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Full_Circle
Liber_157_-_The_Tao_Teh_King
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
Process_and_Reality
The_Categories
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Heros_Journey
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Republic
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead

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IN CHAPTERS TEXT
00.02_-_Mystic_Symbolism
00.03_-_Upanishadic_Symbolism
00.04_-_The_Beautiful_in_the_Upanishads
0.00a_-_Introduction
0.00_-_The_Book_of_Lies_Text
0.00_-_THE_GOSPEL_PREFACE
0.00_-_The_Wellspring_of_Reality
0.03_-_Letters_to_My_little_smile
0.03_-_The_Threefold_Life
0.04_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.08_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0.09_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Teacher
01.02_-_Sri_Aurobindo_-_Ahana_and_Other_Poems
01.03_-_Yoga_and_the_Ordinary_Life
01.04_-_The_Poetry_in_the_Making
01.08_-_A_Theory_of_Yoga
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
01.12_-_Goethe
01.12_-_Three_Degrees_of_Social_Organisation
01.13_-_T._S._Eliot:_Four_Quartets
0.11_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.12_-_Letters_to_a_Student
0.13_-_Letters_to_a_Student
0_1956-05-02
0_1958-02-03b_-_The_Supramental_Ship
0_1958-05-10
0_1958-09-16_-_OM_NAMO_BHAGAVATEH
0_1958-10-04
0_1958-11-08
0_1958_12_-_Floor_1,_young_girl,_we_shall_kill_the_young_princess_-_black_tent
0_1959-10-06_-_Sri_Aurobindos_abode
0_1959-11-25
0_1960-07-26_-_Mothers_vision_-_looking_up_words_in_the_subconscient
0_1960-09-20
0_1960-10-08
0_1960-10-11
0_1960-10-22
0_1960-10-30
0_1960-11-26
0_1960-12-31
0_1961-01-10
0_1961-01-12
0_1961-01-24
0_1961-01-27
0_1961-02-04
0_1961-02-11
0_1961-02-25
0_1961-03-07
0_1961-03-14
0_1961-03-21
0_1961-04-22
0_1961-04-29
0_1961-06-02
0_1961-06-27
0_1961-07-28
0_1961-08-05
0_1961-08-08
0_1961-08-18
0_1961-08-25
0_1961-09-10
0_1961-10-02
0_1961-10-30
0_1961-12-16
0_1961-12-23
0_1962-01-12_-_supramental_ship
0_1962-02-24
0_1962-02-27
0_1962-03-06
0_1962-03-11
0_1962-05-15
0_1962-06-30
0_1962-07-31
0_1962-09-05
0_1962-09-08
0_1962-09-15
0_1962-10-12
0_1962-12-19
0_1963-03-19
0_1963-08-07
0_1963-09-18
0_1963-09-25
0_1963-10-03
0_1964-07-22
0_1964-08-14
0_1964-08-22
0_1964-10-07
0_1964-10-24a
0_1964-11-21
0_1964-11-25
0_1965-06-02
0_1965-07-24
0_1965-11-27
0_1966-01-22
0_1966-04-16
0_1966-05-14
0_1966-06-02
0_1966-08-10
0_1966-08-24
0_1967-01-09
0_1967-02-08
0_1967-04-03
0_1967-04-27
0_1967-07-19
0_1967-11-29
0_1967-12-30
0_1968-01-24
0_1968-03-02
0_1968-03-16
0_1968-08-28
0_1968-09-04
0_1968-11-16
0_1968-12-28
0_1969-01-04
0_1969-02-08
0_1969-03-19
0_1969-07-19
0_1969-08-09
0_1969-08-20
0_1969-09-24
0_1969-11-19
0_1969-12-13
0_1970-03-25
0_1970-03-28
0_1970-04-22
0_1970-10-31
0_1971-01-16
0_1971-04-10
0_1971-04-14
0_1971-04-21
0_1971-06-12
0_1971-07-03
0_1971-12-11
0_1972-01-12
0_1972-03-22
0_1972-03-29b
0_1972-04-04
0_1972-04-19
0_1972-05-06
0_1972-07-22
0_1972-08-09
0_1972-12-02
0_1972-12-06
02.01_-_Our_Ideal
02.02_-_Lines_of_the_Descent_of_Consciousness
02.03_-_The_Shakespearean_Word
02.05_-_Robert_Graves
02.12_-_Mysticism_in_Bengali_Poetry
02.13_-_On_Social_Reconstruction
03.01_-_Humanism_and_Humanism
03.01_-_The_Evolution_of_Consciousness
03.02_-_Yogic_Initiation_and_Aptitude
03.03_-_The_Inner_Being_and_the_Outer_Being
03.04_-_Towardsa_New_Ideology
03.05_-_The_Spiritual_Genius_of_India
03.06_-_Divine_Humanism
03.08_-_The_Standpoint_of_Indian_Art
03.09_-_Art_and_Katharsis
03.10_-_Sincerity
03.11_-_Modernist_Poetry
03.12_-_The_Spirit_of_Tapasya
03.13_-_Human_Destiny
03.14_-_Mater_Dolorosa
04.03_-_Consciousness_as_Energy
04.03_-_The_Eternal_East_and_West
04.05_-_The_Immortal_Nation
04.09_-_Values_Higher_and_Lower
05.01_-_Man_and_the_Gods
05.02_-_Gods_Labour
05.03_-_Bypaths_of_Souls_Journey
05.03_-_The_Body_Natural
05.04_-_The_Measure_of_Time
05.05_-_In_Quest_of_Reality
05.08_-_True_Charity
05.10_-_Children_and_Child_Mentality
05.12_-_The_Soul_and_its_Journey
05.13_-_Darshana_and_Philosophy
05.16_-_A_Modernist_Mentality
05.18_-_Man_to_be_Surpassed
05.34_-_Light,_more_Light
06.03_-_Types_of_Meditation
06.07_-_Total_Transformation_Demands_Total_Rejection
06.09_-_How_to_Wait
06.10_-_Fatigue_and_Work
06.12_-_The_Expanding_Body-Consciousness
06.15_-_Ever_Green
06.19_-_Mental_Silence
06.33_-_The_Constants_of_the_Spirit
06.35_-_Second_Sight
07.02_-_The_Spiral_Universe
07.08_-_The_Divine_Truth_Its_Name_and_Form
07.10_-_Diseases_and_Accidents
07.15_-_Divine_Disgust
07.20_-_Why_are_Dreams_Forgotten?
07.22_-_Mysticism_and_Occultism
07.25_-_Prayer_and_Aspiration
07.31_-_Images_of_Gods_and_Goddesses
07.36_-_The_Body_and_the_Psychic
07.37_-_The_Psychic_Being,_Some_Mysteries
07.38_-_Past_Lives_and_the_Psychic_Being
07.45_-_Specialisation
08.01_-_Choosing_To_Do_Yoga
08.03_-_Organise_Your_Life
08.05_-_Will_and_Desire
08.06_-_A_Sign_and_a_Symbol
08.07_-_Sleep_and_Pain
08.09_-_Spirits_in_Trees
08.13_-_Thought_and_Imagination
08.14_-_Poetry_and_Poetic_Inspiration
08.19_-_Asceticism
08.20_-_Are_Not_The_Ascetic_Means_Helpful_At_Times?
08.21_-_Human_Birth
08.22_-_Regarding_the_Body
08.24_-_On_Food
08.27_-_Value_of_Religious_Exercises
08.30_-_Dealing_with_a_Wrong_Movement
08.33_-_Opening_to_the_Divine
08.35_-_Love_Divine
09.03_-_The_Psychic_Being
09.04_-_The_Divine_Grace
09.05_-_The_Story_of_Love
100.00_-_Synergy
10.05_-_Mind_and_the_Mental_World
10.08_-_Consciousness_as_Freedom
1.00_-_INTRODUCTORY_REMARKS
1.00_-_Preliminary_Remarks
1.013_-_Defence_Mechanisms_of_the_Mind
10.13_-_Go_Through
10.14_-_Night_and_Day
10.17_-_Miracles:_Their_True_Significance
10.18_-_Short_Notes_-_1-_The_Sense_of_Earthly_Evolution
1.01_-_Adam_Kadmon_and_the_Evolution
1.01_-_Archetypes_of_the_Collective_Unconscious
1.01_-_Economy
1.01_-_Maitreya_inquires_of_his_teacher_(Parashara)
1.01_-_MAPS_OF_EXPERIENCE_-_OBJECT_AND_MEANING
1.01_-_On_renunciation_of_the_world
1.01_-_Principles_of_Practical_Psycho_therapy
1.01_-_Soul_and_God
1.01_-_The_Ego
1.01_-_The_First_Steps
1.01_-_The_Four_Aids
1.01_-_The_Human_Aspiration
1.01_-_The_Science_of_Living
1.01_-_The_Unexpected
1.020_-_The_World_and_Our_World
1.02.2.1_-_Brahman_-_Oneness_of_God_and_the_World
10.24_-_Savitri
1.02_-_Education
1.02_-_Karmayoga
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Of_certain_spiritual_imperfections_which_beginners_have_with_respect_to_the_habit_of_pride.
1.02_-_Prana
1.02_-_Pranayama,_Mantrayoga
1.02_-_Prayer_of_Parashara_to_Vishnu
1.02_-_SADHANA_PADA
1.02_-_Self-Consecration
1.02_-_Taras_Tantra
1.02_-_The_Child_as_growing_being_and_the_childs_experience_of_encountering_the_teacher.
1.02_-_The_Magic_Circle
1.02_-_The_Shadow
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.02_-_The_Three_European_Worlds
1.02_-_The_Virtues
1.02_-_What_is_Psycho_therapy?
1.032_-_Our_Concept_of_God
10.35_-_The_Moral_and_the_Spiritual
1.035_-_The_Recitation_of_Mantra
1.038_-_Impediments_in_Concentration_and_Meditation
1.03_-_A_Sapphire_Tale
1.03_-_Concerning_the_Archetypes,_with_Special_Reference_to_the_Anima_Concept
1.03_-_Hieroglypics__Life_and_Language_Necessarily_Symbolic
1.03_-_Invocation_of_Tara
1.03_-_Man_-_Slave_or_Free?
1.03_-_Measure_of_time,_Moments_of_Kashthas,_etc.
1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others
1.03_-_Supernatural_Aid
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_The_House_Of_The_Lord
1.03_-_THE_STUDY_(The_Exorcism)
1.03_-_The_Syzygy_-_Anima_and_Animus
1.03_-_Time_Series,_Information,_and_Communication
1.045_-_Piercing_the_Structure_of_the_Object
1.04_-_Feedback_and_Oscillation
1.04_-_Sounds
1.04_-_Te_Shan_Carrying_His_Bundle
1.04_-_The_Aims_of_Psycho_therapy
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She
1.04_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda
1.04_-_The_Praise
1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice
1.04_-_The_Self
1.04_-_The_Silent_Mind
1.04_-_What_Arjuna_Saw_-_the_Dark_Side_of_the_Force
1.056_-_Lack_of_Knowledge_is_the_Cause_of_Suffering
1.05_-_AUERBACHS_CELLAR
1.05_-_CHARITY
1.05_-_Christ,_A_Symbol_of_the_Self
1.05_-_Consciousness
1.05_-_Dharana
1.05_-_Knowledge_by_Aquaintance_and_Knowledge_by_Description
1.05_-_Mental_Education
1.05_-_Problems_of_Modern_Psycho_therapy
1.05_-_Ritam
1.05_-_Solitude
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_The_Creative_Principle
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_The_Magical_Control_of_the_Weather
1.05_-_The_Universe__The_0_=_2_Equation
1.05_-_War_And_Politics
1.06_-_Being_Human_and_the_Copernican_Principle
1.06_-_Dhyana
1.06_-_Magicians_as_Kings
1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD
1.06_-_On_Induction
1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital
1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life
1.06_-_The_Sign_of_the_Fishes
1.06_-_WITCHES_KITCHEN
1.06_-_Yun_Men's_Every_Day_is_a_Good_Day
1.075_-_Self-Control,_Study_and_Devotion_to_God
1.078_-_Kumbhaka_and_Concentration_of_Mind
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_Bridge_across_the_Afterlife
1.07_-_Incarnate_Human_Gods
1.07_-_Medicine_and_Psycho_therapy
1.07_-_Note_on_the_word_Go
1.07_-_On_Dreams
1.07_-_On_Our_Knowledge_of_General_Principles
1.07_-_Production_of_the_mind-born_sons_of_Brahma
1.07_-_Savitri
1.07_-_The_Farther_Reaches_of_Human_Nature
1.07_-_The_Fire_of_the_New_World
1.07_-_The_Magic_Wand
1.07_-_The_Process_of_Evolution
1.07_-_The_Psychic_Center
1.08_-_Attendants
1.08_-_Information,_Language,_and_Society
1.08_-_Origin_of_Rudra:_his_becoming_eight_Rudras
1.08_-_Psycho_therapy_Today
1.08_-_Sri_Aurobindos_Descent_into_Death
1.08_-_Summary
1.08_-_The_Four_Austerities_and_the_Four_Liberations
