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Abraxas (or Abrasax); The letters of this word add up to 365. In Tertullian's outline of the beliefs of Basilides, the term seems to refer to the unknown Father, the Prime Source. In Hyppolitus, what is described seems to be the Demiurge. In the surviving Gnostic texts, Abrasax is one of a number of "light bringers".
Al-Batin ::: The unperceivable reality within the perceivable manifestation! The source of the unknown (Awwal, Akhir, Zahir, Batin, HU!)
A person is entranced in various minor degrees when he is temporarily absent-minded, or is absorbed in a brown study, and even in a certain sense when he is asleep. Many persons of mediumistic or psychic constitution become negatively absent from their ordinary senses, or they cultivate such a state for the purpose of becoming conscious on the astral plane. These unfortunates, who yield to the psychic lure of the unknown, receive nothing but a confused and unreliable vision. Worse yet, they thus open their own natures to the invasion and possible possession by astral entities of all kinds, even by excarnate actively evil beings — the elementaries — seeking physical satisfaction of unexpended intense desires. Not a few of such victims become such from their craving to get out in the astral, and to cultivate powers for the controlling of others, as taught by various pseudo-occultists who brazenly advertise their appeals to selfish human nature.
At the top of the rod in the Greek version is a knob, in the earlier Egyptian form a serpent’s head, from which spring a pair of wings. From the central head between the wings grew the heads of the entwined serpents (spirit and matter), which descended along the tree of life, crossing the neutral laya-centers between the different planes of being, to manifest where the two tails joined on earth (SD 1:549-50). The analogy is found in every known cosmogony, all of which begin with a circle, head, or egg surrounded by darkness. From this circle of infinity — the unknown All — comes forth the manifestations of spirit and matter. The emblem of the evolution of gods and atoms is shown by the two forces, positive and negative, ascending and descending and meeting. Its symbology is directly connected with the globes of the planetary chain and the circulations of the beings or life-waves on these globes, as well as with the human constitution and the afterdeath states. Significantly, in ancient Greek mythology, Hermes is the psychopomp, psychagog, or conductor of souls after death to the various inner spheres of the universe, such as the Elysian Plains or the Meads of Asphodel. The Caduceus also signifies the dual aspect of wisdom by its twin serpents, Agathodaimon and Kakodaimon, good and evil in a relative sense.
Bardesanes Greek form of Bar Deisan or Bardaisan (154-222?), a Gnostic from Edessa in Mesopotamia in the time of Marcus Aurelius. Little is known of his life, and his teachings must be gathered from fragments preserved by commentators. He has something in common with Valentinus but, if he was ever a disciple of that Gnostic, he soon diverged on his own line. Though his doctrines frequently conflict with those of the Christian Church, he is considered by some to have been a Christian. He derived much of his doctrine from India. At the head of his cosmogony stands the unknown Deity, whose shadow is the root of matter — primordial chaos; from the One and Matter spring the Son, whose union with Sophia produces the elements; and duality pervades the manifested worlds in a system of seven syzygies or pairs of active and passive principles. He upholds human free will, and makes great use of the astrological keys connecting mankind with the seven planetary spheres. As to birth, regeneration, and the inner meaning of baptism, he taught the continuing existence of the essential self through many changes of vehicle.
Boundless, The The infinitude of living space and unconditioned time, termed parabrahman, parabrahman-mulaprakriti, tat, or Aditi in Sanskrit; in the Chaldean Qabbalah, ’eyn soph; and with the Greeks, to apeyron. The non-existent, because nonmanifested, and therefore the concealed unity; sometimes called darkness in a mystic sense, no-number because not subject to computation, also the rootless root. Having no relation to the bounded and conditioned which are contained within it, it is the unknown and unknowable cosmic motion, absolute consciousness, and absolute motion, and therefore to our limited minds unconsciousness and immobility. Its symbol is the circle or zero, denoting the absence of everything that can be predicated as imbodying limitation.
Collective and Distributive Properties: A general term is taken in its collective sense when what is predicated of its applies to its designation as a whole, rather than to each of the individual members belonging to it; the distributive properties are those that apply only in the latter way. Colligation: (Lat. con + ligare, to bind) The assimilation of a number of separately observed facts to a unified conception or formula. The term was introduced by Whewcll who gives the eximple of the idea of an eliptical orbit which "unifies all observations made on the positions of a planet" (see Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, I Aphorism 1). J. S. Mill appropriates the term and carefully differentiates it from induction: whereas colligation is a simple "description" of observed facts, induction is an extension to the unknown and to the future. See Logic, III, ii, § 4. -- L.W.
Divination: The use of occult, esoteric or spiritualistic means, skill or practices for gaining knowledge of the unknown or of the future.
Force Used in two senses: an effect produced in matter, and the unknown cause of that effect. In the former sense it is a definite measurable quantity, usable in calculating the quantitative relation between phenomena, and of practical service in mechanics. But in the latter sense, force remains for science a mystery. If it is an inherent property of matter, then matter becomes a self-moving entity, a divine thing in its essence; if it acts on matter from outside, then where does it inhere? Is it an independent existence? The whole question is thus left hanging in the air.
"For if we examine carefully, we shall find that Intuition is our first teacher. Intuition always stands veiled behind our mental operations. Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the Unknown which are the beginning of his higher knowledge.” The Life Divine*
“For if we examine carefully, we shall find that Intuition is our first teacher. Intuition always stands veiled behind our mental operations. Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the Unknown which are the beginning of his higher knowledge.” The Life Divine
frink ::: /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what frink means, but they aren't telling.Compare gorets.[Jargon File] (1994-12-16)
frink /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the {Usenet} newsgroup {news:alt.fan.lemurs}, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare {gorets}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16)
Fundamental Propositions In theosophy, the three fundamental religio-philosophic principles or propositions which Blavatsky states in the Proem to The Secret Doctrine are the foundation on which theosophy presents its modern philosophical teachings: 1) “An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle on which all speculation is impossible, since it transcends the power of human conception”; 2) “The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane; periodically ‘the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing’”; and 3) “The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul — a spark of the former — through the Cycle of Incarnation (or ‘Necessity’) in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole term” (SD 1:14-17). There are also three fundamental propositions in volume 2:
gorets ::: /gor'ets/ The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup alt.gorets, which seems to be a running contest to redefine the Soviet Union informs me that gorets is Russian for mountain dweller - ESR] Compare frink.[Jargon File]
gorets /gor'ets/ The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the {Usenet} newsgroup alt.gorets, which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the Former Soviet Union informs me that "gorets" is Russian for "mountain dweller" - ESR] Compare {frink}. [{Jargon File}]
Guardians of the worlds, the unknown**
imagination ::: “… our mind has the faculty of imagination; it can create and take as true and real its own mental structures: . . . . Our mental imagination is an instrument of Ignorance; it is the resort or device or refuge of a limited capacity of knowledge, a limited capacity of effective action. Mind supplements these deficiencies by its power of imagination: it uses it to extract from things obvious and visible the things that are not obvious and visible; it undertakes to create its own figures of the possible and the impossible; it erects illusory actuals or draws figures of a conjectured or constructed truth of things that are not true to outer experience. That is at least the appearance of its operation; but, in reality, it is the mind’s way or one of its ways of summoning out of Being its infinite possibilities, even of discovering or capturing the unknown possibilities of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
“In the Pantheon of the Egyptians it meant the ‘One-only-One,’ because they did not proceed in their popular or exoteric religion higher than the third manifestation which radiates from the Unknown and the Unknowable, the first unmanifested and the second logoi in the esoteric philosophy of every nation. The Nous of Anaxagoras was the Mahat of the Hindu Brahma, the first manifested Deity — ‘the Mind or Spirit self-potent’; this creative Principle being of course the primum mobile of everything in the Universe — its Soul and Ideation” (TG 234).
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "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.” *The Life Divine
"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"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
“… intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
Mano (Gnostic) In the Codex Nazaraeus, chief scripture of the Nazarene Gnostics, the chief of the aeons, the King of Splendor, from whom shoot forth five refulgent rays of divine light. The Codex describes Mano as the supreme King of Light, the great first one: he who first emanates from Ferho, the unknown formless life, generally equivalent to the Second Logos in theosophy.
Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 135
“Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
Noumenon [from Greek noeo to perceive with the mind, think; cf nous] Plural Noumena. An object perceived by the mind apart from the senses, an object of cognition. Also the unknown real entity, substance, or essential thing-in-itself, which the mind perforce posits as the basis of the phenomenon, appearance, or objective thing; hence reality as distinguished from apparent or sensible qualities. Thus aether or akasa is called the noumenon of ether; noumena are the conscious guiding causes behind the physical cosmic forces and elements. The emphasis is upon consciousness and intelligence as opposed to mere appearances, or to the conception of the blind forces and inert elements of materialism. Behind every phenomenon must lie a noumenon: the former is the intelligent cause, the latter the produced effect or appearance.
pioneers ::: those who venture into the unknown to open up new areas of thought, research, or development, that others may follow: forerunners.
"Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” *The Renaissance in India
“Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” The Renaissance in India
quadratic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
Tetragonal.
Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Records of ancient medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, etc., tell of the temples being used as hospitals, with priest-physicians supported by the state giving every care to the sick who came, both rich and poor. In addition to material means of treatment — many of which we have rediscovered — these devotees of the gods of healing used special incense, prayers, the “temple sleep,” invocations, music, astrology, etc., which we regard as harmless superstition of an earlier day. However, such conditions, intelligently adapted to each case, in making a pure, serene, uplifting atmosphere around the sick person, would invoke the influences of wholeness within and without him. By putting the inner man in tune with his body, his disordered nature-forces manifesting as disease would tend to flow freely in the currents of health. Natural magic is as practical as the unknown alchemy which transmutes our digested daily bread into molecules of our living body.
Saptaparna (Sanskrit) Saptaparṇa Seven-leaves, sevenfold; the man-plant, sevenfold man, or seven-principled human being. The “mysterious number Seven, born from the upper triangle, the latter itself born from the apex thereof, or the Silent Depths of the unknown universal soul (Sige and Bythos), is the sevenfold Saptaparna plant, born and manifested on the surface of the soil of mystery, from the threefold root buried deep under that impenetrable soil” (SD 2:574).
Self-consciousness Awareness of oneself as the experiencer, attribution of one’s experiences to an ego, consciousness of being a separate individual; whereas consciousness in the abstract is merely awareness of the experience. Animals and very young children are conscious, man is self-conscious; yet the adult, when engrossed in an experience, may lose his self-consciousness for a while. But even man is only partially self-conscious, because he can contemplate only part of his being; that in him which is now the contemplator may become part of what is contemplated. As the subject, the knower, shifts upwards and inwards, so to speak, more and more of the vestures pass into the category of objects or what is known. The Unknown manifests the universe in order to attain full self-consciousness; and in man, the microcosm, an unself-conscious spark of divinity passes through stages of evolution and experience in order to achieve relatively full self-consciousness. The potentiality of self-consciousness, however, is in every atom. In order to become self-conscious, spirit must pass through every cycle of cosmic being, until every ego has attained full self-consciousness as a human being or equivalent entity. Man’s self-consciousness depends on his triple nature; it is man who is the separator of the One into various contrasted aspects.
“Some students, in view of the sacredness of Tetraktis and the Tetragrammaton, mistake the mystic meaning of the Quaternary. The latter was with the ancients only a secondary ‘perfection,’ so to speak, because it related only to the manifested planes. Whereas it is the Triangle, the Greek delta, delta, which was the ‘vehicle of the unknown Deity’ ” (SD 2:582).
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . our mind has the faculty of imagination; it can create and take as true and real its own mental structures: . . . . Our mental imagination is an instrument of Ignorance; it is the resort or device or refuge of a limited capacity of knowledge, a limited capacity of effective action. Mind supplements these deficiencies by its power of imagination: it uses it to extract from things obvious and visible the things that are not obvious and visible; it undertakes to create its own figures of the possible and the impossible; it erects illusory actuals or draws figures of a conjectured or constructed truth of things that are not true to outer experience. That is at least the appearance of its operation; but, in reality, it is the mind"s way or one of its ways of summoning out of Being its infinite possibilities, even of discovering or capturing the unknown possibilities of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” *The Life Divine
Tehmi: “The unknown summit.”
The arani (dual) represent the father and mother elements in nature, the creative, generative energy producing the offspring from the receiver, the mother. While the male/female metaphor has application physiologically, it may be interpreted cosmically: “this idea of the creative power of fire is explained at once by the ancient assimilation of the human soul to a celestial spark” (M. G. Dech 261); again “The ‘female Arani,’ the mistress of the race, is Aditi, the mother of the gods, or Shekinah, eternal light — in the world of Spirit, the ‘Great Deep’ and Chaos; or primordial Substance in its first remove from the Unknown, in the manifested Kosmos” (SD 2:527).
The early Gnostics also considered ten to contain the knowledge of the universe, both metaphysical and material. The Pythagorean dekad “representing the Universe and its evolution out of Silence and the unknown Depths of the Spiritual Soul, or anima mundi, presented two sides or aspects to the student. It could be, and was at first so used and applied to the Macrocosm, after which it descended to the Microcosm, or Man. There was, then, the purely intellectual and metaphysical, or the ‘inner Science,’ and the as purely materialistic or ‘surface science,’ both of which could be expounded by and contained in the Decade. It could be studied, in short, from the Universals of Plato, and the inductive method of Aristotle. The former started from a divine comprehension, when the plurality proceeded from unity, or the digits of the decade appeared, but to be finally re-absorbed, lost in the infinite Circle. The latter depended on sensuous perception alone, when the Decade could be regarded either as the unity that multiplies, or matter which differentiates, its study being limited to the plane surface; to the Cross, or the Seven which proceeds from the ten — or the perfect number, on Earth as in heaven” (SD 2:573).
“The Unknown Absolute, above all number, manifested Itself through an emanation in which it was immanent yet as to which it was transcendental. It first withdrew Itself into Itself, to form an infinite Space, the Abyss; which It then filled with a modified and gradually diminishing Light or Vitalization, first appearing in the Abyss, as the centre of a mathematical point which gradually spread Its Life-giving energy or force throughout all Space. This concentration or contraction and its expansion, being the centripetal and centrifugal energies of creation and existence, the Qabbalists called Tzimtzum. The Will of Ain Soph then manifests Itself through the Ideal Perfect Model or Vitalizing Form, first principle and perfect prototype in idea, of all the to be created, whether spiritual or material. This is the Mikrokosm to the Ain Soph, the Makrokosm as to all the created. It is called the Son of Elohim, i.e., God, and the Adam Illa-ah or Adam Qadmon, the Man of the East or Heavenly Adam” (Myer, Qabbalah p. 231).
"The unknown is that which is beyond the known and though unknown is not unknowable if we can enlarge our faculties or attain to others that we do not yet possess.” The Upanishads*
“The unknown is that which is beyond the known and though unknown is not unknowable if we can enlarge our faculties or attain to others that we do not yet possess.” The Upanishads
“This is a most abstruse teaching which, however, once understood, explains the mystery of every triad or trinity, and is a true key to every three-fold metaphysical symbol. In its most simple and comprehensive form it is found in the human Entity in its triple division into spirit, soul, and body, and in the universe regarded pantheistically, as a unity composed of a Deific, purely spiritual Principle, Supernal Beings — its direct rays — and Humanity. The origin of this is found in the teachings of the prehistoric Wisdom Religion, or Esoteric Philosophy. The grand Pantheistic ideal, of the unknown and unknowable Essence being transformed first into subjective, and then into objective matter, is at the root of all these triads and triplets (TG 338-9).
Tsi-tsai (Chinese) The Self-existent, that which is the unknown darkness, the root of wu-liang-shih (the boundless age).
unknown ::: “The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity.” The Life Divine
Wu-liang-shih, Wu-liang-shu (Chinese) Also Wuliang-sheu. Boundless age; equivalent to the Hebrew ’eyn soph (without bounds). The root of wu-liang-shih is the unknown darkness — the Self-existent (tsi-tsi). See also AMITABHA
yaksa (Yaksha) ::: one of the keepers of wealth; [in the Kena Upanisad]: the Daemon, the Spirit, the Unknown Power.
"Yet there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations.” The Life Divine*
“Yet there is still the unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations.” The Life Divine
Zervan Akarana (Avestan) [from zervan time (cf Pahlavi zervam, zarvan, zurvan) + arana, akrana boundary] Also Zeruana Akerne. Boundless spirit (BCW 4:328); in Zoroastrian literature there are two different kinds of time — boundless time, pre-existing and ever-existing — and finite time, which lasts for 12,000 symbolic years, the period during which the two forces of Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman are engaged in their never-ending struggle. According to the Avesta, Zervan Akarana has always existed; its glory is too exalted, its light too resplendent, for human intellect to grasp and comprehend. Its first emanation is eternal light, which becomes Ahura-Mazda, the Logos; from whom emanate the six Amesha Spentas, and everything that has being, existence, and form. Another translation is “duration in a circle,” the circle being the symbol for the endless, the beginningless, the unknown — hence boundless time. Zervan Akarana is thus the Mazdean equivalent of Parabrahman or ’eyn soph.
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1:And then forget that you are there. ~ Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, #KEYS
2:What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #KEYS
3:Confronting the unknown is a condition of life.
~ Eisho, @BashoSociety#KEYS
4:Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown ~ Aleister Crowley, #KEYS
5:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
~ H P Lovecraft,#KEYS
6:The laws of the Unknown create the known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
7:The Unknown is not the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Two Negations, The Materialist Denial, #KEYS
8:Out of the unknown we move to the unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
9:any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom." ~ Mark Nepo, "The Book of Awakening.", (2000, 2011), #KEYS
10:A Silence that was Being's only word,
The unknown beginning and the voiceless end ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Adwaita,#KEYS
11:And from the unsounded depths of the Unknown a reply came sublime and formidable and we knew that the earth was saved.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, [T0],#KEYS
12:The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
13:Imagination's great ensorcelling rod
Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
14:A caged bird is not freed merely by opening the door. Until the fear of the unknown subsides, until the desire arises to fly away, the bird remains where it is, preferring the known to the unknown. ~ Wu Hsin, #KEYS
15:Faith is indispensable to man, for without it he could not proceed forward in his journey through the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #KEYS
16:To Romanticize means to endow base matters with noble meaning, ordinary matters with a mysterious status, familiar matters with the dignity of the unknown, finite matter with the appearance of infinity. ~ Novalis, #KEYS
17:If we are treading the path of light, and if by chance, by mistake, by ignorance, or even by bad habit, we commit mistakes, we will return to the path again, because of the guidance from the unknown. ~ Swami Rama, #KEYS
18:Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
19:Vain the soul's hope if changeless Law is all:
Ever to the new and the unknown press on
The speeding aeons justifying God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
20:Ananke's engines organising Chance,
Channels perverse of a stupendous Will,
Tools of the Unknown who use us as their tools, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
21:In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And limits his eternity by the hours
And the blind Void struggles to live and see, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
22:The daemons of the unknown overshadow his mind
Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought,
The moulds in which his mind builds out its world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
23:An Energy of perpetual transience makes
The journey from which no return is sure,
The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
24:At last there wakes in us a witness Soul
That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown;
Then all assumes a new and marvellous face: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
25:Voice of the unknowable
This void held more than all the teeming worlds,
This blank felt more than all that Time has borne,
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
26:At last he hears a chanting on the heights
And the far speaks and the unknown grows near:
He crosses the boundaries of the unseen
And passes over the edge of mortal sight
To a new vision of himself a ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
27:Yet your least stumblings are foreseen above.
Infallibly the curves of life are drawn
Following the stream of Time through the unknown;
They are led by a clue the calm immortals keep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
28:Intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #KEYS
29:Be patient, as one who fears no check and does not court success. Fix the gaze of thy soul on the star of which thou art the ray, the flaming star which burns in the obscure depths of the eternal, in the limitless fields of the unknown. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'.
~ Werner Heisenberg,#KEYS
31:Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence ~ Manly P Hall, #KEYS
32:History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
~ Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Time Enough for Love (1973).,#KEYS
33:The incertitude of man's proud confident thought,
The transience of the achievements of his force.
A thinking being in an unthinking world,
An island in the sea of the Unknown,
He is a smallness trying to be great,
An animal with some instincts o ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
34:Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence ~ Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff, #KEYS
35:Her self was nothing, God alone was all,
Yet God she knew not but only knew he was.
A sacred darkness brooded now within,
The world was a deep darkness great and nude.
This void held more than all the teeming worlds,
This blank felt more than all that Time has borne,
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown.
But all was formless, voiceless, infinite.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
36:I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain ... In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
37:I pray to the unknown gods that some man-even a single man, tens of centuries ago-has perused and read that book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, #KEYS
38:And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.*
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 270,#KEYS
39:Too seldom is the shadow of what must come
Cast in an instant on the secret sense
Which feels the shock of the invisible,
And seldom in the few who answer give
The mighty process of the cosmic Will
Communicates its image to our sight,
Identifying the world’s mind with ours. ||11.30||
Our range is fixed within the crowded arc
Of what we observe and touch and thought can guess
And rarely dawns the light of the Unknown
Waking in us the prophet and the seer. ||11.31|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:4, || 11.30 - 11.31 ||,#KEYS
40:Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable. ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
41:In sudden scintillations of the Unknown,
Inexpressive sounds became veridical,
Ideas that seemed unmeaning flashed out truth;
Voices that came from unseen waiting worlds
Uttered the syllables of the Unmanifest
To clothe the body of the mystic Word,
And wizard diagrams of the occult Law
Sealed some precise unreadable harmony,
Or used hue and figure to reconstitute
The herald blazon of Time's secret things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
42:Evil will never cease to exist until selfishness and greed are overcome as factors in dictating the attitudes of men. It is the common thing for the concrete mind to sacrifice the eternal to the temporal. Man, concentrating upon the limited area of the known, loses sight of the effect of his actions upon the limitless area of the unknown. Shortsightedness, consequently, is the cause of endless misery. Moral shortsightedness results in vice, philosophical shortsightedness in materialism, religious shortsightedness in bigotry, rational short-sightedness in fanaticism. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS
43:You cannot seek the unknown. What is sought must already be known, otherwise, it could not be recognized.
All recognition requires memory. What is recognized must have been cognized before. The process works as cognize, then name, and subsequently recognize.
There is nothing to be gained by pursuing the unknown. It is sufficient to fully comprehend the known.
Wu Hsin comes to take you to the real; his words are final. Drink them fully and your thirst has ended.
You are no longer mesmerized by your own self-importance. To have done so means to reach the state in which imagination is no longer taken for the actual. ~ Wu Hsin,#KEYS
44:As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to soar into the Ineffable's reign:
A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world;
Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
It marries the earth to screened eternities.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
45:
There is no darkness, we only close our eyes
and shut out the Light;
There is no pain, it is only our shrinking
from an intense and unwelcome Delight;
There is no death, it is only our dread of the Life Eternal
that comes back upon us and smites us.
Our senses are tremulous and fearsome
and cling to the empty littlenesses of the surface moment,
they heed not the vast surges of Infinitude
that sweep and pass by.
Calm, calm, my soul! Sink down and deep:
Fashion the crystal bowl of thy heart
with all the serene profundity of the unknown spaces -
And drop by drop will gather there
a bliss immortals only can taste,
And ray by ray will dawn the Light supernal....
Or - be prepared for this too, soul, my soul -
the down-rush of a myriad undyked cataracts,
the sudden bursting of a whole stellar conflagration
March 17, 1935 ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, , To the Heights,#KEYS
46:This third and unknown, this tertium quid, he names God; and by the word he means somewhat or someone who is the Supreme, the Divine, the Cause, the All, one of these things or all of them at once, the perfection or the totality of all that here is partial or imperfect, the absolute of all these myriad relativities, the Unknown by learning of whom the real secret of the known can become to him more and more intelligible. Man has tried to deny all these categories, - he has tried to deny his own real existence, he has tried to deny the real existence of the cosmos, he has tried to deny the real existence of God. But behind all these denials we see the same constant necessity of his attempt at knowledge; for he feels the need of arriving at a unity of these three terms, even if it can only be done by suppressing two of them or merging them in the other that is left.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
47:4. Crossing the First Threshold:With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the 'threshold guardian' at the entrance to the zone of magnified power. Such custodians bound the world in four directions-also up and down-standing for the limits of the hero's present sphere, or life horizon. Beyond them is darkness, the unknown and danger; just as beyond the parental watch is danger to the infant and beyond the protection of his society danger to the members of the tribe. The usual person is more than content, he is even proud, to remain within the indicated bounds, and popular belief gives him every reason to fear so much as the first step into the unexplored. The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
48:O soul, it is too early to rejoice!
Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power?
On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?
One was within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the secret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?
This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
49:One perceives the true nature of existence. One discovers the why and the raison d'être of existence, not by the mind and the scientific pursuit, but by the knowledge of the self and the discovery of one's soul which is all-powerful.
This is the true method for knowing, for understanding and for realising the secrets of Nature, of the universe and the path which leads to the Divine. One can do everything with this realisation, one can know everything and finally become the master of one's existence. Nothing will be impossible … nothing will be left out. One has only to see with another sense which is within us, develop another faculty by a rigourous sadhana, to discover the secrets of all existence. Voilà.
The means are in you, the path opens up more and more, gets clearer and clearer, and with the help which is at your disposal, you have only to make an effort and you shall be crowned with a Knowledge, a Light and an Ananda which surpass all existence. Whether it be to see the functioning of the atom, or to know the process of thought or the flights of imagination or even the unknown … to know oneself is to know all. It is this that one must find. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
50:There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only. But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality. If fear and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity. Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed. Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcomes fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety. But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them. ~ Rudolf Steiner, #KEYS
51:5. Belly of the Whale:The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold, is swallowed into the unknown and would appear to have died. This popular motif gives emphasis to the lesson that the passage of the threshold is a form of self-annihilation. Instead of passing outward, beyond the confines of the visible world, the hero goes inward, to be born again. The disappearance corresponds to the passing of a worshipper into a temple-where he is to be quickened by the recollection of who and what he is, namely dust and ashes unless immortal. The temple interior, the belly of the whale, and the heavenly land beyond, above, and below the confines of the world, are one and the same. That is why the approaches and entrances to temples are flanked and defended by colossal gargoyles: dragons, lions, devil-slayers with drawn swords, resentful dwarfs, winged bulls. The devotee at the moment of entry into a temple undergoes a metamorphosis. Once inside he may be said to have died to time and returned to the World Womb, the World Navel, the Earthly Paradise. Allegorically, then, the passage into a temple and the hero-dive through the jaws of the whale are identical adventures, both denoting in picture language, the life-centering, life-renewing act. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
52:There is the one door in us that sometimes swings open upon the splendour of a truth beyond and, before it shuts again, allows a ray to touch us, - a luminous intimation which, if we have the strength and firmness, we may hold to in our faith and make a starting-point for another play of consciousness than that of the sense-mind, for the play of Intuition. For if we examine carefully, we shall find that Intuition is our first teacher. Intuition always stands veiled behind our mental operations. Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the Unknown which are the beginning of his higher knowledge. Reason only comes in afterwards to see what profit it can have of the shining harvest. Intuition gives us that idea of something behind and beyond all that we know and seem to be which pursues man always in contradiction of his lower reason and all his normal experience and impels him to formulate that formless perception in the more positive ideas of God, Immortality, Heaven and the rest by which we strive to express it to the mind. For Intuition is as strong as Nature herself from whose very soul it has sprung and cares nothing for the contradictions of reason or the denials of experience. It knows what is because it is, because itself it is of that and has come from that, and will not yield it to the judgment of what merely becomes and appears. What the Intuition tells us of, is not so much Existence as the Existent, for it proceeds from that one point of light in us which gives it its advantage, that sometimes opened door in our own self-awareness. Ancient Vedanta seized this message of the Intuition and formulated it in the three great declarations of the Upanishads, I am He, Thou art That, O Swetaketu, All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge,#KEYS
53:At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one may - and this is a more positive way - one may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.
What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a reality - perhaps of a not too distant future - a reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise. People sleep, they forget, they take life easy - they forget, forget all the time.... But if we could remember... that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.
So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn't have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.
We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T1],#KEYS
54:PROTECTION
Going to sleep is a little like dying, a journey taken alone into the unknown. Ordinarily we are not troubled about sleep because we are familiar with it, but think about what it entails. We completely lose ourselves in a void for some period of time, until we arise again in a dream. When we do so, we may have a different identity and a different body. We may be in a strange place, with people we do not know, involved in baffling activities that may seem quite risky.
Just trying to sleep in an unfamiliar place may occasion anxiety. The place may be perfectly secure and comfortable, but we do not sleep as well as we do at home in familiar surroundings. Maybe the energy of the place feels wrong. Or maybe it is only our own insecurity that disturbs us,and even in familiar places we may feel anxious while waiting for sleep to come, or be frightenedby what we dream. When we fall asleep with anxiety, our dreams are mingled with fear and tension, sleep is less restful, and the practice harder to do. So it is a good idea to create a sense of protection before we sleep and to turn our sleeping area into a sacred space.
This is done by imagining protective dakinis all around the sleeping area. Visualize the dakinis as beautiful goddesses, enlightened female beings who are loving, green in color, and powerfully protective. They remain near as you fall asleep and throughout the night, like mothers watching over their child, or guardians surrounding a king or queen. Imagine them everywhere, guarding the doors and the windows, sitting next to you on the bed, walking in the garden or the yard, and so on, until you feel completely protected.
Again, this practice is more than just trying to visualize something: see the dakinis with your mind but also use your imagination to feel their presence. Creating a protective, sacred environment in this way is calming and relaxing and promotes restful sleep. This is how the mystic lives: seeing the magic, changing the environment with the mind, and allowing actions, even actions of the imagination, to have significance.
You can enhance the sense of peace in your sleeping environment by keeping objects of a sacred nature in the bedroom: peaceful, loving images, sacred and religious symbols, and other objects that direct your mind toward the path.
The Mother Tantra tells us that as we prepare for sleep we should maintain awareness of the causes of dream, the object to focus upon, the protectors, and of ourselves. Hold these together inawareness, not as many things, but as a single environment, and this will have a great effect in dream and sleep.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep,#KEYS
55:In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal. Well, if it could always be, as it has been in the great period we are leaving, the faithful handmaid, severe, conscientious, clean-handed, luminous within its limits, a half-truth and not a reckless and presumptuous aberration.
A certain kind of Agnosticism is the final truth of all knowledge. For when we come to the end of whatever path, the universe appears as only a symbol or an appearance of an unknowable Reality which translates itself here into different systems of values, physical values, vital and sensational values, intellectual, ideal and spiritual values. The more That becomes real to us, the more it is seen to be always beyond defining thought and beyond formulating expression. "Mind attains not there, nor speech."3 And yet as it is possible to exaggerate, with the Illusionists, the unreality of the appearance, so it is possible to exaggerate the unknowableness of the Unknowable. When we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; but if not knowable by thought, It is attainable by a supreme effort of consciousness. There is even a kind of Knowledge which is one with Identity and by which, in a sense, It can be known. Certainly, that Knowledge cannot be reproduced successfully in the terms of thought and speech, but when we have attained to it, the result is a revaluation of That in the symbols of our cosmic consciousness, not only in one but in all the ranges of symbols, which results in a revolution of our internal being and, through the internal, of our external life. Moreover, there is also a kind of Knowledge through which That does reveal itself by all these names and forms of phenomenal existence which to the ordinary intelligence only conceal It. It is this higher but not highest process of Knowledge to which we can attain by passing the limits of the materialistic formula and scrutinising Life, Mind and Supermind in the phenomena that are characteristic of them and not merely in those subordinate movements by which they link themselves to Matter.
The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, 'Forth now and push forward also in other fields.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
56:The recurring beat that moments God in Time.
Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound,
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
The integer of the Spirit's perfect sum
That equates the unequal All to the equal One,
The single sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the Absolute.
There walled apart by its own innerness
In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky.
As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to soar into the Ineffable's reign:
A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world;
Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
It marries the earth to screened eternities.
Amid the many systems of the One
Made by an interpreting creative joy
Alone it points us to our journey back
Out of our long self-loss in Nature's deeps;
Planted on earth it holds in it all realms:
It is a brief compendium of the Vast.
This was the single stair to being's goal.
A summary of the stages of the spirit,
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies
Refashioned in our secret air of self
A subtle pattern of the universe.
It is within, below, without, above.
Acting upon this visible Nature's scheme
It wakens our earth-matter's heavy doze
To think and feel and to react to joy;
It models in us our diviner parts,
Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body's death with immortality's call:
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience
It labours towards a superconscient Light.
If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response:
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;
This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter's house.
The living symbol of these conscious planes,
Its influences and godheads of the unseen,
Its unthought logic of Reality's acts
Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
Have fixed our inner life's slow-scaled degrees.
Its steps are paces of the soul's return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity.
Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall.
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state;
Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness
Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove
The many-patterned ground of all we are.
An idol of self is our mortality.
Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
They consent to share her doom of birth and death;
They kindle partial gleams of the All and drive
Her blind laborious spirit to compose
A meagre image of the mighty Whole.
The calm and luminous Intimacy within
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
57:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#KEYS
58:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Move from the known to the unknown. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 2:Take one step backward into the unknown. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 3:Hope is man's preparation for the unknown. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 4:The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 5:The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 6:..is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 7:known in the immensity of the unknown. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 8:Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 9:Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 10:Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 11:Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 12:Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 13:So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 14:We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 15:My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 16:The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 17:Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 18:The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 19:One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 20:Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 21:If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 22:I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 23:The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 24:The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 25:Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars! ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 26:Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 27:The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 28:Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 29:Who exactly is the ultimate experiencer - the Self or the Unknown? The Self, of course. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 30:The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 31:It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 32:Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 33:The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is the very essence of life. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 34:Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 35:Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 36:Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 37:We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 38:People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 39:Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 40:Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 41:If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 42:The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 43:It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 44:Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 45:There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 46:I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 47:People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 48:People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 49:Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 50:I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to- come surprises. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 51:Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 52:The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 53:When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 54:[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 55:The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 56:People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided? ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 57:But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 58:Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 59:Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 60:And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 61:A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 62:The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 63:Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 64:I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 65:Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 66:Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 67:The mind has its limits. It is enough to bring you to the very frontiers of knowledge and make you face the immensity of the unknown. To dive in it is up to you. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 68:A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 69:In one of his poems Walt Whitman announces: It is time to explain myself – let us stand up. What is known I strip away, I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 70:But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 71:The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 72:The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 73:It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 74:You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them! ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 75:A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 76:If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 77:Surrender – what an amazingly powerful world. It often engenders the thought of weakness and cowardice. In my case, it required all the strength I had to be brave enough to follow the invisible into the unknown. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 78:Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 79:One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 80:The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 81:Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 82:I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 83:The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 84:Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers ‚Äì silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers, the eerie sound of the jungle with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 85:The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 86:The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 87:We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 88:We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 89:All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small. If we define life too small, we will define ourselves too small as well. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 90:It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 91:So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 92:You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 93:There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked& 94:Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 95:The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 96:Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 97:By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 98:Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 99:There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 100:By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 101:Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 102:Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 103:The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 104:The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 105:All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just say "yes." You don't even know what it means to say "yes," but you say it anyway. You'll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 106:You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 107:Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that & 108:Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 109:God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 110:When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 111:We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 112:We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 113:I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 114:l can admit that the world in which I live and move and have my being is of my own creation, a projection of myself, of my imagination, on the unknown world, the world as it is, the world of & 115:When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 116:Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 117:What is the link between the Self and the Supreme? M: From the self's point of view the world is the known, the Supreme - the Unknown. The Unknown gives birth to the known, yet remains Unknown. The known is infinite, but the Unknown is an infinitude of infinities. Just like a ray of light is never seen unless intercepted by the specs of dust, so does the Supreme make everything known, itself remaining unknown. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 118:The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 119:The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 120:We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 121:I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 122:Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 123:Q: If I know myself, shall I not desire and fear? M: For some time, the mental habits may linger in spite of the new vision, the habit of longing for the known past and fearing the unknown future. When you know these are of the mind only, you can go beyond them. As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself, you know yourself through the mist of these ideas; to know yourself as you are, give up all ideas. You cannot imagine the taste of pure water, you can only discover it by abandoning all flavourings. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 124:Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 125:Unselfish work leads to silence, for when you work selflessly, you don't need to ask for help. Indifferent to results, you are willing to work with the most inadequate means. You do not care to be much gifted and well equipped. Nor do you ask for recognition and assistance. You just do what needs be done, leaving success and failure to the unknown. For everything is caused by innumerable factors, of which your personal endeavour is but one. Yet such is the magic of man's mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 126:We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey... . and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 127:As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 128:Mind cannot be divided; it is a Whole. Therefore the Whole Mind is back of and immanent in the smallest thought. Not all of its power, perhaps, but all of its being. It was not a part of Shakespeare's mind that created Othello and was immanent in it; not a part of the mind of Dickens that created and lived through Uriah Heep; not a part of the mind of the unknown artist that created and lived in and through the Venus de Milo; not a part of the mind of Leonardo da Vinci that created and smiles through the countenance of the Mona Lisa. Mind, being immaterial, does not occupy space. It cannot be divided into parts. It is a Unity— Indivisible. Wherever Unity is at all, there must all of it be. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 129:When the faithful are asked whether God really exists, they often begin by talking about the enigmatic mysteries of the universe and the limits of human understanding. ‘Science cannot explain the Big Bang,’ they exclaim, ‘so that must be God’s doing.’ Yet like a magician fooling an audience by imperceptibly replacing one card with another, the faithful quickly replace the cosmic mystery with the worldly lawgiver. After giving the name of ‘God’ to the unknown secrets of the cosmos, they then use this to somehow condemn bikinis and divorces. ‘We do not understand the Big Bang – therefore you must cover your hair in public and vote against gay marriage.’ Not only is there no logical connection between the two, but they are in fact contradictory. The deeper the mysteries of the universe, the less likely it is that whatever is responsible for them gives a damn about female dress codes or human sexual behaviour. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 130:It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. Secular education teaches us that if we don’t know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of acknowledging our ignorance and looking for new evidence. Even if we think we know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of doubting our opinions and checking ourselves again. Many people are afraid of the unknown, and want clear-cut answers for every question. Fear of the unknown can paralyse us more than any tyrant. People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. In fact, modern history has demonstrated that a society of courageous people willing to admit ignorance and raise difficult questions is usually not just more prosperous but also more peaceful than societies in which everyone must unquestioningly accept a single answer. People afraid of losing their truth tend to be more violent than people who are used to looking at the world from several different viewpoints. Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:The unknown is my compass ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
2:“The unknown was my compass.” ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
3:My only fear is the unknown. ~ David Blaine, #NFDB
4:Greater is our terror of the unknown. ~ Livy, #NFDB
5:Change means the unknown. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
6:It is good to love the unknown. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
7:I like the unknown. I like mystery. ~ Eric Bana, #NFDB
8:Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown ~ Osho, #NFDB
9:Courage is a love affair with the unknown. ~ Osho, #NFDB
10:The unknown is always interesting. ~ Michael Ovitz, #NFDB
11:Move from the known to the unknown. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
12:The unknown is always frightening. ~ Naveen Andrews, #NFDB
13:Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
14:How can the unknown merit reverence? ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
15:I'm scared of the unknown future. ~ Bethenny Frankel, #NFDB
16:It’s the unknown that draws people. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
17:Take one step backward into the unknown. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
18:The unknown is the biggest question. ~ Desmond Howard, #NFDB
19:Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ~ Joan D Vinge, #NFDB
20:It can be scary facing the unknown. ~ Lurlene McDaniel, #NFDB
21:The unknown always passes for the marvellous. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
22:Hope is man's preparation for the unknown. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
23:Writing is a journey into the unknown. ~ Charlie Kaufman, #NFDB
24:I love being in the world of the unknown. ~ Alison Krauss, #NFDB
25:Now I am the unknown, the unknowable. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
26:How can we live without the unknown before us? ~ Rene Char, #NFDB
27:I find the lure of the unknown irresistible. ~ Sylvia Earle, #NFDB
28:I will not let you go into the unknown alone. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
29:Life is a series of steps into the unknown. ~ Mark Goulston, #NFDB
30:Love dances in the freshness of the unknown ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
31:Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
32:Have no fear of moving into the unknown. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
33:The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
34:Through the Unknown, we'll find the New ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
35:Unknown is not unknown for the unknown! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
36:We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
37:You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
38:A dream may be the only window to the unknown. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
39:Art is a step in the known toward the unknown ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
40:Each painting is a plunge into the unknown. ~ Joseph Plaskett, #NFDB
41:The rest of it, the unknown... it'll come ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
42:The unknown brings its own worries,’ he said. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
43:The unknown is a vast, paralyzing limbo. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
44:To conquer the unknown you must trust. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
45:ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown. ~ Peter Turchi, #NFDB
46:I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of. ~ Jessica Chastain, #NFDB
47:Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason. ~ Akiane Kramarik, #NFDB
48:The unknown is the governing principle of war. ~ Ferdinand Foch, #NFDB
49:Appreciate the Unknown and the Space in Between ~ Shannon Kaiser, #NFDB
50:Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
51:the unknown breeds dragons in map margins ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
52:Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz, #NFDB
53:Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all. ~ Yvon Chouinard, #NFDB
54:Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
55:If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
56:I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions. ~ Jimmy Page, #NFDB
57:To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown. ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
58:Fear of the unknown is a reason to go, not stay. ~ Rebecca Hamilton, #NFDB
59:Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown. ~ Rinker Buck, #NFDB
60:Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ~ Charles de Gaulle, #NFDB
61:Don't be afraid to take that leap into the unknown. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
62:Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
63:A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
64:Every single moment is a travel into the unknown! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
65:Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown. ~ Sydney Brenner, #NFDB
66:It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
67:There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
68:Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
69:If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
70:There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
71:In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri, #NFDB
72:I suppose what scares me is giving in to the unknown. ~ Alex Michaelides, #NFDB
73:Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown. ~ Robin Leach, #NFDB
74:We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
75:Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
76:Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
77:From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
78:Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
79:Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
80:It was easier to do nothing than to brave the unknown ~ Michael J Sullivan, #NFDB
81:The hardest part of change is going through the unknown. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
82:The unknown subject, McCaleb thought. So we meet again. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
83:Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
84:Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever. ~ Pierre Huyghe, #NFDB
85:Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
86:Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown. ~ John Densmore, #NFDB
87:he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
88:It's the fear of the unknown that we're both wrapped up in. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
89:fearing nothing but the unknown in a world of mysterious wonder. ~ John Fante, #NFDB
90:The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
91:Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown ~ Donna VanLiere, #NFDB
92:What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown. ~ Jeff Corwin, #NFDB
93:"You meet the unknown with fantasy. That's what dreams do." ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
94:people grow the most when they enter the Zone of the Unknown. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
95:Fear of the unknown is always greater than fear of the familiar. ~ Alice Feeney, #NFDB
96:The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown ~ Kristine Carlson, #NFDB
97:The unknown must always be feared. Survival demands it. ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
98:"You meet the unknown with fantasy. That's what dreams do." ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
99:Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown. ~ Judith Orloff, #NFDB
100:Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
101:Fear of the unknown is the most purely distilled and potent terror. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
102:Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
103:A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
104:I am flinging myself into the unknown, and trusting Jonah to catch me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
105:A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks ~ Tom Hanks,#NFDB
106:Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
107:Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
108:Did you design the door?’
‘No.’
‘Who did? The Unknown Designer? ~ Brandon Mull,#NFDB
109:The bronze dragon spread his wings, and they soared into the unknown. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
110:Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. ~ Lisa Anderson, #NFDB
111:So the unknown breeds dragons in map margins, she reflected... ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
112:What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
113:What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
114:When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known. ~ Rich Wilkerson Jr, #NFDB
115:She supposed it felt like freedom, if freedom was a fall into the unknown. ~ J V Jones, #NFDB
116:Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful. ~ Anne Hathaway, #NFDB
117:Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
118:Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
119:Faith is continually discarding the absurd, even in the face of the unknown. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
120:If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown. ~ Doug Dorst, #NFDB
121:Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. ~ William Hope Hodgson, #NFDB
122:Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. ~ Claude Bernard, #NFDB
123:The laws of the Unknown create the known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
124:The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so. ~ Graham Sutherland, #NFDB
125:with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power, ~ Philip Caputo, #NFDB
126:Out of the unknown we move to the unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
127:We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst ~ Ingmar Bergman, #NFDB
128:It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
129:Mystery is the one thing that we can be sure of. The unknown. —EDWARD ABBEY ~ Sean Prentiss, #NFDB
130:Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
131:Religion is a medium to reach the Unknown. What is the Unknown? Ask Religion ~ Alcatraz Dey, #NFDB
132:Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
133:Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
134:You will have to step out into the unknown, listening for direction as you go. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
135:Allow love, to illuminate the unknown pathways that are destined - to be traveled. ~ Eleesha, #NFDB
136:the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
137:The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
138:A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford, #NFDB
139:And in their names we slit
the earth's arteries to feed the veins of the Unknown. ~ Adonis,#NFDB
140:Death's power lies in fear, which flourishes in the imagination and the unknown. ~ Wade Davis, #NFDB
141:saw that finding the unknown word in another context might give me the answer. ~ John Freeman, #NFDB
142:We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
143:We generally colour our ideas of the unknown with our notions of the known. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
144:Following the traveled path can only take you so far. Never fear the unknown ~ Airicka Phoenix, #NFDB
145:In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. ~ Thomas R Pickering, #NFDB
146:My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
147:security isn’t the heart’s true desire, that it’s the unknown we long for. ~ Meg Waite Clayton, #NFDB
148:the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand – ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
149:The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge. ~ Brian Herbert, #NFDB
150:Yesterday is a memory.Tomorrow is the unknown.Now is the knowing. ~ Ajahn Sumedho#AjahnSumedho, #NFDB
151:Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
152:The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated, ~ Lawrence M Krauss, #NFDB
153:Willingly taking a dive headfirst into the unknown takes some serious courage. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
154:Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB
155:My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
156:The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
157:One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. ~ Eduardo Chillida, #NFDB
158:Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
159:Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
160:Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” – Claude Bernard ~ Pat Flynn, #NFDB
161:Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown ~ Joan D Vinge, #NFDB
162:Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
163:Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. CLAUDE BERNARD ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
164:Maybe the day has come when his desire to know is stronger than his fear of the unknown. ~ Paul Pen, #NFDB
165:prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God’s grace. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
166:Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery. ~ Claude Bernard, #NFDB
167:Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
168:It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
169:More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown. ~ P L Travers, #NFDB
170:"One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end." ~ J. Krishnamurti, #NFDB
171:The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
172:As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different. ~ Neil Diamond, #NFDB
173:Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
174:Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. ~ Stephen Gardiner, #NFDB
175:No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown? ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
176:One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
177:Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it. ~ Maureen Corrigan, #NFDB
178:The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
179:Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
180:Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown. ~ Denise Levertov, #NFDB
181:It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
182:Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
183:I asked what he had learned from the life. “Sometimes you have to go with the unknown. ~ Dolores Cannon, #NFDB
184:It takes guts to stop fretting about the unknown and concentrate on the present moment. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
185:One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. ~ Eliphas Levi, #NFDB
186:Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
187:We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown. ~ Belsebuub, #NFDB
188:When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
189:Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it. ~ Jaune Quick to See Smith, #NFDB
190:Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
191:I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
192:It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
193:people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
194:People need not fear the unknown if they're capable of achieving what they need and want. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
195:She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
196:…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
197:People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
198:"Today is a new day. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is the unknown. Now is the knowing." ~ Ajahn Sumedho, #NFDB
199:What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
200:Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
201:Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
202:Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
203:He was known as the "Boogeyman of the East," and I was the unknown "Wicked Witch of the West. ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
204:If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
205:I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
206:Of course I’m going to jump into the abyss. That’s what I do—throw myself into the unknown. ~ Rob Spillman, #NFDB
207:...recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone." P.60 ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
208:You cannot seek the unknown. What is sought must already be known, otherwise, it could not be recognized., #NFDB
209:But if knowledge was power, then the unknown was the greatest weakness of immortal things. ~ Alwyn Hamilton, #NFDB
210:Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard . . . very important. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
211:People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
212:What most disturbed her was being at the mercy of the unknown, of distance, of time. ~ Armando Lucas Correa, #NFDB
213:A vocation is a never-ending mission. In other words, a refined way of avoiding the unknown. ~ Andr s Neuman, #NFDB
214:Einstein occasionally used “God” as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature. ~ Steven Weinberg, #NFDB
215:For what is life, but a plunge from the high diving board into the fantastical and the unknown? ~ Anya Allyn, #NFDB
216:Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other. ~ Susan Vreeland, #NFDB
217:...people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
218:Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
219:The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
220:We make things happen when we make the choice to shift from denying of the unknown to starting. ~ Lara Casey, #NFDB
221:people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. “We ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
222:Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
223:My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown ~ Rumi, #NFDB
224:The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
225:Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being. ~ Osho, #NFDB
226:Don’t make me swim in unknown waters, because I’m certain the unknown is where I’ll drown. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
227:Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly, knowing that I am with you. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
228:If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential. ~ Steve Rizzo, #NFDB
229:I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling. ~ Juliette Binoche, #NFDB
230:My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
231:The Unknown is not the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Two Negations, The Materialist Denial, #NFDB
232:But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called. ~ Agnes Smedley, #NFDB
233:Falling in love makes the unknown
known. Falling out of love
reverses the process. ~ Glen Duncan,#NFDB
234:I can choose to either consciously live in fear of the unknown or melt into life's warm embrace. ~ Connor Franta, #NFDB
235:Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
236:skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
237:What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about. ~ Ruth Wilson, #NFDB
238:He had the same need to understand. To figure out the unknown before the unknown could hurt him. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
239:the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur’s spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
240:The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
241:The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
242:It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
243:The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
244:Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars! ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
245:Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement? ~ Ivan M Granger,#NFDB
246:I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
247:it’s our fear of the unknown and our fear of being wrong that create most of our conflict and anxiety. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
248:This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains, ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
249:Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown. ~ Robert C Solomon, #NFDB
250:Enrich your life. Dream, explore and discover the unknown lands with new eyes, new lights and new truths. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
251:Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. ~ Laurens van der Post,#NFDB
252:"There's no difference between the conquering of the unknown and the creation of habitable order." ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
253:The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters. ~ Josh Gates, #NFDB
254:We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
255:Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown. ~ Larry Wilmore, #NFDB
256:The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
257:The power of faith is the fear of the unknown.
The power of love is the fear of dying alone. ~ Michael R Fletcher,#NFDB
258:We are afraid to venture into the unknown because to do so would remind us of how unsafe we once felt. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
259:A dream may be the only window to the unknown.” She fiddled with her paper. “Maybe to a different life. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
260:Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
261:He was dead. He knew he was dead.
He refused to submit to eternity. He beat again into the unknown. ~ Alfred Bester,#NFDB
262:The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
263:"There's no difference between the conquering of the unknown and the creation of habitable order." ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
264:There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
265:Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
266:As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
267:Magic happens when you head out into the unknown with wonder in your right hand and terror in your left. ~ Clara Bensen, #NFDB
268:Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
269:Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown. ~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, #NFDB
270:The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
271:The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
272:To walk into the unknown with a God of unqualified power and unfailing goodness is safer than a known way. ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
273:A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
274:... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
275:I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination ~ L on Bloy, #NFDB
276:Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
277:Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
278:We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
279:Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning. ~ W Brett Wilson, #NFDB
280:Nothing hurried. Surrendering to patience. Ignoring time. Living for the unknown. Embracing the unexpected. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
281:The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
282:The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
283:We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
284:We can say that we trust God all day long, but if we fear the unknown, then in reality, we don’t trust God. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
285:Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know. ~ Mark Oliphant, #NFDB
286:Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. —Author Unknown ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
287:I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
288:Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
289:My Soul is my Guide,
for my Soul is of that Abode
I will not Speak of the Earthly,
I am of the Unknown. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
290:Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
291:There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns. ~ Gary Marcus, #NFDB
292:People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
293:The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown.” The only way out is through. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
294:We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world. ~ Lillian Russell, #NFDB
295:As Plutarch finely expressed, “The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
296:Life is made more beautiful by the unknown. Somehow knowing that we couldn’t ever know it all was comforting. ~ Billy Coffey, #NFDB
297:Sounds like another allegory, interrupted the unknown voice, if you want to be blind, then blind you will be. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
298:the dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other ~ W S Merwin,#NFDB
299:The unknown is sexier that the revealed. All magic tricks are a disappointment once you learn how they’re done. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
300:The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown. ~ Mark Rubinstein, #NFDB
301:Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
302:Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction. ~ Kate Milford, #NFDB
303:Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. ~ Nami Mun, #NFDB
304:The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown. ~ Plato, #NFDB
305:The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
306:But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
307:It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
308:The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
309:The Fear of Death is far more greater than the Death itself but the fear of the Unknown is the greatest fear of all. ~ Various, #NFDB
310:Wasn’t that part of life? To follow your heart? Explore the unknown and engage in a little trial and error? ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
311:A Silence that was Being’s only word,
The unknown beginning and the voiceless end ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Adwaita,#NFDB
312:Ah, I thought, feeling the first brush of tingling warmth as we fell into the unknown. Magic. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
313:If I'm finally taking a trip into the unknown; there ought to be photographs to document this momentous event. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
314:If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
315:It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
316:Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
317:Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
318:You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. ~ Ella Maillart, #NFDB
319:Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective. ~ Erin O Connor, #NFDB
320:Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
321:I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie. ~ Kris Carr, #NFDB
322:No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
323:People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.^ ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
324:From the unknown, through the unknown, to the unknown. Put your hand into the hand of God. It will be all right. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
325:"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
326:The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all! ~ The Undertaker, #NFDB
327:There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality. ~ Storm Constantine, #NFDB
328:When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
329:At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship. ~ Nikki Grimes, #NFDB
330:Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
331:Everyone talks about the unknown like it’s some big scary thing,, but it’s the familiar that’s always bothered me ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
332:I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
333:It is also for stepping into the unknown," Claudia said, "when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
334:A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself. ~ Yehudi Menuhin, #NFDB
335:Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
336:I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
337:I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
338:It takes guts to stop fretting about the unknown and concentrate on the present moment. That’s what matters, anyway. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
339:Rod Serling once observed, “The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can’t share with others. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
340:When you loved someone, you couldn’t hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe. ~ Martina Boone, #NFDB
341:Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski, #NFDB
342:Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
343:Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
344:The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ~ Ren Magritte, #NFDB
345:The oldest and most powerful emotion is fear... And the oldest and most powerful kind of fear is that of the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
346:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
347:The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
348:There are plenty of things worth rushing into the unknown for. But don’t be dumb. Save your courage for when it counts. ~ Chip Gaines, #NFDB
349:Though this universe I own,
I possess not a thing,
for I cannot know the unknown
if to the known I cling. ~ Robert Fisher,#NFDB
350:Hope. Trust in the unknown. And love. It’s been right in front of me for so long, but I’ve been too blind to see it. ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
351:The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ~ Rene Magritte, #NFDB
352:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
353:Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ~ Charles de Gaulle, #NFDB
354:Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly. ~ Gene Cernan, #NFDB
355:There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger. ~ Larry Wilmore, #NFDB
356:There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
357:Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown. ~ S Vagus, #NFDB
358:People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
359:Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others. ~ Hettie Jones, #NFDB
360:My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
361:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
~ H P Lovecraft,#NFDB
362:And will not spend them. ~ Witter Bynner, Coins, in The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover, 1919., #NFDB
363:It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
364:Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
365:The instinct of reverence for the Unknown is implanted in all human life. ~ Manly P Hall, What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples, #NFDB
366:The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. ~ Alan Lightman, #NFDB
367:We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
368:Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
369:A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
370:façades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders—his whole life had been leading up to this. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
371:I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. ~ William Hope Hodgson, #NFDB
372:In the wilderness, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD... And I have made my sacrifice accordingly. ~ Timothy Findley, #NFDB
373:I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in a single exquisite bound. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
374:Remove the terror of the unknown, give a thing meaning, call it home, and you can see all the grace inherent in it. ~ Jennifer Foehner Wells, #NFDB
375:The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves. ~ The Silver Elves, #NFDB
376:The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
377:the unknown is not our enemy. If we make room for it instead of shunning it, the unknown can bring inspiration and originality. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
378:We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB
379:Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there! ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
380:for she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through —the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form, ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
381:Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is. ~ Hedy Lamarr, #NFDB
382:It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
383:There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB
384:We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
385:I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
386:People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
387:I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know ~ Terrence Howard, #NFDB
388:It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay. I ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
389:Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
390:To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
391:A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. ~ Asger Jorn, #NFDB
392:...a journey into the unknown in the world without produces a movement towards new and unknown areas in our world within. ~ Laurens van der Post, #NFDB
393:Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
394:In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay— ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
395:Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
396:Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
397:Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
398:To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
399:We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think. ~ Patricia J Williams, #NFDB
400:But he could not return; he was afraid of what lay ahead, he dreaded the unknown, but it was easier to walk forwards than backwards. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
401:Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
402:The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you. ~ Susan May Warren, #NFDB
403:Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
404:You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die. ~ Marguerite Duras, #NFDB
405:If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. ~ Osho, #NFDB
406:Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable. ~ Dean Radin, #NFDB
407:The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
408:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. —H.P. Lovecraft ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
409:The post-war Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten was known, with typical dark Berlin wit, as the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Rapist’. ~ Frederick Taylor, #NFDB
410:To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just tolerate it, but to prefer it. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
411:To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
412:Well, scientifically speaking, human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever’s freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello, ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
413:We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. ~ Peter H eg, #NFDB
414:Compassion drives us to cry for those who are in pain and suffering. Compassion dares us to move into the unknown where it can injure us. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
415:Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
416:Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
417:He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
418:In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
419:It is man’s relation to the cosmos—to the unknown—which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. . . . —H. P. LOVECRAFT2 ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
420:The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
421:To be willing to do new things you don’t think you’ll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
422:We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
423:A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
424:Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided. ~ Tinnekke Bebout, #NFDB
425:If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
426:Never opt for change simply to leave something you don't like. Change works best when you go toward something, even if it is the unknown. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
427:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
428:It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
429:Its unfortunate that the close minded will never free themselves of knowing. Lying to themselves so they don't have to face the unknown. ~ Zachary Koukol, #NFDB
430:Oh, you know...staring down fear, laughing in the face of death, taking a ride in Hell, and in general, testing the waters of the unknown. ~ Jenn Cooksey, #NFDB
431:The way of the heart is the way of courage.
