowning. I remained as motionless as a pillar of stone before the sanctuary, with only your name (my mantra would not come out), then it cleared. It was brutal. I am confident that with each wave I am gaining in strength, and I know you are there. But I am aware that if the Enemy is so violent it is because something in me responds, or has responded, something that has not made its surrender that is the critical point. Mother, may your grace help me to place everything in your hands, everything, without any shadow. I want so much to emerge into the Light, to be rid of all this once and for all.
   I am following Swamis instructions to the letter. Sometimes it all seems to lack warmth and spontaneity, but I am holding on. I might add that we are living right next to the bazaar, amidst a great racket 20 hours a day, which does not make things easier. So I repeat my mantra as one pounds his fists against the walls of a prison. Sometimes it opens a little, you send me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again.
   Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the High Priest of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a very powerful mantra over me daily, for a period of eight days, to extirpate the dark forces from my subconscious. The operation already began four days ago. While reciting his mantra, he holds a glass of water in his hand, then he makes me drink it. It seems that on the eighth day, if the Enemy has been trapped, this water turns yellow then the operation is over and the poisoned water is thrown out. (I tell you all this because I prefer that you know.) In any event, I like X very much, he is a very luminous, very good man. If I am not delivered after all this!
   In truth, I believe only in the Grace. My mantra and all the rest seem to me only little tricks to try to win over your Grace.

0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   On my side, within my little field, I am taking the bull by the horns and henceforth the Enemy will no longer have my complicity. May all my being be turned solely towards your Lightand be your help, your instrument, your knight.
   X has decided to continue his action upon me beyond the eight days foreseen, which doubtlessly corresponds to dosages that exceed my understanding.

0 1959-01-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   All is well I am enthusiastic and you can count on my conscious help to overcome all the obstacles and all the bad will that may try to stop or delay your progress. It is a matter of being more obstinate, much more obstinate than the Enemy, and whatever the cost, to reach the goal in time.
   Since my last letter, I have thought about it and I see that I will be able to go down in the morning three times a week for one hour, from 10 to 11, to work with you, but you will have to do only the strict minimum in order to have as much free time as you need for the other things.1

0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Certainly his political rage is not only understandable but justified. However, when one begins looking at things from the external viewpoint of the manifestation, they are not as simple as that. I cannot speak of all this in detail, but as an example I can tell you that here in Pondicherry, those who are maneuvering (and not without some hope) to oust the Congress are our worst enemies, the Enemy of all that is disinterested and spiritual, and if they come to power, they would be capable of anything in their hate.
   For all these world events, I always leave it to the Divine vision and wisdom, and I say to the Supreme: Lord, may Thy Will be done.

0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   When I started my japa one year ago, I had to struggle with every possible difficulty, every contradiction, prejudice and opposition that fills the air. And even when this poor body began walking back and forth for japa, it used to knock against things, it would start breathing all wrong, coughing; it was attacked from all sides until the day I caught the Enemy and said, Listen carefully. You can do whatever you want, but Im going right to the end and nothing will stop me, even if I have to repeat this mantra ten crore1 times. The result was really miraculous, like a cloud of bats flying up into the light all at once. From that moment on, things started going better.
   You have no idea what an irresistible effect a well-determined will can have.
  --
   Of course, things are now going better, especially since Sri Aurobindo became established in the subtle physical, an almost material subtle physical.2 But there are still plenty of question marks The body understands once, and then it forgets. the Enemys opposition is nothing, for I can see clearly that it comes from outside and that its hostile, so I do whats necessary. But where the difficulty lies is in all the small things of daily material lifesuddenly the body no longer understands, it forgets.
   Yet its HAPPY. It loves doing the work, it lives only for thatto change, to transform itself is its reason for being. And its such a docile instrument, so full of good will! Once it even started wailing like a baby: O Lord, give me the time, the time to be transformed It has such a simple fervor for the work, but it needs timetime, thats it. It wants to live only to conquer, to win the Lords Victory.3

0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Not last night but the night before, I touched at least one of the causes (at that time it felt like THE cause) of a certain powerlessness to act directly on Matter You see, when the Will and the Power come, they are extremely effective everywhere UP TO A CERTAIN REGION (in other words, whether people are receptive or not, open or not, makes no differencewhen the Will is applied it is all-powerful UP TO a certain region) but once it arrives here, at the most material material, its efficacy depends on many thingsand a power which depends on something is no power! For a long, long time I have been searching for the reasons behind this powerlessness. Ive located a few, one after another, and upon these points there was an immediate effect. But some things resisted (oh, quite a number, in a number of ways), for example it had difficulty acting on illnesses, on the cells, on doubt (not mental doubt, but rather the doubt of the physical consciousness which cant accept certain things that seem impossible to itwhat Sri Aurobindo calls disbelief,1 not a mental doubt, but the disbelief of the physical consciousness which cant accept what is contrary to its own nature and its own working). And as for illnesses, sometimes it has an immediate effect, but sometimes it drags on and has to follow its so-called normal course. On all these three points, I clearly felt that something was hampering it. These are the Enemys strongholds; all that doesnt want the Divine seizes upon it and even the working of the Power coming from above is obstructed, for when it must work here in the body, it is stopped or deformed or altered or diminished.
   All this goes on in the subconscient; these are things that were pushed out of the physical consciousness down into the subconscient, so theyre there and they come back up whenever they please.
  --
   Once or twice I heard certain things about him and I told him (for I told him all I saw or heard), and I said that I was that these suggestions were coming from the Enemy and that I was violently fighting against them. Then he looked at metwicehe looked at me, nodded his head and smiled. And thats all. Nothing more was said. How strange! I thought. And thats all. Then I myself must have forgotten. You see, he wanted me to forget.
   I only remembered afterwards.

0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   No, no I know that! I tell you, it can only be one of two things: either a good kick from the Enemy who is still trying to find a support in someones mentality, or else premonitory.
   I certainly hope not!

0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The first was with a boy who was a Sanskritist and had wanted to come to India with us. He was the son of a French ambassadoran old, noble family. But he learned that his lungs were bad, and so he joined the Army; he enlisted as an officer, just at the start of the 1914 war. And he had the courage of those who no longer cling to life; when he received the order to advance on the Enemy trenches (it was incredibly stupid, simply sending people to be slaughtered!), he didnt hesitate. He went. And he was hit between the two lines. For a long time, it was a no mans land; only after some days, when the other trench had been taken, could they go and collect the dead. All this came out in the newspapers AFTERWARDS. But on the day he was killed, of course, no one was aware of it.
   I had a nice photo of him with a Sanskrit dedication, placed on top of a kind of wardrobe in my bedroom. I open the door and the photo falls. (There was no draft or anything.) It fell and the glass broke into smithereens. Immediately I said, Oh! Something has happened to Fontenay. (That was his name: Charles de Fontenay.) After that I came back down from my room, and then I hear a miaowing at the door (the door opened onto a large garden courtyard1). I open the door: a cat bursts in and jumps on me, like that (Mother thumps her breast). I speak to him: What is it, whats the matter? He drops to the ground and looks at meFontenays eyes! Absolutely! No one elses. And he just stayed put, he didnt want to go. I said to myself, Fontenay is dead.

0 1963-08-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This morning, I had the experience twice; a very slight mental activity, and almost instantly: Ah, no, no! Not that. That consciousness prefers to act or move or do anything rather than fall into that conditionwhich it seems to regard as the Enemy.
   (silence)

0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I had already told you about my misgivings.1 As to the motives for the decision, it always boils down to the same point: a sincere (though ambiguous) will of ecumenism, a broad rather than deep intellectual curiosity, permit mentalities such as those that give our firm its orientation and public image to pay some attention to academic essays regarded (wrongly so in the present instance) as dealing with the famous Eastern spirituality. But as soon as the essays are lived from within, the goodwill withdraws into its shell. The reaction is even worse if the author is a renegade, a Westerner who has gone over to the Enemy side. (I can vouch for that!2) I must emphasize that this whole process is not only unintentional but, more than that, unconscious (which is not an excuse but an aggravating circumstance). The opposition put up against your first manuscript3 rather hardened with the second, a much more personal book, I mean less detached, still less objective than the firstand more ample. Through the medium of literature, you were able to convey whatever you liked. Through a direct essay, you will reach and so much the worse, or so much the betteronly those who seek. Our firm and its public do not belong, for that matter, to the category of those who seek.
   Hes conscious!

0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The way to get faith and all things else is to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has themit is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult earth began to have thinking and aspiring creatures upon it. It is to open always, always to the Light and turn ones back on the Darkness. It is to refuse the voices that say persistently, You cannot, you shall not, you are incapable, you are the puppet of a dream,for these are the Enemy voices, they cut one off from the result that was coming, by their strident clamour and then triumphantly point to the barrenness of the result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour is a known thing, but the difficult is not the impossibleit is the difficult that has always been accomplished and the conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in the earths history. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be so.
   Sri Aurobindo

0 1969-10-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Last night, Mother vomited every twenty minutes. Yet she worked as usual this morning. It feels as if the Enemy is drawing closer to the center.
   ***

0 1970-01-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   272Fight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and thy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the Enemys dungeons and have his gags silenced thee? Fight with thy silent all-besieging soul and thy wide-ranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the world-encompassing force that went out from God within thee.
   ***

0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is where we are today. That which we want to avoid returns upon us with tenfold force. The hour for political calculation, for the pros and cons of our petty mathematics of expediency (which always goes awry) is past. The time has come to rediscover the Great Direction of India, which is really the Great Direction of the world, and to place our faith in the Spirit that guides her Destiny, rejecting petty fears of a phantom world opinion and doing away with the little supports which only lend support to the Enemy. Tomorrow America will perhaps resume her economic aid to Pakistan on the pretext of counteracting the Chinese presence. The Bangladesh slaughter will be honorably justified by a pseudoregime which will operate with the blessings of the international community. But one does not cheat the tide of history: for the third time our little compromises will crumble and we will find ourselves confronted with a terrible ordeal, its intensity nourished by our own successive failures in the past. The sooner not only India, but America and Russia too, understand the unreality of Pakistan and the magnitude of what is at stake at the borders of India, the sooner may the looming catastrophe be halted before it becomes totally and definitely irrevocable. One thing is certain, wrote Sri Aurobindo a few months before his passing, that if there is too much shilly-shallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea [we could say even more: the defense of Bangladesh] she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war.
   For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the worlds tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light.

03.03 - A Stainless Steel Frame, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   How to stop this rot that is gaining ground every day, how to react against the inexorable chain reaction that is leading to a final explosion? It is not merely the laymen but the members of the very supporting frame itself, as I have said, that have fallen and gone over to the Enemy. And the fact is true not only of the political frame, but the social frame too made up of the lite, the intelligentsia. The remedy that easily suggests itself and is being attempted and applied is something Catonian, that is to say, a greater stringency of external rules and regulations, enforcement of punishment, even of heavy punishment as a deterrent of crime.
   The institution of punishment is no longer respected or appreciated in modern times to the same extent as in the past, even a century ago. When character goes awry, punishment is of no avail. Punishment does not cure or redeem the criminal; it often hardens, fixes the trait that is sought to be eradicated. Fear of punishment does not always prevent one from doing wrong things. Often danger has an irresistible fascination for a certain type of temperament, especially danger of the wrong kindindeed the greater the wrong, the greater the danger and the greater the fascination. "To live dangerously" is the motto of the heroic soul, as well as of the lost soul. A strong penal system, a rigorous policing is of help no doubt to maintain "peace and order" of some kind in a society; but that is an external pressure which cannot last very long or be effective in the end.

04.28 - To the Heights-XXVIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But these hosts of the Enemy hurl themselves in vain
   against the blazing armour that my Lord's laughter

06.01 - The End of a Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   We know of worldsvital worldswhich are made of the most unimaginable horror and ugliness and devilry. Many have contacted such domains either consciously in the course of their yogic experiences or unconsciously in nightmare. They bear testimony to the stark monstrosity of these worlds the gloom, the fear, the pain and torture, the doom and damnation that reign there. That entire inner world seems to have precipitated itself upon earth and taken a body here. A radiant poet spoke of Paradise being transplanted upon earth in the shape of a happy city (the city of the Raghus): today we have done the opposite miracle, the devil's capital city is installed upon earth, or even something worse. For, in the subtler worlds there is a saving grace, after all. If you have within you somewhere an aspiration, a trust, a faith, a light the Enemy cannot touch you or maul you badly. You may have also around you there beings who help you, a teacher, a guide who is near visibly or invisibly to give you the necessary warning or protection. But here below when the Enemy has clothed himself in a material form and armed himself with material weapons, you are almost helpless. To save yourself from a physical blow, it is not always enough to have the proper inner consciousness only. Something more is needed.
   Therefore misery stalks large upon the earth. Nothing com-parable to it, either in quality or quantity, can history offer as an example. Man finds no remedy for his ills, he does not dare to hope for any. He feels he is being irretrievably drawn into the arms of the Arch-enemy.

1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  But it is of the first consequence for you to summon up the resolution to stamp on this sea of swirling thoughts by an act of will; you must say: "Peace be still." The moment you have understood these thoughts for what they are, tools of the Enemy, invented by him with the idea of preventing you from undertaking the Great Work the moment you dismiss all such considerations firmly and decisively, and say: "What must I do?" and having discovered that, set to work to do it, allowing of no interruption, you will find that living peace which (as you seem to see) is a dynamic and not a static condition. (There is quite a lot about this point in Little Essays Toward Truth, and also in The Vision and the Voice.)
  Your postscript made me smile. It is not a very good advertisement for the kind of people with whom you have been associated in the past. My own position is a very simple one. I obeyed the injunction to "buy a perfectly black hen, without haggling." I have spent over 100,000 pounds of my inherited money on this work: and if I had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. It is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or fourpence halfpenny less, that one obtains perfect freedom on this Plane of Discs.

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  Everything that is hath come to be through His irresistible decree. Whenever My laws appear like the sun in the heaven of Mine utterance, they must be faithfully obeyed by all, though My decree be such as to cause the heaven of every religion to be cleft asunder. He doeth what He pleaseth. He chooseth, and none may question His choice. Whatsoever He, the Well-Beloved, ordaineth, the same is, verily, beloved. To this He Who is the Lord of all creation beareth Me witness. Whoso hath inhaled the sweet fragrance of the All-Merciful, and recognized the Source of this utterance, will welcome with his own eyes the shafts of the Enemy, that he may establish the truth of the laws of God amongst men. Well is it with him that hath turned thereunto, and apprehended the meaning of His decisive decree.
  We have set forth the details of obligatory prayer in another Tablet. Blessed is he who observeth that whereunto he hath been bidden by Him Who ruleth over all mankind. In the Prayer for the Dead six specific passages have been sent down by God, the Revealer of Verses. Let one who is able to read recite that which hath been revealed to precede these passages; and as for him who is unable, God hath relieved him of this requirement. He, of a truth, is the Mighty, the Pardoner.

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation. It was only how to put a core of truth within the ornaments, that every sugar plum in fact might have an almond or caraway seed in it,though I hold that almonds are most wholesome without the sugar, and not how the inhabitant, the indweller, might build truly within and without, and let the ornaments take care of themselves. What reasonable man ever supposed that ornaments were something outward and in the skin merely,that the tortoise got his spotted shell, or the shellfish its mother-o-pearl tints, by such a contract as the inhabitants of Broadway their Trinity Church? But a man has no more to do with the style of architecture of his house than a tortoise with that of its shell: nor need the soldier be so idle as to try to paint the precise color of his virtue on his standard. the Enemy will find it out. He may turn pale when the trial comes. This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he. What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within outward, out of the necessities and character of the indweller, who is the only builder,out of some unconscious truthfulness, and nobleness, without ever a thought for the appearance and whatever additional beauty of this kind is destined to be produced will be preceded by a like unconscious beauty of life. The most interesting dwellings in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor commonly; it is the life of the inhabitants whose shells they are, and not any peculiarity in their surfaces merely, which makes them _picturesque;_ and equally interesting will be the citizens suburban box, when his life shall be as simple and as agreeable to the imagination, and there is as little straining after effect in the style of his dwelling. A great proportion of architectural ornaments are literally hollow, and a September gale would strip them off, like borrowed plumes, without injury to the substantials. They can do without _architecture_ who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the architects of our churches do? So are made the _belles-lettres_ and the _beaux-arts_ and their professors.
  Much it concerns a man, forsooth, how a few sticks are slanted over him or under him, and what colors are daubed upon his box. It would signify somewhat, if, in any earnest sense, _he_ slanted them and daubed it; but the spirit having departed out of the tenant, it is of a piece with constructing his own coffin,the architecture of the grave, and

1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  prosperity a good game. The good, however, is the Enemy of the better; a more compelling game might
  always exist. Myth portrays what is known, and performs a function that if limited to that, might be

1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  If you inquire, O student! how it is known that the heart of man has been created in accordance with the qualities of angels, seeing that the most of the qualities and attributes of angels are foreign to it, I reply, you know that there is not, in truth, any creature on the face of the earth more noble than man, and that it belongs to the dignity and perfection of every creature, to work out perseveringly that service for which it was created. The ass, for instance, was created to bear burdens. If he carries his load well, without stumbling or falling, or if he does not throw off his load, his qualities are in perfection, and his service is accepted. The horse was designed also for war [21] and military expeditions, and has strength to carry burdens. If he performs his duty well, in time of war, in running, fleeing and going to meet the Enemy, his service is accepted, and he will be treated with attention in his accoutrements, grooming and feeding. But if he performs his service imperfectly, a pack saddle will be put on his back, as on the ass, from day to day he will be employed as a beast of burden, and he will be carelessly and deficiently provided with food, and poorly taken care of.
  Besides, beloved! if man had been created only to eat and drink, it would follow that animals are of greater worth and excellence than man; for they can eat and drink more than man can, and they have useful services devolved upon them of drawing burdens, tilling the ground, and giving meat, butter and milk for food. If also man had been created to fight, kill and domineer, it would follow that beasts of prey are nobler than he, for they are mightier in their ferocity and their power of subjugating other animals. There are, moreover, many animals of manifest utility, as the dog to watch and hunt, and the skins of some of them for clothing. It follows, therefore, that man was not created for these things, but rather to serve God and to grow in the knowledge of him.
  --
  Our intention has been to show you that man is a great world, and that you might know what a multitude of servants his body has to minister to him : so that you might realize while in your enjoyments, in walking, in sleeping or at rest in your world, that by God's appointment, these numerous servants in your employ never suffer their functions to cease for a minute. Listen now for a moment candidly. If you had a servant who had been faithful to you during his whole life, with whose services you were not able to dispense, while he could at any time find a better master-yet if he should only for a single day disobey your orders, you would get angry, beat him, and wish to get rid of him. But God has been abundant in kindness to you, and has given you so many servants, and has in no wise any need of you. How then can it be just that you should become enslaved to yourself, and follow your own passions, and that forgetful of pleasing the infinite God, you should rebel against your Creator and Benefactor, and that you should render obedience to Satan, who is your enemy and the Enemy of God ?
  Many and even innumerable books, O student of the divine mysteries, have been written in explanation of the organization of the body and the uses of is parts: but they have no more made the subject clear and exhausted it, than a drop can illustrate the ocean, or an atom illustrate the sun. [38] It is impossible for the thing formed to understand the knowledge of him that formed it. And how is it possible, that he who is of yesterday, should comprehend the secrets of the operations of the Ancient of days ?

1.01 - What is Magick?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
    (Illustration: When Civil War rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. A man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the Enemy which is part of himself. He soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. In practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very clumsily. At first!)
    9. A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  They gave him an irresistible weapon smiting the Enemy, saying:
  Go and cut off the life of Tiamat.

1.036 - The Rise of Obstacles in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The world appears to be opposed to what we are doing and intending on account of the peculiar, disharmonious elements present in us, into which we cannot have proper insight at present, and when these elements in us get transformed into a state of harmony with the forces of the world outside, then the truth will reveal itself that the Enemy is our friend. tmaiva hy tmano bandhur tmaiva ripur tmana (B.G. VI.5). The Bhagavadgita tells us that our higher being may appear as our own enemy. God Himself may look like an enemy one day, because our intentions, based as they are on our psychophysical individuality, may not concur with the will of the Supreme, and then it is likely we will feel the will of the Universe, the will of God, and the intentions of nature are contrary to what we are intending to do.
  But when these impending impediments get reversed in their order of action and procedure, we face the world directly and do not turn our backs to it. Now we are turning our backs to nature. It is moving in one direction, and we are moving in the opposite direction, and therefore there is a repulsion of two forces and an apparent feeling of irreconcilability between our intentions and the intentions of the world or of nature. The reason is that we have turned our backs to nature. While the order of nature requires cognition of things from the point of view of their own subjecthood or selfhood, we turn our backs to this truth and regard everything as an object. This is the reason why there is conflict between us and nature.

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  The Scripture speaks of all this as the old man, the earthy man, the outward person, the Enemy, the servant.
  Within us all is the other person, the inner man, whom the Scripture calls the new man, the heavenly man, the young person, the friend, the aristocrat.

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  is away, he will lose his life in the Enemy's country. Some years
  ago all these rules and more were observed by the women of Banting,
  --
  vanquish the Enemy. In the Kei Islands, when the warriors have
  departed, the women return indoors and bring out certain baskets
  --
  fans! let our bullets hit, and those of the Enemy miss." In this
  custom the ceremony of anointing stones, in order that the bullets
  --
  imitative charm, to enable the men to do to the Enemy as the women
  do to the paw-paws. In the West African town of Framin, while the
  --
  warding off the Enemy, and drawing them back was symbolic of drawing
  their own men from danger. The hook at the end of the stick was
  --
  as many chances of avoiding the Enemy's spear as the nimble rat has
  of avoiding things thrown at it; hence in these regions rats' hair
  --
  Meantime the Enemy who shot the arrow is hard at work to aggravate
  the wound by all the means in his power. For this purpose he and his

1.040 - Re-Educating the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  So we can take any object for our concentration, but be we should be sure that the thoughts are not distracting, and that they are not so many in number as to diminish the power of thought. If we think of many things at the same time, the force of thought gets diminished due to the diversification of the channel of the movement of mental force. In dharana or concentration there is a twofold activity taking place the idea that certain notions should be entertained in the mind, and also a simultaneous idea that certain notions should not be allowed into the mind. There is a double activity going on in our minds at this time. We have a feeling inside that, "I should not allow certain thoughts inside the mind." And yet, the very idea that we should not allow certain thoughts inside the mind is itself an idea of those objects. "I should not think of my enemy," but the moment we have that idea, we have already thought of the Enemy. So even the idea to repel an extraneous thought is an idea of that thought, the particular object.
  It is a peculiar repulsive feature that makes itself felt in the mind at the time of concentration of mind, which is what I mean by saying the double activity that is going on in the mind. We have resentment towards certain features which we regard as irrelevant for the purpose, and so there is a tension in the beginning. It is not an easy thing; we struggle hard, we sweat and then feel fatigue, exhaustion. The reason for feeling exhaustion in meditation is that there is a kind of struggle going on inside, and there is not a spontaneous movement of the mind towards the given object. That is not possible, because the very attempt to concentrate the mind on a given concept is a simultaneous attempt to get rid of certain other thoughts which are unsympa thetic with this ideal; and this is the tension. There is always a simultaneous activity going on in the mind one pulling the other in this direction and that direction. This subtle tension is the cause of exhaustion, and we tire of meditation.

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  If anyone receives voluntarily some task from his father, and in doing it suffers a stumble, he should not ascribe the blame to the giver but to the receiver of the weapon. For he took the weapon for battle against the Enemy, but has turned it against his own heart. But if he forced himself for the Lords sake to accept the task, though he previously explained his weakness to him who gave it, let him take courage; for though he has fallen, he is not dead.
  I have forgotten to set before you, my friends, this sweet bread of virtue. I saw there men obedient in the Lord who subjected themselves to insults and dishonour for Gods sake, so that, having prepared themselves in this way, they might get used to not quailing before insults coming from others.
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  The devil suggests to those living in obedience the desire for impossible virtues. Similarly, to those living in solitude he proposes unsuitable ideas. Scan the mind of inexperienced novices and there you will find distracted thought: a desire for quiet, for the strictest fast, for uninterrupted prayer, for absolute freedom from vanity, for unbroken remembrance of death, for continual compunction, for perfect freedom from anger, for deep silence, for surpassing purity. And if by divine providence they are without these to start with, they rush in vain to another life and are deceived. For the Enemy urges
  1 St. Matthew x, 22.

1.04 - Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
  The General of the Flying Cavalry enters the Enemy camp;
  Danger! No need to trouble to slash again at the

1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  right hand, O Lord, shatters the Enemy") runs: "When the chil-
  dren of Israel perform God's will, they make the left hand his

1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    4. O Fire, O friendly Light, O most burning Power, the Enemy who is hidden and would destroy us, the Enemy who is within us and would conquer, leap fiery-forceful with thy affliction of flame and consume him with thy male and ageless fires.
    5. When man gives to thee with the sacrifice and the fuel and with his spoken words and his chants of illumination, he becomes, O Immortal, O Son of Force, a mind of knowledge among mortals and shines with the riches and inspiration and light.
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   11 Or, be our deliverer from the Enemy beyond and within us.
  5. He shines with the light that makes pure, the light that
  --
  fighters piercing through the armies of the Enemy, fighters
  conquering the armies of the Enemy.19
  aE`nE-t`m

1.05 - MORALITY AS THE ENEMY OF NATURE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
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  class:chapter
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  MORALITY AS the Enemy OF NATURE
  There is a time when all passions are simply fatal in their action,
  --
  superior desires of life and takes God as the Enemy of life. The saint
  in whom God is well pleased, is the ideal eunuch. Life terminates where

1.05 - Ritam, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  So far the image has been a double image of a journey & a battle,the goal of the ritam, the journey of the sin-afflicted human being towards the Truth of the divine nature; the thorns, the pitfall, the Enemy ambushed in the path; the great divine helpers whose divine knowledge, for they are prachetasah, becomes active in the human mind and conducts us unerringly & unfalteringly on that sublime journey. In the next rik the image of the path is preserved, but another image is associated with it, the universal Vedic image of the sacrifice. We get here our first clear & compelling indication of the truth which is the very foundation of our hypothesis that the Vedic sacrifice is only a material symbol of a great psychological or spiritual process. The divine children of Infinity lead1 the sacrifice on the straight path to the goal of the ritam; under their guidance it progresses to their goal & reaches the gods in their home, pravah sa dhtaye nashat.What is sacrifice which is itself a traveller, which has a motion in a straight path, a goal in the highest seat of Truth, parasmin dhmann ritasya? If it is not the activities of the human being in us offered as a sacrifice to the higher & divine being so that human activities may be led up to the divine nature & be established in the divine consciousness, then there is either no meaning in human language or no sense or coherence in the Veda. The Vedic sacrificer is devayu,devakmah,one who desires the god or the godhead, the divine nature; or devayan, one who is in the process of divinising his human life & being; the sacrifice itself is essentially devavtih & devattih, manifestation of the divine & the extension of the divine in man. We see also the force of dhtaye. The havya or offering of human faculty, human having, human action, reaches its goal when it is taken up in the divine thought, the divine consciousness & there enjoyed by the gods.
  In return for his offering the gods give to the sacrificer the results of the divine nature. The mortal favoured by them moves forward unstumbling & unoverthrown, accha gacchati astrita,towards or to what? Ratnam vasu visvam tokam uta tman. This is his goal; but we have seen too that the goal is the ritam. Therefore the expressions ratnam vasu, visvam tokam tman must describe either the nature of the ritam or the results of successful reaching & habitation in the ritam. Toka means son, says the ritualist. I fail to see how the birth of a son can be the supreme result of a mans perfecting his nature & reaching the divine Truth; I fail to see also what is meant by a man marching unoverthrown beyond sin & falsehood towards pleasant wealth & a son. In a great number of passages in the Veda, the sense of son for toka or of either son or grandson for tanaya is wholly inadmissible except by doing gross violence to sense, context & coherence & convicting the Vedic Rishis of an advanced stage of incoherent dementia. Toka, from the root tuch, to cut, form, create (cf tach & twach, in takta, tashta, twashta, Gr. tikto, etekon, tokos, a child) may mean anything produced or created. We shall see, hereafter, that praj, apatyam, even putra are used in the Veda as symbolic expressions for action & its results as children of the soul. This is undoubtedly the sense here. There are two results of life in the ritam, in the vijnana, in the principle of divine consciousness & its basis of divine truth; first ratnam vasu, a state of being the nature of which is delight, for vijnana or ritam is the basis of divine ananda; secondly, visvam tokam uta tman,this state of Ananda is not the actionless Brahmananda of the Sannyasin, but the free creative joy of the Divine Nature, universal creative action by the force of the self. The action of the liberated humanity is not to be like that of the mortal bound, struggling & stumbling through ignorance & sin towards purity & light, originating & bound by his action, but the activity spontaneously starting out of self-existence & creating its results without evil reactions or bondage.

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  who do not. The presuppositions of the persecutor are, for example: the Devil is the Enemy, the Jew is not
  a Christian the Jew is an enemy, the Jew is the Devil. Pagels presents the not-unreasonable and
  --
  Any act or idea that interferes with current individual desire becomes the fool, or worse the Enemy. This
  means that if the individual or the group desires anything more than to live in the light, so to speak, then
  --
  otherwise be moving? To beat the Enemy over the head with a club even cavemen knew that.
  Know thyself! There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as
  --
  Insofar as he represents particular, specific patterns of action, however, he is the Enemy of possibility, of
  life in the present itself, of the hero and is therefore, necessarily, captor of the spirit, embodiment of the
  --
  radically, by the Enemy. This of course did not mean the end of morality did not mean establishment of
  an anarchic community where everything was equal, and therefore equally valueless (where the
  --
  law. He is the Enemy of the old ruling system, of the old cultural values, and the existing court of
  conscience, and so he necessarily comes into conflict with the fathers. In this conflict the inner voice,
  --
  most literally a voyage to the land of the Enemy to the heart of darkness.
  When experience calls the absolute validity of a given belief system into question, the validity of the
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  meaning: the divine hero knows and understands the ways of the Enemy and can use those ways to
  advantage.

1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo: That is the sign that he is the Enemy of our work. And from the values involved in the conflict, it should be quite clear that what is behind him is the Asuric, the Titanic power....
  Q: It is strange how he takes his decisions.
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  In the impasse created partially by the bankruptcy of the Congress policy, Providence came to the rescue in the form of the Cripps' Proposals which, if accepted, would have changed the fate of India. But the forces of distrust, discontent and wanting everything at once, led to a failure to see the substance of Swaraj, as Sri Aurobindo has said, in the offer. There was a pother about small points and overlooking of the central important objective to be attained. Sri Aurobindo found in the proposal a fine opportunity for the solution of India's intricate problems and her ultimate liberation. We may note that the proposals envisaged a single, free, undivided India setting up a united front against the Enemy. He promptly sent a message to Sir Stafford Cripps welcoming the Proposals and recommended their acceptance to the Indian leaders. The message was as follows: "I have heard your broadcast. As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's Independence, though now my activity is no longer in the political but in the spiritual field, I wish to express my appreciation of all you have done to bring about this offer. I welcome it as an opportunity given to India to determine for herself, and organise in all liberty of choice, her freedom and unity and take an effective place among the world's free nations. I hope that it will be accepted, and right use made of it, putting aside all discords and divisions. I hope too that friendly relations between Britain and India replacing the past struggles, will be a step towards a greater world union in which, as a free nation, her spiritual force will contribute to build for mankind a better and happier life. In this light, I offer public adhesion, in case it can be of any help to your work."
  Sir Stafford Cripps replied, "I am most touched and gratified by your kind message allowing me to inform India that you, who occupy a unique position in the imagination of Indian youth, were convinced that the declaration of His Majesty's Government substantially confers that freedom for which Indian Nationalism has so long struggled."
  --
  "'Only some months ago, the same Grace presented itself at the door of France, immediately after the fall of Dunkirk, in the form of Churchill's offer to her to have joint nationality with England and fight the Enemy. Sri Aurobindo said that it was the right idea, and it would also have helped His work immensely. But France could not raise herself above the ordinary mind, and rejected it. So the Grace withdrew and the Soul of France has gone down. One doesn't know when the real France will be up again.
  "'But India with her background of intense spiritual development through the ages, must realise the Grace that is behind this offer. It is not simply a human offering. Of course its form has been given by the human mind, and it has elements of imperfection in it. But that does not matter at all. Have faith in the Grace and leave everything to the Divine who will surely work it out.
  --
  At this jubilant moment of the Enemy, India's destiny intervened. A heavy downpour from heaven inundated the dense Assam jungles for days together, so that, bogged in the flood and mud, the invading army with its liberation force had to liberate itself from the wrath of Nature and beat an ignominious retreat. Yet rain during that season had never been heard of before.
  In this context let us quote what the Mother said to a sadhak in 1927, when he asked how India was likely to get freedom. The Mother's prophetic reply was, "When a Japanese warship will come to the Indian Ocean." In fact, the Mother had visioned India's Independence In 1920. It was when she and Sri Aurobindo were in meditation, and she reached a state of consciousness from which she told Sri Aurobindo: "India is free."

1.06 - On remembrance of death., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  Never, when mourning for your sins accept that cur1 which suggests to you that God is tender hearted (this thought is useful only when you see yourself being dragged down to deep despair). For the aim of the Enemy is to thrust from you your mourning and fearless fear.
  He who wishes ever to retain within him the remembrance of death and judgment and God, and at the same time yields to material cares and distractions, is like a man who is swimming and wants to clap his hands.

1.06 - Quieting the Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  Personal distress is a sure sign of the Enemy's presence. Melodrama is a favorite haunt of these forces; that is how they are able to create the greatest havoc, because they play with a very old teammate within us,
  who cannot help loving melodrama even as he cries out for relief.