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.08_-_The_Historical_Significance_of_the_Fish
1.08_-_The_Magic_Sword,_Dagger_and_Trident
1.08_-_The_Methods_of_Vedantic_Knowledge
1.097_-_Sublimation_of_Object-Consciousness
1.09_-_Civilisation_and_Culture
1.09_-_Of_the_signs_by_which_it_will_be_known_that_the_spiritual_person_is_walking_along_the_way_of_this_night_and_purgation_of_sense.
1.09_-_Sleep_and_Death
1.09_-_The_Secret_Chiefs
1.1.01_-_Certitudes
1.1.01_-_Seeking_the_Divine
1.1.01_-_The_Divine_and_Its_Aspects
1.1.02_-_Sachchidananda
1.1.04_-_The_Self_or_Atman
11.04_-_The_Triple_Cord
1.1.05_-_The_Siddhis
11.06_-_The_Mounting_Fire
1.10_-_Concentration_-_Its_Practice
1.10_-_Relics_of_Tree_Worship_in_Modern_Europe
1.10_-_The_Revolutionary_Yogi
1.10_-_The_Three_Modes_of_Nature
1.1.1.01_-_Three_Elements_of_Poetic_Creation
1.1.1.06_-_Inspiration_and_Effort
1.1.1.08_-_Self-criticism
1.11_-_Higher_Laws
1.11_-_On_Intuitive_Knowledge
1.11_-_The_Kalki_Avatar
1.11_-_The_Seven_Rivers
1.11_-_Works_and_Sacrifice
1.12_-_Delight_of_Existence_-_The_Solution
1.12_-_God_Departs
1.1.2_-_Intellect_and_the_Intellectual
1.12_-_Sleep_and_Dreams
1.12_-_The_Herds_of_the_Dawn
1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_-_The_Black_Brothers
1.12_-_The_Sacred_Marriage
1.12_-_The_Superconscient
1.13_-_Conclusion_-_He_is_here
1.13_-_Gnostic_Symbols_of_the_Self
1.1.3_-_Mental_Difficulties_and_the_Need_of_Quietude
1.13_-_Reason_and_Religion
1.13_-_The_Divine_Maya
1.13_-_The_Pentacle,_Lamen_or_Seal
1.14_-_Bibliography
1.14_-_On_the_clamorous,_yet_wicked_master-the_stomach.
1.14_-_The_Book_of_Magic_Formulae
1.14_-_The_Limits_of_Philosophical_Knowledge
1.1.4_-_The_Physical_Mind_and_Sadhana
1.14_-_The_Structure_and_Dynamics_of_the_Self
1.15_-_In_the_Domain_of_the_Spirit_Beings
1.15_-_On_incorruptible_purity_and_chastity_to_which_the_corruptible_attain_by_toil_and_sweat.
1.15_-_The_Supramental_Consciousness
1.15_-_The_Suprarational_Good
1.1.5_-_Thought_and_Knowledge
1.16_-_Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Evocational_Magic
1.16_-_Man,_A_Transitional_Being
1.16_-_The_Process_of_Avatarhood
1.17_-_God
1.17_-_The_Spiritus_Familiaris_or_Serving_Spirits
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_Evocation
1.18_-_The_Perils_of_the_Soul
1.19_-_Life
1.19_-_The_Practice_of_Magical_Evocation
1.201_-_Socrates
1.2.01_-_The_Call_and_the_Capacity
12.02_-_The_Stress_of_the_Spirit
1.2.03_-_Purity
1.2.03_-_The_Interpretation_of_Scripture
12.04_-_Love_and_Death
1.2.04_-_Sincerity
1.2.05_-_Aspiration
1.2.07_-_Surrender
1.2.08_-_Faith
1.20_-_On_bodily_vigil_and_how_to_use_it_to_attain_spiritual_vigil_and_how_to_practise_it.
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.2.1.03_-_Psychic_and_Esoteric_Poetry
1.2.10_-_Opening
12.10_-_The_Sunlit_Path
1.2.1.11_-_Mystic_Poetry_and_Spiritual_Poetry
1.2.1.12_-_Spiritual_Poetry
1.2.11_-_Patience_and_Perseverance
1.2.1_-_Mental_Development_and_Sadhana
1.21_-_My_Theory_of_Astrology
1.21_-_On_unmanly_and_puerile_cowardice.
1.21_-_Tabooed_Things
1.22_-_Tabooed_Words
1.23_-_Conditions_for_the_Coming_of_a_Spiritual_Age
1.23_-_Improvising_a_Temple
1.23_-_The_Double_Soul_in_Man
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_Necromancy_and_Spiritism
1.2.4_-_Speech_and_Yoga
1.24_-_The_Advent_and_Progress_of_the_Spiritual_Age
1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King
1.25_-_Fascinations,_Invisibility,_Levitation,_Transmutations,_Kinks_in_Time
1.25_-_Temporary_Kings
1.26_-_Mental_Processes_-_Two_Only_are_Possible
1.27_-_On_holy_solitude_of_body_and_soul.
1.27_-_Succession_to_the_Soul
1.28_-_Need_to_Define_God,_Self,_etc.
1.28_-_Supermind,_Mind_and_the_Overmind_Maya
1.28_-_The_Killing_of_the_Tree-Spirit
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
1.3.03_-_Quiet_and_Calm
1.3.04_-_Peace
13.05_-_A_Dream_Of_Surreal_Science
1.3.05_-_Silence
1.35_-_Attis_as_a_God_of_Vegetation
1.37_-_Death_-_Fear_-_Magical_Memory
1.400_-_1.450_Talks
1.4.01_-_The_Divine_Grace_and_Guidance
1.4.02_-_The_Divine_Force
1.4.03_-_The_Guru
14.06_-_Liberty,_Self-Control_and_Friendship
1.42_-_This_Self_Introversion
1.439
1.43_-_The_Holy_Guardian_Angel_is_not_the_Higher_Self_but_an_Objective_Individual
1.45_-_The_Corn-Mother_and_the_Corn-Maiden_in_Northern_Europe
1.47_-_Lityerses
1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals
1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal
1.53_-_Mother-Love
1.55_-_The_Transference_of_Evil
1.56_-_The_Public_Expulsion_of_Evils
1.57_-_Public_Scapegoats
1.58_-_Do_Angels_Ever_Cut_Themselves_Shaving?
1.60_-_Between_Heaven_and_Earth
1.62_-_The_Elastic_Mind
1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe
1.63_-_Fear,_a_Bad_Astral_Vision
1.64_-_The_Burning_of_Human_Beings_in_the_Fires
1.66_-_Vampires
1.67_-_Faith
1.67_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Custom
1.68_-_The_God-Letters
1.68_-_The_Golden_Bough
1.69_-_Farewell_to_Nemi
1.70_-_Morality_1
1.80_-_Life_a_Gamble
1.81_-_Method_of_Training
1914_07_21p
1929-04-14_-_Dangers_of_Yoga_-_Two_paths,_tapasya_and_surrender_-_Impulses,_desires_and_Yoga_-_Difficulties_-_Unification_around_the_psychic_being_-_Ambition,_undoing_of_many_Yogis_-_Powers,_misuse_and_right_use_of_-_How_to_recognise_the_Divine_Will_-_Accept_things_that_come_from_Divine_-_Vital_devotion_-_Need_of_strong_body_and_nerves_-_Inner_being,_invariable
1929-04-21_-_Visions,_seeing_and_interpretation_-_Dreams_and_dreaml_and_-_Dreamless_sleep_-_Visions_and_formulation_-_Surrender,_passive_and_of_the_will_-_Meditation_and_progress_-_Entering_the_spiritual_life,_a_plunge_into_the_Divine
1929-04-28_-_Offering,_general_and_detailed_-_Integral_Yoga_-_Remembrance_of_the_Divine_-_Reading_and_Yoga_-_Necessity,_predetermination_-_Freedom_-_Miracles_-_Aim_of_creation
1929-05-19_-_Mind_and_its_workings,_thought-forms_-_Adverse_conditions_and_Yoga_-_Mental_constructions_-_Illness_and_Yoga
1929-05-26_-_Individual,_illusion_of_separateness_-_Hostile_forces_and_the_mental_plane_-_Psychic_world,_psychic_being_-_Spiritual_and_psychic_-_Words,_understanding_speech_and_reading_-_Hostile_forces,_their_utility_-_Illusion_of_action,_true_action
1929-07-28_-_Art_and_Yoga_-_Art_and_life_-_Music,_dance_-_World_of_Harmony
1950-12-23_-_Concentration_and_energy
1951-01-15_-_Sincerity_-_inner_discernment_-_inner_light._Evil_and_imbalance._Consciousness_and_instruments.
1951-01-25_-_Needs_and_desires._Collaboration_of_the_vital,_mind_an_accomplice._Progress_and_sincerity_-_recognising_faults._Organising_the_body_-_illness_-_new_harmony_-_physical_beauty.
1951-02-08_-_Unifying_the_being_-_ideas_of_good_and_bad_-_Miracles_-_determinism_-_Supreme_Will_-_Distinguishing_the_voice_of_the_Divine
1951-02-12_-_Divine_force_-_Signs_indicating_readiness_-_Weakness_in_mind,_vital_-_concentration_-_Divine_perception,_human_notion_of_good,_bad_-_Conversion,_consecration_-_progress_-_Signs_of_entering_the_path_-_kinds_of_meditation_-_aspiration
1951-02-19_-_Exteriorisation-_clairvoyance,_fainting,_etc_-_Somnambulism_-_Tartini_-_childrens_dreams_-_Nightmares_-_gurus_protection_-_Mind_and_vital_roam_during_sleep
1951-02-22_-_Surrender,_offering,_consecration_-_Experiences_and_sincerity_-_Aspiration_and_desire_-_Vedic_hymns_-_Concentration_and_time
1951-02-24_-_Psychic_being_and_entity_-_dimensions_-_in_the_atom_-_Death_-_exteriorisation_-_unconsciousness_-_Past_lives_-_progress_upon_earth_-_choice_of_birth_-_Consecration_to_divine_Work_-_psychic_memories_-_Individualisation_-_progress
1951-03-05_-_Disasters-_the_forces_of_Nature_-_Story_of_the_charity_Bazar_-_Liberation_and_law_-_Dealing_with_the_mind_and_vital-_methods
1951-03-10_-_Fairy_Tales-_serpent_guarding_treasure_-_Vital_beings-_their_incarnations_-_The_vital_being_after_death_-_Nightmares-_vital_and_mental_-_Mind_and_vital_after_death_-_The_spirit_of_the_form-_Egyptian_mummies
1951-03-19_-_Mental_worlds_and_their_beings_-_Understanding_in_silence_-_Psychic_world-_its_characteristics_-_True_experiences_and_mental_formations_-_twelve_senses
1951-03-22_-_Relativity-_time_-_Consciousness_-_psychic_Witness_-_The_twelve_senses_-_water-divining_-_Instinct_in_animals_-_story_of_Mothers_cat
1951-03-31_-_Physical_ailment_and_mental_disorder_-_Curing_an_illness_spiritually_-_Receptivity_of_the_body_-_The_subtle-physical-_illness_accidents_-_Curing_sunstroke_and_other_disorders
1951-04-05_-_Illusion_and_interest_in_action_-_The_action_of_the_divine_Grace_and_the_ego_-_Concentration,_aspiration,_will,_inner_silence_-_Value_of_a_story_or_a_language_-_Truth_-_diversity_in_the_world
1953-04-08
1953-04-22
1953-04-29
1953-05-06
1953-05-13
1953-05-20
1953-05-27
1953-06-24
1953-07-01
1953-07-08
1953-07-22
1953-07-29
1953-08-05
1953-08-12
1953-09-02
1953-09-09
1953-09-16
1953-09-30
1953-10-07
1953-10-21
1953-11-18
1953-12-09
1953-12-16
1953-12-23
1953-12-30
1954-03-03_-_Occultism_-_A_French_scientists_experiment
1954-03-24_-_Dreams_and_the_condition_of_the_stomach_-_Tobacco_and_alcohol_-_Nervousness_-_The_centres_and_the_Kundalini_-_Control_of_the_senses
1954-04-14_-_Love_-_Can_a_person_love_another_truly?_-_Parental_love
1954-05-05_-_Faith,_trust,_confidence_-_Insincerity_and_unconsciousness
1954-05-19_-_Affection_and_love_-_Psychic_vision_Divine_-_Love_and_receptivity_-_Get_out_of_the_ego
1954-05-26_-_Symbolic_dreams_-_Psychic_sorrow_-_Dreams,_one_is_rarely_conscious
1954-06-02_-_Learning_how_to_live_-_Work,_studies_and_sadhana_-_Waste_of_the_Energy_and_Consciousness
1954-06-16_-_Influences,_Divine_and_other_-_Adverse_forces_-_The_four_great_Asuras_-_Aspiration_arranges_circumstances_-_Wanting_only_the_Divine