It is to live in insecurity;
it is to live in love, and trust;
it is to move in the unknown. ~ Osho,#NFDB
432:Was he an animal, that music had such an effect upon him? He felt as if the way were opening before him to the unknown nourishment he craved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
433:Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch, #NFDB
434:every honest cry, even if sent into the deaf ear of an idol, passes on to the ears of the unknown God, the heart of the unknown Father. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
435:The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, #NFDB
436:The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
437:Imagination’s great ensorcelling rod
Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
438:On the other side, beyond the gap that led into the stone hollow, the unknown forest lay waiting. No—ThunderClan’s new territory lay waiting. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
439:We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
440:What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. ~ Brian Cox, #NFDB
441:When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. ~ Henry Kimsey House, #NFDB
442:Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
443:there is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking. And ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
444:Wheter outwardly or inwardly, wheter in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. ~ Charles A Lindbergh, #NFDB
445:Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
446:Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
447:It is to the unknown one yields most impulsively; it is toward the unknown that one feels the most total, the most instinctive obligation. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
448:It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
449:People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. — THICH NHAT HANH ~ Lissa Rankin, #NFDB
450:There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
451:The unknown is the hardest. Which might explain why we try so hard to rule our worlds. It is the only hope we have to make sense of our lives. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
452:You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown. ~ William Kennedy, #NFDB
453:For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown. ~ Marcus du Sautoy, #NFDB
454:God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he’s calling for a radical life-change. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
455:I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
456:People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
457:Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. ~ Charles A Lindbergh, #NFDB
458:Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
459:[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
460:Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
461:Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
462:that disaster taught me to understand the word of Allah: people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
463:There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr... ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
464:The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
465:I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
466:We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
467:Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
468:He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to drag him under ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
469:He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room". ~ Enrique Vila Matas, #NFDB
470:My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
471:SOCIAL CUES - HYPER FOCUS - IMPULSE CONTROL - RESTLESSNESS - EXPLOSIVE TEMPERAMENT/SUDDEN OUTBURST OF EMOTION - SOCIAL ANXIETY/FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN ~ Kate Stewart, #NFDB
472:Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
473:The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future. ~ Eric Voegelin, #NFDB
474:The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future. ~ Eric Voegelin, #NFDB
475:"The first group comprises the unknown in the outer world; the second the unknown in the inner world. We call this latter territory the unconscious." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
476:The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone. —EXCERPT FROM “THE POWER OF FEAR” BY HALBER TOD ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
477:The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
478:I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. ~ Yves Saint Laurent, #NFDB
479:The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
480:Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
481:Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
482:Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
483:Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the habits of our age will doubtless be considered barbaric by later generations ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
484:Red Lake must be his Rubicon. Either he must enter the unknown to seek, to strive, to find, or turn back and fail and never know and be always haunted. ~ Zane Grey, #NFDB
485:Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown? ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
486:When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
487:And from the unsounded depths of the Unknown a reply came sublime and formidable and we knew that the earth was saved.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, [T0],#NFDB
488:Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
489:So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict. ~ Valerie Frankel, #NFDB
490:All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
491:The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress. ~ Michael E DeBakey, #NFDB
492:When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
493:You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be. ~ Roni Horn, #NFDB
494:but the next part was the hardest. Giving up what was safe for what could be dangerous. Letting go of the known for the unknown was the scary part. I ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
495:Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I’d missed my buddies! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
496:Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB
497:What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
498:The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
499:Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress—a period like our own. ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
500:Writing a book and going underground are so similar. That fear of the unknown never really goes away. But, after a while, it becomes a perverse comfort ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
501:Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. ~ Angela Merkel, #NFDB
502:Poems build our capacity for imaginative thinking, create a tolerance for ambiguity, and foster an appreciation for the role of the unknown in human life. ~ Tony Hoagland, #NFDB
503:The key may be tackling something new; the challenge of the unknown is likely more beneficial than putting together the same jigsaw puzzle over and over again. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
504:You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
505:A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
506:Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
507:So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict. ~ Valerie Estelle Frankel, #NFDB
508:This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
509:But when it comes to creativity, the unknown is not our enemy. If we make room for it instead of shunning it, the unknown can bring inspiration and originality. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
510:Eroticism challenges us to seek a different kind of resolution, to surrender to the unknown and ungraspable, and to breach the confines of the rational world. ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
511:Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what. ~ David Wolfe, #NFDB
512:By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. ~ George Tenet, #NFDB
513:Five minutes later, with Calypso’s arms around his waist, Leo spurred Festus into flight. The bronze dragon spread his wings, and they soared into the unknown. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
514:If God, or the eternal order, was revealed to Dostoievski in seizures, why should not other organic conditions serve as ‘portals’ to the beyond or the unknown? ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
515:She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond. ~ Anne Ursu, #NFDB
516:But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
517:differential equations that can be solved in “closed form,” that is, by means of a formula for the unknown function f, are the exception rather than the rule, ~ Timothy Gowers, #NFDB
518:Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
519:Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
520:We're holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might be in the unknown realm where lovers act as lovers without concealment. ~ Sebastian Barry, #NFDB
521:Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
522:And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
523:Aunt Grace had once told me that we can romanticize the unknown far too easily. It is much harder but more satisfying to assign wonder to what we were familiar with. ~ M J Rose, #NFDB
524:Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible. ~ Philippe Petit, #NFDB
525:On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
526:Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
527:There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out. ~ Avey Tare, #NFDB
528:It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
529:Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
530:Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
531:What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
532:You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
533:I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown. ~ Robert Rauschenberg, #NFDB
534:You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, #NFDB
535:All three of them looked at each other then burst out laughing, the tension from the unknown dissolving away. Tears leaked from their eyes as their laughter grew. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan, #NFDB
536:Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
537:Faith is indispensable to man, for without it he could not proceed forward in his journey through the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #NFDB
538:For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
539:Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
540:The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown. ~ David duChemin, #NFDB
541:All rooms move. Each of them swings in a pendulum motion between evening and morning, moving its inhabitants closer to the unknown land where they will be no more. But ~ Leena Krohn, #NFDB
542:Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
543:"The unknown falls into two groups of objects: those which are outside and can be experienced by the senses, and those which are inside and are experienced immediately." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
544:If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror. ~ Jan Chozen Bays, #NFDB
545:It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation. ~ Corey Taylor, #NFDB
546:I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
547:We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike. ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
548:Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding. ~ Werner Heisenberg, #NFDB
549:Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
550:Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us and become known, we would be altered? ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
551:History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
552:If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
553:I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. ~ Herbie Hancock, #NFDB
554:You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it. ~ Freya Stark, #NFDB
555:A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
556:it’s our fear of the unknown and our fear of being wrong that create most of our conflict and anxiety. We need both faith and reason to make meaning in an uncertain world. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
557:The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
558:there was much breathless talk of new elements, bizarre optical properties, and other things which puzzled men of science are wont to say when faced by the unknown. Hot ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
559:There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
560:for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father’s name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. I ~ Laila Lalami, #NFDB
561:I don’t think we’ll ever have the answer for sure, but I suspect when a woman owns everything she’s always known she wanted, the only place left to turn is the unknown. ~ Rachel Spangler, #NFDB
562:It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . . ~ George Gissing, #NFDB
563:The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive. ~ Samael Aun Weor, #NFDB
564:Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
565:WHAT they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.
~ William Butler Yeats, Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
,#NFDB
566:With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
567:Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
568:Ananke’s engines organising Chance,
Channels perverse of a stupendous Will,
Tools of the Unknown who use us as their tools, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
569:Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
570:Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown. ~ David duChemin, #NFDB
571:Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, #NFDB
572:Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust. ~ Peter H eg, #NFDB
573:Myth, with its substance of symbol, rhythm and metaphor, bridges from the unknown to the knower and helps the human stand in some sort of meaningful relationship to mystery. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
574:So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
575:The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature. ~ V S Pritchett, #NFDB
576:-the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown wickedness to arrive. ~ Nick Cutter, #NFDB
577:You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
578:Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
579:it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself that she could hardly bear to make a mark. ~ Claire Messud, #NFDB
580:The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life. ~ Tracy L Higley, #NFDB
581:The soul of Dallas is located at the Tomb of the Unknown Shopper, a monument that has not yet been built, but it will be as soon as Dallas acquires a municipal sense of humor. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
582:To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown. ~ Mada Eliza Dalian, #NFDB
583:Vulnerability doesn’t come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet. ~ Daniel Coyle, #NFDB
584:Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
585:If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
586:I was about to venture into the unknown. But that's what life with Emma had always been. The truth might be more than I could handle, but I knew it would change everything. ~ Rebecca Donovan, #NFDB
587:A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
588:Fear of the unknown will always be with you, no matter what you do. That’s comforting in a way: if there’s nothing you can do to change it, there’s no reason to let it stop you. ~ Josh Kaufman, #NFDB
589:For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. ~ Ken MacLeod, #NFDB
590:I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We’re gonna be fine. Different, but fine. Because most people are good. Right? ~ Daniel H Wilson, #NFDB
591:The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too. ~ Sarah Connor, #NFDB
592:When you’ve done everything you can, and you’re left with nothing but fear of both the unknown and the known, there’s only one way to describe it. That feeling is true terror. ~ Willow Winters, #NFDB
593:When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
594:Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped. ~ Bill Jensen, #NFDB
595:I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels. ~ Atom Egoyan, #NFDB
596:I wish to know what you are doing here,” he whispered to the unknown woman, drumming his fingers on the road. “And what you might have to do with a stray puck and an enemy Queen. ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
597:Vain the soul’s hope if changeless Law is all:
Ever to the new and the unknown press on
The speeding aeons justifying God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
598:Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy. ~ Nick Nolte, #NFDB
599:But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
600:When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice. ~ Michele Cassou, #NFDB
601:An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
602:Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not vampires.'
'We fear the unknown,' she said. 'You must know a lot about vampires. ~ Garth Nix,#NFDB
603:Don't be cautious. Be careful,' she reminds me. Cautious people are afraid of the unknown and avoid it. Careful people plan so that they're more confident when they face the unknown. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
604:Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say. ~ Tommy Wallach, #NFDB
605:For most of us, the other half of sanity lies simply in seeing and enjoying the unknown, just as we can enjoy music without knowing either how it is written or how the body hears it. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
606:I do not often laugh, sir,” answered the unknown. “As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
607:In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown. ~ Mary GrandPre, #NFDB
608:Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of “leap and the net will appear.” Faith is your best buddy when you’re scared shitless. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
609:It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
610:He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
611:The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder. ~ Brian Cox, #NFDB
612:The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
613:We are speaking not of an irrational leap into the unknown, but of the responsible acceptance of a personal invitation: “Follow me.” Lesslie Newbigin, Truth and Authority in Modernity ~ Kelly M Kapic, #NFDB
614:At last there wakes in us a witness Soul
That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown;
Then all assumes a new and marvellous face: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
615:We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
616:An Energy of perpetual transience makes
The journey from which no return is sure,
The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
617:He knows that once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
618:Like a knife slices flesh, these intricate streams of enlightenment carved through the palette of my mind, destroying while also reconstructing the known and the unknown. Each ~ M Amanuensis Sharkchild, #NFDB
619:Reed kissed her softly. “Live for now. Find your way. We can still be together. Forever. Don’t think about the unknown and what could happen when we don’t even know what is happening. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan, #NFDB
620:The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown. ~ Regina Taylor, #NFDB
621:The unknown,” said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, “the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
622:It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown. ~ Carrie Jones, #NFDB
623:Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason. ~ Akiane Kramarik, #NFDB
624:The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
625:The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
626:There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
627:Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ~ Li Ka shing, #NFDB
628:When you’re a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to stake a claim. I ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
629:God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
630:I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown. ~ Lauren Graham, #NFDB
631:The helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human-- feeling as you went--
groping in corners and opening your arms to light-- all of it part of navigating the unknown. ~ Alice Sebold,#NFDB
632:When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
633:A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) ~ Hiromu Arakawa, #NFDB
634:maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring’s sake. There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
635:The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
636:What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before. This is my only goal. Unknown images. Because if not, it's boring, no? ~ Albert Serra, #NFDB
637:If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
638:Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness. Otherwise ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
639:Inside my soul a treasure is buried.
The key is mine and only mine.
How right you are, you drunken monster!
I know: the truth is in the wine.
("The Unknown Lady") ~ Alexander Blok,#NFDB
640:Melanie stares at the apparition, both relieved–because the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand–and revolted at this strange violation of human flesh. The ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
641:No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
642:People prefer remembering to imagining. Memory deals with familiar things; imagination deals with the unknown. Imagination can be frightening—it requires risking a departure from the familiar. ~ Shimon Peres, #NFDB
643:Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
644:You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
645:He began to feel that he might have broken his life on this journey, that he should have stayed at home with the small and the familiar instead of being out here with the large and the unknown. ~ Carys Davies, #NFDB
646:Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
647:To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB
648:It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
649:Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
650:Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
651:Scrape knees for love. Tell hard truths for love. And definitely run heart-first into the unknown for love. Try to have a plan. But if you don't, make sure you have people. You coming, mi gente? ~ Gabby Rivera, #NFDB
652:Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
653:You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them! ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
654:You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them! ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
655:Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
656:Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ~ John Paul II, #NFDB
657:No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
658:"Theoretically, no limits can be set to the field of consciousness, since it is capable of indefinite extension. Empirically, however, it always finds its limit when it comes up against the unknown." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
659:What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before. ~ Scott Derrickson, #NFDB
660:When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown … and pray for an exit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
661:Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
662:Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
663:It takes a special strength to be willing to scrap the life that others have planned for us—safe, beaten trails walked by millions—and embrace one fraught with uncertainty, danger, and the unknown. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
664:I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
665:Reason is an effort to know the unknown and intuition is the happening of the unknowable. To penetrate the unknowable is possible, but to explain it is not. The feeling is possible, the explanation is not. ~ Osho, #NFDB
666:We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown. ~ David Cameron, #NFDB
667:Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
668:The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know. ~ Leonard Sweet, #NFDB
669:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
670:A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then. ~ Herodotus, #NFDB
671:Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
672:Perhaps he walked two miles between the high walls of the lane before its descent ceased, but he thrilled with the sense of having journeyed very far, all the long way from the known to the unknown. ~ Arthur Machen, #NFDB
673:Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. ~ Vannevar Bush, #NFDB
674:Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding. ~ Marilyn Ferguson, #NFDB
675:But what happens if we look back for support and don’t get it? We become less confident about stepping into the unknown. We succeed less and fail more. We move two steps forward and three steps back. ~ Mark Goulston, #NFDB
676:Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
677:It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
678:Just as when we come into this world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. but the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
679:Perhaps fear stemmed from the unknown. The agony was in the need to make a choice. Weighing the options, trying to predict the outcome. Once a choice was made, all that was left was to see it through. ~ Kelly Walker, #NFDB
680:The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
681:You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown. ~ Thomas E Mann, #NFDB
682:My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown. ~ Miguel de Unamuno, #NFDB
683:That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
684:Undoubtedly, a thing forever blooming is the soul, no matter how barren the soil. And only through that frightening abyss of the unknown self does the mind root out the light upon which it nourishes. ~ Donna Morrissey, #NFDB
685:What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. ~ David Malouf, #NFDB
686:A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
687:In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And limits his eternity by the hours
And the blind Void struggles to live and see, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
688:Part of the adventure in life is not always knowing what's going to happen next, and the next part may be grander than your original plan. The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown. ~ Kristine Carlson, #NFDB
689:Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
690:The daemons of the unknown overshadow his mind
Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought,
The moulds in which his mind builds out its world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
691:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
692:You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ~ Ella Maillart, #NFDB
693:Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
694:Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it’s some big scary thing, but it’s the familiar that’s always bothered me. It’s heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it’s walls and a ceiling and a cell. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
695:MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.-one of the world's greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life. ~ T I, #NFDB
696:The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it’s turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur’s spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
697:You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone ~ Linkin Park,#NFDB
698:Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
699:I thought that day was the end of my life. It was the end of the world as I knew and understood it. I was taking another step into the unknown, again, onto a path unknown, grappled with fear and anxiety. ~ Sharon E Rainey, #NFDB
700:Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-) ~ Grey Owl, #NFDB
701:The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
702:It’s all for the best, I know it is. I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But still… ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
703:It's the human condition, Kitten. The unknown isn't something that sits well. They'd rather push it away-not completely, but just enough that it's not always shadowing their every thought and action. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
704:Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. ~ E Stanley Jones, #NFDB
705:The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient. ~ Benoit Mandelbrot, #NFDB
706:We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
707:You are the know place to which the unknown is always leading me back."
"I possess nothing worthy to give you." "There's only me." ~ Marie Sexton quotes from poetry that Angelo feels match him and Zach ~ Marie Sexton,#NFDB
708:You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men. ~ Li Bai, #NFDB
709:Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself. ~ Otto F Kernberg, #NFDB
710:People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them. ~ Dominic Monaghan, #NFDB
711:The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley, #NFDB
712:The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything. ~ Hermann Bondi, #NFDB
713:We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
714:When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly. ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
715:Journey Life's a journey. Full of wonder and worry. But today I’m at peace and my mind will no longer over-analyze the past or stress about the unknown ahead. I am present in the moments in front of my eyes. ~ Jennae Cecelia, #NFDB
716:Metaphors are valuable because they build a bridge between the known and the unknown. Or, to put it another way, metaphors serve the same purpose as propositional statements: to orient the reader toward reality. ~ Holly Ordway, #NFDB
717:We shall begin to tear down and build up lines and angles, calculated directly from a course projected into the unknown, with a compass pointing to the chilly void, with a chronometer measured to a distant century. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
718:Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas. ~ Dan Harmon, #NFDB
719:Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. ~ Georgette Mosbacher, #NFDB
720:I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar? ~ Cindy Woodsmall, #NFDB
721:If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
722:The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
723:The mother of chaos was fear, not evil, and the enjoyment of chaos was the continual fear of the unknown, the shifting foundation of everything, the knowledge that every twist and turn could lead to disaster. ~ Richard Lee Byers, #NFDB
724:When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.’ I ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
725:A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. ~ Isabelle Eberhardt, #NFDB
726:A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime. ~ Michael Piller, #NFDB
727:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. —T. H. Huxley, ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
728:What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear. ~ Philip Guston, #NFDB
729:America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with education, and those two things led us into a worldwide preeminence in a very short period of time. ~ John Glenn, #NFDB
730:Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal... ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
731:Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
732:Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change,” Clara had said. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
733:One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
734:The known world shrinks and vanishes, and the soul hurls itself into the uncharted distances of the unknown where everything is strange and yet familiar, and the language of music, of poets, and of dreams is spoken. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
735:The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
736:"Empirically, however, it always finds its limit when it comes up against the unknown. This consists of everything we do not know, which, therefore, is not related to the ego as the centre of the field of consciousness." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
737:The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them. ~ E Hoffmann Price, #NFDB
738:Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
739:Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
740:The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water
A woman's shriek assaults the ear
While above, in the sky, inured to everything,
The moon looks on with a mindless leer
("The Unknown Lady") ~ Alexander Blok,#NFDB
741:Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness—an act of trust in the unknown. An ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
742:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley, 1887 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
743:The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
744:Because if I am the poker chip, then I have to wait to see how I’ll be played. The unknown is the hardest. Which might explain why we try so hard to rule our worlds. It is the only hope we have to make sense of our lives. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
745:Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history. ~ Spider Robinson, #NFDB
746:Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them. ~ Jude Deveraux, #NFDB
747:I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
748:In science as in romance, the unknown is disrobed sheath by sheath as fervid fantasies imagine the possibilities conquerable by knowledge—fantasies that far outstrip the reality eventually revealed as knowledge progresses. ~ Maria Popova, #NFDB
749:Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. ~ Gene Roddenberry, #NFDB
750:A society oriented towards fatalism, or one in which an interventionist deity forms part of the matrix of causal connections, is bound to produce fewer individuals inclined to probe the unknown with the tools of science. ~ Pervez Hoodbhoy, #NFDB
751:The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
752:You don’t get any special credit, is what I’m saying, for knowing how to be afraid of the unknown. Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one . . . but it ain’t especially smart. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
753:Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
754:Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors. ~ Julian Assange, #NFDB
755:It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that. ~ Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, #NFDB
756:It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
757:Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change." - Clara the clairvoyant ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
758:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. —T. H. Huxley, 1887 The ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
759:The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
760:Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation. ~ Scott Jurek, #NFDB
761:For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge. ~ Gertrude Jekyll, #NFDB
762:...for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
763:Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or “outsideness” without laying stress on the emotion of fear. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
764:We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
765:Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
766:Alone also with the horizon. The waves come from the invisible East, patiently, one by one; they reach us, and then, patiently, set off again for the unknown West, one by one. A long voyage, with no beginning and no end. . . . ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
767:Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives. ~ Doug Scott, #NFDB
768:Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard. ~ Arthur J Deikman, #NFDB
769:Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
770:The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to us: people with views that contradict ours, societies that are run along very different lines. ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
771:Sometime in the last forty-eight hours, Lily had discovered the great secret of pain: it thrived on the unknown, on the knowledge that there was a greater pain out there, something more excruciating that might yet be reached. ~ Erika Johansen, #NFDB
772:You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something. ~ Jason Clarke, #NFDB
773:Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
774:Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
775:When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.’ I can’t remember ~ Carolyn Brown, #NFDB
776:Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
777:There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
778:To the culture of the early Renaissance, the demon presents a limit to the empiricism of the unknown, something that can only be verified through contradictions – an absent manifestation, an unnatural creature, a demonic malady. ~ Eugene Thacker, #NFDB
779:We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown. ~ Asger Jorn, #NFDB
780:While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
781:Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past. ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
782:For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ~ Plato, #NFDB
783:This tendency to pathologise opinions and life patterns which are not in accordance with its own political ends is characteristic of Cultural Marxism. Differing views are often seen as irrational fears of the unknown — ‘phobias’. ~ Daniel Friberg, #NFDB
784:We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
785:A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
786:It’s natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive. ~ Scott Berkun, #NFDB
787:The idea that the passage of the magical threshold is a transit into a sphere of rebirth is symbolized in the worldwide womb image of the belly of the whale. The hero...is swallowed into the unknown and would appear to have died. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
788:The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides. ~ George Polya, #NFDB
789:To market the effectiveness of their services, the embalmers would display real preserved bodies they had plucked from the unknown dead, propping the corpses up on their feet outside the tents to better demonstrate their talents. ~ Caitlin Doughty, #NFDB
790:...and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it. ~ Edith Wharton,#NFDB
791:But whether or not they chose to take a step into the unknown, the unknown would still come, the yawning precipice would still swallow them whole, and life as they knew it would be over. And they had all become highly aware of the end. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
792:He sees the conflict within them: tradition against progress, the known past against the unknown future. They have come so far, as a species; they have the intellect to break from the shackles of yesterday. But it will be hard. ~ Adrian Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
793:There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men. ~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, #NFDB
794:My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
795:Oh, how could she forget him! He was the hand that blindfolded her, the whip wielded by the valet Pierre, he was the chain above her head, the unknown man who came down on her, and all the voices which gave her orders were his voice. ~ Pauline R age, #NFDB
796:our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according our current knowledge)—and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated. This ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
797:The professor believed in thought. He was always telling his students that you could get to the unknown by using the known. If you just put the facts that you knew together in the proper way, you might get some truly amazing results. ~ John Bellairs, #NFDB
798:I think everyone can understand longing for home. But I realized that the strange anxiousness I’ve always felt to be elsewhere was called fernweh. I have fernweh. How most people long for the familiar, I’ve always longed for the unknown. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
799:Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
800:The familiar, even if it’s not working, is always more comfortable than the unknown. But growth is not meant to make us comfortable. Its purpose is to stretch us so we can perform at our full potential and achieve our highest purpose. ~ Valerie Young, #NFDB
801:The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
802:It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. ~ Luci Swindoll, #NFDB
803:I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
804:What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism. ~ Jenny McCarthy, #NFDB
805:Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
806:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
807:Worry, like cancer, consumes life, eating away at a person from the inside out. It exaggerates the unknown and clouds the known until the worried person sees only the horror of what might be, rather than the beauty of what already is. ~ Michele Cushatt, #NFDB
808:From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
809:Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
810:There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
811:To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
812:What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
813:Where you are going now,' Schmendrick answered, 'few will mean you anything but evil, and a friendly heart— however foolish — may be as welcome as water one day. Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
814:As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn’t lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries. ~ Marcelo Gleiser, #NFDB
815:The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
816:The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along the way, we're inspired by the unknown and the unnameable. The minute you can fully describe something it's gone. ~ Laurel Nakadate, #NFDB
817:When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly! ~ Richard Bach,#NFDB
818:Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
819:Why do we live in Spooksville? It’s not just because our families live here. It’s because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I’m doing is dangerous. All great adventures are. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
820:For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
821:I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
822:Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss -- Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!) ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
823:Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
824:If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
825:Sometimes I think people are so used to negativity that a positive atmosphere is uncomfortable, or even frightening. It goes along with what we were talking about. When you can't trust anyone, the unknown is a very frightening place indeed. ~ Brigid Kemmerer, #NFDB
826:We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
827:At last he hears a chanting on the heights
And the far speaks and the unknown grows near:
He crosses the boundaries of the unseen
And passes over the edge of mortal sight
To a new vision of himself a ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
828:The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into. ~ Neil Jordan, #NFDB
829:The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known. ~ Arthur J Deikman, #NFDB
830:Yet your least stumblings are foreseen above.
Infallibly the curves of life are drawn
Following the stream of Time through the unknown;
They are led by a clue the calm immortals keep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
831:All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater. ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
832:And there is an extraordinarily angry and aggressive quality in the knowledge of modern man; he is angry with what he does not know; he hates and rejects it. He has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy. ~ Laurens van der Post, #NFDB
833:There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable. ~ Betty Friedan, #NFDB
834:Those of us with big feelings need to voyage into the unknown. It helps to shape who we are, to give name to those tumultuous forces inside us. But it’s not without risk. There will be mistakes, and pain, and failure, along with the triumphs. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
835:Unfamiliar faces, gauging regard, every sense heightened in an effort to read the unknown. The natural efforts of society. Do we all possess a wish to remain unseen, unnoticed? Is the witnessing of our actions by others our greatest restraint? ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
836:When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. ~ Edward Teller, #NFDB
837:A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. ~ Max Horkheimer, #NFDB
838:We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself. ~ Roberto Calasso, #NFDB
839:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And it is our own. ~ Ian Douglas, #NFDB
840:We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
841:Be patient, as one who fears no check and does not court success. Fix the gaze of thy soul on the star of which thou art the ray, the flaming star which burns in the obscure depths of the eternal, in the limitless fields of the unknown. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
842:Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does. ~ Augustus De Morgan, #NFDB
843:excitement is interwoven with uncertainty, and with our willingness to embrace the unknown rather than to shield ourselves from it. But this very tension leaves us feeling vulnerable. I caution my patients that there is no such thing as “safe sex. ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
844:The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
845:It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
846:Those with superior talent and the ability to marshal the energies of others have learned from experience that there is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
847:If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you’ve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you’re going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I ~ Marina Abramovi, #NFDB
848:Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
849:To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade. ~ R Scott Bakker, #NFDB
850:I hadn’t realized before seeing him how thoroughly alone I’d felt on that rain, headed toward the unknown, headed perhaps toward the larger loneliness of being unable to find my father or even toward the galactic loneliness of losing him forever. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, #NFDB
851:life isn't worth living if you never put your heart on the line, if you don't try new things. Pain can be short-lived, 'could have beens' will live with you forever. Don't live your life in a bowl full of regrets, because you're scared of the unknown. ~ Meghan Quinn, #NFDB
852:The Earth Has Many Keys
The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.
But witness for her land,
And witness for her sea,
The cricket is her utmost
Of elegy to me.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
853:I want you so much, I feel like if I don’t make you mine soon, then some part of me will break away and disappear into the unknown. Then another will break away and another, until there’s nothing left of me at all but a hollow void. A shell of a man. ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
854:I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing. ~ Eva Hesse, #NFDB
855:Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB
856:I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
857:There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown. ~ Jasper Fforde,#NFDB
858:And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked! ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
859:Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family. ~ Roger Ailes, #NFDB
860:I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated! ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
861:It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
862:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.” Almost a decade ago, when Themis was revealed to ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
863:We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move. ~ Laurens van der Post, #NFDB
864:You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it. ~ Emily Blunt, #NFDB
865:Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
866:...Adrian speaking to Mels....Humans require two things to bond: scarcity and the unknown. If loved ones were around forever, you'd take them for granted, and if you knew for sure that you'd be reunited, you'd never miss them. It's all part of the divine plan. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
867:And giving myself over with the confidence of belonging to the unknown. For I can pray only to what I do not know. And I can love only the unknown evidence of things and can add myself only to what I do not know. Only that is a real giving of oneself. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
868:Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
869:It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown. ~ Steve Jurvetson, #NFDB
870:The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
871:To grow, to individuate, obliges us to reject security and move into the unknown. Jung puts it dramatically: The spirit of evil is fear, negation. . . he is the spirit of regression, who threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction ~ Hollis, #NFDB
872:And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
873:How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return. ~ Jill Bialosky, #NFDB
874:If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent. ~ Albert Szent Gyorgyi, #NFDB
875:I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
876:I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine. ~ Daniel H Wilson, #NFDB
877:There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter! ~ George Washington, #NFDB
878:The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
879:I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
880:I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite,” she said. “Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
881:Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
882:Only the innocent mind can inquire into the unknown. But the calculated innocence which may wear a loincloth or the robe of a monk is not that passion of self-abandonment from which come courtesy, gentleness, humility, patience—the expressions of love. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
883:Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. ~ Daria Werbowy, #NFDB
884:Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking the argument in detail but far from being perfect for making understandable the main line of the argument. ~ George Polya, #NFDB
885:I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me. ~ Jamie Zeppa, #NFDB
886:I liked this. For once, I’m not boring, safe, and predictable little Piper. I’ve walked willingly into the depths of the unknown, which comes under the guise of inked arms and a beautiful voice. He’s my first taste of wild, and he’s nothing short of delicious. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
887:I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. ~ Ingmar Bergman, #NFDB
888:I wake up with the hope this day is even more uncertain than yesterday. It’s the unknown that we live, breathe, and move in all the time thinking it is the known. If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that’s the most joyous experience you can have. ~ Todd Kashdan, #NFDB
889:B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?"
Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you."
Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible. ~ Tim Pratt,#NFDB
890:I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I’d like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it’s almost always worse. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
891:Now is a time of magic. Let the universe take your hand and show you things you have never seen before. Now, at last, you’re open and vulnerable enough to begin. Celebrate the magic, the mystery of the unknown. Celebrate the miracles that will certainly come. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
892:Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
893:There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence? ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
894:The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life. ~ Larry Fessenden, #NFDB
895:When a person can’t fully care for themselves they will suffer abuse to avoid the fear of the unknown. That one thing, the unknown, is worse than anything else for prisoners. They’d rather have the certainty of pain and neglect than the uncertainty of a new life ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
896:There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don't know if we'll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn't matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
897:So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
898:The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so often is terrible. He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
899:You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. ~ Barry Long, #NFDB
900:We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
901:Few people may be consciously aware of the etymological origins of common words and phrases, but the essential metaphor-making process of comparing the unknown with the known is still vital and ongoing. This process is the way meaning was, is, and ever shall be made. ~ James Geary, #NFDB
902:From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
903:despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
904:His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
905:I didn’t care that he transformed into a grotesque monster when he needed to fight for his life, or for the life of someone he cared about. I didn’t care because I loved him back, every part of him, and it meant I would not have to face the unknown alone. ~ Jenna Elizabeth Johnson, #NFDB
906:There is a hunger for mystery, the unknown, for that which is hidden, but one has to pay a high price for the possession of such wisdom. The secret gives new meaning but it cannot always be communicated, even if one finds the right words or the correct artistic medium ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
907:I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
908:In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
909:Intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #NFDB
910:This is the—always rare—power of those who can both see the unknown and interpret it. For most of us, the other half of sanity lies simply in seeing and enjoying the unknown, just as we can enjoy music without knowing either how it is written or how the body hears it. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
911:What strange hesitancy, fear, or apathy stops us from looking within ourselves, from trying to grasp the true essence of joy and sadness, desire and hatred? Fear of the unknown prevails, and the courage to explore that inner world fails at the frontier of our mind. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
912:Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
913:I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
914:I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown and the unknowable, who leave all the cages open. I tell myself: There's so much that you don't know, you can't know, you aren't ever going to know. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
915:It’s easy to want to change, but it’s hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn’t want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart ~ Geneen Roth, #NFDB
916:Remember that all learning is creating a relationship between the known and the unknown. You will already know the face so you need to connect the unknown name to the known face. When you see the face it must act as a trigger or peg to bring the name to your awareness. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
917:It is the mystery of the unknown
That fascinates us; we are children still
Wayward and wistful; with one hand we cling
To the familiar things we call our own,
And with the other, resolute of will,
Grope in the dark for what the day will bring ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,#NFDB
918:It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB
919:takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
920:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
921:It’s become a cycle we’re unfortunately comfortable with. The longer you stay in an unhealthy relationship, the more druglike it becomes. You’re willing to deal with the side effects because they’re predictable. You can trust the bad in a way you can’t trust the unknown. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
922:Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
923:Intuition is possible because the unknowable is there. Science denies the existence of the divine because it says, “There is only one division: the known and the unknown. If there is any God, we will discover him through laboratory methods. If he exists, science will discover him. ~ Osho, #NFDB
924:There is something sad, dreamy, and in the highest degree poetic in a lonely grave ... You can hear its silence, and in this silence you sense the presence of the soul of the unknown person who lies under the cross. Is it good for this soul in the steppe? Does it languish ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
925:It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
926:Losing someone is hard enough. But death without the process of dying is an abomination. It takes nine months to create life; it feels unnatural, a sin against nature, that the reverse shouldn't also have its time. Time to let go of the known as we take hold of the unknown. ~ Julia Whelan, #NFDB
927:Losing someone is hard enough. But death without the process of dying is an abomination. It takes nine months to create life; it feels unnatural, a sin against nature, that the reverse shouldn’t also have its time. Time to let go of the known as we take hold of the unknown. ~ Julia Whelan, #NFDB
928:The softening of her resolve was devastating to her, but she could not shrink from him again and live with herself. She understood all too clearly that it took more courage to stay and face him and the unknown, unexplored part of her than it took to leave.
Aaren ~ Betina Krahn,#NFDB
929:If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why. ~ George Berkeley, #NFDB
930:Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd! ~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, #NFDB
931:Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going? ~ Surya Das, #NFDB
932:Because trends and time zones are a different way of seeing and interpreting our current reality, they provide a useful framework for organizing our thinking, especially when we’re hunting for the unknown and trying to find answers to questions we do not yet even know how to ask. ~ Amy Webb, #NFDB
933:By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
934:I did not care for that particular gaze, for the blank page of it. The unknown depleted me of words and sense, exhausting and exhilarating me to a formidable degree. The sight of her no longer made me squeamish, but rather something else.
All of this, yet I watched her. ~ Natalia Jaster,#NFDB
935:Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now! ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
936:First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me. ~ Columbus Short, #NFDB
937:Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that. ~ Orit Gadiesh, #NFDB
938:The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley, #NFDB
939:When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
940:Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. ~ Paul of Tarsus in Acts of the Apostles 17:22-23, #NFDB
941:A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes." ~ Robert Wise, #NFDB
942:Sometimes I think the greatest things God teaches us are only found when we realize that we were never in control in the first place. I think your need to control things is just your fear of the unknown. Don’t miss out on the blessings He has for you just because you’re scared. ~ Erynn Mangum, #NFDB
943:But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but a sort of mysterious communication, which brought them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of joyful terror before the unknown into which they were entering. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
944:It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
945:Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself? ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
946:I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner. ~ Alex Webb, #NFDB
947:I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets. ~ Alfonso Gomez Rejon, #NFDB
948:Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION ~ Whitley Strieber, #NFDB
949:Perhaps the most realistic worship of all,’ the Daru replied, wrapping another severed head. ‘How many of us bow before a god in the desperate hope that we can somehow shape our fate? Praying to that familiar face pushes away our terror of the unknown—the unknown being the futur ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
950:I want to be taken to a madhouse,” said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. “I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came.” “Why?” asked the unknown. “Because I want a little sane and wholesome society,” answered Turnbull. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
951:They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different. ~ Maria Bartiromo, #NFDB
952:I am the mystery of Love itself, the lust and spirit of unity aflame with the infinite passion for the Unknown. Thus are all things made one, in me, by virtue of my secret force; and in this light there is the unspeakable joy, the ineffable bliss, the orgasmic ecstasy of the ages. ~ David Cherubim, #NFDB
953:Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don't know where you came from and
you don't know where you will be going. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
954:Blaine, the scariest part about love isn’t love itself. It’s letting go and plunging into the unknown. It’s trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It’s allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you ~ S L Jennings, #NFDB
955:The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more. ~ Frank Stella, #NFDB
956:Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
957:You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
958:The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
959:The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
960:Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future. ~ Janusz Korczak, #NFDB
961:In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears. ~ Osho, #NFDB
962:I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
963:Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
964:Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures. ~ Laila Lalami, #NFDB
965:The engines engaged and started to spin up, and the strangest thing happened: a wave surged inside of me, almost new to me. Anticipation. This felt like running, all right, running away from my past and everything in it. Racing full speed towards the unknown.
I was good at running. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
966:The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
967:Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable. ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
968:The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
969:Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against. ~ Michael Haneke, #NFDB
970:In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears. C ~ Osho, #NFDB
971:How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross, #NFDB
972:how we try to make sense of the world and of our place in it—it should be obvious that our approach is fundamentally limited in scope. This realization should open doors, not close them, since it makes the search for knowledge an open-ended pursuit, an endless romance with the unknown. ~ Marcelo Gleiser, #NFDB
973:Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
974:Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
975:Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! Everywhere is full of herds! To breath comfortably, to feel free, to think better and to find the beauties of the unknown paths leave your herd! In whichever herd you are in, leave it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
976:So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
977:But you need to realize that we are constantly in flux, and everything changes constantly, even you. You’re always in a state of ‘becoming’. There is no point in grabbing onto anything – people, money, clothes, stuff. No point. There is no safety anywhere because everything is the unknown. And ~ Ruby Wax, #NFDB
978:I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
979:The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination. ~ David Bergen, #NFDB
980:Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
981:But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is. THE ~ Osho, #NFDB
982:In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous! ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
983:I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. ~ Louis Agassiz, #NFDB
984:I understood we were now left all on our own in a country heading into the unknown and prepared constantly for war. A country ruled by angry military men who had set themselves the task of reinventing history, of telling their own version of it, of changing its course as they saw fit. ~ Armando Lucas Correa, #NFDB
985:One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder. ~ Brian Cox, #NFDB
986:The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns. Otherwise, how could I have all these things and still be so close to my own Best After Ever? ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
987:The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
988:Darkness, grievances and all painful emotions are the realm of the unknown. They are not horrible issues to hide or something wrong that needs to be fixed. When darkness comes into our life, this is a major opportunity to move beyond our bogus self and embrace the mystery of who we truly are. ~ Franco Santoro, #NFDB
989:Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
990:In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner. ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
991:we often avoid daily practice not out of laziness, or lack of discipline, but because we know that profound changes will occur in our lives and we are not sure we are up to shouldering what feels like the burden of the unknown. Something inside of us fears the loss of normalcy and the familiar. ~ T Thorn Coyle, #NFDB
992:When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
993:Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence’. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
994:We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X. ~ Paul Klee, #NFDB
995:He is often involved in a strange ritual, something commonly called “a meeting.” Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
996:I had taken this time to fall in love instead - inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death - the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human - feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of nagivating the unknown. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
997:Time is making fools of us again. The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. thoughts are etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. the mind is a complex and many layered thing. It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
998:Betrayal. From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offense imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks. Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
999:Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1000:There are no coincidences, only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overhead, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know the signs. ~ Sara Gran, #NFDB
1001:We learn by using what we already know as a bridge over which we pass to the unknown. It is not possible for the mind to crash suddenly past the familiar into the totally unfamiliar. Even the most vigorous and daring mind is unable to create something out of nothing by a spontaneous act of imagination. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1002:And trust me, I get it. The unknown is scary, and there are no guarantees where war is concerned, but if there’s one thing you need to know—one thing that I want you to carry with you—it’s that I will fight like hell to make it back to you.” Devin’s eyes fill with tears. “I’m coming back to you, Katie. ~ K L Grayson, #NFDB
1003:How many of us bow before a god in the desperate hope that we can somehow shape our fate? Praying to that familiar face pushes away our terror of the unknown – the unknown being the future. Who knows, maybe these Tiste Andii are the only ones among us all who see the truth, the truth being oblivion. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1004:There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1005:I am saving him from fear. I was not attacking him but, across him, that stubborn inertia which paralyzes men who force the unknown. If I listen and sympathize, if I take his adventure seriously, he will fancy he is returning from a land of mystery, and mystery alone is at the root of fear. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1006:If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1007:I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1008:Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1009:Be bold. Find the courage to dream lofty dreams of what you wish to attain. Dream big and wide. Dreaming is healthy for our imagination to explore the unknown. Before our goals can materialize, a dream must be set in motion, it must feed our soul (subconscious) a belief that exists in the unknown future. ~ Machel Shull, #NFDB
1010:I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown; you're dealing with mystery. ~ Jon Foreman, #NFDB
1011:Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I’ll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1012:The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident assertions of certainty in ourselves and other people, and (3) to make ourselves aware of the numinous mystery of each human being we encounter during the day. First, ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1013:He recognized her immediately when he saw her again. And what he recognized was her energy, which seemed to precede her. As if her spirit were thrusting itself forward, into the unknown; dazzled, charmed, challenged, hopeful, happy to be energized by the mysterious, loving the adrenaline rush of surprise. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
1014:...erase the worries and go toward whatever I thought would make me happy. It was ok to make my leap into the unknown, because - and this would count as startling news to most every member of the Shields/Robinson family, going back all the way to Dandy and Southside - the unknown wasn't going to kill me. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1015:I know it may sound weird, but looking death square in the eye made me question the unknown. What happens after we exhale our last breathe? Do we really see an otherworldly light? Does God send angels to guide us home? Or when our eyes close, do we forfeit sight? And will our earthly spirits forever roam? ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1016:Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1017:We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then? ~ Cristina Henriquez, #NFDB
1018:We’re the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they’ve been told they’re supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we’re not that bad, maybe even that we’re a lot like them. And who would they hate then? ~ Cristina Henriquez, #NFDB
1019:He could feel sweat drain down his face and neck. Nonsense. That part of his mind lost itself to its own terror. It took the unknown and fashioned, in blind desperation, a visage it could recognize. Despair, he told himself, always demands a direction, a focus. Find the direction and the despair goes away. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1020:Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I’ll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his own ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1021:Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1022:people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1023:There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1024:At night, simply because it is night, we are able to revive our childhood terrors: the fear of being alone, the fear of the unknown. But if we can defeat these ghosts, we will easily defeat the ones that appear during the day. We will not fear the darkness because we are partners of the light.” I feel like I’m ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1025:By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
1026:I was leaving the South
to fling myself into the unknown . . .
I was taking a part of the South
to transplant in alien soil,
to see if it could grow differently,
if it could drink of new and cool rains,
bend in strange winds,
respond to the warmth of other suns
and, perhaps, to bloom ~ Richard Wright,#NFDB
1027:Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain. ~ Eugenie Clark, #NFDB
1028:To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. ~ Michael Oakeshott, #NFDB
1029:We’re the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they’ve been told they’re supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we’re not that bad, maybe even that we’re a lot like them. And who would they hate then? It ~ Cristina Henriquez, #NFDB
1030:I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned. ~ Arthur Machen, #NFDB
1031:Sometimes, just when we think we can see our lives on course and we can settle back and get comfortable, a new path opens. Some people just keep going, too scared to veer off the familiar path. But others, well, they step off into the unknown, and find that maybe that was where they were supposed to be all along. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
1032:The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1033:The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That’s why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1034:Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, #NFDB
1035:The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1036:The story of the Donner Party is a long and complex account of how a group of people from varied backgrounds, stratified in age, wealth, education, and ethnicity, followed their different dreams. Out of necessity, they were made to unite and battle against the unknown—weather, nature, and finally life and death ~ Michael Wallis, #NFDB
1037:Dumbledore. “There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1038:Most fear is fear of the unknown. We do not know what lies ahead of us, so we become apprehensive. Our imaginations can magnify problems until they seem insurmountable. We need a sound mind to see things in proper perspective. That is why God gave us His Holy Spirit, to enable us to see things as God sees them. ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
1039:Suffering has no value, but you have to suffer in order to know that. I never found it easy to travel, yet the difficulty in it made it satisfying because it seemed in that way to resemble the act of writing - groping around in the dark, wandering into the unknown, coming to understand the condition of strangeness. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1040:To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you, and that fear of the unknown. The only way to do that effectively is to really get into the maze, rather than look at the maze from above, so that's where I sort of come at it. ~ Christopher Nolan, #NFDB
1041:And worst of all, I did not feel held safe. Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe. So they look at gaps of the unknown and hesitate at best. Run away at worst. They crave for life to make sense. They cringe when it doesn’t. It ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1042:Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future. ~ Janusz Korczak, #NFDB
1043:To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. ~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott, #NFDB
1044:We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being doesn't do it, to be human has been a constraint. The unknown awaits us, but I sense that that unknown is a totalization and will be the true humanization we long for. Am I speaking of death? no, of life. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1045:When religious leaders leverage our fear and need for more certainty by extracting vulnerability from spirituality and turning faith into "compliance and consequences," rather than traching and modeling how to wrestle with the unknown and how to embrace mystery, the entire concept of faith is bankrupt on its own terms. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1046:Worrying we might fail leads to fear and paralysis; it leads to making “safe” decisions instead of the ones demanded by our art, our longings. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown. I ~ David duChemin, #NFDB
1047:Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
1048:The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'.
~ Werner Heisenberg,#NFDB
1049:While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1050:Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
1051:Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown? ~ Janice Steinberg, #NFDB
1052:not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life. ~ Freya Stark, #NFDB
1053:I want to be a poet, and I am working to make myself a seer: you will not understand this, and I don’t know how to explain it to you. It is a questioning of reaching the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. The sufferings are enormous, but one has to be strong, one has to be born a poet, and I know I am a poet. ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
1054:Numerous are the legends built up around the personalities of men who defied the taboos of their times and sought to probe the unknown nature of man and the universe. Their strength lay in their “magic,” their power over the “right” word; their weakness lay in their isolation, which invited distrust and condemnation. ~ Stephen E Flowers, #NFDB
1055:Self will come to life even in the slaying of self; but there is ever something deeper and stronger than it, which will emerge at last from the unknown abysses of the soul: will it be as a solemn gloom, burning with eyes? or a clear morning after the rain? or a smiling child, that finds itself nowhere, and everywhere? ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1056:Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
1057:SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN FATE, OTHERS DON’T. I DO, and I don’t. It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us about like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown. ~ Thor Heyerdahl, #NFDB
1058:terror, and clinging with her hands to the wall to avoid falling. Every one drew back, and the man in the red cloak remained standing alone in the middle of the room. "Oh, grace, grace, pardon!" cried the wretch, falling on her knees. The unknown waited for silence, and then resumed, "I told you well that she would know ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1059:The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
1060:The Extended Disorder Family (or Cluster): (i) uncertainty, (ii) variability, (iii) imperfect, incomplete knowledge, (iv) chance, (v) chaos, (vi) volatility, (vii) disorder, (viii) entropy, (ix) time, (x) the unknown, (xi) randomness, (xii) turmoil, (xiii) stressor, (xiv) error, (xv) dispersion of outcomes, (xvi) unknowledge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1061:The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there. ~ Marisha Pessl, #NFDB
1062:Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale—who writes always to the unknown friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal entry dated April 19, 1848, Journals (1911), Volume 7, p. 440, #NFDB
1063:It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars. ~ Lisi Harrison, #NFDB
1064:The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality,
and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Whenever we
proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we
may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding’. ~ Werner Heisenberg,#NFDB
1065:Dumbledore: ...'There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his own lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.' p. 566 ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1066:History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1067:Traditionally, the Socratic tradition in philosophy has a therapeutic function, which is to dispel the horrors of the unknown through reasoned argument. What cannot be tolerated in this tradition is the possibility of a world that cannot be known, or a world that is indifferent to our elaborate knowledge-producing schemes. ~ Eugene Thacker, #NFDB
1068:But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
1069:The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of the power of a thing . . . I romanticize something when I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the known the dignity of the unknown, and the finite the appearance of the infinite. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
1070:If I said decisively, “I have seen God,” that which I see would change. Instead of the inconceivable unknown—wildly free before me, leaving me wild and free before it—there would be a dead object and the thing of the theologian, to which the unknown would be subjugated. ~ Georges Bataille, Inner Experience (1954), L. Boldt, trans. (1988), p. 4, #NFDB
1071:Some people believe in Fate, others don't. I do, and I don't.
It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us above like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not
born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown. ~ Thor Heyerdahl,#NFDB
1072:The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1073:All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just say "yes." You don't even know what it means to say "yes," but you say it anyway. You'll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
1074:Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1075:In all of our experiences together, there always was that moment that I could have turned back and I never ever did. Even if it scared me to the core, to the very soul and fiber of my being, I still went forward into the unknown. Some may call that brave. I don't think I'd call it that. Stubborn beyond repair seemed more fitting. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1076:I was almost awestruck when I realized that like this meant without a condom. Jack's vulnerability shone through him in that exact moment like a lighthouse beacon in a raging storm. Somewhere along the way, we'd crossed an imaginary line where feelings and emotions blurred into the unknown. A place neither of us dared to go before. ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
1077:She reaches into the unknown and claims his hand, clasping it as if he might evaporate into the night. She’s petrified. Not of the monstrosities prowling the island, but of the demon inside herself. The one about to rip apart her heart and mind to attain a selfish freedom. And it might all be a lie, placed there by the Society. ~ Laura Kreitzer, #NFDB
1078:Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1079:She’s very good at saying no, but she never learned how to say yes. Yes to new experiences. Yes to friendly yet unfamiliar faces. Yes to leaving Ohio. Yes to the unknown. She’s built a safe little world for herself, and she’s existing just fine, but in my opinion she’s not really living. And for that I feel sorry for her.” Katrina ~ Maria Murnane, #NFDB
1080:to have a great life you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your life. Work at it like a job. Money from effort comes and goes, but effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
1081:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And it is our own.” The quote was from Eddington’s Space, Time, and Gravitation, first published in 1920. ~ Ian Douglas, #NFDB
1082:“He projects no image upon the blank whatever. The cosmic mysteries he accepts as things in themselves; he feels no need to hang a more or less human mask upon them. Otherwise, the correlation between a man and the shape into which he molds the unknown for greater ease of manipulation is exact.” ~ Jack Vance, Servants of the Wankh (1969), Chapter 3, #NFDB
1083:The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down in the water thatwhispered yes, yes, yes. Go forward, onward, into the unknown. It felt like something between destruction and thrill ~ Krystal Sutherland, #NFDB
1084:Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man. ~ Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, #NFDB
1085:In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty … in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1086:In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1087:Some people believe in Fate, others don't. I do, and I don't.