1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  14:If you desire this transformation, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you must have, consciousness, plasticity, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working; for although she can and does work in you even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her. All your nature must be plastic to her touch, - not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the Enemy of its enlightenment and change; not insisting on its own movements as the vital in man insists and persistently opposes its refractory desires and ill-will to every divine influence; not obstructing and entrenched in incapacity, inertia and tamas as man's physical consciousness obstructs and clinging to its pleasure in smallness and darkness cries out against each touch that disturbs its soulless routine or its dull sloth or its torpid slumber. The unreserved surrender of your inner and outer being will bring this plasticity into all the parts of your nature; consciousness will awaken everywhere in you by constant openness to the Wisdom and Light, the Force, the Harmony and Beauty, the Perfection that come flowing down from above. Even the body will awake and unite at last its consciousness subliminal no longer to the supramental superconscious Force, feel all her powers permeating from above and below and around it and thrill to a supreme Love and Ananda.
  15:But be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that are beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrow reasonings and erring impressions, its bottomless aggressive ignorance and its petty self-confident knowledge. The human mind shut in the prison of its half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti. The rapidity and complexity of her vision and action outrun its stumbling comprehension; the measures of her movement are not its measures. Bewildered by the swift alternation of her many different personalities, her making of rhythms and her breaking of rhythms, her accelerations of speed and her retardations, her varied ways of dealing with the problem of one and of another, her taking up and dropping now of this line and now of that one and her gathering of them together, it will not recognise the way of the Supreme Power when it is circling and sweeping upwards through the maze of the Ignorance to a supernal Light. Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone make a straight response to the Truth. Then the Mother herself will enlighten by their psychic elements your mind and heart and life and physical consciousness and reveal to them too her ways and her nature.

1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  Where is the stranger? The traitor? the Enemy? O divine
  understanding, absolute compassion! And everything becomes lighter,

1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own animal dharma, or immanent law. Thanks to his reasoning powers and to the instrument of reason, language, man (in his merely human condition) lives nostalgically, apprehensively and hopefully in the past and future as well as in the present; has no instincts to tell him what to do; must rely on personal cleverness, rather than on inspiration from the divine Nature of Things; finds himself in a condition of chronic civil war between passion and prudence and, on a higher level of awareness and ethical sensibility, between egotism and dawning spirituality. But this wearisome condition of humanity is the indispensable prerequisite of enlightenment and deliverance. Man must live in time in order to be able to advance into eternity, no longer on the animal, but on the spiritual level; he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate selfhood; he must do battle with the lower self in order that he may become identified with that higher Self within him, which is akin to the divine Not-Self; and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Reason and its works are not and cannot be a proximate means of union with God. The proximate means is intellect, in the scholastic sense of the word, or spirit. In the last analysis the use and purpose of reason is to create the internal and external conditions favour able to its own transfiguration by and into spirit. It is the lamp by which it finds the way to go beyond itself. We see, then, that as a means to a proximate means to an End, discursive reasoning is of enormous value. But if, in our pride and madness, we treat it as a proximate means to the divine End (as so many religious people have done and still do), or if, denying the existence of an eternal End, we regard it as at once the means to Progress and its ever-receding goal in time, cleverness becomes the Enemy, a source of spiritual blindness, moral evil and social disaster. At no period in history has cleverness been so highly valued or, in certain directions, so widely and efficiently trained as at the present time. And at no time have intellectual vision and spirituality been less esteemed, or the End to which they are proximate means less widely and less earnestly sought for. Because technology advances, we fancy that we are making corresponding progress all along the line; because we have considerable power over inanimate nature, we are convinced that we are the self-sufficient masters of our fate and captains of our souls; and because cleverness has given us technology and power, we believe, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, that we have only to go on being yet cleverer in a yet more systematic way to achieve social order, international peace and personal happiness.
  In Wu Chng-ns extraordinary masterpiece (so admirably translated by Mr. Arthur Waley) there is an episode, at once comical and profound, in which Monkey (who, in the allegory, is the incarnation of human cleverness) gets to heaven and there causes so much trouble that at last Buddha has to be called in to deal with him. It ends in the following passage.

1.08 - Information, Language, and Society, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  make it; and if it were possible to avoid a mate by the Enemy in
  two or three moves, the machine would avoid it. It would prob-

1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  When we look carefully at the passage before us, we find an expression which strikes one as a very extraordinary phrase in reference to a god of lightning and rain. Indryhi, says Madhuchchhanda, dhiyeshito viprajtah. On any ordinary acceptance of the meaning of words, we have to render this line, Come, O Indra, impelled by the understanding, driven by the Wise One. Sayana thinks that vipra means Brahmin and the idea is that Indra is moved to come by the intelligent sacrificing priests and he explains dhiyeshito, moved to come by our understanding, that is to say, by our devotion. But understanding does not mean devotion and the artificiality of the interpretation is apparent.We will, as usual, put aside the ritualistic & naturalistic traditions and see to what the natural sense of the words themselves leads us. I question the traditional acceptance of viprajta as a compound of vipra & jta; it seems tome clearly to be vi prajtah, driven forward variously or in various directions. I am content to accept the primary sense of impelled for ishita, although, whether we read dhiy ishito with the Padapatha, or dhiy shito, it may equally well mean, controlled by the understanding; but of themselves the expressions impelled & driven forward in various paths imply a perfect control.We have then, Come, O Indra, impelled (or controlled, governed) by the understanding and driven forward in various paths. What is so driven forward? Obviously not the storm, not the lightning, not any force of material Nature, but a subjective force, and, as one can see at a glance, a force of mind. Now Indra is the king of Swar and Swar in the symbolical interpretation of the Vedic terms current in after times is the mental heaven corresponding to the principle of Manas, mind. His name means the Strong. In the Puranas he is that which the Rishis have to conquer in order to attain their goal, that which sends the Apsaras, the lower delights & temptations of the senses to bewilder the sage and the hero; and, as is well known, in the Indian system of Yoga it is the Mind with its snares, sensuous temptations & intellectual delusions which is the Enemy that has to be overcome & the strong kingdom that has to be conquered. In this passage Indra is not thought of in his human form, but as embodied in the principle of light or tejas; he is harivas, substance of brightness; he is chitrabhnu, of a rich & various effulgence, epithets not easily applicable to a face or figure, but precisely applicable to the principle of mind which has always been supposed in India to be in its material element made of tejas or pure light.We may conclude, therefore, that in Indra, master of Swarga, we have the divine lord of mental force & power. It is as this mental power that he comes sutvatah upa brahmni vghatah, to the soul-movements of the chanter of the sacred song, of the holder of the nectar-wine. He is asked to come, impelled or controlled by the understanding and driven forward by it in the various paths of sumati & snrit, right thinking & truth. We remember the image in the Kathopanishad in which the mind & senses are compared to reins & horses and the understanding to the driver. We look back & see at once the connection with the function demanded of the Aswins in the preceding verses; we look forward & see easily the connection with the activity of Saraswati in the closing riks. The thought of the whole Sukta begins to outline itself, a strong, coherent and luminous progression of psychological images begins to emerge.
  Brahmni, says Sayana, means the hymnal chants; vghatah is the ritwik, the sacrificial priest. These ritual senses belong to the words but we must always inquire how they came to bear them. As to vghat, we have little clue or evidence, but on the system I have developed in another work (the Origins of Aryan Speech), it may be safely concluded that the lost roots vagh & vgh, must have conveyed the sense of motion evident in the Latin vagus & vagari, wandering & to wander & the sense of crying out, calling apparent in the Latin vagire, to cry, & the Sanscrit vangh, to abuse, censure. Vghat may mean the sacrificial priest because he is the one who calls to the deity in the chant of the brahma, the sacred hymn. It may also mean one who increases in being, in his brahma, his soul, who is getting vja or substance.

1.09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  3:At this stage of the Yoga and even throughout the Yoga this form of desire, this figure of the ego is the Enemy against whom we have to be always on our guard with an unsleeping vigilance. We need not be discouraged when we find him lurking within us and assuming all sorts of disguises, but we should be vigilant to detect him in all his masks and inexorable in expelling his influence. The illumining Word of this movement is the decisive line of the Gita, "To action thou hast a right but never under any circumstances to its fruit." The fruit belongs solely to the Lord of all works; our only business with it is to prepare success by a true and careful action and to offer it, if it comes, to the divine Master. Afterwards even as we have renounced attachment to the fruit, we must renounce attachment to the work also; at any moment we must be prepared to change one work, one course or one field of action for another or abandon all works if that is the clear comm and of the Master. Otherwise we do the act not for his sake but for our satisfaction and pleasure in the work, from the kinetic nature's need of action or for the fulfilment of our propensities; but these are all stations and refuges of the ego. However necessary for our ordinary motion of life, they have to be abandoned in the growth of the spiritual consciousness and replaced by divine counterparts: an Ananda, an impersonal and God-directed delight will cast out or supplant the unillumined vital satisfaction and pleasure, a joyful driving of the Divine Energy the kinetic need; the fulfilment of the propensities will no longer be an object or a necessity, there will be instead the fulfilment of the Divine Will through the natural dynamic truth in action of a free soul and a luminous nature. In the end, as the attachment to the fruit of the work and to the work itself has been excised from the heart, so also the last clinging attachment to the idea and sense of ourselves as the doer has to be relinquished; the Divine Shakti must be known and felt above and within us as the true and sole worker.
  4:The renunciation of attachment to the work and its fruit is the beginning of a wide movement towards an absolute equality in the mind and soul which must become all-enveloping if we are to be perfect in the spirit. For the worship of the Master of works demands a clear recognition and glad acknowledgment of him in ourselves, in all things and in all happenings. Equality is the sign of this adoration; it is the soul's ground on which true sacrifice and worship can be done. The Lord is there equally in all beings, we have to make no essential distinctions between ourselves and others, the wise and the ignorant, friend and enemy, man and animal, the saint and the sinner. We must hate none, despise none, be repelled by none; for in all we have to see the One disguised or manifested at his pleasure. He is a little revealed in one or more revealed in another or concealed and wholly distorted in others according to his will and his knowledge of what is best for that which he intends to become in form in them and to do in works in their nature. All is ourself, one self that has taken many shapes. Hatred and disliking and scorn and repulsion, clinging and attachment and preference are natural, necessary, inevitable at a certain stage: they attend upon or they help to make and maintain Nature's choice in us. But to the Karmayogin they are a survival, a stumbling-block, a process of the Ignorance and, as he progresses, they fall away from his nature. The child-soul needs them for its growth; but they drop from an adult in the divine culture. In the God-nature to which we have to rise there can be an adamantine, even a destructive severity but not hatred, a divine irony but not scorn, a calm, clear-seeing and forceful rejection but not repulsion and dislike. Even what we have to destroy, we must not abhor or fail to recognise as a disguised and temporary movement of the Eternal.

1.09 - Saraswati and Her Consorts, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Valahan, the Vedic slayer of Vala, the Enemy who keeps for himself the Light. But this would take us beyond the limits of our subject. Nor does this interpretation of the Pegasus legend carry us any farther than to indicate the natural turn of imagination of the Ancients and the way in which they came to figure the stream of inspiration as an actual stream of flowing water.
  Saraswati means, "she of the stream, the flowing movement", and is therefore a natural name both for a river and for the goddess of inspiration. But by what process of thought or association does the general idea of the river of inspiration come to be associated with a particular earthly stream? And in the Veda it is not a question of one river which by its surroundings, natural and legendary, might seem more fitly associated with the idea of sacred inspiration than any other. For here it is a question not of one, but of seven rivers always associated together in the minds of the Rishis and all of them released together by

1.09 - SELF-KNOWLEDGE, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Thou (the human being) art that which is not. I am that I am. If thou perceivest this truth in thy soul, never shall the Enemy deceive thee; thou shalt escape all his snares.
  St. Catherine of Siena

1.09 - The Secret Chiefs, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  You justly remind me that one of my earliest slogans was "Mystery is the Enemy of Truth;" how then is it what I acquiesce in the policy of concealment in a matter so cardinal?
  Perhaps the best plan is for me to set down the facts of the case, so far as is possible, from them it may appear that no alternative policy is feasible.

1.107 - The Bestowal of a Divine Gift, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  This is something which cannot be avoided, because no man is omniscient; no man is omnipotent; no man can be called God. And so, it is impossible to avoid these encounters entirely. One day or the other they have to come, and they may come in various forms, various degrees, at different times in ones life. When such a thing happens, what is to be done? When we face the Enemy in front of us, what do we do? That is the very same thing that we have to do with these vrittis. Hnam e kleavat uktam (IV.28) is the recipe for this problem. Just as we deal with the klesas which were described in the earlier sutra, so we deal with these encounters. How do we deal with them?
  The process of recession of the effect into the cause is one of the methods prescribed in the earlier sutras. It is a discriminative analysis of the causes of the activity of these vrittis which have come to the surface of consciousness at the present moment, and is a very difficult thing to practice because we cannot find out the causes when they are actually operating. Nevertheless, this is one of the methods prescribed in the sutra. When we are overwhelmed from all sides by the vrittis, we will not be allowed even to think of the causes which have given rise to this circumstance. But this overwhelming will not continue for a long time. There is an ebb and a flow of these vrittis; they are not always in the same condition. The force of the samskaras, the impressions of past experience which have been held in check for a long time by the practice of yoga, gains entry into the realm of consciousness and acts in respect of its own desired object.

1.10 - The Image of the Oceans and the Rivers, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  (pens) by the Enemy so that they are not seen. Certainly, this does not mean that rivers of ghee - or of water, either - rising from the heart-ocean or any ocean were caught on their way by the wicked and unconscionable Dravidians and shut up in a hundred pens so that the Aryans or the Aryan gods could not even catch a glimpse of them. We perceive at once that the Enemy,
  Pani, Vritra of the hymns is a purely psychological conception and not an attempt of our forefa thers to conceal the facts of early Indian history from their posterity in a cloud of tangled and inextricable myths. The Rishi Vamadeva would have stood aghast at such an unforeseen travesty of his ritual images. We are not even helped if we take ghr.ta in the sense of water, hr.dya samudra in the sense of a delightful lake, and suppose that the
  --
  "These move" says Vamadeva "from the heart-ocean; penned by the Enemy in a hundred enclosures they cannot be seen; I look towards the streams of the clarity, for in their midst is the Golden Reed. Entirely they stream like flowing rivers becoming purified by the heart within and the mind; these move, waves of the clarity, like animals under the mastery of their driver. As if on a path in front of the Ocean (sindhu, the upper ocean) the mighty ones move compact of forceful speed but limited by the vital force (vata, vayu), the streams of clarity; they are like a straining horse which breaks its limits, as it is nourished by the waves." On the very face of it this is the poetry of a mystic concealing his sense from the profane under a veil of images which occasionally he suffers to grow
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1.12 - The Herds of the Dawn, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the Enemy Vala, by the Panis; when Madhuchchhandas says to Indra, "Thou didst uncover the hole of Vala of the Cows", he means that Vala is the concealer, the withholder of the Light and it is the concealed
  Light that Indra restores to the sacrificer. The recovery of the lost or stolen cows is constantly spoken of in the Vedic hymns and its sense will be clear enough when we come to examine the legend of the Panis and of the Angirases.

1.13 - System of the O.T.O., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  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.
  Lege! Judica! Tace![23]

1.13 - The Kings of Rome and Alba, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  attached the spoils won by him from the Enemy's general in battle.
  We are expressly told that the oak crown was sacred to Capitoline

1.14 - Noise, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Yes, they are there, and they can get us back our freedom if only we can make them see that the Enemy in Whitehall is more insidiously fatal than the foe in Brownshirt House.
  On this note of hope I will back to my silence.

1.14 - ON THE FRIEND, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  In a friend one should still honor the Enemy. Can
  you go close to your friend without going over to

1.14 - The Structure and Dynamics of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  god, so the devil, "that ancient serpent," 24 is the Enemy of
  Christ, the "novus Sol." The good, perfect, spiritual God was

1.15 - On incorruptible purity and chastity to which the corruptible attain by toil and sweat., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  Let us listen again to another wile of our foes. Just as food bad for the body produces sickness after a time or some days, so this often happens in the case of actions which defile the soul. I have seen some give way to luxury and not at once feel the attacks of the Enemy. I have seen others eat with women and converse with them and at the time have no bad thoughts whatsoever in their mind. They were thus deceived and encouraged to grow careless and to think that they were in peace and safety, and they suddenly suffered destruction in their cells. But what bodily and spiritual destruction comes to us when we are alone? He who is tempted knows. And he who is not tempted does not need to know.
  On these occasions1 the best aids for us are: sackcloth, ashes, all-night standing, hunger, moistening the tongue in moderation when parched with thirst, dwelling amongst the tombs, and above all humility of heart; and if possible a spiritual father or a careful brother, an elder in spirit to help us. But I shall be surprised if anyone will be able to save his ship from the sea by himself.
  --
  As we have said before, some people in hermitages suffer far more severe attacks from the enemies. And no wonder! For the demons haunt such places, since the Lord in His care for our salvation has driven them into the deserts and the abyss (of hell). Demons of fornication cruelly assail the solitary in order to drive him back into the world, as having received no benefit from the desert. Demons keep away from us when we are living in the world, that we may go on staying among worldly-minded people because we are not attacked there. Hence we should realize that the place in which we are attacked is the one in which we are certainly waging bitter war on the Enemy; for if we ourselves are not waging war, the Enemy is presenting himself as our friend.3
  When we are in the world for some justifiable reason, we are protected by the hand of God, perhaps through the prayer of our spiritual father, that the Lord may not be blasphemed through us.4 And sometimes we are protected through our insensitivity and through having had long experience of the sights of the world and its subjects of conversation and all its doings. And sometimes it is because the demons go away of their own accord and leave us only the demon of conceit which takes the place of all the rest.
  --
  In a gathering where I was, I noticed that an earnest brother was troubled by evil thoughts. As he could not find a suitable place for secret prayer, he went out as if compelled by natural necessity to the place set apart for that purpose, and there armed himself with vigorous prayer against the Enemy. When I reproached him for choosing an indecent place, he replied: In an unclean place I prayed to drive away unclean thoughts in order to be cleansed of all impurity.
  All demons try to darken our mind, and then they suggest what they want to. For as long as the mind does not shut its eyes, we shall not be robbed of our treasure. But the demon of fornication tries to do this much more than all the rest. Often, after darkening our mind which controls us, it urges and disposes us in the presence of people to do what only those who are out of their mind do. Then later when the mind becomes sober we are ashamed of our unholy acts, words and gestures not only before those who saw us but also before ourselves, and we are amazed at our previous blindness. Often as a result of such reflection, men have desisted from this evil.
  Banish the Enemy when he hinders you from prayer, meditation, or vigil after you have committed sin. Remember Him who said: Yet because the soul tormented by the thought of previous sins gives me trouble, I will give her relief from her enemies.3
  Who has conquered his body? He who has crushed his heart. And who has crushed his heart? He who has denied himself. For how can he not be crushed who has died to his own will?

1.15 - The Value of Philosophy, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
  Apart from its utility in showing unsuspected possibilities, philosophy has a value--perhaps its chief value--through the greatness of the objects which it contemplates, and the freedom from narrow and personal aims resulting from this contemplation. The life of the instinctive man is shut up within the circle of his private interests: family and friends may be included, but the outer world is not regarded except as it may help or hinder what comes within the circle of instinctive wishes. In such a life there is something feverish and confined, in comparison with which the philosophic life is calm and free. The private world of instinctive interests is a small one, set in the midst of a great and powerful world which must, sooner or later, lay our private world in ruins. Unless we can so enlarge our interests as to include the whole outer world, we remain like a garrison in a beleagured fortress, knowing that the Enemy prevents escape and that ultimate surrender is inevitable. In such a life there is no peace, but a constant strife between the insistence of desire and the powerlessness of will. In one way or another, if our life is to be great and free, we must escape this prison and this strife.
  One way of escape is by philosophic contemplation. Philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, divide the universe into two hostile camps--friends and foes, helpful and hostile, good and bad--it views the whole impartially. Philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not aim at proving that the rest of the universe is akin to man. All acquisition of knowledge is an enlargement of the Self, but this enlargement is best attained when it is not directly sought. It is obtained when the desire for knowledge is alone operative, by a study which does not wish in advance that its objects should have this or that character, but adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects. This enlargement of Self is not obtained when, taking the Self as it is, we try to show that the world is so similar to this Self that knowledge of it is possible without any admission of what seems alien.

1.16 - The Season of Truth, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  The secrets are simple, we have said, and we wonder if that difficult transmutation, that complex alchemy, those thick manuals and mysterious initiations, those educated austerities and spiritual exercises, those meditations and retreats and tortured breathing, that whole labor of the spirit are not actually the labor of the mind trying to make it difficult, tremendously difficult, so it can inflate itself further, and then glory in untying the enormous knot it had itself tied. If things are too simple, it does not believe in them, because it has nothing to do because it yearns to do, at all costs. That is its food and livelihood its ego's livelihood. But that mental inflation and pontification may hide from us an utter simplicity, a supreme facility, a supreme nondoing that is the art of doing well. We have had to do and do again, tramp around the trails of the mind to individualize a fragment of that formidable, immense Consciousness-Force, that universal Energy-Harmony, to make it self-conscious, as it were, in one form and in billions of forms. But has not the time come, at the end of the little flame's long journey, to break the mold that helped us to grow and rediscover the totality of Consciousness and Energy and Harmony in one small center of being, a little point of matter, in one clear little note, and to let That do, That change our eyes, That permeate our tissues, That widen our substance to let a supreme Child who runs over the great prairies of the world play in us and for us, if we want, because he is us? This difficult transmutation may not be so difficult after all. It must be as simple as truth, simple as a smile, simple as a child at play. Perhaps everything hinges simply on whether we wish to take the path of difficulty the path of the mind desperately inflating itself to try to blow itself up to the size of the universe, the path of the buts and whys and hows and all the implacable laws that choke us time and again in our mental straitjacket or the path of an unknown little something stealing through the air, sparkling in the air, winking at every street corner and every encounter, in everything, all the trifles of the day, as though carrying us along in an indescribable golden wake in which everything is easy and simple and miraculous we are right in the midst of the miracle! We are in the full supramental season. It is knocking at all our closed windows, at our countries, our hearts, our crumbling systems, our shaky laws, our faltering wisdoms, in our thousands of ills that keep coming out, our thousands of little lies abandoning the skiff in distress it is softly slipping its golden skiff beneath the old specious appearances, it is growing its unexpected buds beneath the old rags, awaiting a tiny little crack to spring out into the open, a tiny little call. The transmutation is not difficult; it is all there, already done, only waiting for us to open our eyes to the unreality of misery and falsehood and death and our impotence to the unreality of the mind and the laws of the mind. It is waiting for our radical saltus into that future of truth, our mass uprising against the old cage, our general strike against the Machine. Oh! let us leave it to the elders, the old elders of the old world, the old believers in misery and suffering and the bomb and the gospel and the millions of gospels that struggle for a share of the world, to run their old squeaky machine for a few more days, to quarrel over borders, argue over reforms of the rot, debate agreements of disagreement, stockpile bombs and false knowledge and libraries and museums, preach good and evil, preach the friend and the Enemy, preach country and no-country, build more and more machines and supermachines and rockets to the moon and misery for every pocketbook let us leave to them the last convulsions of the falsehood, the last cries of the rot, we who do not care about countries, borders, machines and all that walled-in future, we who believe in a light and inexpressible something that is pounding at the doors of the world and pounding in our hearts, in a completely new future, completely clear and vibrant and marvelous, without borders, without laws, without gospels, beyond all their possibilities and impossibilities, their good and evil, their small countries and small thoughts we who believe in Truth, in the supreme beauty of Truth, the supreme joy of Truth, the supreme power of Truth. We are the sons of a more marvelous Future which is already there, which will spring out into the open by our cry of trust, sweeping away all the old machinery like an unreal dream, a nightmare of the mind, an old windbag filled with only as much air as we still consent to lend it. The transmutation has to be done in our hearts, the last revolution to be carried out, the supramental revolution of the human species as others had launched the human revolution among the apes its great rebellion against the Machine, its general strike against mental knowledge, mental power and mental fabrications against the mental prison its mass defection from the old groove of pain, and its calling out for what has to be, its simple cry for truth amidst the rubble of the mental age: the truth, the truth, the truth, and nothing but the truth.
  Then Truth shall be.

1.16 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Completely satisfied with his own Ideal Deity, he never directed his attention to any other god or goddess. One of the inflexible rules of his devotions was to worship the Deity daily till almost midday. He would never deviate from this practice, even at the risk of his wealth or his kingdom. Learning this secret, an enemy king invaded the kingdom during the morning hours. Jayamal's soldiers could not fight without his command; so they watched the invasion silently. Slowly the Enemy surrounded the moat of the capital; yet Jayamal did not come out of his shrine room. His mother came to him and wept bitterly, trying to persuade the king to fight. He said to her calmly: "Why are you worried? Syamalasundara gave me this kingdom. What can I do if He has decided to take it away? On the other hand, none will be able to do me harm if He protects me. Our own efforts are vain! "
  And actually, in the mean time, Syamalasundara, the Deity Himself, had taken the king's horse from the stable and had ridden fully armed to the field. Alone He faced the hostile king and alone destroyed his army. Having crushed the Enemy forces, the Deity returned to the temple and fastened the horse near by.
  Jayamal, on completing his worship, came out and discovered the horse there, panting and covered with sweat. "Who has been riding my horse?" he demanded. "Who brought it to the temple?" The officers declared they knew nothing about it. In a pensive mood the king proceeded to the battlefield with his army and there found the Enemy, with the exception of their leader, lying dead. He was staring uncomprehendingly at the scene, when the Enemy king approached, worshipped him, and said: "Please permit me to tell you something. How could I fight? You have a warrior who could conquer the entire world. I do not want your wealth or your kingdom; indeed, I will gladly give you my own, if you will tell me about that Blue Warrior, your friend. No sooner did I turn my eyes on him than he cast a spell on my heart and soul."
  Jayamal then realized it had been none other than Syamalasundara that had appeared on the battlefield. the Enemy king understood too. He worshipped Jayamal and through his blessings received Krishna's grace.
  MASTER: "Do you believe all that? Do you believe Krishna rode on that horse and killed Jayamal's enemies?"
  M: "I believe that Jayamal, Krishna's devotee, prayed to Him with a yearning heart. But I don't know whether the Enemy really saw Him coming to the battlefield on a horse.
  Krishna might have come there riding the horse, but I do not know whether they really saw Him."

1.19 - Tabooed Acts, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  something of the soul or spiritual essence of the Enemy into
  themselves, which would destroy the mystic virtue of their

1.19 - The Curve of the Rational Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The natural remedy for the first defects of the individualistic theory in practice would seem to be education; for if man is not by nature, we may hope at least that he can be made by education and training something like a rational being. Universal education, therefore, is the inevitable second step of the democratic movement in its attempt to rationalise human society. But a rational education means necessarily three things, first, to teach men how to observe and know rightly the facts on which they have to form a judgment; secondly, to train them to think fruitfully and soundly; thirdly, to fit them to use their knowledge and their thought effectively for their own and the common good. Capacity of observation and knowledge, capacity of intelligence and judgment, capacity of action and high character are required for the citizenship of a rational order of society; a general deficiency in any of these difficult requisites is a sure source of failure. Unfortunately,even if we suppose that any training made available to the millions can ever be of this rare character,the actual education given in the most advanced countries has not had the least relation to these necessities. And just as the first defects and failures of democracy have given occasion to the Enemy to blaspheme and to vaunt the superiority or even the quite imaginary perfection of the ideal past, so also the first defects of its great remedy, education, have led many superior minds to deny the efficacy of education and its power to transform the human mind and driven them to condemn the democratic ideal as an exploded fiction.
  Democracy and its panacea of education and freedom have certainly done something for the race. To begin with, the people are, for the first time in the historical period of history, erect, active and alive, and where there is life, there is always a hope of better things. Again, some kind of knowledge and with it some kind of active intelligence based on knowledge and streng thened by the habit of being called on to judge and decide between conflicting issues and opinions in all sorts of matters have been much more generalised than was formerly possible. Men are being progressively trained to use their minds, to apply intelligence to life, and that is a great gain. If they have not yet learned to think for themselves or to think soundly, clearly and rightly, they are at least more able now to choose with some kind of initial intelligence, however imperfect as yet it may be, the thought they shall accept and the rule they shall follow. Equal educational equipment and equal opportunity of life have by no means been acquired; but there is a much greater equalisation than was at all possible in former states of society. But here a new and enormous defect has revealed itself which is proving fatal to the social idea which engendered it. For given even perfect equality of educational and other opportunity, and that does not yet really exist and cannot in the individualistic state of society,to what purpose or in what manner is the opportunity likely to be used? Man, the half infrarational being, demands three things for his satisfaction, power, if he can have it, but at any rate the use and reward of his faculties and the enjoyment of his desires. In the old societies the possibility of these could be secured by him to a certain extent according to his birth, his fixed status and the use of his capacity within the limits of his hereditary status. That basis once removed and no proper substitute provided, the same ends can only be secured by success in a scramble for the one power left, the power of wealth. Accordingly, instead of a harmoniously ordered society there has been developed a huge organised competitive system, a frantically rapid and one-sided development of industrialism and, under the garb of democracy, an increasing plutocratic tendency that shocks by its ostentatious grossness and the magnitudes of its gulfs and distances. These have been the last results of the individualistic ideal and its democratic machinery, the initial bankruptcies of the rational age.

1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  Man owes his movements to another Power, whereas he thinks that he does everything himself - just like a lame man bluffing that, were he helped to stand up, he would fight and chase away the Enemy.
  Action is impelled by desire; desire arises only after the rise of the ego; and this ego owes its origin to a Higher Power on which its existence depends. It cannot remain apart. Why then prattle, I do,

1.2.08 - Faith, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   moon, but the healing by faith in the cells is an actual fact and a law of Nature and has been demonstrated often enough even apart from Yoga. The way to get faith and everything else is to insist on having them and refuse to flag or despair or give up until one has them - it is the way by which everything has been got since this difficult world began to have thinking and aspiring creatures upon it. It is to open always, always to the Light and turn one's back on the darkness. It is to refuse the voices that cry persistently, "You cannot, you shall not, you are incapable, you are the puppet of a dream" - for these are the Enemy voices, they cut one off from the result that was coming by their strident clamour and then triumphantly point to the barrenness of result as a proof of their thesis. The difficulty of the endeavour is a known thing, but the difficult is not the impossible - it is the difficult that has always been accomplished and the conquest of difficulties makes up all that is valuable in the earth's history. In the spiritual endeavour also it shall be so.
  For the sadhana, your strong distaste (to say the least) for the methods which we find most useful but you find grim and repellent, makes a great obstacle. But I maintain my idea that if you remain faithful to the seeking for the Divine, the day of grace and opening will come. Nobody will be more pleased than ourselves if it comes over there in the Himalayas, or for that matter anywhere. The place does not matter - the thing itself is all.

1.20 - On bodily vigil and how to use it to attain spiritual vigil and how to practise it., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  17. Not until we are freed from this should we beg to be excused common worship, for often shame keeps us from dozing. The hound is the Enemy of the hares, and the demon of vainglory is the Enemy of sleep.
  18. When the day is over, the vendor sits down and counts his profits, but the ascetic does so when the psalm-singing is over.

1.20 - Tabooed Persons, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  was a fear lest the Enemy should obtain the refuse of their persons,
  and thus be enabled to work their destruction by magic. Among some
  --
  successes over the Enemy, and that the least wound inflicted on them
  would prove mortal. When a Choctaw had killed an enemy and taken his

1.20 - Talismans - The Lamen - The Pantacle, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  In the British Museum (and I suppose elsewhere) you may see the medal struck to commemorate the victory over the Armada. This is a reproduction, perhaps modified, of the Talisman used by Dee to raise the storm which scattered the Enemy fleet.
  You must lay most closely to your heart the theory of the Magical Link (see Magick pp. 107 - 122) and see well to it that it rings true; for without this your talisman is worse than useless. It is dangerous; for all that Energy is bound to expend itself somehow; it will make its own links with anything handy that takes its fancy; and you can get into any sort of the most serious kind of trouble.

1.20 - The Hound of Heaven, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Yama and the ancient Fathers have discovered the path to that world which is a pasture of the Cows whence the Enemy cannot bear away the radiant herds, yamo no gatum prathamo viveda, nais.a gavyutir apabhartava u, yatra nah. purve pitarah. pareyuh..
  The soul of the heaven-ascending mortal is bidden to "outrun the two four-eyed varicoloured Sarameya dogs on the good (or effective) path." Of that path to heaven they are the four-eyed

1.21 - Tabooed Things, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  to the Enemy's country in pursuit of his murderer. The taboo is
  probably based on the common belief that the soul or spirit of the

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  One must fight ones way through before regaining ones original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the Enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely. The thoughts are the Enemy. They amount to the creation of the Universe. In their absence there is neither the world nor God the
  Creator. The Bliss of the Self is the single Being only.

1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  fate, leaving him in the Enemy's hands. Seeing himself thus
  deserted, he causes his throne to be erected, and, sitting down,

1.25 - On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  26. Humility is a divine shelter to prevent us from seeing our achievements. Humility is an abyss of self-abasement, inaccessible to any thief. Humility is a strong tower against the face of the Enemy.1 the Enemy shall not prevail against him, nor shall the son, or rather, the thought of iniquity do him evil: and he will cut off his enemies from his face and will conquer them that hate him.2
  27. Besides all the distinguishing properties indicated above, the great possessor of this wealth also has others in his soul. And all these properties except one are visible signs of this wealth. You will know with certainty that you have this holy possession within you by an abundance of unspeakable light, by an unutterable love for prayer; and before this is attained, by a heart that does not judge the faults of others. And the precursor of what has been said is hatred of all vainglory.

1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  3 He calls mothers the productive virtues which bear their own. And he calls daughters those which are born of the love of God and of faith and of hope. For these are of God just as their opposites are of the Enemy. And the vices likewise are productive. And just as the Lord creates the virtues in us, so the devil creates vices.
  4 Deuteronomy xx.
  --
  An energetic soul rouses the demons against itself. But as our conflicts increase, so do our crowns. He who has never been struck by the Enemy will certainly not be crowned. But the warrior who does not flinch despite his incidental falls will be glorified by the angels as a champion.
  1 Psalm cxviii, 96.

1.26 - Sacrifice of the Kings Son, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  in great danger from the Enemy." When the king of Moab was besieged
  by the Israelites and hard beset, he took his eldest son, who should

1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the Enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely. The thoughts are the Enemy. They amount to the creation of the Universe. In their absence there is neither the world nor God the
  Creator. The Bliss of the Self is the single Being only.

