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1:Be Quiet (Silent)!Attend to the purpose for which you came! ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

2:The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. ~ Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings ,

3:Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase practice makes perfect. ~ ,

4:Each thing in Nature endures till the purpose of Kali in it is fulfilled; then it is dissolved and changed into a constituent of some other harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad,

5:It may be the final truth that there is nothing but God, but for the purposes of life we have to recognise that there is a dualism in the underlying unity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin Facts and Opinions,

6:It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg,

7:The body is not only the necessary outer instrument of the physical part of action, but for the purposes of this life a base or pedestal also for all inner action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 4.14 - The Power of the Instruments,

8:The purpose and law of the birth-series is for the soul in the body to rise from plane to plane and substitute always the rule of the higher for the rule of the lower play even down to the material field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga 2.24 - Gnosis and Ananda,

9:A single thinker in an aimless world Awaiting some tremendous dawn of God, He saw the purpose in the works of Time. Even in that aimlessness a work was done Pregnant with magic will and change divine. The first writhings of the cosmic serpent Force ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life,

10:I almost? had some slight existential crisis, cause I was trying to figure out what does it all mean? what is the purpose of things? I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness then were better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and thats really the only way forward ~ Elon Musk,

11:How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know what the purpose of it was. If it was attaining worldly ends and securing its vanities, and acquiring its dignities, and surpassing your contemporaries, and such like, woe to you and again woe; but if your purpose in it was the vitalizing of the Law of the Prophet, and the training of your character, and breaking the soul commanding to evil, then blessed are you and again blessed. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,

12:"Savitri", the poem, the word of Sri Aurobindo is the cosmic Answer to the cosmic Question. And Savitri, the person, the Godhead, the Divine Woman is the Divine's response to the human aspiration.The world is a great question mark. It is a riddle, eternal and ever-recurring. Man has faced the riddle and sought to arrive at a solution since he was given a mind to seek and interrogate.What is this universe? From where has it come? Whither is it going? What is the purpose of it all? Why is man here? What is the object of his existence? ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, Savitri ,

13:Today's news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated evens of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for the purposes wither of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity's tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes. ~ R Buckminster Fuller,

14:You should not be tilted sideways, backwards, or forwards. You should be sitting straight up as if you were supporting the sky with your head. This is not just form or breathing. It expresses the key point of Buddhism. It is a perfect expression of your Buddha nature. If you want true understanding of Buddhism, you should practice this way. These forms are not a means of obtaining the right state of mind. To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice. When you have this posture, you have the right state of mind, so there is no need to try to attain some special state. When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. A Zen master would say, "Kill the Buddha!" Kill the Buddha if the Buddha exists somewhere else. Kill the Buddha, because you should resume your own Buddha nature. Doing something is expressing our own nature. We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves. This is the fundamental teaching expressed in the forms we observe. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginners Mind ,

15:Art is the human language of the nervous plane, intended to express and communicate the Divine, who in the domain of sensation manifests as beauty. The purpose of art is therefore to give those for whom it is meant a freer and more perfect communion with the Supreme Reality. The first contact with this Supreme Reality expresses itself in our consciousness by a flowering of the being in a plenitude of vast and peaceful delight. Each time that art can give the spectator this contact with the infinite, however fleetingly, it fulfils its aim; it has shown itself worthy of its mission. Thus no art which has for many centuries moved and delighted a people can be dismissed, since it has at least partially fulfilled its mission - to be the powerful and more or less perfect utterance of that which is to be expressed. What makes it difficult for the sensibility of a nation to enjoy the delight that another nation finds in one art or another is the habitual limitation of the nervous being which, even more than the mental being, is naturally exclusive in its ability to perceive the Divine and which, when it has entered into relation with Him through certain forms, feels an almost irresistible reluctance to recognise Him through other forms of sensation. ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago 122,

16:The third operation in any magical ceremony is the oath or proclamation. The Magician, armed and ready, stands in the centre of the Circle, and strikes once upon the bell as if to call the attention of the Universe. He then declares who he is, reciting his magical history by the proclamation of the grades which he has attained, giving the signs and words of those grades. He then states the purpose of the ceremony, and proves that it is necessary to perform it and to succeed in its performance. He then takes an oath before the Lord of the Universe (not before the particular Lord whom he is invoking) as if to call Him to witness the act. He swears solemnly that he will perform it-that nothing shall prevent him from performing it-that he will not leave the operation until it is successfully performed-and once again he strikes upon the bell. Yet, having demonstrated himself in that position at once infinitely lofty and infinitely unimportant, the instrument of destiny, he balances this by the Confession, in which there is again an infinite exaltation harmonised with an infinite humility. He admits himself to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a creature of circumstance utterly dependent-even for the breath of life-upon a series of fortunate accidents. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA ,

17:To see life steadily and see it whole is only permitted to a Perfect and Infinite Consciousness standing outside Time, Space and Conditions. To such a divine Vision the working out of preordainment may present itself as a perfect, immediate and unhindered consummation. God said, 'Let there be Light' and, straightway,there was Light; and when the Light came into being, God saw that it was good. But to the imperfect finite consciousness, Light seems in its inception to have come into being by a slow material evolution completed by a fortuitous shock of forces; in its operation to be lavished with a prodigal wastefulness since only a small part is used for the purposes of life; in its presentation to be conveyed to a blinking and limited vision, hampered by obstacles and chequered with darkness. Limitation, imperfection, progression and retrogression are inseparable from phenomenal work, phenomenal intelligence, phenomenal pleasure and satisfaction. To Brahman the Will who measures all Time in a moment, covers all Space with one stride, embraces the whole chain of causation in one glance, there is no limitation, imperfection, progression or retrogression. He looks upon his work as a whole and sees that it is good. But the Gods cannot reach to His completeness, even though they toil after it; for ever He outruns their pursuit, moving far in front. Brahman, standing still, overtakes and passes the others as they run. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad ,

18:How often there is a kind of emptiness in the course of life, an unoccupied moment, a few minutes, sometimes more. And what do you do? Immediately you try to distract yourself, and you invent some foolishness or other to pass your time. That is a common fact. All men, from the youngest to the oldest, spend most of their time in trying not to be bored. Their pet aversion is boredom and the way to escape from boredom is to act foolishly. Well, there is a better way than that - to remember. When you have a little time, whether it is one hour or a few minutes, tell yourself, "At last, I have some time to concentrate, to collect myself, to relive the purpose of my life, to offer myself to the True and the Eternal." If you took care to do this each time you are not harassed by outer circumstances, you would find out that you were advancing very quickly on the path. Instead of wasting your time in chattering, in doing useless things, reading things that lower the consciousness - to choose only the best cases, I am not speaking of other imbecilities which are much more serious - instead of trying to make yourself giddy, to make time, that is already so short, still shorter only to realise at the end of your life that you have lost three-quarters of your chance - then you want to put in double time, but that does not work - it is better to be moderate, balanced, patient, quiet, but never to lose an opportunity that is given to you, that is to say, to utilise for the true purpose the unoccupied moment before you. When you have nothing to do, you become restless, you run about, you meet friends, you take a walk, to speak only of the best; I am not referring to things that are obviously not to be done. Instead of that, sit down quietly before the sky, before the sea or under trees, whatever is possible (here you have all of them) and try to realise one of these things - to understand why you live, to learn how you must live, to ponder over what you want to do and what should be done, what is the best way of escaping from the ignorance and falsehood and pain in which you live. 16 May 1958 ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931 ,

19:reading ::: 50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered: Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954) St Augustine - Confessions (400) Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932) Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901) Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976) Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972) GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922) Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001) Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE) Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971) Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century) Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927) Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097) Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923) GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960) Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963) Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951) Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922) Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954) William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955) Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436) J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964) CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942) Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964) Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994) Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989) W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944) Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994) John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998) Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994) Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997) Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976) Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968) Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979) Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970) Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758) Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570) Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994) Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998) Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973) Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998) Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002) Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979) Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000) Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974) Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990) ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition) ,

20:This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge. A downpour of inwardly visible Light very usually envelops this action; for it must be noted that, contrary to our ordinary conceptions, light is not primarily a material creation and the sense or vision of light accompanying the inner illumination is not merely a subjective visual image or a symbolic phenomenon: light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy. There is also in this descent the arrival of a greater dynamic, a golden drive, a luminous enthousiasmos of inner force and power which replaces the comparatively slow and deliberate process of the Higher Mind by a swift, sometimes a vehement, almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation. But these two stages of the ascent enjoy their authority and can get their own united completeness only by a reference to a third level; for it is from the higher summits where dwells the intuitional being that they derive the knowledge which they turn into thought or sight and bring down to us for the mind's transmutation. Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude. ... Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of stable lightnings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine ,

21:Although a devout student of the Bible, Paracelsus instinctively adopted the broad patterns of essential learning, as these had been clarified by Pythagoras of Samos and Plato of Athens. Being by nature a mystic as well as a scientist, he also revealed a deep regard for the Neoplatonic philosophy as expounded by Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Neo­platonism is therefore an invaluable aid to the interpretation of the Paracelsian doctrine. Paracelsus held that true knowledge is attained in two ways, or rather that the pursuit of knowledge is advanced by a two-fold method, the elements of which are completely interdependent. In our present terminology, we can say that these two parts of method are intuition and experience. To Paracelsus, these could never be divided from each other. The purpose of intuition is to reveal certain basic ideas which must then be tested and proven by experience. Experience, in turn, not only justifies intuition, but contributes certain additional knowledge by which the impulse to further growth is strengthened and developed. Paracelsus regarded the separation of intuition and experience to be a disaster, leading inevitably to greater error and further disaster. Intuition without experience allows the mind to fall into an abyss of speculation without adequate censorship by practical means. Experience without intuition could never be fruitful because fruitfulness comes not merely from the doing of things, but from the overtones which stimulate creative thought. Further, experience is meaningless unless there is within man the power capable of evaluating happenings and occurrences. The absence of this evaluating factor allows the individual to pass through many kinds of experiences, either misinterpreting them or not inter­ preting them at all. So Paracelsus attempted to explain intuition and how man is able to apprehend that which is not obvious or apparent. Is it possible to prove beyond doubt that the human being is capable of an inward realization of truths or facts without the assistance of the so-called rational faculty? According to Paracelsus, intuition was possible because of the existence in nature of a mysterious substance or essence-a universal life force. He gave this many names, but for our purposes, the simplest term will be appropriate. He compared it to light, further reasoning that there are two kinds of light: a visible radiance, which he called brightness, and an invisible radiance, which he called darkness. There is no essential difference between light and darkness. There is a dark light, which appears luminous to the soul but cannot be sensed by the body. There is a visible radiance which seems bright to the senses, but may appear dark to the soul. We must recognize that Paracelsus considered light as pertaining to the nature of being, the total existence from which all separate existences arise. Light not only contains the energy needed to support visible creatures, and the whole broad expanse of creation, but the invisible part of light supports the secret powers and functions of man, particularly intuition. Intuition, therefore, relates to the capacity of the individual to become attuned to the hidden side of life. By light, then, Paracelsus implies much more than the radiance that comes from the sun, a lantern, or a candle. To him, light is the perfect symbol, emblem, or figure of total well-being. Light is the cause of health. Invisible light, no less real if unseen, is the cause of wisdom. As the light of the body gives strength and energy, sustaining growth and development, so the light of the soul bestows understanding, the light of the mind makes wisdom possible, and the light of the spirit confers truth. Therefore, truth, wisdom, understanding, and health are all manifesta­ tions or revelations ot one virtue or power. What health is to the body, morality is to the emotions, virtue to the soul, wisdom to the mind, and reality to the spirit. This total content of living values is contained in every ray of visible light. This ray is only a manifestation upon one level or plane of the total mystery of life. Therefore, when we look at a thing, we either see its objective, physical form, or we apprehend its inner light Everything that lives, lives in light; everything that has an existence, radiates light. All things derive their life from light, and this light, in its root, is life itself. This, indeed, is the light that lighteth every man who cometh into the world. ~ Manly P Hall, Paracelsus ,

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1:The purpose of labor is to learn; ~ Kabir,