It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us above like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not
born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves
and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any
little trail into the unknown. ~ Thor Heyerdahl,#NFDB
1088:There are times in our lives when the Lord calls us to seize the opportunities presented us. When we must, no matter how hard or fearful, summon the courage to step out into the unknown, brave the darkness, and embrace the dawn. With the Lord's help, though, such seemingly impossible feats become not only attainable, but essential. ~ Kathleen Morgan, #NFDB
1089:In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1090:I think most people settle for what is safe at least once at some point in their lives, but a person who suffers from anxiety or depression will almost always run away from goals, dreams, and new life adventures to avoid the possibility of feeling anything new and somewhat scary. It is better to live with the known than face the unknown. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
1091:Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1092:Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice?And isn't it free choice that makes individuals of us? We are eternally free to choose ourselves and our futures. I believe myself that life is quite comparable to a map like this a constant choice of direction and route. ~ Dorothy Gilman, #NFDB
1093:I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. ~ Everett Ruess, #NFDB
1094:We tend to crave a “and so it is” and “so it was” that the illusion of a single perspective brings, but one thing I have learned from being in the world is that there is no such panopticon. Panopticons are for surveillance states. It behooves us as writers and artists at this moment in history to honor the unknown and the unknowable. ~ Eleni Sikelianos, #NFDB
1095:A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance. ~ Alexander Grothendieck, #NFDB
1096:Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1097:Hiccup had made leaps such as these all his life. Leaps of faith, leaps of hope, leaps out into the unknown. Hiccup had always trusted in his luck, in his faith that the universe was ultimately kindly, a Good Egg, as Stoick would put it, rather than a Bad Egg, and would reach out and save him.
But this was more of a leap of despair. ~ Cressida Cowell,#NFDB
1098:The world is full of hatred because it refuses to be poor. It wants to conquer fear with power. But you will conquer in another way, the unknown way. First, perhaps, you will forget. You will not see. You will not understand. Later you may see, and then you will know that the false self must die in order for the true self to be born. ~ Michael D O Brien, #NFDB
1099:My situation, said the pharmacist's assistant, was simpler, I heard that people were going blind, then I began to wonder what it would be like if I too were to go blind, I closed my eyes to try it and when I opened them I was blind, Sounds like another allegory, interrupted the unknown voice, if you want to be blind, then blind you will be. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1100:The incertitude of man’s proud confident thought,
The transience of the achievements of his force.
A thinking being in an unthinking world,
An island in the sea of the Unknown,
He is a smallness trying to be great,
An animal with some instincts o ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1101:The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
1102:We have too long supposed that the Unknown mysterium tremendum et fascinosum of religion was outside us, when in fact that Unknown, although ego-alien or unconscious, was all the while within us: the alleged “supernatural” is the human “subconscious.” ~ Weston La Barre, “Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion,” Flesh of the Gods (1972), p. 261, #NFDB
1103:No matter how unattractive or how dangerous the road ahead may be, it is better than the road back. The road ahead may be veiled from sight—but you must teach yourself to regard the unknown as friendly. Remember that God is always on the road ahead. … cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee (Psalm 143:8). ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
1104:When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,’ the Warmaster had told him.
‘And what are they?’ he had asked.
‘That there will be something solid to stand on or you’ll be taught to fly,’ laughed Horus as he jumped. ~ Graham McNeill,#NFDB
1105:The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either. ~ Roger Zelazny, #NFDB
1106:The Unknown sometimes holds surprises for the spirit of man. A sudden rent in the veil of darkness will momentarily reveal the invisible and then close up again. Such visions sometimes have a transfiguring effect, turning a camel driver into a Mohammed, a goat girl into a Joan of Arc. Solitude brings out a certain amount of sublime exaltation. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1107:Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate. ~ Adrien Brody, #NFDB
1108:Something about the idea of a tower that headed straight down played with a twinned sensation of vertigo and a fascination with structure. I could not tell which part I craved and which I feared, and I kept seeing the inside of nautilus shells and other naturally occurring patterns balanced against a sudden leap off a cliff into the unknown ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1109:This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1110:Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1111:one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
1112:To design, to code, to write is to embrace danger, to plunge ahead into the unknown, making new things out of constantly changing materials, exposing yourself to criticism and failure every single day. It’s like being a sand painter in a windstorm, except Buddhist monks probably don’t have to figure out how to fit IAB ad units into their mandalas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1113:You can’t know this right now, but…
your ragged, rugged honesty…
your crazy, passionate, naked vulnerability…
your trusting plunge into the unknown of Life at every turn…
your journey of love and healing…
these change your world, the world of those around you and the world as a whole.
Someday you’ll know how important you are. ~ Jacob Nordby,#NFDB
1114:All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth. ~ H W L Poonja, #NFDB
1115:I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where we can kind of create the reality that we believe to be as opposed to the reality that is. It is about the beyond and the unknown in a different way than pretty much any type of storytelling is. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
1116:Nothing is more creative than death, since it is the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that “I” cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1117:Nothing is more creative than death, since it is the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that “I” cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting it go he finds it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1118:The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. H.P. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature ~ Lon Milo DuQuette, #NFDB
1119:There was nothing but resolute determination stamped across her beautiful features. He felt something in his chest squeeze. This was the woman that he would have with him. The woman he would want by his side as he ventured forth into the unknown, armed with her wits and her determination.
And if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. ~ Kelly Bowen,#NFDB
1120:This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1121:You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
1122:Did my courage make you crazy? Cripple you with the unknown?
Did my silence create desire—make you feel things you could not discern?
Is my shinning light exploding? Can your eyes not yet adjust?
Is my forgiveness running through you? Knowing your pain I will not digest?
Is my confidence disrupting the girl you LOVE to HATE the most? ~ Coco J Ginger,#NFDB
1123:I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again. ~ Juliette Binoche, #NFDB
1124:The mind, even although not controlled and directed by the Will, has a wonderful range, but, nevertheless, Man finds himself traveling around and around in a circle, and realizes that he is confronted continually by the Unknown. This disturbs him, and the higher the stage of "book learning" he attains, the more disturbed does he become. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
1125:It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right? ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1126:This universe of unknown stuff will intrude in our lives and activities, so we have no choice but to deal with it. One of the ways to do that is to try to understand the many reasons why something may be difficult or impossible to see. To gain this understanding requires identifying multiple levels of the unknown, from the trivial to the fundamental. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1127:We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1128:I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do.
It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back. ~ Daniel H Wilson,#NFDB
1129:Our society is stuck between problem and solution when it comes to treating mental illness. We cannot find a solution until we agree on the problem. And it is my humble opinion that the problem is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of the misunderstood. Instead, let us seek to pursue knowledge over fear. Let's find a way to save lives that can be saved. ~ Hannah Hart, #NFDB
1130:Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo her until she gives herself. But what she gives, even then, is not the cold clarity of the surface but the warm inwardness of the body - a mysteriousness which is not merely a negation, a blank absence of knowledge, but the positive substance which we call wonderful. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1131:Knowledge is a flash of light between two darknesses; but knowledge cannot go above and beyond that darkness. Knowledge is essential to technique, as coal to the engine; but it cannot reach out into the unknown. The unknown is not to be caught in the net of the known. Knowledge must be set aside for the unknown to be; but how difficult that is! ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1132:She still has quite a few things but she knows what they are, has deliberately chosen what to keep and what to give away. She can’t believe how light she feels, how hopeful. She no longer feels mired in all the stuff that was keeping her anchored here, all the unknown quantities that felt heavy and mysterious. Everything is in its proper place at last. ~ Darien Gee, #NFDB
1133:Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.
Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin. ~ Robert G Ingersoll,#NFDB
1134:In the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we're faking them.
And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it's joy we're looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1135:Many of the great humanitarian and environmental campaigns of our time have been to make the unknown real, the invisible visible, to bring the faraway near, so that the suffering of sweatshop workers, torture victims, beaten children, even the destruction of other species and remote places, impinges on the imagination and perhaps prompts you to act. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1136:Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1137:Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence ~ Manly P Hall, #NFDB
1138:Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence ~ Manly P Hall, #NFDB
1139:His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances. He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1140:What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. ~ Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, #NFDB
1141:A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.' ~ John Zerzan, #NFDB
1142:I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I couldn't go backward or even retrace my own steps, let alone Xanda's. I could only go forward. The threads of time weren't unraveling but weaving into a tapestry -- a future, and a hope.
The only way to discover was to step into it. ~ Holly Cupala,#NFDB
1143:The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1144:Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
1145:Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1146:It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #NFDB
1147:religion rests on a foundation of fear. Of course it does, and how could it not? Though some of us are understandably impressed with what we collectively know (which most often means being impressed with what other people know and we believe), our ignorance still exceeds our knowledge, and we still have eminently good reason to fear the unknown. And how do we ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1148:What do you do when confronted with an inexplicable and alarming situation? Well, you can panic or give in to some other tyrannical emotion, like dread. Or you can escape into a book or a puzzle or, judging from the adults around me, a bottle of gin. But there is another possible response to the unknown and potentially menacing, and that is thinking. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1149:Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1150:The night loves the stars as they play about the Darkness...the day loves the light caressing the sun...We love...those who do...because we live in a world requiring light and Darkness...partnership and solitude...sameness and difference...the familiar and the unknown...We love because it's the only true adventure...
from Love: Is a Human Condition ~ Nikki Giovanni,#NFDB
1151:They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the major players in Philadelphia, we need to abandon our hindsight omniscience and capture their mentality as they negotiated the unknown. ~ Joseph J Ellis, #NFDB
1152:The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown. ~ Ferdinand Magellan, #NFDB
1153:When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1154:When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1155:Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits. ~ Marshall Ulrich, #NFDB
1156:And now," said the unknown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good — now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!" At these words he gave a signal, and, as if only awaiting this signal, the yacht instantly put out to sea. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1157:Gruenewald says his Bible App also offers an element of mystery and variability. “One woman would stay up until just past midnight to know what verse she had received for her next day,” Gruenewald says. The unknown—in this case, which verse will be chosen for the reader and how it relates to their personal struggle—becomes an important driver of the reading habit. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
1158:The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to perform miracles of the imagination. To extend the boundaries of the mysterious. To push into the unknown in pursuit of still other unknowns. To reach into one's heart, down into that place where the stories are, bringing up the mystery of oneself. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB
1159:We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1160:Any thoughts of being with Parker were long gone, and I knew it was because of my feelings for Travis. I thought about the different paths my life would take from that moment—trusting Travis with a leap of faith and risking the unknown, or pushing him away and knowing exactly where I would end up, which included a life without him—either decision terrified me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1161:Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged from it, as if this were the exact moment when she was coming from a wood into clear moonlight. The unknown yielded her up; Dick wished she had no background, that she was just a girl lost with no address save the night from which she had come. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1162:... I am halfway between two worlds, the known and the unknown. I feel as transparent as the wind, as if my spirit is hovering in the sky, waiting to land. I am driving toward a future I can't see, leaving behind a past that already feels distant. Nothing is clear - and yet the trees are sharp against the sky; I can see the hard outlines of everything. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1163:Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans. A well-run organization will reward planners for precise execution and penalize them for failing to anticipate difficulties, and for failing to allow for difficulties that they could not have anticipated—the unknown unknowns. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1164:There is nothing to be gained by pursuing the unknown. It is sufficient to fully comprehend the known.
Wu Hsin comes to take you to the real; his words are final. Drink them fully and your thirst has ended.
You are no longer mesmerized by your own self-importance. To have done so means to reach the state in which imagination is no longer taken for the actual. ~ Wu Hsin,#NFDB
1165:If Albert Einstein, the last century’s very poster boy for the cunning man and the wild-haired magician of science, knew one thing, then it was simply that there was always more to be known. He didn’t pridefully condemn dreams of physics and incomplete theories. He pointed off into the future and named the unknown things as, in fact, spooky action at a distance. ~ Warren Ellis, #NFDB
1166:In my experience,” the lantern began, his voice soft, “places like the oceans or the heavens, an undiscovered forest, a great underground chasm, or the mystery of a woman’s heart and mind are not the end of a journey, but a beginning. Do not let fear of the unknown prevent you from discovery, vampire; otherwise the story of your life will be a dull tale indeed. ~ Colleen Houck, #NFDB
1167:It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
1168:The God I know of, I shall ne'er Know, though he dwells exceeding nigh. Raise thou the stone and find me there, Cleave thou the wood and there am I. Yea, in my flesh his spirit doth flow, Too near, too far, for me to know. ~ William Watson, The Unknown God. Third and fourth lines are from "newly discovered sayings of Jesus." Probably an ancient Oriental proverb., #NFDB
1169:He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1170:That I am the master of my destiny and everyone is a pawn in my game—not the other way around. Because if I am the poker chip, then I have to wait to see how I’ll be played. The unknown is the hardest. Which might explain why we try so hard to rule our worlds. It is the only hope we have to make sense of our lives. Noises of the city waft through the open window. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
1171:There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness. ~ Erich Maria Remarque, #NFDB
1172:We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal.
Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left. ~ Franco Santoro,#NFDB
1173:Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
1174:Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1175:How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
1176:Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith let’s go…faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deceptio ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1177:I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time. ~ Bill Cowher, #NFDB
1178:I really have no experience,” he began. “No one has any experience,” said the other, “of the Battle of Armageddon.” “But I am really unfit—” “You are willing, that is enough,” said the unknown. “Well, really,” said Syme, “I don’t know any profession of which mere willingness is the final test.” “I do,” said the other—“martyrs. I am condemning you to death. Good day. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1179:It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects ~ Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, #NFDB
1180:Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven. ~ Y ko Ogawa, #NFDB
1181:I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted. ~ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, #NFDB
1182:They stood on the precipice of enormous change, and none of them, not even Ambrose–especially not Ambrose–were excited about the prospect. But whether or not they chose to take a step into the unknown, the unknown would still come, the yawning precipice would still swallow them whole, and life as they knew it would be over. And they had all become highly aware of the end. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1183:We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm. ~ Witold Gombrowicz, #NFDB
1184:I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault. ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
1185:The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1186:When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be. Naturally, ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1187:Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1188:Fear of the unknown.
They are afraid of new ideas.
They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.
You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious. ~ Wayne W Dyer,#NFDB
1189:[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
1190:Sometime in the last forty-eight hours, Lily had discovered the great secret of pain: it thrived on the unknown, on the knowledge that there was a greater pain out there, something more excruciating that might yet be breached. The body was constantly waiting. When you took away the uncertainty, when you controlled the pain yourself, it was definitely easier to bear,... ~ Erika Johansen, #NFDB
1191:Whoever said our oldest fear is fear of the unknown, knew what he was talking about. All the electric lights and brick walls we’ve constructed never seem to take the edge off the suspicion that somewhere out there in the dark, some thing is waiting for us. For a handful of people in Silicon Valley that summer, the thing stopped waiting and stepped out of the night. • • • ~ Nancy Holder, #NFDB
1192:Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1193:The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to the floor, wondering if he'd wake up in mortality. Then the muddled spectra went black, the silence that followed only possible in the deepest sectors of space. Or death. ~ Marcha A Fox, #NFDB
1194:Faith is the muscle you use when you decide to blast outside of your comfort zone and transform your life into something that’s practically unrecognizable to you in your present reality. Faith smothers your fear of the unknown. Faith allows you to take risks. Faith is the stuff of “leap and the net will appear.” Faith is your best buddy when you’re scared shitless. When ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
1195:I imagine I am stronger than I used to be, more resilient. That I am the master of my destiny and everyone is a pawn in my game—not the other way around. Because if I am the poker chip, then I have to wait to see how I’ll be played. The unknown is the hardest. Which might explain why we try so hard to rule our worlds. It is the only hope we have to make sense of our lives. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
1196:There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1197:I’m intrigued with the idea of surrender not as defeat or loss, as it is frequently thought of, but as a positive, intuitive way of living, a power that grows as you develop trust in the moment as well as in change and the unknown. Contrary to common stereotypes that equate surrender with weakness, I’m presenting it as a way to gain mastery of your life, not give up power. ~ Judith Orloff, #NFDB
1198:He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1199:I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
1200:Why do people persist in an unsatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing. It’s like the old proverbs say: “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know, ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
1201:often it’s not the unknown that scares us, it’s that we think we know what’s going to happen—and that it’s going to be bad. But the truth is, we really don’t know.” The smart play, she said, was to turn the situation to my internal advantage. “Fear of annihilation,” she said, “can lead to great insight, because it reminds us of impermanence and the fact that we are not in control. ~ Dan Harris, #NFDB
1202:In a letter of 1952, written when she was sixty-four, O'Keefe said: "I realize how un-Catholic I my soul is...I am startled to realize my lack for the need of the comfort of the Church --- When I stand alone with the earth and sky a feeling of something in me going off in every direction into the unknown of infinity means more to me than any thing any organized religion gives me. ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
1203:THE ABOVEGROUND ROUTE to the fortress of Queen Roen was a high and treeless one, for mountains called the Little Grays divided the land of Fire and her neighbors from the land of the lady queen. “Little” because they were passable by foot and because they were more easily inhabitable than the Great Grays that formed the Dells’ western and southern border with the unknown land. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1204:Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don’t dare, it is there that you will take pleasure . . . and rejoice, in the terror, follow it where you’re afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you’re on the right trail. ~ H l ne Cixous, #NFDB
1205:In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my right hand. We listen to the cries of the night revellers outside and hear the horses tramping along the ways. We're holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might be in the unknown realm where lovers act as lovers without concealment. ~ Sebastian Barry, #NFDB
1206:Often far away there I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness, knitting black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Ave! Old knitter of black wool. Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again--not half, by a long way. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1207:Rise and enter the lair, where the darkness gives you your stripes. Tell tyrants, to you, their allegiance they owe," Etta read, running her finger beneath the words within the star. "Seek out the unknown gods whose ears were deaf to lecture. Stand on the shoulders of memory. Bring a coin to the widowed queen. Remember, the truth is in the telling, and an ending must be final. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1208:There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them. ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
1209:Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they? ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
1210:It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice
That speaks for ever from the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Voice of the unknowable
This void held more than all the teeming worlds,
This blank felt more than all that Time has borne,
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1211:The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based
on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God
there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that
there is a God, there would be no religion… ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1212:What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown. ~ Matt Long, #NFDB
1213:The Unknown Travelers
Lugged to the gray arbor,
I have climbed this snow-stone on my face,
My stick, but what, snapped the avalanche
The air filled with slowly falling rocks
Breathed in deeply--arrived,
The white room, a table covered
With a towel, mug of ice--fear
Among the legs of a chair, the ashman,
Purple and gray she starts upright in her chair. ~ John Ashbery,#NFDB
1214:Why are we so addicted to factual knowledge? Why are we so uncomfortable with the unknown? Is it something about the anxiety of our time? Because of course that wasn't always the way. Even now the whole idea of the rational individual has been subject to question and yet we still cling to this idea of factual, rational knowledge being more valuable than whatever its opposite might be. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
1215:History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
~ Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Time Enough for Love (1973).,#NFDB
1216:There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long:
'The last man on Earth sat along in a room. There was a knock at the door…'
Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots. The horror, of course, isn't in the story at all; it's in the ellipsis, the implication: what knocked at the door. Faced with the unknown, the human mind supplies something vaguely horrible. ~ Fredric Brown,#NFDB
1217:Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1218:First principle: any explanation is better than none. Because it is at bottom only a question of wanting to get rid of oppressive ideas, one is not exactly particular about what means one uses to get rid of them: the first idea which explains that the unknown is in fact the known does so much good that one ‘holds it for true’. Proof by pleasure (‘by potency’) as criterion of truth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1219:Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1220:Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1221:Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us. The proof can be found in the fact that, though life leads us to carry out the most diverse actions one after the other, we do not prelude each one with a period of reflection, evaluation and calculation, and only then declare ourselves able to decide if we will go out to lunch or buy a newspaper or look for the unknown woman. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1222:She took a step forward, and so did the unknown woman. Suddenly realization and relief came upon her in equal measures; “It is a mirror! Oh! How foolish! How foolish! To be afraid of my own reflection!” She was so relieved she almost laughed out loud, but then she paused; it had not been foolish to be frightened, not foolish at all; there had been no mirror in that corner until now. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1223:Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed. As ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1224:When Hermann Göring visited Warsaw in 1934, he was totally unaware of the fact that his communications were being intercepted and deciphered. As he and other German dignitaries laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier next to the offices of the Biuro Szyfrów, Rejewski could stare down at them from his window, content in the knowledge that he could read their most secret communications. ~ Simon Singh, #NFDB
1225:I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
1226:It occurs to me that the man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently. ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
1227:We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own. ~ Arthur Eddington, #NFDB
1228:God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1229:The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the more desiccated and embalmed, the more joyless and frustrated life becomes. So protected from life, man becomes a sort of mollusc encrusted in a hard shell of “tradition,” so that when at last reality breaks through, as it must, the tide of pent-up fear runs wild. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1230:Before Columbus, all previous adventurers sailed close to the shore, within sight of land. That was the accepted way to sail. Columbus dared to be different. He refused to do what all others had done. He took a risk: he sailed perpendicular to the shore—straight out to sea. And because he let go of the known and had the bravery to sail out into the unknown, he became one of our greatest heroes. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1231:If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed. ~ Michele Cassou, #NFDB
1232:In the middle of the night, with his father and brother asleep, and his mother having an adventure, he felt fits of longing for places he'd never been, places he couldn't describe, and he wondered if there were anyone else like him in the world, awake and catching glimpses of the unknown. He wondered if he were truly related to his family, or if instead he had dropped among them, a changeling. ~ Glen David Gold, #NFDB
1233:Chance; pure chance. But chance was a dull explanation because it denied the possibility of the paranormal, and people were often disappointed by dull explanations. Mystery and the unknown were far more exciting because they suggested that our world was not quite as prosaic as we feared it might be. Yet we had to adjure those temptations because they lead to a world of darkness and fear. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
1234:I do this in two ways: First, I explain what is known today about phenomena seen in the movie (black holes, wormholes, singularities, the fifth dimension, and the like), and I explain how we learned what we know, and how we hope to master the unknown. Second, I interpret, from a scientist’s viewpoint, what we see in Interstellar, much as an art critic or ordinary viewer interprets a Picasso painting. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1235:Tabby didn’t mince words when she gave a pointed warning to his fans in the pages of Castle Rock two months after Misery was published: “In some very real way, you, the readers, know this man very well. I would like to suggest that you do not know him at all. In seventeen years of marriage, I am still discovering things I did not know about Steve, and I hope he’s still discovering the unknown in me. ~ Lisa Rogak, #NFDB
1236:When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1237:Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is
the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the
same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed,
released, renewed. ~ Rebecca Solnit,#NFDB
1238:Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. ~ Claude Bernard, #NFDB
1239:Monstrously Remote: “Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I immediately draw radii from my love—from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter—to monstrously remote points of the universe… the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.” – Speak Memory (1966) ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1240:My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poor house , not to mention devote himself to something he does not love. Instead, I discovered an interesting back road to the unknown , and deliberately without a safety net. ~ Russell Chatham, #NFDB
1241:be dragons,’” I read out loud. “Are you the dragon?” The corner of his mouth quirks. His hands rest on my hips, holding on with just enough tension to tell me he isn’t quite comfortable with the inspection but is letting me look anyway. “Map makers used to put the saying along the borders, for places where they hadn’t yet charted. It’s in reference to the unknown, to be mindful of the unexplored. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
1242:I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1243:Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1244:We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past - something we learned, imagined, or desired. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
1245:Well from an outsider’s perspective, love seems easy, but when you’re the one in the hot seat, making the decisions, it’s not that easy putting your heart out there, gathering enough courage to fall into the unknown. Love isn’t easy and love isn’t kind; love is something you sacrifice everything for in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, there is a person in this world who will accept you for who you are. ~ Meghan Quinn, #NFDB
1246:What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form. ~ Gore Verbinski, #NFDB
1247:Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
1248:The verge between sea and land marked the manifestation of the symbolic transition between the known and the unknown. Between life and death, spirit and mind, between an unlimited host of elements and forces contrary yet locked together. Lives were given to the seas, treasures were flung into their depths. And, upon the waters themselves, ships and their crews were dragged into the deep time and again. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1249:You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. Throughout our lives, we all find ourselves in situations in which we come face to face with the unknown, and the myth of the hero shows us how we should behave. We all have to face the final rite of passage, which is death. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1250:Haven't you ever noticed, Mr. Glebsky, how much more interesting the unknown is than the known? The unknown makes us think — it makes our blood run a little quicker and gives rise to various delightful trains of thought. It beckons, it promises. It's like a fire flickering in the depths of the night. But as soon as the unknown becomes known, it's just as flat, gray and uninteresting as everything else. ~ Boris Strugatsky, #NFDB
1251:Her self was nothing, God alone was all,
Yet God she knew not but only knew he was.
A sacred darkness brooded now within,
The world was a deep darkness great and nude.
This void held more than all the teeming worlds,
This blank felt more than all that Time has borne,
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown.
But all was formless, voiceless, infinite.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1252:Scores of people killed themselves, or tried to, rather than face that journey into the unknown. There were a reported 430 suicides and 252 suicide attempts in Terezín between 1941 and 1943 – most of them during the transports. Those who couldn’t face leaving their loved ones jumped from windows, slashed their wrists, hanged themselves, or took overdoses of barbiturates stolen or bought from the infirmary. ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
1253:And here, at the last, as we sit here among the questions still unanswered and the path you must walk ahead, I pray for your journey as it unfolds into the unknown.
I know you feel a bit out of sorts. We all do sometimes. It's okay. Don't be afraid.
You are so very loved. I pray you would remember it, know it, live it, breathe it, rest in it: beloved.
In the mighty and powerful name of Jesus, Amen. ~ Sarah Bessey,#NFDB
1254:History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history. ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
1255:When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free ~ Tim Cahill, #NFDB
1256:Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1257:When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
1258:...."When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
1259:There is something very unstabilizing about not knowing where you're coming from or where you're going. There's something very romantic about it, because you have this search for the unknown. But at the same time, sometimes I'm like, "God, if I were to die tomorrow, where would I like to be buried?" I wouldn't know. That's kind of a heavy thought, but it's a fact. You don't know anymore where you belong. ~ Haider Ackermann, #NFDB
1260:Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence ~ Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff, #NFDB
1261:History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein (1973). Time Enough for Love. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 258. ISBN 9780399111518., #NFDB
1262:She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her life and ebbed out of it forever. The ripple had left no traces behind: the wave had strewn at her feet fragments torn from the unknown. A curious seeker, she stood for a while at the verge of the sea that tells so little, but tells a little, and watched the outgoing of this last tremendous tide. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1263:Such a mind, which is free and therefore has humility, can learn—not a mind that resists. Learning is an extraordinary thing—to learn, not to accumulate knowledge. Accumulating knowledge is quite a different thing. What we call knowledge is comparatively easy, because that is a movement from the known to the known. But to learn is a movement from the known to the unknown—you learn only like that, do you not? ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1264:The true spiritual life is a life neither of dionysian orgy nor of apollonian clarity: it transcends both. It is a life of wisdom, a life of sophianic love. In Sophia, the highest wisdom-principle, all the greatness and majesty of the unknown that is in God and all that is rich and maternal in His creation are united inseparably, as paternal and maternal principles, the uncreated Father and created Mother-Wisdom. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1265:Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion. ~ Humphry Davy, #NFDB
1266:My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1267:This is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days. ~ Kent Nerburn, #NFDB
1268:We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. The present War on Terror is the War of Fear. No Fear, no control. ~ David Icke, #NFDB
1269:I write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of so many souls, the night of the unknown abyss and the chaos of nothing make sense-next to all this, what I write in the ledger and what I write on this paper that tells my soul are equally confined to the Rua dos Douradores, woefully little in the face of the universe's millionaire expanses. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1270:Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown? ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
1271:We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1272:I just can’t sleep anymore, and it isn’t because of the heat. When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1273:Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. ~ Phillip Mann, #NFDB
1274:Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1275:Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. ~ Amy Johnson, #NFDB
1276:There are frontiers where we are learning, and our desire for knowledge burns. They are in the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, at the origins of the cosmos, in the nature of time, in the phenomenon of black holes, and in the workings of our own thought processes. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
1277:Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer' has little meaning. But exploration is nothing more than a faray into the unknown, and a four-year old child, wandering about along in the department store, fits the definition as well as the snow-blind man wandering across the Khyber Pass. The explorer is the person who is lost. ~ Tim Cahill, #NFDB
1278:Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1279:It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!
The land rots; we shall sail into the night;
if now the sky and sea are black as ink
our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light.
Only when we drink poison are we well —
we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue,
to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell,
who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage") ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB
1280:But for me, the best things happened out of unpredictability. My mind used to make my options limited that I was left with little room for new ideas or endings. I would call the unknown and I best friends now. Because the unfamiliar is my path to my next great task. I wake up with an excited feeling within my stomach about all the possibilities ahead. Here's to living without the fear of not knowing what's around the bend. ~ Jennae Cecelia, #NFDB
1281:The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown. ~ Alberto Villoldo, #NFDB
1282:I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater, #NFDB
1283:I just mean, you know, all of this. The world. Everything beyond it. Whatever that might be. I don’t pretend to know what that is. I think religion gets it wrong because they’re too literal. And I think science gets it wrong for the same reason. I think there’s a natural order to things but most of the time I think what we’re trying to do with both religion or scientific explanation is to mitigate our own fear of the unknown. ~ Emme Rollins, #NFDB
1284:They tried not to stare, but they couldn't keep their eyes away. I was a freak now. I made people uncomfortable and not necessarily because of my scars-but because what my scars represented. Danger, fear, and the unknown. Something had had happened to me, something not even I could remember. They all probably thought that I was crazy, that I somehow did this to myself. I couldn't blame them. ow could I? They might be right. ~ Cambria Hebert, #NFDB
1285:I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1286:I wanted that unfiltered, overpowering astonishment that blinds you, knocks you down, wakes you up, and reminds you that you are alive. I wanted a shiver of the unknown. I wanted to venture past the safety of my convictions and find the wilderness out there beyond the edges of my own world. I wanted to get lost. I wanted an adventure. I wanted a secret door or a buried treasure or something bigger than the world I had found. ~ Nate Staniforth, #NFDB
1287:When she passed by me with quick
steps, the end of her skirt touched
me.
From the unknown island of a
heart came a sudden warm breath of
spring.
A flutter of a flitting touch brushed
me and vanished in a moment, like a
torn flower petal blown in the breeze.
It fell upon my heart like a sigh of
her body and whisper of her heart.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener XXII - When She Passed By Me
,#NFDB
1288:Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements. ~ David Whyte, #NFDB
1289:Statement 4 is even worse. It postulates that things you can never know to exist are actually responsible for the only thing you can be absolutely sure to exist: your own consciousness. It postulates that abstractions generate what is concrete. This is quite an extraordinary statement in that it completely inverts the natural direction of inference: normally, one infers the unknown from the known, not the known from the unknown! ~ Bernardo Kastrup, #NFDB
1290:You know you’re around a safe, adult person by the following characteristics: She is not threatened by your differences. She has standards, values, and convictions she’s worked out for herself. At the same time, she doesn’t have a “right way” and a “wrong way” for everything. She functions at least on the same level of maturity as her same-age peers. She appreciates mystery and the unknown. She encourages me to develop my own values. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1291:In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas! ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1292:Rebecca and Robert enjoy the fact that they’re so similar. They have very little sense that it limits them, narrows their perspective on life, or blinds them to a wide array of opinions, experiences, and different ways of thinking and being. But the fundamental human preference that they exemplify—for the familiar over the alien, the known over the unknown, and the comfortable over the dissonant—has insidious but important consequences. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1293:All I know for sure is that dreams are the pictures of states wanting to turn into processes. Dreams are maps of the beginning of an otherwise unchartered trip into the unknown. They are pictures of the unknown which appear in many channels. Because process work is body-oriented, I put a stress upon feelings, but dreams are not pictures of just feelings; they are pictures of the way the unknown is showing itself in a given moment. ~ Arnold Mindell, #NFDB
1294:The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.’ When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential. This is the first step towards self-mastery and mastery over every other circumstance in your life. When you push beyond your limits, just as you did in this little demonstration, you unlock mental and physical reserves that you never thought you had. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1295:Within time, you get comfortable with yourself and with the unknown - that we're not going to know until that time comes. And that's enough for me. I wrestle with this a lot even now because I don't want to step on anyone's religion. My family is still very dedicated. At the same time, I take great issue with it when it starts defining policy or ultimately becomes separatist. ... It's been the basis of our main conflicts throughout history. ~ Brad Pitt, #NFDB
1296:I pray to the unknown gods that some man-even a single man, tens of centuries ago-has perused and read that book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, #NFDB
1297:The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
1298:I feel a deep connection to the primeval. I feel like an ancient hunter-gatherer who owns nothing as he wends his way through the complexities of nature, conjuring up a tool just in time for its use and then leaving it behind as he moves on. It is the farmer who needs a barn for his accumulation. The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next. ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
1299:It happens that uncertainty, disorder, and the unknown are completely equivalent in their effect: antifragile systems benefit (to some degree) from, and the fragile is penalized by, almost all of them—even if you have to find them in separate buildings of the university campuses and some philosophaster who has never taken real risks in his life, or, worse, never had a life, would inform you that “they are clearly not the same thing. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1300:Order and chaos are the yang and yin of the famous Taoist symbol: two serpents, head to tail.*1 Order is the white, masculine serpent; Chaos, its black, feminine counterpart. The black dot in the white—and the white in the black—indicate the possibility of transformation: just when things seem secure, the unknown can loom, unexpectedly and large. Conversely, just when everything seems lost, new order can emerge from catastrophe and chaos. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1301:Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1302:There’s no council of wizened wizards overseeing the world of magic, no hidden academies where bright-eyed and precocious youths learn the secrets of the unknown. What we do have is a collective desire, as a community, to keep anyone from fucking up our action. One of the first things any fledgling sorcerer is taught? Keep your mouth shut about magic, or someone will shut it for you, probably with a bullet or a corrective curb-stomping. Now ~ Craig Schaefer, #NFDB
1303:Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves. ~ Wilfred Bion, #NFDB
1304:Order and chaos are the yang and yin of the famous Taoist symbol: two serpents, head to tail.*1 Order is the white, masculine serpent; Chaos, its black, feminine counterpart. The black dot in the white—and the white in the black—indicate the possibility of transformation: just when things seem secure, the unknown can loom, unexpectedly and large. Conversely, just when everything seems lost, new order can emerge from catastrophe and chaos. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1305:There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.
I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be.
And so I light out for the unknown regions. ~ M T Anderson,#NFDB
1306:To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1307:In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World. ~ Alejo Carpentier, #NFDB
1308:There are no coincidences", Silette wrote. "Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know how to read the signs.
To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries. ~ Sara Gran,#NFDB
1309:When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1310:She hated the fact that she was so scared; it made her feel like a fraud... Back then, she was sure she had the guts to deal with shadows and unexplained noises. She had convinced herself that if she was ever lucky enough to see a ghost, the last thing she would do was run. But all that bravado had been a lie. Because talking about fear was a lot different than actually facing it. The unknown was exciting until it was time to step into the void. ~ Ania Ahlborn, #NFDB
1311:With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1312:O Death, old captain, it is time! let us lift anchor.
This land tires us, O Death. Let us be under way!
If the sky and the sea are black as ink,
Our hearts, those you know, have rays of light!
Pour us your poison so that it comfort us!
We wish, this fire burns our brain, so much,
To plunge to the bottom of the gulf, Hell or Heaven,
what does it matter?—
To the bottom of the Unknown, to find Something New! ~ Charles Baudelaire,#NFDB
1313:Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory has frightened them - the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise - and set off a flight reaction.... Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1314:Ellie's head sinks into her hands, and she weeps for the unknown Boot, for Jennifer, for chances missed and a life wasted. She cries for herself, because nobody will ever love her like he loved Jennifer, and because she suspects that she is spoiling what might have been a perfectly good, if ordinary, life. She cries because she is drunk and in her flat and there are few advantages to living on your own except being able to sob uninhibitedly at will. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1315:And maybe it was childish, this old urge to explore for exploring's sake. There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret.
Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder. ~ Ransom Riggs,#NFDB
1316:Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1317:The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them—and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1318:So they tackle their weaknesses and fears head on, even if dipping into the zone of the unknown brings with it a measure of discomfort. They resolve to live by the wisdom of kaizen, improving every aspect of themselves ceaselessly and continuously. With time, things that were once difficult become easy. Fears that once prevented them from all the happiness, health and prosperity they deserved fall to the wayside like stickmen toppled by a hurricane. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1319:The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be? But for goodness' sake don't suppose," her eyes added, "that I would force my acquaintance on you, I simply admire you and like you."
"I like you too, and you're very, very sweet. And I should like you better still, if I had time," answered the eyes of the unknown girl. ~ Leo Tolstoy,#NFDB
1320:For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
1321:But this work has forced me to see that it's our fear of the unknown and our fear of being wrong that create most of our conflict and anxiety. We need both faith and reason to make meaning in an uncertain world.
"The opposite of faith is not doubt, but uncertainty." —Anne Lamott
The Serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ Bren Brown,#NFDB
1322:merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the ships. Instead, all available space was converted into living space for the large number of men on board, a necessary feature of long voyages into the unknown. Many would die on the outward trip and for those that survived there was a cornucopia of tropical diseases awaiting them on their arrival in the East ~ Giles Milton, #NFDB
1323:We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1324:the circuits that engage you — for example when you're having an argument about something fundamental with someone that you love. So you're trying to structure the world around you, jointly, to create a habitable space that you both can exist within. You're using the same circuits — the abstracted version — that our archaic ancestors would have used when they went out into the unknown itself to encounter beasts and predators and geographical unknowns. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1325:I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1326:... there’s a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already known, can be a snare. Just because something looks like something else doesn’t mean that the backstory for both must be the same. Rocks scattered across the sky may appear to be a rubble field left behind by an explosion…but unless you stop to think how else you might get there, you rely on assumptions not in evidence. ~ Thomas Levenson, #NFDB
1327:It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown ~ Bernadette Roberts, #NFDB
1328:the circuits that engage you — for example when you're having an argument about something fundamental with someone that you love. So you're trying to structure the world around you, jointly, to create a habitable space that you both can exist within. You're using the same circuits — the abstracted version — that our archaic ancestors would have used when they went out into the unknown itself to encounter beasts and predators and geographical unknowns. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1329:Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
1330:So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1331:I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain ... In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. ~ Richard P Feynman, #NFDB
1332:Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn't have to be a secret seaplane and a historic sports moment, but to have a great life you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your lfe. Work at it like a job. Money from effort comes and goes, but effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
1333:I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1334:There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence. ~ Wilhelm Reich, #NFDB
1335:You went away but remained in me And thus became my peace and happiness. In separation, separation left me And I witnessed the Unknown. You were the hidden secret of my longing, Hidden deep within my conscience deeper than a dream. You were my true friend in the day And in darkness my companion. [2469.jpg] -- from Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
~ Mansur al-Hallaj, You Went Away but Remained in Me
,#NFDB
1336:I know she is scared of this simple task even if the fear is something she can't—or won't— acknowledge. Fear, perhaps, is not based on the chemical component of adrenaline alone. It acts also on inexperience, or venturing into the unknown, even if that unknown is as uncomplicated a thing as a swimming pool. At least, the pool feels uncomplicated to me, a natural extension of myself. To Xanthe, who has never been in one, it might seem like the great wild unknown. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1337:I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordinary. You're alone. And sometimes the pain of so much loss is written across your face. You wear it like an adornment and that causes other people to wonder about you; they can't relate to you and what you've been through, but you can relate to him in his dark state. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
1338:You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or destruction. Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness. Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1339:Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown. ~ Jacques Vallee, #NFDB
1340:It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1341:A majority of people will often choose the familiar things instead of the unknown, even if they are making a choice that they know will harm them. People are afraid to take chances, to try or to fight. People pass countless opportunities in their lives just because they are scared to make a move or do something out of character. There were many times when I was faced with hard and risky decisions, but I picked the unknown if the familiar sounded too dangerous. ~ Veronika Gasparyan, #NFDB
1342:For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1343:Writing is a journey into the unknown. Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope. ~ Charlie Kaufman, #NFDB
1344:Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
1345:Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when. ~ Annalee Newitz, #NFDB
1346:I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower. "I know his name; it is Satan. The true God was made flesh and dwelt among us. And I say to you, wherever you find men ruled merely by mystery, it is the mystery of iniquity. If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1347:I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1348:Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations. Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1349:This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or even if they thought they were in love, they were never in love. That too was a 'heady' thing, it was not of the heart. People live and go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1350:Human beings cannot live without challenge. We cannot live without meaning. Everything ever achieved we owe to this inexplicable urge to reach beyond our grasp, do the impossible, know the unknown. The Upanishads would say this urge is part of our evolutionary heritage, given to us for the ultimate adventure: to discover for certain who we are, what the universe is, and what is the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1351:I picked up a book on wilderness survival by Laurence Gonzalez and found in it this telling sentence: "The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits." His point is that when the two seem incompatible, we often hang onto the plan, ignore the warnings reality offers us and plunge into trouble. Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. (Woolf's Darkness) ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1352:I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power to accomplish remarkable feats and live an exceptional life is not defined by an individual's family, education, or occupation; it's a disposition of the heart. Unless it's suppressed, there is an innate desire to rise above the norm. I encourage you to step into the unknown, embrace the divine empowerment, and live your extraordinary life. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
1353:Unclaimed
To make love with a stranger is the best.
There is no riddle and there is no test. –
To lie and love, not aching to make sense
Of this night in the mesh of reference.
To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day,
And understand, as only strangers may.
To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart
Preferring neither to prolong nor part.
To rest within the unknown arms and know
That this is all there is; that this is so. ~ Vikram Seth,#NFDB
1354:Believing that each step of my life would mean contact with the horror of the New and that each new person I met was a new and living fragment of the unknown to be placed before me on the table for my daily horrified contemplation, I decided to abstain from everything, to go nowhere, to reduce action to the minimum, to avoid as far as possible meeting either men or events, to perfect abstinence and cultivate renunciation. That's how much living frightens and torments me. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1355:I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find out about them.
And that's what science is.
So I think if you’re not comfortable with the unknown, then it’s difficult to be a scientist… I don’t need an answer. I don’t need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find. ~ Brian Cox,#NFDB
1356:Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
1357:So Edith’s mother lies unmentioned of her dear friends, who are deaf to the waves that are hoarse with repetition of their mystery, and blind to the dust that is piled upon the shore, and to the white arms that are beckoning, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. But all goes on, as it was wont, upon the margin of the unknown sea; and Edith standing there alone, and listening to its waves, has dank weed cast up at her feet, to strew her path in life withal. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1358:I’ve always felt there’s something genetically instilled and inbred in Californians—that California is a place of death, a place people are drawn to because they don’t realize deep down they’re actually afraid of what they want. It’s new, and they’re escaping their histories while at the same time moving headlong toward their own extinctions. Desire and death are all mixed up with the thrill and the risk of the unknown. It’s a variation of what Freud called the “death instinct. ~ Kim Gordon, #NFDB
1359:Well, I'd say that I'm mostly drawn to people who are genuine and willing to take a step to the unknown. So when I play with these people, usually there's this sense of that 'yes, we are doing it together right at this moment without any agenda' feeling which is so exciting! It means that there is this sense of trust, that whatever I throw in the music that's happening, they will make it work and send something to work with in my direction. Hopefully they feel the same about me. ~ Okkyung Lee, #NFDB
1360:If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
1361:I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God - or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch - or a reasonable facsimile. ~ Chuck Lorre, #NFDB
1362:I've been slowly wearing away at my ignorance and, as I said, I've always kept on learning. But that ignorance is still so vast that even today, at seventy, learning this quiet life, I still cherish the hope of being able to embrace everything and experience everything, the unknown and the known, yes, even those things I've known before. There's an intense longing for the known as there is for the unknown because one just can't accept that certain things won't repeat themselves. ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
1363:Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it. We wade in the tidal pools and put our finger near the soft, open bodies of sea anemones and they close up. Everything spontaneously does that. It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
1364:Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1365:I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1366:I've talked about how important it is for us to be able to step into the shoes and mind of the unknown killer. Through our research and experience, we've found it is equally important—as painful and harrowing as it might be—to be able to put ourselves in the place of the victim. Only when we have a firm idea of how the particular victim would have reacted to the horrible things that were happening to her or him can we truly understand the behavior and reactions of the perpetrator. ~ John Edward Douglas, #NFDB
1367:And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.*
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 270,#NFDB
1368:A whole society composed of the unknown within them! They all sense that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they live according to archaic laws--neither their religion nor their morality is in any way suited to the needs of the present. For a 100 years or more Europe has done nothing but study and build factories. They know exactly how many ounces of powder to kill a man but they don't know how to pray to God, they don't even know how to be happy for a single contented hour. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1369:Man’s predicament is that he intuits his hidden resources, but he does not dare use them. This is why warriors say that man’s plight is the counterpoint between his stupidity and his ignorance. Man needs now, more than ever, to be taught new ideas that have to do exclusively with his inner world—shamans’ ideas, not social ideas, ideas pertaining to man facing the unknown, facing his personal death. Now, more than anything else, he needs to be taught the secrets of the assemblage point. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
1370:O you singer, solitary, singing by yourself—projecting me;
O solitary me, listening—nevermore shall I cease perpetuating you;
Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations,
Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,
Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there, in the night,
By the sea, under the yellow and sagging moon,
The messenger there arous’d—the fire, the sweet hell within,
The unknown want, the destiny of me. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1371:Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We’re leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ever been before. He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things—the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns—the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now? ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1372:Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1373:We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
1374:Young people, women especially, often worry about the safety of volunteering abroad. There are, of course, legitimate concerns about disease and violence, but mostly there is the exaggerated fear of the unknown—the mirror image of the nervousness that Africans or Indians feel when they travel to America for their studies. In reality, Americans and Europeans are usually treated hospitably in the developing world, and are much less likely to be robbed in an African village than in Paris or Rome. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1375:It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead. Some people use faith as a reason to remain stuck. They often say, "I have faith, so I'm waiting." But faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it's time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us. ~ Betty Eadie, #NFDB
1376:Intelligence and material process have thus a single origin, which is ultimately the unknown totality of universal flux. In a certain sense, this implies that what have been commonly called mind and matter are abstractions from the universal flux, and that both are to be regarded as different and relatively autonomous orders within the one whole movement...It is thought responding to intelligent perception which is capable of bringing about an overall harmony of fitting between mind and matter. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1377:Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1378:And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one echoes and answers in her own expecting nature. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
1379:Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
1380:Thank goodness they are curious! It's a sign of healthy minds. And while it may be obvious, it's our responsibility to educate them to the idea that romancing the unknown is attended by myriad possibilities, too, shepherding them through those heady periods of urge and instinct when they think they can soar, and deliver them, we hope whole, to a place where perspective begins to reign, where they know that the groggy old bear at the zoo will instantly wake the moment you step inside the cage. ~ Chang rae Lee, #NFDB
1381:It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity.When one is given an anesthetic in preparation for surgery, it is not merely the capacity to experience pain that is suspended; the capacity to experience pleasure goes also - because what is blocked is the capacity to experience *feeling*. The same principle applies to the repression of emotions."
Chapter 1: Discovering the Unknown Self, pg. 9, Bantam Edition, 1984 ~ Nathaniel Branden,#NFDB
1382:We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read.
The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities; bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there. ~ Marisha Pessl,#NFDB
1383:When religious leaders leverage our fear and need for more certainty by extracting vulnerability from spirituality and turning faith into “compliance and consequences,” rather than teaching and modeling how to wrestle with the unknown and how to embrace mystery, the entire concept of faith is bankrupt on its own terms. Faith minus vulnerability equals politics, or worse, extremism. Spiritual connection and engagement is not built on compliance, it’s the product of love, belonging, and vulnerability. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1384:For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!" ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1385:Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing, in order to go further with my creative dreams.
Whenever I experience contraction, I explore it by asking, "Where did I stop and why?"
Building a creative dream life is not just about achieving, succeeding, or "meeting goals." It is also about floundering, stumbling, tripping and failing. ~ S A R K,#NFDB
1386:I’m with you, Laia.” I reach out and take her hand. She squeezes it. I take a step, Laia close beside me. Then another. My mind ranges out, planning our next moves: Escape Serra. Survive the road north. Break into Kauf. Save Laia’s brother. There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don’t know if we’ll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn’t matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
1387:In the widest sense of the word, to name is to interpret experience by the past, to translate it into terms of memory, to bind the unknown into the system of the known. Civilized man knows of hardly any other way of understanding things. Everybody, everything, has to have its label, its number, certificate, registration, classification. What is not classified is irregular, unpredictable, and dangerous. Without passport, birth certificate, or membership in some nation, one’s existence is not recognized. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1388:Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render. ~ Max Horkheimer, #NFDB
1389:There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting. ~ Enya, #NFDB
1390:His expression was strained. "I'm trying like hell to be the good guy here. I need you to go inside and lock the door behind you to keep out of trouble."
"I thought Wildstone was safe."
"It is. The trouble isn't going to come from the unknown. It's going to come from me. Go, Quinn. Now. And lock your door."
She stared up at him, mesmerized by the thought of him being trouble, images going through her head of him proving it to her, all of them involving little to no clothing and a bed. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1391:To be willing to do new things you don’t think you’ll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it. One way to achieve that is to set out to experience things you’re sure you won’t like. To have conversations that are frightening. Becoming generous beyond measure, just to see what happens. And most of all, setting out to fail. Failing helps you see how far is too far, failing helps remind you that failing isn’t fatal, and most of all, failing opens you up to succeeding. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1392:Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates. ~ Paul Fussell, #NFDB
1393:fear of the unknown, fear of what outcomes may result from our differences. This fear creates a disconnection between individuals. This disconnection from one another can produce a strong reaction called psychological “reactance.” Reactance is the motivational state aroused when a person perceives a threat to his or her own freedom, and feels a need to take action to regain a sense of control. In essence, someone who fears another person’s differences may become verbally or physically violent toward the person. ~ Jes Baker, #NFDB
1394:I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.
Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.
You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.
Even so, you have always been connected to me.
Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.
I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond,
I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,
leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1395:To be wary of science is not to fear progress, or to be ignorant, or to fear the unknown. To be wary of science is to be skeptical about whether or not innovation belongs in human hands. No matter how intelligent a scientist may indeed be, like every human being who has ever lived, the promise of power coupled with one's own biases, prejudices and partiality will undoubtedly taint the end result. Science will always be used to push a certain agenda or to benefit specific people. To believe otherwise is naive. ~ Rebecca McNutt, #NFDB
1396:I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.
Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.
You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.
Even so, you have always been connected to me.
Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.
I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond,
I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,
leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1397:Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization. ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
1398:And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there is shrouded in mystery. Therefore I do not fear the things which frighten them, the incoherent, the unknown, the mysterious. Such things do not exist for me. There is nothing "different" about me. ~ P r Lagerkvist, #NFDB
1399:Eventually Reacher and Chang crabbed one at a time down the aisle to the airplane door, and out to the jet bridge, and then out to the concourse, which was packed full of a thousand people either sitting and waiting or hustling fast in every direction. Reacher had the unknown man’s face front and center in his mind, like a Most Wanted photograph in the post office, and he scanned the crowds obliquely, in the corner of his eye, looking away, not thinking, trusting his instincts to snag the resemblance, if it was there. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
1400:I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own. ~ S C Stephens, #NFDB
1401:Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1402:Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don’t understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1403:He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1404:In waking to the strangeness of the world, many of us become strangers in our own homes. But home is where we start and where we shall someday return. The path between has been marked out for us by a Savior who became the prodigal from heaven, journeying into the far country to bring us home with Him. He is both the end of our exploring and its liberating transformation. It is Jesus who has already profaned the mysteries of God by making the unknown at the center known to us: he who has seen Jesus has seen the Father. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1405:The first visit involves the challenge of the unknown, curiosity, adventure, often youth, and sometimes adrenaline. On a revisit, you are returning older, with more life experience under your belt, to familiar territory; it is not so challenging, your curiosity is not so piqued, you know more or less what to expect, you have less adrenaline pumping. You feel different, not necessarily worse or better, just different. This is true not just for returning to locales but also for trying to recapture any past experience. ~ Michael S Gazzaniga, #NFDB
1406:What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1407:She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and nothing occurred to justify her vague apprehensions, they did not altogether disperse. She had tried to face these fears and conquer them, but she could never do so entirely, she could only strain forward into the darkness of the future, expecting and fearing the unknown. She was brave in the face of dangers she could see, but she could not arm herself against shadows. These fears were her weakness. ~ D E Stevenson, #NFDB
1408:What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze the path into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1409:I guess it’s all just kind of the same fear of the unknown that any other twenty-four-year-old feels, you know? I’m not that special. We all think about this stuff. Am I ever gonna find a job? Am I ever gonna get married? Am I ever gonna find a place in this world? Am I gonna die during stomach surgery tomorrow? In a weird way, it’s the same. It’s all, like, peering around a dark corner, terrified of what you’re gonna see, terrified to even begin imagining a future for yourself because you haven’t even figured out the present yet. ~ Seth King, #NFDB
1410:I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty ~ Everett Ruess, #NFDB
1411:Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1412:I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
1413:...The intellect cannot by its very nature participate in truth, for reality is higher than the mind. the reason may intellectually consider it, but never actually experience it. Illumination is the ceasing of the Self in Reality; so Moses the good man, is taken unto the hill of Nebo, the highest point of wisdom; and there in the distance perceives the Real. But there mind must die, and be hidden in the unknown grave; as Kundry falls dead at the feet of the altar of the Grail, in the story of Parsifal. ~ Manly P Hall, How to Understand Your Bible, #NFDB
1414:Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us and become known, we would be altered? In our view of the stars, we find a measure of our own incompleteness, our still-yet unfinishedness, which is to say, our potential for change, even transformation. That our species is distinguished from others by our hunger and capacity for change has everything to do with our ability to recognize the limits of our understanding, and to contemplate the unfathomable. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
1415:Harada: Failure is essential, Amanda. It's the motivator. Even as an infant. You fall and fall again until eventually you can put one foot in front of the other and walk.
Amanda: I don't like the not knowing. Not knowing what's wrong. Not knowing what I'm doing. Not knowing what's happening next.
Harada: You're human. Of course you don't like it. The trick is learning to savor the unknown. To embrace mystery. Trust me... too much knowlegde can become... will become a bigger burden than ignorance and failure will ever be. ~ Matt Kindt,#NFDB
1416:Beginning a conversation is an act of bravery. When you initiate a conversation, you fearlessly step into the unknown. Will the other person respond to favorably or unfavorably? Will it be a friendly or hostile exchange? There is a feeling of being on the edge. That nanosecond of space and unknowing can be intimidating. It shows your vulnerability. You don't know what is going to happen. You feel quite exposed. There's a chance you'll experience embarrassment. Yet this very feeling is what allows you to connect to the other person. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
1417:If you want your fear to fade away and myriad possibilities you never considered to start revealing themselves, you need a different map, one that shows the unknown, unexplored places. Those are the places your soul wants to go. Your soul is here to experience life, not to simply animate yet another human body going through the motions of living—eating, sleeping, working, and so on. It wants to travel to places that aren’t on the familiar map you are looking at. Now, you might look at your familiar map and think, Here’s where I ~ Colette Baron Reid, #NFDB
1418:The world must be romanticized. In this way its original meaning will be rediscovered. Romanticization is nothing but a qualitative realization of potential. The lower self is identified, in this operation, with a better self. As we are ourselves are such a qualitative series of empowerings. This operation is as yet quite unknown. Insofar as I give a higher meaning to what is commonplace, and a mysterious appearance to what is ordinary, the dignity of the unknown to what is known, a semblance of infinity to what is finite, I romanticize it. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
1419:When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1420:It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1421:Slava, working in concert with the philosophy of the nation that had taken them in—good works as the by-product of self-interest—was able to give the descendants at the table, the children and grandchildren, the gift of knowing, at last, the unknown corners of their forebears, all because the forebears stood to make money. How cheaply they fell—the heart’s greatest terrors for a bushel of euros. Slava wasn’t a judge: He was a middleman, a loan shark, an alchemist—he turned lies into facts, words into money, silence into knowledge at last. ~ Boris Fishman, #NFDB
1422:It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world.