1.3.02 - Equality The Chief Support, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It is a spiritual battle inward and outward; by neutrality and compromise or even passivity one may allow the Enemy Forces to pass and crush down the Truth and its children. If you look at it from this point you will see that if the inner spiritual equality is right, the active loyalty and firm taking of sides is as right, and the two cannot be incompatible.
  I have of course treated it as a general question apart from all particular cases or personal questions. It is a principle of

1.31 - Adonis in Cyprus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  wilderness of Moab in pursuit of the Enemy, they could find no water
  for three days, and were like to die of thirst, they and the beasts

1.33 - The Golden Mean, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings home the bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the Enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99 C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly. When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm.
  I guess that's about what I think.

1.38 - Woman - Her Magical Formula, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  The eternal antagonism between the sexes is mere illusion. As well suppose the male the Enemy of the female screw. Understand the spiritual reality of each, grasp their magical formulae; the sublime necessity of the apparent opposition will be apparent.
  The ultimate of Woman is Nuit; that of Man, Hadit. The Book of the Law speaks very fully and clearly in both cases. I quote the principal passages.

14.04 - More of Yajnavalkya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   I have said that Yajnavalkya had two wives. You did not ask me why: for to us moderns such a thing is not only immoral but inconvenient; it is however another story, a long story. In those days, those far-off early days of mankind, thousands and thousands, millions perhaps, of years ago, it was the law, die social custom and it became a duty, to have more than one wife and the relation too between man and woman was much freer and more loose. That was because, as you know, man started his earthly life at a certain stage of creation; before that stage there was no man, there were only animals. The earth was filled with animals, only animals, wild animals, ferocious animals, insects, worms, all kinds of ugly and dangerous creatures. Man came long, long after; he is almost a recent appearance. It was a mysterious, indeed a miraculous happening, how all of a sudden, out of or in the midst of animals there appeared a new creature, quite a different type of animal. Still in whatever way it happened, they were not many in number. The first creation of man must have been a very limited operation, limited in space, limited in number. Perhaps they sprouted up like mushrooms here and there, a hundred here, another hundred there, or perhaps a few thousands few and far between. So man led a dangerous and precarious life. All around him these animals, some too big, some too small to be tackled withstood against him, and Nature also was as wild and as much against him. So for self-preservation and survival they needed to be numerous, to increase in number as much as possible. It is exactly what is needed in war; the larger the number of troops, the greater the chance of winning the war. So the impulse in man, in the social aggregate was to have more men, increase the number, to streng then the extent and volume of the force to be able to fight successfully against the Enemy. So a necessity became a religious duty to multiply, to procreate and redouble the race. In later days, even when the necessity was not so imperative, even then the habit and custom continued. To beget children was a praiseworthy thing, the more the number the greater the merit. Women who had numerous children were considered favourites of the gods. King Dasharatha had, it appears, a thousand wives, King Dhritarashtra had more than a hundred, Vashishtha had a hundred sons and King Sagar a thousand. Draupadi had five husbands and she was considered the ideal chaste woman.
   In the modern age we have gone to the other extreme, we have tided over the danger of under-population. At the present day it is over-population that threatens the existence of mankind. Now we are anxious, we are racking our brains, trying to find out all kinds of means and ways to restrict and control any increase in population.

1.40 - Coincidence, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  When I was writing that letter about prophecy, I was hot and bothered all the time by my faithful sentinel, the well-greaved Hoplite that stands at the postern of my consciousness, ready to challenge every thought and woe to the intruder who cannot give the countersign! This time the dear old ruffian thought the matter serious enough to report Higher Up. "It is put plainly enough, emphatically enough, incontrovertibly enough" was the gist of his communication "that the first and most irretrievable trick of the Enemy is to dupe you into passing Captain Coincidence as 'Friend,' whereas he is naturally the most formidable of all your foes when it comes to a question of proof."
  Quite right, Sergeant-Major! But it is not only about prophecy, but about all sorts of things, in particular, of course, the identification of angels and similar problems.

1.49 - Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  regarded as an act of vengeance inflicted on the Enemy of the god.
  Similarly, the red oxen sacrificed by the Egyptians were said to be

1.52 - Family - Public Enemy No. 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  In the Russian troubles following the October Revolution, General Denikin, who was trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back on the wall, captured the aged parents of Leon Trotsky, in comm and of the Enemy, and chivalrously telegraphed him to withdraw his troops to certain positions, otherwise the old people would be shot. Trotsky replied "Shoot!"
  The point of this story is that I hope it will answer your next question: You are so very clear and firm about the family; then why don't you insist on all your pupils starting with a domestic holocaust?

1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  to the frontier of Bunyoro, the land of the Enemy. The scapegoat
  consisted of either a man and a boy or a woman and her child, chosen
  --
  lingering death in the Enemy's country, being too crippled to crawl
  back to Uganda. The disease or plague was thought to have been thus

1.59 - Geomancy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Now here we come to a question of personality. The first thing to remember about Geomancy is that although the various intelligences are attributed to the twelve signs of the Zodiac they all appertain to the element of earth. Anyone therefore who has got in his nativity an earthy sign rising, or the sun in an earthly sign, or a good proportion of planets in an earthy sign, is much more likely to find Geomancy attractive than anyone the principal features of whose horoscope are devoted to other elements, especially air, which of course is the Enemy of earth.
  Now these remarks apply of course very much to the type of question that is likely to be within the grasp of the Geomantic Intelligences, that must certainly be considered as well as the natural faculty of the practitioner to master the art.

1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Then there is quite another kind, which is quite clearly penny-plain frustration. Something one wants to do, perhaps a trifle, and one can't. Then one looks for the obstacle, and then the Enemy behind that again; maybe one gets into one of those "ladder-meditations" (as described in Liber Aleph,[121] quoted in The Book of Thoth, when discussing "The Fool" and Hashish, only the wrong way up!) which end by the conception of the Universe itself as the very climax, asymptote, quintessence of frustration the perfect symbol of all uselessness. This is, of course, the absolute contradictory of Thelema; but it is the sorites on which both Hindu and Buddhist conclusions are based.
  This kind of rage is, accordingly, most noxious; it is direct attack from within upon the virgin citadel of Self. It is high treason to existence. Its results are immediately harmful; it begets depression, melancholy, despair. In fact, one does wisely to take the bear by the ring in his snout; accept his conclusions, agree that it is all abject and futile and silly and turn the hose-pipe of the Trance of Laughter on him until he dances to your pleasure.

1.70 - Morality 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  (I do wish that we had the sense to take our ideas of Peace conditions from the Bible, as our rulers so loudly profess that they do. the Enemy knows well enough that there is no other way to make a war pay.)
  Now then, I hope that we have succeeded in clarifying this exceptionally muddy marish water of morality from most of its alien and toxic dirt; too often the Aspirant to the Sacred Wisdom finds no firm path under his feet; the Bog of Respectability mires him who sought the Garden of Delights; soon the last bubbles burst from his choked lungs; he is engulfed in the Slough of Despond.

1.74 - Obstacles on the Path, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  The only suggestion that occurs to me is that I might somehow be "giving occasion to the Enemy to blaspheme." Let it go at that! "Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!"
  Yes child, my deepest attitude is to be found in my life. I have been to most of the holy inaccessible places, and talked with the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and I challenge the world's literature to match for sublimity and terror such experiences as those in the latter half of The Vision and the Voice.

1.83 - Epistola Ultima, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  It is true that our 0 = 2 formula remains infinitely useful because it is of such potency in destroying the scepticism which so often disheartens one, especially in the highest realms of The criticism which the Enemy directs against your sun-kissed tower is thrown back from those glittering walls. You accept the criticism at the same time as you dismiss it with a laugh.
  On the whole therefore I continue to regard the discipline of Yoga as its most valuable feature. The results attained by pushing Yoga to its end are on their own showing worthless, whereas the attainment of Magick, however lofty, is still immune to all criticism and at every period of its construction has been perfectly sympathetic with the normal consciousness of man.

19.15 - On Happiness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   the Enemy;
   To live with the wise is happiness even like the company of

19.24 - The Canto of Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   One who strives to quieten his mind, who is ever discriminating and spots out the unclean: He, indeed, is the person who cuts away the bonds of the Enemy, cuts away to the very last.
   [18]

1954-12-22 - Possession by hostile forces - Purity and morality - Faith in the final success -Drawing back from the path, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are cases in which it is precisely the opening to a suggestion, an adverse influence, an opening which is the result of a wrong movementa movement of revolt or of hatred or of violent desire. One can, in a wrong movement, open himselfin a rage, for exampleone can open to an adverse force and bring in an influence which could terminate by a possession. At the beginning these things are relatively easy to cure if there is a conscious part of the being and a very strong will to get rid of this bad movement and this influence. One succeeds easily enough, relatively speaking, if the aspiration is sincere; but if one looks on the thing with complacency and tells himself, Ah, it is like that, it cant be otherwise, then this becomes dangerous. One must not tolerate the Enemy in the place. As soon as one notices his presence, one must throw him out very far, as far as one can, pitilessly.
  Sweet Mother, to be pure means what?

1956-01-04 - Integral idea of the Divine - All things attracted by the Divine - Bad things not in place - Integral yoga - Moving idea-force, ideas - Consequences of manifestation - Work of Spirit via Nature - Change consciousness, change world, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Now, if one comes down again from this consciousness to a more external consciousness, naturally one begins to feel, very precisely, the things which help one to reach the true consciousness and those which bar the way or pull one back or even struggle against the progress. And so the outlook changes and one has to say, This is divine, or this helps me toward the Divine; and that is against the Divine, it is the Enemy of the Divine.
  But this is a pragmatic point of view, for action, for the movement in material lifebecause one has not yet reached the consciousness which goes beyond all that; because one has not attained that inner perfection, having which one has no longer to struggle, for one has gone beyond the zone of struggle or the time of struggle or the utility of struggle. But before that, before attaining that state in ones consciousness and action, necessarily there is struggle, and if there is struggle there is choice and for the choice discernment is necessary.

1956-03-07 - Sacrifice, Animals, hostile forces, receive in proportion to consciousness - To be luminously open - Integral transformation - Pain of rejection, delight of progress - Spirit behind intention - Spirit, matter, over-simplified, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Each time a shadow passes, with what may be just an uneasiness or what may become a severe pain or an unbearable suffering, through the whole range, from the smallest to the greatestas soon as it appears in your being, you may tell yourself, Ah, the Enemy is there!in one form or another.
  Sweet Mother, what is the experience of the being who has given himself completely to the Divine?

1956-07-18 - Unlived dreams - Radha-consciousness - Separation and identification - Ananda of identity and Ananda of union - Sincerity, meditation and prayer - Enemies of the Divine - The universe is progressive, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are countless legends or stories of this kind, like that of Prahlad,1 for instance, which we saw recently in a film, stories which illustrate that state of consciousness. And I am not only convinced, but I myself have the quite tangible experience that if in the presence of some danger or an enemy or some ill-will, you are able to remain in this condition and see the Divine in all things, well, the danger will have no effect, the ill-will can do nothing to you, and the Enemy will either be transformed or run away. That is quite certain.
  But I must add a word which is quite important. You must not seek this state of consciousness with any motive or seek it because it is a protection or a help. You must have it sincerely, spontaneously, constantly; it must be a normal, natural, effort less way of being. Then it is effective. But if you try in the least to imitate the movement with the idea of obtaining a particular result, it wont succeed. The result is not obtained at all. And then in your ignorance you will perhaps say, Oh! but they told me that, but it is not true! That is because there was some insincerity somewhere.
  --
  Just a while ago you said that if one can spontaneously see the Divine in ones enemy, the Enemy is converted. Is that true?
  Not necessarily! I said: either he will be converted or he will run away. I did not say he is always converted! I said: if there is the least little rift in his bad will, the thing will enter; and then he can suddenly be changed, or at any rate become incapable of acting. But if that is not there, well, he will go away. But he wont be able to do anything. What I assert is that he wont be able to do anything; and if he can do something it is a sign that the state of consciousness you were in was not sufficiently pure and complete.
  --
  (The teacher) He was objectifying the Divine and was thinking: when somebody is the Divines enemy, he is an enemy of a divine form, and this divine form sees the Divine in his enemy, therefore the Enemy must be converted.
  No, I still havent caught it!
  --
  This has been symbolised here in India in the stories of those who wanted to identify themselves with the divine Reality and chose to become His enemies, for the path of the Enemy was more direct than the path of the worshipper. These are well-known stories here, all the old legends and Indian mythology speak about it. Well, this simply illustrates the fact that one who has never put the problem to himself and never given the faintest thought to the existence of the Divine is certainly farther away from the Divine than one who hates Him or denies Him. For one cant deny something one has never thought about.
  He who says or writes: I declare, I certify, all my experience goes to prove that there is no Divine, no such thing exists, it is just mans imagination, mans creation, that means he has already thought over the problem any number of times and that something within him is prodigiously interested in this problem.
  As for the one who detests Himthere it is even more obvious: one cant be the Enemy of an illusion.
  So (speaking to the disciple), your question no longer holds. For perhaps, after all, this is one more form of meeting which may have its interest. One sometimes says in a lighter vein: My intimate enemy, and it is perhaps not altogether wrong. Perhaps there is more intimacy in hatred than in ignorance. One is nearer to what one hates than to what one is ignorant of.
  --
    In Indian mythology Prahlad is the son of King Hiranyakashipu, an ardent enemy of the god Vishnu. The king had banned the worship of Vishnu in his kingdom, and when he learnt that his son Prahlad was worshipping this god in his own palace, he delivered him to serpents, but they did not bite him. Then he had him thrown down from the top of a hill into the sea, but the child was miraculously carried by the waters. When the enraged king asked his son, "Who has saved you?", the child replied, "Vishnu is everywhere, in the serpents and in the sea." It is interesting to note that the king himself had been a soul temporarily driven out from the heaven of Vishnu due to the curse of some rishis who had given him the choice between three lives on earth as the Enemy of Vishnu and ten lives on earth as the worshipper of Vishnu the king had chosen the shorter way back.
    Later, someone asked Mother: "What is this 'it'? the universe?" To which Mother replied, "I said 'it' deliberately, so as not to make it precise. I don't like the word 'creation'; it immediately gives the impression of a special creation as though it were made out of nothing but it is He Himself! And it is not the universe 'which begins': the universe 'is begun'. How to put it? It is not the universe which takes the initiative of the movement! And if one says that the Lord began the universe, it becomes false. All these are such fixed ideas! If I say: 'The Lord began the universe,' one sees at once a personal God deciding to begin the universeit is not that!

1957-01-02 - Can one go out of time and space? - Not a crucified but a glorified body - Individual effort and the new force, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Because until now evil has been opposed by weakness, by a spiritual force without any power for transformation in the material world, this tremendous effort of goodwill has ended only in deplorable failure and left the world in the same state of misery and corruption and falsehood. It is on the same plane as the one where the adverse forces are ruling that one must have a greater power than theirs, a power which can conquer them totally in that very domain. To put it otherwise, a spiritual force which would be capable of transforming both the consciousness and the material world. This force is the supramental force. What is necessary is to be receptive to its action on the physical plane, and not to run away into a distant Nirvana leaving the Enemy with full power over what one abandons.
  It is neither sacrifice nor renunciation nor weakness which can bring the victory. It is only Delight, a delight which is strength, endurance, supreme courage. The delight brought by the supramental force. It is much more difficult than giving everything up and running away, it demands an infinitely greater heroism but that is the only way to conquer.

1970 01 06, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   273Fight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and thy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the Enemys dungeons and have his gags silenced thee? Fight with thy silent all besieging soul and thy wide-ranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the world-encompassing force that went out from God within thee.
   Truth is a difficult and strenuous conquest. One must be a true warrior to make this conquest, a warrior who fears nothing, neither enemies nor death, for, against the whole world, with or without a body, the struggle continues and will end in Victory.

1.anon - Less profitable, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  a battering ram that attracts the Enemy land,
  a shoe that bites its owner's feet!

1.anon - The Poem of Antar, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  At one time he is detached to charge the Enemy with the lance,
  and at another he joins the large host with their bows tightly strung.
  --
  When my people) defended themselves with me against the spears of the Enemy,
  I did not refrain from the spears through cowardice,
  --
  I did not cease charging the Enemy, with the prominent part of his throat and breast,
  until he became covered with a shirt of blood.
  --
  "Woe to you, 'Antarah, advance, and attack the Enemy,"
  cured my soul and removed its sickness.

1f.lovecraft - Collapsing Cosmoses, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Then from the direction of the Enemy there came a terrifying sound,
   which I soon recognised as a hail and a challenge. An answering thrill

1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   would advance through the aperture to oppose the Enemy or join the rest
   of the raiding contingent. The party at the stone building would accept

1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   blow whenever the Enemy might come in sight. Ghouls can see in the
   dark, so the party was not as badly off as Carter would have been
  --
   rose to panic pitch as the Enemy saw the newcomers, and there was very
   little resistance among the furtive and curious brown zoogs. They saw
  --
   be almost due; but so strong was the army that no surprise of the Enemy
   would be needed. The greenish flare near the wharves still glimmered
  --
   scouts was at once sent up toward the pinnacle to see what the Enemys
   course would be.
  --
   the hovering galley of the Enemy rescued several moon-beasts. The
   cliffs were unscalable except where the monsters had debarked, so that
  --
   considerable force on the eastern headland in the Enemys rear; after
   which the fight was short-lived indeed. Attacked from both sides, the

1f.lovecraft - The Unnamable, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   work; and I was soon carrying my thrusts into the Enemys own country.
   It was not, indeed, difficult to begin a counter-attack, for I knew

1.hs - Where Is My Ruined Life?, #Hafiz - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  His friend's bright face warms not the Enemy
  When love is done--

1.jk - King Stephen, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  First Knight. the Enemy
  Bears his flaunt standard close upon their rear.

1.jk - Otho The Great - Act I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  Conrad. At one pernicious charge of the Enemy,
  I, for a moment-whiles, was prisoner ta'en
  --
  Triumphant in the Enemy's shatter 'd rhomb;
  And, to say truth, in any Christian arm

1.lovecraft - The Peace Advocate, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  As the Enemy rode them o'er.
  Now he sees his own cathedral shake
  --
  One shot - the Enemy's blasting fire
  A breach in the wall cuts through,

1.sfa - How Virtue Drives Out Vice, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor disturbance. Where there is poverty with joy, there is neither covetousness nor avarice. Where there is inner peace and meditation, there is neither anxiousness nor dissipation. Where there is fear of the Lord to guard the house, there the Enemy cannot gain entry. Where there is mercy and discernment, there is neither excess nor hardness of heart. [1495.jpg] -- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM

1.shvb - O ignis Spiritus Paracliti, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Latin O Holy Spirit of Fire, life in the life of all life, holy are you, enlivening all things. Holy are you, a healing balm to the broken. Holy are you, washing blistered wounds. O Holy Breath, O Fire of Life, O Sweetness in my breast infusing my heart with the fine scent of truth. O Pure Fountain through which we know God unites strangers and gathers the lost. O Heart's Shield, guarding life and hope, joining the many members into one body; Belt of Truth, wrap them in beauty. Protect those ensnared by the Enemy, and free the worthy from their fetters. O Great Way that runs through all, from the heights, across the earth, and in the depths, you encompass all and unify all. From you the clouds stream and the ether rises; from your stones precious water pours, springs well and birth waterways, and the earth sweats green with life. And eternally do you bring forth knowledge by the breath of wisdom. All praise to you, you who are the song of praise and the joy of life, you who are hope and the greatest treasure, bestowing the gift of Light. <
1.whitman - I Saw Old General At Bay, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  He call'd for volunteers to run the Enemy's linesa desperate
      emergency;

1.whitman - Poems Of Joys, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the Enemy.      
   O the whaleman's joys! O I cruise my old cruise again!

1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  One is directed by the captain himself against the Enemy's mainmast,
  Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.

1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXXV, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  One is directed by the captain himself against the Enemy's main- mast,
  Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.

1.whitman - The Artillerymans Vision, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  I see the gaps cut by the Enemy's volleys (quickly fill'd up, no delay),
  I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;

1.whitman - The Centerarians Story, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  That brigade of the youngest was cut off, and at the Enemy's
      mercy.              
  --
       the Enemy;
  They are cut offmurderous artillery from the hills plays upon them;

20.01 - Charyapada - Old Bengali Mystic Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   She has lost her inner Hearing, her Guidance. the Enemy has stolen it.
   The guardian of the ordinary consciousness. The soul is the daughter-in-law. She is wedded into this house (the human receptacle)it is not her own house, she comes from elsewhere.

2.01 - Mandala One, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  (6) And may the Enemy peoples call us blessed, O Puissant; may we abide in Indras peace.
  (7) Bring for the swift this swift glory of the sacrifice that intoxicates the Gods; may it set on his march him who gives rapture to his friends.
  --
  (4) In his meeting and shock the Enemy ring not in his two bright steeds in the battles; to that Indra sing.
  (5) Pure the pressed offerings go to the drinker of the draught that he may quaff, nectar-juices of wine mingled with the curd.
  --
  (1) Indra, the Slayer of the Enemy,1 has increased by his men2 for the intoxication, for the puissance and him we call in the great courses of battle and him in the little. May he foster us in the fullnesses of plenty.3
  (2) O Hero, thou art our Lord of hosts4 and thou art the giver over to us of the much, and thou art the increaser even of the little;5 and for the sacrificer who offers the Soma-wine thou bringest out (givest) thy much substance.
  --
    Mada-chyut. S. overthrowing the pride of the Enemy.Nowhere in the Veda can be shown to have the much later sense of pride. The gods horses are called ghritasnh, dripping the . Why not then dripping the mada, ie the Soma, the vrish madah somah of 80.2?
    
  --
  (8) O Dawn, may I enjoy a victorious and energetic felicity, delivered from the Enemy, perceptively received in the nervous powers, thou who shinest wide by an inspiration perfect in activity giving birth to richnesses,O blissful one, to a plenty vast.
  (9) Divine she beholds all the worlds, wide shines her vision and she gazes straight at things; she awakens every living soul for action and finds the Word for all that aspires to mind.

2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
  Rather than proactively leading his own life, the Enemy-centered person is counterdependently reacting to the behavior and attitudes of a perceived enemy.
  One friend of mine who taught at a university became very distraught because of the weaknesses of a particular administrator with whom he had a negative relationship. He allowed himself to think about the man constantly until eventually it became an obsession. It so preoccupied him that it affected the quality of his relationships with his family, his church, and his working associates. He finally came to the conclusion that he had to leave the university and accept a teaching appointment somewhere else.

2.03 - The Pyx, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  The man had scented the Enemy, his hereditary
  quarry.

2.04 - The Secret of Secrets, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The eternal spirit itself is free from these things. It is free from them because it knows; it knows that Nature and ego and the personal being of all these creatures do not make up the whole of existence. For existence is not merely a glorious or a vain, a wonderful or a dismal panorama of a constant mutation of becoming. There is something eternal, immutable, imperishable, a timeless self-existence; that is not affected by the mutations of Nature. It is their impartial witness, neither affecting nor affected, neither acting nor acted upon, neither virtuous nor sinful, but always pure, complete, great and unwounded. Neither grieving nor rejoicing at all that afflicts and attracts the egoistic being, it is the friend of none, the Enemy of none, but one equal self of all. Man is not now conscious of this self, because he is wrapped up in his outward-going mind, because he will not learn or has not learned to live within; he does not detach himself, draw back from his action and observe it as the work of Nature. Ego is the obstacle, the linch-pin of the wheel of delusion, the loss of the ego in the soul's self the first condition of freedom. To become spirit, no longer merely a mind and ego, is the opening word of this message of liberation.
  Arjuna has been therefore called upon first to give up all desire of the fruits of his works and become simply the desireless

2.05 - Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  ing up the Enemy: if ye are suffering hardships, they are suffer
  ing similar hardships; but ye have hope from Allah, while they
  --
  self as threatened by some other the Enemy that one too is
  the God. The ogre breaks us, but the hero, the fit candidate, un

2.05 - Habit 3 Put First Things First, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
  I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't be involved in significant service projects. Those things are important. But you have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -pleasantly, smiling, nonapologetically -- to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. the Enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
  Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the more fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contri butions, if you let it.

2.06 - The Wand, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  56:It would be useless to insist on such a point were it not for the fact that many people confuse Philosophy with Magick. Philosophy is the Enemy of Magick. Philosophy assures us that after all nothing matters, and that "che sara sara."
  57:In practical life, and Magick is the most practical of the Arts of life, this difficulty does not occur. It is useless to argue with a man who is running to catch a train that he may be destined not to catch it; he just runs, and if he could spare breath would say "Blow destiny!"
  --
  111:A man has only to affirm his conscious aspiration; and the Enemy is upon him.
  112:It seems hardly possible that any one can ever pass through that terrible year of probation - and yet the aspirant is not bound to anything difficult; it almost seems as if he were not bound to anything at all - and yet experience teaches us that the effect is like plucking a man from his fireside into mid-Atlantic in a gale. The truth is, it may be, that the very simplicity of the task makes it difficult.

2.06 - Works Devotion and Knowledge, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  He is the Enemy of none and he is the partial lover of none; none has he cast out, none has he eternally condemned, none has he favoured by any despotism of arbitrary caprice: all at last equally come to him through their circlings in the ignorance. But it is only this perfect adoration that can make this indwelling of God in man and man in God a conscious thing and an engrossing and perfect union. Love of the Highest and a total self-surrender are the straight and swift way to this divine oneness.9
  The equal Divine Presence in all of us makes no other preliminary condition, if once this integral self-giving has been made in faith and in sincerity and with a fundamental completeness.

2.07 - I Also Try to Tell My Tale, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
  In any case, Saint George performs his feat before our eyes, always closed in his breastplate, revealing nothing of himself: psychology is no use to the man of action. If anything, we could say psychology is all on the dragon's side, with his angry writhings: the Enemy, the monster, the defeated have a pathos that the victorious hero never dreams of possessing (or takes care not to show). It is a short step from this to saying that the dragon is psychology: indeed, he is the psyche, he is the dark background of himself that Saint George confronts, an enemy who has already massacred many youths and maidens, an internal enemy who becomes an object of loathsome alien-ness. Is it the story of an energy projected into the world, or is it the diary of an introversion?
  Other paintings depict the next stage (the slaughtered dragon is a stain on the ground, a deflated container), and reconciliation with nature is celebrated, as trees and rocks grow to occupy the whole picture, relegating to a corner the little figures of the warrior and the monster (Altdorfer, Munich; Giorgione, London); or else it is the festivity of regenerated society around the hero and the princess (Pisanello, Verona; and Carpaccio, in the later pictures of the Schiavoni cycle). (Pathetic implicit meaning: the hero being a saint, there will not be a wedding but a baptism.) Saint George leads the dragon on a leash into the square to execute him in a public ceremony. But in all this festivity of the city freed from a nightmare, there is no one who smiles: every face is grave. Trumpets sound and drums roll, we have come to witness capital punishment, Saint George's sword is suspended in the air, we are all holding our breath, on the point of understanding that the dragon is not only the Enemy, the outsider, the other, but is us, a part of ourselves that we must judge.
  Along the walls of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, in Venice, the stories of Saint George and Saint Jerome follow one another, as if they were a single story. And perhaps they really are one story, the life of the same man: youth, maturity, old age, and death. I have only to find the thread that links the chivalrous enterprise with the conquest of wisdom. But just now, had I not managed to turn Saint Jerome toward the outside and Saint George toward the inside?

2.08 - ON THE FAMOUS WISE MEN, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  But the free spirit, the Enemy of fetters, the nonadorer who dwells in the woods, is as hateful to the
  people as a wolf to dogs. To hound him out of his lair

2.08 - The Sword, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Its function it to keep off the Enemy or to force a passage through them-and though it must be wielded to gain admission to the palace, it cannot be worn at the marriage feast.
  One might say that the Pantacle is the bread of life, and the Sword the knife which cuts it up. One must have ideas, but one must criticize them.

2.14 - The Unpacking of God, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
  It is the old Spinozist move, the other pole-the Eco pole-of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm (in the form of the Romantic rebellion). It thinks that the Enemy is atomism, and that the central problem is simply to be able to prove or demonstrate once and for all that the universe is a great and unified holistic System or Order or Web. It marshals a vast amount of scientific evidence, from physics to biology, and offers extensive arguments, all geared to objectively proving the holistic nature of the universe. It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.
  Precisely because this monological approach, with its unskillful interpretation of an otherwise genuine intuition, ignores or neglects the "I" and the "we" dimensions, it doesn't understand very well the exact nature of the inner transformations that are necessary in the first place in order to be able to find an identity that embraces the manifest All. Talk about the All as much as we want, nothing fundamentally changes.

2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   (After a pause) It is a principle which can be applied with success if practised on a mass scale, specially by unarmed people like the Indians, because you are left: with no other choice. But even when it succeeds it is not that you have changed the heart of the Enemy, but that you have made it impossible for him to rule. That is what happened in Ireland. There was in Ireland armed resistance also but that would not have succeeded without the passive resistance side by side. Such tremendous generalisations like "Passive resistance for all," "Charkha for all," "Celibacy for all" hardly work.
   17 JANUARY 1939

2.21 - 1940, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: That's a clear indication, if an indication was necessary, that he is the Enemy of our work. And from the values concerned in the conflict it should be quite clear that what is behind him is the Asuric power.
   Disciple: Does the Asura fear that a descent might take place on August 15, it being your birthday, which will make his work more difficult?

23.11 - Observations III, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is much easier to counter the bad will of the Enemy than to butt the good will of the friends.
   But the Divine knows how to circumvent all and turn everything to His own use in whatever guise it may appear.

2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    7. Let thy face front the Enemy wherever he turns; bear us in thy ship over the dangerous waters. Burn away from us the sin!
    8. As in a ship over the ocean, bear us over into thy felicity. Burn away from us the sin!
  --
  of the Enemy who would war against us, O lord of the riches,
  consume, conscious in knowledge, the powers of ignorance;
  --
  hard to pierce, pierce the Enemy-powers, found thy splendour in him who carries through the sacrifice.
  a`n i0A sEm@ys
  --
  5. A cherished guest domiciled in our gated house come to this sacrifice of ours as the knower; O Fire, slaying all who assail us bring to us the enjoyments of those who make themselves the Enemy.
  6. Drive away from us the Destroyer with thy stroke making free space for thy own body; when thou carriest the gods over safe, O son of force, us, O Fire, strongest godhead, guard in the plenitude.
  --
  to those who give thee, let all the Enemy forces, the hostile
  spirits depart from here who would do hurt to us, - let all
  --
    2. May there be a happy fuel for Fire at his labour, Fire enters into the great earth and heaven: Fire urges on one who is all alone in his battles, Fire cleaves asunder the multitude of the Enemy.
    3. Fire has protected the ear22 of the worshipper,23 Fire burnt out the Waster24 from the waters; Fire delivered Atri within

3.00.2 - Introduction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  negotiations with the Enemy and see what his terms really are. Such is the
  intention of the doctor who volunteers to act as a mediator. He is far from

30.09 - Lines of Tantra (Charyapada), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The world is as if a lake where lies hidden a lotus-stalk which is no other than the Cherished Deity of Kahnu. So we find him saying: "I shall churn the world-lake in Thy quest; it is like a prison-house, I shall break it and rescue Thee from there." This is as if one has to snatch away the Beloved Lady from the grasp of the Enemy after a fierce fight. To claim and possess by sheer force heaven and its Deity - this is the heroic way of the hero-aspirant, vira-sadhaka.
   Now look at another picture by another poet of this path. Here too taken as background is the daily life of the common man in his village environment:

30.13 - Rabindranath the Artist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   At the root of Rabindranath's patriotism also there lies the same love for beauty. The lack of beauty in slavery tortured him more than anything else. The ugliness of poverty was more unbearable to him than the actual physical destitution. If he could have viewed the wants of life at their own value like Mahatma Gandhi then he would have at least once plied the spinning wheel. But to him ease or affluence by itself has no importance. Affluence would have its real value if it contri buted to the rhythm of life. That is why his patriotism laid a greater stress on construction than on destruction. To settle things amicably, instead of attacking the Enemy, instead of wrangling with the foreigners, to put one's own house in order, to repair and beautify was considered by him a real work to be- done. To build is to create. To create is to fashion a thing beautifully. The ideal of his patriotic society has to foster all limbs of the collective life of the entire nation, to make it a united organism, to endow it with the beauty of forms and rhythm in action.
   So we say that the beautiful poetry and the poetry of beauty written by him are even surpassed by the beauty that he brought down into our life, particularly in the life of Bengal. The whole contri bution of Rabindranath is not exhausted by his poetical works. Firstly, his was the inspiration that formed around him a world of fine arts, a new current of poetry, painting, music, dance and theatre. Secondly, his was the life-energy whose vibration created in our country a refined taste and a capacity for subtle experience. Through his influence a consciousness has awakened towards appreciation of beauty. Thirdly, the thing which is, in a way, of greater value is this that if there has been a gradual manifestation of order and beauty in our ordinary daily life, in dress and decoration, in our conversation and conduct, at home and in assemblies, in articles of beauty and their use, then, at the root of it all, directly or indirectly the personality of Rabindranath was undoubtedly at work.