1954-06-30_-_Occultism_-_Religion_and_vital_beings_-_Mothers_knowledge_of_what_happens_in_the_Ashram_-_Asking_questions_to_Mother_-_Drawing_on_Mother
1954-07-07_-_The_inner_warrior_-_Grace_and_the_Falsehood_-_Opening_from_below_-_Surrender_and_inertia_-_Exclusive_receptivity_-_Grace_and_receptivity
1954-07-14_-_The_Divine_and_the_Shakti_-_Personal_effort_-_Speaking_and_thinking_-_Doubt_-_Self-giving,_consecration_and_surrender_-_Mothers_use_of_flowers_-_Ornaments_and_protection
1954-07-21_-_Mistakes_-_Success_-_Asuras_-_Mental_arrogance_-_Difficulty_turned_into_opportunity_-_Mothers_use_of_flowers_-_Conversion_of_men_governed_by_adverse_forces
1954-07-28_-_Money_-_Ego_and_individuality_-_The_shadow
1954-08-11_-_Division_and_creation_-_The_gods_and_human_formations_-_People_carry_their_desires_around_them
1954-09-08_-_Hostile_forces_-_Substance_-_Concentration_-_Changing_the_centre_of_thought_-_Peace
1954-09-15_-_Parts_of_the_being_-_Thoughts_and_impulses_-_The_subconscient_-_Precise_vocabulary_-_The_Grace_and_difficulties
1954-09-22_-_The_supramental_creation_-_Rajasic_eagerness_-_Silence_from_above_-_Aspiration_and_rejection_-_Effort,_individuality_and_ego_-_Aspiration_and_desire
1954-10-06_-_What_happens_is_for_the_best_-_Blaming_oneself_-Experiences_-_The_vital_desire-soul_-Creating_a_spiritual_atmosphere_-Thought_and_Truth
1954-10-20_-_Stand_back_-_Asking_questions_to_Mother_-_Seeing_images_in_meditation_-_Berlioz_-Music_-_Mothers_organ_music_-_Destiny
1954-11-03_-_Body_opening_to_the_Divine_-_Concentration_in_the_heart_-_The_army_of_the_Divine_-_The_knot_of_the_ego_-Streng_thening_ones_will
1954-11-10_-_Inner_experience,_the_basis_of_action_-_Keeping_open_to_the_Force_-_Faith_through_aspiration_-_The_Mothers_symbol_-_The_mind_and_vital_seize_experience_-_Degrees_of_sincerity_-Becoming_conscious_of_the_Divine_Force
1954-11-24_-_Aspiration_mixed_with_desire_-_Willing_and_desiring_-_Children_and_desires_-_Supermind_and_the_higher_ranges_of_mind_-_Stages_in_the_supramental_manifestation
1954-12-08_-_Cosmic_consciousness_-_Clutching_-_The_central_will_of_the_being_-_Knowledge_by_identity
1954-12-15_-_Many_witnesses_inside_oneself_-_Children_in_the_Ashram_-_Trance_and_the_waking_consciousness_-_Ascetic_methods_-_Education,_spontaneous_effort_-_Spiritual_experience
1954-12-22_-_Possession_by_hostile_forces_-_Purity_and_morality_-_Faith_in_the_final_success_-Drawing_back_from_the_path
1954-12-29_-_Difficulties_and_the_world_-_The_experience_the_psychic_being_wants_-_After_death_-Ignorance
1955-02-09_-_Desire_is_contagious_-_Primitive_form_of_love_-_the_artists_delight_-_Psychic_need,_mind_as_an_instrument_-_How_the_psychic_being_expresses_itself_-_Distinguishing_the_parts_of_ones_being_-_The_psychic_guides_-_Illness_-_Mothers_vision
1955-02-23_-_On_the_sense_of_taste,_educating_the_senses_-_Fasting_produces_a_state_of_receptivity,_drawing_energy_-_The_body_and_food
1955-03-02_-_Right_spirit,_aspiration_and_desire_-_Sleep_and_yogic_repose,_how_to_sleep_-_Remembering_dreams_-_Concentration_and_outer_activity_-_Mother_opens_the_door_inside_everyone_-_Sleep,_a_school_for_inner_knowledge_-_Source_of_energy
1955-03-09_-_Psychic_directly_contacted_through_the_physical_-_Transforming_egoistic_movements_-_Work_of_the_psychic_being_-_Contacting_the_psychic_and_the_Divine_-_Experiences_of_different_kinds_-_Attacks_of_adverse_forces
1955-03-30_-_Yoga-shakti_-_Energies_of_the_earth,_higher_and_lower_-_Illness,_curing_by_yogic_means_-_The_true_self_and_the_psychic_-_Solving_difficulties_by_different_methods
1955-04-06_-_Freuds_psychoanalysis,_the_subliminal_being_-_The_psychic_and_the_subliminal_-_True_psychology_-_Changing_the_lower_nature_-_Faith_in_different_parts_of_the_being_-_Psychic_contact_established_in_all_in_the_Ashram
1955-04-13_-_Psychoanalysts_-_The_underground_super-ego,_dreams,_sleep,_control_-_Archetypes,_Overmind_and_higher_-_Dream_of_someone_dying_-_Integral_repose,_entering_Sachchidananda_-_Organising_ones_life,_concentration,_repose
1955-04-27_-_Symbolic_dreams_and_visions_-_Curing_pain_by_various_methods_-_Different_states_of_consciousness_-_Seeing_oneself_dead_in_a_dream_-_Exteriorisation
1955-05-18_-_The_Problem_of_Woman_-_Men_and_women_-_The_Supreme_Mother,_the_new_creation_-_Gods_and_goddesses_-_A_story_of_Creation,_earth_-_Psychic_being_only_on_earth,_beings_everywhere_-_Going_to_other_worlds_by_occult_means
1955-05-25_-_Religion_and_reason_-_true_role_and_field_-_an_obstacle_to_or_minister_of_the_Spirit_-_developing_and_meaning_-_Learning_how_to_live,_the_elite_-_Reason_controls_and_organises_life_-_Nature_is_infrarational
1955-06-01_-_The_aesthetic_conscience_-_Beauty_and_form_-_The_roots_of_our_life_-_The_sense_of_beauty_-_Educating_the_aesthetic_sense,_taste_-_Mental_constructions_based_on_a_revelation_-_Changing_the_world_and_humanity
1955-06-08_-_Working_for_the_Divine_-_ideal_attitude_-_Divine_manifesting_-_reversal_of_consciousness,_knowing_oneself_-_Integral_progress,_outer,_inner,_facing_difficulties_-_People_in_Ashram_-_doing_Yoga_-_Children_given_freedom,_choosing_yoga
1955-06-15_-_Dynamic_realisation,_transformation_-_The_negative_and_positive_side_of_experience_-_The_image_of_the_dry_coconut_fruit_-_Purusha,_Prakriti,_the_Divine_Mother_-_The_Truth-Creation_-_Pralaya_-_We_are_in_a_transitional_period
1955-06-22_-_Awakening_the_Yoga-shakti_-_The_thousand-petalled_lotus-_Reading,_how_far_a_help_for_yoga_-_Simple_and_complicated_combinations_in_men
1955-06-29_-_The_true_vital_and_true_physical_-_Time_and_Space_-_The_psychics_memory_of_former_lives_-_The_psychic_organises_ones_life_-_The_psychics_knowledge_and_direction
1955-07-06_-_The_psychic_and_the_central_being_or_jivatman_-_Unity_and_multiplicity_in_the_Divine_-_Having_experiences_and_the_ego_-_Mental,_vital_and_physical_exteriorisation_-_Imagination_has_a_formative_power_-_The_function_of_the_imagination
1955-07-13_-_Cosmic_spirit_and_cosmic_consciousness_-_The_wall_of_ignorance,_unity_and_separation_-_Aspiration_to_understand,_to_know,_to_be_-_The_Divine_is_in_the_essence_of_ones_being_-_Realising_desires_through_the_imaginaton
1955-07-20_-_The_Impersonal_Divine_-_Surrender_to_the_Divine_brings_perfect_freedom_-_The_Divine_gives_Himself_-_The_principle_of_the_inner_dimensions_-_The_paths_of_aspiration_and_surrender_-_Linear_and_spherical_paths_and_realisations
1955-08-03_-_Nothing_is_impossible_in_principle_-_Psychic_contact_and_psychic_influence_-_Occult_powers,_adverse_influences;_magic_-_Magic,_occultism_and_Yogic_powers_-Hypnotism_and_its_effects
1955-08-17_-_Vertical_ascent_and_horizontal_opening_-_Liberation_of_the_psychic_being_-_Images_for_discovery_of_the_psychic_being_-_Sadhana_to_contact_the_psychic_being
1955-09-21_-_Literature_and_the_taste_for_forms_-_The_characters_of_The_Great_Secret_-_How_literature_helps_us_to_progress_-_Reading_to_learn_-_The_commercial_mentality_-_How_to_choose_ones_books_-_Learning_to_enrich_ones_possibilities_...
1955-10-19_-_The_rhythms_of_time_-_The_lotus_of_knowledge_and_perfection_-_Potential_knowledge_-_The_teguments_of_the_soul_-_Shastra_and_the_Gurus_direct_teaching_-_He_who_chooses_the_Infinite...
1955-10-26_-_The_Divine_and_the_universal_Teacher_-_The_power_of_the_Word_-_The_Creative_Word,_the_mantra_-_Sound,_music_in_other_worlds_-_The_domains_of_pure_form,_colour_and_ideas
1955-11-02_-_The_first_movement_in_Yoga_-_Interiorisation,_finding_ones_soul_-_The_Vedic_Age_-_An_incident_about_Vivekananda_-_The_imaged_language_of_the_Vedas_-_The_Vedic_Rishis,_involutionary_beings_-_Involution_and_evolution
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_-_...
1955-11-23_-_One_reality,_multiple_manifestations_-_Integral_Yoga,_approach_by_all_paths_-_The_supreme_man_and_the_divine_man_-_Miracles_and_the_logic_of_events
1955-12-14_-_Rejection_of_life_as_illusion_in_the_old_Yogas_-_Fighting_the_adverse_forces_-_Universal_and_individual_being_-_Three_stages_in_Integral_Yoga_-_How_to_feel_the_Divine_Presence_constantly
1955-12-28_-_Aspiration_in_different_parts_of_the_being_-_Enthusiasm_and_gratitude_-_Aspiration_is_in_all_beings_-_Unlimited_power_of_good,_evil_has_a_limit_-_Progress_in_the_parts_of_the_being_-_Significance_of_a_dream
1956-01-11_-_Desire_and_self-deception_-_Giving_all_one_is_and_has_-_Sincerity,_more_powerful_than_will_-_Joy_of_progress_Definition_of_youth
1956-01-18_-_Two_sides_of_individual_work_-_Cheerfulness_-_chosen_vessel_of_the_Divine_-_Aspiration,_consciousness,_of_plants,_of_children_-_Being_chosen_by_the_Divine_-_True_hierarchy_-_Perfect_relation_with_the_Divine_-_India_free_in_1915
1956-02-01_-_Path_of_knowledge_-_Finding_the_Divine_in_life_-_Capacity_for_contact_with_the_Divine_-_Partial_and_total_identification_with_the_Divine_-_Manifestation_and_hierarchy
1956-02-08_-_Forces_of_Nature_expressing_a_higher_Will_-_Illusion_of_separate_personality_-_One_dynamic_force_which_moves_all_things_-_Linear_and_spherical_thinking_-_Common_ideal_of_life,_microscopic
1956-02-22_-_Strong_immobility_of_an_immortal_spirit_-_Equality_of_soul_-_Is_all_an_expression_of_the_divine_Will?_-_Loosening_the_knot_of_action_-_Using_experience_as_a_cloak_to_cover_excesses_-_Sincerity,_a_rare_virtue
1956-03-28_-_The_starting-point_of_spiritual_experience_-_The_boundless_finite_-_The_Timeless_and_Time_-_Mental_explanation_not_enough_-_Changing_knowledge_into_experience_-_Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda
1956-04-11_-_Self-creator_-_Manifestation_of_Time_and_Space_-_Brahman-Maya_and_Ishwara-Shakti_-_Personal_and_Impersonal
1956-04-18_-_Ishwara_and_Shakti,_seeing_both_aspects_-_The_Impersonal_and_the_divine_Person_-_Soul,_the_presence_of_the_divine_Person_-_Going_to_other_worlds,_exteriorisation,_dreams_-_Telling_stories_to_oneself