So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1423:I’ve talked about my belief that balance is a dynamic activity—by which I mean, one that never ends. I’ve spelled out my reasons for not defaulting to one or another extreme because it feels safer or more stable. Now I am urging you to attempt a similar balancing act when navigating between the known and the unknown. While the allure of safety and predictability is strong, achieving true balance means engaging in activities whose outcomes and payoffs are not yet apparent. The most creative people are willing to work in the shadow of uncertainty. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1424:Here, at the edges,
Whispering to you,
And we’re not alone; not alone
Here, in the dark.
We are behind the door, in the corners,
In the room where you’ve just extinguished the light.
We flicker in the shadow you cast on the wall.
We are the prickle on the back of your neck.
Curled, in words unspoken,
We are the shiver on your uneasy flesh,
The creep of the unknown on your skin.
Can you feel us?
Here, at the edges.
From the Foreword of Cautionary Tales - by Emmanuelle de Maupassant ~ Emmanuelle de Maupassant,#NFDB
1425:The Mother’s Visit
LONG years ago she visited my chamber,
Steps soft and slow, a taper in her hand;
Her fond kiss she laid upon my eyelids,
Fair as an angel from the unknown land:
Mother, mother, is it thou I see?
Mother, mother, watching over me.
And yesternight I saw her cross my chamber,
Soundless as light, a palm-branch in her hand;
Her mild eyes she bent upon my anguish,
Calm as an angel from the blessed land;
Mother, mother, is it thou I see?
Mother, mother, art thou come for me?
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik,#NFDB
1426:Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and preserves, even in our utmost flights of fancy, the pattern of our spirit; nothing comes more truly from the very depths of the soul than those unconsidered and uncontrolled aspirations to the splendours of destiny. It is in these, much more than in our reasoned thoughts, that a man's true nature is to be found. Our imaginings are what most resemble us. Each of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in his own way. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1427:Meaning comes from the unknown, from the stranger, from the unpredictable that suddenly knocks at your door — a flower that suddenly blooms and you never expected it; a friend that suddenly happens to be on the street you were not waiting for; a love that blooms suddenly and you were not even aware that this was going to happen, you had not even imagined, not even dreamed. Then life has meaning. Then life has a dance. Then every step is happy because it is not a step filled with duty, it is a step moving into the unknown. The river is going towards the sea. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1428:Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness is indeed like living. The horizon drops away, bringing new sights, sounds, and smells from the earth. When one moves through the forests, his sense of discovery is quickened. Man is back in the environment from which he emerged to build factories, churches, and schools. He is primitive again, matching his wits against the earth and sky. He is free of the restraints of society and free of its safeguards too. ~ William O Douglas, #NFDB
1429:God lives in cozy homes. Happiness, which a cozy home can give you, is so divine on this Earth, you don't need anything more than that. God is unseen but His creation is known and seen. What is known and seen for you, if you cannot relate to that how can you relate to the unknown? If you can relate knowingly to your unknown thought, you can always find happiness. But you have to have nerves for it. You have to have a mental capacity for it, you have to have trained yourself, and this is the part of that training I have come to share with you. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
1430:To die is to move on with the invisible. To die is also a joy, a joy of submitting to that which is greater than the known, namely, the pure unknown. That is a joy. But to live mechanized and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. There is no ignominy in death. There is complete ignominy in an unreplenished, mechanized life. Life indeed may be ignominious, shameful to the soul. But death is never a shame. Death itself, like the illimitable space, is beyond our sullying. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1431:Contemplation is precisely the awareness that this “I” is really “not I” and the awakening of the unknown “I” that is beyond observation and reflection and is incapable of commenting upon itself. It cannot even say “I” with the assurance and the impertinence of the other one, for its very nature is to be hidden, unnamed, unidentified in the society where men talk about themselves and about one another. In such a world the true “I” remains both inarticulate and invisible, because it has altogether too much to say—not one word of which is about itself. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1432:I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
1433:When I reached my rooms, I saw a letter lying on my table.
Hastily stripping off my gloves, I sank down onto my pillows, heedless of the costly fabric of my court gown crinkling and billowing about me, and broke the seal with my finger.
The Unknown had written:
You ask why there has been no formal announcement concerning a coronation. I think this question is better addressed to the person most concerned, but I do know this: Nothing will be announced until the sculptors have finished refashioning a goldenwood throne for a queen. ~ Sherwood Smith,#NFDB
1434:Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown. Or, worse still, we are like a person in whose mind the law of causality barely exists, a person who would be incapable, therefore, of establishing a connexion between one phenomenon and another and to whose eyes the spectacle of the world would appear as unstable as a dream. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1435:For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know... ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1436:The stars, filled with cold light and secrets, held no emotion in their fixed language of fate. Emotion belonged to life, a thing the stars could never experience. I, not the starlight, shaped my decisions. And it was me, not the evening sky, who shouldered the responsibility for decisions gone wrong. My horoscope had already come to pass, leaving nothing before me but a future ripe with the unknown. The stars had already told me everything they knew. And even though it left me untethered from any cosmic map I had once known… I felt freed. (p. 218). ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
1437:We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly unpredictable; we are not so much in a period of transition with belief in progress to push us on, rather we seem to be entering the realm of the unknown, joylessly, disillusioned, and without hope. The whole world seems to be in a state of spiritual widowhood, possessed of the harrowing devastation of one who set out on life’s course joyously in intimate comradeship with another, and then is bereft of that companion forever. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1438:"We act out our encounter with the unknown world. We act it out in a way that is analogous to the manner that's presented as a description of what it is that God does at the beginning of time to extract habitable order out of chaos. So you act it out first. Then the second thing is, you watch people who act it out, and you start to make representations of that. That's stories, right? And maybe you admire them. And then maybe after a long time you collect a bunch of those stories, and you can say what that is. You can articulate it as a pattern." ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1439:For all who believe that peace is not an ideal or pipe dream but anecessity. ~ Libba BrayLibba Bray
They believe, and believing changes everything. ~ Libba BrayGemma, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray
Bu the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us forward, into the unknown. ~ Libba BrayCirce, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray
Stop, gemma, before you go mad.
Or am I already there? ~ Libba BrayGemma, The sweet far thing, Libba Bray
peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more aruous. ~ Libba BrayGeorge Shaw ~ Libba Bray,#NFDB
1440:Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is a part of life, not death. And I—I am the first moment after pain ceases,” he pronounced. “It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer. . . . Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other. ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
1441:"We act out our encounter with the unknown world. We act it out in a way that is analogous to the manner that's presented as a description of what it is that God does at the beginning of time to extract habitable order out of chaos. So you act it out first. Then the second thing is, you watch people who act it out, and you start to make representations of that. That's stories, right? And maybe you admire them. And then maybe after a long time you collect a bunch of those stories, and you can say what that is. You can articulate it as a pattern." ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1442:As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity; and if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1443:I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1444:Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable. ~ Jean Gebser, #NFDB
1445:Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, #NFDB
1446:Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable. ~ Jean Gebser, #NFDB
1447:I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe. ~ Edith Wharton,#NFDB
1448:I was afraid of the unknown. I was afraid of the sham and the gift I thought I lacked. I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted. And maybe most of all, I was afraid I would never be loved beyond what a piece of paper had ordered. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
1449:My father sometimes asks me if I feel untethered and irresponsible not owning anything. I tell him I feel the opposite: I feel a deep connection to the primeval. I feel like an ancient hunter-gatherer who owns nothing as he wends his way through the complexities of nature, conjuring up a tool just in time for its use and then leaving it behind as he moves on. It is the farmer who needs a barn for his accumulation. The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next. ~ Kevin Kelly, #NFDB
1450:The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1451:Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
1452:We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo her until she gives herself. But what she gives, even then, is not the cold clarity of the surface but the warm inwardness of the body - a mysteriousness which is not merely a negation, a blank absence of knowledge, but that positive substance which we call wonderfull. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1453:Most persons fear the unknown, and we might say that an expert in any field of thinking is one phase of the unknown. The average person is afraid of experts, of people who know more than he does. Our natural tendency in making decisions is to consult people on our own level. In other words, we gain our advice and assistance over a back fence, from some notice on television, some popular handbook, or the general gossip of the neighborhood. I have noticed also that people of varied races or nationalities will nearly always seek advice from members of their own ethnic group. [...], #NFDB
1454:Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner while remaining open to the unknown, cultivating intimacy that respects privacy. Separateness and togetherness alternate, or proceed in counterpoint. Desire resists confinement, and commitment mustn't swallow freedom whole. ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
1455:I believe in the ordinary day
that is here at this moment and is me
I do not see it going its way
but I never saw how it came to me
it extends beyond whatever I may
think I know and all that is real to me
it is the present that it bears away
where has it gone when it has gone from me
there is no place I know outside today
except for the unknown all around me
the only presence that appears to stay
everything that I call mine it lent me
even the way that I believe the day
for as long as it is here and is me ~ W S Merwin,#NFDB
1456:As Wilson noted, science, like art, is a cultural expression that makes a nation worth defending. Like great art and great music, its true value lies in exploring the unknown. Today, the opposite argument, the commoditization of science, is virtually the only one heard. It has metastasized from the smaller-minded appeals of the Cold War to all of human learning and higher education. Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living—they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption. ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto, #NFDB
1457:Outward Bound
OUT upon the unknown deep,
Where the unheard oceans sound,
Where the unseen islands sleep,-Outward bound.
Following towards the silent west
O'er the horizon's curved rim,-Or to islands of the blest,
--He with me and I with him-Outward bound.
Nothing but a speck we seem
In the waste of waters round,
Floating, floating like a dream,-Outward bound.
But within that tiny speck
Two brave hearts with one accord
Past all tumult, grief, and wreck,
Look up calm,--and praise the Lord,-Outward bound.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik,#NFDB
1458:Your fear is a blessing. It is giving you an opportunity to disidentify from your mind and learn to trust the unknown. The mind can never trust or surrender. Trust always happens through intelligence and consciousness. The mind always asks for guarantees, but life never offers any. Life unfolds moment to moment, and each moment arises as a result of the moment that was surrendered before it. Life is a surprise that always arises out of the unknown. You can either embrace the unknown and live it fully and joyously, or resist it and live in pain, fear, and struggle. ~ Mada Eliza Dalian, #NFDB
1459:Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1460:Take down the walls.
That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise, or destruction.
Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1461:All of us, even those not endowed with a hopeful disposition, have thought, even dreamed, of life after death. It is the reward we project onto the unknown and distant future, promising consolation for this string of catastrophes we know as life. It is a game of cards played with the very best hand, one we're always destined to win, a wild desire that no man is ready to relinquish: the dream of living another life, provided of course there remains a narrow recollection of the past to make him conscious of the change and pleased to have left the other world behind. ~ Ahmet Hamdi Tanp nar, #NFDB
1462:The great chasm of memory from her childhood in the intimate country surroundings of Cossethay and the Marsh Farm—she remembered the servant Tilly, who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face—and now when she was travelling into the unknown with Birkin, an utter stranger—was so great, that it seemed she had no identity, that the child she had been, playing in Cossethay churchyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1463:A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA. ~ Primo Levi, #NFDB
1464:Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1465:He had tried to frame the journey in his mind as an adventure filled with exotic sights and new experiences, seasoned with a little fear of the unknown. Instead, he had seen the insides of various terminals, lounges, and transport vessels, and experienced institutional indifference in its many forms, seasoned with fear of the all-too-well-known. Currently, he feared death in a fiery orbital transport accident, which didn’t actually happen that often, but was spectacular enough when it did that most people pictured it happening to them whenever they boarded an orbital transport. ~ Scott Meyer, #NFDB
1466:The way of the unconscious is different. Symbols gather round the thing to be explained, understood, interpreted. The act of becoming conscious consists in the concentric grouping of symbols around the object, all circumscribing and describing the unknown from many sides. Each symbol lays bare another essential side of the object to be grasped, points to another facet of meaning. Only the canon of these symbols congregating about the center in question, the coherent symbol group, can lead to an understanding of what the symbols point to and of what they are trying to express. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
1467:Leaders are the ones who run headfirst into the unknown. They rush toward the danger. They put their own interests aside to protect us or to pull us into the future. Leaders would sooner sacrifice what is theirs to save what is ours. And they would never sacrifice what is ours to save what is theirs. This is what it means to be a leader. It means they choose to go first into danger, headfirst toward the unknown. And when we feel sure they will keep us safe, we will march behind them and work tirelessly to see their visions come to life and proudly call ourselves their followers. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1468:Who Am I
As common as hello i was asked to many times before.
with wich no answer to provide, for i did not know.
As years went on so did the unknown
untill it was brought to my attention.
I am what one would call teddy bear
loveable, sweet, caring, and kind.
Friend indeed as true as can be
hugs and kisses given everyday.
To the end of time by your side
always protecting from harmful things.
Yes i do all of these things to the extreme
oh well its just who i am.
i dare ask this question to you so
by all means who are you
~ david bailey,#NFDB
1469:But the world now seemed changed. He went about in it with greater confidence, with a feeling of prowess that had not been his in the days before the battle. He had looked upon life in a more ferocious aspect; he had fought; he had buried his teeth in the flesh of a foe; and he had survived. And because of all this, he carried himself more boldly, with a touch of defiance that was new in him. He was no longer afraid of minor things, and much of his timidity had vanished, though the unknown never ceased to press upon him with its mysteries and terrors, intangible and ever menacing. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1470:Georgette
Dignified is a heartsong here
Harsh traverse of the unknown
"Better to go down dignified"
Ekes out
constant
What gives in us, or won't give
(her smile seen once in the Red Café)
Turns sparkless
Into sparklers
One "s" less
One "r" more, Georgette
- - - - The new wall we built that year
where the house side had been torn out
Grammar we called in
like a bet on narrative
- - - - Now I am the only one who hasn't yet gone in;
and I have these sentences
(fissures in the hand)
~ Erin Mouré,#NFDB
1471:Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is a part of life, not death. And I—I am the first moment after pain ceases,” he [Death] pronounced. “It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other. ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
1472:In most companies, you have to justify so much of what you do—to prepare for quarterly earnings statements if the company is publicly traded or, if it is not, to build support for your decisions. I believe, however, that you should not be required to justify everything. We must always leave the door open for the unexpected. Scientific research operates in this way—when you embark on an experiment, you don’t know if you will achieve a breakthrough. Chances are, you won’t. But nevertheless, you may stumble on a piece of the puzzle along the way—a glimpse, if you will, into the unknown. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1473:What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something. ~ Dan Kieran, #NFDB
1474:We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1475:Take down the walls.
That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don’t know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or destruction.
Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell; but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1476:It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1477:It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1478:I had long ago determined that I would devote my life to literary scholarship. Not, let me emphasise, the dry-as-dust scholarship of academe, the crushing orthodoxy to be found in universities, but rather the recondite scholarship that is a journey into the unknown. I refer, chiefly, to those dead authors whose works savour of the uncanny and the marvellous, authors whose unique perspectives are beyond the self-stultifying purview of the modern critical mania for so-called realism. For my part I chose the mysteries, and the hierophant of mystery was an obscure author called Arthur Machen. ~ Mark Samuels, #NFDB
1479:The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation. ~ Irving Thalberg, #NFDB
1480:As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1481:That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains. ~ Susan Vreeland, #NFDB
1482:You go and sit near a waterfall. You listen to it, but do you interpret what the waterfall says? It says nothing... still it says. It says much, much that cannot be said.
What do you do near a waterfall? You listen, you become silent and quiet, you absorb. You allow the waterfall to go deeper and deeper within you. Then everything becomes quiet and silent within. You become a temple – the unknown enters through the waterfall.
What do you do when you listen to the songs of the birds, or wind passing through the trees, or dry leaves being blown by the breeze? What do you do? You simply listen. ~ Osho,#NFDB
1483:Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions. ~ Archibald Garrod, #NFDB
1484:We seek answers through a scientific process of observation, theory, hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis. Traditional scientists seek answers through the known laws of the universe, while people like me seek the same truths by understanding the unknown phenomena around us. We are very alike in our goals, but approach the question from different ends of the spectrum. While I don’t pretend to represent the entire field of paranormal research, I want to be an advocate for its advancement, since the burden of proof has always been on our side of the question (which I don’t necessarily agree with). ~ Zak Bagans, #NFDB
1485:Evil will never cease to exist until selfishness and greed are overcome as factors in dictating the attitudes of men. It is the common thing for the concrete mind to sacrifice the eternal to the temporal. Man, concentrating upon the limited area of the known, loses sight of the effect of his actions upon the limitless area of the unknown. Shortsightedness, consequently, is the cause of endless misery. Moral shortsightedness results in vice, philosophical shortsightedness in materialism, religious shortsightedness in bigotry, rational short-sightedness in fanaticism. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #NFDB
1486:His singing made me want to fall to the ground and kiss it, as a son to a mother, grateful that someone could love it so keenly. For the first time in my life something new awoke within me, something irresistible: I still cannot explain it. It was a need to express myself, yes, to express myself, not only to see and sense the world, but to bring to others my vision, my thoughts and sensations, to describe the beauty of the earth as inspiringly as Daniyar could sing. I caught my breath for fear and joy of the unknown. At that time, however, I had not yet realized the need to take up brush and paints. ~ Chingiz Aitmatov, #NFDB
1487:How it feels to me, and I guess to you as well, is that the present moves from the past to the future, like a tiny spotlight, inching its way along a gigantic ruler of time. Everything behind the spotlight is in darkness, the darkness of the dead past. Everything ahead of the spotlight is in the darkness of the unknown future. The odds of your century being the one in the spotlight are the same as the odds that a penny, tossed down at random, will land on a particular ant crawling somewhere along the road from New York to San Francisco. In other words, it is overwhelmingly probable that you are dead. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1488:If you are a parent, you will need enough courage not to interfere. Open doors of unknown directions to the child, so he can explore. He does not know what he has in him, nobody knows. He has to grope in the dark. Don’t make him afraid of darkness, don’t make him afraid of failure, don’t make him afraid of the unknown. Give him support. When he is going on an unknown journey, send him on with all your support, with all your love, with all your blessings. Don’t let him be affected by your fears. You may have fears, but keep them to yourself. Don’t unload those fears on the child because that will be interfering. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1489:Evil will never cease to exist until selfishness and greed are overcome as factors in dictating the attitudes of men. It is the common thing for the concrete mind to sacrifice the eternal to the temporal. Man, concentrating upon the limited area of the known, loses sight of the effect of his actions upon the limitless area of the unknown. Shortsightedness, consequently, is the cause of endless misery. Moral shortsightedness results in vice, philosophical shortsightedness in materialism, religious shortsightedness in bigotry, rational short-sightedness in fanaticism. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #NFDB
1490:SOMETIMES IT’S EASY TO SLIP INTO denial about what’s going on in life. It’s safer and easier to exist within the confines of what is comfortable than to venture out and allow yourself to experience new things that might shake the foundation that has become your safety net. I think most people settle for what’s safe at least once at some point in their lives, but a person who suffers from anxiety or depression will almost always run away from goals, dreams, and new life adventures to avoid the possibility of feeling anything new and somewhat scary. It’s better to live with the known, than face the unknown. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
1491:"So what mediates between the domains of order and chaos? Consciousness, as far as I can tell. It's the hero, that's one way of thinking about it. It's the Logos, that's another way of thinking about it. It's the word that generates order out of chaos at the beginning of time. It's the consciousness that's interacting with the matter of the world produces Being. That's basically it. That's basically you, for all intents and purposes. So how do we do that? Well, the unconscious does it to some degree, because it's with our fantasy that we first meet the unknown." ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1492:Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1493:"So what mediates between the domains of order and chaos? Consciousness, as far as I can tell. It's the hero, that's one way of thinking about it. It's the Logos, that's another way of thinking about it. It's the word that generates order out of chaos at the beginning of time. It's the consciousness that's interacting with the matter of the world produces Being. That's basically it. That's basically you, for all intents and purposes. So how do we do that? Well, the unconscious does it to some degree, because it's with our fantasy that we first meet the unknown." ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1494:It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of herself in her own brain, and not in the eyes and in the lips of others; even when the ingenuously write into little secret diaries, women think of the unknown god reading--perhaps--over their shoulders. With a similar nature, a woman, to be placed in the first ranks of men, would require even higher genius than that of the highest man; that is why, if the conspicuous works of men themselves, the finest works of women are always inferior to the worth of the women who produced them. ~ R my de Gourmont, #NFDB
1495:I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure and that often confused pleasure with danger, the mother who had, when I'd moved to the city, sent me clippings about young women who were raped and murdered there, who elaborated on obscure perils and injuries that had never happened to her all her life, and who feared mistakes even when the consequences were minor. Why go to Paradise when the dishes aren't done? What if the dirty dishes clamor more loudly than Paradise? ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1496:This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dread pain and to fear of the unknown. Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and future gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present. In other words, we seem to reach a point where the advantages of being conscious are outweighed by its disadvantages, where extreme sensitivity makes us unadaptable. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1497:Cambridge, Spring 1937
At last the air fragrant, the bird's bubbling whistle
Succinct in the unknown unsettled trees:
O little Charles, beside the Georgian colleges
And milltown New England; at last the wind soft,
The sky unmoving, and the dead look
Of factory windows separate, at last,
From windows gray and wet:
for now the sunlight
Thrashes its wet shellac on brickwalk and gutter,
White splinters streak midmorning and doorstep,
Winter passes as the lighted streetcar
Moves at midnight, one scene of the past,
Droll and unreal, stiff, stilted and hooded.
~ Delmore Schwartz,#NFDB
1498:The Lust Of The Eyes
I care not for my Lady’s soul
Though I worship before her smile;
I care not where be my Lady’s goal
When her beauty shall lose its wile.
Low sit I down at my Lady’s feet
Gazing through her wild eyes
Smiling to think how my love will fleet
When their starlike beauty dies.
I care not if my Lady pray
To our Father which is in Heaven
But for joy my heart’s quick pulses play
For to me her love is given.
Then who shall close my Lady’s eyes
And who shall fold her hands?
Will any hearken if she cries
Up to the unknown lands?
~ Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal,#NFDB
1499:New Swedens, New Frances, and New Englands flourished, and one glance at the map of New England will indicate how thoroughly the new settlers wished to relive their former lives in familiar places. No comprehensive theory of human existence, no profound religious insights, and no universal political ideas came to these shores initially. Rather the ideas that came with the first settlers were the perverted ideas that had failed in Europe; the psychological walking wounded brought with them an irrational fear of the unknown that was slightly less emotional than the fear of extinction that they had known in Europe. All ~ Vine Deloria Jr, #NFDB
1500:It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it--if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructable force, only changing its form, as forces do, and passing from pain into sympathy--the one poor word which includes all our best insight and our best love. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
77 Integral Yoga
39 Poetry
34 Fiction
23 Psychology
21 Occultism
10 Philosophy
8 Mysticism
4 Mythology
4 Christianity
1 Theosophy
1 Science
1 Philsophy
1 Kabbalah
1 Islam
1 Integral Theory
1 Alchemy
69 Sri Aurobindo
37 The Mother
32 H P Lovecraft
19 Satprem
19 Nolini Kanta Gupta
16 Carl Jung
10 Walt Whitman
7 Rabindranath Tagore
7 Jordan Peterson
7 Aleister Crowley
4 Paul Richard
4 Joseph Campbell
4 George Van Vrekhem
3 Plato
3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Jorge Luis Borges
3 James George Frazer
3 Friedrich Schiller
3 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Saint John of Climacus
2 Saint Augustine of Hippo
2 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2 H. P. Lovecraft
32 Lovecraft - Poems
31 Savitri
15 The Life Divine
9 Whitman - Poems
8 Prayers And Meditations
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
7 Tagore - Poems
7 Maps of Meaning
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
5 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
5 Magick Without Tears
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 The Synthesis Of Yoga
4 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
4 Preparing for the Miraculous
4 On the Way to Supermanhood
4 Labyrinths
4 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
4 Aion
3 The Golden Bough
3 Shelley - Poems
3 Schiller - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1955
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
3 Agenda Vol 04
2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
2 Poe - Poems
2 Liber ABA
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Agenda Vol 11
2 Agenda Vol 06
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the Unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to brea the the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown
Repeating for ever the unconscious act,
--
A message from the Unknown immortal Light
Ablaze upon creation's quivering edge,
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Meeting upon the borders of the Unknown,
Her soul's debate with embodied Nothingness
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For the coming of the new and the Unknown.||6.18||
He gazed across the empty stillness
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And limits his eternity by the hours
--
Life's barriers opened into the Unknown.
Abolished were conception's covenants
--
For the coming of the new and the Unknown.
He gazed across the empty stillnesses
--
An aspect of the Unknown Reality
Altered the meaning of the cosmic scene.
--
There looked out from the shadow of the Unknown
The bodiless Namelessness that saw God born
--
He spoke with the Unknown Guardians of the worlds,
Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Out of the Unknown we move to the Unknown.
Ever surround our brief existence here
--
The laws of the Unknown create the known.
The events that shape the appearance of our lives
--
And rarely dawns the light of the Unknown
Waking in us the prophet and the seer.
--
A date is fixed in the calendar of the Unknown,
An anniversary of the Birth sublime:
--
And the far speaks and the Unknown grows near:
He crosses the boundaries of the unseen
--
But none learns whither through the Unknown he sails
Or what secret mission the great Mother gave.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An island in the sea of the Unknown,
He is a smallness trying to be great,
--
His nature shuddered in the Unknown's grasp.
In a moment shorter than death, longer than Time,
--
All the Unknown looked out from boundlessness:
It lodged upon an edge of hourless Time,
--
Rending the night that had concealed the Unknown,
Giving to her her lost forgotten soul.
--
Fronting the viewless danger of the Unknown,
Adventuring across enormous realms,
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
He aims at the neutral point between the positive and the negative poles, which is neither, yet holding the two togetherat the crossing of Yes and No, the known and the Unknown, the local and the eternal. That is what he means when he says:
Here, the intersection of the timeless moment
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I invited you on a voyage into the Unknown, a voyage of adventure,2 I did not know just how true were my words! And I can promise those who are ready to embark upon this adventure that they will make some very astonishing discoveries.
Indeed, one of the people near Mother had pulled Her out of the experience.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am telling you this because, as soon as I got your letter, I replied with what Ill read to you now; then I was immediately faced with something I couldnt formulate, the kind of thing that gives you the feeling of the Unknown (all I knew was my own experience). So I did the usual thingbecame blank, turned towards the Truth; and I questioned Sri Aurobindo and beyondasking, if there were something to be known, that it be told to me. Then I dropped it, I paid no more attention. And only as I was coming here today was I told I cant really use the word told, but anyway, what was communicated to me concerning your question was that the difference between the two processes [the Rishis and the present one] is purely subjective, depending upon the way the experience is registered. I dont know if I can make myself clear. There is something which is the experience and which will be the Realization; and what appears to be a different, if not opposite, process is simply a subjective mental notation of one SINGLE experience. Do you follow?
Thats what I was told.
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have even been forbidden to utilize my knowledge, power and force to annul the pain in the way I used to (and I used to do it very well). That has been totally forbidden. But I have seen that something else is in sight. Something else is in the making. It cant be called a miracle because its not a miracle, but its something wonderful the Unknown. When will it come? How will it come? I dont know.
But its interesting.
0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown;
It listened for the footsteps of its hopes
0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont remember in detail (I wrote it down), but the idea was like this: the Lord makes you die only with your consentyour consent is necessary for you to die. And unless He decides, you can never die. Those two things: for you to die, something (the inmost soul, that is) must consent, the soul must say yes, then you die; and when the soul says yes, its for the Lord to decide. Ever since that experience, there had been the certainty that you can die only when the Lord wills it, that it depends entirely and exclusively on His Will, that there are no accidents, no unforeseeable mishaps, as human beings thinkall that doesnt exist: its His Will. From that experience till this latest one [the death of death], I lived in that knowledge. Yet with the feeling of not quite the Unknown but the incomprehensible. The feeling of something in the consciousness which doesnt understand (what I mean by understand is having the power to do and undo, thats what I call to understand: the power to realize or to undo, thats the real understanding, the POWER), well, of something which eluded me. It was still the mystery of the Infinite Supreme. And when that experience [the death of death] came, then, Ah, there it is! I have it, Ive caught it! At last, I have it.
I didnt have it long (laughing), it went away! But my position changed. Its one more thing I see from above; I rose above, my position is above.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things are increasingly AS THEY ARE: exact, without complications. I have noticed that with people, even the most sincere and straightforward, there is always a kind of coating, an emotive coating (even with the coldest and driest), something that belongs to the vital; an emotive coating that makes things fuzzy, uncertain and allows a game that gives them a feeling of all sorts of mysterious forces at playthings are very clear, very simple, very, oh, very simple, and that coating brings along a sort of confusion. Its not sentiment, not emotion either, its something something that LOVES uncertainty, the Unknown, the unexpectednot positively chance (its not so strong), but which loves to live in that, in in fact, in Ignorance! Which loves not to know whats going to happen. Even the simplest things, the most obvious, have all that coating over them.
Look, for instance, how many people, even the most serious, love to have their fortune told: reading the hand, reading the handwriting (I am pestered with people who ask me things like that), but anyway, even regardless of any spiritual idea, that sort of interest people find in being told, See, your life line will last up to here. People love it! They love it, they love to remain in their uncertainty. They love their ignorance. They love that unknown the Unknown full of mysteries. They love the prophet who comes and tell them, This is what you will do. This is what is going to happen to you. It seems so childish! Its the same as the taste for theater, its the same thing (not the playwright, but the spectator who watches the play without knowing how it will end), or again the taste for novels the taste for the Unknown. But then thats very close to the taste for the marvelous.
There is still a long way to go to enter Knowledge the consciousness in which you know things quietly, in which everything is so simple, so natural, so evident. And its that coating which brings complications: suddenly things get complicated in the human atmosphere.
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But actually its nothing but an adventure into the Unknown, because theres no guarantee that they wont cure one thing at the expense of another. You understand, when they start operating on the brain!
Obviously a day will come when these operations will be common practice, but for the time being there are still too many unknowns.
0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the transition: a conscious and willed utilization by a supramentalized consciousness of a body prepared in that way. This body must be brought to the peak of its development and of the utilization of the cells in order to be yes, consciously impregnated with the supreme forces (which is being done here [in Mother] at the moment), and this to the utmost of its capacities. And if the consciousness that inhabits that body, that animates that body, has the required qualities in sufficient amount, it should normally be able to utilize that body to the utmost of its capacity of transformation, with the result that the waste caused by the death of decomposing cells should be reduced to a minimumto what extent? Thats precisely what still belongs to the Unknown.
That would correspond to what Sri Aurobindo called the prolongation of life at will, for an indefinite length of time.
--
The conditions for the almost indefinite prolongation of the life of the body are known, or almost known (they are more than sensed they are known), and they are learned through the work that must be done to counteract the EXTREME FRAGILITY of the physical balance of the body undergoing the transformation. Its a study every minute, as it were, almost every second. This is the extremely difficult part. It is difficult because of all the reasons I have already explained, because of the intrusion of forces that are in a state of imbalance and have to be, as they come along, brought back to the new state of balance.1 Thats where you find the sign of the Unknown.
Voil. Its there.
0 1965-10-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The fear of the Unknown is gone (doubt went away a very long time ago), the fear of the Unknown, of the new, the unexpected, is gone; there only remains the mechanism of habit. But it holds on, it clings, oh!
It will go.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ninety percent subjective. Regularly, for more than a year, every night at the same time and in the same way, I entered the vital to do a special work there. It wasnt the result of my own will: I was destined to do it. It was something I had to do. So then, the entry into the vital, for instance, is often described: there are passages where beings are stationed to stop you from entering (all those things are much talked about in all books of occultism). Well, I know from experience (not a passing one: an experience I learned repeatedly) that that opposition or ill will is ninety percent psychological, in the sense that if you dont anticipate it or dont fear it, or if there is nothing in you thats afraid of the Unknown and none of those movements of apprehension and so on, its like a shadow in a picture, or a projected image: it has no concrete reality.
I did have one or two real battles in the vital, yes, while going to rescue someone who had gone astray. And both times I got blows, and in the morning when I woke up, there was a mark (Mother points to her right eye). Well, I know that in both cases, there was in me, not a fear (I never had any fear there), but it was because I expected it. The idea that it may well happen and my expecting it caused the blow to come. I knew that in a definite way. And if I had been in what I might call my normal state of inner certitude, it couldnt have touched me, it couldnt. And I had that apprehension because Madame Thon had lost an eye in a battle in the vital and had told me so; so (laughing) it gave me the idea that it was possible, since it had happened to her! But when I am in my state (I cant even say that, its not personal: its a way of being), when you have the true way of being, when you are a little conscious and have the true way of being, it CANNOT touch you.
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I read her letter and learned the whole story, as always I did like this (gesture of immobile offering upward), and then the TRUE thing came (not at all what she thinks or what the Pope thinks, but the TRUE thing): an essential unity that will manifest on earth, but not just for this particular religion for ALL religions, all the religions that were manifestations of a (let us say, to understand each other clearly), an Avatar, that is, something that was sent down from above, that came to earth to bring a message, and a religion came out of it (I am not talking about all the forms of superstition and ignorance). Those religions are destined to go back to their Origin and form a complex unity, complete, total, that is to say, the essence of all human aspirations for the Unknown Divine. And that has not only been sanctioned: it EXISTS. In other words, its ready to descend.
In egoistic and limited human consciousnesses, it finds expression in this or that person, or it finds expression in the Pope who, naturally, would like to.3 Thats his whole raison dtre, otherwise he would just be one little man among many others. In other words, there is the whole motivation of human egoism that is there. Thats what distorts everything. But there is a something (which they talk about without knowing what they talk about), a something ready to manifest. And at the same time I seem to be told, Dont worry, be in peace, you dont need to do anything: it WILL BE, and as usual you will spontaneously say what you need to say, without knowing it. There.
0 1969-04-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But none learns whither through the Unknown he sails
Or what secret mission the great Mother gave.
0 1970-04-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body (when I go into contemplation like that), there is a moment when the word anguish is too strong, much too strong, but the impression is of being on the verge of the Unknown the Unknown, the something. A very, very odd sensation.
Almost constantly, it really has a very at least a very odd sensation of being of no longer being this and not yet being That. There.
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But its quite strange; theres absolutely no fear, theres no acute sensation (no acute sensation), and there is something Well, the most precise I might say is: its a sort of new vibration. Its so new that you cant call it anguish, but its the Unknown. A mystery of the Unknown. But theres nothing mental about it, of course, its just in the sensation of the vibration.
And thats becoming constant. So there is the awareness that theres only one solution for the body, its total surrendertotal. And in that total surrender it realizes that that vibration (how can I explain?), that vibration is not one of dissolution, but something what? the Unknown, completely unknownnew, unknown.
Sometimes its struck with panic. And it cant say its in pain much, I cant call that suffering; its something quite extraordinary. So, for it, the only solution is to disappear in the divine Consciousness. Then everything is fine.
0 1970-10-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A curious sensation of something beginning. Not at all, not at all something ending something beginning. Its a curious sensation: something beginning. With all the Unknown, the unexpected Strange.
I have that all the time. I constantly feel that things are new that my relationship with them is new. Me, its something there (gesture above). And the bodys impression too (Mother touches her hands) is that of a new way of feeling, new way of reacting. Its very strange.
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The universe of the Unknown arose.
A self-creation without end or pause
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A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
26.3
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As one who meets the face of the Unknown,
A questioner with none to give reply,
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But all the Unknown was hers to feel and clasp.
37.18
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Tools of the Unknown who use us as their tools,
Invested with power in Nature's nether state,
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Or to stare upward measuring the Unknown.
47.3
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That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown;
Then all assumes a new and marvellous face:
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Grace of the Unknown and hands of sudden surprise
And a touch of sure delight in unsure things:
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The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown.
As if in her ascent to her lost source
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A covert turn and shouldered the Unknown;
The unseen was felt and jostled visible shapes.
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A tenser drag was felt from the Unknown,
A higher context of delivering thought
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In sudden scintillations of the Unknown,
Inexpressive sounds became veridical,
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It reasons from the half-known to the Unknown,
Ever constructing its frail house of thought,
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And fears as if a deadly abyss the Unknown.
68.8
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Ignorance was its field, the Unknown its prize.
68.
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Impatient of enigma and the Unknown,
Intolerant of the lawless and unique,
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The sound of Wisdom's murmur in the Unknown
And the breath of an unseen Infinity.
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And join the Unknown to the apparent worlds.
Acolytes they wait upon the timeless Power,
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It left known summits for the Unknown peaks:
Impassioned, it sought the lone unrealised Truth,
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And all discloses the Unknown Beloved.
73.11
02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
High-climbing pathways ceased in the Unknown;
An artist Sight constructed the Beyond
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It fled into the bosom of the Unknown,
A well, a tunnel of the depths of God.
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
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The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
03.03 - A Stainless Steel Frame, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Corruption is the order of the day. In all walks of life, wherever we have to live and move, we come across the monster; we cannot pass him by, we have to accost him (even in the Shakespearean sense, that is) welcome him, woo him. It is like one of the demons of the Greek legends that come out of the Unknown, the sea or the sky, to prey upon a helpa less land and its people until a deliverer comes.
Corruption appears today with a twofold face, Janus like: violence and falsehood. In private life, in the political field, in the business world, in social dealings, it is now an established practice, it has gained almost the force of a law of nature that success can be achieved only with these two comrades on your either side. A gentle, honest, peace-loving man is inevitably pushed back, he has to go to the wall; a straightforward truthful candid soul will get no hearing and make no living. From high diplomacy on the international level to village pettifoggery, from the blast of the atom bomb to the thrust of the dagger, we have all the degrees of the two cardinal virtues that make up the warp and woof of modern life.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The fathomless below, the Unknown around,
His soul abandoned the blind star-field, Space.
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Summoned the Unknown and gave to it a home,
Outspread luxuriantly in golden air
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It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown;
It listened for the footsteps of its hopes
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He lays his hands sometimes on the Unknown;
He communes sometimes with Eternity.
03.08 - The Democracy of Tomorrow, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In India the spiritual life, it is true, was more or less the individual's free venture to the Unknown. The Buddha said, Be thy own light; and the Gita too said, Raise thy self by thy own self. Yet here too, in the end, the individual did not stand, it rose but to get merged in the non-individual the universal, the Vast and the Infinite. The highest spiritual injunction is that God only existed and man has to annul his existence in Him.
The great mantra of individual liberty, in the social and political domain, was given by Rousseau in that famous opening line of his famous book,The Social Contract, almost the Bible of an age; Man is born free. And the first considerable mass rising seeking to vindicate and realise that ideal came with the toxin of the mighty French Revolution. It was really an awakening or rebirth of the individual that was the true source and sense of that miraculous movement. It meant the advent of democracy in politics and romanticism in art. The century that followed was a period of great experiment: for the central theme of that experiment was the search for the individual. In honouring the individual and giving it full and free scope the movement went far and even too far: liberty threatened to lead towards licence, democracy towards anarchy and disintegration; the final consequence of romanticism was surrealism, the deification of individual reason culminated in solipsism or ego-centricism. Naturally there came a reaction and we are in this century, still, on the high tide of this movement of reaction. Totalitarianism in one form or another continues to be the watchword and although neither Hitler nor Mussolini is there, a very living ghost of theirs stalks the human stage. The liberty of the individual, it is said and is found to be so by experience, is another name of the individual's erraticism and can produce only division and mutual clash and strife, and, in the end, social disintegration. A strong centralised power is necessary to hold together the warring elements of a group. Indeed, it is asserted, the group is the true reality and to maintain it and make it great the component individuals must be steamrollered into a compact mass. Evidently this is a poise that cannot stand long: the repressed individual rises in revolt and again we are on the move the other way round. Thus a never-ending see-saw, a cyclic recurrence of the same sequence of movements appears to be an inevitable law governing human society: it seems to have almost the absolutism of a law of Nature.1
03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Communism: What does it Mean? From the Known to the Unknown?
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Man, Human and DivineHuman Destiny
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Communism: What does it Mean? From the Known to the Unknown?
03.14 - From the Known to the Unknown?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Man, Human and DivineFrom the Known to the Unknown?
From the Known to the Unknown?
From the known to the Unknown: that is a well-known principle of procedure in the matter of knowledge, of action and of life generally. It is a golden rule that one should never take a step forward unless and until the previous step has been held firm and secure. But after all is this counsel the supreme counsel of perfection or even in point of fact does this represent an actuality? We have our misgivings.
For may not the contrary motto" from the Unknown to the known"be equally valid, both as a matter of fact and as a matter of principle? Do we not, sometimes at least, take for granted and start with the Unknown number x to find out the solution to our problem? Why go far, the very first step that the child takes in his adventurous journey of life, is it not a veritable step into the Unknown? Indeed, many, in fact most of the scientific laws the Laws of Natureare they strictly the result of calculation and deduction from known and observed data or are they not rather "brilliant surmises", "sudden revelations" that overwhelm by their un-expected appearance? Newton did not arrive at his Law of Gravitation in the trail of a logical argument from given premises towards unforeseen conclusions. Nor did Einstein discover his version of the Law in any syllogistic way either. The fact seems to be more often true that the Unknown reveals itself all on a sudden and is not reached through a continuous series of known steps. Examples could be easily multiplied from the history of scientific discoveries.
For the fact is that man, the being that knows, is composed not merely of known elements, known to himself and to others, but possesses a hidden, an unknown side which is nonetheless part of himself. And even though unknown, it is not inactive,it always exerts its influence, imposes its presence. Man has a submerged consciousness which is in contact and communion with similarly submerged worlds of consciousness. Man's consciousness possesses aerials that catch vibrations from unknown regions. He has a secret sensitiveness that receives intimations from other where than his physical senses and his logical reason. His external mind does not always recognise such unorthodox or abnormal movements; he only expresses his surprise or amazement at the luminosity, the au thenticity of solutions that come so simply, suddenly, inevitably, the Unknown revealing itself miraculously.
In the spiritual field the Unknown is a fact of primary importance and has to be given the first place, the foremost consideration. For the call is towards the Beyond and no amount of trafficking with the actual the near and the knowncan lead you out of it. There must be a sudden leap at one time or another. That is what is meant by saying that the deep calls unto the deep. For man has the power, the privilege to contact directly the thing that is unknown and beyond. There is an opening in him, a kind of backdoor, as it were, through which he can pass straight into another dimension.
That is why it is said constantly by the ancient sages that the truth cannot be found by much inquiry and much study, the truth is found only when it condescends to reveal itself to the inquirer. The true truth is not at our beck and call, you cannot get it as and when you like, it does not wait comfortably just at the terminus of your investigations and argumentations. This does not mean, however, that we remain helpless and hopeless until the manna falls from heaven. No, something lies in our power, a spontaneous and natural faculty, to create at least favourable conditions for the light to descend and appear. A quiet awaiting in the being, calm concentration and aspiration, a sincere opening are some of the conditions under which it is easier for the Unknownxto reveal its identity.
It is not a blunder and it need not lead inevitably to a catastrophe if, for example, a child were given its first education not through his mother tongue, but through what is termed a foreign language. Would it, for that matter, harm a child invariably and necessarily, if he did not confine himself within the walls of his school in the midst of the known and the familiar, if he were to stir out and venture into wildshow otherwise would Alice discover her Wonderland? A foreign tongue, a foreign atmosphere would often interest a child more than things known and familiar. The very distance and imprecision and even the peculiar difficulties exert a charm and evoke greater attention in the child. This is not to say that familiarity breeds contempt, but that unfamiliarity does not repel but attracts also.
03.15 - Towards the Future, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
From the Known to the Unknown? To the Heights I
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Man, Human and DivineTowards the Future
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From the Known to the Unknown? To the Heights I
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its brightness linked our transience to the Unknown.
A spirit of its celestial source aware
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Human evolution took a decisive turn with the advent of the Hellenic culture and civilisation. All crises in evolution are a sudden revelation, an unexpected outburst, a saltum, a leap into the Unknown. Now, what the Greeks brought in was the Mind, the luminous Reason, the logical faculty that is married to the senses, no doubt, but still suffused with an inner glow of consciousness. It is the faculty mediating between a more direct and immediate perception of things, Intuition and Instinct, on the one hand, and on the other, the perception given by the senses and a power of control over material things. Take Egypt or Israel or Chaldea, what one finds prominent there is the instinctive-intuitive man, spontaneousprime-sautierimaginative, mythopoeic, clairvoyant, clairaudient (although not very clear, in the modern and Greek sense), bringing into this world things of the other world and pushing this world as much as possible into the other, maintaining a kind of direct connection and communion between the two. The Greeks are of another mould. They are a rational people; they do not move and act simply or mainly by instinctive reactions, but even these are filtered in them through a light of the Mind of Intelligence, a logical pattern, a rational disposition of things; through Mind they seek to know Matter and to control it. It is the modern methodology, that of observation and experiment, in other words, the scientific procedure. The Greeks have had their gods, their mythology; but these are modelled somewhat differently: the gods are made more human, too human, as has often been observed. Zeus and Juno (Hera) are infinitely more human than Isis and Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but they have not the sunshine, the radiance and smile of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere) or Hermes. The Greeks might have, they must have taken up their gods from a more ancient Pantheon, but they have, after the manner of their sculptor Phidias, remoulded them, shaped and polished them, made them more luminous and nearer and closer to earth and men. 1 Was it not said of Socrates that he brought down the gods from heaven upon earth?
The intermediary faculty the Paraclete, which the Greeks brought to play is a corner-stone in the edifice of human progress. It is the formative power of the Mind which gives things their shape and disposition, their consistency and cogency as physical realities. There are deeper and higher sources in man, more direct, immediate and revealing, where things have their birth and origin; but this one is necessary for the embodiment, for the building up and maintenance of the subtler and profounder truths in an earthly structure, establish and fix them in the normal consciousness. The Socratic Dialogues are rightly placed at the start of the modern culture; they set the pattern of modern mentality. That rational turn of mind, that mental intelligence and understanding as elaborated, formulated, codified by the Aristotelian system was the light that shone through the Grco-Latin culture of the Roman days; that was behind the culture and civilisation of the Middle Ages. The changes and revolutions of later days, social or cultural, did not affect it, rather were based upon it and inspired by it. And even today our scientific culture maintains and continues the tradition.
04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Opened the enormous doors of the Unknown,
Rent man's horizons into infinity.
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Seeker of the Unknown and the unborn
Carrying a light from the Ineffable
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Testing the Unknown's bound with eager touch
They still were prisoned by their human grain:
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy unknown lover waits for thee the Unknown.
Thy soul has strength and needs no other guide
04.23 - To the Heights-XXIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
with all the serene profundity of the Unknown spaces-
and drop by drop will gather there
05.07 - Man and Superman, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Even so mankind, at the crucial parting of the ways, would very naturally look askance at the diminished value of many of its qualities and attri butes in the new status to come. First of all, as it has been pointed out, the intellect and reasoning power will have to surrender and abdicate. The very power by which man has attained his present high status and maintains it in the world has to be sacrificed for something else called intuition or revelation whose value and efficacy are unknown and have to be rigorously tested. Anyhow, is not the known devil by far and large preferable to the Unknown entity? And then the zest of life, peculiar to man, that works through contradictionsdelight and suffering, victory and defeat, war and peace, doubt and knowledge, all the play of light and shade, the spirit of adventure, of combat and struggle and heroic effort, will have to go and give place to something, peaceful and harmonious perhaps but monotonous, insipid, unprogressive. The very character of human life is its passion to battle through, even if it is not always through. For it is often said that the end or goal does not matter, the goal is always something uncertain; it is the way, the means, the immediate action that is of supreme consequence: for it is that that tests man's manhood, gives him the value he may have. And above all man is asked to give up the very thing which he has laboured to build up through millenniums of his terrestrial life, his individuality, his personality, for the demand is that he must lose his ego in order to attain the superhuman status.
So, the probability is that a large part of humanity will remain wedded to the normal human life. But this does not lessen in any way the value, the tremendous importance of what happens to the other part, may be, not insignificant or inconsiderable. Along with those that doubt and deny, there will be those who believe and affirm, who will stand for divinisation, whatever dehumanisation it may imply.
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And the marvel and surprise of the Unknown
And the endless possibility that lurked
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Following the stream of Time through the Unknown;
They are led by a clue the calm immortals keep.
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The daemons of the Unknown overshadow his mind
Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought,
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Wider than the known and closer than the Unknown
In which hunt for ever the hounds of mind and life,
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And inspiration comes from the Unknown;
But only reason and sense he feels as sure,
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown.
But all was formless, voiceless, infinite.
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Awaiting the Unknown eternal Will.
Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,
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Thou shalt look into the eyes of the Unknown,
Find the hid Truth in things seen null and false,
07.07 - The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In her the Unseen, the Unknown waited his hour.
But now she sat by sleeping Satyavan,
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
parts, you will quite possibly be able to discover the Unknown parts. This strategy
has been used __ in rare breakthroughs __ very successfully by man. An example of
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He has seen the Unknown, looked on Truth's veilless face;
A ray has touched him from the eternal sun;
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And plucks away the screens of the Unknown;
A spirit within looks into the Eternal's eyes.
10.04 - Lord of Time, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
7 on the other side of the mind in the Unknown eternal kingdom
Summer will be in full swing, Mahasamareh,
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In a short time, he went to the Unknown
Hasikanna drowned in his eternal rale
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Lest man's frail days into the Unknown should sink
Dragged like a ship by bound leviathan
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Ever to the new and the Unknown press on
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Till the Unknown is known and seen by men.
Above the stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight,
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All waited on the Unknown inscrutable Will.
END OF CANTO FOUR
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
Prana, therefore, which is active radiatory heat, varies in vibration and quality according to the receiving Entity. Man passes the prana through his etheric vehicle, colors it with his own peculiar quality, and so transmits it to the lesser lives that make up his little system. Thus, the great interaction goes on, and all parts blend, merge and are interdependent; and all parts receive, color, qualify and transmit. An endless circulation goes on that has neither a conceivable beginning nor possible end from the point of view of finite man, for its source and end are hid in the Unknown cosmic fount. Were conditions everywhere perfected this circulation would proceed unimpeded and might result in a condition of almost endless duration, but limitation and termination result as the effects of imperfection giving place to a gradual perfection. Every cycle originates from another cycle of a relative completeness, and will give place ever to a higher spiral; thus eventuate periods of apparent relative perfection leading to those which are still greater.
The aim for this greater cycle is the blending, as we know, of the two fires of matter, latent and active, and their merging with the fires of mind and spirit till they are lost from sight in the general flame; the fires of mind and spirit burn up matter and thereby bring about liberation from the confining vehicles. The altar of earth is the birthplace of spirit, its liberator from the mother (matter), and its entrance into higher realms.
1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But there is a handle to the future, provided we go to the heart of the thing. But where is that heart if it is not in our human standards? One day, the first reptiles out of the water sought to fly, the first primates out of the jungle cast a strange new look over the world: one and the same irresistible urge was making them contemplate another state. And perhaps all the transforming power was already contained in that simple look TOWARD something else, as if that look, that urge, that point of the Unknown crying out, had the power to unlock the floodgates to the future.
And we assert that there exists a future far more marvelous than all the electronic paradises of the mind: man is not the end, any more than the archaeopteryx was, at the height of the reptiles how could anything possibly be the culmination of the great evolutionary wave? We see it clearly in ourselves: We seem to invent ever more marvelous machines, ceaselessly expand the limits of the human, even progress towards Jupiter and Venus. But that is only a seeming, increasingly deceptive and oppressive, and we do not expand anything: we merely send to the other end of the cosmos a pitiful little being who does not even know how to take care of his own kind, or whether his caves harbor a dragon or a mewling baby. We do not progress; we inordinately inflate an enormous mental balloon, which may well explode in our face. We have not improved man; we have merely colosalized him. And it could not have been otherwise. The fault does not lie in some deficiency of our virtues or intellectual capacities, for pushed to their extreme these could only generate supersaints or supermachines monsters. A saintly reptile in its hole would no more make an evolutionary summit than a saintly monk would. Or else, let us forget everything. The truth is, the summit of man or the summit of anything at all does not lie in perfecting to a higher degree the type under consideration; it lies in a something else that is not of the same type and that he aspires to become. Such is the evolutionary law. Man is not the end; man is a transitional being, said Sri Aurobindo long ago. He is heading toward supermanhood as inevitably as the minutest twig of the highest branch of the mango tree is contained in its seed. Hence, our sole true occupation, our sole problem, the sole question ever to be solved from age to age, the one that is now tearing our great earthly ship apart limb from painful limb is how to make this transition.
1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Rejection of the Unknown is tantamount to identification with the devil, the mythological counterpart
and eternal adversary of the world-creating exploratory hero. Such rejection and identification is a
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because creative exploration impossible, without (humble) acknowledgment of the Unknown constitutes
the process that constructs and maintains the protective adaptive structure that gives life much of its
1.018 - The Cave, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
22. They will say, “Three, and their fourth being their dog.” And they will say, “Five, and their sixth being their dog,” guessing at the Unknown. And they will say, “Seven, and their eighth being their dog.” Say, “My Lord knows best their number.” None knows them except a few. So do not argue concerning them except with an obvious argument, and do not consult any of them about them.
23. And never say about anything, “I will do that tomorrow.”
1.01 - Introduction, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
This world of phenomena which we call the universe, is only the apparent figure, the image in us of the real world; it is the myth which covers a truth too profound for us. All philosophy consists in the discovery of its hidden sense, and it is the more and more veridical interpretation of it that we call knowledge. May its illumination render the human mind master of the shadow and the mystery and open to us the paths of the Unknown!
But how shall we discover the paths that lead to an unknown? And how shall we discover that unknown itself if we do not first know the paths? Therefore these two, the way and its goal, must manifest themselves together and each must reveal the other.
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For the boldest, the highest Wisdom! For the pioneers of action and thought, the heroic march through the paths of the Unknown!
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1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
The known, our current story, protects us from the Unknown, from chaos which is to say, provides our
experience with determinate and predictable structure. the Unknown, chaos from which we are protected
has a nature all of its own. That nature is experienced as affective valence, at first exposure, not as
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that individuals are highly motivated to avoid sudden manifestations of the Unknown for this reason
that individuals will go to almost any length to ensure that their protective cultural stories remain intact.