3.04 - LUNA, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [191] You are so sterile because, without your knowledge, something like an evil spirit has stopped up the source of your fantasy, the fountain of your soul. the Enemy is your own crude sulphur, which burns you with the hellish fire of desirousness, or concupiscentia. You would like to make gold because poverty is the greatest plague, wealth the highest good.339 You wish to have results that flatter your pride, you expect something useful, but there can be no question of that as you have realized with a shock. Because of this you no longer even want to be fruitful, as it would only be for Gods sake but unfortunately not for your own.
  purgabitur aqua per additamentum Sulphuris veri a sorde leprosa, et ab humore hydropico superfluo
  --
  [203] The thief in our text is armed with all evil, but in reality it is merely the ego with its shadow where the abysmal depths of human nature begin to appear. Increasing psychological insight hinders the projection of the shadow, and this gain in knowledge logically leads to the problem of the union of opposites. One realizes, first of all, that one cannot project ones shadow on to others, and next that there is no advantage in insisting on their guilt, as it is so much more important to know and possess ones own, because it is part of ones own self and a necessary factor without which nothing in this sublunary world can be realized. Though it is not said that Luna personifies the dark side, there is as we have seen something very suspicious about the new moon. Nevertheless the winged youth loves his moon-bride and hence the darkness to which she belongs, for the opposites not only flee one another but also attract one another. We all know that evil, especially if it is not scrutinized too closely, can be very attractive, and most of all when it appears in idealistic garb. Ostensibly it is the wicked thief that hinders the youth in his love for the chaste Diana, but in reality the evil is already lurking in the ideal youth and in the darkness of the new moon, and his chief fear is that he might discover himself in the role of the common sulphur. This role is so shocking that the noble-minded youth cannot see himself in it and puts the blame on the wiles of the Enemy. It is as if he dared not know himself because he is not adult enough to accept the fact that one must be thankful if one comes across an apple without a worm in it and a plate of soup without a hair.
  Esto hic tibi Diana propitia, quae feras domare novit,

3.10 - Of the Gestures, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  takes its place as the Enemy of Will. It is through the mutual
  destruction of these antagonisms in the mental and moral being

33.03 - Muraripukur - I, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A beginning however was made to introduce some kind of discipline and organisation. It was decided that the entire group should be formed into two sections, one "civil", the other "military". The "military" section was to include the active members and the others were to serve as auxiliaries. The idea originally was to build up an armed force, a regular army in fact, with its full complement of weapons and equipment and trained by regular drills. The "civil" side was to deal with external work like journalism, propaganda and recruitment. The Yugantar, and later the Navashakti, became our publicity organs. I was not much attracted by this "civil" side; I wanted to become one of the "military" men. Prafulla who was one of those dreamy, "introvert", intellectual types and a good writer and speaker took up the "civil" work. They used to say with a touch of humour, no doubt, that he was the Mazzini and I was his Garibaldi. But no provision had yet been made to give this Garibaldi the necessary training in military drill or the use of weapons. So, I had to begin with the science of warfare rather than its art. Barin was at that time writing his series on The Principles of Modern Warfare for the Yugantar. I too began my study of the subject. I started going to the Imperial Library (now the National Library) in Calcutta for my studies and research. Where could I begin? Well, it was a book called The Art of War by the German military expert, Clausewitz, a book where the very first sentence ran like this, "The object of warfare is to destroy the Enemy and finish with him." I am not sure how this helped me add to my knowledge of warfare or my skill in the art of fighting.
   During my last days in College, I used to study Mazzini in place of King Johnor The Faerie

33.05 - Muraripukur - II, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Several people have expressed great surprise at this facile surrender on our part, as though we were goody-goody boys innocent as lambs. Why, it has been asked, did we not give them fight and take a few lives before we surrendered? But our aims were of another kind, our path, our very policy was of another character. Our goal was not to die a martyr's death. We wanted to be soldiers. The martyr is happy if he can give up his life. But the duty of the soldier is not to give his life but to take the lives of others. The soldier seeks the maximum protection for himself, he goes under cover, and he seeks to kill as many of the Enemy as he can. He does not think it enough that he should only sacrifice himself. No doubt there comes a time when it is no longer possible to find a shelter or go under cover, it may not even be desirable. Then one throws off one's masks, one comes out in the open and acts in the way so vividly described in these lines of Rabindranath:
   There began a scramble

33.14 - I Played Football, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   On the next day the hour struck and the players were about to take the field. The team of British soldiers came in carriages (there were horse-carriages in those days), with music, bugle and drum, singing and shouting, sure of their victory. They were giants indeed, each a Hercules, and the Indians were pigmies before them. The play started. Just then our manager noticed that at a distance, away from the field, under a tree was sitting a Sannyasi. Directly he saw the Sannyasi, he ran, ran towards him and sat before him. The Sannyasi asked what was the matter. He answered that there was to be a fight with British soldiers, our Bengali boys had to be protected, they must win. The Sannyasi enquired whether they had guns and cannon and what was the strength of the Enemy. He was answered that it was not that kind of battle - it was a football game. The Sannyasi shook his head and sent him away.
   The gentleman returned and saw that with great effort his boys had managed a drawn game and they pulled through till half time. Now the danger was ahead - half an hour more. He could not restrain himself and again he rushed to the Sannyasi who was still sitting there in the same position, and prayed and entreated him saying they were threatened with defeat at the hands of Mlechchhas, their honour and prestige were at stake. The Sannyasi asked, "How many killed and wounded?" The gentleman explained again it was not like that. It was a football game. The Sannyasi asked, "How many on their side?" They were eleven. The Sannyasi then asked the gentleman to get eleven bits of stone. These were collected and placed before him. The Sannyasi arranged them in a row, and then drew some circles around and sprinkled water and uttered something. And then he told the gentleman to go away. He returned, the game had already started after the recess. But a strange thing he began to notice. He saw one of the soldiers - a giant of a fellow - rushing with the ball and nearing the goal and about to shoot into it, when suddenly he tumbled down and rolled over and the ball went off somewhere. In fact all the mighty heroes were behaving in a curious manner. They were running but with difficulty as if with legs tied up. They fumbled, tottered, fell down - moved with great difficulty. Something was restraining and impeding them, pulling them back. So the result was a victory for the Indians by two goals. You can imagine what they did after this miraculous victory. The gentleman manager rushed towards the tree to thank the Sannyasi. But where was he? Nothing was there, barring the row of stones.
  --
   Let me conclude this narrative with a few incidental remarks, some reflections concerning "style" in games. In my native town in Bengal I had a friend who played tennis. Once I made this comment on seeing him play, "There is no grammar about his play." My dictum became a classic among our sporting circles. He used to play in what may be described as a "hit and miss" style. Not that he broke any of the rules of the game, but there was about his manner something loose' and slovenly; he had no style or system. But often enough he hacked his way to victory by sheer force of vital energy. Bejoy and our Benjamin with his leech like grip - they were the two half-backs in our team followed exactly the same method. In fact, there are two essentials to a good game: grammar and style, or grammar and rhythm, to use the terms of ancient rhetoric. In our time, grammar was no doubt important in school, but we were never to be bothered by any such bugbear in the field of sports, at least as far as our country was concerned. In those days, men became champions through sheer genius, that is, by virtue of an innate skill. Without any systematic training or practice on scientific lines, they developed a skill in the game through an inner urge or influence. Perhaps all men of genius are creatures of this type. They say this about Napoleon too. He went on winning his victories without end and no one could stop his onward march. The old experienced generals of the Enemy Powers, the Austrians for example, practically gave up trying. On being criticised for their failure, they said, "But what on earth can we do? The fellow does not observe any of the principles of warfare. How can one fight under such conditions? He breaks every rule of battle." But today we are in an age where not untrained skill but close mastery of detail and unfailing practice are the things that count. Here in the Ashram, through your games and physical exercises, you are being trained to make every posture and movement of all the parts of your body orderly, precise and disciplined. You practise day after day, month after month, for years on end. We in our days had no knowledge of any such thing, we were utterly ignorant and. illiterate in this regard. The time has now come when man has to make his advance by conscious method, not drag his feet along somehow in a blind ignorant way, nor rest satisfied with what comes automatically. In our country, in ancient times at least, grammar was considered important in two fields: in the study of language and in the art of Yoga. The rules were extremely strict and there was no end of manuals and glosses. But in our ordinary life, in the art of day-to-day living, there grew up an enormous amount of slackness and indiscipline, at least during the more recent times.
   I have just now spoken of two things, grammar and rhythm; style is mainly a matter of rhythm but it presumes grammar, for you cannot have a good style without taking note of grammar. Grammar is like the! skeleton and bony structure in a man's body; without that support and foundation, the body becomes limp like a mass of flesh. By grammar I mean the right arrangement of the different limbs. Whether it be tennis or cricket or any other game, or even ordinary jumping and running, one must know in minute detail and apply in practice the knowledge as to how the arms and the chest and the back and abdomen are to be held, in what position the legs should be, down to the smallest fingers and toes. And it is not enough that you control the separate movements of the different parts of the body, you have to combine all these movements into a single harmonious whole and give them a fine well-formed and one-pointed rhythm. This last quality is what characterises rhythm or style. It' is said that the style is the man. It is really something that belongs to the inner man; in a game, it is a quality of the inner body-consciousness. It needs a harmony between the consciousness of the body and the inner vital being, it implies a natural sense of measure and rhythm. - In our days, we did not know anything of all this. We did have the gift of imagination and feeling, but now is the day of science. You have the great good fortune that you can now acquire both these gifts, effect between the two a supreme synthesis and harmony and arrive at a higher fulfilment.

33.17 - Two Great Wars, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It was in the course of this War that we saw from the Ashram so many aeroplanes flying directly overhead, by day and by night, although the Enemy's missiles did not quite reach us. Trainloads of troops passed through Pondicherry and soldiers came in their batches to obtain the Mother's darshan and blessings. The Mother kept open door for the soldiers; they could come and have darshan almost at any time. I remember one officer, a Rajput and very fine man; his name was Arjun Singh, I think. About himself and a friend of his, a senior officer, he said they had a particular love and enthusiasm for the practice of yoga in spite of their having taken up the profession of war. We lost touch with them later on.
   India had to feel the impact of this War to a considerable extent, though it was mostly our own doing. Perhaps the patriots and lovers of Indian freedom had been losing their patience and they thought that the discomfiture of England was going to be their last and best opportunity; so they created a good deal of trouble. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother held a very different view. What they said in effect was this: "Help the British government to the best of your abilities. Enter every branch of their civil administration and their military organisation. Associate with them everywhere, on land, in the air and at sea; capture all positions of power, master the technical details. The position that you make for yourself in this manner, the position of competence and authority, will not slip away from you; it will be the unshakable foundation of freedom." Had the way shown by Sri Aurobindo been adopted, the winning of India's independence would have been an easier task and it would have been more complete; many have begun to admit this now. In the actual result what was achieved was a kind of compromise between the two points of view.
   There had come a time however when the success of the Enemy appeared as a living menace. We began to hear the warning siren of imminent peril, orders were issued for the black-out of street lighting on the sea-face of Pondicherry and many other similar preparations, though most of them did not go beyond the stage of practice drills. Trenches were dug within the precincts of the Ashram itself to provide a hide-out in case of an air-raid; buckets and sand were kept ready all over the place for extinguishing the fires. This was known as Air Raid Protection work and it was under the care of a local resident, the father of our Shanta and Babu (the Ashram. record-holder in long-jump). He has been dead a long time since, but his widow, the mother of Shanta and Babu, is. still known as Tara ARP to the Mother.
   Eventually, the situation grew more and more serious. Pavitra too received a call to leave here and join the colours; he then held the rank of Captain. I believe he had to report to the local barracks for duty. The Mother went so far as to make the necessary arrangements for his work during the period he might be away, though he did Rot have to go after all. You remember how the Mother herself had to leave here soon after the outbreak of the First War and was not able to return till after the end, six years later.. The Japanese were now coming close upon us. The Andamans were already in their hands, and Madras was not so far away. They had overrun Burma and were at the gates of East Bengal on the north-eastern front, with the Indian National Army of Subhash Chandra Bose. Our Doctor Jyotish, who was then serving as a medical officer in the Indian Army, had been sending out frantic SOS calls from his station at Imphal city, then practically a besieged garrison. From French Indo-China the French were running away and were on their way back through Pondicherry in the hope of reaching their own country some day - but which country? They said the Japanese might be expected any time and that we should start learning their language. Some thought we had better concentrate on German instead, for the Germans were going to occupy India. Hitler was at the time pouncing on England and Churchill alone stood up fearless against that furious onslaught.

36.07 - An Introduction To The Vedas, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Zen
   The gods and demons imagined by the naive and simple mind possessed miraculous powers prompted by such notions men used to convey their salutations to those mighty Beings, ask them for their daily necessities, material prosperity, and welfare in the other world after death. Cow and horses were the chief means of their livelihood. So they prayed for cows yielding abundant milk and horses possessing dynamic strength and energy. They used to fight among themselves one clan against another and specially against the robbers who were the Dravidians of ancient; India, while they were the Aryans who had come from abroad. Hence they needed arms and weapons and they naturally wanted to defeat the Enemy. And that is why they sought the help of the gods for victory.
   They used to perform some special rites known as a sacrifice, in which they would arrange on an altar some dried sticks of holy trees in a particular formation and kindle a fire in which to pour oblations of clarified butter and many other good things. They offered wine (the juice of soma) to the gods and partook of it themselves. It seems, fire was to them a new discovery. That is why they appreciated its value so much. Moreover, they lived in a frigid snowy region. Hence they looked upon the fire as the chief Deity of their worship.

38.06 - Ravana Vanquished, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Zen
   Beget in the wombs of the Enemy womanhood a new race of children.
   But what has gone, let it go

3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  impure, tapas fights the Enemy tamas; when shuddha, when the
  very action of Agni, it brings viryam, it brings jnanam, it brings
  --
  a desiderative sense, the one who wishes to hurt, the Enemy. The
  root d with its congeners dA, Ed, dF, d;, d$, d, d^, expressed always

4.03 - Prayer of Quiet, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  1.: THE effects of divine consolations are very numerous: before describing them, I will speak of another kind of prayer which usually precedes them. I need not say much on this subject, having written about it elsewhere.26' This is a kind of recollection which, I believe, is supernatural. There is no occasion to retire nor to shut the eyes, nor does it depend on anything exterior; involuntarily the eyes suddenly close and solitude is found. Without any labour of one's own, the temple of which I spoke is reared for the soul in which to pray: the senses and exterior surroundings appear to lose their hold, while the spirit gradually regains its lost sovereignty. Some say the soul enters into itself; others, that it rises above itself.27' I can say nothing about these terms, but had better speak of the subject as I understand it. You will probably grasp my meaning, although, perhaps, I may be the only person who understands it. Let us imagine that the senses and powers of the soul (which I compared in my allegory to the inhabitants of the castle) have fled and joined the Enemy outside. After long days and years of absence, perceiving how great has been their loss, they return to the neighbourhood of the castle, but cannot manage to re-enter it, for their evil habits are hard to break off; still, they are no longer traitors, and they wander about outside. This is fully borne out by the present chapter. In the corresponding part of her Life she practically confounded the prayer of recollection with the prayer of quiet (the second state of the soul). Likewise, in the Way of Perfection, ch. xxviii., she speaks of but one kind of prayer of recollection and then passes on to the prayer of quiet. Here, however, she mentions a second form of the prayer of recollection. The former is not supernatural, in the sense that with special grace from above it can be acquired; the second is altogether supernatural and more like gratuitous grace (ibid. no. 80 and 81). On the meaning of 'Solitude,' 'Silence,' etc., The edition of Burgos (vol. iv, P. 59) refers appropriately to the following passage in the Tercer Abecedario by the Franciscan friar Francisco de Osuna, a work which exercised a profound influence on St. Teresa: 'Entering within oneself; and rising above oneself, are the two principal points in this exercise, those which, above all others, one ought to strive after, and which give the highest satisfaction to the soul.
  2.: The King, Who holds His court within it, sees their good will, and out of His great mercy desires them to return to Him. Like a good Shepherd, He plays so sweetly on His pipe, that although scarcely hearing it they recognize His call and no longer wander, but return, like lost sheep, to the mansions. So strong is this Pastor's power over His flock, that they abandon the worldly cares which misled them and re-enter the castle.

4.2 - Karma, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  272. Fight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and thy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the Enemy's dungeons and have his gags silenced thee? Fight with thy silent all-besieging soul and thy wideranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the world-encompassing force that went out from God within thee.
  273. Thou thinkest the ascetic in his cave or on his mountaintop a stone and a do-nothing? What dost thou know? He may be filling the world with the mighty currents of his will & changing it by the pressure of his soul-state.

5.1.03 - The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  At the same time it is also taught in the Gita that this world is a world of obscurity and ignorance and to attain to the Divine one must overcome certain forces of Nature, such as Desire, which the Gita calls the Enemy difficult to overcome. It is in this sense that we speak of hostile forces - those which stand in the way of coming out of the Ignorance and attaining to the consciousness of the Divine.
  It is again true that those who have a complete and living faith in the Divine and a perfect sincerity in their vision of the

5.4.01 - Notes on Root-Sounds, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   destroying the Enemy. Vd.
  , - destructive, carnivorous. a cave animal

5 - The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  15 Not to forget something means keeping it in consciousness. If the Enemy disap-
  pears from my field of vision, then he may possibly be behind me and even more

7.02 - Courage, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   rescue people from blazing houses; of miners who go down into deep shafts to bring out their companions imperilled by flood, fire or poisonous gas; of men who venture into houses shaken by earthquake and who in spite of the danger from crumbling walls, pick up and carry out the helpless people who would otherwise die beneath the ruins; and of citizens who for the sake of their town or their country confront the Enemy and undergo hunger, thirst, wounds or death.
  So we have seen what is courage to help oneself and what is courage to help others.
  --
  "Sire," they replied, "we want to be ready so that the Enemy does not take us by surprise."
  "You can be of no use to me, you nervous and excitable men," he told them. "Go home, all of you."

7.15 - The Family, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Noble Husain, who was killed on the battlefield of Karbala in Babylonia, was about to fight his last combat. All his comrades of war were slain. He stood alone like the last palm-tree standing in an oasis. The women of his family were mourning their dead and also Husain, who was surely about to die at the hands of the Enemy.
  One by one he bade farewell to all, to his wife Umm Lailah, to Zainab his sister, to his other sister Kulsum and his daughter

Aeneid, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  believe the Enemy have sailed away?
  29
  --
  yourself out of these flames. the Enemy
  has gained the walls; Troy falls from her high peak.
  --
  the wrenching of the gates, the Enemy
  among his sanctuaries then in vain
  --
  that I might see the Enemy within
  the heart of home, my son Ascanius,
  --
  whether he faced the Enemy on foot
  or dug his foaming horse's flank with spurs.
  --
  their Italy, and drive the Enemy
  beyond her boundaries; and he declares
  --
  await the Enemy within the towers.
  Turnus, who had outstripped his tardy column,
  --
  The watch fires of the Enemy are spent;
  their black smoke smolders toward the stars. If you
  --
  can be the man he wants. the Enemy
  crowd him; on every side, their ranks would drive
  --
  land of the Enemy feel beaks that cleave,
  and let the keel itself dig out a trough.
  --
  assailed the Enemy with compact ranks:
  the seven sons of Phorcus with their seven
  --
  to face the Enemy. Then Pallas pierces
  Rhoeteus, racing past upon his chariot.
  --
  or turned them from the Enemy; but you
  yourself desert them, leaping from the wheels."
  --
  your breast against the Enemy. That Turnus
  may find his royal bride, shall we, sad souls,
  --
  let fly in safety, while the Enemy
  is still beyond the battlements and no
  --
  his hope already tears the Enemy:
  just as a stallion when he snaps his tether
  --
  against the Enemy or stand upon
  the ridge and roll great boulders at him. Here
  --
  of him is naked to the Enemy.
  The lance head shudders through his massive arms
  --
  she rides back from the Enemy, a victor,
  just there he turns his quick reins furtively.
  --
  full speed still find the Enemy entangled
  within their ranks; the fugitives cannot
  --
  Camilla fallen, and the Enemy
  advancing, Mars behind him, sweeping every
  --
  his shaft against the Enemy. A shout
  mounts to the sky; wheeling about, the Latins
  --
  from her high palace roof the Enemy
  approaching, charging at the walls, the
  --
  one in Amyclae might ever announce the Enemy's approach.
  When the real enemy came, the city fell by silence, x, 778.
  --
  same name. It was the marsh which "the Fates forbade to be dislodged"; when it was drained, the Enemy was able to capture the
  city, HI, 906.
  --
  Codes' companions, leaving the Enemy on the tar bank with no
  access to the city. Then Cocles, in full armor, jumped into the
  --
  to win the "chieftain's spoils" (spolia opima) by killing the Enemy commander and taking his armor in single combat. (The
  other two were ROMULUS and MARCELLUS.) COSSUS won his
  --
  he is a contender in the foot race; in Book ix he is cited for conspicuous devotion in the face of the Enemy, v, 388.
  Noe'mon a Trojan defending Aeneas' camp against the Rutulian

Apology, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  The first part commences with an apology for his colloquial style; he is, as he has always been, the Enemy of rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric but truth; he will not falsify his character by making a speech. Then he proceeds to divide his accusers into two classes; first, there is the nameless accuserpublic opinion. All the world from their earliest years had heard that he was a corrupter of youth, and had seen him caricatured in the Clouds of Aristophanes. Secondly, there are the professed accusers, who are but the mouth-piece of the others. The accusations of both might be summed up in a formula. The first say, Socrates is an evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to others. The second, Socrates is an evil-doer and corrupter of the youth, who does not receive the gods whom the state receives, but introduces other new divinities. These last words appear to have been the actual indictment (compare Xen. Mem.); and the previous formula, which is a summary of public opinion, assumes the same legal style.
  The answer begins by clearing up a confusion. In the representations of the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the multitude, he had been identified with the teachers of physical science and with the Sophists. But this was an error. For both of them he professes a respect in the open court, which contrasts with his manner of speaking about them in other places. (Compare for Anaxagoras, Phdo, Laws; for the Sophists, Meno, Republic, Tim., Theaet., Soph., etc.) But at the same time he shows that he is not one of them. Of natural philosophy he knows nothing; not that he despises such pursuits, but the fact is that he is ignorant of them, and never says a word about them. Nor is he paid for giving instructionthat is another mistaken notion:he has nothing to teach. But he commends Evenus for teaching virtue at such a moderate rate as five min. Something of the accustomed irony, which may perhaps be expected to sleep in the ear of the multitude, is lurking here.

BOOK I. - Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being reclaimed from their ungodly error, have become sufficiently creditable citizens of this city; but many are so inflamed with hatred against it, and are so ungrateful to its Redeemer for His signal benefits, as to forget that they would now be unable to utter a single word to its prejudice, had they not found in its sacred places, as they fled from the Enemy's steel, that life in which they now boast themselves. Are not those very Romans, who were spared by the barbarians through their respect for Christ, become enemies to the name of Christ? The reliquaries of the martyrs and the churches of the apostles bear witness to this; for in the sack of the city they were open sanctuary for all who fled to them, whether Christian or Pagan. To their very threshold the bloodthirsty enemy raged; there his murderous fury owned a limit. Thither did such of the Enemy as had any pity convey those to whom they had given quarter, lest any less mercifully disposed might fall upon them. And, indeed, when even those murderers who everywhere else showed themselves pitiless came to these spots where that was forbidden which the licence of war permitted in every other place, their furious rage for slaughter was bridled, and their eagerness to take prisoners was quenched. Thus escaped multitudes who now reproach[Pg 3] the Christian religion, and impute to Christ the ills that have befallen their city; but the preservation of their own lifea boon which they owe to the respect entertained for Christ by the barbarians they attri bute not to our Christ, but to their own good luck. They ought rather, had they any right perceptions, to attri bute the severities and hardships inflicted by their enemies, to that divine providence which is wont to reform the depraved manners of men by chastisement, and which exercises with similar afflictions the righteous and praiseworthy,either translating them, when they have passed through the trial, to a better world, or detaining them still on earth for ulterior purposes. And they ought to attri bute it to the spirit of these Christian times, that, contrary to the custom of war, these bloodthirsty barbarians spared them, and spared them for Christ's sake, whether this mercy was actually shown in promiscuous places, or in those places specially dedicated to Christ's name, and of which the very largest were selected as sanctuaries, that full scope might thus be given to the expansive compassion which desired that a large multitude might find shelter there. Therefore ought they to give God thanks, and with sincere confession flee for refuge to His name, that so they may escape the punishment of eternal firethey who with lying lips took upon them this name, that they might escape the punishment of present destruction. For of those whom you see insolently and shamelessly insulting the servants of Christ, there are numbers who would not have escaped that destruction and slaughter had they not pretended that they themselves were Christ's servants. Yet now, in ungrateful pride and most impious madness, and at the risk of being punished in everlasting darkness, they perversely oppose that name under which they fraudulently protected themselves for the sake of enjoying the light of this brief life.
  2. That it is quite contrary to the usage of war, that the victors should spare the vanquished for the sake of their gods.
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  They, then, who lost their worldly all in the sack of Rome, if they owned their possessions as they had been taught by the apostle, who himself was poor without, but rich within,that is to say, if they used the world as not using it,could say in the words of Job, heavily tried, but not overcome: "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; as it pleased the Lord, so has it come to pass: blessed be the name of the Lord."[51] Like a good servant, Job counted the will of his Lord his great possession, by obedience to which his soul was enriched; nor did it grieve him to lose, while yet living, those goods which he must shortly leave at his death. But as to those feebler spirits who, though they cannot be said to prefer earthly possessions to Christ, do yet cleave to them with a somewhat immoderate attachment, they have discovered by the pain of losing these things how much they were sinning in loving them. For their grief is of their own making; in the words of the apostle quoted above, "they have pierced themselves through with many sorrows." For it was well that they who had so long despised these verbal admonitions should receive the teaching of experience. For when the apostle says, "They that will be rich fall into temptation," and so on, what he blames in riches is not the possession of them, but the desire of them. For elsewhere he says, "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves[Pg 16] a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life."[52] They who were making such a use of their property have been consoled for light losses by great gains, and have had more pleasure in those possessions which they have securely laid past, by freely giving them away, than grief in those which they entirely lost by an anxious and selfish hoarding of them. For nothing could perish on earth save what they would be ashamed to carry away from earth. Our Lord's injunction runs, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."[53] And they who have listened to this injunction have proved in the time of tribulation how well they were advised in not despising this most trustworthy teacher, and most faithful and mighty guardian of their treasure. For if many were glad that their treasure was stored in places which the Enemy chanced not to light upon, how much better founded was the joy of those who, by the counsel of their God, had fled with their treasure to a citadel which no enemy can possibly reach! Thus our Paulinus, bishop of Nola,[54] who voluntarily abandoned vast wealth and became quite poor, though abundantly rich in holiness, when the barbarians sacked Nola, and took him prisoner, used silently to pray, as he afterwards told me, "O Lord, let me not be troubled for gold and silver, for where all my treasure is Thou knowest." For all his treasure was where he had been taught to hide and store it by Him who had also foretold that these calamities would happen in the world. Consequently those persons who obeyed their Lord when He warned them where and how to lay up treasure, did not lose even their earthly possessions in the invasion of the barbarians; while those who are now repenting[Pg 17] that they did not obey Him have learnt the right use of earthly goods, if not by the wisdom which would have prevented their loss, at least by the experience which follows it.
  But some good and Christian men have been put to the torture, that they might be forced to deliver up their goods to the Enemy. They could indeed neither deliver nor lose that good which made themselves good. If, however, they preferred torture to the surrender of the mammon of iniquity, then I say they were not good men. Rather they should have been reminded that, if they suffered so severely for the sake of money, they should endure all torment, if need be, for Christ's sake; that they might be taught to love Him rather who enriches with eternal felicity all who suffer for Him, and not silver and gold, for which it was pitiable to suffer, whether they preserved it by telling a lie, or lost it by telling the truth. For under these tortures no one lost Christ by confessing Him, no one preserved wealth save by denying its existence. So that possibly the torture which taught them that they should set their affections on a possession they could not lose, was more useful than those possessions which, without any useful fruit at all, disquieted and tormented their anxious owners. But then we are reminded that some were tortured who had no wealth to surrender, but who were not believed when they said so. These too, however, had perhaps some craving for wealth, and were not willingly poor with a holy resignation; and to such it had to be made plain, that not the actual possession alone, but also the desire of wealth, deserved such excruciating pains. And even if they were destitute of any hidden stores of gold and silver, because they were living in hopes of a better life,I know not indeed if any such person was tortured on the supposition that he had wealth; but if so, then certainly in confessing, when put to the question, a holy poverty, he confessed Christ. And though it was scarcely to be expected that the barbarians should believe him, yet no confessor of a holy poverty could be tortured without receiving a heavenly reward.
  Again, they say that the long famine laid many a Christian low. But this, too, the faithful turned to good uses by a pious endurance of it. For those whom famine killed outright it[Pg 18] rescued from the ills of this life, as a kindly disease would have done; and those who were only hunger-bitten were taught to live more sparingly, and inured to longer fasts.
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  But among their own famous men they have a very noble example of the voluntary endurance of captivity in obedience to a religious scruple. Marcus Attilius Regulus, a Roman general, was a prisoner in the hands of the Carthaginians. But they, being more anxious to exchange their prisoners with the Romans than to keep them, sent Regulus as a special envoy with their own ambassadors to negotiate this exchange, but bound him first with an oath, that if he failed to accomplish their wish, he would return to Carthage. He went, and persuaded the senate to the opposite course, because he[Pg 23] believed it was not for the advantage of the Roman republic to make an exchange of prisoners. After he had thus exerted his influence, the Romans did not compel him to return to the Enemy; but what he had sworn he voluntarily performed. But the Carthaginians put him to death with refined, elaborate, and horrible tortures. They shut him up in a narrow box, in which he was compelled to stand, and in which finely sharpened nails were fixed all round about him, so that he could not lean upon any part of it without intense pain; and so they killed him by depriving him of sleep.[71] With justice, indeed, do they applaud the virtue which rose superior to so frightful a fate. However, the gods he swore by were those who are now supposed to avenge the prohibition of their worship, by inflicting these present calamities on the human race. But if these gods, who were worshipped specially in this behalf, that they might confer happiness in this life, either willed or permitted these punishments to be inflicted on one who kept his oath to them, what more cruel punishment could they in their anger have inflicted on a perjured person? But why may I not draw from my reasoning a double inference? Regulus certainly had such reverence for the gods, that for his oath's sake he would neither remain in his own land, nor go elsewhere, but without hesitation returned to his bitterest enemies. If he thought that this course would be advantageous with respect to this present life, he was certainly much deceived, for it brought his life to a frightful termination. By his own example, in fact, he taught that the gods do not secure the temporal happiness of their worshippers; since he himself, who was devoted to their worship, was both conquered in battle and taken prisoner, and then, because he refused to act in violation of the oath he had sworn by them, was tortured and put to death by a new, and hitherto unheard of, and all too horrible kind of punishment. And on the supposition that the worshippers of the gods are rewarded by felicity in the life to come, why, then, do they calumniate the influence of Christianity? why do they assert that this[Pg 24] disaster has overtaken the city because it has ceased to worship its gods, since, worship them as assiduously as it may, it may yet be as unfortunate as Regulus was? Or will some one carry so wonderful a blindness to the extent of wildly attempting, in the face of the evident truth, to contend that though one man might be unfortunate, though a worshipper of the gods, yet a whole city could not be so? That is to say, the power of their gods is better adapted to preserve multitudes than individuals,as if a multitude were not composed of individuals.
  But if they say that M. Regulus, even while a prisoner and enduring these bodily torments, might yet enjoy the blessedness of a virtuous soul,[72] then let them recognise that true virtue by which a city also may be blessed. For the blessedness of a community and of an individual flow from the same source; for a community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals. So that I am not concerned meantime to discuss what kind of virtue Regulus possessed: enough, that by his very noble example they are forced to own that the gods are to be worshipped not for the sake of bodily comforts or external advantages; for he preferred to lose all such things rather than offend the gods by whom he had sworn. But what can we make of men who glory in having such a citizen, but dread having a city like him? If they do not dread this, then let them acknowledge that some such calamity as befell Regulus may also befall a community, though they be worshipping their gods as diligently as he; and let them no longer throw the blame of their misfortunes on Christianity. But as our present concern is with those Christians who were taken prisoners, let those who take occasion from this calamity to revile our most wholesome religion in a fashion not less imprudent than impudent, consider this and hold their peace; for if it was no reproach to their gods that a most punctilious worshipper of theirs should, for the sake of keeping his oath to them, be deprived of his native land without hope of finding another, and fall into the hands of his enemies, and be put to death by a long-drawn and exquisite torture, much less ought the[Pg 25] Christian name to be charged with the captivity of those who believe in its power, since they, in confident expectation of a heavenly country, know that they are pilgrims even in their own homes.
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  Besides Lucretia, of whom enough has already been said, our advocates of suicide have some difficulty in finding any other prescriptive example, unless it be that of Cato, who killed himself at Utica. His example is appealed to, not because he was the only man who did so, but because he was so esteemed as a learned and excellent man, that it could plausibly be maintained that what he did was and is a good thing to do. But of this action of his, what can I say but that his own friends, enlightened men as he, prudently dissuaded him, and therefore judged his act to be that of a feeble rather than a strong spirit, and dictated not by honourable feeling forestalling shame, but by weakness shrinking from hardships? Indeed, Cato condemns himself by the advice he gave to his dearly loved son. For if it was a disgrace to live under Csar's rule, why did the father urge the son to this disgrace, by encouraging him to trust absolutely to Csar's generosity? Why did he not persuade him to die along with himself? If Torquatus was applauded for putting his son to death, when contrary to orders he had engaged, and engaged successfully, with the Enemy, why did conquered Cato spare his conquered son, though he did not spare himself? Was it more disgraceful to be a victor contrary to orders, than to submit to a victor contrary to the received ideas of honour? Cato, then, cannot have deemed it to be shameful to live under Csar's rule, for had he done so, the father's sword would have delivered his son from this disgrace. The truth is, that his son, whom he both hoped and desired would be spared by Csar, was not more loved by him than Csar was envied the glory of pardoning him (as indeed Csar himself is reported to have said[74]); or if envy is too strong a word, let us say he was ashamed that this glory should be his.
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  Our opponents are offended at our preferring to Cato the saintly Job, who endured dreadful evils in his body rather than deliver himself from all torment by self-inflicted death; or other saints, of whom it is recorded in our authoritative and trustworthy books that they bore captivity and the oppression of their enemies rather than commit suicide. But their own books authorize us to prefer to Marcus Cato, Marcus Regulus. For Cato had never conquered Csar; and when conquered by him, disdained to submit himself to him, and that he might escape this submission put himself to death. Regulus, on the contrary, had formerly conquered the Carthaginians, and in comm and of the army of Rome had won for the Roman republic a victory which no citizen could bewail, and which the Enemy himself was constrained to admire; yet afterwards, when he in his turn was defeated by them, he preferred to be their captive rather than to put himself beyond their reach by suicide. Patient under the domination of the Carthaginians, and constant in his love of the Romans, he neither deprived the one of his conquered body, nor the other of his unconquered spirit. Neither was it love of life that prevented him from killing himself. This was plainly enough indicated by his unhesitatingly returning, on account of his promise and oath, to the same enemies whom he had more grievously provoked by his words in the senate than even by his arms in battle. Having such a contempt of life, and preferring to end it by whatever torments excited enemies might contrive, rather than terminate it by his own hand, he could not more distinctly have declared how great a crime he judged suicide to be. Among all their famous and remarkable citizens, the Romans have no better man to boast of than this, who was neither corrupted by prosperity, for he remained a very poor man after winning such victories; nor broken by adversity, for he returned intrepidly to the most miserable end. But if the bravest and most renowned heroes, who had but an earthly country to defend, and who, though they had but false gods, yet rendered them a true worship, and carefully kept their oath to them; if these men, who by the custom[Pg 36] and right of war put conquered enemies to the sword, yet shrank from putting an end to their own lives even when conquered by their enemies; if, though they had no fear at all of death, they would yet rather suffer slavery than commit suicide, how much rather must Christians, the worshippers of the true God, the aspirants to a heavenly citizenship, shrink from this act, if in God's providence they have been for a season delivered into the hands of their enemies to prove or to correct them! And, certainly, Christians subjected to this humiliating condition will not be deserted by the Most High, who for their sakes humbled Himself. Neither should they forget that they are bound by no laws of war, nor military orders, to put even a conquered enemy to the sword; and if a man may not put to death the Enemy who has sinned, or may yet sin against him, who is so infatuated as to maintain that he may kill himself because an enemy has sinned, or is going to sin, against him?
  25. That we should not endeavour by sin to obviate sin.
  But, we are told, there is ground to fear that, when the body is subjected to the Enemy's lust, the insidious pleasure of sense may entice the soul to consent to the sin, and steps must be taken to prevent so disastrous a result. And is not suicide the proper mode of preventing not only the Enemy's sin, but the sin of the Christian so allured? Now, in the first place, the soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust. And, at all events, if it be true, as the truth plainly declares, that suicide is a detestable and damnable wickedness, who is such a fool as to say, Let us sin now, that we may obviate a possible future sin; let us now commit murder, lest we perhaps afterwards should commit adultery? If we are so controlled by iniquity that innocence is out of the question, and we can at best but make a choice of sins, is not a future and uncertain adultery preferable to a present and certain murder? Is it not better to commit a wickedness which penitence may heal, than a crime which leaves no place for healing contrition? I say this for the sake of those men or women who fear they may be enticed into consenting to their violator's[Pg 37] lust, and think they should lay violent hands on themselves, and so prevent, not another's sin, but their own. But far be it from the mind of a Christian confiding in God, and resting in the hope of His aid; far be it, I say, from such a mind to yield a shameful consent to pleasures of the flesh, howsoever presented. And if that lustful disobedience, which still dwells in our mortal members, follows its own law irrespective of our will, surely its motions in the body of one who rebels against them are as blameless as its motions in the body of one who sleeps.
  26. That in certain peculiar cases the examples of the saints are not to be followed.
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  28. By what judgment of God the Enemy was permitted to indulge his lust on the bodies of continent Christians.
  Let not your life, then, be a burden to you, ye faithful servants of Christ, though your chastity was made the sport of your enemies. You have a grand and true consolation, if you maintain a good conscience, and know that you did not consent to the sins of those who were permitted to commit sinful outrage upon you. And if you should ask why this permission was granted, indeed it is a deep providence of the Creator and Governor of the world; and "unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out."[77] Nevertheless,[Pg 40] faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them. I, for my part, do not know your hearts, and therefore I make no accusation; I do not even hear what your hearts answer when you question them. And yet, if they answer that it is as I have supposed it might be, do not marvel that you have lost that by which you can win men's praise, and retain that which cannot be exhibited to men. If you did not consent to sin, it was because God added His aid to His grace that it might not be lost, and because shame before men succeeded to human glory that it might not be loved. But in both respects even the fainthearted among you have a consolation, approved by the one experience, chastened by the other; justified by the one, corrected by the other. As to those whose hearts, when interrogated, reply that they have never been proud of the virtue of virginity, widowhood, or matrimonial chastity, but, condescending to those of low estate, rejoiced with trembling in these gifts of God, and that they have never envied any one the like excellences of sanctity and purity, but rose superior to human applause, which is wont to be abundant in proportion to the rarity of the virtue applauded, and rather desired that their own number be increased, than that by the smallness of their numbers each of them should be conspicuous;even such faithful women, I say, must not complain that permission was given to the barbarians so grossly to outrage them; nor must they allow themselves to believe that God overlooked their character when He permitted acts which no one with impunity commits. For some most flagrant and wicked desires are allowed free play at present by the secret judgment of God, and are reserved to the public and final judgment. Moreover, it is possible that those Christian women, who are unconscious of any undue pride on account of their virtuous chastity, whereby they sinlessly suffered the violence of their captors, had yet some lurking infirmity which might have betrayed them into a proud and contemptuous bearing, had they not been subjected to the humiliation that[Pg 41] befell them in the taking of the city. As, therefore, some men were removed by death, that no wickedness might change their disposition, so these women were outraged lest prosperity should corrupt their modesty. Neither those women, then, who were already puffed up by the circumstance that they were still virgins, nor those who might have been so puffed up had they not been exposed to the violence of the Enemy, lost their chastity, but rather gained humility: the former were saved from pride already cherished, the latter from pride that would shortly have grown upon them.
  We must further notice that some of those sufferers may have conceived that continence is a bodily good, and abides so long as the body is inviolate, and did not understand that the purity both of the body and the soul rests on the stedfastness of the will streng thened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person. From this error they are probably now delivered. For when they reflect how conscientiously they served God, and when they settle again to the firm persuasion that He can in nowise desert those who so serve Him, and so invoke His aid; and when they consider, what they cannot doubt, how pleasing to Him is chastity, they are shut up to the conclusion that He could never have permitted these disasters to befall His saints, if by them that saintliness could be destroyed which He Himself had bestowed upon them, and delights to see in them.
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  Oh infatuated men, what is this blindness, or rather madness, which possesses you? How is it that while, as we hear, even the eastern nations are bewailing your ruin, and while powerful states in the most remote parts of the earth are mourning your fall as a public calamity, ye yourselves should be crowding to the theatres, should be pouring into them and filling them; and, in short, be playing a madder part now than ever before? This was the foul plague-spot, this the wreck of virtue and honour that Scipio sought to preserve you from when he prohibited the construction of theatres; this was his reason for desiring that you might still have an enemy to fear, seeing as he did how easily prosperity would corrupt and destroy you. He did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins. But the seductions of evil-minded devils had more influence with you than the precautions of prudent men. Hence the injuries you do, you will not permit to be imputed to you; but the injuries you suffer, you impute to Christianity. Depraved by good fortune, and not chastened by adversity, what you desire in the restoration of a peaceful and secure state, is not the tranquillity of the commonwealth, but the impunity of your own vicious luxury. Scipio wished you to be hard pressed by an enemy, that you might not abandon yourselves to luxurious manners; but so abandoned are you, that not even when crushed by the Enemy is your luxury repressed. You have missed the profit of your calamity; you have been made most wretched, and have remained most profligate.
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  And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may be admonished to repent and reform your lives. It is He who has permitted you, ungrateful as you are, to escape the sword of the Enemy, by calling yourselves His servants, or by finding asylum in the sacred places of the martyrs.
  It is said that Romulus and Remus, in order to increase the population of the city they founded, opened a sanctuary in which every man might find asylum and absolution of all crime,a remarkable foreshadowing of what has recently occurred in honour of Christ. The destroyers of Rome followed the example of its founders. But it was not greatly to their credit that the latter, for the sake of increasing the number of their citizens, did that which the former have done, lest the number of their enemies should be diminished.