1956-04-25_-_God,_human_conception_and_the_true_Divine_-_Earthly_existence,_to_realise_the_Divine_-_Ananda,_divine_pleasure_-_Relations_with_the_divine_Presence_-_Asking_the_Divine_for_what_one_needs_-_Allowing_the_Divine_to_lead_one
1956-05-02_-_Threefold_union_-_Manifestation_of_the_Supramental_-_Profiting_from_the_Divine_-_Recognition_of_the_Supramental_Force_-_Ascent,_descent,_manifestation
1956-05-16_-_Needs_of_the_body,_not_true_in_themselves_-_Spiritual_and_supramental_law_-_Aestheticised_Paganism_-_Morality,_checks_true_spiritual_effort_-_Effect_of_supramental_descent_-_Half-lights_and_false_lights
1956-05-23_-_Yoga_and_religion_-_Story_of_two_clergymen_on_a_boat_-_The_Buddha_and_the_Supramental_-_Hieroglyphs_and_phonetic_alphabets_-_A_vision_of_ancient_Egypt_-_Memory_for_sounds
1956-05-30_-_Forms_as_symbols_of_the_Force_behind_-_Art_as_expression_of_contact_with_the_Divine_-_Supramental_psychological_perfection_-_Division_of_works_-_The_Ashram,_idle_stupidities
1956-06-06_-_Sign_or_indication_from_books_of_revelation_-_Spiritualised_mind_-_Stages_of_sadhana_-_Reversal_of_consciousness_-_Organisation_around_central_Presence_-_Boredom,_most_common_human_malady
1956-06-20_-_Hearts_mystic_light,_intuition_-_Psychic_being,_contact_-_Secular_ethics_-_True_role_of_mind_-_Realise_the_Divine_by_love_-_Depression,_pleasure,_joy_-_Heart_mixture_-_To_follow_the_soul_-_Physical_process_-_remember_the_Mother
1956-06-27_-_Birth,_entry_of_soul_into_body_-_Formation_of_the_supramental_world_-_Aspiration_for_progress_-_Bad_thoughts_-_Cerebral_filter_-_Progress_and_resistance
1956-07-04_-_Aspiration_when_one_sees_a_shooting_star_-_Preparing_the_bodyn_making_it_understand_-_Getting_rid_of_pain_and_suffering_-_Psychic_light
1956-07-18_-_Unlived_dreams_-_Radha-consciousness_-_Separation_and_identification_-_Ananda_of_identity_and_Ananda_of_union_-_Sincerity,_meditation_and_prayer_-_Enemies_of_the_Divine_-_The_universe_is_progressive
1956-08-01_-_Value_of_worship_-_Spiritual_realisation_and_the_integral_yoga_-_Symbols,_translation_of_experience_into_form_-_Sincerity,_fundamental_virtue_-_Intensity_of_aspiration,_with_anguish_or_joy_-_The_divine_Grace
1956-08-29_-_To_live_spontaneously_-_Mental_formations_Absolute_sincerity_-_Balance_is_indispensable,_the_middle_path_-_When_in_difficulty,_widen_the_consciousness_-_Easiest_way_of_forgetting_oneself
1956-09-05_-_Material_life,_seeing_in_the_right_way_-_Effect_of_the_Supermind_on_the_earth_-_Emergence_of_the_Supermind_-_Falling_back_into_the_same_mistaken_ways
1956-09-19_-_Power,_predominant_quality_of_vital_being_-_The_Divine,_the_psychic_being,_the_Supermind_-_How_to_come_out_of_the_physical_consciousness_-_Look_life_in_the_face_-_Ordinary_love_and_Divine_love
1956-09-26_-_Soul_of_desire_-_Openness,_harmony_with_Nature_-_Communion_with_divine_Presence_-_Individuality,_difficulties,_soul_of_desire_-_personal_contact_with_the_Mother_-_Inner_receptivity_-_Bad_thoughts_before_the_Mother
1956-10-03_-_The_Mothers_different_ways_of_speaking_-_new_manifestation_-_new_element,_possibilities_-_child_prodigies_-_Laws_of_Nature,_supramental_-_Logic_of_the_unforeseen_-_Creative_writers,_hands_of_musicians_-_Prodigious_children,_men
1956-10-24_-_Taking_a_new_body_-_Different_cases_of_incarnation_-_Departure_of_soul_from_body
1956-11-14_-_Conquering_the_desire_to_appear_good_-_Self-control_and_control_of_the_life_around_-_Power_of_mastery_-_Be_a_great_yogi_to_be_a_good_teacher_-_Organisation_of_the_Ashram_school_-_Elementary_discipline_of_regularity
1956-11-28_-_Desire,_ego,_animal_nature_-_Consciousness,_a_progressive_state_-_Ananda,_desireless_state_beyond_enjoyings_-_Personal_effort_that_is_mental_-_Reason,_when_to_disregard_it_-_Reason_and_reasons
1956-12-05_-_Even_and_objectless_ecstasy_-_Transform_the_animal_-_Individual_personality_and_world-personality_-_Characteristic_features_of_a_world-personality_-_Expressing_a_universal_state_of_consciousness_-_Food_and_sleep_-_Ordered_intuition
1956-12-12_-_paradoxes_-_Nothing_impossible_-_unfolding_universe,_the_Eternal_-_Attention,_concentration,_effort_-_growth_capacity_almost_unlimited_-_Why_things_are_not_the_same_-_will_and_willings_-_Suggestions,_formations_-_vital_world
1956-12-26_-_Defeated_victories_-_Change_of_consciousness_-_Experiences_that_indicate_the_road_to_take_-_Choice_and_preference_-_Diversity_of_the_manifestation
1957-01-02_-_Can_one_go_out_of_time_and_space?_-_Not_a_crucified_but_a_glorified_body_-_Individual_effort_and_the_new_force
1957-01-09_-_God_is_essentially_Delight_-_God_and_Nature_play_at_hide-and-seek_-__Why,_and_when,_are_you_grave?
1957-01-16_-_Seeking_something_without_knowing_it_-_Why_are_we_here?
1957-01-23_-_How_should_we_understand_pure_delight?_-_The_drop_of_honey_-_Action_of_the_Divine_Will_in_the_world
1957-01-30_-_Artistry_is_just_contrast_-_How_to_perceive_the_Divine_Guidance?
1957-03-13_-_Our_best_friend
1957-03-22_-_A_story_of_initiation,_knowledge_and_practice
1957-04-17_-_Transformation_of_the_body
1957-04-24_-_Perfection,_lower_and_higher
1957-05-08_-_Vital_excitement,_reason,_instinct
1957-05-15_-_Differentiation_of_the_sexes_-_Transformation_from_above_downwards
1957-06-05_-_Questions_and_silence_-_Methods_of_meditation
1957-06-19_-_Causes_of_illness_Fear_and_illness_-_Minds_working,_faith_and_illness
1957-07-17_-_Power_of_conscious_will_over_matter
1957-07-31_-_Awakening_aspiration_in_the_body
1957-08-07_-_The_resistances,_politics_and_money_-_Aspiration_to_realise_the_supramental_life
1957-09-11_-_Vital_chemistry,_attraction_and_repulsion
1957-10-16_-_Story_of_successive_involutions
1957-11-13_-_Superiority_of_man_over_animal_-_Consciousness_precedes_form
1958-01-22_-_Intellectual_theories_-_Expressing_a_living_and_real_Truth
1958-01-29_-_The_plan_of_the_universe_-_Self-awareness
1958-02-12_-_Psychic_progress_from_life_to_life_-_The_earth,_the_place_of_progress
1958-02-19_-_Experience_of_the_supramental_boat_-_The_Censors_-_Absurdity_of_artificial_means
1958-04-09_-_The_eyes_of_the_soul_-_Perceiving_the_soul
1958-04-23_-_Progress_and_bargaining
1958-06-18_-_Philosophy,_religion,_occultism,_spirituality
1958-07-23_-_How_to_develop_intuition_-_Concentration
1958-07-30_-_The_planchette_-_automatic_writing_-_Proofs_and_knowledge
1958-08-06_-_Collective_prayer_-_the_ideal_collectivity
1958-08-15_-_Our_relation_with_the_Gods
1958-08-27_-_Meditation_and_imagination_-_From_thought_to_idea,_from_idea_to_principle
1958-09-17_-_Power_of_formulating_experience_-_Usefulness_of_mental_development
1958-10-01_-_The_ideal_of_moral_perfection
1958_11_28
1960_01_12
1960_01_20
1960_04_20
1960_05_04
1960_11_13?_-_50
1960_11_14?_-_51
1961_01_18
1961_04_26_-_59
1961_05_21?_-_62
1961_07_18
1962_01_12
1962_02_27
1963_03_06
1964_09_16
1965_12_25
1965_12_26?
1969_09_04_-_143
1969_12_03
1969_12_13
1969_12_29?
1970_01_21
1.A_-_ANTHROPOLOGY,_THE_SOUL
1f.lovecraft_-_A_Reminiscence_of_Dr._Samuel_Johnson
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Cool_Air
1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator
1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil
1f.lovecraft_-_Old_Bugs
1f.lovecraft_-_Out_of_the_Aeons
1f.lovecraft_-_Pickmans_Model
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Alchemist
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Curse_of_Yig
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Disinterment
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_in_the_Burying-Ground
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_in_the_Museum
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Lurking_Fear
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Picture_in_the_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Temple
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Trap
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Unnamable
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1.jk_-_Ode_On_Indolence
1.lb_-_Lament_On_an_Autumn_Night
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
1.rb_-_Caliban_upon_Setebos_or,_Natural_Theology_in_the_Island
1.tr_-_When_I_Was_A_Lad
20.01_-_Charyapada_-_Old_Bengali_Mystic_Poems
2.01_-_Habit_1__Be_Proactive
2.01_-_Mandala_One
2.01_-_The_Therapeutic_value_of_Abreaction
2.01_-_The_Two_Natures
2.01_-_The_Yoga_and_Its_Objects
2.02_-_Brahman,_Purusha,_Ishwara_-_Maya,_Prakriti,_Shakti
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.02_-_On_Letters
2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English
2.03_-_Indra_and_the_Thought-Forces
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.03_-_On_Medicine
2.03_-_THE_ENIGMA_OF_BOLOGNA
2.03_-_The_Mother-Complex
2.03_-_The_Purified_Understanding
2.03_-_The_Pyx
2.04_-_Concentration
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.05_-_On_Poetry
2.05_-_The_Cosmic_Illusion;_Mind,_Dream_and_Hallucination
2.07_-_The_Mother__Relations_with_Others
2.08_-_The_Release_from_the_Heart_and_the_Mind
2.09_-_Memory,_Ego_and_Self-Experience
2.09_-_On_Sadhana
2.09_-_The_Pantacle
2.09_-_The_Release_from_the_Ego
2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST
2.1.01_-_The_Central_Process_of_the_Sadhana
21.01_-_The_Mother_The_Nature_of_Her_Work
2.1.01_-_The_Parts_of_the_Being
2.1.02_-_Classification_of_the_Parts_of_the_Being
2.1.02_-_Combining_Work,_Meditation_and_Bhakti
21.02_-_Gods_and_Men
2.10_-_Knowledge_by_Identity_and_Separative_Knowledge
2.11_-_On_Education
2.1.1_-_The_Nature_of_the_Vital
2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA
2.1.2_-_The_Vital_and_Other_Levels_of_Being
2.1.3_-_Wrong_Movements_of_the_Vital
2.1.4.2_-_Teaching
2.14_-_On_Movements