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
make way for a new motif, the Unknown woman. In general, dreamsabout women refer to women whom the dreamer knows. But now and then
there are dreams in which a female figure appears who cannot be shown to
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A little later the Unknown appeared on a ball, and the dreamer gave her
some money. Then she was a syphilitic again. From now on the Unknown
becomes associated with the so-called dual motif, a frequent occurrence
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general, so the figure of the Unknown woman is a personification of the
unconscious, which I have called the anima. This figure only occurs in
1.01 - the Call to Adventure, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
again a veiled mysterious figure the Unknown.
The story is told, for example, of King Arthur, and how he
1.01 - The Ego, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
against the Unknown. This consists of everything we do not
know, which, therefore, is not related to the ego as the centre
of the field of consciousness. the Unknown falls into two groups
of objects: those which are outside and can be experienced by
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mediately. The first group comprises the Unknown in the outer
world; the second the Unknown in the inner world. We call this
latter territory the unconscious.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
however that is, when we err we move into the domain of the Unknown, where more primordial
emotional forces rule. Small-scale errors force us to reconstruct our plans, but allow us to retain our
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The domain of the known and the domain of the Unknown can reasonably be regarded as
permanent constituent elements of human experience even of the human environment. Regardless of
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known, roughly speaking) and the fact of its ultimate insufficiency (as the domain of the Unknown
necessarily remains extant, regardless of extent of previous adaptation). The human brain and the
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in creative exploratory behavior. Creative exploration of the Unknown, and consequent generation of
knowledge, is construction or update of patterns of behavior and representation, such that the Unknown is
transformed from something terrifying and compelling into something beneficial (or, at least, something
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nature). The eternal knower, finally the process that mediates between the known and the Unknown is
the knight who slays the dragon of chaos, the hero who replaces disorder and confusion with clarity and
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understand. Sokolov identified the central characteristics of how we respond to the Unknown to the
strange category of all events that have not yet been categorized. The notion that we respond in an
instinctively patterned manner to the appearance of the Unknown has revolutionary implications. I would
like to begin this discussion in a manner somewhat removed from normal scientific discussion, but
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the stairwell. It is locked. You curse the maintenance staff. You are frustrated and anxious. the Unknown
has emerged, once again. You try another exit. Success! The door opens. Hope springs forth from your
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was that the Unknown, experienced in relationship to your currently extant model of present and future, has
a priori motivational significance or, to put it somewhat differently, that the Unknown could serve as an
unconditioned stimulus.
What is the a priori motivational significance of the Unknown? Can such a question even be asked?
After all, the Unknown has not yet been explored by definition. Nothing can be said, by the dictates of
standard logic, about something that has not yet been encountered. We are not concerned with sensory
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around possibility. The worst the Unknown could be, in general, is death (or, perhaps, lengthy suffering
followed by death); the fact of our vulnerable mortality provides the limiting case. The best the Unknown
could be is more difficult to specify, but some generalizations might prove acceptable. We would like to be
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emotional area covered by the Unknown is therefore very large, ranging from that which we fear most to
that which we desire most intently.
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knowledge43 (and consequent re-exposure to the Unknown, no longer inhibited by our mode of
classification).44 This means that simple movement from present to future is occasionally interrupted by a
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carries within it the seeds of a difficult and useful question: what, is the significance of the Unknown? It
might seem logical to assume that the answer is none something unexplored cannot have meaning,
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The infinite human capacity for error means that encounter with the Unknown is inevitable, in the course of
human experience; means that the likelihood of such encounter is as certain, regardless of place and time of
individual existence, as death and taxation. The (variable) existence of the Unknown, paradoxically enough,
can therefore be regarded as an environmental constant. Adaptation to the existence of this domain must
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eternally extant domain of the Unknown therefore constitutes the matrix from which all conditional
knowledge emerges. Everything presently known to each, everything rendered predictable, was at one time
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fundamentally ignorant, and will remain so, no matter how much we learn. The domain of the Unknown
surrounds us, like an ocean surrounds an island. We can increase the area of the island, but we never take
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consequence of behavioral modification, undertaken in the territory of the Unknown. This means that
consciousness plays a centrally important role in the generation of the predictable and comprehended
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entered the realm of the Unknown.105
The limbic unit generates the orienting reflex, among its other tasks. It is the orienting reflex, which
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makes its appearance. The occurrence of the unpredictable, the Unknown, the source of fear and hope,
creates a seizure of ongoing specifically goal-directed behavior. Emergence of the unexpected constitutes
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conception of the means to transform the former into the latter. Appearance of the Unknown motivates
curious, hopeful exploratory behavior, regulated by fear, as means to update the memory-predicated
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and the exploratory behavior that follows its manifestation, allows for the differentiation of the Unknown
into the familiar categories of objective reality. However, this ability is a late development, historically
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The higher cortex controls behavior until the Unknown emerges until it makes a mistake in
judgment; until memory no longer serves until the activity it governs produces a mismatch between what
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learning has yet taken place, in the face of the Unknown and yet, emotion reveals itself, in the presence of
error. It appears, therefore, that the kind of emotion that the unpredictable arouses is not learned which is
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exploration transforms the Unknown into the expected, desired and predictable; establishes appropriate
behavioral measures (and expectations of those measures) for next contact. Unsuccessful exploration, by
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When we explore, we transform the indeterminate status and meaning of the Unknown thing that we are
exploring into something determinate in the worst case, rendering it non-threatening, non-punishing; in
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changing their actions in the face of the Unknown, and by mapping the consequences of those shifts and
changes in terms of their affective or motivational valence. When an animal encounters an unexpected
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the individual human being. This style is adaptation for exploration of the Unknown, within a social context
for the (speech-mediated) creation, elaboration, remembrance, description and subsequent
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during psychomotor exploratory activity, undertaken in the face of the Unknown. The operation of these
systems appears mediated in part by the neurotransmitter dopamine145 involved in producing subjective
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paradoxical role (amplifying the significance or potential danger of the Unknown through definitive but
false negative labelling) that active exploration (or active avoidance), with its limitations and dangers,
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out the world as a consequence of our direct interactions with the Unknown most notably, with our hands,
which enable us to manipulate things, to change their sensory aspects and, most importantly, to change
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responses to the Unknown, while the left is more suited for actions undertaken while we know what we are
doing. This is in part because everything thoroughly explored has in fact been rendered either promising or
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give determinate (and oft-bizarre) form to the Unknown.
Left Hemisphere
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specialized for encounter with the Unknown and its terrors, which are apperceived in the domain of
instinct, motivation, and affect, long before they can be classified or comprehended intellectually. The right
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provisional notion (a fantastic representation) of the Unknown event (what it is like, how action should be
conducted in its presence, what other things or situations it brings to mind) might be rapidly formulated.
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The chaos that constitutes the Unknown is rendered predictable is turned into the world by the
generation of adaptive behaviors and modes of representation. It is the process of novelty-driven
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and contact with the Unknown. These patterns do not necessarily remain stable, however, once generated.
They are modified and shaped improved and made efficient as a consequence of their communicative
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a priori significance of the Unknown even as they precede the generation of more detailed and concrete
information. There is no reason to presuppose that we have been able to explicitly comprehend this
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successful encounter with the Unknown) might be broadly imitated; might elicit spontaneous imitation. But
some more essential (prototypical184) feature(s) characterize all acts of heroism. With increasing
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encounter with the Unknown: the generation of wisdom through exploration. (I am not trying to imply,
either, that the semantic or episodic memory systems can directly modify procedure; it is more that the
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transformation occurs, in fact, whenever a problem arises: whenever the Unknown manifests itself, in the
course of our ongoing behavior. It is in this manner that we switch spatial-temporal resolution (change
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to turn on the reading light flash! the bulb burns out. the Unknown that is, the unexpected, in this
context has just manifested itself. You switch set. Now your goal still nested within the reading a
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first, the unconscious (where they exist as potential objects of cognition) and then, the Unknown
(where they exist as latent information or as undiscovered facts). The unconscious may then be
considered as the mediator between the Unknown, which surrounds us constantly, and the domain that is so
familiar to us that its contents have been rendered explicit. This mediator, I would suggest, is nothing but
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eternally extant constituent elements of experience, and a fourth that precedes them. the Unknown,
the knower, and the known make up the world as place of drama; the indeterminate precosmogonic
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primal source of the mythological world parents (the Great Mother, nature, deity of the Unknown,
creative and destructive; the Great Father, culture, deity of the familiar, tyrannical and protective) and of
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destructive underworld of the Unknown and the secure, oppressive patriarchal kingdom of human culture.
We cannot see the Unknown, because we are protected from it by everything familiar and unquestioned.
We are in addition habituated to what is familiar and known by definition and are therefore often
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the fundamental meanings of things by observing how we respond to them. the Unknown becomes
classifiable, in this manner, because we respond to its manifestation predictably. It compels our actions,
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appropriate conclusions. the Unknown is intrinsically interesting, in a manner that poses an endless
dilemma. It promises and threatens simultaneously. It appears as the hypothetical ultimate source of all
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we know specific things about the domain of the Unknown that we understand something about it, that we
can act toward and represent it, even though it has not yet been explored. This paradoxical ability is a
nontrivial capacity. Since the Unknown constitutes an ineradicable component of the environment, so to
speak, we have to know what it is, what it signifies; have to understand its implication for behavior and its
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have been at pains to demonstrate, the Unknown does not lose its a priori motivational significance
promise and threat because of the passive process of habituation. Adaptation is always active.
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about the nature of the Unknown (about the fact that it is eternally frightening and promising), by watching
how we behave in its presence. We do something similar, with regards to the social world, and the
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opposed to matter, as opposed to dogma); the sun, son of the Unknown and the known (son of the Great
Mother and the Great Father).212 The central character in a story must play the role of hero, or deceiver;
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mysterious source of all things (that is, the Unknown) is also their final destination. Likewise, the domain of
culture, the Great Father, is simultaneously and unceasingly tyranny and order, because security of person
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possessed of great and dangerous potential, knowing good and evil. the Unknown cannot be described, by
definition. The known is too complicated to be understood. The knower the conscious individual human
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chaos. The Great Mother the Unknown, as it manifests itself in experience is the feminine deity who
gives birth to and devours all. She is the unpredictable as it is encountered, and is therefore characterized,
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territory, as a consequence of the assimilation of the Unknown [as a consequence of incestuous (that is,
sexual read creative) union with the Great Mother]. The negative aspect rejects or destroys anything it
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things. It is for this reason, in part, that the terror of the Unknown, the tyranny of the state, and the evil
aspect of man are contaminated with one another for this reason that the devil and the stranger are
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juxtaposition with the Unknown unexplored territory. Archaic notions of reality presuppose that the
familiar world is a sacred space, surrounded by chaos (populated, variously, by demons, reptiles, spirits and
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mapped that thing, at least in part. We tell stories about the Unknown, and the knower, and the known, and
can therefore be said, somewhat paradoxically, to have adapted to the unpredictable, to the fact that we can
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Although the Unknown is truly unknown, it can be regarded as possessed of stable characteristics, in a
broad sense. These characteristics are revealed in the actions we undertake in response to the appearance
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The angry Tiamat the Unknown, chaos, in its terrible or destructive aspect produces eleven species of
monsters to aid her in her battle including the viper, the dragon, the great lion, the rabid dog, the
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known that serves as protection from the Unknown whether this is understood or not. Ea kills Apsu,
which means that he unconsciously strips himself of protection.
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serves most fundamentally to transform the Unknown and terrifying world into the comforting,
productive and familiar. He is able to bind the Unknown; to limit its sphere of action, and to bring it
under control. He raises the winds, and the storm to aid him, using the forces of nature against nature itself.
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casts down her carcass, and stands upon it. His voluntarily encounter with the forces of the Unknown
produce a decisive victory. He rounds up her subordinates including Kingu, who he deprives of the tablet
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constructs determinate experience, through voluntary encounter with the Unknown. The full story
presented in the Sumerian creation myth is presented, schematically, in Figure 22: The Enuma elish in
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deity, role-model for the culture of the West, who violently carves the Unknown into pieces, and makes the
predictable world from those pieces.
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union of the exploratory tendency (incarnated by the king) with the positive aspect of the Unknown,
incarnated by the hierodule. Marduk (the king) is originally shut up, signifying his temporary
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juxtaposition of the process of knowing, embodied by the king (Marduk), with the Unknown, embodied by
Tiamat (incarnated by the hierodule) is what gives rise to the generation of new information and patterns
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as the primordial creative process. The deity of chaos, or the Unknown, appears most generally as feminine
(and as half negative, and half positive) once the initial division between order and chaos has been
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serves as example) exists because the Unknown has a destructive aspect; the positive (the hierodule here,
Isis in the Egyptian myth of Osiris, Mary in Christianity) because the Unknown is also creative or
generative.
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hostile twin or adversary who eternally opposes the process of creative encounter with the Unknown;
signifies, alternatively speaking, a pattern of adaptation characterized by absolute opposition to
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positive aspect of the Unknown (like the hierodule in the Mesopotamian New Years ritual). She is
possessed of great magical powers, as might be expected, given her status. She gathers up Osiris scattered
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information (his mother, after all, is the positive aspect of the Unknown). As an updated version of his
father, he is capable of dealing with the problems of the present (that is, with the emergent evil represented
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wisdom of the past. So he journeys into the Unknown, where his father rests, lifeless that is,
uncomprehended; without embodiment or incarnation (in action) in the present. Horus unites himself with
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from the Unknown, but transformation of the pattern of adaptation which constitutes the known, when such
transformation becomes necessary.
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transform the temporarily predictable once again into the Unknown. It has served mankind as the most
ubiquitous and potent of primordial gods:
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and of the Unknown, the Great Mother (anomalous information and the unpredictable). It might be
regarded, as well, as the single androgynous grandparent of the hero, son of the night and the day, mediator
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consequence of his encounter with nature or the Unknown world) and the person for whom the Unknown
is a reality.
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between their inhabited world and the Unknown and indeterminate space that surrounds it. The former is
the world (more precisely, our world), the cosmos; everything outside it is no longer a cosmos but a sort
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organized hence cosmicized territory and the Unknown space that extends beyond its frontiers; on
one side there is a cosmos, on the other a chaos. But we shall see that if every inhabited territory is a
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chaos (to the new chaos, more accurately: to the Unknown now defined in opposition to explored
territory). Everything that is not order that is, not predictable, not usable is, by default (by definition)
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2.3.4. The Great Mother: Images of the Unknown, or Unexplored Territory
The Mother of Songs, the mother of our whole seed, bore us in the beginning. She is the mother of all
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complex set of data which have at least been experienced, if not exhausted. Representation of the Unknown,
however, appears impossible appears as a contradiction in terms. How can what has not yet been
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determinate knowledge. We are therefore prone to constant contact with the Unknown. It appears every
time we make an error; every time our presumptions are wrong every time our behaviors do not produce
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cannot yet be specified. This means that the nature of the Unknown, as such, must become represented, in
order to design action patterns, which are broadly suited for response to what cannot yet (and cannot
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collectively apprehensible sensory qualities of the world. the Unknown may manifest itself in the
consensually validatable empirical realm, as an aspect of the material world; likewise, it may appear as new
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impossible to ignore. the Unknown, unexpected, or unpredictable is the source of all conditional
knowledge and the place that such knowledge returns to, so to speak, when it is no longer useful.
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Nonetheless, understanding of the Unknown which cannot, in theory, be represented is vital to
continued survival. Desire to represent the Unknown, to capture its essence, is in consequence potent:
potent enough to drive the construction of culture, the net that constrains the unknowable source of all
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the intrinsic, biologically-determined affective or emotional significance of the Unknown or novel world.
Representations of the Unknown constitute attempts to elaborate upon its nature, to illuminate its emotional
and motivational significance (to illuminate its being, from the prescientific or mythic perspective). This is
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attempts at final classification. the Unknown therefore provides a constant powerful source of energy for
exploration and the generation of new information. Desire to formulate a representation of that which
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Ritualized, dramatic or mythic representations of the Unknown the domain that emerges when error is
committed appear to have provided the initial material for the most primordial and fundamental aspects
of formalized religions. Appreciation of the nature of the Unknown as a category developed as a
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frightened him by acting out the Unknown demon, when he returns to the village. This acting out is
simultaneously embodiment and representation is basic-level hypothesis regarding the nature of the
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form to what until then is merely behavioral compulsion. the Unknown first appears, symbolically so to
speak as an independent personality, when it cannot be conceived of in any other fashion, and later
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firmly entrenched in or automatically ascribed to the domain of the Unknown, threatening and promising.
The category of all events that cannot yet be categorized can nonetheless be modelled, through metaphoric
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some way matches that of the Unknown. Each of the specific things that signifies danger, for example or,
alternatively, the enhancement of life appears easily associated with every other specific thing,
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the Unknown, as such, is the thing in and of itself. By contrast, the Unknown as encountered (by a
determinate subject, in a particular situation) is the matrix of all being the actual source of information
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encounter with the Unknown which constitutes the necessary precondition for the generation of new
information (for generation of the cosmos and of the experiencing subject) cannot be specified
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imaginable of the Unknown something capable, simultaneously, of characterizing the active bite of the
snake, the life of fire, the sting of the scorpion, the trap of the spider the most suitable embodiment of the
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unknown, of nature, the ground of existence. the Unknown is the matrix of everything, the source of all
birth and the final place of rest. It hides behind our personal identity and our culture; it constantly
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host of new problems. the Unknown is Homo sapiens everlasting enemy and greatest friend, constantly
challenging individual facility for adaptation and representation, constantly pushing men and women to
greater depths and more profound heights. the Unknown as Nature appears as paradoxical formidable
overwhelming power, applied simultaneously in one direction and its opposite. Hunger, the will to selfpreservation, drives living creatures to devour each other rapaciously, and the hunters have no mercy for
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of self-consciousness. The identity of death with the Unknown has permanently and incurably destroyed
any possibility of final habituation to adaptation to, more accurately the world of experience. Man is in
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contaminated with the Unknown and mortal terror, and the flies in the corpse of a kitten. She is everything
that jumps in the night, that scratches and bites, that screeches and howls; she is paralyzing dismay, horror,
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depths, the wide-eyed creature of the deep forests, the cry of the Unknown animal, the claws of the grizzly
and the smile of the criminally insane. The Great and Terrible Mother stars in every horror movie, every
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the terrible aspects of the Unknown allow us to conceptualize what has not yet been encountered, and to
practice adopting the proper attitude towards what we do not understand.
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Redemptive knowledge itself springs from generative encounter with the Unknown, from exploration of
aspects of novel things and novel situations; is part of the potential of things, implicit in them, intrinsic to
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of proper relationship established with the positive aspect of the Unknown, the source of all things:
Wisdom is radiant and unfading,
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(Matthew 7:7-8)] the Unknown is a sterile wasteland.314 Expectation and faith determine the response of
the Unknown (as courageous approach eliminates anticipatory anxiety, and exploration makes the
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context within which it makes its appearance. If the Unknown is approached voluntarily (which is to say,
as if it is beneficial), then its promising aspect is likely to appear more salient. If the Unknown makes its
appearance, despite our desire by contrast then it is likely to appear more purely in its aspect of threat.
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things are more likely to adopt a positive face. Rejection of the Unknown, conversely, increases the
likelihood that it will wear a terrifying visage, when it inevitably manifests itself. It seems to me that this is
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The beneficial aspect of the Unknown is something unavailable to the unworthy, something eternal
and pure; something that enters into relationship with those who are willing, from age to age and
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for the perplexed and curious is the redemptive jewel in the head of the toad or in the lair of the firebelching dragon. the Unknown is the fire, that burns and protects the endlessly mysterious transcendent
object, that simultaneously gives and takes away. The positive aspect of the Unknown, incarnated as the
many-breasted Greco-Roman Goddess Diana, or Artemis mistress of the animals is portrayed in Figure
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aspects of the Unknown allowed for practice in adaptation in the face of such representations allowed
for exposure of the individual, in imagination and action, in controlled fashion, to potently constructed
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terrible forces of the Unknown back under the dominion of knowledge, into the domain of the known
expands explored territory into chaos places the Great Mother under the strictures of her consort,
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attitude. The beautiful countenance of the beneficial mother is the face the Unknown adopts, when
approached from the proper perspective. Everything unknown is simultaneously horrifying and promising;
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offered up to the Unknown, must present itself voluntarily to the destructive/creative power that
constitutes the Great Mother, incarnation of the unpredictable (as we have seen); and (2) that the thing
that is loved best must be destroyed that is, sacrificed in order for the positive aspect of the Unknown
to manifest itself.
The former idea is predicated on the notion that the Unknown must be encountered, voluntarily, for
new information to be generated, for new behavioral patterns to be constructed; the latter idea is
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appease the gods is the embodiment in procedure of the idea that the benevolent aspect of the Unknown
will return if the present schema of adaptation (the ruling king) is sufficiently altered (that is, destroyed
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simultaneously someone facing the Unknown and is, therefore, someone unconsciously imitating the
hero. The voluntary stripping of such identity makes the supplicant into a new man at least if the
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error, conjoined with belief in the ability to transcend that error (to face the Unknown, and to update fallible
belief, in consequence). Humble therefore means, greater than dogma (as the spirit of man is a higher
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individual power the acting out of the idea that voluntary exposure to the Unknown (or dissolution of the
most favored thing) constituted a necessary precondition (1) for the emergence of the beneficial goddess
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against fear of the Unknown itself. The sacrificial ritual was acting out of the hero, before such acting out
could be represented in abstraction, in drama, in story. More abstract narrative representation of the target
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hero, divine son of the known and unknown, courageously faces the Unknown, unites with it creatively
abandoning all pretence of pre-existent absolute knowledge garners new information, returns to the
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extracted, eternally, from the Unknown. In consequence, it is perpetually possible to derive and re-derive
the central features of the meta-pattern of behavior which always and necessarily means human
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from contact with the Unknown means the construction of experience itself; the destruction of previous
modes of adaptation and representation (previous worlds) means return of explored territory to the
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adaptation, as schemas of action and representation are extended, such that the Unknown is rendered
beneficial; revolution, as the old is restructured, to allow place for the new. This restructuring is equivalent
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hero, who (eternally) turns the Unknown into something secure and beneficial; who eternally reconstructs
the secure and beneficial, when it has degenerated into tyranny.
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potential of the Unknown) follow a general pattern. This pattern which at least produces the results
intended (and therefore desired) inevitably attracts social interest. Interesting or admirable behaviors
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portrayals of the Unknown. Mythological representation of the hero and his cultural construction are, by
contrast, examination and portrayal of who or what it is that knows, and of what it is that is known. The
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represents the benevolent, creative and fruitful aspect of the Unknown. [The city is commonly portrayed on
a mountain, in such representations the serpent in a valley, or across a river. The battle takes place at
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The Great Mother is embodiment of the Unknown, of the novel. The hero her son and lover, offspring
of the mystical marriage is dramatic (first concrete behavioral, then imitative/imagistic, then verbal)
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The hero is a pattern of action, designed to make sense of the Unknown; he emerges, necessarily,
wherever human beings are successful. Adherence to this central pattern insures that respect for the process
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image of the son of god, who sets his impeccable character against tyranny and the Unknown. The
archetypic or ultimate example of the savior is the world redeemer, the Messiah world-creating-andredeeming hero, social revolutionary and great reconciliator. It is the sum total of the activity of the
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equivalent to the fracturing of a protective wall. the Unknown, from which his subjects were protected,
pours through the breached wall. The kingdom risks inundation:
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The creative union of the hero with the benevolent aspect of the Unknown is evidently approaching.
Nitechka was very happy. He looked around, and there were the Burgomaster and Councilmen
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the benevolent aspect of the Unknown in the underworld, as might well be expected in her typical
personification:
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son a proper hero pays attention to what the sensible ignore, makes a voyage into the Unknown, and
brings back what is needed. It is the journey of the hero that revitalizes the king. Osiris languishes in the
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from the general meaning of the Unknown, per se, to the particular and not relevance or import added to a
neutral background. the Unknown manifests itself in an intrinsically meaningful manner: a manner
composed of threat and promise. The specific meaning of objects discriminated from unknown consists of
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literal father, he is protection for children, who are too immature and vulnerable to deal with the Unknown.
More abstractly, he is the pattern of behavior the father represents, that becomes internalized during
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as security. The wise King maintains stability, not because he is afraid of the Unknown, but because nothing
new can be built without a strong foundation. He is the adaptive routines, developed by the heroes of the
1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
into the Unknown. Evolution is always a work in progress,
and so is the evolutionary Yoga. Those whose souls have
1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
An animal is simple. It is wholly contained in its claws, its prey, its senses, in the northerly wind that raises the imperceptible scent of rain and the image of a deer in the tall grass. And when it is not in motion, it is perfectly still, without a quiver of doubt about the past or anticipation of the future. It does exactly what is needed, at the moment it is needed. And as for the rest, it is in harmony with the universal rhythm. But when the first great apes began to emerge from their forests, something had already changed. They cast a less direct look at the world: the past already had a weight and the future its worries they were engaged in the first act of introspection, which we know well, with its burden of pain and error. What seemed such a futile and vain exercise in terms of simian efficiency has become the cornerstone of our towering mental edifice; everything, even Einstein, was contained in that simple and totally superfluous exercise. And at the edge of another forest, made of concrete and titanium, we may be standing before an identical, even more stupendous mystery, and no less superfluous, as we stop for a second amid the rush of things, this time not to reflect but to cast a mute look, as if blinded, at this thinking and speculating and suffering and struggling first person. We thus raise a strange new antenna, quite meaningless and seemingly pointing at nothing, yet it holds the secret of the next cycle, and marvels next to which the splendid twentieth-century rockets are like clumsy children's toys. We are engaged in the introspection of the second kind; we are knocking at the door of the Unknown of the third circle, holding the thread of the Great Process.
The secrets are simple, as we have said. Unfortunately the mind has seized this one, as it seizes everything, and has pressed it into the service of its mental, vital or spiritual ego. It has discovered certain powers of meditation or concentration, more refined energies, higher mental planes that were like the divine source of our existence, lights that were not from the moon or stars, more direct and almost superhuman faculties it has climbed the ladder of consciousness but all that only served to sublimate and rarefy a rare human elite; sublimate it so much, in fact, that there did not seem to be any other issue to this climb than an ultimate leap out of the dualities and into the changeless peace of eternal truths. A few souls were saved, possibly, while the earth went on its dark course, increasingly dark. And what should have been the earth's secret became heaven's. The most frightful schism of all time was accomplished, the bleakest duality was imprinted on the heart of the earth. And the very ones who should have been humankind's supreme unifiers became its dividers, the Founding Fathers of atheism, materialism and all the other isms that struggle for our world. The earth, duped, had no other recourse but to believe exclusively in herself and her own strength.
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Some of the victims remain spellbound forever (at least, so far as we are told), but others are destined to be saved. Brynhild was preserved for her proper hero and little Briar-rose was res cued by a prince. Also, the young man transformed into a tree dreamed subsequently of the Unknown woman who pointed the way, as a mysterious guide to paths unknown. Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. So it is that sometimes the predicament following an obstinate refusal of the call proves to be the occasion of a providential revelation of some unsus pected principle of release.
Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. It drives the psychic energies into depth and activates the lost con tinent of unconscious infantile and archetypal images. The result, of course; may be a disintegration of consciousness more or less complete (neurosis, psychosis: the plight of spellbound Daphne); but on the other hand, if the personality is able to absorb and integrate the new forces, there will be experienced an almost super-human degree of self-consciousness and masterful control.
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
15: the Unknown is not the Unknowable;4 it need not remain the Unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, "Forth now and push forward also in other fields."5
16:If modern Materialism were simply an unintelligent acquiescence in the material life, the advance might be indefinitely delayed. But since its very soul is the search for Knowledge, it will be unable to cry a halt; as it reaches the barriers of senseknowledge and of the reasoning from sense-knowledge, its very rush will carry it beyond and the rapidity and sureness with which it has embraced the visible universe is only an earnest of the energy and success which we may hope to see repeated in the conquest of what lies beyond, once the stride is taken that crosses the barrier. We see already that advance in its obscure beginnings.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
A child cannot live on its own. Alone, it drowns in possibility. the Unknown supersedes individual
adaptive capacity, in the beginning. It is only the transmission of historically determined behavioral
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alternative, generalized, non-parental source of protection from the Unknown, and provides the group with
the resources of another soul. The group constitutes a historically-validated pattern of adaptation (specific
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face of the Unknown provides structure for social relationships (with self and others), determines the
meaning of objects, provides desirable end as ideal, and establishes acceptable procedure (acceptable mode
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adaptation to, explanation of, and protection against the Unknown, the Great and Terrible Mother. This
introduction reaches its culmination with initiation, the primary ritual signifying cultural transmission the
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forest or cave, in the depths of the Unknown. This power, capable of devouring them, serves as the
mysterious deity of the initiation. Once removed from their mothers, the boys begin their ritual. This
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The terror induced by ritual exposure to the forces of the Unknown appears to put the brain into a state
characterized by enhanced suggestibility or, at least, by dramatically heightened need for order, by need
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events in their experiential field works, insofar as it provides a barrier, protection from the Unknown or
unexpected. Culture provides a ritual model for behavioral emulation, and heuristics for desire and
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therefore means fixed adaptation to the Unknown; means, simultaneously, inhibition of novelty-induced
fear, regulation of interpersonal behavior, and provision of redemptive mode of being. The group is the
1.03 - Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
jected into the Unknown in the world of external appearances
is, of course, familiar to anyone acquainted with the natural sci-
1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: Yes. There even I do not know the result. I have received only an indication from within that it is going to be. Yet I myself do not know the end of my adventure. Very few in the past have followed this Yoga and none has conquered the material plane. That is why it is an adventure into the Unknown. One must have faith and make the right choice.
In the evening Sri Aurobindo referred to Prof Athavale.
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
bindo and the Mother was an adventure into the Unknown 7
7 See talk 2: The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought.52
1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[22] In this psychologem all the implications of the Sol-Luna allegory are carried to their logical conclusion. The daemonic quality which is connected with the dark side of the moon, or with her position midway between heaven and the sublunary world,155 displays its full effect. Sun and moon reveal their antithetical nature, which in the Christian Sol-Luna relationship is so obscured as to be unrecognizable, and the two opposites cancel each other out, their impact resultingin accordance with the laws of energeticsin the birth of a third and new thing, a son who resolves the antagonisms of the parents and is himself a united double nature. the Unknown author of the Consilium156 was not conscious of the close connection of his psychologem with the process of transubstantiation, although the last sentence of the text contains clearly enough the motif of teoqualo, the god-eating of the Aztecs.157 This motif is also found in ancient Egypt. The Pyramid text of Unas (Vth dynasty) says: Unas rising as a soul, like a god who liveth upon his fathers and feedeth upon his mothers.158 It should be noted how alchemy put in the place of the Christian sponsus and sponsa an image of totality that on the one hand was material, and on the other was spiritual and corresponded to the Paraclete. In addition, there was a certain trend in the direction of an Ecclesia spiritualis. The alchemical equivalent of the God-Man and the Son of God was Mercurius, who as an hermaphrodite contained in himself both the feminine element, Sapientia and matter, and the masculine, the Holy Ghost and the devil. There are relations in alchemy with the Holy Ghost Movement which flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was chiefly connected with the name of Joachim of Flora (11451202), who expected the imminent coming of the third kingdom, namely that of the Holy Ghost.159
[23] The alchemists also represented the eclipse as the descent of the sun into the (feminine) Mercurial Fountain,160 or as the disappearance of Gabricus in the body of Beya. Again, the sun in the embrace of the new moon is treacherously slain by the snake-bite (conatu viperino) of the mother-beloved, or pierced by the telum passionis, Cupids arrow.161 These ideas explain the strange picture in Reusners Pandora,162 showing Christ being pierced with a lance by a crowned virgin whose body ends in a serpents tail.163 The oldest reference to the mermaid in alchemy is a quotation from Hermes in Olympiodorus: The virginal earth is found in the tail of the virgin.164 On the analogy of the wounded Christ, Adam is shown in the Codex Ashburnham pierced in the side by an arrow.165
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
work out, because the Unknown quantity he has introduced does
not tally with reality. X has overlooked the fact that his idea of
1.03 - The Tale of the Alchemist Who Sold His Soul, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
"I will sell it to you!" the Unknown visitor must have replied.
"What do you want in return?"
1.03 - The Uncreated, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
But such metaphysical distinctions cannot lead us very far on the road to the Unknown. They are a vain dream of discovery, the illusion of the dreamer recumbent on his bed while he thinks himself erect and on the march. They delude our ignorance and persuade it that it is about to lay its hand on the Reality, when in truth they have only placed one veil the more between it and us, a veil woven by words that are powerful to deceive.
For what is it that is concealed behind these terms, Absolute, Infinite, Eternal, to which our thought has recourse in order to solve the riddle of the beginning of things?
1.04 - ALCHEMY AND MANICHAEISM, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[31] At the beginning of the last section I mentioned the term orphan for the lapis. Here the motif of the Unknown or absent father seems to be of special importance. Mani is the best-known example of the son of the widow. His original name was said to be
(Cubricus); later he changed it to Manes, a Babylonian word meaning vessel.201 As a four-year-old boy he was sold as a slave to a rich widow. She came to love him, and later adopted him and made him her heir. Together with her wealth he inherited the serpents poison of his doctrine the four books of Scythianos, the original master of his adoptive father Terebinthos, named Budda.202 Of this Scythianos there is a legendary biography which equates him with Simon Magus;203 like him, he is said to have come to Jerusalem at the time of the apostles. He propounded a dualistic doctrine which, according to Epiphanius,204 was concerned with pairs of opposites: white and black, yellow and green, moist and dry, heaven and earth, night and day, soul and body, good and evil, right and wrong. From these books Mani concocted his pernicious heresy which poisoned the nations. Cubricus is very like the alchemical Kybrius,205 Gabricus,206 Kibrich,207 Kybrich, Kibric,208 Kybrig, Kebrick,209 Alkibric,210 Kibrit,211 Kibrith,212 Gabricius, Gabrius,213 Thabritius, Thabritis,214 and so on.215 The Arabic word kibrit means sulphur.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
understand that the possibility of death is part of the Unknown. This contamination of anomaly with the
possibility of death has dramatically heightened the emotional power and motivational significance of the
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something that inevitably retains its mysterious essence, its connection with the Unknown, and its potential
for the inspiration of hope and fear. The actual or transcendent object, in and of itself insofar as such
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of the Unknown itself. The resultant hiearchy of motivation can be most accurately characterized as a
personality as the mythic ancestral figure that everyone imitates, consciously (with full participation of
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designed to meet affective requirements, in the social community and in the presence of the Unknown.
A moral philosophy, which is a pattern for behavior and interpretation, is therefore dependent for its
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stop it from falling in dangerous excess). In a story of this type, the creative aspect of the Unknown (nature)
is locked away, metaphorically, by the totalitarian opinion of the current culture. Such a state of affairs
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pattern of behaving in the face of the Unknown, and the paradigm cannot be shifted (its basic axioms cannot
be modified), without dramatic consequences without dissolution, metaphoric death prior to (potential)
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Every society every culture provides protection from the Unknown. the Unknown itself is a
dangerous thing, full of unpredictability and threat. Chaotic social relationships (destructured dominance
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of approach, within a domain where still defined by the familiar goal. Sometimes, however, the Unknown
emerges in a manner that demands a qualitative adjustment in adaptive strategy: the revaluation of past,
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who faced the Unknown and prevailed, who were able to do or think something that no one had been able to
do or think before. In this manner, heroic individuals create new assumptions and formulate new values.
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individual and the Unknown. The group, in its beneficial guise, serves to protect the individuals who
compose it from threat and the Unknown. The social establishment of how to behave, when presented with
a given situation, inhibits the paralyzing fear that situation would otherwise instinctively induce.
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pattern its procedural knowledge is set; its way of being in the Unknown cannot easily be altered in its
fundament. The assumptions and values by which an individual human being lives can, by contrast, be
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everything falls, and the Unknown once again rules. Western morality, western behavior, is for example
predicated on the assumption that every individual is sacred. This belief was already extant in its nascent
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when encounter with the Unknown is unintentional,415 or avoided beyond its time of inevitable occurrence
intrapsychic or social catastrophe, suicide or war, becomes certain.
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significance. The existence of this distinct experience served as a gateway to the Unknown, so to speak or,
as a floodgate, a portal, through which the unexpected could pour, with inevitably destructive and
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breakdown re-exposes him to the Unknown previously covered, so to speak, by his culture. His
comportment during the period of incubation preceding his emergence as shaman is generally marked by
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nearest manifestation of the Unknown, outside explored and familiar territory prime locale for metaphoric
application as source of the hole, in which transformation takes place). The hole was full of water, whose
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the Unknown; as the conduit, so to speak, through which the Unknown speaks to man; as the agent through
which the information which compels adaptive change flows. It is important to note that the shamans
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from the Unknown. The hero, by contrast, author and editor of history, masters the known, exceeds its
bounds, and then subjects it to restructuring exposing chaos once more to view in the process or pushes
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presents the savior as serpent, in keeping with his contamination by the Unknown.431
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contamination with the Unknown particularly if those left behind are unconscious of the threat that
motivated his original journey. His contamination is nothing to be taken lightly, besides. If the exploratory
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exists on the border between the known and the Unknown. Repression of personal experience which is
failure to update action and representation in the face of an anomalous occurrence means damming up the
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eventual destruction. The future brings with it the Unknown; inflexibility and unwillingness to change
therefore bring the certainty of extinction. Adaptive behavior is created and/or transformed by those driven
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mental illness (failure of culture, failure of heroism) is return to domination by the Unknown in
mythological terms, expressed as involuntary incest (destructive union) with the Terrible Mother.
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transcendence re-exposes him to the brute force of the Unknown (and to the anger of the social group), but
enables creative action. The heros ability to risk standing alone neither rejecting his culture because he is
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The appearance of anomaly can be less or more upsetting. Small manifestations of the Unknown disrupt
relatively small tracts of explored territory. Larger manifestations may disrupt all things previously
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Upsetting manifestations of the Unknown may occur as a consequence of outside forces, geological,
meteorological even cosmological. Similarly, social transformations may upset the stable and familiar.
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dependent temporal and spatial sensory extension. The blackness of the night brings with it the reemergence of the Unknown, and the eternal human sense of subjugation to those terrors still
incomprehensibly embedded in experience:
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for his final battle. He enters a vast forest (the spiritual home of the Unknown), placed himself at the foot of
a pipal tree, and resolves to remain immobile in that place until he attains awakening.
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realms. The lower kingdom is the domain of the Unknown, subterranean, oceanic, hellish land of reptilian
power, blind force, and eternal darkness. The ancient Scandinavians believed, for example in keeping
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created objects to the conditions of their origin. (The magical water is the positive aspect of the Unknown,
with its procreative and rejuvenating power). The dyad of tree and serpent comprises an exceedingly
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The Edenic serpent is, above all, the Unknown (power) still lurking inside the nervous system, inside the
world-tree is the innate capacity of the mind, its ability to generate revelatory thought, its capacity to
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speak. To explicitly forbid something virtually insures that it will attract attention, at least (as the Unknown
inevitably compels approach, as well as fear). The serpent/dragon chaos/forbidden object connection can
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unknown brings wakefulness to the sleeping. Threat more generally, the appearance of the Unknown
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kin, in a process that extended over centuries. We can see the Unknown in everything, as a consequence of
our elaborate cognitive systems: worse (better) we can see mortal danger in everything unknown. This
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forever insufficient, forever lacking in security; drove us to regard the Unknown place of death, in
addition, as simultaneous eternal source of new redemptive information. This contamination rendered every
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
sphere, or life horizon. Beyond them is darkness, the Unknown,
and danger; just as beyond the parental watch is danger to the
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The regions of the Unknown (desert, jungle, deep sea, alien
land, etc.) are free fields for the projection of unconscious con
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a passage beyond the veil of the known into the Unknown; the
powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The whole card adequately symbolizes the Great Work, that process by which a man comes to know the Unknown
Crown, and attains to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, perfect self-integration and con- sciousness.
1.04 - The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When you are a real adept at all these well-known calculations "prepare to enter the Immeasurable Region" and dig out the Unknown.
You must construct your own Qabalah!
1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
writings dating from about a.d. 150. the Unknown author un-
derstands good and evil as the right and left hand of God, and
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
I saw there humble and contrite souls depressed by the weight of their burden. Their voices and outcries to God would have moved the very stones to compassion. For, casting their gaze to the earth they would say: We know, we know that in all justice we deserve every punishment and torment. For how could we make satisfaction for the multitude of our debts even if we were to summon the whole world to weep for us? But this is our only petition, this our prayer, this our supplication, that He may not rebuke us in anger, nor chasten us in His wrath.1 Punish, but spare! It is sufficient for us if Thou deliverest us from Thy great threat, from the Unknown and hidden torments. For we dare not ask for complete forgivenesshow could we? For we have not kept our vow but have defiled it, even Thy past loving kindness and forgiveness.
And there, friends, the fulfilment of the words of David could be clearly seen, men enduring hardship and bowed down to the end of their life, going about with a sad countenance all day long, the wounds in their body stinking of rottenness,2 and they took no notice of them, and they forgot to eat their bread, and they mingled their drink of water with weeping; they ate dust and ashes with their bread, and their bones cleaved to their flesh, and were withered like grass.3 You could hear from them nothing but the words: Woe, woe! Alas, alas! It is just, it is just! Spare us, spare us O Lord. Some were saying: Have mercy, have mercy, and others still more plaintively: Forgive, O Lord; forgive if it is possible.
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Let no one who laments expect assurance at his departure. For the Unknown is not sure. Spare me, through assurance, that I may revive before I depart hence unassured (of salvation.)4 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, the bond is loosed. Where there is profound humility, the bond is loosed. But let those who are without these two assurances make no mistake they are bound.
Those living in the world, and they only, are strangers to these two assurances, and especially the first. But through almsgiving, some so run the race that they know at their departure what their gain has been.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
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CHAPTER 5: THE HOSTILE BROTHERS: ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO the Unknown
The contamination of anomaly with the threat of death, attendant on the development of selfconsciousness, amplifies the valence of the Unknown to a virtually unbearable point. This unbearable
amplification has motivated the development of two transpersonal patterns of behavior and schemas of
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these hostile brothers, or eternal sons of God, is the mythological hero. He faces the Unknown with
the presumption of its benevolence with the (unprovable) attitude that confrontation with the Unknown
will bring renewal and redemption. He enter, voluntarily, into creative union with the Great Mother,
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group as creator and agent of renewal. The heros voluntary contact with the Unknown transforms it into
something benevolent into the eternal source, in fact, of strength and ability. Development of such
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manner in which it is generated. Culture, the Great Father, protects us from the terrors of the Unknown;
defines around us a sacred space into which nothing unbearably foreign is allowed. Culture is generated by
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This hero is the individual who voluntarily faces the dragon of the Unknown, cuts it up, and creates the
world from its pieces; the individual who overcomes the too-long senescent tyrant, and frees the virgin
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the absolute adversary of the hero is the personality who shrinks from contact with the Unknown, or who
denies that it exists, instead of actively approaching and exploring; is the personality whose advice
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of the Unknown, and willful failure to understand, transcend, and transform the social world. Evil is, in
addition and in consequence hatred of the virtuous and courageous, precisely on account of their virtue
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category, containing diverse material just like ideas about the known or the Unknown form such a
category. To complicate things further, evil like good is not something static (although it may align
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everything means, however at least in practice is that the Unknown no longer exists, and that further
exploration has therefore been rendered superfluous has been rendered unnecessary, by definition (even
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and ignorant nature) that allows for recognition of the Unknown, and then for update of knowledge and
adaptation in behavior. Such humility is, somewhat paradoxically, courageous as admission of error and
possibility for error constitutes the necessary precondition for confrontation with the Unknown. This makes
genuine cowardice the underground motivation for the totalitarian presumption: the true authoritarian
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of creation and transformation: characterized eternally by the capacity to admit to the Unknown and,
therefore, to progress towards the kingdom of heaven. The eternal adversary, by contrast, is incarnation
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Tragic encounter with the forces of the Unknown is inevitable, in the course of normal development, given
continued expansion of conscious awareness. Even socialized identification with the cultural canon cannot
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using it means voluntarily exposing ourselves to the Unknown. We run away because we are afraid of the
unknown, at bottom; such fear also makes us cling to our protective social identities, which shield us from
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and deny the troublesome best within our selves. Why run away? It is fear fear of the Unknown, and its
twin, fear of rejection by the protective social world, which leads to pathological subjugation of unique
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anomaly emergence and analysis. the Unknown has to be mined for precise significance, before it can be
said to have been experienced, let alone comprehended; has to be transformed, laboriously, from pure
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the past, motivated by fear of the Unknown, transforms the past perforce into tyranny, which does not
tolerate inevitable individual or deviant experience. This process of absolute ancestral deification is the
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pretence that the Unknown does not exist. This suppression has as its consequence the elimination of
creative transformation from the individual and social spheres. The individual who denies his individual
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exhaust the Unknown and necessary capabilities of the human being. The rigid grinning social mask is the
individuals pretence that he is the same person as everyone else (that is, the same dead person) that he
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necessary knowledge is predicated on the belief that the Unknown has finally been conquered. This belief
is equivalent to denial of vulnerability, equivalent to the adoption of omniscience what I do is all there is
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known, is known within a particular historically-determined framework, predicated upon mythologicallyexpressed assumptions. Denial or avoidance of the Unknown therefore concomitantly necessitates
deification of a particular, previously established viewpoint. The way that things are, under such
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exposes the anxiety-provoking unknown once again to view. This exposure of the Unknown can be
regarded as beneficial, under those circumstances where positive adaptation to the Unknown is viewed as
possible, but only as destructive, where lack of faith in the heroic rules. All that lives, however, grows.
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problem of adaptation to the Unknown by joining a group. A group, by definition, is composed of those
who have adopted a central structure of value, and who therefore behave, in the presence of other group
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The fascist who will not face the reality and necessity of the Unknown hides his vulnerable face in a
pathological excess of order. The decadent who refuses to see that existence is not possible without
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The fascistic mode of adaptation is, above all, a method for the direct control of the Unknown and
unpredictable. Modern human beings, like the ancients, identify the stranger implicitly with the dragon of
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uncertainty for evasion of the Unknown. It performs this function by insuring that each member of the
group acts, imagines and thinks precisely like every other member (generally, precisely like the leader a
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solution (likely the wrong one) to every problem. The suppression of deviance, of the Unknown, therefore
merely ensures its irrepressible emergence in negative guise, at some undetermined point in the future (as
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overcame Nazi patriotism, motivated by mortal terror of the Unknown. Underneath the fascists professed
patriotism and cowardly love of order is an even more profound phenomenon: hatred for the tragic
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adaptation and certain future re-emergence of the Unknown, in negative guise. If you do not change, in
the face of constant slow transformation, then the discrepancies and unresolved errors pile up, and
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the present. Anomaly is, therefore, spiritual food in the most literal sense: the Unknown is the raw
material out of which the personality is manufactured, in the course of exploratory activity. The act of
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future. The man who comes to adopt an inappropriate attitude towards the Unknown severs his connection
with the source of all knowledge, undermining his personality, perhaps irreparably. This dissolution of
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personality capable of facing chaos voluntarily, then the Unknown which can never be permanently
banished will no longer be associated with fear, and safety, paradoxically, will be permanently
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exposure to the Unknown although it may be catalyzed by sufficiently unique or traumatic experience.
Failure to initiate and/or successfully complete the process of secondary maturation heightens risk for
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with the Unknown makes worship a matter of true identification. This means that the true believer
rises above dogmatic adherence to realize the soul of the hero to incarnate that soul in every aspect
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latent in unexplored places); something more like the Unknown as such (something like the matrix
of being). Investigation of this instrinsically compelling matter this unknown produced a series of
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acceptance of consequent psychological chaos, attendant upon (re)exposure to the Unknown. This is
nonetheless the creative path, leading to new discovery or reconfiguration, comprising the living element of
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separated, however, by their relative position with regards to the Unknown: the genius is the fortunate hero
who faces the unexpected consequences of his insufficiently adaptive behavior voluntarily, on ground that
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It is capacity to voluntarily face the Unknown, and to reconfigure accordingly the propositions that
guided past adaptation, that constitutes the eternal spirit of man, the world-creating Word. The existence
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imagistically, and then more purely semantically. Over time, the Unknown, nature, thereby comes to be
represented mythically as the affectively bivalent Great Mother, simultaneously creative and destructive.
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personality, adapted to the Unknown. The knower, man, becomes the hostile mythic brothers, sons of
convention, hero and antihero, Christ and Satan eternal generator and destroyer of history and tradition.
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maintain that culture to the terrible forces of the Unknown to mortal anxiety and dread, to fear of the void,
to terror of insanity, physical destruction, and annihilation.
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reverts to the Unknown. This does not mean that the Terrible Mother herself sleeps under human
consciousness; it means rather that the reasons for her existence thousands of years ago are still
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redeemed by the Unknown. To live, at this mythic level rather than to hide means the possibility of
reaching and perhaps exceeding the highest stage of consciousness yet attained or conceptualized, by a
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individual a stalwart guardian of tradition and an intrepid explorer of the Unknown; insures simultaneous
advancement and maintenance of stable, dynamic social existence; and places the individual firmly on the
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fear itself the Unknown, the uroboros while the dwarves were individual things to be afraid of
particular manifestations of the general unknown.
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5.3.2.2. The Material World as Archaic Locus of the Unknown
...all these myth pictures represent a drama of the human psyche on the further side of consciousness,
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in the Unknown, attending to things that matter; from that information, we build ourselves (our behaviors
and schemas of representation) and the world, as experienced. As Piaget states:
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unknown. This is hardly surprising, since matter was the Unknown to the pre-scientific mind (and is
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still something that retains much of its mystery today). As the Unknown, matter possessed an attraction,
which was the affective valence of what had not yet been explored. This property of the Unknown to
attract comprised ground for its personification as spirit as that which motivates or directs. Matter
even in its modern form can easily revert to the Unknown, even under modern conditions; can then
exercise a similar force (that of a stimulus) on the modern psyche. It does so when it manifests
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its subjection to more creative exploration. The anomalous manifestation the recurrence of the Unknown
comes inevitably to attract increasing interest (or, conversely, attempts to avoid, suppress, or otherwise
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production and goal elicit (re)appearance of the base matter of the world the Unknown, manifest in
negative affect, and curiosity.
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inviolable. This made the gold state the goal of the Mercurial spirit of the Unknown, embedded in
matter. Eliade states:
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extract from the Unknown new and useful tools). The alchemists assumed, implicitly, that further
exploration might bring redemptive knowledge. This search was driven by their admission of the
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[The alchemists]... believed that they were studying the Unknown phenomenon of matter... and they
just observed what came up and interpreted that, somehow, but without any specific plan. There would
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matriarchal underworld of matter (that is, with the Unknown) seemed very threatening to the Church
authorities and for very good reason (at least from the perspectives of conservation and tradition).
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The alchemists began their work, their opus, by determining to face the Unknown, locked away in the
material world, in the pursuit of an ideal. Their ideal was symbolized by the lapis philosophorum, which
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lay outside the Church, in the Unknown. Exploration of the Unknown and forbidden meant generation of
redemptive knowledge (then, as it does now). Incorporation of such knowledge meant movement towards
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Once the alchemist had decided to look into the Unknown for salvation, rather than to the Chuch (or at
least in addition to the Church), he placed himself outside the protective confines of his previous system of
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The prima materia (alternatively: the round chaos or the alchemical uroboros) is the Unknown as matter
and, simultaneously, as effect upon imagination and behavior (inseparable pre-experimentally): is God as
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the eternal source from which spirit and knowledge and matter and world arise. It is the Unknown that
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simultaneously generates new phenomena, when explored; the Unknown that serves as the source of the
information that comes to constitute the determinate experiencing subject. The alchemists therefore
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individuals face their limitations and come into contact with the Unknown. And it must be understood:
although the alchemists conflated the psyche and objective reality, their conflation was meaningful.
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the prima materia was analogically equivalent to the degeneration of the alchemists previous sociallydetermined intrapsychic state, consequential to his decision to pursue the Unknown:
The chemical putrefaction is compared to the study of the philosophers, because as the philosophers are
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of the modern, threatened by revolutionary ideas). The alchemical search of the Unknown, for the ideal, had
as its prerequisite or its immediate consequence abandonment or disorganization of the reigning individual
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of course, if the conditions which originally elicited them re-emerge. Encounter with the Unknown
constitutes one such condition.
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of new knowledge, as the Unknown. This makes the matriarchal realm mother/wisdom, matrix of the
revelation that renews. Such revelation necessarily threatens the stability of previous knowledge, however,
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absolute. Since the Unknown always transcends the limits of the known, no final statement about the nature
of existence is possible. Attempts to limit knowledge to what is presently known must therefore necessarily
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consequent to decision to pursue the Unknown is accompanied by emergence of various constitutive
psychological factors in fantasy, embodied, personified, as opposing forces, lacking mediating principle.
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abandoned in the pursuit of the Unknown. Jung states:
This [initial] battle is the separatio, divisio, putrefactio, mortificatio, and solutio, which all represent
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against the Unknown, and context for knowledge, but promotes tyranny. The final cost of this identification
is the lie denial of deviance and the Unknown. When such identification is abandoned voluntarily or
rendered impossible by circumstantial change, the affects held in check by the integrity of the previous
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much of what was previously understood reverts to the Unknown. This might be regarded as the reversal of
the historical process that made of all gods one supreme god or, speaking more psychologically, as the war
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however, implicitly adopted a heroic role, when he voluntarily determined to pursue the Unknown, in
search of the ideal. His unconscious identification with this eternal image, his active incarnation of the
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character, in consequence of confrontation with the Unknown. A journey to the place that is most feared,
however, can be undertaken psychologically much as concretely. What such a journey means, however, is a
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The mythological hero faces the Unknown, voluntarily, cuts it up, and makes the world out of its pieces;
identifies and overcomes evil, and rescues the ancestral father, languishing in the underworld; unites,
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for the Unknown] symbolize the unconscious state of an invisible content that is projected. Inasmuch as
such a content belongs to the total personality, and is only apparently severed from its context by
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symbolizes the completion of the spirits descent into matter or the unconscious or the Unknown (where it
then lies implicit or unrevealed, and calls for rescue, offering riches to its redeemer). Jung continues
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it would not be so bad. In actual fact, however, the psychic substratum, that dark realm of the Unknown,
exercises a fascinating attraction that threatens to become the more overpowering the further he
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pursuit of the Unknown and terrifying predicated upon faith in the ideal may engender a individual
transformation so overwhelming that its equivalent can only be found in the most profound of religious
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It was in pursuit of the Unknown that the alchemist experienced this psychological transformation, just
as it was originally in contact with the Unknown that the (monotheistic) patriarchal system developed, in the
furthest reaches of history. It is the symbolic expression of the action of instinct, which manifests itself in
some variant of the hero myth, whenever the Unknown is pursued, without avoidance, in the attempt to
improve life. The alchemist experienced what the individual always experiences, when he determines to
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unconscious by investigating the Unknown, seriously and to the point of self-sacrifice. He could not but
see the likeness of his projected contents to the dogmatic images [which were in fact likely utilized by
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Interest is a spirit beckoning from the Unknown a spirit calling from outside the walls of society.