BOOK II. - A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  In the foregoing book, having begun to speak of the city of God, to which I have resolved, Heaven helping me, to consecrate the whole of this work, it was my first endeavour to reply to those who attribute the wars by which the world is being devastated, and specially the recent sack of Rome by the barbarians, to the religion of Christ, which prohibits the offering of abominable sacrifices to devils. I have shown that they ought rather to attri bute it to Christ, that for His name's sake the barbarians, in contravention of all custom and law of war, threw open as sanctuaries the largest churches, and in many instances showed such reverence to Christ, that not only His genuine servants, but even those who in their terror feigned themselves to be so, were exempted from all those hardships which by the custom of war may lawfully be inflicted. Then out of this there arose the question, why wicked and ungrateful men were permitted to share in these benefits; and why, too, the hardships and calamities of war were inflicted on the godly as well as on the ungodly. And in giving a suitably full answer to this large question, I occupied some considerable space, partly that I might relieve the anxieties which disturb many when they observe that the blessings of God, and the common and daily human casualties,[Pg 50] fall to the lot of bad men and good without distinction; but mainly that I might minister some consolation to those holy and chaste women who were outraged by the Enemy, in such a way as to shock their modesty, though not to sully their purity, and that I might preserve them from being ashamed of life, though they have no guilt to be ashamed of. And then I briefly spoke against those who with a most shameless wantonness insult over those poor Christians who were subjected to those calamities, and especially over those broken-hearted and humiliated, though chaste and holy women; these fellows themselves being most depraved and unmanly profligates, quite degenerate from the genuine Romans, whose famous deeds are abundantly recorded in history, and everywhere celebrated, but who have found in their descendants the greatest enemies of their glory. In truth, Rome, which was founded and increased by the labours of these ancient heroes, was more shamefully ruined by their descendants, while its walls were still standing, than it is now by the razing of them. For in this ruin there fell stones and timbers; but in the ruin those profligates effected, there fell, not the mural, but the moral bulwarks and ornaments of the city, and their hearts burned with passions more destructive than the flames which consumed their houses. Thus I brought my first book to a close. And now I go on to speak of those calamities which that city itself, or its subject provinces, have suffered since its foundation; all of which they would equally have attri buted to the Christian religion, if at that early period the doctrine of the gospel against their false and deceiving gods had been as largely and freely proclaimed as now.
    3. That we need only to read history in order to see what calamities the Romans suffered before the religion of Christ began to compete with the worship of the gods.
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  Again, I presume it was due to this natural equity and virtue, that after the expulsion of King Tarquin, whose son had violated Lucretia, Junius Brutus the consul forced Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Lucretia's husb and and his own colleague, a good and innocent man, to resign his office and go into banishment, on the one sole charge that he was of the name and blood of the Tarquins. This injustice was perpetrated with the approval, or at least connivance, of the people, who had themselves raised to the consular office both Collatinus and Brutus. Another instance of this equity and virtue is found in their treatment of Marcus Camillus. This eminent man, after he had rapidly conquered the Veians, at that time the most formidable of Rome's enemies, and who had maintained a ten years' war, in which the Roman army had suffered the usual calamities attendant on bad generalship, after he had restored security to Rome, which had begun to tremble for its safety, and after he had taken the wealthiest city of the Enemy, had charges brought against him by the malice of those that envied his success, and by the insolence of the tribunes of the people; and seeing that the city bore him no gratitude for preserving it, and that he would certainly be condemned, he went into exile, and even in his absence was fined 10,000 asses. Shortly after, however, his ungrateful country had again to seek his protection from the Gauls. But I cannot now mention all the shameful and iniquitous acts with which Rome was agitated, when the aristocracy attempted to subject the people, and the people resented their encroachments, and the advocates of either party[Pg 69] were actuated rather by the love of victory than by any equitable or virtuous consideration.
    18. What the history of Sallust reveals regarding the life of the Romans, either when straitened by anxiety or relaxed in security.
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  But, firstly, if it be so, then they cannot complain against the Christian religion, as if it were that which gave offence to the gods and caused them to abandon Rome, since the Roman immorality had long ago driven from the altars of the city a cloud of little gods, like as many flies. And yet where was this host of divinities, when, long before the corruption of the primitive morality, Rome was taken and burnt by the Gauls? Perhaps they were present, but asleep? For at that time the whole city fell into the hands of the Enemy, with the single exception of the Capitoline hill; and this too would have been[Pg 79] taken, had not the watchful geese aroused the sleeping gods! And this gave occasion to the festival of the goose, in which Rome sank nearly to the superstition of the Egyptians, who worship beasts and birds. But of these adventitious evils which are inflicted by hostile armies or by some disaster, and which attach rather to the body than the soul, I am not meanwhile disputing. At present I speak of the decay of morality, which at first almost imperceptibly lost its brilliant hue, but afterwards was wholly obliterated, was swept away as by a torrent, and involved the republic in such disastrous ruin, that though the houses and walls remained standing, the leading writers do not scruple to say that the republic was destroyed. Now, the departure of the gods "from each fane, each sacred shrine," and their abandonment of the city to destruction, was an act of justice, if their laws inculcating justice and a moral life had been held in contempt by that city. But what kind of gods were these, pray, who declined to live with a people who worshipped them, and whose corrupt life they had done nothing to reform?
  23. That the vicissitudes of this life are dependent not on the favour or hostility of demons, but on the will of the true God.

BOOK III. - The external calamities of Rome, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  The Romans, then, conquered that they might, with hands stained in the blood of their fathers-in-law, wrench the miserable girls from their embrace,girls who dared not weep for their slain parents, for fear of offending their victorious husbands; and while yet the battle was raging, stood with their prayers on their lips, and knew not for whom to utter them. Such nuptials were certainly prepared for the Roman people not by Venus, but Bellona; or possibly that[Pg 104] infernal fury Alecto had more liberty to injure them now that Juno was aiding them, than when the prayers of that goddess had excited her against neas. Andromache in captivity was happier than these Roman brides. For though she was a slave, yet, after she had become the wife of Pyrrhus, no more Trojans fell by his hand; but the Romans slew in battle the very fathers of the brides they fondled. Andromache, the victor's captive, could only mourn, not fear, the death of her people. The Sabine women, related to men still combatants, feared the death of their fathers when their husbands went out to battle, and mourned their death as they returned, while neither their grief nor their fear could be freely expressed. For the victories of their husbands, involving the destruction of fellow-townsmen, relatives, brothers, fathers, caused either pious agony or cruel exultation. Moreover, as the fortune of war is capricious, some of them lost their husbands by the sword of their parents, while others lost husb and and father together in mutual destruction. For the Romans by no means escaped with impunity, but they were driven back within their walls, and defended themselves behind closed gates; and when the gates were opened by guile, and the Enemy admitted into the town, the Forum itself was the field of a hateful and fierce engagement of fathers-in-law and sons-in-law. The ravishers were indeed quite defeated, and, flying on all sides to their houses, sullied with new shame their original shameful and lamentable triumph. It was at this juncture that Romulus, hoping no more from the valour of his citizens, prayed Jupiter that they might stand their ground; and from this occasion the god gained the name of Stator. But not even thus would the mischief have been finished, had not the ravished women themselves flashed out with dishevelled hair, and cast themselves before their parents, and thus disarmed their just rage, not with the arms of victory, but with the supplications of filial affection. Then Romulus, who could not brook his own brother as a colleague, was compelled to accept Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, as his partner on the throne. But how long would he who misliked the fellowship of his own twin-brother endure a stranger? So, Tatius being slain, Romulus remained sole king, that he might be the[Pg 105] greater god. See what rights of marriage these were that fomented unnatural wars. These were the Roman leagues of kindred, relationship, alliance, religion. This was the life of the city so abundantly protected by the gods. You see how many severe things might be said on this theme; but our purpose carries us past them, and requires our discourse for other matters.
  14. Of the wickedness of the war waged by the Romans against the Albans, and of the victories won by the lust of power.
  But what happened after Numa's reign, and under the other kings, when the Albans were provoked into war, with sad results not to themselves alone, but also to the Romans? The long peace of Numa had become tedious; and with what endless slaughter and detriment of both states did the Roman and Alban armies bring it to an end! For Alba, which had been founded by Ascanius, son of neas, and which was more properly the mother of Rome than Troy herself, was provoked to battle by Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome, and in the conflict both inflicted and received such damage, that at length both parties wearied of the struggle. It was then devised that the war should be decided by the combat of three twin-brothers from each army: from the Romans the three Horatii stood forward, from the Albans the three Curiatii. Two of the Horatii were overcome and disposed of by the Curiatii; but by the remaining Horatius the three Curiatii were slain. Thus Rome remained victorious, but with such a sacrifice that only one survivor returned to his home. Whose was the loss on both sides? Whose the grief, but of the offspring of neas, the descendants of Ascanius, the progeny of Venus, the grandsons of Jupiter? For this, too, was a "worse than civil" war, in which the belligerent states were mother and daughter. And to this combat of the three twin-brothers there was added another atrocious and horrible catastrophe. For as the two nations had formerly been friendly (being related and neighbours), the sister of the Horatii had been betrothed to one of the Curiatii; and she, when she saw her brother wearing the spoils of her betrothed, burst into tears, and was slain by her own brother in his anger. To me, this one girl seems to have been more humane than the whole Roman people. I cannot think her to blame for[Pg 106] lamenting the man to whom already she had plighted her troth, or, as perhaps she was doing, for grieving that her brother should have slain him to whom he had promised his sister. For why do we praise the grief of neas (in Virgil[137]) over the Enemy cut down even by his own hand? Why did Marcellus shed tears over the city of Syracuse, when he recollected, just before he destroyed, its magnificence and meridian glory, and thought upon the common lot of all things? I demand, in the name of humanity, that if men are praised for tears shed over enemies conquered by themselves, a weak girl should not be counted criminal for bewailing her lover slaughtered by the hand of her brother. While, then, that maiden was weeping for the death of her betrothed inflicted by her brother's hand, Rome was rejoicing that such devastation had been wrought on her mother state, and that she had purchased a victory with such an expenditure of the common blood of herself and the Albans.
  Why allege to me the mere names and words of "glory" and "victory?" Tear off the disguise of wild delusion, and look at the naked deeds: weigh them naked, judge them naked. Let the charge be brought against Alba, as Troy was charged with adultery. There is no such charge, none like it found: the war was kindled only in order that there
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  As to the second Punic war, it were tedious to recount the disasters it brought on both the nations engaged in so protracted and shifting a war, that (by the acknowledgment even of those writers who have made it their object not so much to narrate the wars as to eulogize the dominion of Rome) the[Pg 120] people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. For, when Hannibal poured out of Spain over the Pyrenees, and overran Gaul, and burst through the Alps, and during his whole course gathered strength by plundering and subduing as he went, and inundated Italy like a torrent, how bloody were the wars, and how continuous the engagements, that were fought! How often were the Romans vanquished! How many towns went over to the Enemy, and how many were taken and subdued! What fearful battles there were, and how often did the defeat of the Romans shed lustre on the arms of Hannibal! And what shall I say of the wonderfully crushing defeat at Cann, where even Hannibal, cruel as he was, was yet sated with the blood of his bitterest enemies, and gave orders that they be spared? From this field of battle he sent to Carthage three bushels of gold rings, signifying that so much of the rank of Rome had that day fallen, that it was easier to give an idea of it by measure than by numbers; and that the frightful slaughter of the common rank and file whose bodies lay undistinguished by the ring, and who were numerous in proportion to their meanness, was rather to be conjectured than accurately reported. In fact, such was the scarcity of soldiers after this, that the Romans impressed their criminals on the promise of impunity, and their slaves by the bribe of liberty, and out of these infamous classes did not so much recruit as create an army. But these slaves, or, to give them all their titles, these freedmen who were enlisted to do battle for the republic of Rome, lacked arms. And so they took arms from the temples, as if the Romans were saying to their gods: Lay down those arms you have held so long in vain, if by chance our slaves may be able to use to purpose what you, our gods, have been impotent to use. At that time, too, the public treasury was too low to pay the soldiers, and private resources were used for public purposes; and so generously did individuals contri bute of their property, that, saving the gold ring and bulla which each wore, the pitiful mark of his rank, no senator, and much less any of the other orders and tribes, reserved any gold for his own use. But if in our day they were reduced to this poverty, who would be able to endure their reproaches, barely endurable as they are now,[Pg 121] when more money is spent on actors for the sake of a superfluous gratification, than was then disbursed to the legions?
  20. Of the destruction of the Saguntines, who received no help from the Roman gods, though perishing on account of their fidelity to Rome.

BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
  out as Satan, the Enemy of God, is in reality, the highest divine Spirit -- (occult Wisdom on Earth) -- in
  its naturally antagonistic character to every worldly, evanescent illusion, dogmatic or ecclesiastical
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  . and scattered the Enemy. "The King I'T," explains Wilford, "is a subordinate incarnation of M'rira"
  (Mrida, a form of Rudra, probably?) who "re-established peace and prosperity throughout all Sankhadwipa, through Barbaradesa, Hissast'han and Awasthan or Arabia . . " etc., etc.

BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
  Abyss," of Aker, the realm of the Sun (xv. 39) binds him. Apophis is the Enemy of Ra (light), but the
  "great Apap has fallen!" exclaims the defunct. "The Scorpion has hurt thy mouth," he says to the
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  "the leader of the celestial host," -- the Hindu St. Michael -- to an opponent of asceticism, the Enemy
  of every holy aspiration. He is shown married to Aindri (Indrani), the personification of Aindri-yaka,

BOOK IV. - That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  For what kind of augury is that which they have declared to be most beautiful, and to which I referred a little ago, that[Pg 169] Mars, and Terminus, and Juventas would not give place even to Jove the king of the gods? For thus, they say, it was signified that the nation dedicated to Mars,that is, the Roman,should yield to none the place it once occupied; likewise, that on account of the god Terminus, no one would be able to disturb the Roman frontiers; and also, that the Roman youth, because of the goddess Juventas, should yield to no one. Let them see, therefore, how they can hold him to be the king of their gods, and the giver of their own kingdom, if these auguries set him down for an adversary, to whom it would have been honourable not to yield. However, if these things are true, they need not be at all afraid. For they are not going to confess that the gods who would not yield to Jove have yielded to Christ. For, without altering the boundaries of the empire, Jesus Christ has proved Himself able to drive them, not only from their temples, but from the hearts of their worshippers. But, before Christ came in the flesh, and, indeed, before these things which we have quoted from their books could have been written, but yet after that auspice was made under king Tarquin, the Roman army has been divers times scattered or put to flight, and has shown the falseness of the auspice, which they derived from the fact that the goddess Juventas had not given place to Jove; and the nation dedicated to Mars was trodden down in the city itself by the invading and triumphant Gauls; and the boundaries of the empire, through the falling away of many cities to Hannibal, had been hemmed into a narrow space. Thus the beauty of the auspices is made void, and there has remained only the contumacy against Jove, not of gods, but of demons. For it is one thing not to have yielded, and another to have returned whither you have yielded. Besides, even afterwards, in the oriental regions, the boundaries of the Roman empire were changed by the will of Hadrian; for he yielded up to the Persian empire those three noble provinces, Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria. Thus that god Terminus, who according to these books was the guardian of the Roman frontiers, and by that most beautiful auspice had not given place to Jove, would seem to have been more afraid of Hadrian, a king of men, than of the king of the gods. The aforesaid[Pg 170] provinces having also been taken back again, almost within our own recollection the frontier fell back, when Julian, given up to the oracles of their gods, with immoderate daring ordered the victualling ships to be set on fire. The army being thus left destitute of provisions, and he himself also being presently killed by the Enemy, and the legions being hard pressed, while dismayed by the loss of their commander, they were reduced to such extremities that no one could have escaped, unless by articles of peace the boundaries of the empire had then been established where they still remain; not, indeed, with so great a loss as was suffered by the concession of Hadrian, but still at a considerable sacrifice. It was a vain augury, then, that the god Terminus did not yield to Jove, since he yielded to the will of Hadrian, and yielded also to the rashness of Julian, and the necessity of Jovinian. The more intelligent and grave Romans have seen these things, but have had little power against the custom of the state, which was bound to observe the rites of the demons; because even they themselves, although they perceived that these things were vain, yet thought that the religious worship which is due to God should be paid to the nature of things which is established under the rule and government of the one true God, "serving," as saith the apostle, "the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore."[176] The help of this true God was necessary to send holy and truly pious men, who would die for the true religion that they might remove the false from among the living.
  30. What kind of things even their worshippers have owned they have thought about the gods of the nations.

Book of Exodus, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the Enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
  9 the Enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
  14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Book of Imaginary Beings (text), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  spread terror among the Enemy.
  The Rain Bird

Book of Psalms, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  8 and hast not shut me up into the hand of the Enemy:
  thou hast set my feet in a large room.
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  3 the Enemy pursues me,
  he crushes me to the ground;

BOOK V. - Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  He who hears these words of Cato or of Sallust probably thinks that such praise bestowed on the ancient Romans was applicable to all of them, or, at least, to very many of them. It is not so; otherwise the things which Cato himself writes, and which I have quoted in the second book of this work, would not be true. In that passage he says, that even from the very beginning of the state wrongs were committed by the more powerful, which led to the separation of the people from the fathers, besides which there were other internal dissensions; and the only time at which there existed a just and moderate administration was after the banishment of the kings, and that no longer than whilst they had cause to be afraid of Tarquin, and were carrying on the grievous war which had[Pg 203] been undertaken on his account against Etruria; but afterwards the fathers oppressed the people as slaves, flogged them as the kings had done, drove them from their land, and, to the exclusion of all others, held the government in their own hands alone. And to these discords, whilst the fathers were wishing to rule, and the people were unwilling to serve, the second Punic war put an end; for again great fear began to press upon their disquieted minds, holding them back from those distractions by another and greater anxiety, and bringing them back to civil concord. But the great things which were then achieved were accomplished through the administration of a few men, who were good in their own way. And by the wisdom and forethought of these few good men, which first enabled the republic to endure these evils and mitigated them, it waxed greater and greater. And this the same historian affirms, when he says that, reading and hearing of the many illustrious achievements of the Roman people in peace and in war, by land and by sea, he wished to understand what it was by which these great things were specially sustained. For he knew that very often the Romans had with a small company contended with great legions of the Enemy; and he knew also that with small resources they had carried on wars with opulent kings. And he says that, after having given the matter much consideration, it seemed evident to him that the pre-eminent virtue of a few citizens had achieved the whole, and that that explained how poverty overcame wealth, and small numbers great multitudes. But, he adds, after that the state had been corrupted by luxury and indolence, again the republic, by its own greatness, was able to bear the vices of its magistrates and generals. Wherefore even the praises of Cato are only applicable to a few; for only a few were possessed of that virtue which leads men to pursue after glory, honour, and power by the true way,that is, by virtue itself. This industry at home, of which Cato speaks, was the consequence of a desire to enrich the public treasury, even though the result should be poverty at home; and therefore, when he speaks of the evil arising out of the corruption of morals, he reverses the expression, and says, "Poverty in the state, riches at home."
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  There are those two things, namely, liberty and the desire of human praise, which compelled the Romans to admirable deeds. If, therefore, for the liberty of dying men, and for the desire of human praise which is sought after by mortals, sons could be put to death by a father, what great thing is it, if, for the true liberty which has made us free from the dominion of sin, and death, and the devil,not through the desire of human praise, but through the earnest desire of freeing men, not from King Tarquin, but from demons and the prince of the demons,we should, I do not say put to death our sons, but reckon among our sons Christ's poor ones? If, also, another Roman chief, surnamed Torquatus, slew his son, not because he fought against his country, but because, being challenged by an enemy, he through youthful impetuosity fought, though for his country, yet contrary to orders which he his father had given as general; and this he did, notwithstanding that his son was victorious, lest there should be more evil in the example of authority despised, than good in the glory of slaying an enemy;if, I say, Torquatus acted thus, wherefore should they boast themselves, who, for the laws of a celestial country, despise all earthly good things, which are[Pg 211] loved far less than sons? If Furius Camillus, who was condemned by those who envied him, notwithstanding that he had thrown off from the necks of his countrymen the yoke of their most bitter enemies, the Veientes, again delivered his ungrateful country from the Gauls, because he had no other in which he could have better opportunities for living a life of glory;if Camillus did thus, why should he be extolled as having done some great thing, who, having, it may be, suffered in the church at the hands of carnal enemies most grievous and dishonouring injury, has not betaken himself to heretical enemies, or himself raised some heresy against her, but has rather defended her, as far as he was able, from the most pernicious perversity of heretics, since there is not another church, I say not in which one can live a life of glory, but in which eternal life can be obtained? If Mucius, in order that peace might be made with King Porsenna, who was pressing the Romans with a most grievous war, when he did not succeed in slaying Porsenna, but slew another by mistake for him, reached forth his right hand and laid it on a red-hot altar, saying that many such as he saw him to be had conspired for his destruction, so that Porsenna, terrified at his daring, and at the thought of a conspiracy of such as he, without any delay recalled all his warlike purposes, and made peace;if, I say, Mucius did this, who shall speak of his meritorious claims to the kingdom of heaven, if for it he may have given to the flames not one hand, but even his whole body, and that not by his own spontaneous act, but because he was persecuted by another? If Curtius, spurring on his steed, threw himself all armed into a precipitous gulf, obeying the oracles of their gods, which had commanded that the Romans should throw into that gulf the best thing which they possessed, and they could only understand thereby that, since they excelled in men and arms, the gods had commanded that an armed man should be cast headlong into that destruction;if he did this, shall we say that that man has done a great thing for the eternal city who may have died by a like death, not, however, precipitating himself spontaneously into a gulf, but having suffered this death at the hands of some enemy of his faith, more especially when he has received from his Lord, who is also King of[Pg 212] his country, a more certain oracle, "Fear not them who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul?"[214] If the Decii dedicated themselves to death, consecrating themselves in a form of words, as it were, that falling, and pacifying by their blood the wrath of the gods, they might be the means of delivering the Roman army;if they did this, let not the holy martyrs carry themselves proudly, as though they had done some meritorious thing for a share in that country where are eternal life and felicity, if even to the shedding of their blood, loving not only the brethren for whom it was shed, but, according as had been commanded them, even their enemies by whom it was being shed, they have vied with one another in faith of love and love of faith. If Marcus Pulvillus, when engaged in dedicating a temple to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, received with such indifference the false intelligence which was brought to him of the death of his son, with the intention of so agitating him that he should go away, and thus the glory of dedicating the temple should fall to his colleague;if he received that intelligence with such indifference that he even ordered that his son should be cast out unburied, the love of glory having overcome in his heart the grief of bereavement, how shall any one affirm that he has done a great thing for the preaching of the gospel, by which the citizens of the heavenly city are delivered from divers errors, and gathered together from divers wanderings, to whom his Lord has said, when anxious about the burial of his father, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead?"[215] Regulus, in order not to break his oath, even with his most cruel enemies, returned to them from Rome itself, because (as he is said to have replied to the Romans when they wished to retain him) he could not have the dignity of an honourable citizen at Rome after having been a slave to the Africans, and the Carthaginians put him to death with the utmost tortures, because he had spoken against them in the senate. If Regulus acted thus, what tortures are not to be despised for the sake of good faith toward that country to whose beatitude faith itself leads? Or what will a man have rendered to the Lord for all He has bestowed upon him, if, for the faithfulness he owes to Him, he shall have[Pg 213] suffered such things as Regulus suffered at the hands of his most ruthless enemies for the good faith which he owed to them? And how shall a Christian dare vaunt himself of his voluntary poverty, which he has chosen in order that during the pilgrimage of this life he may walk the more disencumbered on the way which leads to the country where the true riches are, even God Himself;how, I say, shall he vaunt himself for this, when he hears or reads that Lucius Valerius, who died when he was holding the office of consul, was so poor that his funeral expenses were paid with money collected by the people?or when he hears that Quintius Cincinnatus, who, possessing only four acres of land, and cultivating them with his own hands, was taken from the plough to be made dictator,an office more honourable even than that of consul, and that, after having won great glory by conquering the Enemy, he preferred notwithstanding to continue in his poverty? Or how shall he boast of having done a great thing, who has not been prevailed upon by the offer of any reward of this world to renounce his connection with that heavenly and eternal country, when he hears that Fabricius could not be prevailed on to forsake the Roman city by the great gifts offered to him by Pyrrhus king of the Epirots, who promised him the fourth part of his kingdom, but preferred to abide there in his poverty as a private individual? For if, when their republic,that is, the interest of the people, the interest of the country, the common interest,was most prosperous and wealthy, they themselves were so poor in their own houses, that one of them, who had already been twice a consul, was expelled from that senate of poor men by the censor, because he was discovered to possess ten pounds weight of silver-plate,since, I say, those very men by whose triumphs the public treasury was enriched were so poor, ought not all Christians, who make common property of their riches with a far nobler purpose, even that (according to what is written in the Acts of the Apostles) they may distribute to each one according to his need, and that no one may say that anything is his own, but that all things may be their common possession,[216]ought they not to understand that they should not vaunt themselves, because[Pg 214] they do that to obtain the society of angels, when those men did well-nigh the same thing to preserve the glory of the Romans?
  How could these, and whatever like things are found in the Roman history, have become so widely known, and have been proclaimed by so great a fame, had not the Roman empire, extending far and wide, been raised to its greatness by magnificent successes? Wherefore, through that empire, so extensive and of so long continuance, so illustrious and glorious also through the virtues of such great men, the reward which they sought was rendered to their earnest aspirations, and also examples are set before us, containing necessary admonition, in order that we may be stung with shame if we shall see that we have not held fast those virtues for the sake of the most glorious city of God, which are, in whatever way, resembled by those virtues which they held fast for the sake of the glory of a terrestrial city, and that, too, if we shall feel conscious that we have held them fast, we may not be lifted up with pride, because, as the apostle says, "The sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us."[217] But so far as regards human and temporal glory, the lives of these ancient Romans were reckoned sufficiently worthy. Therefore, also, we see, in the light of that truth which, veiled in the Old Testament, is revealed in the New, namely, that it is not in view of terrestrial and temporal benefits, which divine providence grants promiscuously to good and evil, that God is to be worshipped, but in view of eternal life, everlasting gifts, and of the society of the heavenly city itself;in the light of this truth we see that the Jews were most righteously given as a trophy to the glory of the Romans; for we see that these Romans, who rested on earthly glory, and sought to obtain it by virtues, such as they were, conquered those who, in their great depravity, slew and rejected the giver of true glory, and of the eternal city.
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  And on this account, Theodosius not only preserved during the lifetime of Gratian that fidelity which was due to him, but also, after his death, he, like a true Christian, took his little brother Valentinian under his protection, as joint emperor, after he had been expelled by Maximus, the murderer of his father. He guarded him with paternal affection, though he might without any difficulty have got rid of him, being entirely destitute of all resources, had he been animated with the desire of extensive empire, and not with the ambition of being a benefactor. It was therefore a far greater pleasure to him, when he had adopted the boy, and preserved to him his[Pg 225] imperial dignity, to console him by his very humanity and kindness. Afterwards, when that success was rendering Maximus terrible, Theodosius, in the midst of his perplexing anxieties, was not drawn away to follow the suggestions of a sacrilegious and unlawful curiosity, but sent to John, whose abode was in the desert of Egypt,for he had learned that this servant of God (whose fame was spreading abroad) was endowed with the gift of prophecy, and from him he received assurance of victory. Immediately the slayer of the tyrant Maximus, with the deepest feelings of compassion and respect, restored the boy Valentinianus to his share in the empire from which he had been driven. Valentinianus being soon after slain by secret assassination, or by some other plot or accident, Theodosius, having again received a response from the prophet, and placing entire confidence in it, marched against the tyrant Eugenius, who had been unlawfully elected to succeed that emperor, and defeated his very powerful army, more by prayer than by the sword. Some soldiers who were at the battle reported to me that all the missiles they were throwing were snatched from their hands by a vehement wind, which blew from the direction of Theodosius' army upon the Enemy; nor did it only drive with greater velocity the darts which were hurled against them, but also turned back upon their own bodies the darts which they themselves were throwing. And therefore the poet Claudian, although an alien from the name of Christ, nevertheless says in his praises of him, "O prince, too much beloved by God, for thee olus pours armed tempests from their caves; for thee the air fights, and the winds with one accord obey thy bugles."[224] But the victor, as he had believed and predicted, overthrew the statues of Jupiter, which had been, as it were, consecrated by I know not what kind of rites against him, and set up in the Alps. And the thunderbolts of these statues, which were made of gold, he mirthfully and graciously presented to his couriers, who (as the joy of the occasion permitted) were jocularly saying that they would be most happy to be struck by such thunderbolts. The sons of his own enemies, whose fathers had been slain not so much by his orders as by the vehemence of war, having[Pg 226] fled for refuge to a church, though they were not yet Christians, he was anxious, taking advantage of the occasion, to bring over to Christianity, and treated them with Christian love. Nor did he deprive them of their property, but, besides allowing them to retain it, bestowed on them additional honours. He did not permit private animosities to affect the treatment of any man after the war. He was not like Cinna, and Marius, and Sylla, and other such men, who wished not to finish civil wars even when they were finished, but rather grieved that they had arisen at all, than wished that when they were finished they should harm any one. Amid all these events, from the very commencement of his reign, he did not cease to help the troubled church against the impious by most just and merciful laws, which the heretical Valens, favouring the Arians, had vehemently afflicted. Indeed, he rejoiced more to be a member of this church than he did to be a king upon the earth. The idols of the Gentiles he everywhere ordered to be overthrown, understanding well that not even terrestrial gifts are placed in the power of demons, but in that of the true God. And what could be more admirable than his religious humility, when, compelled by the urgency of certain of his intimates, he avenged the grievous crime of the Thessalonians, which at the prayer of the bishops he had promised to pardon, and, being laid hold of by the discipline of the church, did penance in such a way that the sight of his imperial loftiness prostrated made the people who were interceding for him weep more than the consciousness of offence had made them fear it when enraged? These and other similar good works, which it would be long to tell, he carried with him from this world of time, where the greatest human nobility and loftiness are but vapour. Of these works the reward is eternal happiness, of which God is the giver, though only to those who are sincerely pious. But all other blessings and privileges of this life, as the world itself, light, air, earth, water, fruits, and the soul of man himself, his body, senses, mind, life, He lavishes on good and bad alike. And among these blessings is also to be reckoned the possession of an empire, whose extent He regulates according to the requirements of His providential government at various times. Whence, I see, we must now answer those who, being confuted[Pg 227] and convicted by the most manifest proofs, by which it is shown that for obtaining these terrestrial things, which are all the foolish desire to have, that multitude of false gods is of no use, attempt to assert that the gods are to be worshipped with a view to the interest, not of the present life, but of that which is to come after death. For as to those who, for the sake of the friendship of this world, are willing to worship vanities, and do not grieve that they are left to their puerile understandings, I think they have been sufficiently answered in these five books; of which books, when I had published the first three, and they had begun to come into the hands of many, I heard that certain persons were preparing against them an answer of some kind or other in writing. Then it was told me that they had already written their answer, but were waiting a time when they could publish it without danger. Such persons I would advise not to desire what cannot be of any advantage to them; for it is very easy for a man to seem to himself to have answered arguments, when he has only been unwilling to be silent. For what is more loquacious than vanity? And though it be able, if it like, to shout more loudly than the truth, it is not, for all that, more powerful than the truth. But let men consider diligently all the things that we have said, and if, perchance, judging without party spirit, they shall clearly perceive that they are such things as may rather be shaken than torn up by their most impudent garrulity, and, as it were, satirical and mimic levity, let them restrain their absurdities, and let them choose rather to be corrected by the wise than to be lauded by the foolish. For if they are waiting an opportunity, not for liberty to speak the truth, but for licence to revile, may not that befall them which Tully says concerning some one, "Oh, wretched man! who was at liberty to sin?"[225] Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of licence to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honourably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.
  [Pg 228]