2:The purpose exceeds the pain. ~ Beth Moore,

3:The purpose of life is Joy. ~ Esther Hicks,

4:Living is the purpose of life, ~ Ken Kesey,

5:The purpose of life is life. ~ Karl Lagerfeld,

6:The purpose of sound is silence. ~ Jill Purce,

7:The purpose of art is mystery. ~ Rene Magritte,

8:The purpose of art is to stop time. ~ Bob Dylan,

9:The purpose of it all is love. ~ Brandi Carlile,

10:The purpose of your life is Joy. ~ Esther Hicks,

11:The purpose of life is to be happy. ~ Dalai Lama,

12:A rule should suit the purpose. ~ W Edwards Deming,

13:The purpose of life is to remember. ~ Henry Miller,

14:The purpose of all wars, is peace. ~ Saint Augustine,

15:The purpose of art is delectation. ~ Nicolas Poussin,

16:The purpose of life is the lesson. ~ Shannon L Alder,

17:The purpose of life is to live it. ~ Clarence Darrow,

18:3. What is the purpose of our creation? ~ Harun Yahya,

19:The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ~ Dalai Lama,

20:The purpose of computers is human freedom. ~ Ted Nelson,

21:The purpose of power was to protect. ~ Jonathan Moeller,

22:The purpose of art is the fight for freedom. ~ Ai Weiwei,

23:The purpose of a system is what it does. ~ Stafford Beer,

24:The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Emily Giffin,

25:The purpose of our lives is to be happy ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

26:What is the purpose of budgeting? Most ~ James C Collins,

27:Life does exist. It's the purpose that count. ~ Toba Beta,

28:the purpose of life is a life of purpose ~ Robin S Sharma,

29:The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

30:the purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robin S Sharma,

31:true sermon exists for the purpose of leading ~ R A Torrey,

32:The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. ~ Pablo Picasso,

33:the purpose of life is the life of purpose ~ Robin S Sharma,

34:The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove. ~ Paul Erdos,

35:The purpose of the state is really freedom. ~ Baruch Spinoza,

36:The purpose of man is in action not thought. ~ Thomas Carlyle,

37:Born merely for the purpose of digestion. ~ Jean de la Bruyere,

38:I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God. ~ Al Gore,

39:The purpose of life afterall is to live it. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,

40:The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart. ~ Dalai Lama,

41:The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free. ~ Rollo May,

42:Money is the by-product, it is not the purpose. ~ Marcus Lemonis,

43:The purpose in life is to develop a strong character. ~ Socrates,

44:The purpose of a truce is to reload all weapons. ~ Morgan Blayde,

45:The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ~ T S Eliot,

46:The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character. ~ Yamada Koun,

47:Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose ~ William Shakespeare,

48:in time, he was able to see the purpose in his pain. ~ Jeff Goins,

49:The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. ~ Jim Carrey,

50:the purpose of death is the release of love. ~ Arianna Huffington,

51:The purpose of a business is to create a customer. ~ Peter Drucker,

52:The purpose of art is to provide what life does not. ~ Tom Robbins,

53:The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. ~ Deepak Chopra,

54:The purpose of life is the purpose we bring to it. ~ Bryant McGill,

55:The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

56:The purpose of research is to keep one’s advisor happy. ~ Anonymous,

57:The purpose of the path of devotion is just dissolution. ~ Sadhguru,

58:I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned ~ Alfred Tennyson,

59:The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. ~ Bernard Malamud,

60:The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,

61:I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. ~ Franz Schubert,

62:The purpose of society is to prevent natural behavior. ~ Lisa Kleypas,

63:I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned. ~ Alfred the Great,

64:Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes. ~ Stephen Batchelor,

65:Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is. ~ David O McKay,

66:The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. ~ Richard Wagner,

67:The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety. ~ Janusz Korwin Mikke,

68:The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures ~ Ben Shneiderman,

69:Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- ~ Leo Tolstoy,

70:Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ~ E Stanley Jones,

71:It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring. ~ Dean Koontz,

72:The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. ~ Frank Herbert,

73:The purpose of effort is to get rid of all efforts. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

74:The purpose of our life is to help others through it. ~ Peter Matthiessen,

75:The purpose of revolution is to abolish unnecessary suffering. ~ Ted Rall,

76:Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,

77:The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them. ~ David Gemmell,

78:The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. ~ Indira Gandhi,

79:The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents. ~ Warren Brown,

80:The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ~ Peter F Drucker,

81:The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way. ~ Ovid,

82:The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. ~ Henepola Gunaratana,

83:The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. ~ Wallace Stevens,

84:The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. ~ Josef Albers,

85:What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question. ~ Richard Dawkins,

86:I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love. ~ Laurie Anderson,

87:I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life ~ Narayanan Krishnan,

88:The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power. ~ Nick Drake,

89:The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved. ~ Frederick Lenz,

90:The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives. ~ Thomas Merton,

91:It’s not the work, but the purpose that makes it special. ~ William Paul Young,

92:The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment. ~ Tom DeMarco,

93:The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,

94:The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business. ~ A A Gill,

95:The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible. ~ Toni Cade Bambara,

96:The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people. ~ John Verdon,

97:The purpose of life is to see,” the writer Jack Turner ~ Terry Tempest Williams,

98:We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking. ~ Jeff Galloway,

99:I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence. ~ Oliver Sykes,

100:The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life. ~ Leo Tolstoy,

101:The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,

102:The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,

103:The purpose of the nervous system is to organize chaos. ~ Stephen H Wolinsky,

104:Try to be happy, if only for the purpose of setting an example ~ Jacques Pr vert,

105:Where the goal is the what, the purpose is the all-important why. ~ Sean Patrick,

106:The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream. ~ Robin Sharma,

107:The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once ~ X J Kennedy,

108:What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi,

109:Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. ~ Samuel Johnson,

110:Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them. ~ Randy Gage,

111:the purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Anonymous,

112:The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be? ~ Frederick Lenz,

113:A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. ~ Paulo Coelho,

114:Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck,

115:Morality is not the purpose of life; life is the purpose of morality. ~ Warren Fahy,

116:Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage. ~ Nilesh Rathod,

117:The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~ Pablo Picasso,

118:The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are. ~ Neale Donald Walsch,

119:The purpose of witnessing is to make something manifest that is hidden. ~ Anonymous,

120:To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is. ~ Anastacia,

121:Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,

122:The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. ~ Miroslav Vitous,

123:The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,

124:The purpose of a pitch is to stimulate interest, not to close a deal. ~ Guy Kawasaki,

125:The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. ~ Bertrand Russell,

126:I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness. ~ Dalai Lama,

127:The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context ~ Neale Donald Walsch,

128:The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. ~ William J Clinton,

129:The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike. ~ T B Joshua,

130:There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging. ~ Santosh Kalwar,

131:Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine. ~ Ravi Zacharias,

132:If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end. ~ Chloe Thurlow,

133:The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. ~ Franz Kafka,

134:The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. ~ Albert Camus,

135:The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better. ~ David O McKay,

136:There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love. ~ Brandi Carlile,

137:We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. ~ Harville Hendrix,

138:But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. ~ Terry Pratchett,

139:I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose. ~ Lena Headey,

140:I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. ~ Keith Miller,

141:The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it. ~ Glenn Beck,

142:The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm Forbes,

143:The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man. ~ G Campbell Morgan,

144:The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. ~ William S Burroughs,

145:The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder. ~ Octavio Paz,

146:The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,

147:The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior. ~ Stephen R Covey,

148:A brief reminder of the purpose of their work doubled their performance. ~ Daniel H Pink,

149:bad bosses chew-out in public for the purpose of showing their dominance). ~ Rory Miller,

150:Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow. ~ Reinhard Bonnke,

151:I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. ~ Michelle Moran,

152:I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command. ~ Nathan Bedford Forrest,

153:the purpose of business is to produce happiness, not to pile up money. ~ Anthony Robbins,

154:The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler. ~ Fritz Todt,

155:To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

156:The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers. ~ Shep Hyken,

157:The purpose of judo strategy is to turn an opponent’s strength into weakness. ~ Anonymous,

158:The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,

159:The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. ~ Eduardo Galeano,

160:The purpose of war, as Patton put it, is to make the other dumb bastard die. ~ Chris Kyle,

161:Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. ~ Brian Kernighan,

162:If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it. ~ Craig Groeschel,

163:Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

164:Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. ~ Walt Disney,

165:The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. ~ Ludwig Bemelmans,

166:The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress. ~ Steve Maraboli,

167:The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ~ Robert Kennedy,

168:The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,

169:The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

170:It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. ~ Peter Greenaway,

171:Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One. ~ Alice Bailey,

172:The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. ~ Gary Zukav,

173:All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer. ~ John Maynard Keynes,

174:Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity ~ Peter Drucker,

175:Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose. ~ Cristen Rodgers,

176:The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. ~ Ray Kurzweil,

177:The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ~ Ruth Benedict,

178:The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it ~ Lawrence M Krauss,

179:The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,

180:The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. ~ Anaxagoras,

181:The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. ~ Robert F Kennedy,

182:The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. ~ Eric Hoffer,

183:The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. ~ Max Lucado,

184:What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. ~ Dalai Lama,

185:The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

186:The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. ~ Lawrence M Krauss,

187:The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who don't have any influence. ~ Rick Warren,

188:The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. ~ John Dufresne,

189:The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. ~ J P Donleavy,

190:To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. ~ James Anthony Froude,

191:But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. ~ Hubert Selby Jr,

192:The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed. ~ Elbert Hubbard,

193:The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. ~ Mother Teresa,

194:The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. ~ Christopher Paolini,

195:The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way. ~ Amit Ray,

196:The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes. ~ Jared Leto,

197:There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts, ~ Voltaire,

198:There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. ~ Voltaire,

199:Whatever the purpose of a fountain is, the purpose of wisdom is the same! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,

200:Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity. ~ Peter F Drucker,

201:The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. ~ Pope John Paul II,

202:The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. ~ Marianne Williamson,

203:The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

204:The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it. ~ Jon L Bentley,

205:The purpose or calling of your life will require all of you—a wholeheartedness. ~ Gary Barkalow,

206:You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone. ~ Helio Gracie,

207:Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others. ~ Robin Hobb,

208:People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out. ~ LeCrae,

209:The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away ~ Pablo Picasso,

210:The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. ~ George Eliot,

211:The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits! ~ Yukito Kishiro,

212:The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits. ~ Yukito Kishiro,

213:The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,

214:The purpose of God for the Christian is the consistent expression of divine love. ~ Derek Prince,

215:The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people. ~ Kent Hovind,

216:I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself. ~ Kelli O Hara,

217:I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook. ~ Max Lucado,

218:knowing that the purpose of this promis is simply to make parting easier -Aleph ~ Paulo Coelho,

219:Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself. ~ Mason Cooley,

220:Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. ~ Hank Green,

221:The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ David Viscott,

222:The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso,

223:The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ~ Pablo Picasso,

224:The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin,

225:The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. ~ Thomas DiLorenzo,

226:The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you. ~ Richard Hell,

227:The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God. ~ Edgar Cayce,

228:The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

229:to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross. ~ Jerry Bridges,

230:What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.^ ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

231:brief, I saw how “dad deprivation” and the purpose void had a compounding effect. ~ Warren Farrell,

232:Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to ~ Kenneth Wapnick,

233:Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God. ~ Chuck Smith,

234:The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I ~ Brian Herbert,

235:The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. ~ William S Burroughs,

236:Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. ~ Gautama Buddha,

237:What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity? ~ Rabih Alameddine,

238:"What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy." ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

239:What’s the purpose of our efforts at work?” “To achieve results together, ~ The Arbinger Institute,

240:All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them. ~ Marianne Williamson,

241:Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half. ~ Arthur Kornberg,

242:If our happiness is the purpose of God,” said Alai, “why are so few of us happy? ~ Orson Scott Card,

243:The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul. ~ Christina Baldwin,

244:The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,

245:The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists. ~ Joan Robinson,

246:The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society. ~ Kano Jigoro,

247:The purpose of your vote is't to elect someone, but rather to express your opinion. ~ Peter Allison,

248:This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. ~ Dorothee Solle,

249:Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas. ~ Philip Carr Gomm,

250:What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome? ~ David Almond,

251:Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired. ~ Bill Maher,

252:The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual. ~ Ronald Reagan,

253:The purpose of God’s grace is not to make your little kingdom of one work better. ~ Paul David Tripp,

254:The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives. ~ William J Clinton,

255:The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality ~ Robert W Firestone,

256:The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. ~ Amelie Nothomb,

257:Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches. ~ Saadi,

258:The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty. ~ Salmon P Chase,

259:The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. ~ James Baldwin,

260:The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife. ~ Terrence Howard,

261:The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. ~ Adolf Hitler,

262:Our mission in life is not to reach sales targets. The purpose of life is to be happy. ~ Rashmi Bansal,

263:The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things. ~ Julian of Norwich,

264:The meaning of life is to find your gift,the purpose of life is to give it away. ~ William Shakespeare,

265:The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

266:The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. ~ James C Collins,

267:Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle,

268:It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant,

269:Strategy is the conduct of wars: the application of violence for the purposes of the state. ~ Jim Storr,

270:That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather’s view: to render memory unnecessary. ~ Michael Chabon,