2.14_-_The_Origin_and_Remedy_of_Falsehood,_Error,_Wrong_and_Evil
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.16_-_The_15th_of_August
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence
2.1.7.05_-_On_the_Inspiration_and_Writing_of_the_Poem
2.1.7.08_-_Comments_on_Specific_Lines_and_Passages_of_the_Poem
2.17_-_December_1938
2.18_-_January_1939
2.18_-_The_Soul_and_Its_Liberation
2.19_-_Feb-May_1939
2.19_-_Knowledge_of_the_Scientist_and_the_Yogi
2.2.01_-_The_Outer_Being_and_the_Inner_Being
2.2.01_-_Work_and_Yoga
2.2.02_-_Becoming_Conscious_in_Work
2.2.03_-_The_Divine_Force_in_Work
2.2.03_-_The_Psychic_Being
2.20_-_The_Lower_Triple_Purusha
2.21_-_The_Ladder_of_Self-transcendence
2.21_-_The_Order_of_the_Worlds
2.21_-_Towards_the_Supreme_Secret
2.22_-_Rebirth_and_Other_Worlds;_Karma,_the_Soul_and_Immortality
2.22_-_The_Supreme_Secret
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.2.4_-_Sentimentalism,_Sensitiveness,_Instability,_Laxity
2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man
2.25_-_The_Triple_Transformation
2.26_-_The_Ascent_towards_Supermind
2.2.7.01_-_Some_General_Remarks
2.27_-_The_Gnostic_Being
2.28_-_Rajayoga
2.28_-_The_Divine_Life
2.2.9.02_-_Plato
2.3.01_-_Aspiration_and_Surrender_to_the_Mother
2.3.01_-_Concentration_and_Meditation
2.3.02_-_Mantra_and_Japa
2.3.03_-_The_Mother's_Presence
2.3.03_-_The_Overmind
2.3.04_-_The_Higher_Planes_of_Mind
2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force
2.3.05_-_Sadhana_through_Work_for_the_Mother
2.3.06_-_The_Mind
2.3.06_-_The_Mother's_Lights
2.3.07_-_The_Mother_in_Visions,_Dreams_and_Experiences
2.3.07_-_The_Vital_Being_and_Vital_Consciousness
2.3.08_-_The_Mother's_Help_in_Difficulties
2.3.08_-_The_Physical_Consciousness
2.3.1.08_-_The_Necessity_and_Nature_of_Inspiration
2.3.10_-_The_Subconscient_and_the_Inconscient
2.3.1.10_-_Inspiration_and_Effort
2.3.1_-_Ego_and_Its_Forms
2.3.2_-_Desire
2.3.3_-_Anger_and_Violence
2.3.4_-_Fear
2.4.01_-_Divine_Love,_Psychic_Love_and_Human_Love
2.4.02.09_-_Contact_and_Union_with_the_Divine
2.4.02_-_Bhakti,_Devotion,_Worship
2.4.1_-_Human_Relations_and_the_Spiritual_Life
28.01_-_Observations
29.03_-_In_Her_Company
29.04_-_Mothers_Playground
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
3.00_-_The_Magical_Theory_of_the_Universe
30.17_-_Rabindranath,_Traveller_of_the_Infinite
3.01_-_Fear_of_God
3.01_-_Love_and_the_Triple_Path
3.01_-_The_Principles_of_Ritual
3.02_-_King_and_Queen
3.02_-_SOL
3.02_-_THE_DEPLOYMENT_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
3.02_-_The_Great_Secret
3.02_-_The_Motives_of_Devotion
3.02_-_The_Practice_Use_of_Dream-Analysis
3.02_-_The_Psychology_of_Rebirth
3.02_-_The_Soul_in_the_Soul_World_after_Death
3.03_-_SULPHUR
3.03_-_THE_MODERN_EARTH
3.03_-_The_Naked_Truth
3.04_-_LUNA
3.04_-_On_Thought_-_III
3.04_-_The_Formula_of_ALHIM
3.05_-_SAL
3.07_-_The_Formula_of_the_Holy_Grail
3.1.02_-_Asceticism_and_the_Integral_Yoga
3.1.02_-_Spiritual_Evolution_and_the_Supramental
3.1.03_-_A_Realistic_Adwaita
31.04_-_Sri_Ramakrishna
3.10_-_Of_the_Gestures
3.10_-_The_New_Birth
3.11_-_Spells
3.1.1_-_The_Transformation_of_the_Physical
3.1.2_-_Levels_of_the_Physical_Being
3.1.3_-_Difficulties_of_the_Physical_Being
3.13_-_Of_the_Banishings
3.14_-_Of_the_Consecrations
3.16.1_-_Of_the_Oath
3.16.2_-_Of_the_Charge_of_the_Spirit
3.16_-_THE_SEVEN_SEALS_OR_THE_YES_AND_AMEN_SONG
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
3.2.01_-_On_Ideals
3.2.03_-_Conservation_and_Progress
3.2.03_-_Jainism_and_Buddhism
3.2.04_-_Sankhya_and_Yoga
32.05_-_The_Culture_of_the_Body
3.2.07_-_Tantra
3.2.08_-_Bhakti_Yoga_and_Vaishnavism
3.2.1_-_Food
3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic
3.2.2_-_Sleep
3.2.3_-_Dreams
3.2.4_-_Sex
33.07_-_Alipore_Jail
33.16_-_Soviet_Gymnasts
3.3.1_-_Illness_and_Health
3.3.3_-_Specific_Illnesses,_Ailments_and_Other_Physical_Problems
3.4.1.01_-_Poetry_and_Sadhana
3.4.1.06_-_Reading_and_Sadhana
3.4.1_-_The_Subconscient_and_the_Integral_Yoga
3.4.2_-_The_Inconscient_and_the_Integral_Yoga
3.5.03_-_Reason_and_Society
3-5_Full_Circle
3.6.01_-_Heraclitus
36.07_-_An_Introduction_To_The_Vedas
3.7.1.01_-_Rebirth
3.7.1.02_-_The_Reincarnating_Soul
3.7.1.04_-_Rebirth_and_Soul_Evolution
3.7.2.03_-_Mind_Nature_and_Law_of_Karma
3.7.2.04_-_The_Higher_Lines_of_Karma
3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations
4.01_-_Introduction
4.01_-_THE_COLLECTIVE_ISSUE
4.02_-_The_Psychology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.03_-_Prayer_of_Quiet
4.04_-_Conclusion
4.04_-_THE_REGENERATION_OF_THE_KING
4.05_-_THE_DARK_SIDE_OF_THE_KING
4.08_-_THE_RELIGIOUS_PROBLEM_OF_THE_KINGS_RENEWAL
4.09_-_The_Liberation_of_the_Nature
4.1.01_-_The_Intellect_and_Yoga
4.1.1.04_-_Foundations_of_the_Sadhana
4.1.1.05_-_The_Central_Process_of_the_Yoga
4.1.1_-_The_Difficulties_of_Yoga
4.1.2_-_The_Difficulties_of_Human_Nature
4.1.3_-_Imperfections_and_Periods_of_Arrest
4.1.4_-_Resistances,_Sufferings_and_Falls
4.19_-_The_Nature_of_the_supermind
4.20_-_The_Intuitive_Mind
4.2.1.02_-_The_Role_of_the_Psychic_in_Sadhana
4.2.1_-_The_Right_Attitude_towards_Difficulties
4.2.2.02_-_Conditions_for_the_Psychic_Opening
4.22_-_The_supramental_Thought_and_Knowledge
4.2.3.01_-_The_Meaning_of_Coming_to_the_Front
4.2.3.02_-_Signs_of_the_Psychic's_Coming_Forward
4.2.3.04_-_Means_of_Bringing_Forward_the_Psychic
4.2.3.05_-_Obstacles_to_the_Psychic's_Emergence
4.23_-_The_supramental_Instruments_--_Thought-process
4.2.4.05_-_Agni
4.2.4.06_-_Agni_and_the_Psychic_Fire
4.2.4.08_-_Psychic_Sorrow
4.2.4_-_Time_and_CHange_of_the_Nature
4.2.5_-_Dealing_with_Depression_and_Despondency
4.25_-_Towards_the_supramental_Time_Vision
4.2_-_Karma
4.3.1.03_-_The_Self_and_the_Sense_of_Individuality
4.3.1.04_-_The_Disappearance_of_the_I_Sense
4.3.1.07_-_The_Self_Experienced_on_Various_Planes
4.3.1_-_The_Hostile_Forces_and_the_Difficulties_of_Yoga
4.3.2.07_-_An_Illumined_Mind_Experience
4.3.2.09_-_Overmind_Experiences_and_the_Supermind
4.3.2_-_Attacks_by_the_Hostile_Forces
4.3.4_-_Accidents,_Possession,_Madness
4.4.1.02_-_A_Double_Movement_in_the_Sadhana
4.4.1.07_-_Experiences_of_Ascent_and_Descent
4.41_-_Chapter_One
4.4.2.02_-_Ascension_or_Rising_above_the_Head
4.4.2.07_-_Ascent_and_Going_out_of_the_Body
4.4.2.08_-_Fixing_the_Consciousness_Above
4.4.3.01_-_The_Purpose_of_the_Descent
4.4.3.03_-_Preparatory_Experiences_and_Descent
4.4.3.04_-_The_Order_of_Descent_into_the_Being
4.4.4.04_-_The_Descent_of_Silence
4.4.4.05_-_The_Descent_of_Force_or_Power
4.4.4.09_-_The_Descent_of_Wideness
4.4.5.02_-_Descent_and_Psychic_Experiences
5.01_-_EPILOGUE
5.02_-_Perfection_of_the_Body
5.02_-_THE_STATUE
5.04_-_Supermind_and_the_Life_Divine
5.04_-_THE_POLARITY_OF_ADAM
5.06_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION
5.1.02_-_The_Gods
5.1.03_-_The_Hostile_Forces_and_Hostile_Beings
5.4.01_-_Occult_Knowledge
5.4.02_-_Occult_Powers_or_Siddhis
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.01_-_THE_ALCHEMICAL_VIEW_OF_THE_UNION_OF_OPPOSITES
6.02_-_STAGES_OF_THE_CONJUNCTION
6.05_-_THE_PSYCHOLOGICAL_INTERPRETATION_OF_THE_PROCEDURE
6.06_-_SELF-KNOWLEDGE
6.07_-_THE_MONOCOLUS
6.08_-_THE_CONTENT_AND_MEANING_OF_THE_FIRST_TWO_STAGES
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
6.10_-_THE_SELF_AND_THE_BOUNDS_OF_KNOWLEDGE
7.01_-_The_Soul_(the_Psychic)
7.02_-_The_Mind
7.09_-_Right_Judgement
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
Aeneid
Appendix_4_-_Priest_Spells
A_Secret_Miracle
Big_Mind_(non-dual)
Big_Mind_(ten_perfections)
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin
BOOK_XIV._-_Of_the_punishment_and_results_of_mans_first_sin,_and_of_the_propagation_of_man_without_lust
BOOK_X._-_Porphyrys_doctrine_of_redemption
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
BOOK_XVI._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_Noah_to_the_time_of_the_kings_of_Israel
BOOK_XV._-_The_progress_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_traced_by_the_sacred_history
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
Chapter_II_-_WHICH_TREATS_OF_THE_FIRST_SALLY_THE_INGENIOUS_DON_QUIXOTE_MADE_FROM_HOME
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
COSA_-_BOOK_XI
Diamond_Sutra_1
DM_2_-_How_to_Meditate
DS2
DS4
ENNEAD_01.01_-_The_Organism_and_the_Self.
ENNEAD_01.04_-_Whether_Animals_May_Be_Termed_Happy.
ENNEAD_03.01_-_Concerning_Fate.
ENNEAD_03.04_-_Of_Our_Individual_Guardian.
ENNEAD_03.05_-_Of_Love,_or_Eros.
ENNEAD_03.06_-_Of_the_Impassibility_of_Incorporeal_Entities_(Soul_and_and_Matter).
ENNEAD_03.07_-_Of_Time_and_Eternity.
ENNEAD_03.08b_-_Of_Nature,_Contemplation_and_Unity.
ENNEAD_04.03_-_Psychological_Questions.
ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.
ENNEAD_04.08_-_Of_the_Descent_of_the_Soul_Into_the_Body.
ENNEAD_04.09_-_Whether_All_Souls_Form_a_Single_One?
ENNEAD_05.09_-_Of_Intelligence,_Ideas_and_Essence.
ENNEAD_06.03_-_Plotinos_Own_Sense-Categories.
ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_and_Identical_Being_is_Everywhere_Present_In_Its_Entirety.345
ENNEAD_06.08_-_Of_the_Will_of_the_One.
Gorgias
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals
LUX.02_-_EVOCATION
LUX.05_-_AUGOEIDES
MMM.01_-_MIND_CONTROL
P.11_-_MAGICAL_WEAPONS
Phaedo
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The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Anapanasati_Sutta__A_Practical_Guide_to_Mindfullness_of_Breathing_and_Tranquil_Wisdom_Meditation
The_Coming_Race_Contents
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
The_Gold_Bug
The_Library_of_Babel
The_Logomachy_of_Zos
The_Monadology
The_One_Who_Walks_Away
The_Riddle_of_this_World
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text