BOOK XVII. - The history of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  Wherefore also in the 89th Psalm, of which the title is, "An instruction for himself by Ethan the Israelite," mention is made of the promises God made to king David, and some things are there added similar to those found in the Book of Samuel, such as this, "I have sworn to David my servant that I will prepare his seed for ever."[409] And again, "Then thou spakest in vision to thy sons, and saidst, I have laid[Pg 192] help upon the mighty One, and have exalted the chosen One out of my people. I have found David my servant, and with my holy oil I have anointed him. For mine hand shall help him, and mine arm shall streng then him. the Enemy shall not prevail against him, and the son of iniquity shall harm him no more. And I will beat down his foes from before his face, and those that hate him will I put to flight. And my truth and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the undertaker of my salvation. Also I will make him my first-born, high among the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall be faithful (sure) with him. His seed also will I set for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven."[410] Which words, when rightly understood, are all understood to be about the Lord Jesus Christ, under the name of David, on account of the form of a servant, which the same Mediator assumed[411] from the virgin of the seed of David.[412] For immediately something is said about the sins of his children, such as is set down in the Book of Samuel, and is more readily taken as if of Solomon. For there, that is, in the Book of Samuel, he says, "And if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men; but my mercy will I not take away from him,"[413] meaning by stripes the strokes of correction. Hence that saying, "Touch ye not my christs."[414] For what else is that than, Do not harm them? But in the psalm, when speaking as if of David, He says something of the same kind there too. "If his children," saith He, "forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they profane my righteousnesses, and keep not my commandments; I will visit their iniquities with the rod, and their faults with stripes: but my mercy I will not make void from him."[415] He did not say "from them," although He spoke of his children, not of himself; but he said "from him," which means the same thing if rightly understood. For of Christ Himself, who is the head[Pg 193] of the Church, there could not be found any sins which required to be divinely restrained by human correction, mercy being still continued; but they are found in His body and members, which is His people. Therefore in the Book of Samuel it is said, "iniquity of Him," but in the psalm, "of His children," that we may understand that what is said of His body is in some way said of Himself. Wherefore also, when Saul persecuted His body, that is, His believing people, He Himself saith from heaven, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"[416] Then in the following words of the psalm He says, "Neither will I hurt in my truth, nor profane my covenant, and the things that proceed from my lips I will not disallow. Once have I sworn by my holiness, if I lie unto David,"[417]that is, I will in no wise lie unto David; for Scripture is wont to speak thus. But what that is in which He will not lie, He adds, saying, "His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me, and as the moon perfected for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven."[418]
    10. How different the acts in the kingdom of the earthly Jerusalem are from those which God had promised, so that the truth of the promise should be understood to pertain to the glory of the other King and kingdom.

BOOK XVI. - The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  Next it is related how Terah with his family left the region of the Chaldeans and came into Mesopotamia, and dwelt in Haran. But nothing is said about one of his sons called Nahor, as if he had not taken him along with him. For the narrative runs thus: "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarah his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and led them forth out of the region of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; and he came into Haran, and dwelt there."[253] Nahor and Milcah his wife are nowhere named here. But afterwards, when Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for his son Isaac, we find it thus written: "And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his lord, and of all the goods of his lord, with him; and arose, and went into Mesopotamia, into the city of Nahor."[254] This and other testimonies of this sacred history show that Nahor, Abraham's brother, had also left the[Pg 126] region of the Chaldeans, and fixed his abode in Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt with his father. Why, then, did the Scripture not mention him, when Terah with his family went forth out of the Chaldean nation and dwelt in Haran, since it mentions that he took with him not only Abraham his son, but also Sarah his daughter-in-law, and Lot his grandson? The only reason we can think of is, that perhaps he had lapsed from the piety of his father and brother, and adhered to the superstition of the Chaldeans, and had afterwards emigrated thence, either through penitence, or because he was persecuted as a suspected person. For in the book called Judith, when Holofernes, the Enemy of the Israelites, inquired what kind of nation that might be, and whether war should be made against them, Achior, the leader of the Ammonites, answered him thus: "Let our lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning the people which dwelleth near thee in this hill country, and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant. For this people is descended from the Chaldeans, and they dwelt heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were glorious in the land of the Chaldeans, but went out of the way of their ancestors, and adored the God of heaven, whom they knew; and they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and dwelt there many days. And their God said to them, that they should depart from their habitation, and go into the land of Canaan; and they dwelt,"[255] etc., as Achior the Ammonite narrates. Whence it is manifest that the house of Terah had suffered persecution from the Chaldeans for the true piety with which they worshipped the one and true God.
  14. Of the years of Terah, who completed his lifetime in Haran.
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  Having received this oracle of promise, Abraham migrated, and remained in another place of the same land, that is, beside the oak of Mamre, which was Hebron. Then on the invasion of Sodom, when five kings carried on war against four, and Lot was taken captive with the conquered Sodomites, Abraham delivered him from the Enemy, leading with him to battle three hundred and eighteen of his home-born servants, and won the victory for the kings of Sodom, but would take nothing of the spoils when offered by the king[Pg 135] for whom he had won them. He was then openly blessed by Melchizedek, who was priest of God Most High, about whom many and great things are written in the epistle which is inscribed to the Hebrews, which most say is by the Apostle Paul, though some deny this. For then first appeared the sacrifice which is now offered to God by Christians in the whole wide world, and that is fulfilled which long after the event was said by the prophet to Christ, who was yet to come in the flesh, "Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek,"[271]that is to say, not after the order of Aaron, for that order was to be taken away when the things shone forth which were intimated beforeh and by these shadows.
    23. Of the word of the Lord to Abraham, by which it was promised to him that his posterity should be multiplied according to the multitude of the stars; on believing which he was declared justified while yet in uncircumcision.

BOOK XX. - Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  It is then of this kingdom militant, in which conflict with the Enemy is still maintained, and war carried on with warring lusts, or government laid upon them as they yield, until we come to that most peaceful kingdom in which we shall reign without an enemy, and it is of this first resurrection in the present life, that the Apocalypse speaks in the words just quoted. For, after saying that the devil is bound a thousand years and is afterwards loosed for a short season, it goes on to give a sketch of what the Church does or of what is done in the Church in those days, in the words, "And I saw seats and them that sat upon them, and judgment was given." It is not to be supposed that this refers to the last judgment, but to the seats of the rulers and to the rulers themselves by whom the Church is now governed. And no better interpretation of judgment being given can be produced than that which we have in the words, "What ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what ye loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."[723] Whence the apostle says, "What have I to do[Pg 366] with judging them that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?"[724] "And the souls," says John, "of those who were slain for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God,"understanding what he afterwards says, "reigned with Christ a thousand years,"[725]that is, the souls of the martyrs not yet restored to their bodies. For the souls of the pious dead are not separated from the Church, which even now is the kingdom of Christ; otherwise there would be no remembrance made of them at the altar of God in the partaking of the body of Christ, nor would it do any good in danger to run to His baptism, that we might not pass from this life without it; nor to reconciliation, if by penitence or a bad conscience any one may be severed from His body. For why are these things practised, if not because the faithful, even though dead, are His members? Therefore, while these thousand years run on, their souls reign with Him, though not as yet in conjunction with their bodies. And therefore in another part of this same book we read, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: and now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works do follow them."[726] The Church, then, begins its reign with Christ now in the living and in the dead. For, as the apostle says, "Christ died that He might be Lord both of the living and of the dead."[727] But he mentioned the souls of the martyrs only, because they who have contended even to death for the truth, themselves principally reign after death; but, taking the part for the whole, we understand the words of all others who belong to the Church, which is the kingdom of Christ.
  As to the words following, "And if any have not worshipped the beast nor his image, nor have received his inscription on their forehead, or on their hand," we must take them of both the living and the dead. And what this beast is, though it requires a more careful investigation, yet it is not inconsistent with the true faith to understand it of the ungodly city itself, and the community of unbelievers set in opposition to the faithful people and the city of God. "His image" seems to me to mean his simulation, to wit, in those[Pg 367] men who profess to believe, but live as unbelievers. For they pretend to be what they are not, and are called Christians, not from a true likeness, but from a deceitful image. For to this beast belong not only the avowed enemies of the name of Christ and His most glorious city, but also the tares which are to be gathered out of His kingdom, the Church, in the end of the world. And who are they who do not worship the beast and his image, if not those who do what the apostle says, "Be not yoked with unbelievers?"[728] For such do not worship, i.e. do not consent, are not subjected; neither do they receive the inscription, the brand of crime, on their forehead by their profession, on their hand by their practice. They, then, who are free from these pollutions, whether they still live in this mortal flesh, or are dead, reign with Christ even now, through this whole interval which is indicated by the thousand years, in a fashion suited to this time.

BS 1 - Introduction to the Idea of God, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  The spirit-like aspect. Its akin to the human soul. Its the prophetic voice. Its the still, small voice of conscience. Its the spoken truth. Its called forth by music. It is the Enemy of deceit, arrogance, and resentment. It is the water of life. It burns without consuming. Its a blinding light.
  Thats a very well-developed set of poetic metaphors. These are all...what would you say...glimpses of the transcendent ideal. Thats the right way of thinking about it. Theyre glimpses of the transcendent ideal, and all of them have a specific meaning. In part, what were going to do is go over that meaning, as we continue with this series. What weve got now is a brief description, at least, of what this is.

City of God - BOOK I, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  .... felt about the general custom of war, of never sparing the cities conquered from the Enemy
  6 Not even the Romans, when they conquered a city, ever in the spared the vanquished who had sought refuge
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  28 By what judgment of God the Enemy was permitted to work his sinful will on the bodies of the chaste
  29 What reply should Christians make to the taunt of unbelievers that Christ did not deliver His followers from

COSA - BOOK I, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the Enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak. Lord, Thou knowest. Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee, and Thou, my God, hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart? I contend not in judgment with Thee, who art the truth; I fear to deceive myself; lest mine iniquity lie unto itself.
  Therefore I contend not in judgment with Thee; for if Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall abide it?

COSA - BOOK IX, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  through which the Enemy was triumphed over, who summing up our offences,
  and seeking what to lay to our charge, found nothing in Him, in Whom we

COSA - BOOK VIII, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  irons, but by my own iron will. My will the Enemy held, and thence had
  made a chain for me, and bound me. For of a forward will, was a lust

COSA - BOOK X, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  and suggestions doth the Enemy deal with me to desire some sign! But I
  beseech Thee by our King, and by our pure and holy country, Jerusalem,

COSA - BOOK XIII, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  other books, which so destroy pride, which so destroy the Enemy and the
  defender, who resisteth Thy reconciliation by defending his own sins. I

Euthyphro, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Euthyphro is a religionist, and is elsewhere spoken of, if he be the same person, as the author of a philosophy of names, by whose 'prancing steeds' Socrates in the Cratylus is carried away. He has the conceit and self-confidence of a Sophist; no doubt that he is right in prosecuting his father has ever entered into his mind. Like a Sophist too, he is incapable either of framing a general definition or of following the course of an argument. His wrong-headedness, one-sidedness, narrowness, positiveness, are characteristic of his priestly office. His failure to apprehend an argument may be compared to a similar defect which is observable in the rhapsode Ion. But he is not a bad man, and he is friendly to Socrates, whose familiar sign he recognizes with interest. Though unable to follow him he is very willing to be led by him, and eagerly catches at any suggestion which saves him from the trouble of thinking. Moreover he is the Enemy of Meletus, who, as he says, is availing himself of the popular dislike to innovations in religion in order to injure Socrates; at the same time he is amusingly confident that he has weapons in his own armoury which would be more than a match for him. He is quite sincere in his prosecution of his father, who has accidentally been guilty of homicide, and is not wholly free from blame. To purge away the crime appears to him in the light of a duty, whoever may be the criminal.
  Thus begins the contrast between the religion of the letter, or of the narrow and unenlightened conscience, and the higher notion of religion which Socrates vainly endeavours to elicit from him. 'Piety is doing as I do' is the idea of religion which first occurs to him, and to many others who do not say what they think with equal frankness. For men are not easily persuaded that any other religion is better than their own; or that other nations, e.g. the Greeks in the time of Socrates, were equally serious in their religious beliefs and difficulties. The chief difference between us and them is, that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinction between accidental homicide and murder: that the pollution of blood was the same in both cases is also the feeling of the Athenian diviner. He had not as yet learned the lesson, which philosophy was teaching, that Homer and Hesiod, if not banished from the state, or whipped out of the assembly, as Heracleitus more rudely proposed, at any rate were not to be appealed to as authorities in religion; and he is ready to defend his conduct by the examples of the gods. These are the very tales which Socrates cannot abide; and his dislike of them, as he suspects, has branded him with the reputation of impiety. Here is one answer to the question, 'Why Socrates was put to death,' suggested by the way. Another is conveyed in the words, 'The Athenians do not care about any man being thought wise until he begins to make other men wise; and then for some reason or other they are angry:' which may be said to be the rule of popular toleration in most other countries, and not at Athens only. In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them. There is no measure or standard to which they can be referred.

Gorgias, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Callicles, in whose house they are assembled, is introduced on the stage: he is with difficulty convinced that Socrates is in earnest; for if these things are true, then, as he says with real emotion, the foundations of society are upside down. In him another type of character is represented; he is neither sophist nor philosopher, but man of the world, and an accomplished Athenian gentleman. He might be described in modern language as a cynic or materialist, a lover of power and also of pleasure, and unscrupulous in his means of attaining both. There is no desire on his part to offer any compromise in the interests of morality; nor is any concession made by him. Like Thrasymachus in the Republic, though he is not of the same weak and vulgar class, he consistently maintains that might is right. His great motive of action is political ambition; in this he is characteristically Greek. Like Anytus in the Meno, he is the Enemy of the Sophists; but favours the new art of rhetoric, which he regards as an excellent weapon of attack and defence. He is a despiser of mankind as he is of philosophy, and sees in the laws of the state only a violation of the order of nature, which intended that the stronger should govern the weaker (compare Republic). Like other men of the world who are of a speculative turn of mind, he generalizes the bad side of human nature, and has easily brought down his principles to his practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply him with distinctions suited to his view of human life. He has a good will to Socrates, whose talents he evidently admires, while he censures the puerile use which he makes of them. He expresses a keen intellectual interest in the argument. Like Anytus, again, he has a sympathy with other men of the world; the Athenian statesmen of a former generation, who showed no weakness and made no mistakes, such as Miltiades, Themistocles, Pericles, are his favourites. His ideal of human character is a man of great passions and great powers, which he has developed to the utmost, and which he uses in his own enjoyment and in the government of others. Had Critias been the name instead of Callicles, about whom we know nothing from other sources, the opinions of the man would have seemed to reflect the history of his life.
  And now the combat deepens. In Callicles, far more than in any sophist or rhetorician, is concentrated the spirit of evil against which Socrates is contending, the spirit of the world, the spirit of the many contending against the one wise man, of which the Sophists, as he describes them in the Republic, are the imitators rather than the authors, being themselves carried away by the great tide of public opinion. Socrates approaches his antagonist warily from a distance, with a sort of irony which touches with a light hand both his personal vices (probably in allusion to some scandal of the day) and his servility to the populace. At the same time, he is in most profound earnest, as Chaerephon remarks. Callicles soon loses his temper, but the more he is irritated, the more provoking and matter of fact does Socrates become. A repartee of his which appears to have been really made to the 'omniscient' Hippias, according to the testimony of Xenophon (Mem.), is introduced. He is called by Callicles a popular declaimer, and certainly shows that he has the power, in the words of Gorgias, of being 'as long as he pleases,' or 'as short as he pleases' (compare Protag.). Callicles exhibits great ability in defending himself and attacking Socrates, whom he accuses of trifling and word-splitting; he is scandalized that the legitimate consequences of his own argument should be stated in plain terms; after the manner of men of the world, he wishes to preserve the decencies of life. But he cannot consistently maintain the bad sense of words; and getting confused between the abstract notions of better, superior, stronger, he is easily turned round by Socrates, and only induced to continue the argument by the authority of Gorgias. Once, when Socrates is describing the manner in which the ambitious citizen has to identify himself with the people, he partially recognizes the truth of his words.
  The Socrates of the Gorgias may be compared with the Socrates of the Protagoras and Meno. As in other dialogues, he is the Enemy of the Sophists and rhetoricians; and also of the statesmen, whom he regards as another variety of the same species. His behaviour is governed by that of his opponents; the least forwardness or egotism on their part is met by a corresponding irony on the part of Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not allow him to be silent. He is indeed more ironical and provoking than in any other of Plato's writings: for he is 'fooled to the top of his bent' by the worldliness of Callicles. But he is also more deeply in earnest. He rises higher than even in the Phaedo and Crito: at first enveloping his moral convictions in a cloud of dust and dialectics, he ends by losing his method, his life, himself, in them. As in the Protagoras and Phaedrus, throwing aside the veil of irony, he makes a speech, but, true to his character, not until his adversary has refused to answer any more questions. The presentiment of his own fate is hanging over him. He is aware that Socrates, the single real teacher of politics, as he ventures to call himself, cannot safely go to war with the whole world, and that in the courts of earth he will be condemned. But he will be justified in the world below. Then the position of Socrates and Callicles will be reversed; all those things 'unfit for ears polite' which Callicles has prophesied as likely to happen to him in this life, the insulting language, the box on the ears, will recoil upon his assailant. (Compare Republic, and the similar reversal of the position of the lawyer and the philosopher in the Theaetetus).
  There is an interesting allusion to his own behaviour at the trial of the generals after the battle of Arginusae, which he ironically attributes to his ignorance of the manner in which a vote of the assembly should be taken. This is said to have happened 'last year' (B.C. 406), and therefore the assumed date of the dialogue has been fixed at 405 B.C., when Socrates would already have been an old man. The date is clearly marked, but is scarcely reconcilable with another indication of time, viz. the 'recent' usurpation of Archelaus, which occurred in the year 413; and still less with the 'recent' death of Pericles, who really died twenty-four years previously (429 B.C.) and is afterwards reckoned among the statesmen of a past age; or with the mention of Nicias, who died in 413, and is nevertheless spoken of as a living witness. But we shall hereafter have reason to observe, that although there is a general consistency of times and persons in the Dialogues of Plato, a precise dramatic date is an invention of his commentators (Preface to Republic).
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  SOCRATES: And which rejoiced most at the departure of the Enemy, the coward or the brave?
  CALLICLES: I should say 'most' of both; or at any rate, they rejoiced about equally.
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  SOCRATES: And are they not better pleased at the Enemy's departure?
  CALLICLES: I dare say.

Liber 111 - The Book of Wisdom - LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   Marshal of an Army, to observe the Dispositions of the Enemy, and to
   order his own Forces rightly, according to that Information; but he
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   nor through Ignorance and Carelessness allowing the Enemy to deceive
   thee, nor by Fear, by Imprudence and Foolhardiness, by Hesitation and
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   this very Life I was the Enemy of mine own Law, and wrote down the Book
   of the Law contrary to my conscious Will by the Virtue of Obedience as

Liber 46 - The Key of the Mysteries, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
     the Enemy of progress and of liberty.
   Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the {84} glory of
  --
   the people of Liege. But as soon as they came in sight of the Enemy,
   the citizens, as before agreed, fled from the Bishops banner, and he

Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah text, #Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah, #unset, #Zen
  Hostility waxed so intense that my kindred and my loved ones were made captives in Thy land, and they that are dear to Thee were hindered from gazing on Thy beauty and from turning in the direction of Thy mercy. This hostility failed to cause the fire that burned within them to subside. the Enemy finally carried away as captive Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy beauty and the Revealer of Thy signs, and confined Him in the fortress-town of Akká, and sought to hinder Him from remembering Thee and from magnifying Thy name. Thy servant, however, could not be restrained from carrying out what Thou hadst bidden Him fulfill. Above the horizon of tribulation He hath lifted up His voice and He crieth out, summoning all the inmates of heaven and all the inhabitants of the earth to the immensity of Thy mercy and the court of Thy grace. Day and night He sendeth down the signs of Thine omnipotent power and revealeth the clear tokens of Thy majesty, so that the souls of Thy creatures may be drawn towards Thee, that they may forsake themselves and turn unto Thee, and may flee from their misery and seek the tabernacle of Thy riches, and may haste away from their wretchedness into the court of Thy majesty and glory.
  153

r1912 07 03, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   The barrier offered in the annamaya prakriti to all decisive fulfilment of the vijnana-chatusthaya (the siddhis of knowledge & power incidental to the opening of the ideal faculty) [has]1 at last given way. The power of trikaldrishti in those movements which are nearest to the prakamya and vyapti (perception and reception of the truth about objects by sanyama on the objects or contact in consciousness with them), [has]2 triumphed over the obstruction. Instead of a difficult choice of the truth, past, present & future, about things & happenings, a choice hampered by a siege of false suggestions from the physical gods in the material environment, the suggestions themselves are coming to be automatically true. The vijnanam which is satyam ritam is conquering the last fields of mentality & imposing its satyadharma or law of self-existent truth which is necessary for perfect vision of things, satyadharmaya drishtaye. The movement is not yet entirely triumphant, for the Enemy returns to the charge and clouds the siddhi with the anritam, but in the siddhi now there is fixity &, though not perfect continuity, yet a prevailing persistence. the Enemy cannot prevent the persistence. The condition of success appears to be perfect passivity. If there is any arambha, any setting about to know, mental activity with its tangled web of error starts again; Truth, the satyam, is idea true in itself, self-revealing[,] atmaprakasha, not acquired, not in any way arrived at. The mind with all its guessing, inferring, discovering can only reach a marred & mutilated truth inevitably companioned by error. This breaking of the barrier was presaged by the lipi. The difficulty is conquered.
   The siddhis of power have also begun their decisive action but less perfectly than the trikaldrishti of prakamya and vyapti. There are four tendencies that prevent its proper action & effectuality; (1) the tendency to miss the object of the prayoga, as when Pallas Athene turns the shafts from the hero of her preference, so that the aishwarya or vashita does not act upon it at all; (2) the tendency because of habit, previous purpose or tendency or mere recalcitrance to a novel suggestion to pay no heed to it, to shake off the shaft of suggestion from the mental body & go on ones way, if one is in motion or remain firm, if static, as if the suggestion had not reached; by the sukshmadrishti or by some involuntary movement the hitting of the mark by the force aimed at it can be discerned; (3) the tendency to confusion in the mental current of suggestion & mechanical opposition in the body leading to delay of obedience or deviation from the time, place & circumstance enjoined; (4) the tendency for adverse circumstance to interfere & divert the faultless or generally successful fulfilment begun. However, the frequency of obedience & frequent exactness of the action show the emergence of the successful Shakti. It is notable that both these activities are confined in their success for the most part to the immediate happenings around me of a trifling nature. In the rest there is only a general pressure and ultimate success and a capricious success in details. The therapeutic power has evidently gained in force.

r1912 12 04, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Today there is to be final fulfilment of the spontaneity of the lipi. (Written on the 5) This has been fulfilled, although at first the fulfilment was attended by a swift & violent obstruction first to the appearance of the lipi, next to its spontaneity[,] thirdly to its vividness, fourthly, to its completeness, fullness of sentence & separation of different lipis. the Enemy tried to bring back or at least prolong all the old defects of confusion, fragmentariness, mixture of sentences, faintness, inability to appear, necessity of mental support & suggestion, illegibility etc. Outwardly, it seemed to succeed, but the Lipi showed itself through perfectly established and asserted its legibility, spontaneity, fullness, sequence & with some difficulty its vividness. Moreover, it is now moving towards the elimination of imperfect lipi altogether. At the same time the tejas has become constant & indifferent to failure, even to continued and persistent failure.
   The opposition now comes not from the personal environment, but from the Dasyus in the outside world and they fight not close (anti), but dure, from a distance. Their effort is to preserve the obstruction, to prevent Ananda from establishing itself and to enforce Asraddha by defeating the Adeshasiddhi. As regards the Ananda they have now (the 4 night & 5 ) definitely failed. There is ahaituka Ananda well-established, even in spite of asraddha. In other words, the depression caused by the withholding of the Adesha-siddhi is so reduced in effectiveness that it can only now limit the Ananda and not any longer prevent its manifestation.
   Rupadrishti was confirmed only to the extent of other crude forms appearing in the Akasha and on the background. Trikaldrishti acts once more, after its temporary clouding, but the confusion of the avaraka tamas is not yet removed and the tejasic intellectual action maintained from outside by the Enemy is not extruded. It is possible that perfect trikaldrishti may be beginning to evolve its normal as opposed to its exceptional action, but this cannot yet be confidently asserted.
   ***

r1912 12 06, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   A long struggle for the rupadrishti, ended in a number of stable images attaining to the dense developed, far superior in consistency to last nights forms, appearing straight before the vision, a great frequency of absolutely perfect images which either avoid the eye or only appear for a second before it, & a number of crude forms. Colour, jyotih & tejah are now common in all forms. The objective of the siddhi is to establish the habit of the perfect & stable image placed full before the vision; the object of the Enemy is to preserve every possible imperfection & especially prevent stability. After some hours cessation, physical ananda of a much greater intensity was given for a short time, but not continued afterwards. Samadhi progresses slowly; but the dreams at night almost got rid of the element of dream-image & were only a series of mental images & ideas woven into a connected series of speech & incident. The elimination of dream image, is the first great desideratum, of incoherence in thought record the second. In addition to these siddhis universal prema with the established chidghana & prema anandas, rising into the suddha, are being again superimposed on the ahaituka. Tejas is now more powerful & continuous, the sraddha established in everything except the Adeshasiddhi. Nine hours & more of walking & standing during the day failed to bring fatigue, but brought this time some amount of defect of anima. Sleep 6 hours and a half.
   Of the 1877 edition of Max Mller (Sanskrit text with padapha).Ed.

r1912 12 18, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Development of the rupadrishti in various directions; stability up to the dense developed; only the entirely lifelike forms do not yet acquire stability. There is now a consistent activity (charshanipra & suyama aswa) which disregards or overcomes adverse result & doubt. On the other hand cold and defect of anima reasserted themselves. Physical activity 5.3 to 11.38 with 25 minutes interval, but the last hour of the sixteen was maintained with difficulty; stiffness, pain in the shoulders & feet reasserted themselves. The kamananda was successfully inhibited by the Enemy. Sleep also attacked the system. Sleep six hours and fifteen minutes.
   ***

r1912 12 21, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   It is to be noted that the programme suggested on the tenth was, as was then suspected, only a tejasic suggestion; it has not been fulfilled, except partially in some details. It was a statement of tendency which came erroneously as a prediction. At present the tapas, & tejas, is being driven forward without much regard to the state of the adhara or the stumbles of the knowledge. Formerly, when the tapas became active, false tejas & tapas took possession of it and there had to be a return to nivritti, but now the intermixture of false tejas is not allowed to stop the pravritti, because, as it seems, this false tejas is not able to take possession. True tejas & prakasha are now in possession & the false is only an invading power which sometimes establishes a precarious foothold or which still occupies partially a part of the ground here & there. The siddhi of the second & third chatusthaya[s] (shakti & vijnana) is following therefore, but much more rapidly, the same process & line of development as the first. There was first the war to oust the Enemy in possession, the calling in of the aid [ ]1 of doubtful friends & natural enemies, the carrying & loss of positions, the confused fighting, the slow & precarious progress; then the ill-assured possession, becoming more & more assured, then the possession subject to revolts & revolutions, then the entire possession subject to invasions by the ousted enemy, finally a complete possession with occasional vibrations of the memory of old troubles. In the case of the shanti & samata, the struggle has taken many years & gone through various stages, of which the last alone answers entirely to the above description. The other two were never regularly fought out, except in certain points, before the arrival at Pondicherry. Their final progress, owing to the victory of the samata, is proving much more easy and rapid.
   Later in the day, a sudden revolt of impatience & unfaith, not grief or even actual anger, against the continual running after possibilities in the prana & trikaldrishti and a violent rejection of the resulting false trikaldrishti. This resulted in a cessation of the conditions of the siddhi. Physical activity, 4.40 hours [i.e. 4 hours, 40 minutes] in the morning, 3.35 in the afternoon, & from 4.55 to 8.55 & 9.35 to 10.20 in the evening & night, 13 hours in all. Sleep, 7 hours. Slight, almost nominal visrishti after meal.

r1912 12 26, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   As usual, the sortileges began at once to be fulfilled. The force described has established itself in the siddhi; effort, no longer self-effort, manifests itself as a force throwing itself on the Enemy & breaking down all opposition. This struggle is the working of mental force (Indra) possessed by the Vijnana and filled with mental ananda (Soma). Whenever Indra is thus infused with Soma, opposition seems to disappear; it is only when Indra works without Soma, that the opposition has strength to prevail or at least to resist. Once more Soma is being felt physically in the sensation as of wine flowing through the system, but in the sukshma rather than in the sthula body. Trikaldrishti has been working with a consistent perfection, & aishwarya, at first entirely resisted, broke down opposition & is still busy with the struggle. Throughout the whole siddhi, a state of joyous battle & assured victory is replacing the old alternation between the joy of attainment & the pain of struggle & defeat. 6 continuous hours of primary utthapana from 6.15 to 12.13 and again from 12.35 to 1.35. It was only towards the end that there was some reaction. The replacement of intellect by vijnana continues.
   Rupa is still developing, stable developed forms are more perfect, & the perfect transient forms show a greater tendency to stability. Primary utthapana again from 4.20 to 10.15 with the half-hour interval for meal. Today secondary utthapana was resumed, the laghima being perfect, but limited in duration by defect of anima. Sleep 7 hours. Nominal visrishti at night. The jala-visrishti was today less insistent.