271:The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed. ~ William Shakespeare,

272:The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~ William Shakespeare,

273:The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. ~ James A Baldwin,

274:The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. ~ Le Corbusier,

275:The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action. ~ Peter Drucker,

276:The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it. ~ Jordan Peterson,

277:The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal,

278:The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person. ~ Czeslaw Milosz,

279:The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement. ~ Mary Poppendieck,

280:the purpose of schools was not to educate all students to the same level, but to sort them, ~ Todd Rose,

281:What was the purpose of a woman monster? It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for? ~ Kristin Cashore,

282:Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. ~ Shannon L Alder,

283:Each thing is created for a purpose. The moment the purpose is achieved, it will perish. This ~ Vanamali,

284:Henry James’s definition of the purpose of a novel: “To help the human heart to know itself. ~ P D James,

285:the meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it away ~ William Shakespeare,

286:The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

287:The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,

288:The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush. ~ Florence Littauer,

289:When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. ~ Oscar Wilde,

290:I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots. ~ Alison Moyet,

291:Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. ~ Gary Zukav,

292:The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... ~ Czes aw Mi osz,

293:The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. ~ James Madison,

294:What is the purpose of videogames if not to train you in the skills you will need to survive? ~ L R W Lee,

295:What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. ~ William Shakespeare,

296:Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. ~ Nicholas Meyer,

297:The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it. ~ Rick Warren,

298:The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?' ~ George Harrison,

299:The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ~ Ayn Rand,

300:The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. ~ Freeman Dyson,

301:Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. ~ Frederick Lenz,

302:If listened to correctly, loneliness keeps telling us the purpose for which God made us. ~ Ronald Rolheiser,

303:It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold. ~ William Shakespeare,

304:I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr,

305:Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. ~ Jonathan Ive,

306:the meaning of life is to FIND YOUR GIFT. the purpose of life is to GIVE IT AWAY. ~ William Shakespeare,

307:The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us ~ Norman Cousins,

308:When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose. ~ Adyashanti,

309:An elephant has two sets of teeth. One for the purpose of eating and the other for flaunting.    ~ Anuj Dhar,

310:Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Gretchen Rubin,

311:It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6. ~ John Bunyan,

312:It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. ~ Herman Melville,

313:The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. ~ David Viscott,

314:to be satisfied with our work, we typically need a belief in the purpose of what we do. Amy ~ Barry Schwartz,

315:We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph. ~ Chris Lynch,

316:Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener. ~ Deepak Chopra,

317:Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. ~ Nate Silver,

318:Often the only way to make a hard decision is to come back to the purpose of what you’re doing. ~ David Allen,

319:The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. ~ Henry Flynt,

320:The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ~ Albert Schweitzer,

321:The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ~ Paul Val ry,

322:The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. ~ Bill Watterson,

323:Mainly he appears in people's reveries and dreams for the purpose of inspiration and comfort. ~ Dolores Cannon,

324:Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose. ~ Santosh Kalwar,

325:The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people. ~ Edward C Prescott,

326:The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. ~ Stanley Fish,

327:The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. ~ Peter Drucker,

328:The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ~ Albert Schweitzer,

329:The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. ~ T Harv Eker,

330:The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,

331:As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. ~ Moliere,

332:I find that if I remind myself (frequently) that the purpose of life isn’t to get it all done ~ Richard Carlson,

333:If the purpose of love is getting into bed; I guess prostitutes are the most auspicious lovers. ~ M F Moonzajer,

334:Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked. "To save books," Irene said firmly. ~ Genevieve Cogman,

335:The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. ~ Clarence Darrow,

336:The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God. ~ Marianne Williamson,

337:The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. ~ Ayn Rand,

338:The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity. ~ Theodore Dalrymple,

339:What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

340:Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product. ~ Marion Nestle,

341:The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

342:The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others. ~ Amit Ray,

343:the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise. ~ Atul Gawande,

344:death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,

345:I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. ~ Dave Barry,

346:I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. ~ Kevin J Anderson,

347:The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. ~ John Cage,

348:This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police. ~ Victor Hugo,

349:What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ? ~ Shubhangi Swarup,

350:A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

351:I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose. ~ Vladimir Putin,

352:The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. ~ Alonzo King,

353:Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals ~ Richard J Foster,

354:Real food has the power to give you your life back and more fully engage in the purpose for your life. ~ Rick Warren,

355:The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible ~ Pierre Auguste Renoir,

356:Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ~ Woodrow Wilson,

357:The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. ~ Mike Huckabee,

358:You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing. ~ H L Mencken,

359:11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,        the purposes of his heart through all generations. ~ Anonymous,

360:Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,

361:Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. ~ Karl Kraus,

362:If we communicate the vision behind our ideas, the purpose guiding our products, people will flock to us. ~ Adam Grant,

363:If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,

364:Rincewind had always assumed that the purpose of running away was to be able to run away another day ~ Terry Pratchett,

365:The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. ~ Penn Jillette,

366:The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people. ~ Michael E Gerber,

367:The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you. ~ Rick Warren,

368:The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. ~ Wallace D Wattles,

369:The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

370:The purpose of philosophy is to turn you inward. If you know your Self, no evil can come to you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

371:But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. ~ William Shakespeare,

372:RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. ~ Ambrose Bierce,

373:The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth. ~ M Scott Peck,

374:The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. ~ Gifford Pinchot,

375:The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. ~ Marianne Williamson,

376:The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people. ~ Peter McWilliams,

377:The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you ~ Warren Buffett,

378:The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. ~ R Buckminster Fuller,

379:The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his. ~ John Stott,

380:The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives. ~ Marianne Williamson,

381:It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. My ~ Anonymous,

382:The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself.” SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD ~ Kate Atkinson,

383:The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God. ~ David Platt,

384:The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time. ~ Jean M Twenge,

385:The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition. ~ Bryant McGill,

386:To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory. ~ Douglas MacArthur,

387:To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. ~ Lincoln Diaz Balart,

388:The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion! ~ Widad Akreyi,

389:You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever. ~ Yogi Bhajan,

390:Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose. ~ Winston Churchill,

391:Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order. ~ Kent Hovind,

392:The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. ~ Brandon Sanderson,

393:The purpose of life, Cirrus Kindwind had once assured him, is to choose, and to act upon the choice. ~ Stephen R Donaldson,

394:The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad. ~ Don Feder,

395:To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven. ~ Friedrich Schiller,

396:When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it. ~ Alan Cohen,

397:Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg,

398:It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,

399:It takes God’s rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his. ~ Paul David Tripp,

400:The danger of evil, the purpose of evil, is that it causes those who would oppose it to become evil also. ~ James Islington,

401:The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. ~ Oswald Chambers,

402:We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. ~ Nainoa Thompson,

403:All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. ~ Oswald Chambers,

404:A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

405:Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. ~ Ayn Rand,

406:I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it. ~ Jarvis Cocker,

407:Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. ~ John Keats,

408:So you lied to me,” Simon said. “I’d say I verbally misled you for the purposes of deception,” Valin responded. ~ Will Wight,

409:The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you. ~ Chuck Smith,

410:This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name. ~ Nahmanides,

411:What is the purpose of video games if not to train you in the skills you will need to survive? - King Hercalon V ~ L R W Lee,

412:5Now †the purpose of the commandment is love †from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from bsincere faith, ~ Anonymous,

413:Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

414:One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. ~ Dustin Moskovitz,

415:The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. ~ Brassai,

416:The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. ~ Aristotle,

417:The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range. ~ Jeff Cooper,

418:The purpose of this book is not to make you more worried. The purpose of this book is to make you more smart. ~ David Quammen,

419:The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. ~ Alex Grey,

420:Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. ~ Steve Maraboli,

421:The purpose of one’s birth will be fulfilled whether you will it or not. Let the purpose fulfill itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

422:The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

423:This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit. ~ Michael A Stackpole,

424:Truly, Francesca, if all women were like you, I would become a Turk solely for the purpose of assembling a harem. ~ Sara Poole,

425:We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ~ Willie Nelson,

426:What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to? ~ Lisa See,

427:Doesn't nature reach her goal even though most people falsely determine the purpose of their own efforts? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

428:Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. ~ Ed Miliband,

429:My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is. ~ Sakyong Mipham,

430:The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. ~ Christopher Paolini,

431:The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. ~ James Clear,

432:The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal,

433:What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

434:If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,

435:Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. ~ Richard Stallman,

436:The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything. ~ Hermann Hesse,

437:There is no purpose for Christian scholarship outside the purpose of God that He is accomplishing in the church. ~ James R White,

438:His secretive nature detested the purpose of all interviews, their oppressive intimacy, their inescapable reality. ~ John le Carr,

439:In Germany, for a long time, the purpose of history was to ensure it could never happen again.” —MICHAEL STÜRMER ~ Neil MacGregor,

440:Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. ~ Alan Moore,

441:The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small. ~ Nikita Khrushchev,

442:Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,’ said Ram. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik,

443:If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,

444:In this Reformed view, the purpose of work is to create a culture that honors God and enables people to thrive. ~ Timothy J Keller,

445:Poverty is at least a trillion times more likely than wealth to make one wonder what the purpose of life is. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

446:The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. ~ Geneen Roth,

447:The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

448:The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~ Mortimer Adler,

449:The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties. ~ Meher Baba,

450:You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi,

451:The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ~ Marshall McLuhan,

452:The purpose of a customer isn’t to get a sale. The purpose of a sale is to get a customer. —BILL GLAZER, ADVERTISING ~ Josh Kaufman,

453:The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things. ~ Brandon Mull,

454:The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi,

455:The purpose of life isn’t to get married. It’s to live for Jesus … telling people about Him and sharing His love. ~ Karen Kingsbury,

456:The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God. ~ David Platt,

457:God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. ~ Alvar Aalto,

458:If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. ~ J R R Tolkien,

459:Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation. ~ Aga Khan IV,

460:People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. ~ Dan Barker,

461:People love to win. If you’re not totally clear about the purpose of what you’re doing, you have no chance of winning. ~ David Allen,

462:The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. ~ Timothy Keller,

463:The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~ Mortimer J Adler,

464:The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest. ~ Michael Jackson,

465:According to Aristotle, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Gretchen Rubin,

466:Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. ~ David Livingstone,

467:I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,

468:Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. ~ D H Lawrence,

469:The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless. ~ Immortal Technique,

470:The purpose of my influential position is to make God’s name great, to advance His kingdom on Earth, and to serve others. ~ Anonymous,

471:the purpose of so much of her life, she had won she had won. Smiling, she closed her eyes and drifted towards death. ~ Reay Tannahill,

472:To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. ~ Alex Epstein,

473:to suffer is better than to do evil;' and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation. ~ Plato,

474:An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. ~ Edmund Burke,

475:I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. ~ M Scott Peck,

476:If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning. ~ Dan Pontefract,

477:In a startup, the purpose of analytics is to find your way to the right product and market before the money runs out. ~ Alistair Croll,

478:Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us. ~ David Walker,

479:Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel,

480:Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul. ~ James Hillman,

481:The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now. ~ Tim Parks,

482:These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. ~ Samuel Johnson,

483:What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were? ~ Alice Steinbach,

484:I don’t think a muscle would dare show up on my body. What would be the purpose? I’d have them slacking off in no time. ~ Nageeba Davis,

485:...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of? ~ Diane Johnson,

486:It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy. ~ Harold Laski,

487:Like whether madness and evil are two different entities, or whether when we no longer understand the purpose of destruction. ~ Jo Nesb,

488:That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work. ~ Byron Katie,

489:The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet. ~ George Siemens,

490:The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. ~ Carl Rogers,

491:The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside ~ Samuel Johnson,

492:The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm. ~ P J O Rourke,

493:Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero ~ William Shakespeare,

494:The death serves a purpose species-wise while it also serves the purposes of the individual, for no death comes unbidden. ~ Jane Roberts,

495:... the only thing I was to do while living was to love everyone. That, she let me know, is the purpose of life. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater,

496:The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,

497:The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. ~ Plato,

498:The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor. ~ William J Bernstein,

499:The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion. ~ Joseph Campbell,

500:Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need. ~ Barack Obama,

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   35 Yoga
   19 Occultism
   13 Philosophy
   10 Kabbalah
   6 Integral Yoga
   3 Christianity
   1 Hinduism


   34 Sri Aurobindo
   33 Swami Krishnananda
   18 Aleister Crowley
   11 The Mother
   8 Aldous Huxley
   7 Sri Ramakrishna
   5 Friedrich Nietzsche
   3 Thubten Chodron
   3 Satprem
   2 Swami Vivekananda
   2 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   2 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   2 Jorge Luis Borges


   33 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   21 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   15 The Life Divine
   11 Magick Without Tears
   10 The Mothers Agenda
   10 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   10 Liber ABA
   9 General Principles of Kabbalah
   8 The Perennial Philosophy
   8 Letters On Yoga I
   6 Talks
   6 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   5 Twilight of the Idols
   5 The Secret Doctrine
   4 Theosophy
   4 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   4 Isha Upanishad
   4 Essays On The Gita
   4 Essays Divine And Human
   3 The Bible
   3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   3 Poetics
   3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
   2 Words Of Long Ago
   2 Walden
   2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   2 On Education
   2 Letters On Yoga III
   2 Book of Certitude
   2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah

0.01_-_Life_and_Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Yoga, as Swami Vivekananda has said, may be regarded as a means of compressing one's evolution into a single life or a few years or even a few months of bodily existence. A given system of Yoga, then, can be no more than a selection or a compression, into narrower but more energetic forms of intensity, of the general methods which are already being used loosely, largely, in a leisurely movement, with a profuser apparent waste of material and energy but with a more complete combination by the great   Mother in her vast upward labour. It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear something mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the Purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective selffulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively

0.03_-_The_Threefold_Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the Purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.