PRIMARY CLASS

SIMILAR TITLES
usually
What usually happens

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

usually 5 or 6 named angels of prayer: Akatriel,

usually applied to Beliel or Beliar or Mastema.

usually given, being Michael, Gabriel, and Ra¬

usually identified or personified as Michael,

usually linked with Metatron. [Rf. Heywood, The

usually listed as 5th of the 10 holy sefiroth (divine

usually listed as Kurmavatar (the tortoise avatar);

Usually the number of terms is specified and we must sum the first specified nuber of terms without omitting any. The concept of partial sums allow the definition of the convergence of a series to be based on that of a sequence. Examining the partial sums of a series also helps evaluate the sum of infinite sereis.

Usually there cannot but be a mixture of these two ways until the consciousness is ready to be entirely open, entirely submit- ted to the Divine’s organisation of all its action. It is then that all responsibility disappears and there is no personal burden.


TERMS ANYWHERE

10 ordinary dreams) are usually in the great mass experiences of the vital plane, a world of supraphysical life, full of variety and interest, with many provinces, luminous or obscure, beauti- ful or perilous, often extremely attractive, where we can get much knowledge loo both of our concealed pans of nature and of things happening to us behind the veil and of others which are of concern for the development of our parts of nature. The vital being in us then may get very much attracted to this range of experience, may want to live more in it and less in the outer life.

1. Made one in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually followed by with); associated inseparably. 2. Became one with. 3. Made, represented to be, or regarded or treated as the same or identical. identifies, identifying.

1. The expenditure of something, such as time or labour, necessary for the attainment of a goal. Also fig. **2. The price paid or required for acquiring, producing, or maintaining something, usually measured in money, time, or energy; expense or expenditure; outlay. 3. **Suffering or sacrifice; loss; penalty.

a- ::: --> A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-,

abarticulation ::: n. --> Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.

abduction ::: n. --> The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is


abduct ::: v. t. --> To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.


ABOVE-HEAD CENTRE. ::: Above the head extends the higher consciousness centre, sahasradala padma, the thousandpetalled lotus, commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The sahasradala centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind.
It is the seventh and highest centre. Usually those who take the centres in the body only count six centres, the sahasrāra being excluded. It is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error; the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, śūnya, either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.
Wide Crown centre.


accessory ::: a. --> Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. ::: n.

accomplished ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Accomplish ::: a. --> Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an


accustomed ::: 1. Customary, habitual, usual. 2. Habituated; acclimated (usually followed by to).

A child — especially a new-born child — usually signifies the birth (or awakening) of the soul or psychic being in the outward nature.

acquiesce ::: v. i. --> To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to.
To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.


acquire ::: v. t. --> To gain, usually by one&

acrostic ::: n. --> A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
Alt. of Acrostical


actinolite ::: n. --> A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

adelphous ::: a. --> Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

adesmy ::: n. --> The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

adj. 1. Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty. 2. Unconstrained; unconfined. 3. Unobstructed; clear. 4. Ready or generous in using or giving; liberal; lavish. 5. Exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one"s will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted. 6. Exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually followed by from or of). 7. Given readily or in profusion. freer, thought-free, world-free. *adv. *8. In a free manner; without constraints; unimpeded. v. 9. To make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint. 10. To disengage or clear something from an entanglement. 11. To relieve or rid of a burden, an inconvenience or an obligation. freed. set free. Released; liberated; freed.

advancement ::: v. t. --> The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
Settlement on a wife, or jointure.


adverb ::: n. --> A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

aerate ::: v. t. --> To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.


afterpiece ::: n. --> A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
The heel of a rudder.


agendum ::: n. --> Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.
A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]


air shaft ::: --> A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Aivattha ::: Usually symbolises the cosmic manlfcstat/on.

alabaster ::: n. --> A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.;


alchemy ::: Any magical or miraculous power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. alchemies.

alchemy ::: any magical or miraculous power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. alchemies.

alcoholmeter ::: n. --> An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

alder ::: n. --> A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. ::: a. --> Alt. of Aller

alembic ::: n. --> An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

ale ::: n. --> An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.


alhambresque ::: a. --> Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

allanite ::: n. --> A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

allegation ::: n. --> The act of alleging or positively asserting.
That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment
A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.


alley ::: a passage between buildings; hence, a narrow street, a lane; usually only wide enough for foot-passengers. blind alley*: one that is closed at the end, so as to be no thoroughfare; a cul de sac*.

altruism ::: “Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.” Essays Divine and Human

Amal: “I am not aware of any special element in the usage ‘for ever’ as two words instead of one. I believe that in English it is usually two words as in Byron’s”Fare thee well and if for ever / Still for ever fare thee well.”

ambulacrum ::: n. --> One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
One of the suckers on the feet of mites.


amorous ::: a. --> Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.
Of or relating to, or produced by, love.


amortization ::: n. --> The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.
The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid.


amortize ::: v. t. --> To make as if dead; to destroy.
To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.
To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.


amour ::: n. --> Love; affection.
Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.


amphibole ::: n. --> A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite,

amphipoda ::: n. pl. --> A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

anchorite ::: n. --> One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
Same as Anchoret.


ancient ::: a. --> Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.


andalusite ::: n. --> A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

anemoscope ::: n. --> An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

angio- ::: --> A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

anhydrite ::: n. --> A mineral of a white or a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

animadversion ::: n. --> The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception.
Monition; warning.
Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.


annex ::: v. t. --> To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt. ::: v. i.


annotation ::: n. --> A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

anophyte ::: n. --> A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

antelope ::: n. --> One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

antenna ::: n. --> A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

anthraconite ::: n. --> A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

antique ::: a. --> Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.
Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.
Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson&


anvil ::: n. --> An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
the incus. See Incus. ::: v. t. --> To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled


apatite ::: n. --> Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

aplustre ::: n. --> An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship&

apo ::: --> A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

apophyllite ::: n. --> A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

apoplexy ::: n. --> Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

apple pie ::: --> A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.

apse ::: a usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church.

apt ::: 1. Having a natural tendency; inclined; disposed. 2. Unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily. 3. Exactly suitable; appropriate.

aquarium ::: n. --> An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

archi- ::: --> A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

architecture ::: 1. The profession of designing buildings and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. 2. The character or style of building. 3. Construction or structure generally. architectures.

arch ::: n. --> Any part of a curved line.
Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.


aromatic ::: a. --> Alt. of Aromatical ::: n. --> A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.

arrow ::: n. --> A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

arsenic ::: n. --> One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are

asbestos ::: n. --> A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

ascidioidea ::: n. pl. --> A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

asleep ::: a. & adv. --> In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
In the sleep of the grave; dead.
Numbed, and, usually, tingling.


assembly ::: a group of people gathered together usually for a particular purpose. assemblies.

assembly ::: n. --> A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
A collection of inanimate objects.
A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.


assident ::: a. --> Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

assiduity ::: n. --> Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.


ASURA. ::: Titan; a being of ignorant egoism as opposed to the Deva or god, who is a being of Light; sons of Darkness and Division.
Asuras are really the dark side of the mental, or more strictly, of the vital mind plane. This mind is the very field of the Asuras. Their main characteristic is egoistic strength and struggle, which refuse the higher law. The Asura has self-control, tapas, and intelligence, but all that for the sake of his ego.
There are no Asuras on the higher planes where the Truth prevails, except in the Vedic sense -“ the Divine in its strength “. The mental and vital Asuras are only a deviation of that power.
There are two kinds of Asuras - one kind were divine in their origin but have fallen from their divinity by self-will and opposition to the intention of the Divine; they are spoken in the Hindu scriptures as the former or earlier gods; these can be converted and their conversion is indeed necessary for the ultimate purpose of the universe. But the ordinary Asura is not of this character, is not an evolutionary but a typal being and represents a fixed principle of the creation which does not evolve or change and is not intended to do so. These Asuras, as also the other hostile beings, Rakshasas, Pishachas and others resemble the devils of the Christian tradition and oppose the divine intention and the evolutionary purpose in the human being; they don’t change the purpose in them for which they exist which is evil, but have to be destroyed like the evil. The Asura has no soul, no psychic being which has to evolve to a higher state; he has only an ego and usually a very powerful ego; he has a mind, sometimes even a highly intellectual mind; but the basis of his thinking and feeling is vital and not mental, at the service of his desire and not truth. He is a formation assumed by the life-principle for a particular kind of work and not a divine formation or soul.
Some kinds of Asuras are very religious, very fanatical about their religion, very strict about rules of ethical conduct. There are others who use spiritual ideas without believing in them to give them a perverted twist and delude the sadhaka.


atacamite ::: n. --> An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

augite ::: n. --> A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

Aunt or mother ::: Usually indicates the ordinary ph>sical natorc-

auto-da-fe ::: n. --> A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.
An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.
A session of the court of Inquisition.


automatical ::: a. --> Having an inherent power of action or motion.
Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.
Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical;


Automatic writings and spiritualistic seances arc a very mix- ed affair. Part comes from the subconscious mind of the medium and part from that of the stUeis. Usually these seances etc. put one into rapport with a very low world of vital beings and forces.

awning ::: n. --> A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.


axunge ::: n. --> Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

backing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Back ::: n. --> The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.
That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.


bac ::: n. --> A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.


bacterium ::: n. --> A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

bafta ::: n. --> A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

baize ::: n. --> A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

balcony ::: n. --> A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.


ballet ::: n. --> An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
The company of persons who perform the ballet.
A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.


ball-flower ::: n. --> An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

balloon ::: n. --> A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul&


bandana ::: n. --> A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.


bandbox ::: n. --> A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

bandog ::: n. --> A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.

bank bill ::: --> In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.
In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.


baptistry ::: n. --> In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.


barbecue ::: n. --> A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. ::: v. t.


barrack ::: n. --> A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. ::: v. t.


barrels ::: large cylindrical containers, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter.

barricade ::: n. --> A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy&

bartizan ::: n. --> A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

basement ::: the substructure or foundation of a building usually below ground level.

basioccipital ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. ::: n. --> The basioccipital bone.

basisphenoidal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

baste ::: v. t. --> To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
To mark with tar, as sheep.
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.


bawd ::: n. --> A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman. ::: v. i. --> To procure women for lewd purposes.

bay ::: a. --> Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. ::: n. --> An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
A small body of water set off from the main body; as a


beatification ::: n. --> The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

beaver ::: n. --> An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
The fur of the beaver.
A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate.


bed ::: n. --> An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little


bedstraw ::: n. --> Straw put into a bed.
A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.