r1912 12 31, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   On the other hand the theory of the Yoga has been proved. The perfectibility of the human being, trikaldrishti, Power, the play of the Divine Force in the individual, the existence of the other worlds, & of extra-mental influences, even the possibility of the physical siddhis are established factsvijnana, the Vedic psychology, the seven streams, everything is established. What is wanting is the perfect application, free from the confusions of the anritam which result from the play of mind. It has been seen that in repose, in nivritti[,] in udasinata, perfect peace and ananda are possible; but the thing the Yoga has set out to establish is the perfect harmony of Nivritti & Pravritti, of desirelessness & Lipsa, of Guna & Nirguna, complete Ananda, Tapas, Knowledge, Love, Power & Infinite Egoless Being, consummating in the full and vehement flow of the Pravritti. By the fulfilment or failure of this harmony the Yoga stands or falls. The siddhi has now reached a stage when the test of its positive worldward side has to be undertaken. Tyaga is finished; shama & shanti & udasinata have had their fulfilment; but in that resting place there can be no abiding. It is the starting point of the Lila, not its goal. Therefore during the next three months it has to be seen whether, the harmony in nivritti being definitely thrown aside, the harmony in pravritti, which has always been attacked & denied by the Enemy, can be prepared or accomplished. Only then can there be a settled peace and a perfected action.
   MS Maheshwari

r1913 01 10, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   The obstacle to the trikaldrishti from the Enemy which consisted in inability to decide on the event, is being removed & those movements which formerly presented themselves falsely and dimly as the event, are now revealed luminously as the thought in the person or the force or tendency moving it. Prakamya of the thoughts of others which so often came & went, in a half-clear half-confused movement, has by this success become clear & luminous & its objective sign in the corresponding movement, pause or ingita is so clearly shown that even the intellect cannot doubt the truth and accuracy of the siddhi. There is still confusion as to the time, place & order of circumstance of the event foreseen.
   The vani, script, lipi and thought are now being used normally & habitually for the life-purposes. The trikaldrishti and prakamyavyapti, alone among the instruments of vijnanamaya knowledge, remain to be drawn into this normal movement. Apramattata is no longer necessary for the ordinary movement of the trikaldrishti, but is still necessary for the trikaldrishti of exact time, place and circumstance; in the prakamya-vyapti it is only necessary in order to prevent errors as to the source of the vyapti or the exact relations of the things perceived. This necessity will today be removed. The action of the power is beginning to be normal, although as yet very far from uniformly successful. The clear shabdadrishti, free from adhara, has now definitely begun. The persistent doubt suggested as to the sukshmatwa of the gandhadrishti has now been finally put at rest, for one smell, that of cheese, impossible of material occurrence here has been repeated strongly & persistently in order to dispel the hesitation of the intellect. Rasadrishti is also extending its field, although not yet as vigorous as the gandhadrishti.

r1913 01 11, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   The subjective ananda took possession in full force this morning,a harmony of suddha, chidghana, ahaituka, premananda & sahaituka sharirananda, but the kamananda is resisted and the exclusion of the ananda from adverse events was successfully attempted by the Enemy.
   In the evening perfect forms directly under the eye became numerous and a number of them stable, but these were not of the most lifelike perfection, the defect being insufficiently developed material; the perfection was in the circumstances. Will has relinquished the rupadrishti to the self-action of the Para Prakriti, and is only slightly active for the samadhi. Swapna-samadhi is attempting to develop continuity, but is obliged to have recourse to recurrence in order to stimulate the tendency, as the habit of the drishti withdrawing immediately from the thing once it is seen, still prevails. Kamananda chiefly sahaituka was resumed, but not yet with a sustained frequency. Power began to control the bodily siddhi, but not yet with entire success; the jalavisrishti at last revived its intensity and the relics of sensitiveness to cold with nirananda suddenly recovered intensity. Secondary utthapana, attempted, failed to progress sensibly; but the primary utthapana overcame easily an attempt to break it and continued strongly from about five to after half past eleven (walking all the time) with only a break for meals. Sleep at night fell from 7 or 8 hours to five. Trikaldrishti manifested a striking power and accuracy. The resistance to Power in the karma showed itself in a fresh outbreak of anaikya in the surroundings, known by trikaldrishti before it happened.

r1913 01 15, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   The first results of this movement of sraddha were adverse, as the Enemy who now fight from a distance only in these matters, sent in strong & persistent volitions of possibility like a cloud of arrows to confuse the knowledge & destroy the faith; afterwards the movement was righted with the result that the whole vijnana is now acting normally & uninterruptedly & variability in the instruments of knowledge & power need no longer be feared, except the minor variability of greater or less force & perfection. Trikaldrishti & aishwarya do not yet act with absolute perfection or unerring success, for volition of possibility is still active & exact time, place & circumstance are still the exception rather than the rule in both power & objective knowledge. The uncertainty therefore remains; but normally the trikaldrishti is roughly correct or often exactly correct even as regards place and circumstance, less so as regards time & order, & the fulfilment, normal or striking, slow or rapid, of the power is now more the normal movement than its entire or final failure.
   Arogya is steadily reestablishing itself, but there are still one or two serious defects. The slow therapeutic power works except in particular cases, the swift therapeutic power which showed itself once or twice at an earlier stage, is conspicuously absent except in very minor movements or in cases in which little interest is taken or little power is used, for these the Enemy do not think it worth while to oppose.
   Rupa in the evening did not progress beyond its previous point of attainment, except in shabdadrishti where there was drishti of a tea canister and the clear sound of setting it down. Secondary utthapana was applied to the neck, back and legs and in all positions showed a great force of mahima, anima and laghima, but the anima fails and with it the mahima after a space of time varying from two to five minutes. Laghima is sufficient, if not contradicted by the defect of anima. The failure of mahima is due, essentially, to an element of physical tapas (muscular strain) which still adheres to the action; if this were not present, the insistence of defective anima would not be so powerful. Dream was for the first time entirely discharged of present ego, present associations and present images, except for one attempt to identify present custom in eating with the manners presented in the dream; there was, however, this deficiency that the dream consciousness followed the internal movements of the central figure one not myself and only observed the external movements of others. This defect has to be remedied. Kamananda is persistent in the less intense form, but not always present.

r1913 01 18, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Today has been a day of attack by the Enemy and difficult survival of the gains of the siddhi, lipi maintaining itself, but manifesting with difficulty in the akash, trikaldrishti chequered by false suggestion and aishwarya successfully resisted and almost entirely overcome. Rupadrishti & samadhi have made no advance. The cause of the difficulty & the opportunity of the attack has been the necessity of finally establishing the harmony of pravritti with nivritti, tapas & tejas with shanti & dasya. The habit of the Nature acquired by long practice in the sadhana has been to insist on shanti, udasinata, & passivity as the condition of progress. It is now necessary to overlay & fill the shanti, udasinata, & passivity, the Maheshwari basis, with an active & even violent & rapid tapas of Mahakali-Mahasaraswati; but the habitual reaction of failure caused by the irruption of false tejas & false tapas has first to be eliminated before the harmonisation can be managed.
   Since the above was written, prediction in the script has been justified; Successful struggle in vijnana during the rest of the day, triumph in the evening. Rupa develops brihat with difficult[y], not yet perfection except in single figures. The struggle in the afternoon was successful in maintaining the minimum gains of the siddhi; in the evening the siddhi has triumphed, restored the akashalipi to its fullness, although it is still laboured, brought aishwarya forward, without as yet being able to get rid of ineffective aishwarya, developed a fair abundance of rupas (chitra, sthapatya, akasha) but with perfection & stability in the akasha only for some crude forms & some crude dense & crude developed, these, however, are entirely perfect, and began to justify tejas & tapas in their results. It is now increasingly evident that the condition of success in the future is the broad and general activity of the vijnana including in itself all the members of the third chatusthaya and not any longer the separate development of each member by itself. Nothing fresh in the evening and night; activity of vijnana, rupadrishti, samadhi, but no definite progress.

r1913 02 03, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   The struggle over the health still continues and for the last two evenings there has been feverish heat in the system and a limitation of the pranic energy; utthapana has been practically discontinued. The attempt to establish force in the chakra has failed. On the other hand, there has been no success in the endeavours of the Enemy to reintroduce eruption or the affections of cold. Kamananda showed at times an increased intensity working on the body rather than seated in it, but at others was dull and even implicit. Rupa progresses with the old slowness; samadhi did not increase, nor lipi grow in richness. Trikaldrishti & power continued to work accurately; but without intensity or inspiration, & only in details. The days programme was not fulfilled in the sthula.
   ***

r1914 04 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Last night & this morning were a period of arrested motion in which the Enemy were allowed to attack the results achieved. Mahakalibhava and tertiary dasya of the body remained firm, but the first chatusthaya was touched with the external asamata, ashanti & even momentary duhkha. The Brahmadarshan wavers between the Anandamaya Purusha, Nara in the Anandamaya Saguna & the generalised Nara-Narayana. The sense of universal beauty has been successfully interrupted & denied in the Indriya, the face being as usual the fortress of the Asundara. There is also a continual driving down of the thought from the vijnana into the mind where it takes up the old forms of error.
   The reading of Rs [Richards] book Les Dieux has brought up the question of the Master & the Adesha, whether it is a God or God and the adesha an arbitrary impulsion or the voice of supreme Truth & Power. The faith is persistently attacked by suggestions which mask as friendly voices or are declared enemies. In answer there have come these sortileges.

r1914 04 15, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Strenuous efforts are being made by the Enemy to get rid of the tertiary dasya in the body, but so far it has only been impaired in vividness, not in essence & stability.
   Lipi

r1915 06 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   Karma & Kama await the growth of the Aishwarya & the Sharira. The life & its work [are]2 still under the menace of the Enemy & deprived of their instruments and equipment.
   ***

r1918 03 11, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   There has been a struggle in the Kamananda. Persistent continuous recurrence seems to have been well established, though the Enemy still struggles to bring about a long entire suspension; but secure continuity is not yet established.
   ***

Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  and "the figure of woman-and-gold signified the Enemy within: that part of one's own self
  which was susceptible to the temptations of ever-unreliable worldly success."[72] Carl T.
  --
  fighting in the open field. To fight the Enemy from within the fort is more convenient and far safer than
  to fight in the open field.
  --
  292. Before soldiers go out to meet the Enemy, they learn the art of fighting in their barracks, where
  they do not have to put up with the hardships incidental to action in the open field. So avail yourselves

Sophist, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Hegel was quite sensible how great would be the difficulty of presenting philosophy to mankind under the form of opposites. Most of us live in the one-sided truth which the understanding offers to us, and if occasionally we come across difficulties like the time-honoured controversy of necessity and free-will, or the Eleatic puzzle of Achilles and the tortoise, we relegate some of them to the sphere of mystery, others to the book of riddles, and go on our way rejoicing. Most men (like Aristotle) have been accustomed to regard a contradiction in terms as the end of strife; to be told that contradiction is the life and mainspring of the intellectual world is indeed a paradox to them. Every abstraction is at first the Enemy of every other, yet they are linked together, each with all, in the chain of Being. The struggle for existence is not confined to the animals, but appears in the kingdom of thought. The divisions which arise in thought between the physical and moral and between the moral and intellectual, and the like, are deepened and widened by the formal logic which elevates the defects of the human faculties into Laws of Thought; they become a part of the mind which makes them and is also made up of them. Such distinctions become so familiar to us that we regard the thing signified by them as absolutely fixed and defined. These are some of the illusions from which Hegel delivers us by placing us above ourselves, by teaching us to analyze the growth of 'what we are pleased to call our minds,' by reverting to a time when our present distinctions of thought and language had no existence.
  Of the great dislike and childish impatience of his system which would be aroused among his opponents, he was fully aware, and would often anticipate the jests which the rest of the world, 'in the superfluity of their wits,' were likely to make upon him. Men are annoyed at what puzzles them; they think what they cannot easily understand to be full of danger. Many a sceptic has stood, as he supposed, firmly rooted in the categories of the understanding which Hegel resolves into their original nothingness. For, like Plato, he 'leaves no stone unturned' in the intellectual world. Nor can we deny that he is unnecessarily difficult, or that his own mind, like that of all metaphysicians, was too much under the dominion of his system and unable to see beyond: or that the study of philosophy, if made a serious business (compare Republic), involves grave results to the mind and life of the student. For it may encumber him without enlightening his path; and it may weaken his natural faculties of thought and expression without increasing his philosophical power. The mind easily becomes entangled among abstractions, and loses hold of facts. The glass which is adapted to distant objects takes away the vision of what is near and present to us.

Symposium translated by B Jowett, #Symposium, #Plato, #Philosophy
  Aristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that either of Pausanias or Eryximachus. Mankind, he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the power of Love. For if they had understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honour; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the race. I will try to describe his power to you, and you shall teach the rest of the world what I am teaching you. In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which had once a real existence, but is now lost, and the word 'Androgynous' is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast. Now the sexes were three, and such as I have described them; because the sun, moon, and earth are three; and the man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon, which is made up of sun and earth, and they were all round and moved round and round like their parents. Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained. At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered a way. He said: 'Methinks I have a plan which will humble their pride and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist, but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and they shall hop about on a single leg.' He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility. Apollo was also bidden to heal their wounds and compose their forms. So he gave a turn to the face and pulled the skin from the sides all over that which in our language is called the belly, like the purses which draw in, and he made one mouth at the centre, which he fastened in a knot (the same which is called the navel); he also moulded the breast and took out most of the wrinkles, much as a shoemaker might smooth leather upon a last; he left a few, however, in the region of the belly and navel, as a memorial of the primeval state. After the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their arms about one another, entwined in mutual embraces, longing to grow into one, they were on the point of dying from hunger and self-neglect, because they did not like to do anything apart; and when one of the halves died and the other survived, the survivor sought another mate, man or woman as we call them,being the sections of entire men or women,and clung to that. They were being destroyed, when Zeus in pity of them invented a new plan: he turned the parts of generation round to the front, for this had not been always their position, and they sowed the seed no longer as hitherto like grasshoppers in the ground, but in one another; and after the transposition the male generated in the female in order that by the mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed, and the race might continue; or if man came to man they might be satisfied, and rest, and go their ways to the business of life: so ancient is the desire of one another which is implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of man. Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always looking for his other half. Men who are a section of that double nature which was once called Androgynous are lovers of women; adulterers are generally of this breed, and also adulterous women who lust after men: the women who are a section of the woman do not care for men, but have female attachments; the female companions are of this sort. But they who are a section of the male follow the male, and while they are young, being slices of the original man, they hang about men and embrace them, and they are themselves the best of boys and youths, because they have the most manly nature. Some indeed assert that they are shameless, but this is not true; for they do not act thus from any want of shame, but because they are valiant and manly, and have a manly countenance, and they embrace that which is like them. And these when they grow up become our statesmen, and these only, which is a great proof of the truth of what I am saving. When they reach manhood they are lovers of youth, and are not naturally inclined to marry or beget children,if at all, they do so only in obedience to the law; but they are satisfied if they may be allowed to live with one another unwedded; and such a nature is prone to love and ready to return love, always embracing that which is akin to him. And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could not explain what they desire of one another. For the intense yearning which each of them has towards the other does not appear to be the desire of lover's intercourse, but of something else which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of which she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment. Suppose Hephaestus, with his instruments, to come to the pair who are lying side by side and to say to them, 'What do you people want of one another?' they would be unable to explain. And suppose further, that when he saw their perplexity he said: 'Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night to be in one another's company? for if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul instead of twoI ask whether this is what you lovingly desire, and whether you are satisfied to attain this?'there is not a man of them who when he heard the proposal would deny or would not acknowledge that this meeting and melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of his ancient need (compare Arist. Pol.). And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. There was a time, I say, when we were one, but now because of the wickedness of mankind God has dispersed us, as the Arcadians were dispersed into villages by the Lacedaemonians (compare Arist. Pol.). And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like tallies. Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may avoid evil, and obtain the good, of which Love is to us the lord and minister; and let no one oppose himhe is the Enemy of the gods who opposes him. For if we are friends of the God and at peace with him we shall find our own true loves, which rarely happens in this world at present. I am serious, and therefore I must beg Eryximachus not to make fun or to find any allusion in what I am saying to Pausanias and Agathon, who, as I suspect, are both of the manly nature, and belong to the class which I have been describing. But my words have a wider applicationthey include men and women everywhere; and I believe that if our loves were perfectly accomplished, and each one returning to his primeval nature had his original true love, then our race would be happy. And if this would be best of all, the best in the next degree and under present circumstances must be the nearest approach to such an union; and that will be the attainment of a congenial love. Wherefore, if we would praise him who has given to us the benefit, we must praise the god Love, who is our greatest benefactor, both leading us in this life back to our own nature, and giving us high hopes for the future, for he promises that if we are pious, he will restore us to our original state, and heal us and make us happy and blessed. This, Eryximachus, is my discourse of love, which, although different to yours, I must beg you to leave unassailed by the shafts of your ridicule, in order that each may have his turn; each, or rather either, for Agathon and Socrates are the only ones left.
  Indeed, I am not going to attack you, said Eryximachus, for I thought your speech charming, and did I not know that Agathon and Socrates are masters in the art of love, I should be really afraid that they would have nothing to say, after the world of things which have been said already. But, for all that, I am not without hopes.

Talks 051-075, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
    The gist of it is that people, unable to help themselves, ask for divine powers to be utilised for human welfare. This is similar to the story of a lame man who blustered, saying that he would overpower the Enemy if only he were helped on to his legs. The intention is good but there is no sense of proportion. The young man on hearing it suddenly sprang to his feet, saluting Sri Bhagavan and saying Father! Father! I was mistaken.
    Pardon me. Teach me. I shall abide by what you say, and so on. Then again in the evening he prostrated himself, saying, I surrender.

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  even if it succeeds, it is not because you have changed the heart of the Enemy but because you have made it impossible for him to rule. That is what
  happened in Ireland. Of course, there was armed resistance also, but it
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  with the Enemy, isn't one justified in fighting about it-especially if one
  knows that negotiations are going on?
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  last war were doing it. Negotiation does not mean acceptance of the Enemy's
  terms. There is no harm in seeing how far the other party or country will go

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
  offer resistance non-violently and the Enemy may pass over your dead body!
  SRI AUROBINDO: Somebody in England gave the same suggestion. Hitler

The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
  account all available intelligence reports on the Enemy's dispositions,
  to capture tomorrow at dawn the vital hill No. 607. He sends his orders

Theaetetus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  SOCRATES: Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women; and look after their souls when they are in labour, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. And like the midwives, I am barren, and the reproach which is often made against me, that I ask questions of others and have not the wit to answer them myself, is very justthe reason is, that the god compels me to be a midwife, but does not allow me to bring forth. And therefore I am not myself at all wise, nor have I anything to show which is the invention or birth of my own soul, but those who converse with me profit. Some of them appear dull enough at first, but afterwards, as our acquaintance ripens, if the god is gracious to them, they all make astonishing progress; and this in the opinion of others as well as in their own. It is quite clear that they never learned anything from me; the many fine discoveries to which they cling are of their own making. But to me and the god they owe their delivery. And the proof of my words is, that many of them in their ignorance, either in their self-conceit despising me, or falling under the influence of others, have gone away too soon; and have not only lost the children of whom I had previously delivered them by an ill bringing up, but have stifled whatever else they had in them by evil communications, being fonder of lies and shams than of the truth; and they have at last ended by seeing themselves, as others see them, to be great fools. Aristeides, the son of Lysimachus, is one of them, and there are many others. The truants often return to me, and beg that I would consort with them againthey are ready to go to me on their kneesand then, if my familiar allows, which is not always the case, I receive them, and they begin to grow again. Dire are the pangs which my art is able to arouse and to allay in those who consort with me, just like the pangs of women in childbirth; night and day they are full of perplexity and travail which is even worse than that of the women. So much for them. And there are others, Theaetetus, who come to me apparently having nothing in them; and as I know that they have no need of my art, I coax them into marrying some one, and by the grace of God I can generally tell who is likely to do them good. Many of them I have given away to Prodicus, and many to other inspired sages. I tell you this long story, friend Theaetetus, because I suspect, as indeed you seem to think yourself, that you are in labourgreat with some conception. Come then to me, who am a midwife's son and myself a midwife, and do your best to answer the questions which I will ask you. And if I abstract and expose your first-born, because I discover upon inspection that the conception which you have formed is a vain shadow, do not quarrel with me on that account, as the manner of women is when their first children are taken from them. For I have actually known some who were ready to bite me when I deprived them of a darling folly; they did not perceive that I acted from goodwill, not knowing that no god is the Enemy of manthat was not within the range of their ideas; neither am I their enemy in all this, but it would be wrong for me to admit falsehood, or to stifle the truth. Once more, then, Theaetetus, I repeat my old question, 'What is knowledge?'and do not say that you cannot tell; but quit yourself like a man, and by the help of God you will be able to tell.
  THEAETETUS: At any rate, Socrates, after such an exhortation I should be ashamed of not trying to do my best. Now he who knows perceives what he knows, and, as far as I can see at present, knowledge is perception.

The Book of Certitude - P1, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  Likewise, reflect upon the state and condition of Mary. So deep was the perplexity of that most beauteous countenance, so grievous her case, that she bitterly regretted she had ever been born. To this beareth witness the text of the sacred verse wherein it is mentioned that after Mary had given birth to Jesus, she bemoaned her plight and cried out: "O would that I had died ere this, and been a thing forgotten, forgotten quite!" 1 I swear by God! Such lamenting consumeth the heart and shaketh the being. Such consternation of soul, such despondency, could have been caused by no other than the censure of the Enemy and the cavilings of the infidel and perverse. Reflect, what answer could Mary have given to the people around her? How could she claim that a Babe Whose father was unknown had been conceived of the Holy Ghost? Therefore did Mary, that veiled and immortal Countenance, take up her Child and return unto her home. No sooner had the eyes of the people fallen upon her than they raised their voice saying: "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of wickedness, nor unchaste thy mother." 2 1. Qur'án 19:22.
  2. Qur'án 19:28.

The Book of Certitude - P2, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  Should We wish to impart unto thee a glimmer of the mysteries of Husayn's martyrdom, and reveal unto thee the fruits thereof, these pages could never suffice, nor exhaust their meaning. Our hope is that, God willing, the breeze of mercy may blow, and the divine Springtime clothe the tree of being with the robe of a new life; so that we may discover the mysteries of divine Wisdom, and, through His providence, be made independent of the knowledge of all things. We have, as yet, descried none but a handful of souls, destitute of all renown, who have attained unto this station. Let the future disclose what the Judgment of God will ordain, and the Tabernacle of His decree reveal. In such wise We recount unto thee the wonders of the Cause of God, and pour out into thine ears the strains of heavenly melody, that haply thou mayest attain unto the station of true knowledge, and partake of the fruit thereof. Therefore, know thou of a certainty that these Luminaries of heavenly majesty, though their dwelling be in the dust, yet their true habitation is the seat of glory in the realms above. Though bereft of all earthly possessions, yet they soar in the realms of immeasurable riches. And whilst sore tried in the grip of the Enemy, they are seated on the right hand of power and celestial dominion. Amidst the darkness of their abasement there shineth upon them the light of unfading glory, and upon their helplessness are showered the tokens of an invincible sovereignty.
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  For instance, the Qur'án was an impregnable stronghold unto the people of Muhammad. In His days, whosoever entered therein, was shielded from the devilish assaults, the menacing darts, the soul-devouring doubts, and blasphemous whisperings of the Enemy. Upon him was also bestowed a portion of the everlasting and goodly fruits-the fruits of wisdom, from the divine Tree. To him was given to drink the incorruptible waters of the river of knowledge, and to taste the wine of the mysteries of divine Unity.
  All the things that people required in connection with the Revelation of Muhammad and His laws were to be found revealed and manifest in that Ridván of resplendent glory. That Book constitutes an abiding testimony to its people after Muhammad, inasmuch as its decrees are indisputable, and its promise unfailing. All have been enjoined to follow the precepts of that Book until "the year sixty" 1-the year of the advent of God's wondrous Manifestation. That Book is the Book which unfailingly leadeth the seeker unto the Ridván of the divine Presence, and causeth him that hath forsaken his country and is treading the seeker's path to enter the Tabernacle of everlasting reunion. Its guidance can never err, its testimony no other testimony can excel. All other traditions, all other books and records, are bereft of such distinction, inasmuch as both the traditions and they that have spoken them are confirmed and proven solely by the text of that Book. Moreover, the traditions themselves grievously differ, and their obscurities are manifold. 1. The year 1260 A.H., the year of the Báb's Declaration. [Ridván] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Prayers and Meditations, p. 6; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 31; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4
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  In another passage He likewise saith: "And if ye be in doubt as to that which We have sent down to Our Servant, then produce a Súrah like it, and summon your witnesses, beside God, if ye are men of truth." 1 Behold, how lofty is the station, and how consummate the virtue, of these verses which He hath declared to be His surest testimony, His infallible proof, the evidence of His all-subduing power, and a revelation of the potency of His will. He, the divine King, hath proclaimed the undisputed supremacy of the verses of His Book over all things that testify to His truth. For compared with all other proofs and tokens, the divinely-revealed verses shine as the sun, whilst all others are as stars. To the peoples of the world they are the abiding testimony, the incontrovertible proof, the shining light of the ideal King. Their excellence is unrivalled, their virtue nothing can surpass. They are the treasury of the divine pearls and the depository of the divine mysteries. They constitute the indissoluble Bond, the firm Cord, the 'Urvatu'l-Vuthqá, the inextinguishable Light. Through them floweth the river of divine knowledge, and gloweth the fire of His ancient and consummate wisdom. This is the fire which, in one and the same moment, kindleth the flame of love in the breasts of the faithful, and induceth the chill of heedlessness in the heart of the Enemy. 1. Qur'án 2:23.
  ["In another passage..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 190
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  In like manner, thou observest in this day with what vile imputations they have assailed that Gem of Immortality, and what unspeakable transgressions they have heaped upon Him Who is the Source of purity. Although God hath throughout His Book and in His holy and immortal Tablet warned them that deny and repudiate the revealed verses, and hath announced His grace unto them that accept them, yet behold the unnumbered cavils they raised against those verses which have been sent down from the new heaven of God's eternal holiness! This, notwithstanding the fact that no eye hath beheld so great an outpouring of bounty, nor hath any ear heard of such a revelation of lovingkindness. Such bounty and revelation have been made manifest, that the revealed verses seemed as vernal showers raining from the clouds of the mercy of the All-Bountiful. The Prophets "endowed with constancy," whose loftiness and glory shine as the sun, were each honoured with a Book which all have seen, and the verses of which have been duly ascertained. Whereas the verses which have rained from this Cloud of divine mercy have been so abundant that none hath yet been able to estimate their number. A score of volumes are now available. How many still remain beyond our reach! How many have been plundered and have fallen into the hands of the Enemy, the fate of which none knoweth. ["Such bounty and revelation..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 190
  ["The verses which have rained..."] God Passes By, p. 22; The Dawn-Breakers, p. 248 footnote #7
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  All these were guided by the light of that Sun of divine Revelation, confessed and acknowledged His truth. Such was their faith, that most of them renounced their substance and kindred, and cleaved to the good-pleasure of the All-Glorious. They laid down their lives for their Well-Beloved, and surrendered their all in His path. Their breasts were made targets for the darts of the Enemy, and their heads adorned the spears of the infidel. No land remained which did not drink the blood of these embodiments of detachment, and no sword that did not bruise their necks. Their deeds, alone, testify to the truth of their words. Doth not the testimony of these holy souls, who have so gloriously risen to offer up their lives for their Beloved that the whole world marvelled at the manner of their sacrifice, suffice the people of this day? Is it not sufficient witness against the faithlessness of those who for a trifle betrayed their faith, who bartered away immortality for that which perisheth, who gave up the Kawthar of the divine Presence for salty springs, and whose one aim in life is to usurp the property of others? Even as thou dost witness how all of them have busied themselves with the vanities of the world, and have strayed far from Him Who is the Lord, the Most High. ["All these were guided..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 191
  ["The whole world,..."] God Passes By, p. 79; The Dawn-Breakers p. 404 footnote #40
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  We fain would hope that the people of the Bayán will be enlightened, will soar in the realm of the spirit and abide therein, will discern the Truth, and recognize with the eye of insight dissembling falsehood. In these days, however, such odours of jealousy are diffused, that-I swear by the Educator of all beings, visible and invisible-from the beginning of the foundation of the world-though it hath no beginning-until the present day, such malice, envy, and hate have in no wise appeared, nor will they ever be witnessed in the future. For a number of people who have never inhaled the fragrance of justice, have raised the standard of sedition, and have leagued themselves against Us. On every side We witness the menace of their spears, and in all directions We recognize the shafts of their arrows. This, although We have never gloried in any thing, nor did We seek preference over any soul. To everyone We have been a most kindly companion, a most forbearing and affectionate friend. In the company of the poor We have sought their fellowship, and amidst the exalted and learned We have been submissive and resigned. I swear by God, the one true God! grievous as have been the woes and sufferings which the hand of the Enemy and the people of the Book inflicted upon Us, yet all these fade into utter nothingness when compared with that which hath befallen Us at the hand of those who profess to be Our friends. ["In these days, however..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 195
  ["such odors of jealousy..."] God Passes By, p. 119

The Book of Job, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  23 Or, Deliver me from the Enemy's hand?
  or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  When the Enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
  20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  mentioned above that the Enemy would enflame by his ardor the fire of his enemy and then if
  we pay heed, one would see in the air a venomous fume of a bad odor, worse in flame and in
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  king of France, Claude de Clermont was ambushed by the Enemy and died in 1545. Therefore
  he could not have been even remotely involved in works undertaken after his death. His wife,
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  filled with venom and accuses it of being the Enemy of man and of metals. Nothing is more
  true; so much so that others reproach our subject to contain a frightful poison whose very

The Epistle of James, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? 2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not. 3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences. 4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the Enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you? 6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
  7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.

the Eternal Wisdom, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  13) When I return upon myself and find the heart upright, although my adversaries may be a thousand or ten thousand, I would march without fear on the Enemy. ~ Meng-Tse
  14) The man full of uprightness is happy here below, sweet is his sleep by night and by day his heart is radiant with peace. ~ Buddhist Text
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  13) Above all things avoid heedlessness; it is the Enemy of all virtues. ~ Fo-shu-hiug-tsan-king
  14) The demons become his companions who abandons himself to heedlessness. ~ Fo-shu-hiug-tsan-king
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  9) Who is the Enemy? Lack of energy. ~ The Jewel-wreath of Questions and Answers
  10) Nothing is more dangerous for man than negligence. ~ Mahabharata
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  27) Thus little by little the Enemy invades the soul, if it is not resisted from the beginning. ~ Imitation of Christ
  28) By what is man impelled to act sin, though not willing it, as if brought to it by force? It is desire it is wrath born of the principle of passion, a mighty and devouring and evil thing; know this for the Enemy. Eternal enemy of the sage, in the form of desire it obscures his knowledge and is an insatiable fire. The senses are supreme in the body, above the senses is the mind, higher than the mind is the understanding and higher than the understanding the spiritual Self. Know then that which is higher than the understanding, by the self control thyself and slay this difficult enemy, desire. ~ Bhagavad Gita III. 36. 37. 39. 42. 43
  29) Know that all this is so, but habituate thyself to surmount and conquer thy passions. ~ Pythagoras

The Gospel According to Luke, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the Enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
  Praise of the Father

The Gospel According to Matthew, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
  36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." 37 He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; 38 the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the Enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. 41 The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, 42 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
  44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 46 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. 47 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; 48 when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. 49 So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, 50 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. 51 "Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes."

The Pilgrims Progress, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Then Faithful began to answer, that he had only set himself against that which hath set itself against Him that is higher than the highest. And, said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace; the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better. And as to the king you talk of, since he is Beelzebub, the Enemy of our Lord, I defy him and all his angels.
  {229} Then proclamation was made, that they that had aught to say for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear and give in their evidence. So there came in three witnesses, to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank. They were then asked if they knew the prisoner at the bar; and what they had to say for their lord the king against him.
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  3. It begetteth and continueth in the soul a great reverence of God, his Word, and ways, keeping it tender, and making it afraid to turn from them, to the right hand or to the left, to anything that may dishonour God, break its peace, grieve the Spirit, or cause the Enemy to speak reproachfully.
  HOPE. Well said; I believe you have said the truth. Are we now almost got past the Enchanted Ground?
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  {393} Then I saw in my dream, that Christian was as in a muse a while. To whom also Hopeful added this word, Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole; and with that Christian brake out with a loud voice, Oh, I see him again! and he tells me, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." [Isa. 43:2] Then they both took courage, and the Enemy was after that as still as a stone, until they were gone over. Christian therefore presently found ground to stand upon, and so it followed that the rest of the river was but shallow. Thus they got over. Now, upon the bank of the river, on the other side, they saw the two shining men again, who there waited for them; wherefore, being come out of the river, they saluted them, saying, We are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those that shall be heirs of salvation. Thus they went along towards the gate.
  {394} Now you must note that the city stood upon a mighty hill, but the Pilgrims went up that hill with ease, because they had these two men to lead them up by the arms; also, they had left their mortal garments behind them in the river, for though they went in with them, they came out without them. They, therefore, went up here with much agility and speed, though the foundation upon which the city was framed was higher than the clouds. They therefore went up through the regions of the air, sweetly talking as they went, being comforted, because they safely got over the river, and had such glorious companions to attend them.