0.04_-_The_Systems_of_Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Hathayoga aims at the conquest of the life and the body whose combination in the food sheath and the vital vehicle constitutes, as we have seen, the gross body and whose equilibrium is the foundation of all Nature's workings in the human being. The equilibrium established by Nature is sufficient for the normal egoistic life; it is insufficient for the Purpose of the Hathayogin.

02.04_-_The_Kingdoms_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Awaiting some tremendous dawn of God,   He saw the Purpose in the works of Time.   Even in that aimlessness a work was done

1.001_-_The_Aim_of_Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      This is a defect not only in the modern systems of education, but also in spiritual practices in every walk of life, in every blessed thing. When the individual who is living life has cut himself or herself off from the significance of life, then life becomes a contradiction and a meaningless pursuit of the will-o'-the-wisp. Why do we cut ourselves off from the meaning of life and then suffer like this? This is the inherent weakness of the sensory functions of the individual. The senses are our enemies. Why do we call them enemies? Because they tell us that we are isolated from everything else. This is the essence of sensory activity. There is no connection between ourselves and others, and we can go on fighting with everybody. This is what the senses tell us. But yet, they are double-edged swords; they tell us two things at the same time. On one side they tell us that everything is outside us, and we are disconnected from everybody else and everything in this world. But on the other side they say that we are bound to grab things, connect ourselves with things, obtain things, and maintain relationship with things. Now, these two things cannot be done simultaneously. We cannot disconnect ourselves from things and also try to connect ourselves with them for the Purpose of exploiting them, with an intention to utilise them for our individual purposes. Here again is an instance of contradiction. On one side we disconnect ourselves from persons and things; on the other side we want to connect ourselves with persons and things for our own purpose.

1.007_-_Initial_Steps_in_Yoga_Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Discipline, at least from the spiritual point of view, is a voluntary, dedicated attitude adopted by me, you or anyone, which is deliberately undergone like a medical treatment for the Purpose of gaining true health. The initial stage, called the physical posture for the Purpose of meditation, is very important, and its importance will be realised if we actually try to sit for a protracted period. How many of you can sit for an hour or two without jerks and shakes and agitations felt in your body? There will be uneasiness in the mind even at the very commencement of this practice. Suppose you are told, "Now sit for two hours and do not get up." The moment I say this you will feel a sense of uneasiness. "Oh, he is asking us not to get up for two hours; it is better to go away now itself. We don't want to sit here." The mind is restless because of being asked to do something to which it has not been accustomed and which it cannot regard as its normal activity. The normalcy which the mind feels is really a kind of chaos; it is not a real normalcy. We are accustomed to chaotic activity. We never stick to time; we never stick to principle; we never stick to any kind of method either in our speaking, or thinking, or acting. We are used to such a kind of life. We get up at any time; we eat at any time; we walk at any time; and, at any time, any work that we do is done in any manner whatsoever, which is the usual habit of the mind that is marked by an absolute absence of punctuality. Now we are telling such a mind that things cannot remain so. There must be a system in every bit of its activity, right from its physical level.      To reiterate, this discipline is not a kind of imposition on the mind or the body, but it is a necessity. If the doctor tells us that we must take a capsule or a tablet at a particular time in a day, in such a quantity, he is not intending to impose upon us any kind of torture definitely not. It is a kind of method that he is introducing into our life for the Purpose of regaining health. An introduction of a method cannot be regarded as a torture. It is not a compulsion and, therefore, discipline in this sense is not only necessary but indispensable, considering the nature of the goal that is before us. Why then this insistence on system, method, organisation, punctuality, tenacity, persistence, etc., in the practice? The reason is that it is the nature of the goal itself. The goal of life is the ultimate point of system.

1.008_-_The_Principle_of_Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      But more difficult than the work of wiping out past memories is the adjustment of oneself with present conditions. We shall not think now about what is ahead of us in the future. The present condition is a reality more vehement than the past memories because we see it with our eyes, and nothing can be worse than that. These things which we see with our eyes every day and with which we have some sort of connection or the other, at least remotely, have some say in the matter of our own personal lives. They have to be harnessed for the Purpose of the practice of yoga, harnessed in the sense that they should be made contributory in some way or the other to the aim before us.

1.009_-_Perception_and_Reality, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      So, merely because our mental make-up and sensory constitution agree with the structure of things outside, it does not mean that the world exists or that it is real. It only indicates that we are on the same level, that is all. Here is a word of caution: we have to be on guard in our attachment to things and our taking them for ultimate realities. We have to withdraw ourselves into higher, more judicious judgements for the Purpose of higher unity.

1.00_-_Gospel, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      One day, soon after, Narendra requested Sri Ramakrishna to pray to the Divine Mother to remove his poverty. Sri Ramakrishna bade him pray to Her himself, for She would certainly listen to his prayer. Narendra entered the shrine of Kli. As he stood before the image of the Mother, he beheld Her as a living Goddess, ready to give wisdom and liberation. Unable to ask Her for petty worldly things, he prayed only for knowledge and renunciation, love and liberation. The Master rebuked him for his failure to ask the Divine Mother to remove his poverty and sent him back to the temple. But Narendra, standing in Her presence, again forgot the Purpose of his coming. Thrice he went to the temple at the bidding of the Master, and thrice he returned, having forgotten in Her presence why he had come. He was wondering about it when it suddenly flashed in his mind that this was all the work of Sri Ramakrishna; so now he asked the Master himself to remove his poverty, and was assured that his family would not lack simple food and clothing.

1.00_-_Main, #Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i      Say: True liberty consisteth in man's submission unto My commandments, little as ye know it. Were men to observe that which We have sent down unto them from the Heaven of Revelation, they would, of a certainty, attain unto perfect liberty. Happy is the man that hath apprehended the Purpose of God in whatever He hath revealed from the Heaven of His Will that pervadeth all created things. Say: The liberty that profiteth you is to be found nowhere except in complete servitude unto God, the Eternal Truth. Whoso hath tasted of its sweetness will refuse to barter it for all the dominion of earth and heaven.

1.012_-_Sublimation_-_A_Way_to_Reshuffle_Thought, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Consciousness does not move in a direction without a purpose; and if the Purpose is meaningful, at least from its own point of view, nobody can resist it. It sees a meaning in the way in which it moves towards the object, and when the meaning is there, then naturally nobody can control it. "I see significance in it. There is a purpose behind it and there is a reason a very good reason for my action in that direction," says consciousness. So the question of controlling the movement of consciousness does not arise. If the movement is meaningless, we may control it; but if it is meaningful, how can we control it? So, the resisting of the vehemence of consciousness in the direction of an object is possible only if the meaning that it reads into the object is sublimated.

1.013_-_Defence_Mechanisms_of_the_Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      So even in self-control there are varieties. It is not the same type of technique that we adopt uniformly and universally, as previously mentioned. Though it is true that everyone is hungry and everyone needs food, universally and uniformly, it does not follow that we all have to be given the same food. The whole world cannot be served the same kind of diet merely because everyone is equally hungry. In the same way, even though self-control is a universal necessity for the Purpose of higher spiritual regeneration, the methods of practice may vary in detail according to the conditions of the individual in the stages of evolution, the circumstances in which one lives, and various other such relevant factors. The dependence of the mind on externals is also, therefore, variegated. It is not a uniform type of dependence. Therefore, each one has to investigate into the peculiar type of dependence due to which one is suffering. This requires leisurely thinking. A hurried mind cannot think so deeply on this subject, because it is not easy to detect where we are weak, and upon what things we are hanging for our dependence, for our existence.      Apart from the usual and obvious forms of dependence, such as the need for food, clothing and shelter, there are other types of dependence which are secret, subtler in their nature, and these are more important for the Purposes of investigation than the grosser needs, because the grosser needs are well known to everyone. Everyone knows that we will be hungry, and will feel heat and cold, and that we need a shelter for living. But there are other things which may not be known to everybody. We have weaknesses other than the feeling of hunger, thirst, etc., and these are the harassing factors of life. We are worried not so much because of food, clothing and shelter, but due to other things which are the secret wire-pullers of the individual's existence. These other things are not minor factors. They are made to appear as if they are insignificant and secondary on account of a trick played by the mind, because if they are brought to the forefront they will not succeed in their attempts. So, a subtle devise is adopted by the mind to succeed in its attempts.      A political manoeuvre is adopted by the mind by the manufacture of certain mechanisms psychologically, which are usually called by psychologists as defence mechanisms. These defence mechanisms are very peculiar structures like bulldozers and tanks which we have in armies and public works which the mind manufactures for its stability, security, sustenance and permanent establishment in the world of diversities. These defence mechanisms are terrible machineries which the mind manufactures and keeps secret, unknown to people, like secret weapons which one may wield, not allowing them to come to the knowledge of other people. If everyone knows what weapons we have got, then they won't be effective, because others also may manufacture the same weapons. So we keep our weapons very secret and use them only when they are necessary, in warfare or on a battlefield. Everyone has these weapons, and they are not made of material objects. They are psychological apparatuses which the mind always keeps ready at hand, whenever there is any kind of threat to the psychological security or individual happiness. The adepts who have made deep study of this subject are the psychoanalysts in the Western world and the teachers of yoga in the East, particularly Sage Patanjali; and certain other texts like the Upanishads have made a study of the subtle devices that the mind employs for the Purpose of its individual security and permanent satisfaction.

1.01_-_Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy      One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned any thing of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me any thing to the Purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my   Mentors said nothing about.

1.01_-_The_Ideal_of_the_Karmayogin, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      We must know our past and recover it for the Purposes of our future. Our business is to realise ourselves first and to mould everything to the law of India's eternal life and nature. It will therefore be the object of the Karmayogin to read the heart of our religion, our society, our philosophy, politics, literature, art, jurisprudence, science, thought, everything that was and is ours, so that we may be able to say to ourselves and our nation, 'This is our dharma.' We shall review European civilisation entirely from the standpoint of Indian thought and knowledge and seek to throw off from us the dominating stamp of the Occident; what we have to take from the West we shall take as Indians.

1.020_-_The_World_and_Our_World, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      What is an individual, which we call the percipient? It is an abstracted group of characters, tentatively isolated from a larger set or group of characters to which these former really belong an act that has been perpetrated mysteriously for the Purpose of playing a drama, we may say. We have falsely isolated ourselves. Even that isolation is not a real isolation, because a mere abstraction of a few characters from a group of larger characters cannot be regarded as real. It is only a closing of one's eyes to certain existent conditions. We can ignore the presence of things and conditions which are not conducive to our present purpose, but why this purpose itself has arisen is a very difficult thing to answer. This is maya, as they call it, a peculiar jugglery that has been projected by no one. Neither can we say that God created it, nor can we say that we created it. It is somewhere; and how it has come, neither can we say, nor can anyone else say. The inscrutability of the relationship between the individual and the cosmic, the difficulty in ascertaining the connection between appearance and reality this is called maya. To put it in more plain terms, the relationship between the subject and the object is itself difficult to understand.

1.02.3.2_-_Knowledge_and_Ignorance, #Isha Upanishad, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   THE EXTREME PATHS   the Purpose of the Lord in the world cannot be fulfilled by   following Vidya alone or Avidya alone.

1.024_-_Affiliation_With_Larger_Wholes, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      For the Purpose of controlling the mind, we have to adjust ourself to the concept of a higher reality. That is what is meant by ekatattva abhyasah, by which there is pratisedha or checking of the modifications of the mind. The introduction of the concept of a higher reality into the mind can be done either by logical analysis or by reliance upon scriptural statements. Great texts like the Upanishads, the Vedas and such other mystical texts, proclaim the existence of a Universal Reality which can be reached through various grades of ascent into more and more comprehensive levels. The happiness of the human being is not supposed to be complete happiness.