Pursuit of individual interest means hearkening to this spirits call means journeying outside the
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This is the message that everyone wants to hear. Risk your security. Face the Unknown. Quit lying to
yourself, and do what your heart truly tells you to do. You will be better for it, and so will the world.
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literally, from the terrible forces of the Unknown. It is for this reason that every individual who is not
decadent will strive to protect his territory, actual and psychological. But the tendency to protect means
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fantasy allow each of us to deal with the Unknown, which must be met before it is comprehended. Fantasy
applied to consideration of the Unknown is therefore not delusory. It is, instead, the first stage in the process
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When pre-experimental man conceived of the Unknown as an ambivalent mother, he was not indulging
in childish fantasy. He was applying what he knew to what was unfamiliar, but could not be ignored. Mans
first attempts to describe the Unknown cannot be faulted because they lacked empirical validity. Man was
not originally an empirical thinker. This does not mean he was self-deluded, a liar. Likewise, when the
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willing to face the Unknown, as an individual; that he is prepared to adopt the pattern of heroic endeavour
in his own life, and to further creation in that manner.
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of subjective interest. Interest accompanies the honest pursuit of the Unknown, in a direction and at a rate
subjectively determined. the Unknown, in its beneficial guise, is the ground of interest, the source of what
matters. Culture, in its supportive role, extends the power with which the Unknown can be met, by
disciplining the individual and expanding his range of ability. In childhood, the parent serves as cultural
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of interest moves the individual to the border between the known and the Unknown and thereby expands
adaptive competence. In this manner, God acts through the individual, in the modern world, and extends
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and chaos. The pursuit of meaning exposes the individual to the Unknown in gradual fashion, allowing him
to develop strength and adaptive ability in proportion to the seriousness of his pursuit. It is during contact
with the Unknown that human power grows, individually and then historically. Meaning is the subjective
experience associated with that contact, in sufficient proportion. The great religious myths state that
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Meaning is the most profound manifestation of instinct. Man is a creature attracted by the Unknown; a
creature adapted for its conquest. The subjective sense of meaning is the instinct governing rate of contact
with the Unknown. Too much exposure turns change to chaos; too little promotes stagnation and
degeneration. The appropriate balance produces a powerful individual, confident in the ability to withstand
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the face of history itself, and moves each generation of man farther into the Unknown.
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These myths express the fact that the Unknown tends to manifest itself first in terrifying form.
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matrix). Furthermore, as we have discussed, the Unknown can also be regarded as derived from the known (as
things defined in opposition to the known). For the purposes of the present manuscript, however, the precise
1.06 - Man in the Universe, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
4:The Unknowable knowing itself as Sachchidananda is the one supreme affirmation of Vedanta; it contains all the others or on it they depend. This is the one veritable experience that remains when all appearances have been accounted for negatively by the elimination of their shapes and coverings or positively by the reduction of their names and forms to the constant truth that they contain. For fulfilment of life or for transcendence of life, and whether purity, calm and freedom in the spirit be our aim or puissance, joy and perfection, Sachchidananda is the Unknown, omnipresent, indispensable term for which the human consciousness, whether in knowledge and sentiment or in sensation and action, is eternally seeking.
5:The universe and the individual are the two essential appearances into which the Unknowable descends and through which it has to be approached; for other intermediate collectivities are born only of their interaction. This descent of the supreme Reality is in its nature a self-concealing; and in the descent there are successive levels, in the concealing successive veils. Necessarily, the revelation takes the form of an ascent; and necessarily also the ascent and the revelation are both progressive. For each successive level in the descent of the Divine is to man a stage in an ascension; each veil that hides the Unknown God becomes for the God-lover and God-seeker an instrument of His unveiling. Out of the rhythmic slumber of material Nature unconscious of the Soul and the Idea that maintain the ordered activities of her energy even in her dumb and mighty material trance, the world struggles into the more quick, varied and disordered rhythm of Life labouring on the verges of self-consciousness. Out of Life it struggles upward into Mind in which the unit becomes awake to itself and its world, and in that awakening the universe gains the leverage it required for its supreme work, it gains self-conscious individuality. But Mind takes up the work to continue, not to complete it. It is a labourer of acute but limited intelligence who takes the confused materials offered by Life and, having improved, adapted, varied, classified according to its power, hands them over to the supreme Artist of our divine manhood. That Artist dwells in supermind; for supermind is superman. Therefore our world has yet to climb beyond Mind to a higher principle, a higher status, a higher dynamism in which universe and individual become aware of and possess that which they both are and therefore stand explained to each other, in harmony with each other, unified.
6:The disorders of life and mind cease by discerning the secret of a more perfect order than the physical. Matter below life and mind contains in itself the balance between a perfect poise of tranquillity and the action of an immeasurable energy, but does not possess that which it contains. Its peace wears the dull mask of an obscure inertia, a sleep of unconsciousness or rather of a drugged and imprisoned consciousness. Driven by a force which is its real self but whose sense it cannot yet seize nor share, it has not the awakened joy of its own harmonious energies.
1.06 - The Desire to be, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
No relative reality can have an absolute beginning. The illusion of the beginning presents itself to the mind when it reaches the limit of the conceivable. It is the fortress which mind erects arbitrarily as a refuge at the very extremity of its own frontiers and represents only its inability to advance farther into the depths of the Unknown.
When we speak, then, of the first possibility, we are only indicating the first stage conceivable to us of the progressive realisation. We resume in the word, without knowing it, all the successive series of diminishing potentialities and of antecedent transcendences in an indefinite continuity.
1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Modern " spiritualism ", for instance, attempted to con- struct a noumenal world on the model of the phenomenal ; but it wanted to prove at all costs that the " other world " is logical from our standpoint ; that the same laws operated there in much the same way they do here, and that the other world " is nothing more or less than a copy and an extension of ours. It is, in short, a crude and barbaric formulation of the Unknown.
Positive Philosophy naturally perceived the absurdity of all these dualistic theses, but having no power to expand or
1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
Whoever does not leave all external aspects of creatures can neither be received into this divine birth nor be born. The more you are able to bring all your powers to a unity and a forgetfulness of all the objects and images you have absorbed, and the more you depart from creatures and their images, the nearer and more receptive you are. If you were able to become completely unaware of all things, attain a forgetfulness of things and of self, the more [there is] the silent darkness where you will come to a recognition of the Unknown, transbegotten God. For this ignorance draws you away from all knowledge about things, and beyond this it draws you away from yourself.49
Like Eckhart, Sri Ramana Maharshi, India's greatest modern sage, begins by merely giving us some verbal pointers and information about the Self and its relation to God (and Godhead). But he will soon, we will see, go beyond mere chatter and point directly to the Unknown and unknowing Source. So here he speaks in "positive" terms, before drawing us into Divine Ignorance.
The Self is known to everyone but not clearly. The Being is the Self. "I am" is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement I AM THAT I AM. The Absolute Being is what is-It is the Self. It is God. Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact, God is none other than the Self.50
1.08 - The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12:For if we examine carefully, we shall find that Intuition is our first teacher. Intuition always stands veiled behind our mental operations. Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the Unknown which are the beginning of his higher knowledge. Reason only comes in afterwards to see what profit it can have of the shining harvest. Intuition gives us that idea of something behind and beyond all that we know and seem to be which pursues man always in contradiction of his lower reason and all his normal experience and impels him to formulate that formless perception in the more positive ideas of God, Immortality, Heaven and the rest by which we strive to express it to the mind. For Intuition is as strong as Nature herself from whose very soul it has sprung and cares nothing for the contradictions of reason or the denials of experience. It knows what is because it is, because itself it is of that and has come from that, and will not yield it to the judgment of what merely becomes and appears. What the Intuition tells us of, is not so much Existence as the Existent, for it proceeds from that one point of light in us which gives it its advantage, that sometimes opened door in our own self-awareness. Ancient Vedanta seized this message of the Intuition and formulated it in the three great declarations of the Upanishads, "I am He", "Thou art That, O Swetaketu", "All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman".
13:But Intuition by the very nature of its action in man, working as it does from behind the veil, active principally in his more unenlightened, less articulate parts, served in front of the veil, in the narrow light which is our waking conscience, only by instruments that are unable fully to assimilate its messages, - Intuition is unable to give us the truth in that ordered and articulated form which our nature demands. Before it could effect any such completeness of direct knowledge in us, it would have to organise itself in our surface being and take possession there of the leading part. But in our surface being it is not the Intuition, it is the Reason which is organised and helps us to order our perceptions, thoughts and actions. Therefore the age of intuitive knowledge, represented by the early Vedantic thinking of the Upanishads, had to give place to the age of rational knowledge; inspired Scripture made room for metaphysical philosophy, even as afterwards metaphysical philosophy had to give place to experimental Science. Intuitive thought which is a messenger from the superconscient and therefore our highest faculty, was supplanted by the pure reason which is only a sort of deputy and belongs to the middle heights of our being; pure reason in its turn was supplanted for a time by the mixed action of the reason which lives on our plains and lower elevations and does not in its view exceed the horizon of the experience that the physical mind and senses or such aids as we can invent for them can bring to us. And this process which seems to be a descent, is really a circle of progress. For in each case the lower faculty is compelled to take up as much as it can assimilate of what the higher had already given and to attempt to re-establish it by its own methods. By the attempt it is itself enlarged in its scope and arrives eventually at a more supple and a more ample selfaccommodation to the higher faculties. Without this succession and attempt at separate assimilation we should be obliged to remain under the exclusive domination of a part of our nature while the rest remained either depressed and unduly subjected or separate in its field and therefore poor in its development. With this succession and separate attempt the balance is righted; a more complete harmony of our parts of knowledge is prepared.
1.09 - Sri Aurobindo and the Big Bang, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
lated their lives, the Unknown beyond the horizon which
encircled their lives, the immense cupola of the sky along
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lating backwards, from the known to the Unknown (from
the perceived universe to an inexplicable event 13.7 billion
11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In grandeurs ever new-born from the Unknown depths,
In powers that leaped immortal from unknown heights,
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Or the couch of the Unknown spiritual rest,
A vast quiescence swallowing up all sound
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Translating into a voice the Unknown.
A climber on the invisible stair of sound,
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He cannot look on the face of the Unknown.
How shall he see with the Omniscient's eyes,
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Into endless vistas of the Unknown and unseen,
Across the last confines of the limiting Mind
1.10 - Harmony, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
And the Rhythm, the great Rhythm, was scattered, broken up, pulverized to enter the heart of its world and make itself the size of the millipede or a little leaf quivering in the wind, to make itself understood by a brain, loved by a passerby. We have drawn from it syncopated music, multicolored pictures, joys, sorrows, since we could no longer contain its whole, unbroken flow. We have made it into equations, poems, architecture; we have trapped it in our machines, locked it in an amulet or a thought, since we could no longer bear the pressure of its great direct flow. And we have made dungeons, hells, which were the absence of that rhythm, the lack of a lungful of eternal air, the suffocation of a little man who believes only in his suffering, only in the push buttons of his machine and the walls of his intelligence. We have graphed, multiplied, broken down, atomized to infinity; and we could no longer make out or understand anything, since we had lost the one little breath of the great breath, the one little sign of the great Direction, the little note that loves and understands all. And since we had closed everything around us, locked ourselves in a shell, armor-plated ourselves in our thinking logic, equipped ourselves with irrefutable helmets and antennas, we have declared that that Harmony, that Rhythm, did not exist, that it was far, far above, the paradise of our virtues, the crackling of our little antennas, the dream of a collective unconscious, the product of the evolved earthworm, the meeting of two enamored molecules like the savage of old who used to cut up the Unknown lands, we have cut up space and time, thrown back into another geography the Ganges and El Dorados we have not yet crossed, the pretty fords of that little river. But that Ganges and that El Dorado are here, as well as many other marvels, many other currents of the great Current. All is here, under our feet, if we will only open the little shell and stop putting off until heaven or doomsday what sings in each minute of time and each pebble of space.
This is the Harmony of the new world, the joy of the greater Self. It is here, instantly, if we want. All it takes is removing our blinders. All it takes is a true look, a simple look at the great world. All it takes is a little fire inside to consume all the shells and sufferings and bubbles for the only suffering is to be confined there.
1.10 - Theodicy - Nature Makes No Mistakes, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
as the call of the Unknown, the joy of danger and difficulty
and adventure, the will to attempt the impossible, to work
1.1.1 - Text, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3.: There sight travels not, nor speech, nor the mind. We know It not nor can distinguish how one should teach of It: for It is other than the known; It is there above the Unknown. It is so we have heard from men of old who declared That to our understanding.
4.: That which is unexpressed by the word, that by which the word is expressed, know That to be the Brahman and not this which men follow after here.
1.11 - The Change of Power, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
There is but one Harmony, as there is one Consciousness and one earthly body, which are those of the greater Self, but this Harmony and Consciousness are unveiled a little at a time, as we grow and the scales fall from our eyes, and their effects are different, depending at what level we grasp them. Harmony chants high above, and it is grand and sublime, but it has chanted for millennia and ages without changing much in the world and the hearts of men. And evolution has rolled its cycles, descending, it seems, into an altogether material grossness, density and ignorance, a darkness adorned with all the artifices of the gods to make us believe that we were the masters, while we were really the servants of a machinery, the slaves of a small loose bolt which was enough to blow up the beautiful machine and expose the old untouched savage underneath. Indeed that evolution has descended; it has cast us down from our fragile heights and golden ages, which were perhaps not so golden as it is said, to force us to find here, too, that Light and Harmony and Consciousness, in this low place, which is low only for us. In fact, there is no descent, no fall, no move backward; there is a never-ending precipitation of truth and harmony, which touches deeper and deeper layers to reveal to them the light and joy they always were had we not fallen, the light would never have penetrated our hovel, matter would never have gotten out of its night. Each descent is an opening of light, each fall, a new degree of blossoming. Through our evil the substance is transmuted. And our evil is perhaps quite simply the Unknown territory we wrest from its nonexistence, the way Columbus's sailors wrested the perilous Indies from their night.
But the passage is perilous.
1.11 - The Reason as Governor of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Reason can indeed make itself a mere servant of life; it can limit itself to the work the average normal man demands from it, content to furnish means and justifications for the interests, passions, prejudices of man and clo the them with a misleading garb of rationality or at most supply them with their own secure and enlightened order or with rules of caution and self-restraint sufficient to prevent their more egregious stumbles and most unpleasant consequences. But this is obviously to abdicate its throne or its highest office and to betray the hope with which man set forth on his journey. It may again determine to found itself securely on the facts of life, disinterestedly indeed, that is to say, with a dispassionate critical observation of its principles and processes, but with a prudent resolve not to venture too much forward into the Unknown or elevate itself far beyond the immediate realities of our apparent or phenomenal existence. But here again it abdicates; either it becomes a mere critic and observer or else, so far as it tries to lay down laws, it does so within very narrow limits of immediate potentiality and it renounces mans drift towards higher possibilities, his saving gift of idealism. In this limited use of the reason subjected to the rule of an immediate, an apparent vital and physical practicality man cannot rest long satisfied. For his nature pushes him towards the heights; it demands a constant effort of self-transcendence and the impulsion towards things unachieved and even immediately impossible.
On the other hand, when it attempts a higher action reason separates itself from life. Its very attempt at a disinterested and dispassionate knowledge carries it to an elevation where it loses hold of that other knowledge which our instincts and impulses carry within themselves and which, however imperfect, obscure and limited, is still a hidden action of the universal KnowledgeWill inherent in existence that creates and directs all things according to their nature. True, even Science and Philosophy are never entirely dispassionate and disinterested. They fall into subjection to the tyranny of their own ideas, their partial systems, their hasty generalisations and by the innate drive of man towards practice they seek to impose these upon the life. But even so they enter into a world either of abstract ideas or of ideals or of rigid laws from which the complexity of life escapes. The idealist, the thinker, the philosopher, the poet and artist, even the moralist, all those who live much in ideas, when they come to grapple at close quarters with practical life, seem to find themselves something at a loss and are constantly defeated in their endeavour to govern life by their ideas. They exercise a powerful influence, but it is indirectly, more by throwing their ideas into Life which does with them what the secret Will in it chooses than by a direct and successfully ordered action. Not that the pure empiric, the practical man really succeeds any better by his direct action; for that too is taken by the secret Will in life and turned to quite other ends than the practical man had intended. On the contrary, ideals and idealists are necessary; ideals are the savour and sap of life, idealists the most powerful diviners and assistants of its purposes. But reduce your ideal to a system and it at once begins to fail; apply your general laws and fixed ideas systematically as the doctrinaire would do, and Life very soon breaks through or writhes out of their hold or transforms your system, even while it nominally exists, into something the originator would not recognise and would repudiate perhaps as the very contradiction of the principles which he sought to eternise.
1.11 - The Second Genesis, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
That which leads most philosophies to recoil from the recognition of the egoism of desire as the one sufficient reason for the existence of the worlds, is the progress which the being has made from the point of its origin. The evolution of consciousness has long ago brought into sight the goal of the first impulsion. The being by the progressive elevation of his desire has, so to speak, put far from him his own origin. As it grows and bears fairer flowers and better fruits, the tree of Life has plunged its roots also more deeply towards the Unknown Divine. And because Love has to-day become a possible conscious reason for mans actions and seems as if it were the final cause of the worlds, it is in Love that the religions think to find its first efficient cause. Thus they have provided themselves with reasons which otherwise they would not have had for their adoration of the creative act.
But it is not in the beginning of things, it is before the beginning and outside of it, in the secret being of the Eternal that we can place what appears here only in the end. The birth to Love was for the being and is even to-day not its first but its second birth; its principle was foreign to the first act of creation, foreign at least for our distinctive categories; for in the Absolute all is one and it is by reason of that unity that in the relative the manifestation of any principle conditions that of all the rest and makes them enter into the becoming. Desire by affirming itself egoistically obliges Love to participate in its creations. And in this obligation upon Love to manifest we find the pre-creative justification of the beings coming into existence.
1.11 - Woolly Pomposities of the Pious Teacher, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Observe, I pray, the paramount importance of memory. From one point of view (bless your heart!) you are nothing at all but a bundle of memories. When you say "this is happening now," you are a falsifier of God's sacred truth! When I say "I see a horse", the truth is that "I record in those terms my private hieroglyphic interpretation of the Unknown and unknowable phenomenon (or 'point-event') which has more or less recently taken place at the other end of my system of receiving impressions."
(Is this clear? I do hope so; if not, make me go on at it until it is.)
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is there over the Unknown," possessing it and, as it were,
presiding over it. The known is all that we grasp and possess by
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cognition. the Unknown is that which is beyond the known
and though unknown is not unknowable if we can enlarge our
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as the Unknown; the gods knew not what was this Daemon.
Therefore Agni first arises at their bidding to discover its
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
ously, has nothing to do with the "prime truth," the Unknown
God- at least, nothing that could be verified. Psychologically,
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light, where dwell the Unknown Father and the heavenly Mother."
140 Meerpohl, "Meister Eckharts Lehre vom Seelenfunklein."
1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
limited horizon beyond which lies not merely the Unknown but
the absolutely unknowable. How much has been said even
1.14 - The Supermind as Creator, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
11:The difficulty, in its lower term, disappears if we realise that Mind is only a preparatory form of our consciousness. Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the Unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects. It is only the parts and accidents that the Mind can see definitely and, after its own fashion, know. Of the whole its only definite idea is an assemblage of parts or a totality of properties and accidents. The whole not seen as a part of something else or in its own parts, properties and accidents is to the mind no more than a vague perception; only when it is analysed and put by itself as a separate constituted object, a totality in a larger totality, can Mind say to itself, "This now I know." And really it does not know. It knows only its own analysis of the object and the idea it has formed of it by a synthesis of the separate parts and properties that it has seen. There its characteristic power, its sure function ceases, and if we would have a greater, a profounder and a real knowledge, - a knowledge and not an intense but formless sentiment such as comes sometimes to certain deep but inarticulate parts of our mentality, - Mind has to make room for another consciousness which will fulfil Mind by transcending it or reverse and so rectify its operations after leaping beyond it: the summit of mental knowledge is only a vaulting-board from which that leap can be taken. The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.
12:On the other hand, the unitarian consciousness or indivisible Unity cannot be that impossible entity, a thing without contents out of which all contents have issued and into which they disappear and become annihilated. It must be an original selfconcentration in which all is contained but in another manner than in this temporal and spatial manifestation. That which has thus concentrated itself, is the utterly ineffable and inconceivable Existence which the Nihilist images to his mind as the negative Void of all that we know and are but the Transcendentalist with equal reason may image to his mind as the positive but indistinguishable Reality of all that we know and are. "In the beginning," says the Vedanta, "was the one Existence without a second," but before and after the beginning, now, for ever and beyond Time is that which we cannot describe even as the One, even when we say that nothing but That is. What we can be aware of is, first, its original self-concentration which we endeavour to realise as the indivisible One; secondly, the diffusion and apparent disintegration of all that was concentrated in its unity which is the Mind's conception of the universe; and thirdly, its firm self-extension in the Truth-consciousness which contains and upholds the diffusion and prevents it from being a real disintegration, maintains unity in utmost diversity and stability in utmost mutability, insists on harmony in the appearance of an all-pervading strife and collision, keeps eternal cosmos where Mind would arrive only at a chaos eternally attempting to form itself. This is the Supermind, the Truth-consciousness, the Real-Idea which knows itself and all that it becomes.
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
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1.2.03 - The Interpretation of Scripture, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The spirit who lies concealed behind the material world, has given us, through the inspiration of great seers, the Scriptures as helpers and guides to unapparent truth, lamps of great power that send their rays into the darkness of the Unknown beyond which He dwells, tamasah parastat. They are guides to knowledge, brief indications to enlighten us on our path, not substitutes for thought and experience. They are shabdam Brahma, the Word, the oral expression of God, not the thing to be known itself nor the knowledge of Him. Shabdam has three elements, the word, the meaning and the spirit. The word is a symbol, vak or nama; we have to find the artha, the meaning or form of thought which the symbol indicates. But the meaning itself is only the indication of something deeper which the thought seeks to convey to the intellectual conception. For not only words, but ideas also are eventually no more than symbols of a knowledge which is beyond ideas and words. Therefore it comes that no idea by itself is wholly true. There is indeed a rupa, some concrete or abstract form of knowledge, answering to every name, and it is that which the meaning must present to the intellect. We say a form of knowledge, because according to our philosophy, all things are forms of an essentially unknowable existence which reveals them as forms of knowledge to the essential awareness in its Self, its Atman or Spirit, the Chit in the Sat. But beyond nama and rupa is swarupa, the essential figure of Truth, which we cannot know with the intellect, but only with a higher faculty.
And every swarupa is itself only a symbol of the one essential existence which can only be known by its symbols because in its ultimate reality it defies logic and exceeds perception, - God.
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Veda or what Sayana thinks of the Veda. I should prefer to know what the Veda has to say for itself and, if there is any light there on the Unknown or on the infinite, to follow the ray till I come face to face with that which it illumines.
There are those who follow neither Sayana and Shankara nor the Europeans, but interpret Veda and Vedanta for themselves, yet permit themselves to be the slaves of another kind of irrelevancy. They come to the Veda with a preconceived and established opinion and seek in it a support for some trifling polemic; they degrade it to the position of a backer in an intellectual prizefight. Opinions are not knowledge, they are only sidelights on knowledge. Most often they are illegitimate extensions of an imperfect knowledge. A man has perhaps travelled to England and seen Cumberl and and the lakes; he comes back and imagines England ever after as a country full of verdant mountains, faery woodlands, peaceful and enchanted waters.
1.20 - The Hound of Heaven, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Light and Darkness, Sarama who leads in the search for the radiant herds and discovers both the path and the secret hold in the mountain must be a forerunner of the dawn of Truth in the human mind. And if we ask ourselves what power among the truth-finding faculties it is that thus discovers out of the darkness of the Unknown in our being the truth that is hidden in it, we at once think of the intuition. For Sarama is not Saraswati, she is not the inspiration, even though the names are similar. Saraswati gives the full flood of the knowledge; she is or awakens the great stream, maho arn.ah., and illumines with plenitude all the thoughts, dhiyo visva vi rajati. Saraswati possesses and is the flood of the Truth; Sarama is the traveller and seeker on its path who does not herself possess but rather finds that which is lost.
Neither is she the plenary word of the revelation, the Teacher of man like the goddess Ila; for even when what she seeks is found, she does not take possession but only gives the message to the seers and their divine helpers who have still to fight for the possession of the light that has been discovered.
1.22 - The Problem of Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
9:The second difficulty is that man is separated in his mind, his life, his body from the universal and therefore, even as he does not know himself, is equally and even more incapable of knowing his fellow-creatures. He forms by inferences, theories, observations and a certain imperfect capacity of sympathy a rough mental construction about them; but this is not knowledge. Knowledge can only come by conscious identity, for that is the only true knowledge, - existence aware of itself. We know what we are so far as we are consciously aware of ourself, the rest is hidden; so also we can come really to know that with which we become one in our consciousness, but only so far as we can become one with it. If the means of knowledge are indirect and imperfect, the knowledge attained will also be indirect and imperfect. It will enable us to work out with a certain precarious clumsiness but still perfectly enough from our mental standpoint certain limited practical aims, necessities, conveniences, a certain imperfect and insecure harmony of our relations with that which we know; but only by a conscious unity with it can we arrive at a perfect relation. Therefore we must arrive at a conscious unity with our fellow-beings and not merely at the sympathy created by love or the understanding created by mental knowledge, which will always be the knowledge of their superficial existence and therefore imperfect in itself and subject to denial and frustration by the uprush of the Unknown and unmastered from the subconscient or the subliminal in them and us. But this conscious oneness can only be established by entering into that in which we are one with them, the universal; and the fullness of the universal exists consciently only in that which is superconscient to us, in the Supermind: for here in our normal being the greater part of it is subconscient and therefore in this normal poise of mind, life and body it cannot be possessed. The lower conscious nature is bound down to ego in all its activities, chained triply to the stake of differentiated individuality. The Supermind alone commands unity in diversity.
10:The third difficulty is the division between force and consciousness in the evolutionary existence. There is, first, the division which has been created by the evolution itself in its three successive formations of Matter, Life and Mind, each with its own law of working. The Life is at war with the body; it attempts to force it to satisfy life's desires, impulses, satisfactions and demands from its limited capacity what could only be possible to an immortal and divine body; and the body, enslaved and tyrannised over, suffers and is in constant dumb revolt against the demands made upon it by the Life. The Mind is at war with both: sometimes it helps the Life against the Body, sometimes restrains the vital urge and seeks to protect the corporeal frame from life's desires, passions and over-driving energies; it also seeks to possess the Life and turn its energy to the mind's own ends, to the utmost joys of the mind's own activity, to the satisfaction of mental, aesthetic, emotional aims and their fulfilment in human existence; and the Life too finds itself enslaved and misused and is in frequent insurrection against the ignorant, half-wise tyrant seated above it. This is the war of our members which the mind cannot satisfactorily resolve because it has to deal with a problem insoluble to it, the aspiration of an immortal being in a mortal life and body. It can only arrive at a long succession of compromises or end in an abandonment of the problem either by submission with the materialist to the mortality of our apparent being or with the ascetic and the religionist by the rejection and condemnation of the earthly life and withdrawal to happier and easier fields of existence. But the true solution lies in finding the principle beyond Mind of which Immortality is the law and in conquering by it the mortality of our existence.
1.25 - On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
every day we add more and more to the Unknown burden of our dissipation. We suspect the very abundance of the divine gifts showered upon us to be beyond our deserts and to aggravate our punishment. So our mind remains unrifled, reposing securely in the casket of modesty, only hearing the knocks and jeers of the thieves, without being subject to any of their threats; because modesty is an inviolable safe.
5. Thus we have ventured in a few words to philosophize about the blossoming and growth of this ever-flourishing fruit. But what is the perfect reward of this holy virtue? You who are near the Lord must ask the Lord Himself. It is impossible to gauge the quantity of this holy wealth; and to explain its quality is still more impossible. However, as regards its distinguishing characteristics, we must try to express the thought that comes to our mind.
1.28 - Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:And still we can recognise at once in the Overmind the original cosmic Maya, not a Maya of Ignorance but a Maya of Knowledge, yet a Power which has made the Ignorance possible, even inevitable. For if each principle loosed into action must follow its independent line and carry out its complete consequences, the principle of separation must also be allowed its complete course and arrive at its absolute consequence; this is the inevitable descent, facilis descensus, which Consciousness, once it admits the separative principle, follows till it enters by obscuring infinitesimal fragmentation, tucchyena,5 into the material Inconscience, - the Inconscient Ocean of the Rig Veda, - and if the One is born from that by its own greatness, it is still at first concealed by a fragmentary separative existence and consciousness which is ours and in which we have to piece things together to arrive at a whole. In that slow and difficult emergence a certain semblance of truth is given to the dictum of Heraclitus that War is the father of all things; for each idea, force, separate consciousness, living being by the very necessity of its ignorance enters into collision with others and tries to live and grow and fulfil itself by independent self-assertion, not by harmony with the rest of existence. Yet there is still the Unknown underlying Oneness which compels us to strive slowly towards some form of harmony, of interdependence, of concording of discords, of a difficult unity. But it is only by the evolution in us of the concealed superconscient powers of cosmic Truth and of the Reality in which they are one that the harmony and unity we strive for can be dynamically realised in the very fibre of our being and all its self-expression and not merely in imperfect attempts, incomplete constructions, ever-changing approximations. The higher ranges of spiritual Mind have to open upon our being and consciousness and also that which is beyond even spiritual Mind must appear in us if we are to fulfil the divine possibility of our birth into cosmic existence.
14:Overmind in its descent reaches a line which divides the cosmic Truth from the cosmic Ignorance; it is the line at which it becomes possible for Consciousness-Force, emphasising the separateness of each independent movement created by Overmind and hiding or darkening their unity, to divide Mind by an exclusive concentration from the overmental source. There has already been a similar separation of Overmind from its supramental source, but with a transparency in the veil which allows a conscious transmission and maintains a certain luminous kinship; but here the veil is opaque and the transmission of the Overmind motives to the Mind is occult and obscure. Mind separated acts as if it were an independent principle, and each mental being, each basic mental idea, power, force stands similarly on its separate self; if it communicates or combines with or contacts others, it is not with the catholic universality of the Overmind movement, on a basis of underlying oneness, but as independent units joining to form a separate constructed whole. It is by this movement that we pass from the cosmic Truth into the cosmic Ignorance. The cosmic Mind on this level, no doubt, comprehends its own unity, but it is not aware of its own source and foundation in the Spirit or can only comprehend it by the intelligence, not in any enduring experience; it acts in itself as if by its own right and works out what it receives as material without direct communication with the source from which it receives it. Its units also act in ignorance of each other and of the cosmic whole except for the knowledge that they can get by contact and communication, - the basic sense of identity and the mutual penetration and understanding that comes from it are no longer there. All the actions of this Mind Energy proceed on the opposite basis of the Ignorance and its divisions and, although they are the results of a certain conscious knowledge, it is a partial knowledge, not a true and integral self-knowledge, nor a true and integral world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience.
1.38 - Woman - Her Magical Formula, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
But to come down from the contemplation of Abstract Reality (which, being static and "infinite," is ultimately immeasurable) to these Ideas in their interaction (and thus directly observable), it is easy enough to understand the Magical Formula of their interaction. Of course, whatever I say can be no more than a rough approximation, even a suggestion rather than a statement; but I cannot help the nature of the case. Nuit is the centripetal energy, infinitely elastic because it must fit over the hard thrust directed against it; Hadit, the centrifugal, ever seeking to penetrate the Unknown. Nuit is not to dissimilar from the Teh described in Lao-Tze.
Nor would it be proper to ignore the Book of Lies (p. 12)[70]:
14.08 - A Parable of Sea-Gulls, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thus, the battle was won, marvellously, peacefully. The older race, specially the younger generation, could remark and appreciate the gait and the manner of flight in these newcomers. They now found out that the old mode of life was not interesting enough, there was no special joy in flying to procure only food-stuff, in merely catching fishes and gobbling them up: doing that eternally, repeating over and over again the same dull routine. Instead, there was the joy in flying simply (or the sake of flying, in flying far, far into the distant horizon, far into the infinite spaces overhead into the unfamiliar and the Unknown. Thus slowly the old community began to change its mode of life adding a new meaning to their movementsa new limb and direction to their body and existence.
This healthy influence became more effective since they witnessed a strange and curious event happening in their presence.
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The upshot was that the old community gradually changed its habits slowly but inevitably, they took to adventure and far-flights, over the Unknown waves into the infinite blue. Many became experts and given to this new life they formed gradually a community by themselves and found for themselves another habitat nearby. Those old experts, Shobhanaka's group, the masters, were with them as teachers and guides. And thus new guides and new teachers arose and community after community leading this new life, a life in which the old and unclean habits were eliminated and there was a life of exquisite beauty and harmony among all.
Here ends my story. It is the story, rather a vision and aspiration in a beautiful symbol of a pilot, 1 a real pilot who was flying real aeroplanes. When he flew with his hard mechanical rigid mechanical wings into other regions free from earth's gravitational control, he imagined or aspired to fly with other wings, golden wings, into other regions, golden regions of another kind of consciousness, supra-human consciousness.
1.44 - Demeter and Persephone, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
socket, looked forward into the darkness of the Unknown. Therefore
we do no indignity to the myth of Demeter and Persephone--one of the
1.56 - The Public Expulsion of Evils, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
personality and reduces it to the Unknown cause of an orderly series
of impressions on our senses, we find it hard to put ourselves in
1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
him to the Unknown world beyond the grave.
The use of the divinity as a scapegoat clears up the ambiguity
1.72 - Education, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Now in this training of the Child is one most dear Consideration, that I shall impress upon thee as is Conformity with out holy Experience in the way of Truth. And it is this, that since that which can be thought is not true, every Statement is in some sense false. Even on the Sea of Pure Reason, we may say that every Statement is in some Sense disputable. Therefore in every Case, even the simplest, the Child should be taught not only the Thesis, but also its opposite, leaving the Decision to the child's own Judgment and good Sense, fortified by Experience. And this Practice will develop its Power of Thought, and its Confidence in itself, and its Interest in all Knowledge. But most of all beware against any Attempt to bias its Mind on any Point that lieth without the Square of ascertained and undisputed Fact. Remember also, even when thou art most sure, that so were they sure who gave Instruction to the young Copernicus. Pay Reverence also to the Unknown unto whom thou presumest to impart thy knowledge; for he may be one greater than thou.
DE VOLUTATE JUVENIS COGNOSCENDA[143]
1.78 - Sore Spots, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I wonder how many lunatics there are in the "bughouse" to-day in the times of "evangelical revival" the number was fantastic who got there through fear that they had somehow committed the aforesaid "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." the Unknown again. The Bibledoes not tell us that it is; only that it is unpardonable. Nor Grace, nor Faith, nor predestination avail in the least; for all you know, you may have committed it. Reassurance is impossible; no ceinture de chastete avails to avert this danger.
Again with drugs, it is the Unknown which is the horrific factor. Most people get their information on the subject from the yellowest of yellow newspapers, magazines and novels. So darkly deep is their ignorance that that do not know what the word means like us so often, yes?
Wide sections of the U.S.A. are scared of tea and coffee. They blench when you point out that bicarbonate of soda is a drug just as much as cocaine; at the same time they literally shovel in the really dangerous Aspirin, to say nothing of the thousand Patent Medicines blared at them from every radio as if the Press were not enough to poison the whole population! Blank-eyed, they gasp when they learn that of all classes, the first place among "drug addicts" is that of the doctor.
18.04 - Modern Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
leave your familiar city for the Unknown meadow,
There where a lone simool and the sky
18.05 - Ashram Poets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
the Unknown Creeper
Behold! From where comes this unknown Creeper
1914 01 09p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lord, incomprehensible reality, Thou who ever fleest before our conquest, effective though it may be, Thou who shalt always be the Unknown despite all that we shall learn to know of Thee, despite all that we shall ravish from Thy eternal mystery, we would go forward, making a complete and constant effort, combining all the multiple paths leading to Thee, go forward like a rising, indomitable tide, breaking down all obstacles, crossing every barrier, lifting up every veil, scattering all clouds, piercing through all darkness, go forward towards Thee, ever to Thee, in a movement so powerful, so irresistible that a whole multitude may be drawn in our wake, and the earth, conscious of Thy new and eternal Presence, understand at last its true purpose, and live in the harmony and peace of Thy sovereign realisation.
Teach us always more,
1914 01 11p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the Unknown is before us, every moment the universe is created anew in its entirety and in every one of its parts. And if we had a truly living faith, if we had the absolute certitude of Thy omnipotence and Thy sole reality, Thy manifestation could at each moment become so evident that the whole universe would be transformed by it. But we are so enslaved to everything that is around us and has gone before us, we are so influenced by the whole totality of manifested things, and our faith is so weak that we are yet unable to serve as intermediaries for the great miracle of transfiguration. But, Lord, I know that it will come one day. I know that a day will come when Thou wilt transform all those who come to us; Thou wilt transform them so radically that, liberated completely from the bonds of the past, they will begin to live in Thee an entirely new life, a life made solely of Thee, with Thee as its sovereign Lord. And in this way all anxieties will be transformed into serenity, all anguish into peace, all doubts into certainties, all ugliness into harmony, all egoism into self-giving, all darkness into light and all suffering into immutable happiness.
But art Thou not already performing this beautiful miracle? I see it flowering everywhere around us!
1914 09 01p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Mother Divine, with what fervour, what ardent love I came to Thee in Thy deepest consciousness, in Thy high status of sublime love and perfect felicity, and I nestled so close into Thy arms and loved Thee with so intense a love that I became altogether Thyself. Then in the silence of our mute ecstasy a voice from yet profounder depths arose and the voice said, Turn towards those who have need of thy love. All the grades of consciousness appeared, all the successive worlds. Some were splendid and luminous, well ordered and clear; there knowledge was resplendent, expression was harmonious and vast, will was potent and invincible. Then the worlds darkened in a multiplicity more and more chaotic, the Energy became violent and the material world obscure and sorrowful. And when in our infinite love we perceived in its entirety the hideous suffering of the world of misery and ignorance, when we saw our children locked in a sombre struggle, flung upon each other by energies that had deviated from their true aim, we willed ardently that the light of Divine Love should be made manifest, a transfiguring force at the centre of these distracted elements. Then, that the will might be yet more powerful and effective, we turned towards Thee, O unthinkable Supreme, and we implored Thy aid. And from the unsounded depths of the Unknown a reply came sublime and formidable and we knew that the earth was saved.
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1914 09 06p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Mother Divine, Thy march is triumphal and uninterrupted. He who unites with Thee in integral love journeys unceasingly towards ever vaster horizons, towards an ever completer realisation, leaping from peak to peak in the splendour of Thy light, to the conquest of the marvellous secrets of the Unknown and their integral manifestation.
O divine Victor, all the earth sings Thy praises, and all forces will obey Thee.
1914 09 30p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.]1
1914 10 14p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother Divine, Thou art with us; every day Thou givest me the assurance and, closely united in an identity that grows more and more total, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the Universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. All the earth is in our arms like a sick child who must be cured and for whom one has a special affection because of his very weakness. Cradled on the immensity of the eternal becomings, ourselves those becomings, we contemplate hushed and glad the eternity of the immobile Silence where all is realised in the perfect Consciousness and immutable Existence, miraculous gate of all the Unknown that is beyond.
Then is the veil torn, the inexpressible Glory uncovered and, suffused with the ineffable Splendour, we turn back towards the world to bring it the glad tidings.
1915 04 19p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The entire earthly life of this being, from its very beginning to the present moment, gives it the impression of an unreal dream, very remote from it, having almost no further contact with it; all this outer mechanism is now only a machine which it moves, for such is the will of its central Reality, but it is no longer interested in it, perhaps sometimes even less than the neighbouring mechanism or even the Unknown mechanism that will be the product of the earth of tomorrow. But this earth itself is strange to it, and as it is not aware of anything else except the Eternal Silence, all life that has form appears remote and almost unreal to it; it seems strange to it that anyone could desire anything since it does not exist, or prefer one thing to another since neither is there. But at the same time it does not see why it should object to any action whatever it may be, since all actions are equally unreal, and it does not feel the necessity to flee from a world which does not exist and cannot be a burden, since its existence is so inexistent.
All this gives the feeling of a sort of void full of light, peace, immensity, eluding all form and all definition. It is the Nought, but a Nought which is real and can last eternally, for it is, even while having the perfect immensity of that which is not. Poor words which try to say what silence itself cannot express.
1917 03 30p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Thou who dwellest in my heart and directest all by Thy supreme Will, Thou hast told me a year ago to burn all my bridges and cast myself headlong into the Unknown, as did Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon: it meant the Capitol for him or the Tarpeian Rock.
Thou didst hide then from my eyes the result of the action. Now still Thou keepest it secret; and yet Thou knowest that my equanimity remains the same before greatness as before misery.
1929-06-02 - Divine love and its manifestation - Part of the vital being in Divine love, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love! And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead matter, till Divine love descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of life, but it has taken in its search every kind of wrong turn and mistaken way, it has wandered hither and thither in the dark. The mass of this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the Unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. The maximum it has reached is what seems to human beings love in its highest form, its purest and most disinterested kind, like the love of the mother for the child. This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is. The moment mans consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the Souls aspiration, that brings the awakening of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms that are of the ignorance, all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete.
Great beings have taken birth in this world who came to bring down here something of the sovereign purity and power of Divine love. The Divine love has thrown itself into a personal form in them that its realisation upon earth may be at once more easy and more perfect. Divine love, when manifested in a personal being, is easier to realise; it is more difficult when it is unmanifested or impersonal in its movement. A human being, awakened by this personal touch, with this personal intensity, to the consciousness of the Divine love, will find his work and change made more easy; the union for which he seeks becomes more natural and close. And the union, the realisation will become for him, too, more full, more perfect; for the wide uniformity of a universal and impersonal Love will be lit up and vivified with the colour and beauty of all possible relations with the Divine.
1954-08-18 - Mahalakshmi - Maheshwari - Mahasaraswati - Determinism and freedom - Suffering and knowledge - Aspects of the Mother, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. It is at work in this world and, working in this world, for the necessity of the work, it works for a certain end, you see, to bring the darkened consciousness back to its normal state of divine consciousness. And each time in its work it meets with a new obstacle, a new thing to conquer or transform, it calls to a new Force. (Mother opens her hand.) And this new Force is like a new creation. And so, as everything has its correspondence, it may be said in the same way that each being has in its different domainsa human beingit has in its different domain a destiny which is, so to speak, absolute. But it has also the capacity, through aspiration, to enter into contact with a higher domain and introduce the action of this higher domain in these more material determinisms. And there it is still the same thing; these two things combined: a determinism which we could call horizontal (to make it understandable) in each domain, which is absolute, and the intervention of other domain or a much higher domain, in that determinism, which changes it completely. So, everyone at the same time is a set of determinisms which seem quite absolute, and has a total freedom to bring in the intervention of states of being or states of consciousness or forces of a higher domain; and calling these forces and bringing them into the external determinisms alters everything completely.And it is only thus that things can give the impression of the unexpected, the Unknown and of freedom.
Mother is this what we call Grace?
1955-10-05 - Science and Ignorance - Knowledge, science and the Buddha - Knowing by identification - Discipline in science and in Buddhism - Progress in the mental field and beyond it, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had the intention of leaving out the last speeches and going straight to the answer of the Unknown Man. But I shall tell you, because it didnt raise it seemed to me that it didnt give rise to enough questions to justify all the time we would spend in reading it but it happens that, for this one, The Scientist, someone who, by the way, is not here, has urgently asked two questions which seem interesting to me. So I shall read The Scientist today, and next week we shall directly take up the Unknown Man.
(After Mother has read The Scientist, Pavitra gets ready to read the questions.)
1955-10-12 - The problem of transformation - Evolution, man and superman - Awakening need of a higher good - Sri Aurobindo and earths history - Setting foot on the new path - The true reality of the universe - the new race - ..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother reads The Great Secret: the Unknown Man.
When is it going to happen, eh? There. Thats the question I was waiting for.
1955-11-16 - The significance of numbers - Numbers, astrology, true knowledge - Divines Love flowers for Kali puja - Desire, aspiration and progress - Determining ones approach to the Divine - Liberation is obtained through austerities - ..., #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now you may tell me that this taste for the new or the Unknown can come to you from a former life; this is probable. But it depends on what dominates in your being: whether it is the result of former psychic lives and psychic resolutions or whether it is the immediate consequence of your present constitution.
But sometimes these present structures are contradictory to what was
1957-07-10 - A new world is born - Overmind creation dissolved, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One must put aside all that has been foreseen, all that has been devised, all that has been constructed, and then set off walking into the Unknown. Andcome what may! There.
A Bengali film, Rani Rasmani, which describes the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Rani Rasmani, a rich, very intelligent and religious Bengali widow, who in 1847 built the temple of Kali at Dakshineshwar (Bengal) where Sri Ramakrishna lived and worshipped Kali.
1957-07-24 - The involved supermind - The new world and the old - Will for progress indispensable, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the Unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a realityperhaps of a not too distant futurea reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise.
People sleep, they forget, they take life easythey forget, forget all the time. But if we could remember that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.
1957-07-31 - Awakening aspiration in the body, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In former times, when yoga was a flight from life, it was a common practice for people, apart from a few predestined ones, not to think about yoga until they were old, when they had experienced much, known all the vicissitudes of life, its pleasures, its sorrows, its joys and miseries, its responsibilities, disillusionments, indeed all that life usually brings to human beings; and naturally, all this had disabused them a little of their illusions about the joys of existence, so they were ready to think of something else, and their body, if not full of youthful enthusiasm (!), was at least not a hindrance, for as it had been satiated, it no longer asked for much. To start from this end is all very well when one wants to leave life behind with a spiritual attitude and does not expect any collaboration from it in the transformation. This is obviously the easiest method. But it is also obvious that if one wants this material existence to participate in the divine life, to be the field of action and realisation, it is preferable not to wait until with wear and tear the body becomes sufficiently quiet so as not to obstruct the yoga. It is much better, on the contrary, to take it quite young when it is full of all its energies and can put enough ardour and intensity into its aspiration. In this case, instead of relying on a weariness which no longer demands anything, one should rely on a kind of inner enthusiasm for the Unknown, the new for perfection. And if you have the good fortune to be in conditions where you can receive help and guidance from childhood, try while still very young to discern between the fugitive joys and superficial pleasures life can give and the marvellous thing that life, action, growth would be in a world of perfection and truth, where all the ordinary limitations, all the ordinary incapacities would be done away with.
When one is very young and as I say well-born, that is, born with a conscious psychic being within, there is always, in the dreams of the child, a kind of aspiration, which for its childs consciousness is a sort of ambition, for something which would be beauty without ugliness, justice without injustice, goodness without limits, and a conscious, constant success, a perpetual miracle. One dreams of miracles when one is young, one wants all wickedness to disappear, everything to be always luminous, beautiful, happy, one likes stories which end happily. This is what one should rely on. When the body feels its miseries, its limitations, one must establish this dream in itof a strength which would have no limit, a beauty which would have no ugliness, and of marvellous capacities: one dreams of being able to rise into the air, of being wherever it is necessary to be, of setting things right when they go wrong, of healing the sick; indeed, one has all sorts of dreams when one is very young. Usually parents or teachers pass their time throwing cold water on it, telling you, Oh! its a dream, it is not a reality. They should do the very opposite! Children should be taught, Yes, this is what you must try to realise and not only is it possible but it is certain if you come in contact with the part in you which is capable of doing this thing. This is what should guide your life, organise it, make you develop in the direction of the true reality which the ordinary world calls illusion.
1958-02-19 - Experience of the supramental boat - The Censors - Absurdity of artificial means, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I invited you to a journey into the Unknown, a journey of adventure, I did not know I was so close to the truth, and I can promise those who are ready to attempt the adventure that they will make very interesting discoveries.
***
1958-07-09 - Faith and personal effort, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Religion has opened itself to denial by its claim to determine the truth by divine authority, by inspiration, by a sacrosanct and infallible sovereignty given to it from on high; it has sought to impose itself on human thought, feeling, conduct without discussion or question. This is an excessive and premature claim, although imposed in a way on the religious idea by the imperative and absolute character of the inspirations and illuminations which are its warrant and justification and by the necessity of faith as an occult light and power from the soul amidst the minds ignorance, doubts, weakness, incertitudes. Faith is indispensable to man, for without it he could not proceed forward in his journey through the Unknown; but it ought not to be imposed, it should come as a free perception or an imperative direction from the inner spirit. A claim to unquestioned acceptance could only be warranted if the spiritual effort had already achieved mans progression to the highest Truth-Consciousness total and integral, free from all ignorant mental and vital mixture. This is the ultimate object before us, but it has not yet been accomplished, and the premature claim has obscured the true work of the religious instinct in man, which is to lead him towards the Divine Reality, to formulate all that he has yet achieved in that direction and to give to each human being a mould of spiritual discipline, a way of seeking, touching, nearing the Divine Truth, a way which is proper to the potentialities of his nature.
The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 863-64
1958-07-16 - Is religion a necessity?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We can say that without some expression of this aspiration for the Unknown and the highest, human existence would be very difficult. If there were not at the heart of every being the hope of something betterof whatever kindhe would have difficulty in finding the energy needed to go on living.
(Silence)
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Lakes sub-expedition into the Unknown, as everyone will recall, sent
out its own reports from the short-wave transmitters on the planes;
--
across the Unknown region between Lake and McMurdo Sound was what we
really ought to establish.
--
journeys end was not far off. the Unknown mountains ahead rose
dizzyingly up like a fearsome rampart of giants, their curious
--
explain that the wind may have blown them off into the Unknown. The
drill and ice-melting machinery at the boring were too badly damaged to
--
alliances in the Unknown epochs since matter first writhed and swam on
the planets scarce-cooled crust.
--
others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the Unknown. Lakes
reports of those biological monstrosities had aroused naturalists and
--
scientific zeal and adventurousness to wonder about the Unknown realm
beyond those mysterious mountains. As our guarded messages stated, we
--
the monstrous mountains and a descent into the Unknown primal masonry
But we could not convince each other, or even ourselves, of anything
--
plains in the polar nightbeyond doubt the Unknown archetype of that
dreaded Kadath in the Cold Waste beyond abhorrent Leng, whereof unholy
1f.lovecraft - Ex Oblivione, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no
new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
have come from the knob of the door which the Unknown murderer had
forced shut behind him as he left. He had taken his weapon with him, it
--
that I heard the slow, thumping tread approaching from the Unknown rear
rooms of the accursed mansion. The nights rain had warped the oaken
1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Reynolds especially alert toward any aeonian relic like the Unknown
mummy.
1f.lovecraft - The Alchemist, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
moment on the watch for the coming of the Unknown death. In what
strange form the curse should overtake me, I knew not; but I was
1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
hellish outlines of the nameless monstrosity, puzzled over the Unknown
hieroglyphics, and heard the ominous syllables which can be rendered
--
the Unknown island on which six of the Emmas crew had died, and about
which the mate Johansen was so secretive? What had the vice-admiraltys
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
guard duty; its twenty men dividing equally and entering the Unknown
depths through both farmhouse and stone building. Capt. Whipples
--
this malign wonder from the Curwen farm, after which the Unknown stench
grew complex with an added odour equally intolerable. A wailing
--
the spell of the past and the Unknown, or through the hellish example
of that dull, godless wail from the pits whose inhuman cadences rose
--
Willett and Mr. Ward were mute and baffled. They had met the Unknown,
and found that they lacked emotions to respond to it as they vaguely
1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
say when faced by the Unknown.
Hot as it was, they tested it in a crucible with all the proper
--
strange vegetable conditions, the Unknown disease of livestock and
humans, and the unaccountable deaths of Merwin and Zenas in the tainted
--
others, where the Unknown colour had melted into the Milky Way. But his
gaze was the next moment called swiftly to earth by the crackling in
1f.lovecraft - The Crawling Chaos, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
fear of the Unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse
it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menacenot death,
1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
not lost my lifelong zeal for the Unknown; and am determined to probe
the cosmos as deeply as possible before doom comes.
--
coercive of any Dweller in the cosmos or in the Unknown darkened
spaces? I will no longer hesitate.
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
intently for any sound in the Unknown depths of bones about him. Even
in this fearsome place he had a plan and an objective, for whispers of
--
of its prey. For through the Unknown ultimate cycle had lived a thought
and a vision of a dreamers boyhood, and now there were re-made a
1f.lovecraft - The Dreams in the Witch House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and after the meal he felt the Unknown pull still more strongly.
He would have to consult a nerve specialist after all-perhaps there was
--
very confused, but the scene with the black man in the Unknown space
stood out vividly. The rats must have bitten him as he slept, giving
--
furry thing began tittering a continuation of the Unknown ritual, while
the witch croaked loathsome responses. Gilman felt a gnawing, poignant
1f.lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and argue, rather than descend and beard the Unknown Cyclopean horror
in its lair. Three dogs that were with the party had barked furiously
1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
brought me close to the edge of the Unknowns black abyss.
In 1889 I was an auditor and investigator connected with the Tlaxcala
1f.lovecraft - The Haunter of the Dark, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
his first trip into the Unknown. Plodding through the endless downtown
streets and the bleak, decayed squares beyond, he came finally upon the
1f.lovecraft - The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
expectancy regarding the Unknown mysteries he faced. He had not
neglected such preparations as a sensible man might make, and a wizard
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
like the music of the spheres and the Unknown, inaccessible life of
alien dimensions pressing on our own. Rogers often speculated about
1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and half-fabulous plagues; for he knew that it is out of the Unknown
lands of cryptic and immemorial Asia that most of the earths diseases
--
must now arrive quickly if her brother was to be saved from the Unknown
gulfs of madness and mystery. Summoning up all her reserve energy, she
--
world from the Unknown horrors he had loosed upon it. He knew, and he
did what was best.
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
weapon-case bore hieroglyphs very similar to those on the Unknown
talisman I wore. All the creatures costume and trappings bespoke
--
He had come to the Unknown world at last, and from his manuscript it is
clear that he viewed the formless landscape as proudly and exaltedly as
--
conquered half the Unknown world, that Pnfilo de Zamacona y Nuez
actually mounted one of the morbid beasts of Tsath and fell into place
--
turn like desperate rats against the Unknown lands above them, sweeping
all before them by virtue of their singular and still-remembered
--
of Old Spain; of the blood that faced the Unknown and carved out half
the civilisation of the New World.