The Waiting, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
  162assumption of the Enemy's name might be an astute maneuver.
  Mr. Villari, at first, did not leave the house; after a few weeks, he took

Thus Spoke Zarathustra text, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  commandment to hate the Enemy but had even been
  pointedly extended to include him-but with that comfortable state of mind which makes things easy for itself while

Timaeus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  As in the Republic, Plato is still the Enemy of the purgative treatment of physicians, which, except in extreme cases, no man of sense will ever adopt. For, as he adds, with an insight into the truth, 'every disease is akin to the nature of the living being and is only irritated by stimulants.' He is of opinion that nature should be left to herself, and is inclined to think that physicians are in vain (Lawswhere he says that warm baths would be more beneficial to the limbs of the aged rustic than the prescriptions of a not over-wise doctor). If he seems to be extreme in his condemnation of medicine and to rely too much on diet and exercise, he might appeal to nearly all the best physicians of our own age in support of his opinions, who often speak to their patients of the worthlessness of drugs. For we ourselves are sceptical about medicine, and very unwilling to submit to the purgative treatment of physicians. May we not claim for Plato an anticipation of modern ideas as about some questions of astronomy and physics, so also about medicine? As in the Charmides he tells us that the body cannot be cured without the soul, so in the Timaeus he strongly asserts the sympathy of soul and body; any defect of either is the occasion of the greatest discord and disproportion in the other. Here too may be a presentiment that in the medicine of the future the interdependence of mind and body will be more fully recognized, and that the influence of the one over the other may be exerted in a manner which is not now thought possible.
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Fushigi Yuugi -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Fantasy Magic Martial Arts Comedy Romance Historical Drama Shoujo -- Fushigi Yuugi Fushigi Yuugi -- While visiting the National Library, junior-high students Miaka Yuuki and Yui Hongo are transported into the world of a mysterious book set in ancient China, "The Universe of The Four Gods." Miaka suddenly finds herself with the responsibility of being the priestess of Suzaku, and must find all of her celestial warriors for the purpose of summoning Suzaku for three wishes; however, the enemy nation of the god Seiryuu has manipulated Yui into becoming the priestess of Seiryuu. As enemies, the former best friends begin their long struggle to summon their respective gods and obtain their wishes... -- -- 99,049 7.64
Fushigi Yuugi -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Fantasy Magic Martial Arts Comedy Romance Historical Drama Shoujo -- Fushigi Yuugi Fushigi Yuugi -- While visiting the National Library, junior-high students Miaka Yuuki and Yui Hongo are transported into the world of a mysterious book set in ancient China, "The Universe of The Four Gods." Miaka suddenly finds herself with the responsibility of being the priestess of Suzaku, and must find all of her celestial warriors for the purpose of summoning Suzaku for three wishes; however, the enemy nation of the god Seiryuu has manipulated Yui into becoming the priestess of Seiryuu. As enemies, the former best friends begin their long struggle to summon their respective gods and obtain their wishes... -- -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA, Media Blasters -- 99,049 7.64
Gate Keepers -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Game -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Fantasy Mecha Shounen -- Gate Keepers Gate Keepers -- Technology, science, and industry—this is 1969 Tokyo, and there is no better time to be alive! But a shadow looms quietly around every corner: "Invaders" have infiltrated the populace, and nobody knows who or what they are. -- -- Only the members of the top-secret agency AEGIS know of their existence. Covertly fighting the enemy is their job, but only those with the ability to open "Gates" to another world can truly defeat them. Within AEGIS is a specialized task force known as the "Gate Keepers." Composed of extraordinary individuals with a variety of Gate-related abilities, they are the only ones who can save humanity from the vicious Invaders plaguing the planet. -- -- Shun Ukiya is an average high school student who lives with his widowed mother and little sister. While on his way home from school one day, he comes across a group of Invaders heading toward his house. In a desperate plight to save his family, Shun discovers he possesses the ability to open a Gate, allowing him to harness massive amounts of energy. With his newfound ability exposed, he catches the attention of AEGIS, and particularly the interest of one of its Gate Keepers, Shun's childhood friend Ruriko Ikusawa. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Apr 3, 2000 -- 19,578 6.95
Gate Keepers -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Game -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Fantasy Mecha Shounen -- Gate Keepers Gate Keepers -- Technology, science, and industry—this is 1969 Tokyo, and there is no better time to be alive! But a shadow looms quietly around every corner: "Invaders" have infiltrated the populace, and nobody knows who or what they are. -- -- Only the members of the top-secret agency AEGIS know of their existence. Covertly fighting the enemy is their job, but only those with the ability to open "Gates" to another world can truly defeat them. Within AEGIS is a specialized task force known as the "Gate Keepers." Composed of extraordinary individuals with a variety of Gate-related abilities, they are the only ones who can save humanity from the vicious Invaders plaguing the planet. -- -- Shun Ukiya is an average high school student who lives with his widowed mother and little sister. While on his way home from school one day, he comes across a group of Invaders heading toward his house. In a desperate plight to save his family, Shun discovers he possesses the ability to open a Gate, allowing him to harness massive amounts of energy. With his newfound ability exposed, he catches the attention of AEGIS, and particularly the interest of one of its Gate Keepers, Shun's childhood friend Ruriko Ikusawa. -- -- TV - Apr 3, 2000 -- 19,578 6.95
Ged Senki -- -- Studio Ghibli -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Adventure Magic Fantasy -- Ged Senki Ged Senki -- Calamities are plaguing the land of Earthsea and dragons have been seen fighting above the clouds—something which has never happened before. Sparrowhawk, a powerful Archmage, sets out to uncover the mystery behind these concerning events and meets Prince Arren along the way. Arren is the fugitive heir to the Kingdom of Enlad and a seemingly quiet and distressed lad. Wandering aimlessly in an attempt to escape the dark presence haunting him, he decides to tag along Sparrowhawk on his journey. -- -- However, their arrival in the seaside settlement of Hort Town is met with unexpected trouble—Lord Cob, a powerful evil wizard obsessed with eternal life, stands in their way. Forced to confront him, the pair joins forces with Tenar—an old friend of Sparrowhawk—and Therru, the ill-fated orphan girl she took in. But the enemy's cunning hobby of manipulating emotions may just prove to be catastrophic for the young prince. -- -- Set in a magical world, Ged Senki goes beyond the classical battle between the forces of good and evil, as it explores the inner battles of the heart. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Walt Disney Studios -- Movie - Jul 29, 2006 -- 111,570 6.92
Ged Senki -- -- Studio Ghibli -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Adventure Magic Fantasy -- Ged Senki Ged Senki -- Calamities are plaguing the land of Earthsea and dragons have been seen fighting above the clouds—something which has never happened before. Sparrowhawk, a powerful Archmage, sets out to uncover the mystery behind these concerning events and meets Prince Arren along the way. Arren is the fugitive heir to the Kingdom of Enlad and a seemingly quiet and distressed lad. Wandering aimlessly in an attempt to escape the dark presence haunting him, he decides to tag along Sparrowhawk on his journey. -- -- However, their arrival in the seaside settlement of Hort Town is met with unexpected trouble—Lord Cob, a powerful evil wizard obsessed with eternal life, stands in their way. Forced to confront him, the pair joins forces with Tenar—an old friend of Sparrowhawk—and Therru, the ill-fated orphan girl she took in. But the enemy's cunning hobby of manipulating emotions may just prove to be catastrophic for the young prince. -- -- Set in a magical world, Ged Senki goes beyond the classical battle between the forces of good and evil, as it explores the inner battles of the heart. -- -- Movie - Jul 29, 2006 -- 111,570 6.92
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai -- -- Artland, Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai -- Four months before Count von Lohengramm of the Galactic Empire faced Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance at the Battle of Astarte, he was still just Reinhard von Müsel. The youngest admiral in the Empire's history, Reinhard was disdained and dismissed by his peers as the brother of the Kaiser's concubine. -- -- Upon arriving at Iserlohn Fortress with his expeditionary fleet, Reinhard immediately receives an order from the ambitious and cunning Fleet Admiral Gregor von Mückenberger: to intercept an Alliance fleet in a neighboring starzone. Despite recognizing this as a veiled attempt to get him killed in combat, Reinhard nevertheless orders his tired and weary men to engage the enemy in the atmosphere of the gas giant Legnica. But unbeknownst to him, this will mark the first of his many historic encounters with the Hero of El Facil. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Feb 6, 1988 -- 30,991 7.94
Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Shounen -- Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- Gintoki and his Yorozuya friends (or rather, employees suffering under labor violations), Shinpachi and Kagura, continue to scrape by in the futuristic, alien-infested city of Edo. They take on whatever work they can find while trying not to get involved in anything too dangerous. But when Katsura, the leader of the Joui rebels and Gintoki's long-time acquaintance, disappears after being brutally attacked by an unknown assassin, Shinpachi and Kagura begin an investigation into his whereabouts and the identity of the assailant. Meanwhile, Gintoki takes on a seemingly unrelated job: the blacksmith Tetsuya requests that Gin recover a strange and powerful sword called the Benizakura which was recently stolen. -- -- As the two investigations gradually intersect, the Yorozuya crew find themselves in the midst of a major conspiracy that hinges on the sinister nature of the Benizakura sword. Gintoki resolves to take the fight directly to the enemy headquarters, and together with a few unexpected allies, sets out on one of his most perilous jobs yet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Apr 24, 2010 -- 121,059 8.52
Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Shounen -- Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- Gintoki and his Yorozuya friends (or rather, employees suffering under labor violations), Shinpachi and Kagura, continue to scrape by in the futuristic, alien-infested city of Edo. They take on whatever work they can find while trying not to get involved in anything too dangerous. But when Katsura, the leader of the Joui rebels and Gintoki's long-time acquaintance, disappears after being brutally attacked by an unknown assassin, Shinpachi and Kagura begin an investigation into his whereabouts and the identity of the assailant. Meanwhile, Gintoki takes on a seemingly unrelated job: the blacksmith Tetsuya requests that Gin recover a strange and powerful sword called the Benizakura which was recently stolen. -- -- As the two investigations gradually intersect, the Yorozuya crew find themselves in the midst of a major conspiracy that hinges on the sinister nature of the Benizakura sword. Gintoki resolves to take the fight directly to the enemy headquarters, and together with a few unexpected allies, sets out on one of his most perilous jobs yet. -- -- Movie - Apr 24, 2010 -- 121,059 8.52
God Eater Prologue -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Fantasy Military Sci-Fi -- God Eater Prologue God Eater Prologue -- Driven to the verge of extinction by "Aragami," a race of all-devouring monsters, humanity makes its last stand in isolated points of resistance. Invulnerable to conventional damage, only "Oracle Cell" weapons—composed of the same matter which makes up Aragami—can kill these creatures. -- -- However, due to their god-like ability to adapt, the Aragami soon develop further immunity. Having no other hope of fending off the enemy, the remnants of human governments decide to detonate a nuclear reactor and wipe out the monsters facing Eurasia. -- -- The soldiers tasked with this mission are aided by three "God Eaters" dispatched from the Fenrir Far East Branch, an organization controlling what remains of Japan. The state-of-the-art weapons they wield, called God Arcs, are supposedly capable of piercing through Aragami skin and tearing their cores out, pulverizing the monsters. These mighty warriors may just be humanity's last hope of fending off the Aragami threat and averting total extinction. -- -- Special - Sep 28, 2009 -- 31,718 6.68
Happiness Charge Precure! -- -- Toei Animation -- 49 eps -- Original -- Action Magic Fantasy Shoujo -- Happiness Charge Precure! Happiness Charge Precure! -- Some time ago, the opening of a box known as the "Axia" set loose the previously sealed members of the Phantom Empire into the world. Rising to protect humanity from these spiteful villains are warriors known as the Precure, whose heroic feats have garnered them celebrity status on television screens across the globe. -- -- Hime Shirayuki, princess of the kingdom where the Axia was originally held, is one such warrior who transforms into "Cure Princess" to battle monsters summoned by the Empire. However, Hime's timid personality often hampers her success in fending off the enemy. Frustrated with her hard luck and determined to find a Precure partner, Hime befriends Megumi Aino, a happy-go-lucky teenager. When a general of the Phantom Empire appears, Hime fails to do much in the face of his attacks. Intent on protecting her new friend, Megumi ignites her hidden potential—transforming into "Cure Lovely." -- -- With their sights set on protecting the world, Megumi and Hime form a new Precure team known as the "Happiness Charge Precure" whilst embarking on a journey to discover true love. -- -- TV - Feb 2, 2014 -- 9,181 6.77
Heartcatch Precure! -- -- Toei Animation -- 49 eps -- Original -- Action Slice of Life Comedy Magic Fantasy School Shoujo -- Heartcatch Precure! Heartcatch Precure! -- Young flower enthusiast Tsubomi Hanasaki is often modest and quiet. But with her family moving to a new town, she aims to reinvent her image at her new school as someone more confident and outgoing. On moving day, she dreams of a mysterious tree in the sky guarded by a warrior named "Cure Moonlight." -- -- Tsubomi quickly learns that this was no ordinary dream when she encounters two mysterious fairies—Chypre and Coffret—who are being hunted down by a strange woman. When the woman summons a giant monster to attack the city, Tsubomi finds herself transforming into a warrior to fight the enemy! Taking on the alias "Cure Blossom," Tsubomi learns that the woman is part of a villainous group that aims to turn the world into a lifeless desert, with her new duty being to stop it from happening. As Tsubomi continues to battle more monsters and uncover the secrets behind Cure Moonlight, will she find the confidence needed to overcome her timid nature? -- -- 24,687 7.78
Hi no Tori -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Historical Supernatural Drama -- Hi no Tori Hi no Tori -- From prehistoric times to the distant future, Hi no Tori portrays how the legendary immortal bird Phoenix acts as a witness and chronicler for the history of mankind's endless struggle in search of power, justice, and freedom. -- -- The Dawn -- Since time immemorial, people have sought out the legendary Phoenix for its blood, which is known to grant eternal life. Hearing about rumored Phoenix sightings in the Land of Fire, Himiko—the cruel queen of Yamatai obsessed with immortality—sends her army to conquer the nation and retrieve the creature. Young Nagi, his elder sister Hinaku, and her foreign husband Guzuri are the only survivors of the slaughter. But while Nagi is taken prisoner by the enemy, elsewhere, Hinaku has a shocking revelation. -- -- The Resurrection -- In a distant future where Earth has become uninhabitable, Leona undergoes surgery on a space station to recover from a deadly accident. However, while also suffering from amnesia, his brain is now half cybernetic and causes him to see people as formless scraps and robots as humans. Falling in love with Chihiro, a discarded robot, they escape together from the space station to prevent Chihiro from being destroyed. Yet as his lost memories gradually return, Leona will have to confront the painful truth about his past. -- -- The Transformation -- Yearning for independence, Sakon no Suke—the only daughter of a tyrant ruler—kills priestess Yao Bikuni, the sole person capable of curing her father's illness. Consequently, she and her faithful servant, Kahei, are unexpectedly confined to the temple grounds of Bikuni's sanctuary. While searching for a way out, Sakon no Suke assumes the priestess's position and uses a miraculous feather to heal all those reaching out for help. -- -- The Sun -- After his faction loses the war, Prince Harima's head is replaced with a wolf's. An old medicine woman who recognizes his bloodline assists him and the wounded General Azumi-no-muraji Saruta in escaping to Wah Land. But their arrival at a small Wah village is met with unexpected trouble as Houben, a powerful Buddhist monk, wants Harima dead. With the aid of the Ku clan wolf gods that protect the village's surroundings, he survives the murder attempt. After tensions settle, Saruta uses his established reputation in Wah to persuade the villagers to welcome Harima into their community. Over a period of time, Harima becomes the village's respected leader under the name Inugami no Sukune. But while the young prince adapts to his new role, he must remain vigilant as new dangers soon arise and threaten his recently acquired tranquility. -- -- The Future -- Life on Earth has gradually ceased to exist, with the survivors taking refuge in underground cities. To avoid human extinction, Doctor Saruta unsuccessfully tries to recreate life in his laboratory. However, the unexpected visit of Masato Yamanobe, his alien girlfriend Tamami, and his colleague Rock Holmes reveals a disturbing crisis: the computers that regulate the subterranean cities have initiated a nuclear war that will eliminate all of mankind. -- -- TV - Mar 21, 2004 -- 7,595 7.10
Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Adventure Martial Arts -- Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen -- Kenshiro is the heir of the legendary martial arts known as Hokuto Shinken, which can kill a man with a single blow, by striking the pressure points in the enemy's body. Hokuto Shinken can be passed only to one successor at a time. When he was chosen as the successor, he parted ways with his brothers, Toki and Raoh. The former decided to use what he knew of the art to cure people... while the latter has chosen to use his supreme strength to install peace in the world by power. -- Kenshiro is accompanied by Lynn and Bart, and the movie's story begins when an overlord starts kidnapping children to use them as slaves for building his own pyramid... -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Mar 11, 2006 -- 9,495 7.47
Hundred -- -- Production IMS -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Sci-Fi Harem Romance Ecchi Mecha School -- Hundred Hundred -- When an extraterrestrial organism known as "Savage" attacks mankind, the only technology capable of combating the enemy is a weapon known as “Hundred.” A survivor of a Savage attack, Hayato Kisaragi is a teenager boasting the highest compatibility level with the aforementioned technology and as a result, is invited to master his skills at Little Garden, a prestigious military academy aboard a battleship. -- -- Over the course of his intense training for the battle ahead, he immediately attracts the interest of multiple female peers and gets drawn into a number of incidents as he tries to fight against the creatures that now inhabit Earth and threaten its safety. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 284,732 6.35
Kikou Senki Dragonar -- -- Sunrise -- 48 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space Mecha -- Kikou Senki Dragonar Kikou Senki Dragonar -- A.D. 2087 - the United Lunar Empire Giganos wages war on the Earth Federation Military to take control of the planet and establish a "rebirth" of the human race. During an invasion of a colony by Giganos' forces, three civilian men stumble upon a trio of top-secret Metal Armor units called "Dragonars" and pilot them to combat the enemy forces. -- TV - Feb 7, 1987 -- 4,192 6.66
K: Missing Kings -- -- GoHands -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Super Power Supernatural -- K: Missing Kings K: Missing Kings -- It's been a year since the disappearance of Shiro, the Silver King; Kurou Yatogami and Neko have been diligent in their search, but to no end. Their investigation leads to a run-in with members of the now disbanded Red Clan HOMRA—Rikio Kamamoto and Anna Kushina—being pursued by the Green Clan, who desire Anna's powers for their own ends. -- -- Now, the members of Scepter 4 are called upon alongside Kurou and Neko in order to rescue Anna, the mascot, and only female member of the ruined Red Clan, from the enemy's clutches and hopefully find Shiro using the young girl's powers. Amidst crisis, the group is forced into a power struggle when the Green Clan threatens to overtake the Gold King's domain. -- -- The second step in the K Project series, K: Missing Kings, continues the story of a young boy caught up in a psychic war between seven kings, and showcases each character's struggles after the losses of their respective Kings. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Jul 12, 2014 -- 212,576 7.69
K: Missing Kings -- -- GoHands -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Super Power Supernatural -- K: Missing Kings K: Missing Kings -- It's been a year since the disappearance of Shiro, the Silver King; Kurou Yatogami and Neko have been diligent in their search, but to no end. Their investigation leads to a run-in with members of the now disbanded Red Clan HOMRA—Rikio Kamamoto and Anna Kushina—being pursued by the Green Clan, who desire Anna's powers for their own ends. -- -- Now, the members of Scepter 4 are called upon alongside Kurou and Neko in order to rescue Anna, the mascot, and only female member of the ruined Red Clan, from the enemy's clutches and hopefully find Shiro using the young girl's powers. Amidst crisis, the group is forced into a power struggle when the Green Clan threatens to overtake the Gold King's domain. -- -- The second step in the K Project series, K: Missing Kings, continues the story of a young boy caught up in a psychic war between seven kings, and showcases each character's struggles after the losses of their respective Kings. -- -- Movie - Jul 12, 2014 -- 212,576 7.69
Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Magic Military Seinen -- Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka -- Three years ago, a bloodthirsty race of interdimensional beings known as the Disas appeared and destroyed everything they could reach on Earth. With regular weapons rendered useless, humanity's only hope of survival relied on humans who became magical girls after forming an alliance with the Spirit Realm, who had followed the Disas to Earth. After a violent conflict, the squad of magical girls emerge victorious, with the survivors now known as the "Magical Five." -- -- Following the war with the Disas, the Magical Five disbands. Kurumi Mugen, Mia Cyrus, Tamara Volkova, and Lau Peipei independently continue their own military services, while their leader, Asuka Ootorii, retires and becomes a high school student. However, Asuka's peace is short-lived, as it seems there were survivors on the enemy's side as well. As magic must be fought with magic, Asuka is dragged back into combat as an even worse battle looms on the horizon. -- -- 64,447 6.34
Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Magic Military Seinen -- Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka -- Three years ago, a bloodthirsty race of interdimensional beings known as the Disas appeared and destroyed everything they could reach on Earth. With regular weapons rendered useless, humanity's only hope of survival relied on humans who became magical girls after forming an alliance with the Spirit Realm, who had followed the Disas to Earth. After a violent conflict, the squad of magical girls emerge victorious, with the survivors now known as the "Magical Five." -- -- Following the war with the Disas, the Magical Five disbands. Kurumi Mugen, Mia Cyrus, Tamara Volkova, and Lau Peipei independently continue their own military services, while their leader, Asuka Ootorii, retires and becomes a high school student. However, Asuka's peace is short-lived, as it seems there were survivors on the enemy's side as well. As magic must be fought with magic, Asuka is dragged back into combat as an even worse battle looms on the horizon. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 64,447 6.34
Micro Teukgongdae Diatron 5 -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Action Space Mecha Sci-Fi -- Micro Teukgongdae Diatron 5 Micro Teukgongdae Diatron 5 -- The plot focuses around a Cyborg woman named Ivy, who defends the entire universe from enemies with her built-in evil-sensing computers. The enemy infects her with a virus. Now the only one to save her is Diatron 5, the mecha shrunk down to microscopic size that goes in to fight the bacteria. Two kids, a battle station called the "Star Wars" and Diatron's inventor join her in the battle against evil. Evil being an androgynous woman named Mary, her brother with blue skin who looks suspiciously like Spock and their fleet of robots and forest green demon-like aliens. -- -- (Source: TV Tropes) -- Movie - Jul 20, 1985 -- 797 4.74
Military! -- -- Creators in Pack -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Ecchi Slice of Life Comedy Military Seinen -- Military! Military! -- The story takes place during a conflict between the Krakozhia Dukedom and the Grania Republic. In the midst of the fighting, a savior appears to the Krakozhia Dukedom, and it is a high school student named Yano Souhei. Two female soldiers, First Lieutenant Ruto and Second Lieutenant Haruka, appear in tanks to intrude on Souhei's everyday life, followed by the enemy soldier Shachirofu, all of whom use firearms without hesitation at his house. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 34,629 5.82
Mobile Suit Gundam -- -- Sunrise -- 43 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam -- It is year 0079 of the Universal Century. Mankind has moved to space, living in colony clusters known as "Sides." One of these Sides declares itself the "Principality of Zeon" and declares war on the Earth Federation, the governmental body currently ruling Earth. Using powerful humanoid robots known as "mobile suits," Zeon quickly gains the upper hand. -- -- Nine months into the conflict, the Earth Federation has developed its own powerful mobile suit called the Gundam. When Zeon launches an attack on the colony holding the Gundam, a 15-year-old civilian named Amuro Ray suddenly finds himself thrown into a conflict that will take him all across Earth and space, pitting him against the enemy's ace pilot, Char Aznable. -- -- 100,446 7.78
Mobile Suit Gundam -- -- Sunrise -- 43 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam -- It is year 0079 of the Universal Century. Mankind has moved to space, living in colony clusters known as "Sides." One of these Sides declares itself the "Principality of Zeon" and declares war on the Earth Federation, the governmental body currently ruling Earth. Using powerful humanoid robots known as "mobile suits," Zeon quickly gains the upper hand. -- -- Nine months into the conflict, the Earth Federation has developed its own powerful mobile suit called the Gundam. When Zeon launches an attack on the colony holding the Gundam, a 15-year-old civilian named Amuro Ray suddenly finds himself thrown into a conflict that will take him all across Earth and space, pitting him against the enemy's ace pilot, Char Aznable. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment -- 100,446 7.78
Naruto Movie 3: Dai Koufun! Mikazuki Jima no Animaru Panikku Dattebayo! -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure -- Naruto Movie 3: Dai Koufun! Mikazuki Jima no Animaru Panikku Dattebayo! Naruto Movie 3: Dai Koufun! Mikazuki Jima no Animaru Panikku Dattebayo! -- Led by Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Rock Lee are tasked to escort the extravagant Prince Michiru Tsuki and his spoiled son Hikaru to the prosperous Land of Moon when the two return from a long trip around the world. As if guarding two whimsical high-ranked individuals was not challenging enough, the prince's reckless decision to acquire an entire circus during their journey—mainly to entertain Hikaru's wish of owning the saber-toothed tiger featured in the show—further propels the mission into disarray. -- -- Just as things are finally settling down, the arrival of Michiru's convoy at the Land of Moon is met with an unforeseen crisis—the greedy Chief Minister Shabadaba has taken over the country with the assistance of mysterious, powerful ninjas. While Kakashi's team relentlessly fights the enemy by any means necessary, the two princes are forced to confront a new outlook on life through adversity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Aug 5, 2006 -- 158,895 6.89
Princess Principal -- -- Actas, Studio 3Hz -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Historical -- Princess Principal Princess Principal -- In the early 20th century, the discovery of the substance Cavorite allowed the production of advanced military technology and steered the country toward conflict. London is now divided by a wall, and the Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Albion battle a silent war where espionage is the only weapon that can destabilize the enemy. A group of girls from the prestigious Queen's Mayfaire school work as undercover spies for the Commonwealth. -- -- Led by Dorothy, an experienced driver with a striking personality, their group includes the talents of Ange le Carré, a cold-blooded liar and expert sharpshooter; Chise, a proficient samurai; and Beatrice, a voice-mimicking specialist. They use their unique individual skills for the Commonwealth to survive in a dark world filled with conspiracy, mystery, and infiltration. In the shadow of the war, they have only one goal in mind: completing their mission. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 159,821 7.72
Pumpkin Scissors -- -- AIC, Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Drama Military -- Pumpkin Scissors Pumpkin Scissors -- Three years ago, the long war between the Royal Empire and the Republic of Frost came to an end. With both nations a long way from recovery, a passionate young woman named Alice L. Malvin leads the Pumpkin Scissors, a unit of the imperial army specializing in war relief. -- -- During a mission to assist a village occupied by renegade soldiers, Alice meets Randal Oland, a scarred former soldier with a sordid past and kind heart. Encouraged by the efforts of the Pumpkin Scissors, he joins the team on their mission. During the assault, however, Randal enters a trance-like state prompted by a mysterious blue lantern. As a result, he acquires monstrous strength and decimates the enemy forces. -- -- Despite having witnessed Randal's disturbing transformation, Alice invites him to join her squandrant, confident that his gentle nature will prevail and make him a perfect fit for the Pumpkin Scissors. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 36,200 7.18
Sakura Taisen -- -- Madhouse -- 25 eps -- Game -- Adventure Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen -- Sakura Taisen Sakura Taisen -- Sakura travels to the capital with aspirations of defending the city from the demonic forces of the Black Sanctum Council like her father before her. However, things are not as she imagined as in addition to using her great spiritual energy to pilot a mech called a Kobu, she must also perform on stage as an actor as The Imperial Flower Division's cover is an art theater. Making a fool of herself and ruining a production gets her on everyone's bad side and somehow she must learn to work with them as well as prevent the enemy from destroying several shrines which protect the city. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 20,073 6.88
Sakura Taisen -- -- Madhouse -- 25 eps -- Game -- Adventure Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen -- Sakura Taisen Sakura Taisen -- Sakura travels to the capital with aspirations of defending the city from the demonic forces of the Black Sanctum Council like her father before her. However, things are not as she imagined as in addition to using her great spiritual energy to pilot a mech called a Kobu, she must also perform on stage as an actor as The Imperial Flower Division's cover is an art theater. Making a fool of herself and ruining a production gets her on everyone's bad side and somehow she must learn to work with them as well as prevent the enemy from destroying several shrines which protect the city. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- 20,073 6.88
Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 -- -- Wit Studio -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Fantasy Military Mystery Shounen Super Power -- Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 -- Seeking to restore humanity's diminishing hope, the Survey Corps embark on a mission to retake Wall Maria, where the battle against the merciless "Titans" takes the stage once again. -- -- Returning to the tattered Shiganshina District that was once his home, Eren Yeager and the Corps find the town oddly unoccupied by Titans. Even after the outer gate is plugged, they strangely encounter no opposition. The mission progresses smoothly until Armin Arlert, highly suspicious of the enemy's absence, discovers distressing signs of a potential scheme against them. -- -- Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 follows Eren as he vows to take back everything that was once his. Alongside him, the Survey Corps strive—through countless sacrifices—to carve a path towards victory and uncover the secrets locked away in the Yeager family's basement. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,244,399 9.11
Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst -- -- Production IMS -- 10 eps -- Light novel -- Action Ecchi Fantasy Romance Harem Demons -- Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst -- Basara Toujou has a hard life. He is the older step-brother to two demonic sisters, Mio and Maria Naruse, whom he protects from entitled demons looking to claim Mio's power for themselves. On top of that, rising political tension within the demon realm only makes his job more difficult. -- -- When a messenger arrives with summons for Mio to the demon realm, she and her friends go in spite of the danger. Now on the enemy's turf, Basara will have to grow stronger through erotic pleasure in order to do the impossible and protect everyone. -- -- 293,205 6.88
Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst -- -- Production IMS -- 10 eps -- Light novel -- Action Ecchi Fantasy Romance Harem Demons -- Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst -- Basara Toujou has a hard life. He is the older step-brother to two demonic sisters, Mio and Maria Naruse, whom he protects from entitled demons looking to claim Mio's power for themselves. On top of that, rising political tension within the demon realm only makes his job more difficult. -- -- When a messenger arrives with summons for Mio to the demon realm, she and her friends go in spite of the danger. Now on the enemy's turf, Basara will have to grow stronger through erotic pleasure in order to do the impossible and protect everyone. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 293,205 6.88
Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo Super Power -- Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear -- Due to her father's remarriage, robust 16-year-old Himeno Awayuki moves into a large mansion with a beautiful garden—the quintessential dream house for any girl her age. However, much to Himeno's disappointment, her new stepfamily doesn't really seem to like her, as her stepmother often occupies herself with her father, her younger stepsister Mawata ignores her, and her other stepsister—the equally aged Mayune—tries to prank her at every opportunity. -- -- But Himeno doesn't have time to dwell into thoughts of hopelessness—her new life has now become involved with a group of seven magical boys known as the Leafe Knights, after they ask her to become a magical princess who can borrow their powers! Although Himeno accepts their request and becomes the Prétear, she feels doubtful in her abilities to protect the world and its Leafe, the source of energy for all life. Will Himeno be able to find happiness among her new family and also save the Earth from the enemy, the Princess of Disaster? -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 54,536 7.19
Sora no Momotarou -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Military Adventure Comedy -- Sora no Momotarou Sora no Momotarou -- Momotaro has been requested to fight off the Wild Eagle enemy which has suddenly appeared. He takes to the skies in his airplane, accompanied by a dog, a monkey , and a pheasant, and heads for an island some 10,000 kilometers away. One of the island people promises to prepare the two refuels that the plane requires during its flight to the island. The first refuel will be found on a giant tortoise shell, and the second is a refuel station especially positioned on the back of a whale which will come to surface. Momotaro's plane is attacked by the Wild Eagle out of the blue as it approaches the island, but after an exciting dogfight in the air, he successfully fights off the enemy. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Oct 1, 1931 -- 1,073 5.14
Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program -- -- Production I.G, Xebec -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program Soukyuu no Fafner: Right of Left - Single Program -- Yumi Ikoma and Ryou Masaoka are children who have been selected to take part in a top secret mission, to be the pilots of the first Fafner combat units; the last chance of survival for the human race. The enemy is ruthless, remorseless and is able to read the minds of humans. Therefore, the details of this mission are kept a secret even from the personnel involved. The young pilots must use all their courage and faith in order to survive and complete their mission or the fate of mankind would be compromised. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Dec 30, 2005 -- 13,314 7.40
Strike Witches Movie -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Ecchi Magic Military Sci-Fi -- Strike Witches Movie Strike Witches Movie -- After fending off the threat of a Neuroi invasion of Romagna and destroying the enemy's nest over Venezia, Yoshika Miyafuji goes back to her home town in the Empire of Fusou. Despite the loss of her magical and healing abilities, the former officer of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing wants to continue studying medicine. This is in order to help those in need, both civilians and those on the front lines alike. She receives an invitation from a prestigious school in Europe and decides to accept the offer, embarking on a journey back to the war-torn continent. -- -- However, a new danger arises, as more and more Neuroi manage to break through human defense lines, appearing unnoticed in supposedly safe areas and disturbing the balance of power in Europe. Yoshiki's sense of duty collides with her inability to pilot a Striker Unit, but with her friends in peril, it seems that there is only one thing she can do. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Mar 17, 2012 -- 36,450 7.60
Strike Witches: Road to Berlin -- -- David Production -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Magic Ecchi -- Strike Witches: Road to Berlin Strike Witches: Road to Berlin -- Preparations for a new offensive against the Neuroi—a mysterious race of alien invaders—are well underway. The objective is securing Berlin, the capital city of the Empire of Karlsland, which is necessary for wiping out the Neuroi threat from Europe. However, as the enemy is capable of adapting to the battlefield on a daily basis, the allied forces and the current state of Striker technology might not be enough to achieve a victory. -- -- Meanwhile, Yoshika Miyafuji, a Witch from Fuso, continues her medical studies in Lausanne. Having recovered from a recent incident that deprived her of magical power, she is eager to assist in the war effort. The call to arms soon arrives and the scattered witches of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing must be gathered once again for a final push against the enemy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 16,634 7.30
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal Second -- -- Gallop -- 73 eps -- Manga -- Action Game Fantasy Shounen -- Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal Second Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal Second -- After defeating a mysterious enemy, Yuuma Tsukumo, along with the help of Kaito Tenjou and Ryouga "Shark" Kamishiro, has thwarted the Barians' plans. However, Yuuma is still on a quest to retrieve the Number Cards to restore Astral's memories. The Seven Barian Emperors catch wind of Yuuma and Astral's endeavors and begin to collect the cards themselves to achieve their ultimate goal: destroying Astral's world in exchange for saving their own. -- -- Though only five of the emperors are present, they unanimously decide on annihilating Astral and Yuuma once and for all. Elsewhere, with their newfound powers of ZEXAL, Astral and Yuuma work to eliminate the enemy force that threatens Earth and the rest of the universe. -- -- Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal Second unveils the mysteries and unpleasant surprises that lie in the wake of Yuuma's adversities. As Astral struggles to accept his past and the consequences it may have brought, will the gods continue to shower their fortune upon Yuuma on yet another perilous adventure? -- -- TV - Oct 7, 2012 -- 29,166 6.84
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