1.025_-_Sadhana_-_Intensifying_a_Lighted_Flame, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      In the practice of one reality, ekatattva abhyasah, mentioned by Sage Patanjali in one of his sutras for the Purpose of restraining the modifications of the mind, there are, again, grades of approach. The one reality is not necessarily the Absolute Reality, though that is the aim, ultimately. As was mentioned previously, a reality, for the Purpose of practice, is that condition which can fulfil a particular need of a specific state of mind under a given condition. So until the Absolute Reality is reached, all other realities are relative realities. Every reality, as far as we are concerned empirically, is relative subject to transcendence. Nevertheless, it is a reality to us, which only goes to prove that we are also only relative realities. We, as individuals, are not absolute realities and, therefore, we are satisfied with what is relative. We are not in daily contact with the Absolute; what we are in contact with is a relative reality. And inasmuch as the subject experiencing and the object experienced are on the same level or degree of reality, it goes without saying that the empirical subjects that we all are come under relative reality, and not the Absolute Reality.      In the concentration of the mind on one reality, ekatattva, what is intended is that the attention should be focused on a system or order of values which is immediately superior to, or transcendent to, the current state of affairs, the present state of experience, and the conditions through which we are passing through at this moment. Anything which can include particulars in a more organised whole can be regarded as a higher reality for this purpose. There are tentative realities created for the Purpose of practical convenience by organisations, associations or systems which we have created for the Purpose of subjugating the individual ego and compelling it to affiliate itself to a larger body to which also it ought to belong and is made to belong.      I can give you examples of quantitative systems which we create in our practical daily life for the Purpose of overcoming the urges of the ego and connecting it with wider or larger wholes. A physical individual, or a bodily person, is the lowest unit of reality as far as our experience goes. An utterly selfish individual is one who looks upon the body as the ultimate reality, and the only reality there is nothing else. Now, this is the grossest form of egoism, where the bodily individuality is regarded as the only reality and everything else is completely ignored. This is the animal's way of thinking, to some extent. The tiger has no concern for anything except its own personal existence, and it can pounce on anyone for the sake of its own security and existence.      The animalistic way of thinking persists in the human level also, and often many times, in fact the urge to assert one's bodily individuality vehemently gains the upper hand, though rationally it would not be possible for anyone to justify the exclusive reality of a bodily personality. Such was the primitive condition of people in prehistoric times, or Paleolithic times, as they say, when human beings were not yet evolved to the present condition of social understanding. In the biological history of mankind, right from creation as far as the mind can go, it is said that the evolution of the human individual, right from the lowest levels, included certain conditions of human existence which were inseparable from animal life. The caveman, the Neanderthal man and such other primitive types of existence point to an animal mind operating through a human body, where cannibalism was not unfamiliar. One could eat another, because the animal mind was not completely absent even in the human body, and there was insecurity on account of it being possible for one man to eat another man. As history tells us, it took ages for the primitive mind to realise the necessity for individuals to come into agreement among themselves for the Purpose of security. If I start jumping upon you and you start jumping upon me, both of us will be unhappy and insecure, and you would not know whether you will be safe and I cannot know if I will be safe. This sort of thing would be most undesirable.      --      Here we have a higher reality than the individual, quantitatively speaking, though qualitatively we cannot say that there was an improvement. While there is a quantitative improvement in an organisation or a set-up such as a government, in the sense that an individual is made a part of a larger body so that the egoism of the individual cannot operate as forcefully as it could have operated when it was left alone and given a long rope, a consideration for the welfare of other individuals in the system becomes obligatory on the part of every individual on account of the presence of this order and system. So far, so good. From the point of view of the quantity of the reality that has been introduced into life the mathematical measure of the order that has been set up we can say that a society is a larger reality than the individual. A nation is a larger reality than a community, and the entire set-up of mankind, the international system, may be regarded as a still larger reality than a single nation. This is a quantitative evaluation of the reality toward which the human mind seems to be aiming, for the Purpose of bringing peace on earth, happiness, etc.      --      However, the point on hand is that a larger reality should also be qualitatively superior to the discrete particulars from which the mind is supposed to be withdrawn for the Purpose of the practice of yoga. Though it is somewhat easy to bring about a quantitative increase in the concept of reality by methods such as the ones I just mentioned, it is a little more difficult to introduce a qualitative increase into the concept of reality. This is the main difficulty for everyone. However much we may concentrate on God, we will not be able to improve upon the human concept, even when there is a concept of God. So we feel unhappy even when we are meditating on God, because we have not improved the quality but have only increased the quantity, so that we may think of God as a large human individual a massive individual, as expansive as the universe itself, for example. That is quite wonderful, but still this human thought does not leave us.      --      This peculiar feature of spiritual practice, sadhana, being so difficult to understand intellectually, cannot be regarded as merely an individual's affair. Sadhana is God's affair, ultimately. Spiritual sadhana is God's grace working. Though it appears that is individual effort, it only seems to be so, but really it is something else. Not even the greatest of philosophical thinkers, such as Shankara, could logically answer the question, "How does knowledge arise in the jiva?" How can it be said that individual effort produces knowledge of God? Knowledge of God cannot rise by individual effort, because individual effort is so puny, so inadequate to the Purpose, to the task, that we cannot expect such an infinite result to follow from the finite cause. The concept of God is an inscrutable event that takes place in the human mind. Can we imagine an ass thinking about God? However much it may put forth effort and go on trying its best throughout its life, the concept of God will never arise in an ass's mind or in a buffalo's mind. How it arises is a mystery. Suddenly, it comes.

1.028_-_Bringing_About_Whole-Souled_Dedication, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      We were discussing the relationship between abhyasa and vairagya in the system of yoga. The practice of yoga becomes effective when it is charged with the power of vairagya or the spirit of renunciation because, while practice is the endeavour to fix oneself in a particular attitude of consciousness, vairagya is a sympathetic attitude which simultaneously frees consciousness from attention to contrary objectives, or objectives which are irrelevant to the one that is taken up for the Purpose of concentration and meditation. We cannot have a double attitude in yoga. That is, our attention cannot be diverted into two channels. Else, there would be split devotion, as they call it vyabhicharini bhakti not whole-souled devotion.

1.02_-_Meditating_on_Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset   Visualizing Tara and contemplating the symbolisms of her body help us   to cultivate respect for virtuous qualities and inspire us to develop those qualities ourselves. the Purpose of doing the Tara practice is not to worship Tara.   Tara is a fully enlightened Buddha; she doesnt need our worship or offerings. We dont do these practices for the sake of the enlightened beings, to   --      the Purpose of meditating on Tara isnt to feel good by worshiping an   external deity, I offered apples to Tara, so Im happy because now shell help   --      the Purpose of a Sadhana   Sadhanas, with their visualization practices and mantras, contain within them

1.02_-_SADHANA_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   is of the nature of illumination, action and intertia,   and is for the Purpose of experience and release (of   the experiencer).   --   what in Sanskrit are called Sattva (illumination), Rajas   (action), and Tamas (darkness); each is for the Purpose of   experience and relase. What is the Purpose of the whole of   nature? That the PuruSa may gain experience. The PuruSa

1.02_-_The_7_Habits_An_Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset      Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an Inside-Out approach, and read with the Purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

1.02_-_THE_NATURE_OF_THE_GROUND, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      the Purpose of all words is to illustrate the meaning of an object. When they are heard, they should enable the hearer to understand this meaning, and this according to the four categories of substance, of activity, of quality and of relationship. For example cow and horse belong to the category of substance. He cooks or he prays belongs to the category of activity. White and black belong to the category of quality. Having money or possessing cows belongs to the category of relationship. Now there is no class of substance to which the Brahman belongs, no common genus. It cannot therefore be denoted by words which, like being in the ordinary sense, signify a category of things. Nor can it be denoted by quality, for it is without qualities; nor yet by activity because it is without activityat rest, without parts or activity, according to the Scriptures. Neither can it be denoted by relationship, for it is without a second and is not the object of anything but its own self. Therefore it cannot be defined by word or idea; as the Scripture says, it is the One before whom words recoil.

1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy    p. 96    by the past. We must be prepared at every moment that every object and every being can bring to us some new revelation. If we judge the new by the standard of the old we are liable to error. The memory of past experiences will be of greatest use for the very reason that it enables us to perceive the new. Had we not gone through a definite experience we should perhaps be blind to the qualities of the object or being that comes before us. Thus experience should serve the Purpose of perceiving the new and not of judging it by the standard of the old. In this respect the initiate acquires certain definite qualities, and thereby many things are revealed to him which remain concealed from the uninitiated.

1.031_-_Intense_Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      While in the acquiring of objects of a temporal nature in this world, the movement may look horizontal - a movement of one individual towards another individual, or a group of other individuals, in a spatial direction. Here, in this case, it is a kind of rise from the bottom to the top. It is like waking up from dream, where we are not moved from one place to another place. When we wake up from dream, there is no movement; and yet, there is a movement. As there is a transformation, we can call it a movement. But it is not an ordinary kind of movement, like moving from Rishikesh to Delhi; it is not that kind of movement. It is a reshuffling of the constitution of one's own mental conditioning and the whole set-up of consciousness a reorganisation of one's own individuality. It is a complete reordering of one's true being for the Purpose of a reawakening into a wider order of reality, about which I have been mentioning again and again. And here, in this awakening into a higher order of reality, the object that was originally thought to be outside in space is now visualised as something nearer to oneself than it appeared to be earlier.      --      Another great helpful factor is observing mouna or not talking, or at least talking only when it is necessary. Talking only when it is necessary means we will talk only when it is absolutely impossible to avoid talking; otherwise, we will not talk. Why do we go on talking with everyone? There is no necessity. We should regard ourselves as real seekers and not merely as jokers with truth, and try to open our mouths only when it is necessary, and otherwise not open our mouths. It is necessary to open the mouth only when it has some connection with the Purpose for which we have come here. When it has no connection, why do we talk? We should keep our mouths closed. This is not only a spiritual discipline but also a very helpful method of conserving energy, because much of the energy is lost in talking. If we do not speak for three days continuously, we will see what difference it makes. We will feel that there is so much of strength in us that we can walk even long distances without any feeling of fatigue. All our energy goes in speaking unnecessarily to anyone and anything that is in front of us, on any subject whatsoever.

1.032_-_Our_Concept_of_God, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      A very potent method prescribed by the yoga system, for the Purpose of channelising the mind towards its salvation, is the worship of God. This is, perhaps, the ultimate stroke that one can deal upon the mind when everything else fails. The worship of God is an expression of one's love for God, just as when we adore a person in this world, in any manner whatsoever, we express our love for that person by means of various external forms of behaviour and conduct, which is, in technical religious terms, called a ritual. If I love you, how can I show that love to you? The way in which I show my love for you, is ritual. Even if I join my hands and offer my salutations, it is a ritual that I am performing, because it is an outward symbol of inward feeling. Though the inward feeling is more important than the outward expression or conduct, there seems to be a reciprocal relationship between these two aspects of one's approach to anything. So in the practice of yoga, which is aimed at ultimate God-realisation, the adoration of God may be taken as a principal technique which may commence, in the beginning, with external forms of the religious attitude. As a matter of fact, what we call 'religion' is nothing but ritual expressed in various degrees of subtlety and manifesting the spirit of which it is the expression.      --      Here I have to take a few moments to give some sort of an idea as to what love is, so that we may have an idea as to its relationship to the object of love. Most people have no idea of what it is and, therefore, it has been given many definitions. The most common definition of love is that it is a psychological emotion, a welling up of certain feelings in respect of an object. Love is the manner in which the mind arranges itself in respect of an object which it needs. Just as when one is on a battleground and there is a necessity to gird up one's loins for an immediate attack, one prepares oneself thoroughly, from head to foot, for the Purpose of the task on hand or, a wrestler in the field prepares himself for the Purpose for which he is there, and in this preparation he is worked up into a feeling of total concentration of his personality for the achievement of that purpose in a similar manner, the mind works itself up into a concentrated feeling in respect of the object which it needs for a particular purpose, at a particular time. This working up of the mind in sympathy with the object which it needs at a particular time is the love that the mind has for the object. Therefore, love may be regarded as a condition of the mind. It is a state of mind not a perpetual state, but a temporary state of the mind in respect of that particular object which is necessary at that particular moment.