1f.lovecraft - The Music of Erich Zann, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
stop, and shouted in his ear that we must both flee from the Unknown
things of the night. But he neither answered me nor abated the frenzy
1f.lovecraft - The Nameless City, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
above my head could not light the Unknown depths toward which I was
crawling. I lost track of the hours and forgot to consult my watch,
--
the Unknown which has made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of
far, ancient, and forbidden places.
--
broodings over the Unknown.
More and more madly poured the shrieking, moaning night-wind into that
--
toward the Unknown world. Finally reason must have wholly snapped, for
I fell to babbling over and over that unexplainable couplet of the mad
1f.lovecraft - The Rats in the Walls, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
My fear of the Unknown was at this point very great. Something
astounding had occurred, and I saw that Capt. Norrys, a younger,
--
adventure and brave whatever horrors might await us in the Unknown
depths. By morning we had compromised, and decided to go to London to
--
god, straight into the illimitable gulf of the Unknown. But I was not
far behind, for there was no doubt after another second. It was the
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
1911 aroused much attention through a camel trip into the Unknown
deserts of Arabia. What happened on those journeys I have never been
--
meaningless scraps of the Unknown tongues which my dream-self had
mastered, though whole phrases of the history stayed with me.
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
merging with the Unknown arcana of upper air and cryptical sky. The
smell of the sea took on ominous implications, and the silent drivers
--
the Unknown sea-deeps instead of fearing them. I hear and do strange
things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror.
1f.lovecraft - The Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
race confronting the Unknown. It wearied Carter to see how solemnly
people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step
--
thought of the Unknown solitudes of other planets as his eyes traced
out the velvet and deserted lawns shining undulant between their
1f.lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown. I will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and
indistinct, that this witness of yours may have seen us together as he
--
died away almost as quickly. I was alone, yet bound to the Unknown
depths by those magic strands whose insulated surface lay green beneath
1f.lovecraft - The Trap, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
physical reversalfor every detail of his coloring in the Unknown
dimension was the exact reverse or complement of the corresponding
1f.lovecraft - The Tree on the Hill, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
science is thrusting back the borderland of the Unknown and proving
that the mystics were not so far off the track
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown things, Akeley wrote in a script grown pitifully tremulous,
had begun to close in on him with a wholly new degree of determination.
--
disturbed as we bumped and veered onward into the Unknown wilderness of
hills and woods. At times it seemed as if he were pumping me to see
1f.lovecraft - The White Ship, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the full moon. In my mind I would often picture the Unknown Land of
Cathuria with its splendid groves and palaces, and would wonder what
1f.lovecraft - Through the Gates of the Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown and formless cosmic abyss beyond the Ultimate Gate. And
elsewhere, in a chaos of scenes whose infinite multiplicity and
--
gulfs through which he would have to pass, of the Unknown quintuple
star in an unsuspected galaxy around which the alien world revolved,
1.fs - Hymn To Joy, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Where the Unknown has his dwelling.
From the breasts of kindly Nature
1.fs - Ode To Joy - With Translation, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Where the Unknown is enthroned.
All beings drink joy
--
Where the Unknown reigns.
Joy all creatures drink
1.fs - The Artists, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Man at the Unknown's sight must tremble,
Yet its refulgence needs must love;
1.jk - Otho The Great - Act V, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
In all the Unknown chambers of the dead,
Such horrors
1.jr - look at love, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Nader Khalili Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish look at love how it tangles with the one fallen in love look at spirit how it fuses with earth giving it new life why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad pay attention to how things blend why talk about all the known and the Unknown see how the Unknown merges into the known why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last look at your heart and tongue one feels but deaf and dumb the other speaks in words and signs look at water and fire earth and wind enemies and friends all at once the wolf and the lamb the lion and the deer far away yet together look at the unity of this spring and winter manifested in the equinox you too must mingle my friends since the earth and the sky are mingled just for you and me be like sugarcane sweet yet silent don't get mixed up with bitter words my beloved grows right out of my own heart how much more union can there be [2079.jpg] -- from Rumi: Fountain of Fire, Translated by Nader Khalili <
1.lb - Green Mountain, #Li Bai - Poems, #Li Bai, #Poetry
As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the Unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men.
1.lovecraft - Ex Oblivione, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Some of the dream-sages wrote gorgeously of the wonders beyond the irrepassable gate, but others told of horror and disappointment. I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the Unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. So when I learned of the drug which would unlock the gate and drive me through, I resolved to take it when next I awaked.
Last night I swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when I came this time to the antique wall, I saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. From beyond came a glow that weirdly lit the giant twisted trees and the tops of the buried temples, and I drifted on songfully, expectant of the glories of the land from whence I should never return.
1.mah - You Went Away but Remained in Me, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Mahmood Jamal Original Language Arabic You went away but remained in me And thus became my peace and happiness. In separation, separation left me And I witnessed the Unknown. You were the hidden secret of my longing, Hidden deep within my conscience deeper than a dream. You were my true friend in the day And in darkness my companion. [2469.jpg] -- from Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal <
1.pbs - Hellas - A Lyrical Drama, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
A power from the Unknown God,
A Promethean conqueror, came;
--
Serve not the Unknown God in vain,
But pay that broken shrine again,
1.pbs - Ode To Naples, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
From the Unknown graves
Of the dead Kings of Melody.
1.pbs - Queen Mab - Part VI., #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
that the word God was originally only an expression denoting the Unknown
cause of the known events which men perceived in the universe. By the vulgar
1.poe - Eureka - A Prose Poem, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
"Yes, Kepler was essentially a theorist; but this title, now of so much sanctity, was, in those ancient days, a designation of supreme contempt. It is only now that men begin to appreciate that divine old man -to sympathize with the prophetical and poetical rhapsody of his ever-memorable words. For my part," continues the Unknown correspondent, "I glow with a sacred fire when I even think of them, and feel that I shall never grow weary of their repetition: in concluding this letter, let me have the real pleasure of transcribing them once again: -'I care not whether my work be read now or by posterity. I can afford to wait a century for readers when God himself has waited six thousand years for an observer. I triumph. I have stolen the golden secret of the Egyptians. I will indulge my sacred fury.'"
Here end my quotations from this very unaccountable and, perhaps, somewhat impertinent epistle; and perhaps it would be folly to comment, in any respect, upon the chimerical, not to say revolutionary, fancies of the writer -whoever he is -fancies so radically at war with the well-considered and well-settled opinions of this age. Let us proceed, then, to our legitimate thesis, The Universe.
1.poe - The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
with the majesty of all thingsof the Unknown now
knownof the speculative Future merged in the august
1.rt - Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation), #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I have sought the Unknown
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
1.rt - And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I have sought the Unknown
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
challenges him to dare the Unknown.
Love punishes when it forgives,
--
across the Unknown.
The lotus offers its beauty to the heaven,
1.rt - Gitanjali, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I know not if I shall come back home. I know not whom I shall chance to meet. There at the fording in the little boat the Unknown man plays upon his lute.
75.
--
Death, thy servant, is at my door. He has crossed the Unknown sea and brought thy call to my home.
The night is dark and my heart is fearful - yet I will take up the lamp, open my gates and bow to him my welcome. It is thy messenger who stands at my door.
1.rt - Lovers Gifts LIV - In The Beginning Of Time, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
as the sea of silence, -brings them to the temple of the Unknown,
at the holy confluence of Life and Death.
1.rt - My Song, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
transport your heart to the verge of the Unknown.
It will be like the faithful star overhead when dark night is
1.rt - The Gardener XXII - When She Passed By Me, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
From the Unknown island of a
heart came a sudden warm breath of
1.rwe - The Sphinx, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Known fruit of the Unknown;
Daedalian plan;
1.sjc - I Entered the Unknown, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
object:1.sjc - I Entered the Unknown
author class:Saint John of the Cross
--
English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Spanish I entered the Unknown, and there I remained unknowing, all knowledge transcended. Where I entered I knew not, but seeing myself there, not knowing where, great things then made themselves known. What I sensed I cannot say, for I remained unknowing, all knowledge transcended. In this peace and purity was perfect knowledge. In profoundest solitude I understood with absolute clarity something so secret that I was left stammering, all knowledge transcended. So deep was I within, so absorbed, transported, that all senses fled, and outer awareness fell away. My spirit received the gift of unknowing knowing, all knowledge transcended. He who reaches this realm loses himself, for all he once knew now is beneath his notice, and his mind so expands that he remains unknowing, all knowledge transcended. And the higher he rises the less he knows: That is the dark cloud that shines in the night. The one who knows this always remains unknowing, all knowledge transcended. This knowing by unknowing is of such exalted power, that the disputations of the learned fail to grasp it, for their knowledge does not reach to knowing by unknowing, all knowledge transcended. Of such supreme perfection is this knowledge that no faculty or method of mind can comprehend it; but he who conquers himself with this unknowing knowing, will always transcend. And if you are ready to receive it, this sum of all knowledge is discovered in the deepest ecstasy of the Divine Essence. Goodness and grace grant us this unknowing, all knowledge transcended. [2720.jpg] -- from This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World, Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.tm - In Silence, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Original Language English Be still. Listen to the stones of the wall. Be silent, they try to speak your name. Listen to the living walls. Who are you? Who are you? Whose silence are you? Who (be quiet) are you (as these stones are quiet). Do not think of what you are still less of what you may one day be. Rather be what you are (but who?) be the unthinkable one you do not know. O be still, while you are still alive, and all things live around you speaking (I do not hear) to your own being, speaking by the Unknown that is in you and in themselves. I will try, like them to be my own silence: and this is difficult. The whole world is secretly on fire. The stones burn, even the stones they burn me. How can a man be still or listen to all things burning? How can he dare to sit with them when all their silence is on fire? [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Strange Islands: Poems by Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton <
1.wby - Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
object:1.wby - Gratitude To the Unknown Instructors
author class:William Butler Yeats
1.whitman - As Toilsome I Wanderd, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Comes before me the Unknown soldier's gravecomes the inscription
rude in Virginia's woods,
1.whitman - Darest Thou Now O Soul, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Walk out with me toward the Unknown region,
Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
1.whitman - Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown want, the destiny of me.
O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere,)
1.whitman - Pioneers! O Pioneers!, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing, as we go, the Unknown ways,
Pioneers! O pioneers!
1.whitman - Portals, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
WHAT are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
And what are those of life, but for Death?
1.whitman - Salut Au Monde, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the Unknown
events, heroes, records of the earth.
1.whitman - Sea-Shore Memories, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the Unknown want, the destiny of me.
O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere
1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
The clock indicates the moment but what does eternity indicate?
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XLIV, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
The clock indicates the momentbut what does eternity indicate?
1.ww - 44 - It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up, #Song of Myself, #unset, #Zen
Original Language English It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up. What is known I strip away, I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown. The clock indicates the moment -- but what does eternity indicate? We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. Births have brought us richness and variety, And other births will bring us richness and variety. I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any. Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister? I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me, All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation, (What have I to do with lamentation?) I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly traveled, and still I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon. Long was I hugged close -- long and long. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. [2333.jpg] -- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman <
1.ww - A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Nought but that word assigned to the Unknown,
That solitary word--to separate
20.05 - Act III: The Return, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
HE-SHEMariner on the Unknown gulf-streams
of time and space;
2.02 - Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All this our reason cannot grasp because it is the instrument of an ignorance with a very limited vision and a small stock of accumulated and not always very certain or reliable knowledge and because too it has no means of direct awareness; for this is the difference between intuition and intellect, that intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the Unknown from signs and indications and gathered data. But what is not evident to our reason and senses, is self-evident to the Infinite Consciousness, and, if there is a Will of the Infinite, it must be a Will that acts in this full knowledge and is the perfect spontaneous result of a total self-evidence. It is neither a hampered evolutionary Force bound by what it has evolved nor an imaginative Will acting in the void upon a free caprice; it is the truth of the Infinite affirming itself in the determinations of the finite.
It is evident that such a Consciousness and Will need not act in harmony with the conclusions of our limited reason or according to a procedure familiar to it and approved of by our constructed notions or in subjection to an ethical reason working for a limited and fragmentary good; it might and does admit things deemed by our reason irrational and unethical because that was necessary for the final and total Good and for the working out of a cosmic purpose. What seems to us irrational or reprehensible in relation to a partial set of facts, motives, desiderata might be perfectly rational and approvable in relation to a much vaster motive and totality of data and desiderata.
2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
for the Unknown and the little known, that which is too vast
or too small for us to perceive, or which our most powerful
2.03 - THE ENIGMA OF BOLOGNA, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
White, convinced that the monument was genuine, thinks that Agathias wrote his epigram in imitation of it, whereas in fact the epigram must be its predecessor or at least have derived from the same source on which the Unknown author of the Aelia inscription drew.
[92] Niobe seems to have an anima-character for Richard White, for, continuing his interpretation, he takes Aelia (or Haelia, as he calls her) to be the soul, saying with Virgil: Fiery is her strength, and heavenly her origin. From this Haelia takes her name.243 She was called Laelia, he says, on account of Luna, who exerts a hidden influence on the souls of men. The human soul is androgynous, because a girl has a masculine and a man a feminine soul.244 To this remarkable psychological insight he adds another: the soul is also called an old woman, because the spirit of young people is weak. This aptly expresses the psychological fact that, in people with an all too youthful attitude of consciousness, the anima is often represented in dreams as an old woman.
2.05 - Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
and initiator into the mysteries of the Unknown. As the original
intruder into the paradise of the infant with its mother, the fa
2.05 - The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This at once raises the question of the nature of Mind, the parent of these illusions, and its relation to the original Existence. Is mind the child and instrument of an original Illusion, or is it itself a primal miscreating Force or Consciousness? or is the mental ignorance a misprision of the truths of Existence, a deviation from an original Truth-Consciousness which is the real world-builder? Our own mind, at any rate, is not an original and primary creative power of Consciousness; it is, and all mind of the same character must be, derivative, an instrumental demiurge, an intermediary creator. It is likely then that analogies from the errors of mind, which are the outcome of an intermediate Ignorance, may not truly illustrate the nature or action of an original creative Illusion, an all-inventing and all-constructing Maya. Our mind stands between a superconscience and an inconscience and receives from both these opposite powers: it stands between an occult subliminal existence and an outward cosmic phenomenon; it receives inspirations, intuitions, imaginations, impulsions to knowledge and action, figures of subjective realities or possibilities from the Unknown inner source; it receives the figures of realised actualities and their suggestions of further possibility from the observed cosmic phenomenon. What it receives are truths essential, possible or actual; it starts from the realised actualities of the physical universe and it brings out from them in its subjective action the unrealised possibilities which they contain or suggest or to which it can arrive by proceeding from them as a starting-point: it selects some out of these possibilities for a subjective action and plays with imagined or inwardly constructed forms of them; it chooses others for objectivisation and attempts to realise them.
But it receives inspirations also from above and within, from invisible sources and not only from the impacts of the visible cosmic phenomenon; it sees truths other than those suggested by the actual physicality around it, and here too it plays subjectively with transmitted or constructed forms of these truths or it selects for objectivisation, attempts to realise.
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But it has not the omniscience of an infinite Consciousness; it is limited in knowledge and has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery. It does not, like the infinite Consciousness, manifest the known, it has to discover the Unknown; it seizes the possibilities of the Infinite, not as results or variations of forms of a latent Truth, but as constructions or creations, figments of its own boundless imagination. It has not the omnipotence of an infinite conscious Energy; it can only realise or actualise what the cosmic Energy will accept from it or what it has the strength to impose or introduce into the sum of things because the secret Divinity, superconscient or subliminal, which uses it intends that that should be expressed in Nature. Its limitation of Knowledge constitutes by incompleteness, but also by openness to error, an Ignorance. In dealing with actualities it may misobserve, misuse, miscreate; in dealing with possibilities it may miscompose, miscombine, misapply, misplace; in its dealings with truths revealed to it it may deform, misrepresent, disharmonise. It may also make constructions of its own which have no correspondence with the things of actual existence, no potentiality of realisation, no support from the truth behind them; but still these constructions start from an illegitimate extension of actualities, catch at unpermitted possibilities, or turn truths to an application which is not applicable. Mind creates, but it is not an original creator, not omniscient or omnipotent, not even an always efficient demiurge. Maya, the Illusive Power, on the contrary, must be an original creator, for it creates all things out of nothing - unless we suppose that it creates out of the substance of the Reality, but then the things it creates must be in some way real; it has a perfect knowledge of what it wishes to create, a perfect power to create whatever it chooses, omniscient and omnipotent though only over its own illusions, harmonising them and linking them together with a magical sureness and sovereign energy, absolutely effective in imposing its own formations or figments passed off as truths, possibilities, actualities on the creature intelligence.
Our mind works best and with a firm confidence when it
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of its operation; but, in reality, it is the mind's way or one of its ways of summoning out of Being its infinite possibilities, even of discovering or capturing the Unknown possibilities of the Infinite. But, because it cannot do this with knowledge, it makes experimental constructions of truth and possibility and a yet unrealised actuality: as its power of receiving inspirations of Truth is limited, it imagines, hypothetises, questions whether this or that may not be truths; as its force to summon real potentials is narrow and restricted, it erects possibilities which it hopes to actualise or wishes it could actualise; as its power to actualise is cramped and confined by the material world's oppositions, it figures subjective actualisations to satisfy its will of creation and delight of self-presentation. But it is to be noted that through the imagination it does receive a figure of truth, does summon possibilities which are afterwards realised, does often by its imagination exercise an effective pressure on the world's actualities. Imaginations that persist in the human mind, like the idea of travel in the air, end often by self-fulfilment; individual thought-formations can actualise themselves if there is sufficient strength in the formation or in the mind that forms it. Imaginations can create their own potentiality, especially if they are supported in the collective mind, and may in the long run draw on themselves the sanction of the cosmic Will. In fact all imaginations represent possibilities: some are able one day to actualise in some form, perhaps a very different form of actuality; more are condemned to sterility because they do not enter into the figure or scheme of the present creation, do not come within the permitted potentiality of the individual or do not accord with the collective or the generic principle or are alien to the nature or destiny of the containing world-existence.
Thus the mind's imaginations are not purely and radically illusory: they proceed on the basis of its experience of actualities or at least set out from that, are variations upon actuality, or they figure the "may-be"s or "might-be"s of the Infinite, what could be if other truths had manifested, if existing potentials had been otherwise arranged or other possibilities than those already admitted became potential. Moreover, through
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Or there is, we may equally suppose, an original, a supreme or cosmic Truth-Consciousness creative of a true universe, but with mind acting in that universe as an imperfect consciousness, ignorant, partly knowing, partly not knowing, - a consciousness which is by its ignorance or limitation of knowledge capable of error, mispresentation, mistaken or misdirected development from the known, of uncertain gropings towards the Unknown, of partial creations and buildings, a constant half-position between truth and error, knowledge and nescience. But this ignorance in fact proceeds, however stumblingly, upon knowledge and towards knowledge; it is inherently capable of shedding the limitation, the mixture, and can turn by that liberation into the
Truth-Consciousness, into a power of the original Knowledge.
2.10 - Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But when the subject draws a little back from itself as object, then certain tertiary powers of spiritual knowledge, of knowledge by identity, take their first origin, which are the sources of our own normal modes of knowledge. There is a spiritual intimate vision, a spiritual pervasive entry and penetration, a spiritual feeling in which one sees all as oneself, feels all as oneself, contacts all as oneself. There is a power of spiritual perception of the object and all that it contains or is, perceived in an enveloping and pervading identity, the identity itself constituting the perception. There is a spiritual conception that is the original substance of thought, not the thought that discovers the Unknown, but that which brings out the intrinsically known from oneself and places it in self-space, in an extended being of self-awareness, as an object of conceptual self-knowledge. There
Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge
2.14 - The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Consciousness in its acquisition of knowledge proceeds from the known to the Unknown; it builds a structure of acquired experience, memories, impressions, judgments, a composite mental plan of things which is of the nature of a shifting and ever modifiable fixity. In the reception of new knowledge, what comes in to be received is judged in the light of past knowledge and fitted into the structure; if it cannot properly fit, it is either dovetailed in anyhow or rejected: but the existing knowledge and its structures or standards may not be applicable to the new object or new field of knowledge, the fitting may be a misfitting or the rejection may be an erroneous response. To misprision and wrong interpretation of facts, there is added misapplication of knowledge, miscombination, misconstruction, misrepresentation, a complicated machinery of mental error. In all this enlightened obscurity of our mental parts a secret intuition is at work, a truth-urge that corrects or pushes the intelligence to correct what is erroneous, to labour towards a true picture of things and a true interpretative knowledge. But intuition itself is limited in the human mind by mental misprision of its intimations and is unable to act in its own right; for whether it be physical, vital or mental intuition, it has to present itself in order to be received, not nude and pure, but garbed with a mental coating or entirely enveloped in an ample mental vesture;
The Origin of Falsehood and Evil
2.17 - The Progress to Knowledge - God, Man and Nature, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This third and unknown, this tertium quid, he names God; and by the word he means somewhat or someone who is the Supreme, the Divine, the Cause, the All, one of these things or all of them at once, the perfection or the totality of all that here is partial or imperfect, the absolute of all these myriad relativities, the Unknown by learning of whom the real secret of the known can become to him more and more intelligible. Man has tried to deny all these categories, - he has tried to deny his own real existence, he has tried to deny the real existence of the cosmos, he has tried to deny the real existence of God. But behind all these denials we see the same constant necessity of his attempt at knowledge; for he feels the need of arriving at a unity of these three terms, even if it can only be done by suppressing two of them or merging them in the other that is left. To do that he affirms only himself as cause and all the rest as mere creations of his mind, or he affirms only Nature and all the rest as nothing but phenomena of Nature-Energy, or he affirms only God, the Absolute, and all the rest as no more than illusions which That thrusts upon itself or on us by an inexplicable Maya.
None of these denials can wholly satisfy, none solves the entire problem or can be indisputable and definitive, - least of all the one to which his sense-governed intellect is most prone, but in which it can never persist for long; the denial of God is a denial of his true quest and his own supreme Ultimate. The ages of naturalistic atheism have always been short-lived because they can never satisfy the secret knowledge in man: that cannot be the final Veda because it does not correspond with the Veda within which all mental knowledge is labouring to bring out; from the moment that this lack of correspondence is felt, a solution, however skilful it may be and however logically complete, has been judged by the eternal Witness in man and is doomed: it cannot be the last word of Knowledge.
2.2.2.03 - Virgil, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I dont think Virgil would be classed by you as a psychic poet, and yet what is the source of that majestic sadness and that word-magic and vision which make his verse, more than that of almost any other poet, fill one with what Belloc calls the sense of the Unknown Country?
I dont at all agree that Virgils verse fills one with the sense of the Unknown countryhe is not in the least a mystic poet, he was too Latin and Roman for that. Majestic sadness, word-magic and vision need not have anything to do with the psychic; the first can come from the higher mind and the noble parts of the vital, the others from almost anywhere. I do not mean to say there was no psychic touch at all anywhere in Virgil. And what is this unknown country? There are plenty of unknown countries (other than the psychic worlds) to which many poets give us some kind of access or sense of their existence behind much more than Virgil. But if when you say verse you mean his rhythm, his surge of word music, that does no doubt come from somewhere else, much more than the thoughts or the words that are carried on the surge.
31 March 1932
2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Religion has opened itself to denial by its claim to determine the truth by divine authority, by inspiration, by a sacrosanct and infallible sovereignty given to it from on high; it has sought to impose itself on human thought, feeling, conduct without discussion or question. This is an excessive and premature claim, although imposed in a way on the religious idea by the imperative and absolute character of the inspirations and illuminations which are its warrant and justification and by the necessity of faith as an occult light and power from the soul amidst the mind's ignorance, doubts, weakness, incertitudes. Faith is indispensable to man, for without it he could not proceed forward in his journey through the Unknown; but it ought not to be imposed, it should come as a free perception or an imperative direction from the inner spirit. A claim to unquestioned acceptance could only be warranted if the spiritual effort had already achieved man's progression to the highest Truth-consciousness total and integral, free from all ignorant mental and vital mixture. This is the ultimate object before us, but it has not yet been accomplished, and the premature claim has obscured the true work of the religious instinct in man, which is to lead him towards the Divine Reality, to formulate all that he has yet achieved in that direction and to give to each human being a mould of spiritual discipline, a way of seeking, touching, nearing the Divine Truth, a way which is proper to the potentialities of his nature.
The wide and supple method of evolutionary Nature providing the amplest scope and preserving the true intention of the religious seeking of the human being can be recognised in the development of religion in India, where any number of religious formulations, cults and disciplines have been allowed, even encouraged to subsist side by side and each man was free to accept and follow that which was congenial to his thought, feeling, temperament, build of the nature. It is right and reasonable that there should be this plasticity, proper to an experimental evolution: for religion's real business is to prepare man's mind, life and bodily existence for the spiritual consciousness to take it up; it has to lead him to that point where the inner spiritual light begins fully to emerge. It is at this point that religion must learn to subordinate itself, not to insist on its outer characters, but give full scope to the inner spirit itself to develop its own truth and reality. In the meanwhile it has to take up as much of man's mentality, vitality, physicality as it can and give all his activities a turn towards the spiritual direction, the revelation of a spiritual meaning in them, the imprint of a spiritual refinement, the beginning of a spiritual character. It is in this attempt that the errors of religion come in, for they are caused by the very nature of the matter with which it is dealing, - that inferior stuff invades the very forms that are meant to serve as intermediaries between the spiritual and the mental, vital or physical consciousness, and often it diminishes, degrades and corrupts them: but it is in this attempt that lies religion's greatest utility as an intercessor between spirit and nature. Truth and error live always together in the human evolution and the truth is not to be rejected because of its accompanying errors, though these have to be eliminated, - often a difficult business and, if crudely done, resulting in surgical harm inflicted on the body of religion; for what we see as error is very frequently the symbol or a disguise or a corruption or malformation of a truth which is lost in the brutal radicality of the operation, - the truth is cut out along with the error. Nature herself very commonly permits the good corn and the tares and weeds to grow together for a long time, because only so is her own growth, her free evolution possible.
2.26 - The Ascent towards Supermind, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But here in this greater Thought there is no need of a seeking and self-critical ratiocination, no logical motion step by step towards a conclusion, no mechanism of express or implied deductions and inferences, no building or deliberate concatenation of idea with idea in order to arrive at an ordered sum or outcome of knowledge; for this limping action of our reason is a movement of Ignorance searching for knowledge, obliged to safeguard its steps against error, to erect a selective mental structure for its temporary shelter and to base it on foundations already laid and carefully laid but never firm, because it is not supported on a soil of native awareness but imposed on an original soil of nescience. There is not here, either, that other way of our mind at its keenest and swiftest, a rapid hazardous divination and insight, a play of the searchlight of intelligence probing into the little known or the Unknown. This higher consciousness is a Knowledge formulating itself on a basis of self-existent all-awareness and manifesting some part of its integrality, a harmony of its significances put into thought-form. It can freely express itself in single ideas, but its most characteristic movement is a mass ideation, a system or totality of truth-seeing at a single view; the relations of idea with idea, of truth with truth are not established by logic but pre-exist and emerge already self-seen in the integral whole. There is an initiation into forms of an ever-present but till now inactive knowledge, not a system of conclusions from premisses or data; this thought is a self-revelation of eternal Wisdom, not an acquired knowledge.
Large aspects of truth come into view in which the ascending Mind, if it chooses, can dwell with satisfaction and, after its former manner, live in them as in a structure; but if progress is to be made, these structures can constantly expand into a larger structure or several of them combine themselves into a provisional greater whole on the way to a yet unachieved integrality. In the end there is a great totality of truth known and experienced but still a totality capable of infinite enlargement because there is no end to the aspects of knowledge, nastyanto vistarasya me.
2.27 - The Gnostic Being, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This the gnostic change will fulfil in an ample measure; but it will give it a new character. It will act not by the discovery of the Unknown, but by the bringing out of the known; all will be the finding "of the self by the self in the self". For the self of the gnostic being will not be the mental ego but the Spirit that is one in all; he will see the world as a universe of the Spirit.
The finding of the one truth underlying all things will be the Identical discovering identity and identical truth everywhere and discovering too the power and workings and relations of that identity. The revelation of the detail, the circumstance, the abundant ways and forms of the manifestation will be the unveiling of the endless opulence of the truths of that identity, its forms and powers of self, its curious manifoldness and multiplicity of form bringing out infinitely its oneness. This knowledge will proceed by identification with all, by entering into all, by a contact bringing with it a leap of self-discovery and a flame of recognition, a greater and surer intuition of truth than the mind can reach; there will be an intuition too of the means of embodying and utilising the truth seen, an operative intuition of its dynamic processes, a direct intimate awareness guiding the life and the physical senses in every step of their action and service to the Spirit when they have to be called in as instruments for the effectuation of process in life and matter.
2.28 - The Divine Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
96: This new status would indeed be a reversal of the present law of human consciousness and life, for it would reverse the whole principle of the life of the Ignorance. It is for the taste of the Ignorance, its surprise and adventure, one might say, that the soul has descended into the Inconscience and assumed the disguise of Matter, for the adventure and the joy of creation and discovery, an adventure of the spirit, an adventure of the mind and life and the hazardous surprises of their working in Matter, for the discovery and conquest of the new and the Unknown; all this constitutes the enterprise of life and all this, it might seem, would cease with the cessation of the Ignorance. Man's life is made up of the light and the darkness, the gains and losses, the difficulties and dangers, the pleasures and pains of the Ignorance, a play of colours moving on a soil of the general neutrality of Matter which has as its basis the nescience and insensibility of the Inconscient. To the normal life-being an existence without the reactions of success and frustration, vital joy and grief, peril and passion, pleasure and pain, the vicissitudes and uncertainties of fate and struggle and battle and endeavour, a joy of novelty and surprise and creation projecting itself into the Unknown, might seem to be void of variety and therefore void of vital savour. Any life surpassing these things tends to appear to it as something featureless and empty or cast in the figure of an immutable sameness; the human mind's picture of heaven is the incessant repetition of an eternal monotone. But this is a misconception; for an entry into the gnostic consciousness would be an entry into the Infinite. It would be a self-creation bringing out the Infinite infinitely into form of being, and the interest of the Infinite is much greater and multitudinous as well as more imperishably delightful than the interest of the finite. The evolution in the Knowledge would be a more beautiful and glorious manifestation with more vistas ever unfolding themselves and more intensive in all ways than any evolution could be in the Ignorance. The delight of the Spirit is ever new, the forms of beauty it takes innumerable, its godhead ever young and the taste of delight, rasa, of the Infinite eternal and inexhaustible. The gnostic manifestation of life would be more full and fruitful and its interest more vivid than the creative interest of the Ignorance; it would be a greater and happier constant miracle.
97: If there is an evolution in material Nature and if it is an evolution of being with consciousness and life as its two keyterms and powers, this fullness of being, fullness of consciousness, fullness of life must be the goal of development towards which we are tending and which will manifest at an early or later stage of our destiny. The self, the spirit, the reality that is disclosing itself out of the first inconscience of life and matter, would evolve its complete truth of being and consciousness in that life and matter. It would return to itself - or, if its end as an individual is to return into its Absolute, it could make that return also, - not through a frustration of life but through a spiritual completeness of itself in life. Our evolution in the Ignorance with its chequered joy and pain of self-discovery and worlddiscovery, its half fulfilments, its constant finding and missing, is only our first state. It must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-finding and self-unfolding of the Spirit, a self-revelation of the Divinity in things in that true power of itself in Nature which is to us still a Supernature.
2.30 - The Uniting of the Names 45 and 52, #General Principles of Kabbalah, #Rabbi Moses Luzzatto, #Kabbalah
were joined, took place in the Unknown Head., bringing
all the subsequent unions in the world of Emanation in
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in the Unknown Head is unmanifest and unperceived,
so that the government immanent in it is equally veiled.
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It is the Unknown Head, which is engraved with
the sum total of knowledge pertaining to the supervision
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in the Unknown Head.
24.02 - Notes on Savitri I, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Lifes barriers opened into the Unknown. ||5.36||
Notes:
2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
31 Or, before the thunder-crash from the Unknown.
32 Or, O Fire, perfect in wisdom,
3.00.2 - Introduction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
substitute for the Unknown will take the form of an archaic though not
inapposite analogy. Thus Kekuls vision of the dancing couples, which
3.00 - The Magical Theory of the Universe, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
divine the Unknown by study of the known, just as ones knowledge
of Latin and Greek enables one to understand some unfamiliar
30.17 - Rabindranath, Traveller of the Infinite, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To some extent, perhaps, it is true that if we compare Tagore with those who stand on the peaks in world literature, we find in their creation an utmost, flawless harmony and synthesis between speech and substance, while in Tagore we find on the whole speech carrying more weight than substance and this is why his poetic genius, as it were, somewhat falls short of perfect perfection - except in a few instances. But that, it may be answered, would be demanding something from Tagore which is not germane to his nature and genius; it would be, as it were, to measure him by a standard different from his own. To be sure, substance does not mean mere wealth of clear intellectual thoughts or solidity of subject-matter. Substance means the real essence, the very core, the thing in itself, a delight-truth gleaned in consciousness, made vibrant with life. And it may be said that even this is the law of a particular formula of creation - but Rabindranath has followed another law. We may take here an example. As a sculptor Michael Angelo had no parallel among the artists. One special trait of his carving was this that he hardly ever completed a figure to a final finish; he left it unfinished to a certain extent; the unfinished portion in its rawness was suggestive of things unsaid. Probably he would indicate in this way that the statue as a statue has not an independent value of its own but is part of nature's own beauty around a statue; it was not a model according to the Greek ideal - a creation flawless, exquisite and perfect in every feature, complete and sufficient in itself but quite separate from other creations. In our country the practice of carving out some portion of a whole hill and shaping out of it some idol or cave temple was in vogue. The inner sense of that practice was perhaps to prove the unity and indivisibility of art and nature and how they harmonise and commune with each other. A similar excuse may be put forward on behalf of Tagore. A lightness and sinuosity, turns and returns in the movement, weave out the essential theme, because of the pressure, the necessity, the very law of the consciousness. And that also has characterised the impetus of the upward drive of aspiration - a thirst for attaining a farther and farther progression - the ever burning and increasing flame of the psychic Being, the everspreading rays of the immortal light. This unending, ceaseless, free and absolute aspiration, this voyage to the Unknown finds expression in lines like
Behold
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According to the Christian saints this state is the 'dark night of the soul'. They say, the familiar past has been left behind, the new life has not been achieved, the foretaste of it has slipped away; there is no return to the past, the path to the new life is not known - a helpless anxiety surges up. But the night of our poet is by no means as dark as that of the Christian saints. The journey towards the Unknown destination has almost the same aspect as a description of the dark night usually gives us, but in the midst of this darkness glitters the noiseless laughter of that 'feminine absconder'; the poet is able to say even when engulfed in that night:
Only the sweet scent of thy body is wafted by the wind,
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From the Unknown to the Unknown.
With the flutter of starry wings
3.02 - The Great Secret, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
the Unknown Man
Water is running out, provision have come to an end .Their physical suffering is becoming intolerable. No hope on the horizon: death is approaching . To take their minds off their presents miseries, each one of them in turn tells the story of his life.
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Then the voice of the Unknown Man is heard, calm, gentle, clear, full of a serene authority.
the Unknown MAN
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They all concentrate in silence. the Unknown Man continues:
"O Supreme Reality, grant that we may live integrally the marvellous secret that is now revealed to us."
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A ship appears, like a dot on the horizon, and slowly comes closer. Exclamations. the Unknown Man says:
Our prayer is heard.
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And the Unknown Man says slowly:
Here is salvation, here is new life!
3.02 - The Psychology of Rebirth, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
three: their dog was the fourth.' Others, guessing at the Unknown, will say: 'They
were five; their dog was the sixth.' And yet others: 'Seven; their dog was the
3.03 - Faith and the Divine Grace, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the Unknown is before us and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith.
3 November 1954
3.04 - On Thought - III, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Psychologists know very well that before it attains to its modes of conscious activity there, a thought must first of all have passed through remoter states, through the Unknown regions of what we call the subconscient.
"It has come from the inner depths to our surface self like a meteor reaching us from inaccessible spaces.
3.1.01 - The Problem of Suffering and Evil, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- of the Power, Light, Peace, Bliss was very evidently one. If it is asked why even if possible it should have been accepted, the answer nearest to the Cosmic Truth which the human intelligence can make is that in the relations or in the transition of the Divine in the Oneness to the Divine in the Many, this ominous possible became at a certain point an inevitable. For once it appears it acquires for the Soul descending into evolutionary manifestation an irresistible attraction which creates the inevitability - an attraction which in human terms on the terrestrial level might be interpreted as the call of the Unknown, the joy of danger and difficulty and adventure, the will to attempt the impossible, to work out the incalculable, the will to create the new and uncreated with one's own self and life as the material, the fascination of contradictories and their difficult harmonisation - these things translated into another supraphysical, superhuman consciousness, higher and wider than the mental, were the temptation that
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3.2.03 - Conservation and Progress, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The past is both a drag and a force for progress. It is all that has created the present and a great part of the force that is creating the future. For the past is not dead; its forms are gone and had to go, otherwise the present would not have come into being: but its soul, its power, its essence lives veiled in the present and ever-accumulating, growing, deepening will live on in the future. Every human being holds in and behind him all the past of his own race, of humanity and of himself; these three things determine his starting-point and pursue him through his lifes progress. It is in the force of this past, in the strength which its huge conservations give to him that he confronts the unillumined abysses of the future and plunges forward into the depths of its unrealised infinities. But also it is a drag, partly because man afraid of the Unknown clings to the old forms of which he is sure, the old foundations which feel so safe under his feet, the old props round which so many of his attachments and associations cast their tenacious tendrils, but also partly because the forces of the past keep their careful hold on him so as to restrain him in his uncertain course and prevent the progress from becoming a precipitation.
The future repels us even while it irresistibly attracts. The repulsion lies partly in our own natural recoil from the Unknown, because every step into this unknown is a wager between life and death; every decision we make may mean either the destruction or the greater fulfilment of what we now are, of the name and form to which we are attached. But also it lies in the future itself; for there, governing that future, there are not only powers which call us to fulfil them and attract us with an irresistible force but other powers which have to be conquered and do not desire to yield themselves. The future is a sphinx with two minds, an energy which offers itself and denies, gives itself and resists, seeks to enthrone us and seeks to slay. But the conquest has to be attempted, the wager has to be accepted. We have to face the futures offer of death as well as its offer of life, and it need not alarm us, for it is by constant death to our old names and forms that we shall live most vitally in greater and newer forms and names. Go on we must; for if we do not, Time itself will force us forward in spite of our fancied immobility. And this is the most pitiable and dangerous movement of all. For what can be more pitiable than to be borne helplessly forward clinging to the old that disintegrates in spite of our efforts and shrieking frantically to the dead ghosts and dissolving fragments of the past to save us alive? And what can be more dangerous than to impose immobility on that which is in its nature mobile? This means an increasing and horrible rottenness; it means an attempt to persist on as a putrid and stinking corpse instead of a living and self-renewing energetic creature. The greatest spirits are therefore those who have no fear of the future, who accept its challenge and its wager; they have that sublime trust in the God or Power that guides the world, that high audacity of the human soul to wrestle with the infinite and realise the impossible, that wise and warrior confidence in its ultimate destiny which mark the Avatars and prophets and great innovators and renovators.
If we consider carefully we shall see that the past is indeed a huge force of conservation, but of conservation that is not immobile, but on the contrary offers itself as material for change and new realisation; that the present is the constant change and new actual realisation which the past desires and compels; and that the future is that force of new realisation not yet actual towards which the past was moving and for the sake of which it lived. Then we perceive that there is no real opposition between these three; we see that they are parts of a single movement, a sort of Trinity of Vishnu-Brahma-Maheshwara fulfilling by an inseparable action the one Deity. Yet the human mind in its mania of division and opposition seeks to set them at strife and ranges humanity into various camps, the partisans of the past, the partisans of the present, the partisans of the future, the partisans of all sorts of compromises between the three forces. Nature makes good use of the struggle between these partisans and her method is necessary in our present state of passionate ignorance and egoistic obstinacy; but none the less is it from the point of view of a higher knowledge a pitiably ignorant struggle.
32.07 - The God of the Scientist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not know how many have given due regard to this remarkable fact that the rational mind of modern times, inspired by the spirit of science which has turned towards spirituality for whatever reason, is often attracted to the pure Vedanta or the Buddhistic philosophy of India. The chief reason for this appears to me to be this that the truth and the essence of religion are looked upon as anthropomorphic by the scientist. The scientist can hardly accept this position. For, the very speciality of the scientific procedure is to keep aside the human factor from human knowledge. A particular knowledge bears the stamp of the knower, but science aims at knowledge independent of its knower. Now the scientific attitude from its summit declares, I do not know the Unknown and the unknowable that is beyond. This learned ignorance which is called agnosticism, and is, in a little altered form, known as scepticism - that is the legitimate consummation of scientific rationalism. But when one looks upon this unknown and unknowable with religious reverence, one says, "Therefrom speech returns baffled along with the mind." This is verily the Brahman, beyond speech and mind; and its other name is then Nihil.. Mind can understand mind or its absence or disintegration. It is extremely difficult for it to comprehend anything that is apart from these two extreme terms. It is not so difficult for the rational mind to accept the spiritual doctrine of 'not this, not this'; but the other aspects of spirituality - the truth about divine Forms and Incarnations, about Purushottama, the supreme Being, even the transmigration of the soul, - all these are senseless enigmas to reason-bound mind. The triune principle of Existence, Consciousness and Bliss of the Vedanta is such a general, neutral and indefinite principle that it seems to be intuited and felt by the pure intellect when it climbs up to its acme. In other words, at the highest level of the brain, as it were, there takes place the first revelation of spirituality, a glow and reflection amounting to the perception of a formless infinite, whose true nature is separately or simultaneously an existence, consciousness and bliss or a non-Being pregnant with all the essence of Being.
The scientific intellect has thus reached a certain theism and the poet and the artist also have reached similar levels through different ways of approach. The aesthetic taste of the artist, the sense of intense delight in the beauty of the cosmic creation is not born of the intellect but is allied to it, and falls within the category of the mind - it is a thing that belongs to this side of the boundary of consciousness, which we have to cross to attain to the true spiritual world. The twilight consciousness is, as it were, on the border-line; it belongs in its rhythm, gesture, gait and expression still to this shore-land rather than the other, howsoever may the artist aspire for the shore beyond. No doubt, I speak of the creations of artists in general. There are rare artists whose creation embodies genuine spiritual experience and realisation. But that is a different matter - it concerns the purely spiritual art. Ordinary works of art do not belong to that category and derive their inspiration from a different source. With regard to philosophy something similar might be said. Most of the Indian philosophies, such as the philosophies of Shankara, Ramanuja, the sage Kapila and Patanjali are but intellectual expressions of different spiritual visions and realisations. If it be so, then is it not possible for science also to become a vehicle or expression of spiritual realisations? This may not have materialised up till now; generally or to a large degree perhaps an attempt of the kind was made in the line that is known as occultism, and which was called alchemy by the ancients, but the effort ended in a spurious system of rites and ceremonies. No doubt this knowledge, even at its best, falls short of the Higher Knowledge, Para Vidya; still there was a time when the Inferior Knowledge, Apara Vidya, was accepted as a stepping-stone to the Higher. "Exceeding death by Avidya (Ignorance) one has to enjoy immortality through Vidya (Knowledge)" - "Avidyaya mrtyum tirtva vidyaya amrtam asnute."
3.20 - Of the Eucharist, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
as a particular case of the general propositiondiffering from evocatory and talismanic Magick only in the values which are represented by the Unknown quantities in the pantomorphous equations.
There is no need to make any systematized attempt to decipher
33.01 - The Initiation of Swadeshi, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In our country, it has not been at all a rare thing for an individual to arrive at a turning point in his life which makes him leave the comforts of home and go out in search of something higher; such an event may be counted among the familiar and commonplace. But a whole nation rushing away from its old moorings in search of the Unknown - this was a rather extraordinary spectacle. Something like it had been seen during the French Revolution, in the storming of the Bastille, for example, but the Indian awakening had a different form and character.
I myself attended a number of meetings, particularly at Hedua, in Panti's Math and College Square, in the evening after college hours. At one of those meetings in Panti's Math, I had a view of Rabindranath as a leader and high-priest of nationalism, calm and handsome and sweet-tongued and self-possessed but breathing words of fire charged with strength and enthusiasm. On another day I chanced to see, in the fading twilight of evening at a meeting in College Square, Sri Aurobindo. He was wrapped in a shawl from head to foot - perhaps he was slightly ill. He spoke in soft tones, but every word he uttered came out distinct and firm. The huge audience stood motionless under the evening sky listening with rapt attention in pin-drop silence. I can now recall only these few words of his: it was a matter of shame and regret for him that he was unable to speak in his native tongue, his early training and environment had been such as compelled him to express himself in a foreign language; he was asking to be pardoned by his countrymen. And the other thing I remember was the sweet musical rhythm that graced the entire speech. This was the first time I saw him with my own eyes and heard him.
3.4.03 - Materialism, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Having examined and explained Matter by physical methods and in the language of the material Brahman,it is not really explained, but let that pass,having failed to carry that way of knowledge into other fields beyond a narrow limit, we must then at least consent to scrutinise life and mind by methods appropriate to them and explain their facts in the language and tokens of the vital and mental Brahman. We may discover then where and how these tongues of the one existence render the same truth and throw light on each others phrases, and discover too perhaps another, high, brilliant and revealing speech which may shine out as the definitive all-explaining word. That can only be if we pursue these other sciences too in the same spirit as the physical, with a scrutiny, not only of their obvious and first actual phenomena, but of all the countless untested potentialities of mental and psychic energy, and with a free unlimited experimentation. We shall find out that their ranges of the Unknown are immense. We shall perceive that until the possibilities of mind and spirit are better explored and their truths better known, we cannot yet pronounce the last all-ensphering formula of universal existence. Very early in this process the materialistic circle will be seen opening up on all its sides until it rapidly breaks up and disappears. Adhering still to the essential rigorous method of science, though not to its purely physical instrumentation, scrutinising, experimenting, holding nothing for established which cannot be scrupulously and universally verified, we shall still arrive at supraphysical certitudes. There are other means, there are greater approaches, but this line of access too can lead to the one universal truth.
Three things will remain from the labour of the secularist centuries; truth of the physical world and its importance, the scientific method of knowledge,which is to induce Nature and Being to reveal their own way of being and proceeding, not hastening to put upon them our own impositions of idea and imagination, adhyropa, and last, though very far from least, the truth and importance of the earth life and the human endeavour, its evolutionary meaning. They will remain, but will turn to another sense and disclose greater issues Surer of our hope and our labour, we shall see them all transformed into light of a vaster and more intimate world-knowledge and self-knowledge.
36.07 - An Introduction To The Vedas, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Zen
However, to be at home in the central theme of the Vedas, the method that we should follow is: to proceed from the known to the Unknown. In the Vedic texts we often come across some important words that admit of no ambiguity. With the help of the obvious meanings of these words we have to find out the implications of the words partly obscure or totally obscure. In the Vedas there are such mantras (incantations), sentences and words in abundance which reflect modern ideas and appear quite familiar to the present-day intellect. It is at once advisable and reasonable to accept such self-evident meanings. It is of no avail to leave aside such clear meanings and seek out roundabout abstruse meanings on the ground that what we are dealing with are the Vedas, the writings of hoary antiquity. Ekam sad vipra bahudha vadanti (The one Truth is expressed differently by the men of knowledge) or, tat Visno param padam...diviva cakuratatam (That is the supreme Status of Vishnu, as if an Eye wide open in the heavens) or, Brhaspatih prathamam jayama mano jyotisah parame Vyoman (Brihaspati being born first as a great Light in the supreme Heaven)-the meanings of these words are by no means obscure or ambiguous. The meanings as well as the ideas with which these words are infused are quite plain and clear enough. These expressions convey no indication of the lisping of the babe or an aborigine or an uncultured mind or even a ritualistic mind. Here we find expressions of a mature mind enlightened with knowledge flowing from a profound realisation of Truth. Neither the befitting rhythm nor rhyme is missing. Further,
Codayitri sunrtanam cetanti sumatinam
3.7.1.05 - The Significance of Rebirth, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are transcendental questions of the metaphysical necessity, possibility, final reality of an evolutionary manifestation of this kind, but they do not need to be brought in now and here; for the time we are concerned only with its reality to experience and with the processional significance of rebirth, with the patent fact that we are a part of some kind of manifestation and move forward in the press of some kind of evolution. We see a Power at work and seek whether in that power there is a conscious Will, an ordered development and have first to discover whether it is the blind result of an organised Chance or inconscient self-compelled Law or the plan of a universal Intelligence or Wisdom. Once we find that there is a conscious Spirit of which this movement is one expression, or even admit that as our working hypothesis, we are bound to go on and ask whether this developing order ceases with what man now is or is laden with something more towards which it and he have to grow, an unfinished expression, a greater unfound term, and in that case it is evidently towards that greater thing that man must be growing; to prepare it and to realise it must be the stage beyond in his destiny. Towards that new step in the evolution his history as a race must be subconsciently tending and the powers of the highest individuals half consciently striving to be delivered of this greater birth; and since the ascending order of rebirth follows always the degrees of the evolution, that too cannot be meant to stop short or shoot off abruptly into the superconscient without any regard to the intended step. The relation of our birth to life on other levels of consciousness and to whatever transcendent Superconscience there may be, are important problems, but their solution must be something in harmony with the intention of the Spirit in the universe; all must be part of a unity, and not an imbroglio of spiritual incoherences and contradictions. Our first bridge from the known to the Unknown on this line of thought must be to discover how far the yet unfinished ladder of evolution can mount in the earth series. The whole processional significance of rebirth may be wrapped up in that one yet unattempted discovery.
The magnificent and pregnant phrase of the Koran, "Thinkest thou that I have made the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in a jest?"
3.7.1.08 - Karma, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This Infinite is figured in both cases by the more insistent and positive type of mind as an Inconscience, - but material in the one, in the other a spiritual infinite zero, - but by the more prudent or flexible thinkers simply as an unknowable. The difference is that the Unknown of Science is something mechanical to which mechanically we return by physical dissolution or laya, but the Unknown of Buddhism is a Permanent beyond the Law to which we return spiritually by an effort of self-suppression, of self-renunciation and, at the latest end, of self-extinction, by a mental dissolution of the Idea which maintains the law of relations and a moral dissolution of the world-desire which keeps up the stream of successions of the universal action. This is a rare and an austere metaphysics; but to its discouraging grandeur we are by no means compelled to give assent, for it is neither self-evident nor inevitable. It is by no means so certain that a high spiritual negation of what I am is my only possible road to perfection; a high spiritual affirmation and absolute of what I am may be also a feasible way and gate. This nobly glacial or blissfully void idea of a Nirvana, because it is so overwhelmingly a negation, cannot finally satisfy the human spirit, which
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4.01 - Introduction, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
that speaks out of his unconscious, but the Unknown world of
the psyche, of which we know that it mirrors our empirical
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it is neither the one thing nor the other, but the Unknown third
thing that finds more or less adequate expression in all these
4.03 - THE ULTIMATE EARTH, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
Carrel referred to man as ' the Unknown '. But man, we
should add, is the solution of everything that we can know.
4.04 - Conclusion, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
3 66 viii. the Unknown woman sits, like the dreamer, on the tip
of a church-spire and stares at him uncannily across the abyss.
3 6 7 ix. the Unknown woman suddenly appears as an old female
attendant in an underground public lavatory with a tempera-
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3 68 x. the Unknown woman leaves the house as a petite bour-
geoise with a female relation, and in her place there is suddenly
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dreamer. the Unknown is described as such in the dreams
themselves, and reveals her extraordinary nature firstly by her
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372 Dream ii shows the Unknown woman as a mythological fig-
ure from the beyond (the unconscious). She is the soror or filia
4.06 - THE KING AS ANTHROPOS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[486] The various fatalities which the old king has to sufferimmersion in the bath or in the sea, dissolution and decomposition, extinction of his light in the darkness, incineration in the fire, and renewal out of the chaosare derived by the alchemists from the dissolution of the matter in acids, from the roasting of ores, the expulsion of sulphur or mercury, the reduction of metallic oxides, and so forth, as if these chemical procedures yielded a picture which, with a little straining of the imagination, could be compared with Christs sufferings and his final triumph. The fact that they projected the Passion as an unconscious premise into the chemical transformations was not at all clear to the alchemists.341 Naturally, under these circumstances, they were able to prove with complete success that their alleged observations coincided with the Passion. Only, it was not a question of their making observations on matter, but of introspection. Since, however, genuine projections are never voluntarily made but always appear as preconscious factors, there must have been something in the unconscious of the alchemists which lent itself to projection (i.e., had a tendency to become conscious because of its energy charge), and on the other hand found in the alchemical operations a hook that attracted it, so that it could express itself in some way. Projection is always an indirect process of becoming consciousindirect because of the check exercised by the conscious mind, by the pressure of traditional or conventional ideas which take the place of real experience and prevent it from happening. One feels that one possesses a valid truth concerning the Unknown, and this makes any real knowledge of it impossible. The unconscious factor must necessarily have been something that was incompatible with the conscious attitude. What it was in reality we learn from the statements of the alchemists: a myth that had much in common not only with many mythologems of pagan origin but above all with Christian dogma. If it were identical with the dogma and appeared in projection it would show that the alchemists had a thoroughly anti-Christian attitude (which was not the case). Lacking such an attitude a projection of this kind would be psychologically impossible. But if the unconscious complex represented a figure that deviated from the dogma in certain essential features, then its projection becomes possible, for it would then be in opposition to the dogma approved by consciousness and would have arisen by way of compensation.