Being or a Presence — sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together. The movement of ascension has diffe- rent results ; it may liberate the consciousness so that one feels no longer in he body, but above it or else spread in wideness with the body whether almost non-existent or only a point in one’s free expanse. It may enable the being or some part of the being to go out from the body and move elsewhere, and this action is usually accompanied by some kind of partial Samadhi or else a complete trance. Or, it may result in empowering the cons- ciousness, no longer limited by the body and the habits of the external nature, to go within, to enter the inner mental depths, the inner vital, the inner (subtle) physical, the psychic, to become aware of its inmost psychic self or its inner mental, vital, and subtle physical being, and it may be, to move and live in the domains, the planes, the worlds that correspond to these parts of the nature. It is the repeated and constant ascent of the lower consciousness that enables the mind, the vital, the physical to come into touch with the higher planes up to the Supramental and get impregnated with their light and power and influence.

belfry ::: n. --> A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
The framing on which a bell is suspended.


bell metal ::: --> A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.

bell ::: n. --> A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
That part of the capital of a column included between the


bench ::: 1. A long seat usually made of wood, for two or more persons. 2. A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity, esp. a judge. 3. Such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.

bench ::: n. --> A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter&


bestir ::: v. t. --> To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

beverage ::: v. t. --> Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
A treat, or drink money.


bezant ::: n. --> A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.


bile ::: n. --> A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one&


bilge ::: n. --> The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
That part of a ship&


billow ::: n. --> A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
A great wave or flood of anything. ::: v. i. --> To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.


birdlime ::: n. --> An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. ::: v. t. --> To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to

Bird ; Symbol of the individual soul. Usually a symbol of some soul-power when it is not the soul itself. Birds often indi- cate cither mind-powers or soul-powers.

biscuit ::: n. --> A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases,


bishop ::: n. --> A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.


bit ::: v. --> The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
Somewhat; something, but not very great.


bivalve ::: n. --> A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.


blackball ::: n. --> A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words. ::: v. t. --> To vote against, by putting a black ball into a


blackstrap ::: n. --> A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.


bladderwort ::: n. --> A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

blancmange ::: n. --> A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

blanket ::: a. --> A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales. ::: v. t.


bleb ::: n. --> A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

blende ::: n. --> A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.
A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.


blizzard ::: n. --> A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.

block ::: v. t. --> A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children&

board ::: n. --> A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
A table to put food upon.
Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one&


boat ::: n. --> A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.


bobstay ::: n. --> A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

bodied ::: a. --> Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Body

boiler ::: n. --> One who boils.
A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.


bole ::: n. --> The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely


bonnet ::: n. --> A headdress for men and boys; a cap.
A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.


boomerang ::: n. --> A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a

bordure ::: n. --> A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

boreas ::: n. --> The north wind; -- usually a personification.

botryolite ::: n. --> A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

bottle ::: n. --> A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one&


bottomry ::: n. --> A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See

boulangerite ::: n. --> A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.

bovate ::: n. --> An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

bracket ::: n. --> An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.


bract ::: n. --> A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.


brad ::: n. --> A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

Brahman or of the Self docs not usually come at the beginning of a sadhana or in the first years or for many years. It comes so to a very few. Most would say that a slow development is the best one can hope for in the first years and only when the nature is ready and fully concentrated towards the Divine can the definitive experience come. To some rapid prepdhitory experiences can come at a comparatively early stage, but even they cannot escape the labour of the consciousness which will make these experiences culminate in the realisation that is enduring and complete. It is not a question of liking or disliking, it is a matter of fact and truth and experience. It is the fact that people who arc cheerful and ready to go step by step, even by slow steps if need be, do actually march faster and more surely than those who are impatient and in haste.

brand goose ::: --> A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

brass ::: n. --> An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.


brat ::: n. --> A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
The young of an animal.
A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.


breadroot ::: n. --> The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a room. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, mood, etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.

brick ::: n. --> A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you &


bridge ::: n. --> A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a


brimmed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Brim ::: a. --> Having a brim; -- usually in composition.
Full to, or level with, the brim.


broadcloth ::: n. --> A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men&

brocatel ::: n. --> A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.


brooklime ::: n. --> A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.

brookweed ::: n. --> A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

browning ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Brown ::: n. --> The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.


bryozoum ::: n. --> An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

buckle ::: n. --> A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.


buckler ::: n. --> A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.


buckskin ::: n. --> The skin of a buck.
A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Breeches made of buckskin.


buffer ::: n. --> An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
One who polishes with a buff.
A wheel for buffing; a buff.
A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an


buggy ::: a. --> Infested or abounding with bugs. ::: n. --> A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.


bulb ::: n. --> A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb


bullet ::: n. --> A small ball.
A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
A cannon ball.
The fetlock of a horse.


bungalow ::: n. --> A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.

bunion ::: n. --> Same as Bunyon.
An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.


buprestidan ::: n. --> One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.

bureau ::: 1. A chest of drawers, especially a dresser for holding clothes, often with a desk top. 2. An office, usually of large organization, that is responsible for a specific duty such as administration, public business, etc.

burette ::: n. --> An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

burial ::: n. --> A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.


Burning ::: It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning.

But at first there is a difficulty in keeping it intact when there is the contact wth others because the consciousness has the habit of running outwards in speech or external interchange or else coming down to the normal fevel. One must therefore be very careful until it is fixed ; once fixed it usually defends itself, for all outer contacts become surface things to a consciousness full of the higher peace.

button ::: n. --> A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
A bud; a germ of a plant.
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.


cabal ::: n. --> Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
A secret.
A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.


cable ::: n. --> A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called


cab ::: n. --> A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.


caboodle ::: n. --> The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.

cactus ::: n. --> Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

cadi ::: n. --> An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

calcine ::: v. i. --> To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.


calculate ::: v. i. --> To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one&


calipers ::: n. pl. --> An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

calumet ::: n. --> A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.

can ::: --> an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.] ::: n. --> A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a


candelabrum ::: n. --> A lamp stand of any sort.
A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
A large candlestick, having several branches.


cannonade ::: n. --> The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Cannonade


cannula ::: n. --> A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.

cantharis ::: n. --> A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

canticoy ::: n. --> A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.

canton ::: n. --> A song or canto
A small portion; a division; a compartment.
A small community or clan.
A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from


capitulate ::: n. --> To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. ::: v. t. --> To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress,


cap ::: n. --> A covering for the head
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
A respectful uncovering of the head.
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill


capsule ::: n. --> a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.


caramel ::: n. --> Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.
A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.


carbamine ::: n. --> An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

cardialgy ::: n. --> A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

career ::: n. --> A race course: the ground run over.
A running; full speed; a rapid course.
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington&


carling ::: n. --> A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

car ::: n. --> A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
The stars also called Charles&


carnation ::: n. --> The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.


caroteel ::: n. --> A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.

carpet ::: n. --> A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. ::: v. t.


carp ::: v. i. --> To talk; to speak; to prattle.
To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. ::: v. t. --> To say; to tell.
To find fault with; to censure.


carrot ::: n. --> An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.


carryall ::: n. --> A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

cascabel ::: n. --> The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]

cascalho ::: n. --> A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

casemate ::: n. --> A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.


casern ::: n. --> A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.

cask ::: n. --> Same as Casque.
A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
The quantity contained in a cask.
A casket; a small box for jewels. ::: v. t.


casserole ::: n. --> A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.
A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.


cassino ::: n. --> A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.

cassock ::: n. --> A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.


caste-mark ::: (In India) a mark, usually on the forehead, symbolising and identifying caste membership.

castle ::: lit. A large fortified building or group of buildings with thick walls, usually dominating the surrounding country. Fig. A stronghold, fortress.

catastasis ::: n. --> That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.
The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.


catastrophe ::: n. --> An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.


caterpillar ::: n. --> The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm,

celebrity ::: n. --> Celebration; solemnization.
The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.
A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.


cellaret ::: n. --> A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

cellar ::: n. --> A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

census ::: n. --> A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.


centaury ::: n. --> A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

centumvir ::: n. --> One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

cephalotomy ::: n. --> Dissection or opening of the head.
Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.


cereal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain. ::: n. --> Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

cestoidea ::: n. pl. --> A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm.

chemic ::: chemical. ::: cheque ::: a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money to a person or designated bearer. cheques.

Child ::: .Usually signifies the psychic being — new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.

\cil of sleep — very largely indeed these two elements get mixed up together. For in fact a large part of our consciousness in sleep docs not sink into this subconscious slate ; it passes beyond the veil into other planes of being which arc connected with our own inner planes, planes of supraphj'sical existence, w'orlds of a larger life, mind or psychic which arc there behind and whose influences come to us without our knowledge. Occasionally we get a dream from these planes, something more than a dream, — a dream experience which is a record direct or symbolic of what happens to us or around us there. As the inner consciousness grows by sadhana, these dream experiences increase In number, dearness, coherence, accuracy and after some growth of experi- ence and consciousness, we can, if we observe, come to under- stand them and their significance to our loner life. Even we can by training become so coosetous as to follow our own passage, usually veiled to our arvarencss and memory, through many realms and the process of the return to the waking state. At a certain pitch of this inner wakefulness this kind of sleep, a sleep experience, can replace the ordinary subconscious slumber.

claw ::: n. **1. A sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. v. 2. To tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws. clawed.**

cleave ::: 1. To adhere closely to; stick; cling. 2. To be faithful (usually fol. by to.)

cloud ::: 1. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth"s surface. 2. Any similar mass, esp. of smoke or dust. 3. Something fleeting or unsubstantial. 4. Anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc. clouds, clouds", cloud-veils.

clutch ::: n. 1. A tight grasp. v. 2. To grip or hold tightly or firmly. 3. To try to seize or grasp (usually fol. by at) clutched, clutching.

coin ::: 1. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money. 2. A mode of expression considered standard, a symbol; token.

coma ::: a state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.

comet ::: a celestial body that travels around the sun, usually in a highly elliptical orbit: thought to consist of a solid frozen nucleus part of which vaporizes on approaching the sun to form a gaseous luminous coma and a long luminous tail.

conceive ::: 1. To form or hold an idea. 2. To begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive). 3. To apprehend mentally; understand. 4. To be created or formed in the womb; to be engendered; begotten. conceives, conceived, self-conceived.

Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range. There are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it uncons- cious, — supraroental or overmental and submental ranges.
By consciousness is meant something which is essentially the same throughout but variable in status, condition and operation, in which in some grades or conditions the activities we call consciousness exist cither in a suppressed or an unorganised or a differently organised state.
It is not composed of parts, it is fundamental to being and itself formulates any parts it chooses to manifest, developing them from above downward by a progressive coming down from spiri- tual levels towards involution in matter or formulating them In an upward working in the from what wc call evolution.


:::   "Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound — for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious, — supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” *Letters on Yoga

“Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound—for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious,—supramental or overmental and submental ranges.” Letters on Yoga

copy-book ::: a book containing models, usually of penmanship, for learners to imitate. Hence adj. commonplace; stereotyped.

crammed ::: forced or stuffed (usually fol. by into, down, etc.).

credentials ::: evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges or the like, usually in written form.