1.035_-_The_Recitation_of_Mantra, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      This system of the combination of particular words with other words of the requisite character is followed in the composition of a mantra, which literally means, 'that which protects a person who thinks of it'. Mananat trayate iti mantrah a mantra is that which protects us when we chant it. It protects us like armour, like a shield that we wear in a war, by generating in us a resisting power against any kind of influence which is extraneous in nature, and which is unwanted for the Purpose on hand. Chandas is the peculiar chemical combination of the letters, we may say. Particular chemical substances produce special results or effects when they are combined with certain types of other chemical components. But when they are mixed together, they may create a third force altogether.      A mixture that is chemically produced, like hydrogen and oxygen for instance, is not merely an arithmetical combination of two elements, because when the two are combined, some peculiar effect is produced which is not apparently present in either of the components. For instance, water is produced by a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, but we will not find the character of water either in hydrogen or in oxygen. The water that is the effect of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen in a certain proportion is a new effect altogether, and we cannot, by analysis, discover the essence of water in its original causes. Likewise, the words of a mantra, the components of a mantra, have special forces present or inherent in them, and when the words are combined in the requisite proportion and in the manner mentioned in the chandas shastra, they produce a third kind of effect which is the Purpose or intention of the mantra, and that effect is called the devata. We may say that water is the devata of hydrogen and oxygen it is the deity. That is the intention. That is the Purpose. That is what we require. That is what we are aiming at and want.      --      Thus, the Purpose of the recitation of pranava or mantra is to produce a condition in the subtle body the vehicle of the mind which is sympathetic in nature with the universal objective of harmony. What is harmony? It is equal attention paid to every structure, and every component of the structure of one's being. It cannot be done easily and, therefore, we take to the method of the chanting of mantra. The mantra, pranava, is supposed to be the king of mantras because the various parts of the soundbox in our vocal system that ordinarily operate in the chanting of any mantra, or the utterance of any word of any language, take part in the utterance of Om. The entire soundbox vibrates from the bottom to the top, and so it is believed in many mystical circles that Om is inclusive of every language. Every word conceivable is included in it in a very potential latent form, and because it is thus the most general of all symbols conceivable, it is the best designation of God, Who is the greatest of universals.      This has to be chanted again and again, says Patanjali tajjapa tadarthabhvanam (I.28). Here, Patanjali does not say that the chanting of the mantra alone is sufficient. He also says that we have to concentrate on the meaning of the mantra to a produce quick result. Tadarthabhvanam the meaning should be felt in the mind. We must be feeling the content of the mantra. "What does it signify? What am I chanting? What does it mean, ultimately?" When the intention behind the mantra is coupled with the chanting, there is a quickening of the process in the realisation of the objective. There are many various other prescriptions mentioned here for the Purpose of accelerating the process of realisation through the chanting of the mantra, such a proper seat, a proper direction, a proper time, a proper place and given circumstances, etc. all of which are known to us.      Also, there is a special tradition of chanting mantra, known as purascharana in India, and it is supposed to be the recitation of the mantra as many lakhs of times (a lakh is one hundred thousand) as there are letters in a mantra, so that the completion of the purascharana is supposed to be the completion of a round of sadhana, the completion of a given cycle. As many lakhs of japa as there are letters in a mantra are to be chanted, and then it produces a novel effect in oneself. There are devotees, even today, and there were many previously, who did numerous purascharanas of this kind for the Purpose of the realisation of the deity of the mantra. I personally feel that for the minds of today, japa is perhaps the best sadhana, because it is a technique by which the mind can be automatically drawn towards the point of concentration by habitual recitation repetition of the mantra. It does not require much logic, study, or analysis, or anything of that sort. It requires merely a will to do that is all. There were many saints and sages who had spiritual realisation merely through this japa sadhana, because japa or recitation of the Divine Name or the mantra is virtually the same as meditation. As Patanjali mentions, japa is charged with the notion, idea or concentration of the mind on the meaning of the mantra.

1.036_-_The_Rise_of_Obstacles_in_Yoga_Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Likewise, the spiritual undertaking is a treatment administered to the soul for the Purpose of its regaining perfect health and pristine purity. The practice of yoga is nothing but this cathartic, this pill that is administered, and immediately there is a peculiar action set up in the system by this purifying drug that has been given. Then anything and everything takes place, much to our surprise all of which look like tremendous enemies attacking from all sides and we may be under the impression that we are falling down, dropping into the pits, or going to hell. But that is not what is happening. As the sun rises, sometimes the frost starts biting more intensely than it would before the sunrise. In midwinter sometimes we have that experience, when the entire mountain is seen to be covered with mist. We cannot see the Ganga; we cannot see the buildings on the other side; there is nothing that can be seen. It is all a white, hazy, impervious substance, and we do not know anything it is all homogeneity. When the sun rises, there is a dispersion of this white substance and it starts moving towards our rooms, and we find it entering and stinging us. When the sun rises, the cold increases as a preparation for the complete vanishing of the substance altogether, and then there is the warmth of the blazing sun. Such is the inward transforming process which we undergo when spiritual discipline takes action in the entire system of the seeker.      --      What is this new type of knowledge? A third eye will open. The physical eyes would not be essential at that time, because whatever knowledge is gained through the perception of the senses would be inadequate to the Purpose. The knowledge that we have to acquire through yoga is not a sensory knowledge it not a psychological cognition. It is an insight into the Truth of things. This insight is pratyakcetana adhigamah, where we begin to recognise what is in front of us. Up to that time we have not been able to recognise anything. We are not able to know what is in front of us when we are looking at things with our eyes, because the eyes, the senses, do not give us the truth of things - only a camouflage is presented before us. All that we see with our eyes is a camouflage, because the essence of things is covered over by a relational form in which alone the object is presented, and through which alone the cognition of the object is made possible. But, this form is lifted when there is pratyakcetana adhigamah, or inner attainment. The veil that covers the object is removed, and we see what is really there inside.      --      So, a calm and quiet person is not necessarily a good person, because this calmness and quietness may be like the dry seed which has no opportunity to germinate. The conditions favourable should be present, and then immediately we will see what is coming up. It is the Purpose of the practice of yoga not to allow these tendencies to germinate as and when they like, but to bring them to the light of day by deliberate evoking of their presence on to the conscious level, so that they may all be destroyed at one stroke.

1.038_-_Impediments_in_Concentration_and_Meditation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Then Patanjali goes on to tell us that there can be another obstacle alabdhabhumikatva, which means to say the incapacity to fix the point of attention. However much we may try, we will not know where to concentrate the mind. There will be either experimentation with various ideas and ideals for the Purpose of concentration, not knowing which is good and which is better, or there will be a total inability to fix the mind at all. Due to continued exertion of the mind for a protracted period in the practice of meditation, it may become so tired that it may refuse to act further, just as we sometimes see horses becoming exhausted by pulling carts. Perhaps from not having been fed for some days and from working in the hot sun, they refuse to move further in spite of their being whipped any number of times. They may even topple the cart, or they may move backwards, so that the driver does not know what they will do. It is possible that the mind can also resort to these devices when it is exhausted due to the fatigue of practice.      This is also an important aspect of the practice of meditation. It should not entail any kind of exhaustion of spirit or fatigue of the body or the mind. Whenever we work we are likely to get exhausted, but it is essential to remember that meditation is not a work it is not an activity which can exhaust us or tire us. Also, there is a possibility of one's getting tired of anything which is extraneous to one's own essential nature. It is not easy to get tired of one's own self, although we can get tired of others. We can get tired of anything that is not essentially a part of our own nature. But meditation is nothing but an attempt to manifest our own nature in greater and greater degrees, rather than engage ourselves in an activity for the Purpose of the achievement of an ulterior motive. Meditation is not an action in the ordinary sense of the term and, therefore, it is not supposed to bring about fatigue, either of the body or of the mind. If we feel exhaustion or fatigue after meditation, it can be safely concluded that there has been some kind of mistake in the choice of the ideal of meditation or in the method that has been adopted in meditation.      --      The mind's non-cooperation with this enterprise called yoga can specifically be said to be due to a lack of understanding as to what it is, because when there is proper understanding and deep conviction born of this understanding, it is difficult to believe that one will not cooperate. Lack of cooperation is lack of understanding. We do not appreciate the meaning of it, or the value of it, or the worth of it; the mind is of that nature. It does not know why we are practising yoga, or what the Purpose of yoga is. Though intellectually, superficially, logically and academically it acquiesces in the pursuit, this has not been driven into its feelings and has not become a part of its real nature. For all these reasons, it may be difficult to gain the point of concentration, which is called the difficulty alabdha- bhumikatva.      --      The prana is connected with the nerves and the muscles very intimately, and inasmuch as the prana is nothing but the external expression of the mind, any rearrangement of the method of thought will tell upon the arrangement of the movement of the pranas, and all of this will also tell upon the muscles, the nerves, etc., so that there can be a complete overhauling of the system. If this is done suddenly and not very slowly or gradually, due to very intense pressure exerted upon the system there can be angamejayatva or tremor of the whole system. We will feel shocks and jerks and tremors, as if we are jumping like a frog. We may not actually physically jump, but there will be a sensation of jumping, as if we have been pushed by somebody from outside, or we have been pulled from the front. All of this is due to the intensification of the activity of the prana in a more harmonious manner than it is accustomed to in its ordinary ways. The movement of the prana is conditioned by desires. As a matter of fact, the pranic activity is usually nothing but the preparation of the system to fulfil its desires. The dynamo, which produces within us the necessary energy for the Purpose of fulfilling a desire, is the system known as the vital energy or the prana, and it is always directed towards objects of sense. It pulls the mind in that direction.

1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      What is the nature of this stinking lump of selfness or personality, which has to be so passionately repented of and so completely died to, before there can be any true knowing of God in purity of spirit? The most meagre and non-committal hypodiesis is that of Hume. Mankind, he says, are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement. An almost identical answer is given by the Buddhists, whose doctrine of anatta is the denial of any permanent soul, existing behind the flux of experience and the various psycho-physical skandhas (closely corresponding to Humes bundles), which constitute the more enduring elements of personality. Hume and the Buddhists give a sufficiently realistic description of selfness in action; but they fail to explain how or why the bundles ever became bundles. Did their constituent atoms of experience come together of their own accord? And, if so, why, or by what means, and within what kind of a non-spatial universe? To give a plausible answer to these questions in terms of anatta is so difficult that we are forced to abandon the doctrine in favour of the notion that, behind the flux and within the bundles, there exists some kind of permanent soul, by which experience is organized and which in turn makes use of that organized experience to become a particular and unique personality. This is the view of the orthodox Hinduism, from which Buddhist thought parted company, and of almost all European thought from before the time of Aristotle to the present day. But whereas most contemporary thinkers make an attempt to describe human nature in terms of a dichotomy of interacting psyche and physique, or an inseparable wholeness of these two elements within particular embothed selves, all the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy make, in one form or another, the affirmation that man is a kind of trinity composed of body, psyche and spirit. Selfness or personality is a product of the first two elements. The third element (that quidquid increatum et increabile, as Eckhart called it) is akin to, or even identical with, the divine Spirit that is the Ground of all being. Mans final end, the Purpose of his existence, is to love, know and be united with the immanent and transcendent Godhead. And this identification of self with spiritual not-self can be achieved only by dying to selfness and living to spirit.

1.03_-_Questions_and_Answers, #Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i      ANSWER: That which hath been revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas concerneth a different Obligatory Prayer. Some years ago a number of the ordinances of the Kitab-i-Aqdas including that Obligatory Prayer were, for reasons of wisdom, The Tablet containing the three Obligatory Prayers now in use recorded separately and sent away together with other sacred writings, for the Purposes of preservation and protection. Later these three Obligatory Prayers were revealed.      --      ANSWER: Outstanding debts and payments of Huquq should be settled from the remainder of the estate, but if this is insufficient for the Purpose, the shortfall should be met from his residence and personal clothing.      --      106. He is God, exalted be He, the Lord of majesty and power! The Prophets and Chosen Ones have all been commissioned by the One True God, magnified be His glory, to nurture the trees of human existence with the living waters of uprightness and understanding, that there may appear from them that which God hath deposited within their inmost selves. As may be readily observed, each tree yieldeth a certain fruit, and a barren tree is but fit for fire. the Purpose of these Educators, in all they said and taught, was to preserve man's exalted station. Well is it with him who in the Day of God hath laid fast hold upon His precepts and hath not deviated from His true and fundamental Law. The fruits that best befit the tree of human life are trustworthiness and godliness, truthfulness and sincerity; but greater than all, after recognition of the unity of God, praised and glorified be He, is regard for the rights that are due to one's parents. This teaching hath been mentioned in all the Books of God, and reaffirmed by the Most Exalted Pen. Consider that which the Merciful Lord hath revealed in the Qur'an, exalted are His words: "Worship ye God, join with Him no peer or likeness; and show forth kindliness and charity towards your parents..." Observe how loving-kindness to one's parents hath been linked to recognition of the one true God! Happy they who are endued with true wisdom and understanding, who see and perceive, who read and understand, and who observe that which God hath revealed in the Holy Books of old, and in this incomparable and wondrous Tablet.