[487] In this and my other writings I have constantly stressed the peculiar nature of the alchemists statements and need not recapitulate what I have said. I should only like to point out that the central idea of the filius philosophorum is based on a conception of the Anthropos in which the Man or the Son of Man does not coincide with the Christian, historical redeemer figure. The alchemical Anthropos comes closer to the Basilidian conception of him as reported by Hippolytus: For he [the Redeemer] . . . is in their view the inner spiritual man in the psychic . . . which is the Sonship that left the soul here not to die but to remain according to its nature, just as the first Sonship left behind on high the Holy Ghost, who is conterminous with him, in the appropriate place, clothing himself in his own soul. 342
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[492] If the adept experiences his own self, the true man, in his work, then, as the passage from the Aquarium sapientum shows, he encounters the analogy of the true manChristin new and direct form, and he recognizes in the transformation in which he himself is involved a similarity to the Passion. It is not an imitation of Christ but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the true man.349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This reality comes upon him in his work, just as the stigmata come to the saints without being consciously sought. They appear spontaneously. The Passion happens to the adept, not in its classic formotherwise he would be consciously performing spiritual exercises but in the form expressed by the alchemical myth. It is the arcane substance that suffers those physical and moral tortures; it is the king who dies or is killed, is dead and buried and on the third day rises again. And it is not the adept who suffers all this, rather it suffers in him, it is tortured, it passes through death and rises again. All this happens not to the alchemist himself but to the true man, who he feels is near him and in him and at the same time in the retort. The passion that vibrates in our text and in the Aurora is genuine, but would be totally incomprehensible if the lapis were nothing but a chemical substance. Nor does it originate in contemplation of Christs Passion; it is the real experience of a man who has got involved in the compensatory contents of the unconscious by investigating the Unknown, seriously and to the point of self-sacrifice. He could not but see the likeness of his projected contents to the dogmatic images, and he might have been tempted to assume that his ideas were nothing else than the familiar religious conceptions, which he was using in order to explain the chemical procedure. But the texts show clearly that, on the contrary, a real experience of the opus had an increasing tendency to assimilate the dogma or to amplify itself with it. That is why the text says that Christ was compared and united with the stone. The alchemical Anthropos showed itself to be independent of any dogma.350
[493] The alchemist experienced the Anthropos in a form that was imbued with new vitality, freshness and immediacy, and this is reflected in the enthusiastic tone of the texts. It is therefore understandable that every single detail of the primordial drama would be realized in quite a new sense. The nigredo not only brought decay, suffering, death, and the torments of hell visibly before the eyes of the alchemist, it also cast the shadow of its melancholy over his own solitary soul.351 In the blackness of a despair which was not his own, and of which he was merely the witness, he experienced how it turned into the worm and the poisonous dragon.352 From inner necessity the dragon destroyed itself (natura naturam vincit) and changed into the lion,353 and the adept, drawn involuntarily into the drama, then felt the need to cut off its paws354 (unless there were two lions who devoured one another). The dragon ate its own wings as the eagle did its feathers.355 These grotesque images reflect the conflict of opposites into which the researchers curiosity had led him. His work began with a katabasis, a journey to the underworld as Dante also experienced it,356 with the difference that the adepts soul was not only impressed by it but radically altered. Faust I is an example of this: the transformation of an earnest scholar, through his pact with the devil, into a worldly cavalier and crooked careerist. In the case of the fanciful Christian Rosencreutz the descent to Venus led only to his being slightly wounded in the hand by Cupids arrow. The texts, however, hint at more serious dangers. Olympiodorus says:357 Without great pains this work is not perfected; there will be struggles, violence, and war. And all the while the demon Ophiuchos358 instils negligence (
4.12 - The Way of Equality, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the matter of knowledge, there are again three reactions of the mind to things, ignorance, error and true knowledge. The positive equality will accept all three of them to start with as movements of a self-manifestation which evolves out of ignorance through the partial or distorted knowledge which is the cause of error to true knowledge. It will deal with the ignorance of the mind, as what it is psychologically, a clouded, veiled or wrapped-up state of the substance of consciousness in which the knowledge of the all-knowing Self is hidden as if in a dark sheath; it will dwell on it by the mind and by the aid of related truths already known, by the intelligence or by an intuitive concentration deliver the knowledge out of the veil of the ignorance. It will not attach itself only to the known or try to force all into its little frame, but will dwell on the known and the Unknown with an equal mind open to all possibility. So too it will deal with error; it will accept the tangled skein of truth and error, but attach itself to no opinion, rather seeking for the element of truth behind all opinions, the knowledge concealed within the error, -- for all error is a disfiguration of some misunderstood fragments of truth and draws its vitality from that and not from its misapprehension; it will accept, but not limit itself even by ascertained truths, but will always be ready for new knowledge and seek for a more and more integral, a more and more extended, reconciling, unifying wisdom. This can only come in its fullness by rising to the ideal supermind, and therefore the equal seeker of truth will not be attached to the intellect and its workings or think that all ends there, but be prepared to rise beyond, accepting each stage of ascent and the contri butions of each power of his being, but only to lift them into a higher truth. He must accept everything, but cling to nothing, be repelled by nothing however imperfect or however subversive of fixed notions, but also allow nothing to lay hold on him to the detriment of the free working of the Truth-Spirit. This equality of the intelligence is an essential condition for rising to the higher supramental and spiritual knowledge.
The will in us, because it is the most generally forceful power of our being, --there is a will of knowledge, a will of life, a will of emotion, a will acting in every part of our nature, -- takes many forms and returns various reactions to things, such as incapacity, limitation of power, mastery, or right will, wrong or perverted will, neutral volition, -- in the ethical mind virtue, sin and non-ethical volition, -- and others of the kind. These too the positive equality accepts as a tangle of provisional values from which it must start, but which it must transform into universal mastery, into the will of the Truth and universal Right, into the freedom of the divine Will in action. The equal will need not feel remorse, sorrow or discouragement over its stumblings; if these reactions occur in the habitual mentality, it will only see how far they indicate an imperfection and the thing to be corrected, --for they are not always just indicators, -- and so get beyond them to a calm and equal guidance. It will see that these stumblings themselves are necessary to experience and in the end steps towards the goal. Behind and within all that occurs in ourselves and in the world, it will look for the divine meaning and the divine guidance; it will look beyond imposed limitations to the voluntary self-limitation of the universal Power by which it regulates its steps and gradations, -- imposed on our ignorance, self-imposed in the divine knowledge, -- and go beyond to unity with the illimitable power of the Divine. All energies and actions it will see as forces proceeding from the one Existence and their perversions as imperfections, inevitable in the developing movement, of powers that were needed for that movement; it will therefore have charity for all imperfections, even while pressing steadily towards a universal perfection. This equality will open the nature to the guidance of the divine and universal Will and make it ready for that supramental action in which the power of the soul in us is luminously full of and one with the power of the supreme Spirit.
4.19 - The Nature of the supermind, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The third characteristic of the supermind arising from this difference, which brings us to the practical distinction between the two kinds of knowledge, is that it is directly truth-conscious, a divine power of immediate, inherent and spontaneous knowledge, an Idea holding luminously all realities and not depending on indications and logical or other steps from the known to the Unknown like the mind which is a power of the Ignorance. The supermind contains all its knowledge in itself, is in its highest divine wisdom in eternal possession of all truth and even in its lower, limited or individualised forms has only to bring the latent truth out of itself, -- the perception which the old thinkers tried to express when they said that all knowing was in its real origin and nature only a memory of inwardly existing knowledge. The supermind is eternally and on all levels truth-conscious and exists secretly even in mental and material being, surveys and knows the things, evenobscurest, of the mental ignorance and understands and is behind and governs its processes, because everything in the mind derives from the supermind -- and must do so because everything derives from the spirit. All that is mental is but a partial, a modified, a suppressed or half suppressed figure of the supramental truth, a deformation or a derived and imperfect figure of its greater knowledge. The mind begins with ignorance and proceeds towards knowledge. As an actual fact, in the material universe, it appears out of an initial and universal inconscience which is really an involution of the all-conscient spirit in its own absorbed self-oblivious force of action; and it appears therefore as part of an evolutionary process, first a vital feeling towards overt sensation, then an emergence of a vital mind capable of sensation and, evolving out of it, a mind of emotion and desire, a conscious will, a growing intelligence. And each stage is an emergence of a greater suppressed power of the secret supermind and spirit.
The mind of man, capable of reflection and a coordinated investigation and understanding of itself and its basis and surroundings, arrives at truth but against a background of original ignorance, a truth distressed by a constant surrounding mist of incertitude and error. Its certitudes are relative and for the most part precarious certainties or else are the assured fragmentary certitudes only of an imperfect, incomplete and not an essential experience. It makes discovery after discovery, gets idea after idea, adds experience to experience and experiment to experiment, -- but losing and rejecting and forgetting and having to recover much as it proceeds, --and it tries to establish a relation between all that it knows by setting up logical and other sequences, a series of principles and their dependences, generalisations and their application, and makes out of its devices a structure in which mentally it can live, move and act and enjoy and labour. This mental knowledge is always limited in extent: not only so, but in addition the mind even sets up other willed barriers, admitting by the mental device of opinion certain parts and sides of truth and excluding all the rest, because if it gave free admission and play to all ideas, if it suffered truth's infinities, it would lose itself in an unreconciled variety, an undetermined immensity and would be unable to act and proceed to practical consequences and an effective creation. And even when it is widest and most complete, mental knowing is still an indirect knowledge, a knowledge not of the thing in itself but of its figures, a system of representations, a scheme of indices, -- except indeed when in certain movements it goes beyond itself, beyond the mental idea to spiritual identity, but it finds it extremely difficult to go here beyond a few isolated and intense spiritual realisations or to draw or work out or organise the right practical consequences of these rare identities of knowledge. A greater power than the reason is needed for the spiritual comprehension and effectuation of this deepest knowledge.
5.02 - Two Parallel Movements, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One of these movements, one of these attitudes without the other is incomplete and one-sided. To consecrate our being in one block to the Supreme Essence is not enough: all the elements that we do not know and have not mastered elude this consecration and therefore follow their own law instead of conforming to the Eternal Law, and become the source of every disturbance, every unexpected revolt in one who had yet thought himself to be entirely a servant of The Law. But he was forgetful of all the Unknown nooks in his being which also have a claim to life and activity and which are manifested in their turn, but in an activity that is disorderly and disharmonious relative to the being as a whole, since they elude the central will.
On the other hand, to become conscious of ourselves in our smallest details is vain and sterile, even dangerous, if it is not done for the sake of order, so that the Divine Essence can be made the Omnipotent ruler of all these elements, if we do not secure their unreserved surrender to Her supreme guidance, to The Sovereign Law.
5.1.02 - Ahana, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Wrestles with Time and Space and the Unknown to give form to the Formless.
Bliss is her goal, but her road is through whirlwind and death-blast and storm-race.
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Earth with a ray from the Unknown, on the world's heart heaven's script writing,
All then would change into harmony and beauty, Time's doors shudder
6.09 - THE THIRD STAGE - THE UNUS MUNDUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
. Also, we do not know whether what we on the empirical plane regard as physical may not, in the Unknown beyond our experience, be identical with what on this side of the border we distinguish from the physical as psychic. Though we know from experience that psychic processes are related to material ones, we are not in a position to say in what this relationship consists or how it is possible at all. Precisely because the psychic and the physical are mutually dependent it has often been conjectured that they may be identical somewhere beyond our present experience, though this certainly does not justify the arbitrary hypothesis of either materialism or spiritualism.
[766] With this conjecture of the identity of the psychic and the physical we approach the alchemical view of the unus mundus, the potential world of the first day of creation, when there was as yet no second. Before the time of Paracelsus the alchemists believed in creatio ex nihilo. For them, therefore, God himself was the principle of matter. But Paracelsus and his school assumed that matter was an increatum, and hence coexistent and coeternal with God. Whether they considered this view monistic or dualistic I am unable to discover. The only certain thing is that for all the alchemists matter had a divine aspect, whether on the ground that God was imprisoned in it in the form of the anima mundi or anima media natura, or that matter represented Gods reality. In no case was matter de-deified, and certainly not the potential matter of the first day of creation. It seems that only the Paracelsists were influenced by the dualistic words of Genesis.232
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[768] All that is is not encompassed by our knowledge, so that we are not in a position to make any statements about its total nature. Microphysics is feeling its way into the Unknown side of matter, just as complex psychology is pushing forward into the Unknown side of the psyche. Both lines of investigation have yielded findings which can be conceived only by means of antinomies, and both have developed concepts which display remarkable analogies. If this trend should become more pronounced in the future, the hypothesis of the unity of their subject-matters would gain in probability. Of course there is little or no hope that the unitary Being can ever be conceived, since our powers of thought and language permit only of antinomian statements. But this much we do know beyond all doubt, that empirical reality has a transcendental backgrounda fact which, as Sir James Jeans has shown, can be expressed by Platos parable of the cave. The common background of microphysics and depth-psychology is as much physical as psychic and therefore neither, but rather a third thing, a neutral nature which can at most be grasped in hints since in essence it is transcendental.
[769] The background of our empirical world thus appears to be in fact a unus mundus. This is at least a probable hypothesis which satisfies the fundamental tenet of scientific theory: Explanatory principles are not to be multiplied beyond the necessary. The transcendental psychophysical background corresponds to a potential world in so far as all those conditions which determine the form of empirical phenomena are inherent in it. This obviously holds good as much for physics as for psychology, or, to be more precise, for macrophysics as much as for the psychology of consciousness.
6.0 - Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
our today. the Unknown in us which the affect uncovers was
always there and sooner or later would have presented itself to
7.05 - Patience and Perseverance, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The famous Genoese sailor Columbus set sail from Spain to cross the Unknown seas of the West.
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7.11 - Building and Destroying, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The couple adopted the Unknown child from the Illupay grove. But very soon the neighbours began to mock them, reproaching them for taking care of a child without caste. So, for fear of displeasing them by looking after the baby themselves, they put him in a hammock hung from the beams of a stable, and entrusted him to an outcaste family.
A few years later the boy, strong in body and bright in mind, said farewell to those who had showed him kindness and set out alone to travel. After walking for some time, he sat down to rest at the foot of a palm-tree. And it happened that the tree took care of him and seemed to love him like the woman who had once taken him up in Illupay grove. For though it might seem impossible that a tree with such a tall trunk could shelter someone in the shade of its leaves throughout one whole day, the story tells that the shadow did indeed keep still and shield the boy with its coolness for as long as he wished to sleep.
Apology, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Strange, indeed, would be my conduct, O men of Athens, if I who, when I was ordered by the generals whom you chose to comm and me at Potidaea and Amphipolis and Delium, remained where they placed me, like any other man, facing deathif now, when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfil the philosophers mission of searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post through fear of death, or any other fear; that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods, if I disobeyed the oracle because I was afraid of death, fancying that I was wise when I was not wise. For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the Unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows what he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are:that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonourable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil. And therefore if you let me go now, and are not convinced by Anytus, who said that since I had been prosecuted I must be put to death; (or if not that I ought never to have been prosecuted at all); and that if I escape now, your sons will all be utterly ruined by listening to my wordsif you say to me, Socrates, this time we will not mind Anytus, and you shall be let off, but upon one condition, that you are not to enquire and speculate in this way any more, and that if you are caught doing so again you shall die;if this was the condition on which you let me go, I should reply: Men of Athens, I honour and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting any one whom I meet and saying to him after my manner: You, my friend,a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens,are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? And if the person with whom I am arguing, says: Yes, but I do care; then I do not leave him or let him go at once; but I proceed to interrogate and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think that he has no virtue in him, but only says that he has, I reproach him with undervaluing the greater, and overvaluing the less. And I shall repeat the same words to every one whom I meet, young and old, citizen and alien, but especially to the citizens, inasmuch as they are my brethren. For know that this is the comm and of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state than my service to the God. For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. But if any one says that this is not my teaching, he is speaking an untruth. Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids or not as Anytus bids, and either acquit me or not; but whichever you do, understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
Men of Athens, do not interrupt, but hear me; there was an understanding between us that you should hear me to the end: I have something more to say, at which you may be inclined to cry out; but I believe that to hear me will be good for you, and therefore I beg that you will not cry out. I would have you know, that if you kill such an one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytusthey cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself. I do not deny that Anytus may, perhaps, kill him, or drive him into exile, or deprive him of civil rights; and he may imagine, and others may imagine, that he is inflicting a great injury upon him: but there I do not agree. For the evil of doing as he is doingthe evil of unjustly taking away the life of anotheris greater far.
BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
wisdom and worshipper of ABSOLUTE perfection -- the Unknown deity which is neither Zeus nor
Jehovah -- will demur to such an idea. Pointing to antiquity he will prove that there never was an
BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
regard as truth -- to speculate upon the Unknown, giving out our unproven theories along with facts
absolutely established in modern Science." . . . . "The borderl and of (metaphysical) knowledge is best
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observes -- "their (Darwin's and Haeckel's) process is always the same, considering the Unknown as a
proof in favour of their theory." (Ibid.)
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page]]
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Were they aboriginal, or the outcome of some immigration dating back into the Unknown past? The
latter is the only tenable hypothesis, as all scientists agree in eliminating Europe from the category of
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
admitted. Either behind the symbolic substitute -- Jehovah -- there was the Unknown, incognizable
Diety, the Kabalistic Ain-Soph; or, the Jews have been from the beginning, no better than the deadletter Lingham-** worshippers of the India of to-day. We say it was the former; and that, therefore, the
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(Asura-mazda), himself issued from Zeruana Akerne "boundless (circle of) Time" or the Unknown
Cause. "Its glory," they say of the latter, "is too exalted, its light too resplendent for either human
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and duration; Heaven from Earth, the Unknown from the KNOWN -- to the profane. Such is the
meaning of the sentence in Pymander, which says that: "THOUGHT, the divine, which is LIGHT and
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religions at their starting points. The first beginning opens invariably with the Unknown and PASSIVE
deity, from which emanates a certain active power or virtue, the Mystery that is sometimes called
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principles -- the shadow of the Unknown and Incognizable Deity in Space. But in antiquity and
reality, Lucifer, or Luciferus, is the name of the angelic Entity presiding over the light of truth as over
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remove from the Unknown, in the manifested Kosmos. If, ages later, the same epithet is applied to
Devaki, the mother of Krishna, or the incarnated LOGOS; and if the symbol, owing to the gradual and
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This Decade representing the Universe and its evolution out of Silence and the Unknown Depths of the
Spiritual Soul, or anima mundi, presented two sides or aspects to the student. It could be, and was at
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born from the apex thereof, or the Silent Depths of the Unknown universal soul (Sige and Bythos), is
the sevenfold Saptaparna plant, born and manifested on the surface of the soil of mystery, from the
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Hence the Latin word Solus in relation to one and only God, the Unknown of Paul. Solus, however,
very soon became Sol -- the Sun.
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, which was the "vehicle of the Unknown Deity." A good proof of it lies with the name of the
Deity beginning with Delta. Zeus was written [[Deus]], by the Boeotians,* thence the Deus of the
BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
and an appellation given by the earliest Aryans to the Unknown deity; the word "Brahma" not being
found in the Vedas and the early works. It means the absolute Wisdom, and "Adi-bhuta" is translated
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The world of to-day, in its mad career towards the Unknown -- which it is too ready to confound with
the unknowable, whenever the problem eludes the grasp of the physicist -- is rapidly progressing on
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knowledge and initiation in the Unknown crypts of Central Asia. And more than one returned years
later, with a rich store of such information as could never have been given him anywhere in Europe.
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Matter, as Potencies of Space, inseparable, and the Unknown revealers of the Unknown." They are all
found in Aryan philosophy personified by Visvakarman, Indra, Vishnu, etc., etc. Still they are
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of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -- a spark of the former -- through
the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity") in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the whole
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. . IN the Unknown DARKNESS IN THEIR AH-HI PARANISHPANNA. THE PRODUCERS
OF FORM FROM NO-FORM -- THE ROOT OF THE WORLD -- THE DEVAMATRI AND
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Universe, the planetary chain and the earth; in the purely spiritual, the Unknown Deity, Planetary
Spirit, and Man -- the Son of the two, the creature of Spirit and Matter, and a manifestation of them in
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(a)? . . . . IN the Unknown DARKNESS IN THEIR AH-HI (Chohanic, Dhyani-Buddhic)
PARANISHPANNA, THE PRODUCERS OF FORM (rupa) FROM NO-FORM (arupa), THE
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conditioned. In the occult teachings, the Unknown and the Unknowable MOVER, or the SelfExisting, is the absolute divine Essence. And thus being Absolute Consciousness, and Absolute
Motion -- to the limited senses of those who describe this indescribable -- it is unconsciousness and
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Sons of Light and 'Mind-born Sons' of the first manifested Ray of the Unknown ALL, are the very
root of spiritual man." Unless we want to believe the unphilosophical dogma of a specially created soul
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Fohat is closely related to the "ONE LIFE." From the Unknown One, the Infinite TOTALITY, the
manifested ONE, or the periodical, Manvantaric Deity, emanates; and this is the Universal Mind,
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nation the symbol of the Unknown -- "Boundless Space," the abstract garb of an ever present
abstraction -- the Incognisable Deity. It represents limitless Time in Eternity. The Zeroana Akerne is
also the "Boundless Circle of the Unknown Time," from which Circle issues the radiant light -- the
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which regards this phenomenal Universe as a great Illusion, the nearer a body is to the Unknown
SUBSTANCE, the more it approaches reality, as being removed the farther
BOOK I. -- PART III. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
the Sphere of the Unknown," as a reverend gentleman justly complains, the number of hypotheses put
forward, a nebula in itself, is most remarkable. The profane student is perplexed, and does not know in
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us suppose that one cycle has thus been completed, the centre of the Unknown creative
force in its mighty journey through space having scattered along its track the primitive
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GOD, the Unknown "Not Spirit." There is nothing profane in the Universe. All Nature is a consecrated
place, as Young says: -"Each of these Stars is a religious house." . . . .
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veil. "It is the Unknown and the ever unknowable," warns the Monist-Agnostic. Not so; answers the
persevering chemist: -- "We are on the track and are not daunted, and fain would we enter the
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skeleton to the second plane and search within the Unknown depths for the living and real entity, for its
SUB-stance -- the noumenon of evanescent matter.
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way we turn our eyes we encounter a mystery . . . . all in Nature for us is the Unknown. . . Yet they are
numerous, those superficial minds for whom nothing can be produced by natural forces outside of
BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
Parabrahmam, the Unknown and the incognisable, as the lecturer tells his audience:
". . . . . Is not Ego, it is not non-ego, nor is it consciousness . . . . . it is not even Atma" . .
BS 1 - Introduction to the Idea of God, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Jung got very interested in dreams, and he started to understand the relationship between dreams and myths. He was deeply read in mythology, and he would see, in his clients dreams, echoes of stories that he knew. He started to believe that the dream was the birthplace of the myth and that there was a continual interaction between the two processes: the dream and the story, and storytelling. You can tell your dreams as stories, when you remember them, and some people remember dreams all the timetwo or three, at night. Ive had clients like that. They often have archetypal dreams that have very clear mythological structures. I think thats more the case with people who are creativeespecially if theyre a bit unstable at the timebecause the dream tends to occupy the space of uncertainty, and to concentrate on fleshing out the Unknown reality, before you get a real grip on it. So the dream is the birthplace of thinking. Thats a good way of thinking about it, because its not that clear. Its doing its best to formulate something. That was Jungs notion, as of post-Freud, who believed that there were internal censors that were hiding the dreams true message. Thats not what Jung believed. He believed the dream was doing its best to express a reality that was still outside of fully articulated, conscious comprehension.
A thought appears in your head, right? Thats obvious. Bangits nothing you ever asked about. What the hell does that mean? A thought appears in your head. What kind of ridiculous explanation is that? It just doesn't help with anything. Where does it come from? Well, nowhere. It just appears in my head. Thats not a very sophisticated explanation, as it turns out. You might think that those thoughts that you think...Well, where do they come from? Theyre often someone elses thoughtssomeone long dead. That might be part of itjust like the words you use to think are utterances of people who have been long dead. Youre informed by the spirit of your ancestors. Thats one way of looking at it.
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You have the Unknown world. Thats just what you dont know, at all. Thats outside the ocean that surrounds the island that you inhabit. Something like that. Its chaos itself. You act in that world, and you act in ways that you dont understand. Theres more to your actions than you can understand. One of the things that Jung said I loved this, when I first understood it. He says that everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. You should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy, and maybe you dont want it to be. Thats really worth thinking about, because you have a pattern of behaviour that characterizes you. God only knows where you got it. Its partly biological, and its partly from your parents; its your unconscious assumptions; its the way the philosophy of your society has shaped you; and its aiming you somewhere. Is it aiming you somewhere you want to go? Thats a good question. Thats part of self-realization.
We know we dont understand our actions. Almost every argument you have with someone is about that. Its like, why did you do that? You come up with some half-baked reasons why you did it; youre flailing around in the darkness; you try to give an account for yourself, but you can only do it partially. Its very, very difficult, because youre a complicated animal, with the beginnings of an articulated mind, and youre just way more than you can handle. So you act things out, and thats a kind of competence. Then you imagine what you act out, and you imagine what everyone else acts out. Theres a tremendous amount of information in your action, and that information is translated up into the dream, and then into art, mythology and literature. Theres a tremendous amount of information in that, and some of that is translated into articulated thought.
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This is the idea to begin with. We have the Unknown as such, and then we act in it like animals act. They act first; they dont think. They dont imagine; they act, and thats where we started. We started by acting, and then we started to be able to represent how we acted, and then we started to talk about how we represented how we acted. That enabled us to tell stories, because that is what a story is: its to tell about how you represent how you act. You know that, because if you read a book, what happens? You read the book, and images come to mind of the people in the book behaving. Its one step from acting it out. You dont act it out, because you can abstract. You can represent action without having to act it out. Its an amazing thing, and thats part of the development of the prefrontal cortex. Its part of the capacity for human abstract thought. You can pull the representation of the behaviour away from the behaviour and manipulate the representation before you enact it. Thats why you think, so that you can generate a pattern of action and test it out in a fictional world before you embody it and die because youre foolish. You let the representation die, not you. Thats why you think, and thats partly what were trying to do with these stories.
Section IV
COSA - BOOK III, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
doer, and the Unknown exigency of the period, severally vary. But when
Thou on a sudden commandest an unwonted and unthought of thing, yea,
COSA - BOOK V, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
over the Unknown paths of the abyss), nor their own luxuriousness, as
beasts of the field, that Thou, Lord, a consuming fire, mayest burn up
Ex Oblivione, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Some of the dream-sages wrote gorgeously of the wonders beyond the irrepassable gate, but others told of horror and disappointment. I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the Unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. So when I learned of the drug which would unlock the gate and drive me through, I resolved to take it when next I awaked.
Last night I swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when I came this time to the antique wall, I saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. From beyond came a glow that weirdly lit the giant twisted trees and the tops of the buried temples, and I drifted on songfully, expectant of the glories of the land from whence I should never return.
Gorgias, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The true statesman is aware that he must adapt himself to times and circumstances. He must have allies if he is to fight against the world; he must enlighten public opinion; he must accustom his followers to act together. Although he is not the mere executor of the will of the majority, he must win over the majority to himself. He is their leader and not their follower, but in order to lead he must also follow. He will neither exaggerate nor undervalue the power of a statesman, neither adopting the 'laissez faire' nor the 'paternal government' principle; but he will, whether he is dealing with children in politics, or with full-grown men, seek to do for the people what the government can do for them, and what, from imperfect education or deficient powers of combination, they cannot do for themselves. He knows that if he does too much for them they will do nothing; and that if he does nothing for them they will in some states of society be utterly helpless. For the many cannot exist without the few, if the material force of a country is from below, wisdom and experience are from above. It is not a small part of human evils which kings and governments make or cure. The statesman is well aware that a great purpose carried out consistently during many years will at last be executed. He is playing for a stake which may be partly determined by some accident, and therefore he will allow largely for the Unknown element of politics. But the game being one in which chance and skill are combined, if he plays long enough he is certain of victory. He will not be always consistent, for the world is changing; and though he depends upon the support of a party, he will remember that he is the minister of the whole. He lives not for the present, but for the future, and he is not at all sure that he will be appreciated either now or then. For he may have the existing order of society against him, and may not be remembered by a distant posterity.
There are always discontented idealists in politics who, like Socrates in the Gorgias, find fault with all statesmen past as well as present, not excepting the greatest names of history. Mankind have an uneasy feeling that they ought to be better governed than they are. Just as the actual philosopher falls short of the one wise man, so does the actual statesman fall short of the ideal. And so partly from vanity and egotism, but partly also from a true sense of the faults of eminent men, a temper of dissatisfaction and criticism springs up among those who are ready enough to acknowledge the inferiority of their own powers. No matter whether a statesman makes high professions or none at allthey are reduced sooner or later to the same level. And sometimes the more unscrupulous man is better esteemed than the more conscientious, because he has not equally deceived expectations. Such sentiments may be unjust, but they are widely spread; we constantly find them recurring in reviews and newspapers, and still oftener in private conversation.
Liber 111 - The Book of Wisdom - LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Reverence also to the Unknown unto whom thou presumeth to impart the
Knowledge; for he may be one greater than thou.
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Truth shall dissolve Fear. Rightly indeed Men say that the Unknown is
terrible; but wrongly do they fear lest it become the Known. Moreover,
Liber 46 - The Key of the Mysteries, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
reveals the Unknown. To understand this science, is to see God. The
author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has
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the Unknown, abandoning the rest to the investigations of science.
Doubt is, moreover, the mortal enemy of faith; faith feels that the
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One can only define the Unknown by its supposed and supposable
relations with the known. {15}
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even in the presence of the Unknown.
Faith is a sentiment necessary to the soul, just as breathing is to
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go? To the Unknown, the the abyss perhaps; no matter! But to the past,
to the cemeteries of oblivion, to the swaddling-clothes which our
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FAITH being the aspiration to the Unknown, the object of faith is
absolutely and necessarily this one thing --- Mystery.
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the Unknown.
For the Jew, God is separate from humanity; He does not live in His
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understood it, it would no longer be the formula of the Unknown.
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It would be the infinite finite, the Unknown known, the immeasurable
measured, the indicible named.
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do not know God? Can you reason about the operations of the Unknown?
Can you understand the mysteries of charity? I must always be absurd
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into the domain of the Unknown.
It is, then, faith alone that can give a solution to the mysteries of
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A------. or Desbarrolles, or Eliphas hearing the Unknown young priest
spoken of.
--
But, in order not to send back our readers from the Unknown to the
future, we shall detach beforeh and two chapters of that unpublished
--
extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the Unknown, and furnishes
it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great
--
it is about to fall into the gulf of the Unknown. It is accomplished;
it falls, it is crushed with pain, a strange cold seizes it, it
Liber 71 - The Voice of the Silence - The Two Paths - The Seven Portals, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
boundless fields of the Unknown.
The Candidate is exhorted to patience and one-pointedness, and, further
--
the Unknown originals ought, in her opinion, to have said. This method
saves much of the labour of research, and with a little luck it ought
Maps of Meaning text, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
2.3.4. The Great Mother: Images of the Unknown, or Unexplored Territory ___________________________ 124
2.3.5. The Divine Son: Images of the Knower, the Exploratory Process ______________________________ 145
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CHAPTER 5: THE HOSTILE BROTHERS: ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO the Unknown ________ 244
5.1. Introduction: The Hero and the Adversary _________________________________________________ 244
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5.3.2.2. The Material World as Archaic Locus of the Unknown _______________________________
5.3.2.3. Episodic Representation in Medieval Christendom ______________________________________
Sophist, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Hegel would have insisted that his philosophy should be accepted as a whole or not at all. He would have urged that the parts derived their meaning from one another and from the whole. He thought that he had supplied an outline large enough to contain all future knowledge, and a method to which all future philosophies must conform. His metaphysical genius is especially shown in the construction of the categoriesa work which was only begun by Kant, and elaborated to the utmost by himself. But is it really true that the part has no meaning when separated from the whole, or that knowledge to be knowledge at all must be universal? Do all abstractions shine only by the reflected light of other abstractions? May they not also find a nearer explanation in their relation to phenomena? If many of them are correlatives they are not all so, and the relations which subsist between them vary from a mere association up to a necessary connexion. Nor is it easy to determine how far the Unknown element affects the known, whether, for example, new discoveries may not one day supersede our most elementary notions about nature. To a certain extent all our knowledge is conditional upon what may be known in future ages of the world. We must admit this hypothetical element, which we cannot get rid of by an assumption that we have already discovered the method to which all philosophy must conform. Hegel is right in preferring the concrete to the abstract, in setting actuality before possibility, in excluding from the philosopher's vocabulary the word 'inconceivable.' But he is too well satisfied with his own system ever to consider the effect of what is unknown on the element which is known. To the Hegelian all things are plain and clear, while he who is outside the charmed circle is in the mire of ignorance and 'logical impurity': he who is within is omniscient, or at least has all the elements of knowledge under his hand.
Hegelianism may be said to be a transcendental defence of the world as it is. There is no room for aspiration and no need of any: 'What is actual is rational, what is rational is actual.' But a good man will not readily acquiesce in this aphorism. He knows of course that all things proceed according to law whether for good or evil. But when he sees the misery and ignorance of mankind he is convinced that without any interruption of the uniformity of nature the condition of the world may be indefinitely improved by human effort. There is also an adaptation of persons to times and countries, but this is very far from being the fulfilment of their higher natures. The man of the seventeenth century is unfitted for the eighteenth, and the man of the eighteenth for the nineteenth, and most of us would be out of place in the world of a hundred years hence. But all higher minds are much more akin than they are different: genius is of all ages, and there is perhaps more uniformity in excellence than in mediocrity. The sublimer intelligences of mankindPlato, Dante, Sir Thomas Moremeet in a higher sphere above the ordinary ways of men; they understand one another from afar, notwithstanding the interval which separates them. They are 'the spectators of all time and of all existence;' their works live for ever; and there is nothing to prevent the force of their individuality breaking through the uniformity which surrounds them. But such disturbers of the order of thought Hegel is reluctant to acknowledge.
Talks 051-075, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
been assumed there is the need to transcend them. It is like the ten ignorant fools who forded a stream and on reaching the other shore counted themselves to be nine only. They grew anxious and grieved over the loss of the Unknown tenth man. A wayfarer, on ascertaining the cause of their grief, counted them all and found them to be ten.
But each one of them had counted the others leaving himself out.
Talks 076-099, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Self instead of searching for the Unknown something beyond.
D.: Where shall I meditate on the Atman? I mean in which part of the body?
Talks 100-125, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
M.: Yena asrutam srutam bhavati (Chandogya Upanishad). (By knowing which, all the Unknown becomes known.)
Madhavaswami, Bhagavans attendant: Are there nine methods of teaching the Mahavakya Tattvamasi in the Chandogya Upanishad?
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
robot. the Unknown cannot be distorted or misrepresented. The
caricature of the more ferocious type is the rape of an image, an optical
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'merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the Unknown where,
by the dim light of the knowledge that we carry, we may glimpse
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connect the Unknown with the familiar, and show the familiar in an
unexpected light. It weaves the raw material of experience into pat-
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the analytical method, which treats the Unknown solution of a geo-
metrical problem as if it were already known, then inquires from what
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from the Unknown to the given plays an important role in mathematical
reasoning, this is by no means always the case in problem-solving;
The Book (short story), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Nor could I ever after see the world as I had known it. Mixed with the present scene was always a little of the past and a little of the future, and every once-familiar object loomed alien in the new perspective brought by my widened sight. From then on I walked in a fantastic dream of unknown and half-known shapes; and with each new gateway crossed, the less plainly could I recognise the things of the narrow sphere to which I had so long been bound. What I saw about me, none else saw; and I grew doubly silent and aloof lest I be thought mad. Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side. But still I read more - in hidden, forgotten books and scrolls to which my new vision led me - and pushed through fresh gateways of space and being and lifepatterns toward the core of the Unknown cosmos.
I remember the night I made the five concentric circles of fire on the floor, and stood in the innermost one chanting that monstrous litany the messenger from Tartary had brought. The walls melted away, and I was swept by a black wind through gulfs of fathomless grey with the needle-like pinnacles of unknown mountains miles below me.
The Divine Names Text (Dionysis), #The Divine Names, #unset, #Zen
But, as we said when we put forth the Theological Outlines, it is not possible either to express or to conceive what the One, the Unknown, the Super-essential self-existing Good is,----I mean the threefold Unity, the alike God, and the alike Good. But even the unions, such as befit angels, of the holy Powers, whether we must call them efforts after, or receptions from, the super-Unknown and surpassing Goodness, are both unutterable and unknown, and exist in those angels alone who, above angelic knowledge, are deemed worthy of them. The godlike minds (men) made one by these unions, through imitation of angels as far as attainable (since it is during cessation of every mental energy that such an union as this of the deified minds towards the super-divine light takes place) celebrate It most appropriately through the abstraction of all created things----enlightened in this matter, truly and super-naturally from the most blessed union towards It----that It is Cause Indeed of all things existing, but Itself none of them, as being superessentially elevated above all. To none, indeed, who are lovers of the Truth above all Truth, is it permitted to celebrate |9 the supremely-Divine Essentiality----that which is the super-subsistence of the super-goodness,----neither as word or power, neither as mind or life or essence, but as pre-eminently separated from every condition, movement, life, imagination, surmise, name, word, thought, conception, essence, position, stability, union, boundary, infinitude, all things whatever. But since, as sustaining source of goodness, by the very fact of Its being, It is cause of all things that be, from all created things must we celebrate the benevolent Providence of the Godhead; for all things are both around It and for It, and It is before all things, and all things in It consist, and by Its being is the production and sustenance of the whole, and all things aspire to It----the intellectual and rational, by means of knowledge----things inferior to these, through the senses, and other things by living movement, or substantial and habitual aptitude.
SECTION VI.
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
district of Paris delivers to whoever desires it, according to the price offered, the Unknown
Rembrandt or the au thentic Teniers. A skilled artisan of the Halles district of Paris can shape
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With its following of mystery and the Unknown, behind its veil of illuminism and marvel,
alchemy evokes a past full of distant stories, wonderful tales, and surprising testimonies. Its
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aside the study of inert matter and direct our researches towards the Unknown animator, agent
of so many marvels.
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falsified chronology of the Unknown annotator. In 1404 Raoul de Grosparmy was indeed Lord
of Beuville and of Flers (7) , and although we do not know how he became its owner, this fact
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equally distant from Flers and Lisieux, it would be possible that the Unknown Adept, retired in
the Manor of the Salamander, had received his first instruction from some master belonging to
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algebra, X is the Unknown quantity; it is also the problem to be solved, the solution to be
discovered; it is the Pythagorean sign of multiplication, and the element to cast out the nines
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philosophers to the sole philosophers stone all belong to the Unknown substances obtained
from chemical materials and bodies but treated according to the secret technique of our
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old feudal fortress of Chateau-Gaillard (3) , we are still ignorant of the Unknown and mysterious
individual to whom Hermetic philosophers owe the symbolic pieces which they shelter.
--
emblem brings us proof that the Unknown Adept of Dampierre had knowledge, it also
convinces us of the futility, the uselessness of any of our attempts to identify his true
--
from the known to the Unknown by the analogical method, should one desire to approach the
truth about a subject which caused the despair and ruin of so many investigators more
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genuine museum of alchemical emblems, and put our Adept among the Unknown masters who
were the most learned in the mysteries of the sacred Art.
--
and with the Unknown...
In their fixed attitude, the four stone guardians seem to emerge imprecise and blurred from the
--
raised edges. Among the Unknown shapes of which, for the most part, only the names come
down to us, the following sundials were quoted: Arache, on which it was said, the hours were
the Eternal Wisdom, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
21) Be patient, as one who fears no check and does not court success. Fix the gaze of thy soul on the star of which thou art the ray, the flaming star which burns in the obscure depths of the eternal, in the limitless fields of the Unknown. ~ Book of Golden Precepts
22) Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 38
The Garden of Forking Paths 1, #Selected Fictions, #unset, #Zen
What remains is unreal and unimportant. Madden broke in and arrested me. I have been condemned to hang. Abominably, I have yet triumphed! The secret name of the city to be attacked got through to Berlin. Yesterday it was bombed. I read the news in the same English newspapers which were trying to solve the riddle of the murder of the learned Sinologist Stephen Albert by the Unknown Yu Tsun. The Chief, however, had already solved this mystery. He knew that my problem was to shout, with my feeble voice, above the tumult of war, the name of the city called Albert, and that I had no other course open to me than to kill someone of that name. He does not know, for no one can, of my infinite penitence and sickness of the heart.
'
The Gold Bug, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
"But, having established a single word, we are enabled to establish a vastly important point; that is to say, several commencements and terminations of other words. Let us refer, for example, to the last instance but one, in which the combination ;48 occurs --not far from the end of the cipher. We know that the semicolon immediately ensuing is the commencement of a word, and, of the six characters succeeding this 'the,' we are cognizant of no less than five. Let us set these characters down, thus, by the letters we know them to represent, leaving a space for the Unknown--
t eeth
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"Now, if, in place of the Unknown characters, we leave blank spaces, or substitute dots, we read thus:
the tree thr . . . h the,
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"Translating the known characters, and representing the Unknown by dots, as before, we read thus:
th . rtee .
The Immortal, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
The story ends with a brief postscript which discusses the fictional book A Coat of Many Colours by Dr. Nahum Cordovero, which argues that the tale of Rufus/Cartaphilus is apocryphal, on the basis of its interpolations of texts by Pliny, Thomas de Quincey, Rene Descartes, and George Bernard Shaw. The postscript ends with the Unknown author of the postscript rejecting Cordovero's claim.
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I cannot say how many days and nights passed over me. In pain, unable to return to the shelter of the caverns, naked on the Unknown sand, I let the moon and the sun cast lots for my bleak fate. The Troglodytes, childlike in their barbarity, helped me neither survive nor die. In vain did I plead with them to kill me. One day, with the sharp edge of a flake of rock, I severed my bonds. The next, I stood up and was able to beg or steal - I, Marcus Flaminius Rufus, military tribune of one of the legions of Rome - my first abominated mouthful of serpent's flesh.
Out of avidity to see the Immortals, to touch that more than human City, I could hardly sleep. And as though the Troglodytes could divine my goal, they did not sleep, either. At first I presumed they were keeping a watch over me; later, I imagined that my uneasiness had communicated itself to them, as dogs can be infected in that way. For my departure from the barbarous village I chose the most public of times, sunset, when almost all the men emerged from their holes and crevices in the earth and gazed out unseeingly toward the west. I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech. I crossed the stream bed clogged with sandbars and turned my steps toward the City.
The Library Of Babel 2, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
to the Unknown gods that some man-even a single man, tens of centuries
ago-has perused and read that book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of
The Library of Babel, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
universe3; I pray to the Unknown gods that a man -- just one, even though it were
thousands of years ago! -- may have examined and read it. If honor and wisdom
The Logomachy of Zos, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The dilemma facing those who search for the Unknown (Self and Truth)
is that they will never know when they have found it.
--
hidden and the Unknown are affinities, ever ubiquitous and much
inhibited.
--
In relating ourselves- the Unknown, the receding- everything that
escapes the geocentric seems more significant.
The Riddle of this World, #unknown, #Unknown, #unset
interpreted as the call of the Unknown, the joy of danger and difficulty
and adventure, the will to attempt the impossible, to work out the
The Shadow Out Of Time, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
camel trip into the Unknown deserts of Arabia. What happened on those journeys I have
never been able to learn.
--
and meaningless scraps of the Unknown tongues which my dream-self had mastered,
though whole phrases of the history stayed with me.
Verses of Vemana, #is Book, #unset, #Zen
If the Unknown being by meditation appear in thy mind thereafter to say he is dead merely signifies his ultimate tie; when, thou die give up all earthy connections and worship (Sarvsa) the Lord of all (total obscurity).
228
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The Lingam is the highest Siva. The (Zangam) worshipper, is the animated beast. If that animated being be pure, he shall attain Siva, Unless thou know the Unknown, how shalt thou attain the divinity.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- -- Madhouse -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- With all of the Clow Cards recaptured and changed into her own Sakura Cards, Sakura Kinomoto now enters her first year at Tomoeda Middle School. After her initial day of classes, Sakura reunites with her love Shaoran Li, who informs her that he is permanently moving back to Tomoeda. Much to her surprise, it even turns out that Shaoran will attend the same school and it seems as if Sakura's life is heading in all the right directions. -- -- However, when Sakura goes to sleep, she encounters in her dream a mysterious cloaked figure and finds herself surrounded by transparent cards. Waking up in fear, Sakura is shocked to see her dream has come true, with the Sakura Cards having turned clear. Continued dreamlike encounters with the unknown enemy and her gaining a new magical key sets the stage for Cardcaptor Sakura's latest adventure! -- -- 95,298 7.65
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- -- Madhouse -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- With all of the Clow Cards recaptured and changed into her own Sakura Cards, Sakura Kinomoto now enters her first year at Tomoeda Middle School. After her initial day of classes, Sakura reunites with her love Shaoran Li, who informs her that he is permanently moving back to Tomoeda. Much to her surprise, it even turns out that Shaoran will attend the same school and it seems as if Sakura's life is heading in all the right directions. -- -- However, when Sakura goes to sleep, she encounters in her dream a mysterious cloaked figure and finds herself surrounded by transparent cards. Waking up in fear, Sakura is shocked to see her dream has come true, with the Sakura Cards having turned clear. Continued dreamlike encounters with the unknown enemy and her gaining a new magical key sets the stage for Cardcaptor Sakura's latest adventure! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 95,298 7.65
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Gantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Gunjou no Magmell -- -- Pierrot Plus -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Super Power Fantasy Shounen -- Gunjou no Magmell Gunjou no Magmell -- A new era of exploration begins with the sudden appearance of a new continent known as Magmell. Magmell's vast trove of never-before-seen natural resources spurs on the exploration of its vast landscape. However, the unknown is not always docile. In order to sustain the expeditions, people known as "anglers" specialize in dealing with Magmell's dangerous wildlife. One such angler is the highly-skilled and experienced Inyou, who performs search and rescue operations for clients with the help of his assistant, Zero. -- -- 105,149 6.04
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Comedy Psychological Romance School Seinen -- Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 3rd Season -- Third season of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen. -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 138,754 N/AGantz 2nd Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Gantz 2nd Stage Gantz 2nd Stage -- Kurono Kei and his ex-elementary school classmate, Kato Masaru have survived the first two ordeals that the unknown black sphere Gantz has sent them through. Exploding body parts, struggling to stay alive till the last seconds and seeing your fellow comrades fall in a pile of blood and gore are norm to them now. They are aware now that Gantz can call them up along with any new deeds, at any time for another confrontation with aliens. -- -- Will Kato's experiences in the Gantz world give him the same courage in the real world? With fellow veteran Gantzer Kei Kishimoto currently staying at Kurono's home as his "adopted pet", can Kurono stave off his growing lust for her mammaries? -- -- What the heck is Gantz? -- -- (Source: anime-source.com) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- TV - Aug 26, 2004 -- 138,168 7.08
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Psychological Slice of Life -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World -- Kino, a 15-year-old traveler, forms a bond with Hermes, a talking motorcycle. Together, they wander the lands and venture through various countries and places, despite having no clear idea of what to expect. After all, life is a journey filled with the unknown. -- -- Throughout their journeys, they encounter different kinds of customs, from the morally gray to tragic and fascinating. They also meet many people: some who live to work, some who live to make others happy, and some who live to chase their dreams. Thus, in every country they visit, there is always something to learn from the way people carry out their lives. -- -- It is not up to Kino or Hermes to decide whether these asserted values are wrong or right, as they merely assume the roles of observers within this small world. They do not attempt to change or influence the places they visit, despite how absurd these values would appear. That's because in one way or another, they believe things are fine as they are, and that "the world is not beautiful; therefore, it is." -- -- 234,132 8.33
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Psychological Slice of Life -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World -- Kino, a 15-year-old traveler, forms a bond with Hermes, a talking motorcycle. Together, they wander the lands and venture through various countries and places, despite having no clear idea of what to expect. After all, life is a journey filled with the unknown. -- -- Throughout their journeys, they encounter different kinds of customs, from the morally gray to tragic and fascinating. They also meet many people: some who live to work, some who live to make others happy, and some who live to chase their dreams. Thus, in every country they visit, there is always something to learn from the way people carry out their lives. -- -- It is not up to Kino or Hermes to decide whether these asserted values are wrong or right, as they merely assume the roles of observers within this small world. They do not attempt to change or influence the places they visit, despite how absurd these values would appear. That's because in one way or another, they believe things are fine as they are, and that "the world is not beautiful; therefore, it is." -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- 234,132 8.33
Kowabon -- -- ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Horror -- Kowabon Kowabon -- In today's world full of wondrous technological innovation, the unnatural and mysterious sometimes appear even more horrifying than usual. But despite how far society has advanced, the fear of the unknown always remains. The unfortunate participants in Kowabon find themselves in such a predicament, experiencing the supernatural through their everyday technology. From a frightening sight caught on a parking garage camera to a video chat that takes an unexpected turn, the victims struggle to escape that which haunts them. However, what awaits these doomed souls may be a fate even worse than death... -- -- 30,373 5.23
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Tsuioku-hen -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Supernatural Magic -- Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Tsuioku-hen Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Tsuioku-hen -- Looking at Miyuki and Tatsuya now, it might be hard to imagine them as anything other than loving siblings. But it wasn't always this way.. -- -- Three years ago, Miyuki was always uncomfortable around her older brother. The rest of their family treated him no better than a lowly servant, even though he was the perfect Guardian, watching over Miyuki while she lived a normal middle school life. But what really bothered her was that he never showed any emotions or thoughts of his own. -- -- However, when danger comes calling during a fateful trip to Okinawa, their relationship as brother and sister will change forever… -- -- (Source: Yen Press) -- - - ??? ??, ???? -- 25,203 N/ASakasama no Patema: Beginning of the Day -- -- Purple Cow Studio Japan, Studio Rikka -- 4 eps -- - -- Sci-Fi -- Sakasama no Patema: Beginning of the Day Sakasama no Patema: Beginning of the Day -- This is an online distribution of the prologue of the movie, illustrating the first day of the entire story. -- -- A world, forever beyond your expectations. -- -- In a dark, cramped, underground world of endless tunnels and shafts, people wear protective suits and live out their modest yet happy lives. The princess of the underground community, Patema, goes out exploring as always, inspired by her curiosity of the unknown depths of the world. -- -- Her favorite spot is the "danger zone," an area forbidden by the "rule" of the community. Despite being frequently chastised by her caretaker Jii, she cannot hold back her curiosity for the reason behind the rule, because no one would tell her what the "danger" was. When she approaches the hidden "secret," the story begins. -- -- (Source: translation of a synopsis from the nicovideo news) -- Special - Feb 26, 2012 -- 25,203 7.38
Qualidea Code -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Magic Supernatural -- Qualidea Code Qualidea Code -- On a quiet and peaceful day, the skies split open and extradimensional beings, designated as the Unknown, launch a swift and brutal attack against humanity. To protect the future of the country, all of Japan's children are cryogenically frozen until the end of the war to keep them out of harm's way. -- -- Several years pass, and humanity has established a foothold in a corner of Japan, which now serves as the frontline of the war. No longer facing humanity's extinction, the children are awakened from their slumber. It is then discovered that, while in cryogenesis, the children had developed Worlds, supernatural powers unique to each person. The six most powerful children are given command of the reclaimed cities, using their powers to defend the strongholds against the continuing invasion. Childhood friends Ichiya Suzaku and Canaria Utara lead Tokyo, siblings Kasumi and Asuha Chigusa manage Chiba, and Maihime Tenkawa and Hotaru Rindou oversee Kanagawa. -- -- Over time, the almost routine attacks from the Unknown and the clashing personalities of the city heads and subheads cultivate petty rivalries, leading to constant arguments between the three cities. With the Unknown suddenly increasing the pressure of their attacks, the three cities' leaders must learn how to work together or risk losing the last line of defense against humanity's extinction. -- -- 141,255 6.50
Sora yori mo Tooi Basho -- -- Madhouse -- 13 eps -- Original -- Adventure Comedy Drama -- Sora yori mo Tooi Basho Sora yori mo Tooi Basho -- Filled with an overwhelming sense of wonder for the world around her, Mari Tamaki has always dreamt of what lies beyond the reaches of the universe. However, despite harboring such large aspirations on the inside, her fear of the unknown and anxiety over her own possible limitations have always held her back from chasing them. But now, in her second year of high school, Mari is more determined than ever to not let any more of her youth go to waste. Still, her fear continues to prevent her from taking that ambitious step forward—that is, until she has a chance encounter with a girl who has grand dreams of her own. -- -- Spurred by her mother's disappearance, Shirase Kobuchizawa has been working hard to fund her trip to Antarctica. Despite facing doubt and ridicule from virtually everyone, Shirase is determined to embark on this expedition to search for her mother in a place further than the universe itself. Inspired by Shirase's resolve, Mari jumps at the chance to join her. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail toward the frozen south. -- -- Sora yori mo Tooi Basho follows the captivating journey of four spirited girls, all in search of something great. -- -- 359,273 8.56
Terra e... (TV) -- -- Minami Machi Bugyousho, Tokyo Kids -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Shounen -- Terra e... (TV) Terra e... (TV) -- In the future, humans are living on colonized planets and are controlled in every aspect of their life by a system of computers. Evolution has resulted in the birth of people with extraordinary powers. This new race is called Mu. Hated and feared by the humans, the Mu dream of a place to live in peace: Earth—a mystical far away planet—for humanity had to leave their home long ago as pollution and destruction increased and made it impossible to stay there any longer. -- -- Jomy is a boy excitedly awaiting his birthday, the day he will enter the world of adults. Yet he knows nothing about the unknown powers sleeping in him and the shared dream of returning to Earth one day. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- 54,008 7.92
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Misaka-san wa Ima Chuumoku no Mato Desu kara -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power -- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Misaka-san wa Ima Chuumoku no Mato Desu kara Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Misaka-san wa Ima Chuumoku no Mato Desu kara -- Continuing after the Level Upper incident, another phenomenon torments Misaka. A phenomenon called "Someone's Watching," its effect feels like the electricity in one's body flow backwards. With the help of her friends, Misaka fights against the unknown enemy. -- OVA - Sep 26, 2010 -- 58,235 7.47
Yami Shibai 2 -- -- ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 2 Yami Shibai 2 -- For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machine that returns lost possessions, and a strange food called Ominie-san. -- -- Building on the foundation that was laid by the first, Yami Shibai 2 is a collection of Japanese scary stories of the unknown and the occult that are truly terrifying, narrated in a style of art that mimics kamishibai storytelling. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 7, 2014 -- 38,170 6.50
Yami Shibai 2 -- -- ILCA -- 13 eps -- Original -- Dementia Horror Supernatural -- Yami Shibai 2 Yami Shibai 2 -- For the second time, the masked storyteller returns to tell children tales and legends of horror and woe, such as the tale of a ventriloquist's dummy, a locker that grants wishes, a capsule toy machine that returns lost possessions, and a strange food called Ominie-san. -- -- Building on the foundation that was laid by the first, Yami Shibai 2 is a collection of Japanese scary stories of the unknown and the occult that are truly terrifying, narrated in a style of art that mimics kamishibai storytelling. -- -- TV - Jul 7, 2014 -- 38,170 6.50
Zettai Shounen -- -- Ajia-Do -- 26 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Mystery Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Zettai Shounen Zettai Shounen -- Oftentimes, people are most vulnerable when they are lonely and unable to get along with those around them. Isolation is felt more keenly amongst a crowd, so some will try to find solace in the strangest of places, where the unknown lurks. Such people include Ayumu Aizawa, a former city boy now living in the countryside of Tana, and Kisa Tanigawa, a young girl who has a hard time relating to others. What these two share in common is a feeling that their life has gone astray. -- -- Zettai Shounen tells a story of strange phenomena affecting two different settings, with no explanations of their origin or sudden appearance. All that is known is that these phenomena seem to center on individuals with mixed emotions toward themselves and others. -- -- 17,196 6.93
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