1.03_-_Reading, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy   The student may read Homer or schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever. It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard. Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read. The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers. The other is the maturity and experience of that; if that is our mother tongue, this is our father tongue, a reserved and select expression, too significant to be heard by the ear, which we must be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely _spoke_ the   Greek and Latin tongues in the middle ages were not entitled by the accident of birth to _read_ the works of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, but the very materials on which they were written were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct though rude written languages of their own, sufficient for the Purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to discern from that remoteness the treasures of antiquity. What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not _hear_, after the lapse of ages a few scholars   _read_, and a few scholars only are still reading it.   --      What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts any where made to become acquainted with them. I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to keep himself in practice, he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he can do in this world, he says, beside this, to keep up and add to his English. This is about as much as the college bred generally do or aspire to do, and they take an English paper for the Purpose. One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best   English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it? Or suppose he comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose praises are familiar even to the so called illiterate; he will find nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it. Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader; and as for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture. A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of;and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

1.03_-_Tara,_Liberator_from_the_Eight_Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset   teach, guide, and inspire us only to the extent that we are receptive. One of   the Purposes of reciting these and similar verses is to open our minds and   hearts, making ourselves receptive spiritual vessels. Although we seem to be

1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #Hakuin Ekaku, #Zen   Would you charac-terize venerable teachers like Hui-k'o, Nan-yueh, Lin-chi, Hsuan-sha, and Hsiangyen as dumb sheep?   "The exchanges that took place when teachers and students faced each other in the past did not necessarily dispense with words, but when the students asked questions, they were generally for the Purpose of seeking instruction, receiving appraisal of an opinion, probing the other's insight, resolving a troubling problem, or making a personal assertion.q They were nothing like the half-baked encounters carried out by the pseudo-Zennists of today, with teachers who can't tell the difference between fine and coarse, between rock and precious jade, wading in from the outset, doing what they can to free up the cicada's wings, r spewing out great quantities of the worst imaginable filth and lacquering their students' faces with the stuff."   Boku said, "But there are students who reach satori by studying the words and teachings of the

1.03_-_Yama_and_Niyama, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   13.1:WEH FOOTNOTE: SIC, should be: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."   14:Remember that for the Purpose of this treatise the whole object of Yama and Niyama is to live so that no emotion or passion disturbs the mind.)

1.040_-_Re-Educating_the_Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      In the beginning stages, for the Purpose of novitiates absolutely unfamiliar with this subject, what is prescribed is a conceptual form of the ideal that one would regard as the highest possible, and this is the philosophy behind the worship of the gods of religions. It is not the worship of many gods, but the worship of any aspect of the one God, which can be taken as the means to the realisation of that all-inclusive background of these various manifestations called 'gods'. Sometimes, especially in the field of pure psychic science and occultism, any object is taken for the Purpose of concentration, provided the will is strong enough. The object of meditation or concentration need not necessarily be a deity in the sense of a divine being it can be anything. It can be even a candlestick, or even a fountain pen or a pencil; the only condition is that we should not think of anything else except that pencil in front of us.      --      It is very well known why we practise yoga, or for the matter of that, why we engage ourselves in any activity at all. the Purpose is to fulfil a wish, whether it is a particularised one or a larger one. This wish is supposed to be fulfilled by the practice of concentration of mind. Here, it would be advantageous to note how a wish can be fulfilled by mere concentration of mind. If that had not been the case, why should be there any attempt at all at concentration? Is it possible to fulfil a desire, or come to the attainment of any wish, for the matter of that, by concentration of mind? The answer is yes, as given by the science of yoga. Any wish can be fulfilled, whatever it be, on earth or in heaven, provided we can adjust our thoughts properly, in a prescribed manner. The absence of success in the pursuit of any objective is due to absence of sufficient concentration on the objective. We are not fully interested in anything, as I mentioned sometime back. That is the reason why we cannot achieve anything fully. There is nothing in this world which can draw our attention wholly, and that is why nothing comes to us as we expect it. A half-hearted friendship with anything in this world cannot lead to a permanent success in the matter of union with that object, or utilisation of that object for one's purpose.      --      Any particular object can be taken for the Purpose of concentration, because any particular has the elements of the universal present in it. For instance, we can approach the government through any officer. He may be an officer from Madras, or from Punjab, it makes no difference. He is an officer of the government of India. So to touch the government we need not run about from place to place in search of it, because a government is like the universal it is pervading everything, and it is everywhere. We can contact this universal, called the government, through an individual or a particular that is the officer he may be any officer. Through him we can find our way to that universal principle called the government. When that officer expresses a view, is it the officer's view or is it the government's view? It is not his individual view, but it is the expression of the universal that is behind him. It is the force of the government that works through the individual, and at that time he is not an individual he is a representation of the universal. Likewise, even an idol, or an image, or a picture, or a concept can become a representation of the universal characters behind it, provided we are able to visualise these characters with sincerity of purpose.      --      This is the Purpose of satsanga, listening to discourses of a spiritual and philosophical nature, study of sacred scriptures, svadhyaya, etc. Direct meditation is impossible, for reasons well known; therefore, we go to satsangas and listen to discourses touching upon various subjects, though within a limited circle. The subjects are variegated and yet limited to certain features. Similar is the case with study. If we study the Srimad Bhagavata, or the Ramayana, or the Bhagavadgita, the mind is given a large scope to think of many ideas and to bring into it notions of various features of reality. Though there is a variety presented in the study of a scripture of this kind, this variety is ultimately limited to a particular pattern of thinking.      --      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 unsympathetic 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.      --      An intelligent technique has to be adopted in the very beginning itself. The mind should be made to understand the necessity of avoiding certain ways of thinking for the Purpose of a larger objective that it has placed before itself, because the reason behind the necessity to give up certain other methods of thinking is that these methods of thinking which are supposed to be given up are irreconcilable with the nature of truth. And as truth alone succeeds, thoughts which are not consonant with the nature of truth should be given up.

1.045_-_Piercing_the_Structure_of_the_Object, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga   Skmaviayatva ca ali   ga paryavasnam (I.45). The gradation of the subtlety of the objects of meditation consummates in the indeterminable matrix of all things; this is the meaning of the sutra. As we proceed further, we begin to come into contact with more and more of the subtle aspects of the very same object of meditation. It does not mean that the object changes, but the intensity with which we perceive it and the subtlety of its constitution go on increasing as one advances. It is a precise prescription and advice that the object of meditation should not be changed. Once we take to a particular object, we must pursue it right through the very given object and not change its location or character. the Purpose of meditation is to go into the very root of things, and once we get into the root of any particular object, we have simultaneously entered the roots of everything else also, because everything is made up of the same substance and everything is constituted in the same manner whatever be that object, wherever it be, and whatever be the spatial or temporal location of the object. It is enough if one persists in concentrating the mind on any one given thing until one reaches the summit of the realisation of the essence of the object.      --      The bondage of the jiva consists in the isolation of its experiencing unit, namely, consciousness, from the object of its experience. This is the reason why there is desire of every kind. A desire is nothing but an attempt of consciousness to gain what is not contained within its own self. The content of consciousness is what is desired by consciousness, but that content is cut off due to a peculiar phenomenon that has arisen, and the phenomenon is the principle of isolation of the subject from the object. the Purpose of yoga is to bring about a reunion of this twofold principle known as the subject and the object, so that it may go back to the original condition where it was not so separated. The means of action in the process of meditation, of course, is consciousness itself; we may call it mind in a grosser form.      --      These stages of meditation are referred to in a sutra of Patanjali from his first chapter, and these stages are designated by him as savitarka, savichara, sananda and sasmita. These are all peculiar technical words of the yoga philosophy, which simply mean the conditions of gross consciousness, subtle consciousness, cause consciousness and reality consciousness. Though he has mentioned only four stages for the Purpose of a broad division of the process of ascent, we can subdivide these into many more. As a matter of fact, when we actually come to it and begin to practise, we will find that we have to pass through various stages, just as we do in a course of education. Though we may designate a particular year of study as being the first grade, second grade, third grade, etc., even in each grade we will find there are various stages of study through the divisions of the syllabus or the curriculum of study.      --      But Patanjali says that mere thinking and analysis will not do it requires direct meditation. While analytical techniques are good enough for the Purpose of bringing about logical convictions in the mind, direct experience of the reality behind the objects would be possible only by meditation, which is not merely an analytical technique undertaken, but a profound attempt at piercing through the structure of the object by repeatedly hitting upon it by the use of a single technique which is practised regularly every day, so that when the object is bombarded in this manner by a repeated process of meditation, adopting a single technique, without remission of effort the object gives way. The complex structure of the object, which appeared to be a compact substance, is revealed before the mind as made up of bits of matter and little tiny processes of force which can be disintegrated by the power of meditation. The object can be dismembered, and we will find that afterwards there is no object at all.      --      Whatever be our effort in meditation, the conviction that things are outside us and that they are completely out of our control will repeat itself so vehemently and forcefully that we will be unhappy. Doubts will arise in the mind. "After all, am I going to succeed? How can I control this mountain? What right have I over this mountain?" But we will realise, after repeated practise, that we have some say in the matter of the existence of even a mountain, though it may look that it is irrelevant to the question at hand. Ultimately there is nothing that is disconnected from us and, therefore, there is nothing which cannot be converted into an object of meditation. In fact there is nothing, anywhere in this world, which cannot become an avenue for the entry of consciousness into the Universal Reality. Any object, for the matter of that, can be taken as a suitable object for the Purpose of meditation, because prakriti is permanently present, pervading everything in one form or the other, and so whatever be the object that we take for meditation, it is a form of prakriti, this pradhana of the Samkhya. So, there is no need to worry oneself about the choice of the object of meditation. It depends upon the predilection of the mind, the tendency of the mind, and the suitability of the relationship one has with the object that has been chosen.      --      The entire process of meditation is nothing but this peculiar technique of the absorption of the characteristics of the object into one's own self, stage by stage, though it may take years - sometimes it takes births. But the Purpose is the same, and the method is this: namely, that the spatial isolation and the temporal distance of the object from the meditating consciousness should be diminished gradually, by repeated concentration. After repeated practise it will be realised that the object will reveal certain characters which are sympathetic with the constitution of the meditating consciousness. In the beginning stages, however, the sympathy that exists between the subject and the object cannot be visualised.

1.04_-_GOD_IN_THE_WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      The ruler of the Southern Ocean was Shu, the ruler of the Northern Ocean was Hu, and the ruler of the Centre was Chaos. Shu and Hu were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said: Men all have seven orifices for the Purpose of seeing, hearing, eating and breathing, while this ruler alone has not a single one. Let us try to make them for him. Accordingly they dug one orifice in him every day. At the end of seven days Chaos died.

1.04_-_Money, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      4:In your personal use of money look on all you have or get or bring as the Mother s. Make no demand but accept what you receive from her and use it for the Purposes for which it is given to you. Be entirely selfless, entirely scrupulous, exact, careful in detail, a good trustee; always consider that it is her possessions and not your own that you are handling. On the other hand, what you receive for her, lay religiously before her; turn nothing to your own or anybody else's purpose.

1.04_-_The_Conditions_of_Esoteric_Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy    p. 118    cannot develop themselves under their conditions of life. Now, many may find it desirable for other reasons to change their conditions of life, but no one need do so for the Purpose of esoteric training. For the latter, a person need only do as much as possible, whatever his position, to further the health of body and soul. Every kind of work can serve the whole of humanity; and it is a surer sign of greatness of soul to perceive clearly how necessary for this whole is a petty, perhaps even an offensive employment than to think: "This work is not good enough for me; I am destined for something better." Of special importance for the student is the striving for complete health of mind. An unhealthy life of thought and feeling will not fail to obstruct the path to higher knowledge. Clear, calm thinking, with stability of feeling and emotion, form here the basis of all work. Nothing should be further removed from the student than an inclination toward a fantastical, excitable life, toward nervousness, exaggeration, and fanaticism. He should acquire a healthy outlook on all circumstances of life; he should meet the demands of lie with steady assurance, quietly letting all things make their impression on him    p. 119   --      It must be clearly realized that the Purpose of this training is to build and not to destroy. The student should therefore bring with him the good will for sincere and devoted work, and not the intention to criticize and destroy. He should be capable of devotion, for he must learn what he does not yet know; he should look reverently on that which discloses itself. Work and devotion, these are the fundamental qualities which must be demanded of the student. Some come to realize that they are making no progress, though in their own opinion they are untiringly active. The reason is that they have not grasped the meaning of work and devotion in the right way. Work done for the sake of success will be the least successful,    p. 128

1.04_-_The_Core_of_the_Teaching, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Still, this Lord is the Self in whom all knowledge culminates and the Master of sacrifice to whom all works lead as well as the   Lord of Love into whose being the heart of devotion enters, and the Gita preserves a perfectly equal balance, emphasising now knowledge, now works, now devotion, but for the Purposes of the immediate trend of the thought, not with any absolute separate preference of one over the others. He in whom all three meet and become one, He is the Supreme Being, the Purushottama.

1.04_-_The_Qabalah_The_Best_Training_for_Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      After all, it's simple enough. Every word you come across, add it up, stick it down against that number in a book kept for the Purpose. That may seem tedious and silly; why should you do all over again the work that I have already done for you? Reason: simple. Doing it will teach you Qabalah as nothing else could. Besides, you won't be all cluttered up with words that mean nothing to you; and if it should happen that you want a word to explain some particular number, you can look it up in my Sepher Sephiroth.

1.04_-_The_Silent_Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   and the less tension he brings to it, the more quickly he will succeed:   One may start a process of one kind or another for the Purpose which 30

1.052_-_Yoga_Practice_-_A_Series_of_Positive_Steps, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      While desire is a bondage when it is caught up in diversity, it is also a means to liberation when it is concentrated. The concentrated desire is exclusively focused on a chosen ideal; and the freedom of the mind from engagement in any other object than the one that is chosen is the principle of austerity. We limit ourselves to those types of conduct, modes of behaviour and ways of living which are necessary for the fulfilment of our concentration on the single object that has been chosen for the Purpose of meditation. We have to carefully sift the various necessities and the needs of our personality in respect of its engagement, or concentration, on this chosen ideal.      --      Everything has to be taken into consideration so far as we are related to it, and a proper attitude of detachment has to be practised by various means, external as well as internal. This is the principle of austerity which, to re-emphasise, does not mean either too much indulgence or going to the other extreme of completely cutting off all indulgence. It is the allowing in of as much relationship with things, both in quantity and quality, as would be necessary under the conditions of ones own personality in that particular stage of evolution, with the Purpose of helping oneself in the onward growth to a healthier condition of spiritual aspiration.

1.053_-_A_Very_Important_Sadhana, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      For the Purpose of those students of yoga who would not be in a position to practise these meditations daily as has been indicated up to this time, the great sage Patanjali says that the same goal can be reached, though with a greater effort and in a longer period of time, by milder techniques of sadhana if intense meditation is difficult. The very attempt at the control of the senses austerity, about which we were discussing previously generates a new strength in the mind and sets the mind in tune with more impersonal powers. Thus, meditation becomes less difficult than it would have been otherwise.      --      There are various other methods of svadhyaya. It depends upon the state of ones mind how far it is concentrated, how far it is distracted, what these desires are that have remained frustrated inside, what the desires are that have been overcome, and so on. The quality of the mind will determine the type of svadhyaya that one has to practise. If nothing else is possible, do parayana of holy scriptures the Sundara Kanda, the Valmiki Ramayana or any other Ramayana, the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana, the Srimad Bhagavadgita, the Moksha Dharma Parva of the Mahabharata, the Vishnu Purana, or any other suitable spiritual text. It has to be recited again and again, every day at a specific time, in a prescribed manner, so that this sadhana itself becomes a sort of meditation because what is meditation but hammering the mind, again and again, into a single idea? Inasmuch as abstract meditations are difficult for beginners, these more concrete forms of it are suggested. There are people who recite the Ramayana or the Srimad Bhagavata 108 times. They conduct Bhagvat Saptaha. the Purpose is to bring the mind around to a circumscribed form of function and not allow it to roam about on the objects of sense.      The mind needs variety, no doubt, and it cannot exist without variety. It always wants change. Monotonous food will not be appreciated by the mind, and so the scriptures, especially the larger ones like the Epics, the Puranas, the Agamas, the Tantras, etc., provide a large area of movement for the mind wherein it leisurely roams about to its deep satisfaction, finds variety in plenty, reads stories of great saints and sages, and feels very much thrilled by the anecdotes of Incarnations, etc. But at the same time, with all its variety, we will find that it is a variety with a unity behind it. There is a unity of pattern, structure and aim in the presentation of variety in such scriptures as the Srimad Bhagavata, for instance. There are 18,000 verses giving all kinds of detail everything about the cosmic creation and the processes of the manifestation of different things in their gross form, subtle form, causal form, etc. Every type of story is found there. It is very interesting to read it. The mind rejoices with delight when going through such a large variety of detail with beautiful comparisons, etc. But all this variety is like a medical treatment by which we may give varieties of medicine with a single aim. We may give one tablet, one capsule, one injection, and all sorts of things at different times in a day to treat a single disease. the Purpose is the continued assertion that God is All, and the whole of creation is a play of the glory of God.      The goal of life in every stage of its manifestation is the vision of God, the experience of God, the realisation of God that God is the Supreme Doer and the Supreme Existence. This is the principle that is driven into the mind again and again by the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or such similar texts. If a continued or sustained study of such scriptures is practised, it is purifying. It is a tapas by itself, and it is a study of the nature of ones own Self, ultimately. The word sva is used here to designate this process of study svadhyaya. Also, we are told in one sutra of Patanjali, tad drau svarpe avasthnam (I.3), that the seer finds himself in his own nature when the vrittis or the various psychoses of the mind are inhibited. the Purpose of every sadhana is only this much: to bring the mind back to its original source.      --      the Purpose of sense control, study of scripture and adoration of God is all single namely, the affirmation of the supremacy and the ultimate value of Godhead. This requires persistent effort, no doubt, and as has been pointed out earlier, it is a strenuous effort on the part of the mind to prevent the incoming of impressions of desire from objects outside on the one hand, and to create impressions of a positive character in the form of love of God on the other hand. Vijatiya vritti nirodha and sajatiya vritti pravah these two processes constitute sadhana. Vijatiya vritti nirodha means putting an end to all incoming impressions from external objects and allowing only those impressions which are conducive to contemplation on the Reality of God. Vijati means that which does not belong to our category, genus, or species.

1.056_-_Lack_of_Knowledge_is_the_Cause_of_Suffering, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      We know how fantastically and frantically we run about in dream for the Purpose of fulfilment of the desires manifest in the dream mind and the avoidance of the pain that is also manifest there. The joys and sorrows, the loves and hatreds of the dream world become so real that the experiencing unit there gets involved in it, gets submerged into it and becomes one with it, which is the direct effect of the forgetfulness of what one really is in waking. This is exactly what has happened in the waking condition also. This so-called waking consciousness is similar to the dream condition as far as its structure and mode of operation is concerned. This external activity of the mind in waking life, this engagement of the mind in the objects of sense and this pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain in life are the consequences of the obscuration of the knowledge of what we really are. That is avidya.      Avidy ketram uttare prasupta tanu vicchinna udrm (II.4). This sutra tells us that the obliteration of the knowledge of our essential nature, which is avidya, produces a false condition of individuality, asmita, which rushes forward outwardly for the Purpose of contact with other individuals animate or inanimate. This is called desire. This desire is nothing but the urge of one individual to unite with another individual. This urge is what is referred to in this description of prasupta tanu vicchinna udrm. The urge for contact with other individuals is called desire, which has arisen on account of the perception of diversity born of the ignorance of the universality of things. This desire can be completely dormant in childhood, or when we are in the mothers womb, or when the body is dead, or when there is a comatose condition, or in the state of anaesthesia. In these conditions, the desire is dormant, but it is not destroyed. It is present, but not visible not manifest, not active. When it is impossible to fulfil the desire, then also it is dormant. We know that the desire cannot be manifest the conditions are not favourable at all and therefore, we push these desires inside and keep them inside as if they are not there. But, this is not the absence of desires; they remain in latent forms. This summarises the prasupta condition of a desire.      --      the Purpose of yoga is to cut at the root of this ignorance itself, so that its ramifications in the form of these vikshepas, or distractions, may not have vitality in them. They will be like a burnt seed or a burnt cloth, or a lifeless snake. It is a snake, but it has no life. Likewise will be these functions, activities and enterprises of the mind when it will look as if they are there in all their shape and form, but they will be lifeless. That is the Purpose of the practice of yoga.

1.057_-_The_Four_Manifestations_of_Ignorance, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Who in this world does not believe the reality of a not-Self, or an object of sense? Is there anyone in this world who does not have the conviction that what he sees, or she sees, is real in itself? And, is there any activity which is not based on this notion? So, we can imagine what will be the outcome of all these activities. They will be only adding fuel to the fire that is already blazing due to the action of this ignorance. But, when this endeavour on the part of the perceiving consciousness in respect of the objects of sense gets re-evaluated and takes a new turn altogether, then this binding activity can become a liberating activity. That is the subtle difference between discriminative perception of an object and emotional perception of an object. The scientific observation of a thing is different from an observation that is coupled with attachment like, dislike, etc. Gradually the mind has to be disentangled from its obsessions in respect of things, and the perceptions should become detached observations for the Purpose of the complete extrication of the mind from its emotional relationships.      --      It is not possible to deny all relationship, because of the fact of perception. If I am completely oblivious of the existence of people outside, of things outside, of the world around me, then of course the question may not arise. But I see the world, I see people, I see things as completely different from me. So I feel a necessity to conduct myself in a particular manner in respect of these existences outside me. This manner is raga-dvesa like and dislike a peculiar, subtle relationship that we project for the Purpose of stabilising this individuality and keeping it secure in the light of the presence of other individuals also. Here begins what is called social life.      Social life is nothing but a set-up of living which has been agreed upon by different individuals in a group for the Purpose of mutual sustenance, coordination and security, as no individual can be secure by itself in the light of the presence of other individuals because each individual is a centre of egoism, a principle of intense self-affirmation which denies the reality of every other individual. The meaning of individuality or egoism is the denial of value to others, and sometimes the force of denial becomes so intense that it comes to the surface as conflict, as warfare. Whether it is through words or actually in fight, internally there is a feeling of irreconcilability among individuals. They are not really friends, because their very existence is an irreconcilability; it is an untenability; it is a denial of the truths which prevail in the midst of this apparent diversity.

1.05_-_Adam_Kadmon, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Chokmah. With the union in oneself of Wisdom and   Understanding, the Purpose of life may be divined, and the goal envisaged at the end thereof, and the steps leading to the consummation of Divine Union may be instituted with- out danger, fear, or the ordinary conflicts of the personality.

1.05_-_CHARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      By a kind of philological accident (which is probably no accident at all, but one of the more subtle expressions of mans deep-seated will to ignorance and spiritual darkness), the word charity has come, in modern English, to be synonymous with almsgiving, and is almost never used in its original sense, as signifying the highest and most divine form of love. Owing to this impoverishment of our, at the best of times, very inadequate vocabulary of psychological and spiritual terms, the word love has had to assume an added burden. God is love, we repeat glibly, and that we must love our neighbours as ourselves; but love, unfortunately, stands for everything from what happens when, on the screen, two close-ups rapturously collide to what happens when a John Woolman or a Peter Claver feels a concern about Negro slaves, because they are temples of the Holy Spiritfrom what happens when crowds shout and sing and wave flags in the Sport-Palast or the Red Square to what happens when a solitary contemplative becomes absorbed in the prayer of simple regard. Ambiguity in vocabulary leads to confusion of thought; and, in this matter of love, confusion of thought admirably serves the Purpose of an unregenerate and divided human nature that is determined to make the best of both worldsto say that it is serving God, while in fact it is serving Mammon, Mars or Priapus.

1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy    p. 160    to curb his passions, in as much as they of their own accord follow the good. So long as self-chastisement is necessary, no one can pass a certain stage of esoteric development; for a virtue practiced under constraint if futile. If there is any lust remaining, it interferes with esoteric development, however great the effort made not to humor it. Nor does it matter whether this desire proceeds from the soul or the body. For example, if a certain stimulant be avoided for the Purpose of self-purification, this deprivation will only prove helpful if the body suffers no harm from it. Should the contrary to be the case, this proves that the body craves the stimulant, and that abstinence from it is of no value. In this case it may actually be a question of renouncing the ideal to be attained, until more favorable physical conditions, perhaps in another life, shall be forthcoming. A wise renunciation may be a far greater achievement than the struggle for something which, under given conditions, remains unattainable. Indeed, a renunciation of this kind contributes more toward development than the opposite course.