Crimson ::: Light of Love in (he vital and physical. Usually the colour of the physical (force).

cup ::: 1. A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking, or something resembling it. cup"s 2. *Fig.* Something that one must endure; one"s lot to be experienced or endured with pain or happiness, as these lines in Savitri:

current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.

dart ::: n. 1. A small, slender missile that is pointed at one end and usually feathered at the other and is propelled by hand, as in the game of darts, or by a blowgun when used as a weapon. 2. Something similar in function to such a missile, as the stinging member of an insect. *v. 2. To thrust or move suddenly or rapidly.* darts.

destiny ::: 1. Something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. 2. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. 3. The power or agency that determines the course of events. 4. *(Cap.) This power personified or represented as a goddess. *Destiny, destinies, world-destiny.

dews ::: 1. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto cool surfaces. 2. Something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality. dewy, Dew-time.

din ::: a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds.

DISCUSSIONS. ::: They usually bring on the sadhaka a stress of the opposing atmosphere and cannot be helpful to his pro- gress. Reserve is the best attitude.

disrupt ::: 1. To cause disorder or turmoil in. 2. To destroy, usually temporarily, the normal continuance or unity of; interrupt. 3. To break apart. disrupted.

dole ::: n. **1. A portion or allotment of money, food, etc., esp. as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance. v. 2. To give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out). doled, doles.**

dominions ::: territories, usually of considerable size, in which a single rulership holds sway.

dragonflies ::: any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest.

drift ::: n. 1. A driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure. 2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. 3. Tendency, trend, meaning, or purport. 4. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. 5. Something moving along in a current of air or water. 6. Any group of stars having a random distribution of velocities; usually applied to a group of stars with an apparent systematic motion towards some point in the sky. v. 7. To be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water. 8. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose. drifts, drifted, drifting, sleet-drift, slow-drifting.

DRY PERIOD. ::: There is a long stage of preparation neces- sary in order to arrive at the moer psychologic^ condition in which the doors of experience can open and one can walk from vista to vista — though even then new gates may present them- selves and refuse to open until all is ready. This period can be dry and desert-like unless one has the ardour of self-introspec- tion and self-conquest and finds every step of the effort and struggle interesting or unless one has or gets the secret of trust and self-giving which secs the hand of the Divine in every step of the path and even in the difficulty the grace or the guidance.

Such interval periods come to all and cannot be avoided.

The main thing is to meet them with quietude and not become restless, depressed or despondent. A constant fire can be there only when a certain stage has been reached, that is when one is always inside consciously living in the psychic being, but for that all this preparation of the mind, vital, physical is necessary.

For this fire belongs to the psychic and one cannot command it always merely by the mind's effort. The psychic has to be fully liberated and that is what the Force is working to make fully possible.

The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This dryness is a well- known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has to persist and not be discouraged. If one keep? the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible.

Dryness comes usually when the vital dislikes a movement or' condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-co-operation.

But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place, i.e, peace, joy, a higher know- ledge or force or action.


dual ::: 1. Composed of two usually like or complementary parts; double. 2. Having a two-fold, or double, character or nature. dual"s.

Duck ::: Usually a symbol of the soul or inner being.

Durga ::: “In Hindu religion, the goddess who is the Energy of Shiva and the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. She is the slayer of many demons including Mahisasura. Durga is usually depicted in painting and sculpture riding a lion, having eight or ten arms, each holding the special weapon of one or another of the gods who gave them to her for her battles with demons. (A; Enc. Br). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works.

durga ::: "In Hindu religion, the goddess who is the Energy of Shiva and the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. She is the slayer of many demons including Mahisasura. Durga is usually depicted in painting and sculpture riding a lion, having eight or ten arms, each holding the special weapon of one or another of the gods who gave them to her for her battles with demons. (A; Enc. Br.)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.

dwarf ::: n. 1. (In folklore) a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly man, usually having magic powers. dwarf"s. adj. 2. Of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.

Ears ::: Usually the plare of inspired knowledge or else inspir- ed expression.

Ecstasy ::: “It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine

Effect of food ::: There is a certain usually fixed relation between the consciousness in the palate and the gimas of the food, but the cctnsciousness can alter the relation if it wants or inhibit it altogether.

Effort and surrender ::: Surrender is not a thing that can be done in a day. The mind has its ideas and clings to them ; the human vital resists surrender, for what it calls surrender in the early stages is a doubtful kind of self-giving with a demand in it ; the physical consciousness is like a stone and what it calls surrender is often no more Ilian Inertia. It is only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the

element ::: 1. A component or constituent of a whole. 2. One of the substances, usually earth, water, air, and fire, formerly regarded as constituting the material universe. 3. A natural habitat, sphere of activity, environment, etc. elements.

elfin ::: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; in reference to legendary beings with magical powers, usually characterized as small, manlike, and mischievous.

EMPTINESS. ::: Emptiness inward and outward becomes the first step towards a new consciousness. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another.

"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*

“Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga

encyclopaedia ::: a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.

epic ::: adj. 1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero. 2. Resembling or suggesting such poetry. 3. Heroic; majestic; impressively great. 4. Of unusually great size or extent. n. 5. An epic poem. 6. Any composition resembling an epic. epics.

episode ::: 1. An incident in the course of a series of events, in a person"s life or experience, etc. 2. One of a number of loosely connected, but usually thematically related, scenes or stories constituting a literary work.

::: "Erinyes, in Greek mythology, the goddesses of vengeance, usually represented as three winged maidens, with snakes in their hair. They pursued criminals, drove them mad, and tormented them in Hades. They were spirits of punishment, avenging wrongs done especially to kindred. In Roman literature they were called Furies.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works*

estate ::: 1. The situation or circumstances of one"s life. 2. Social position or rank, especially of high order. 3. A person"s total possessions (property, money etc.). 4. A landed property, usually, of considerable size. estates.

“Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga

"Evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear in the evolution; what was original and primal in the involution is in the evolution the last and supreme emergence.” The Life Divine ::: "Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga

fear ::: “Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things. It might almost be considered as an invention of the hostile forces.” Letters on Yoga

FEAR. ::: Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence

feast ::: 1. A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by entertainment; a banquet. 2. Something giving great pleasure or satisfaction.

fish- or insect-eating birds that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly coloured.

Flute ::: Symbol of a call, usually the spiritual call.

fringe ::: 1. A decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a ravelled edge or strip. 2. Anything resembling or suggesting this. 3. An outer edge; margin; periphery. fringes, fringed.

Furies ::: “Erinyes, in Greek mythology, the goddesses of vengeance, usually represented as three winged maidens, with snakes in their hair. They pursued criminals, drove them mad, and tormented them in Hades. They were spirits of punishment, avenging wrongs done especially to kindred. In Roman literature they were called Furies.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works

glean ::: 1. To gather laboriously, bit by bit. 2. To gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gathers. 3. To learn, discover, of find out, usually little by little or slowly. gleaner.

glory ::: n. 1. Majestic and radiant beauty and splendour; resplendence. 2. Great honour, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown. 3. A state of extreme happiness or exaltation. 4. A state of absolute happiness; gratification. Glory, glory"s, glories, self-glory. v. 5. Rejoice proudly (usually followed by in). glories, gloried, glorying.

Golden light is usually a light from the supermind, a light of

gong ::: a large bronze disk of Asian origin, having an upturned rim that produces a vibrant, hollow tone when struck, usually with a soft mallet.

halo ::: a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage. haloed.

Hamsa ::: Synnbol of the being; it regains its original puritj' as it rises until it becomes luminous in the Highest Truth ; goose or ordinary hamsa usually refers to the manomaya piirufa.

hang ::: 1. To fasten or attach (pictures, etc.) to a wall. 2. To suspend (something) around or in front of anything. 3.* Fig. To remain unresolved or uncertain. 4. To make (an idea, form, etc.) dependent on the situation, structure, concept, or the like, usually derived from another source. 5. To fasten or be fastened from above, esp. by a cord, chain, etc.; suspend. 6. To be suspended or poised; hover. 7. To bend forward or downward; to lean over. *hangs, hung, hanging, flower-hung, shadow-hung. ::: hung on: Remained clinging, usually implying expectation or unwillingness to sever one"s connection.

harp ::: a usually large musical instrument which is held upright, and which has many strings of varying length which are plucked with the fingers. harp"s, harps.

heal ::: 1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. 2.* Fig. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. 3. To become whole and sound; return to health. 4. To bring to an end or conclusion, as conflicts between people or groups, usually with a strong implication of restoring former amity; settle; reconcile. *heals, healed, healing.

hearth ::: the floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.

Higher vital ::: Usually refers to the vital mind and emouve being as opposed to the middle vital which has its scat in the navel and is dynamic, sensational and passionate and the lower which is made up the smaBer movements of human Jj/e-desjre and life-reactions.

Horse ::: Power, usually Life-Power, but also it may mean

HYSTERIA. ::: It is due to a pressure from the vital world and there may be momentary possessions also.

In cases of hysteria usually nothing is gained by humouring or indulgence ; firmness generally pays better, because most often there is something there that wants ito be interesting and get sympathy and have a fuss made over the person. As for the cure, the subjective cause has to be got rid of.


If wc Jive only in the outward physical consciousness, we do not usually know that we are going to be ill until the symptoms of the malady declare themselves in the body. But if we develop the inward physical consciousness, we become aware of a subtle environmental physical atmosphere and can feel the forces of illness coming towards us through it, feel them even at a distance, and, if we have learnt how to do it, we can stop them by the will or otherwise. We sense too around us a vital physical or nervous envelope which radiates from the body and protects it, and we can feel the adverse forces trying to break through it and can interfere, stop them or reinforce the nervous envelope.

  In ancient Egypt, the figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. 2. Class. Myth. A monster, usually represented as having the head and breast of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. Seated on a rock outside of Thebes, she proposed a riddle to travellers, killing them when they answered incorrectly, as all did before Oedipus. When he answered her riddle correctly the Sphinx killed herself. (The Egyptian sphinxes usually exhibit male heads and wingless bodies; in the usual Greek type the head is female and the body winged.)

incline ::: n. 1. A steep slope or rise. *v. 2. To bow, nod, or bend (the head, body, etc.). 3. To dispose (a person) in mind, habit, etc. (usually followed by to). 4. To listen, especially willingly or favourably. *inclined, inclining.

individual ::: “But what do we mean by the individual? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of Nature which holds together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible; but the individual self or soul is not this ego. The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal portion of the Divine, but can also be described as the Divine himself supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative senseof individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings.” Letters on Yoga

INERTIA. ::: Comes usually from the ordinary physical cons- ciousness. especially when the vital is not actively supporting the sadhana.

inlets ::: indentations of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bays or arms.

In orthodox Buddhism it does mean a disintegration, not of the soul — for that does not exist — but of a mental compound or stream of associations or samskaras which we mistake for our self. In illusionist Vedanta it means not a disintegration but a disappearance of a false and unreal individual self into the one real Self or Brahman j it is the idea and experience of indivi- duality that so disappears and ceases — we may say a false light that is extinguished {nirvana) in the true Light. In spiritual experience it is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness ; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which the sense of the cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcend- ence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. But what do we mean by the individual ? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of nature which holds together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible ; but the individual self is not this ego. The individual soul Is a spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal por- tion of the Divine but can also be described as the Divine him- self supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings. It is this which makes possible the Divine Life.

instinct ::: adj. Filled or infused with some animating principle (usually followed by with).

intimacy ::: 1. A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group. 2. An embracing inner closeness. Intimacy, intimacies.

invasion ::: the entrance, incursion or advent of anything (usually used in a negative sense).

iron ::: n. 1. A silver-white metal, usually an admixture of some other substance, usually carbon, rendering it extremely hard and useful for tools, implements, machinery, constructions, and in many other applications. adj. 2. Inflexible; unyielding; firm. 3. Stern; harsh; cruel. 4. *Fig.* Resembling iron in firmness, strength, colour, etc.

It is usually only if there is much activity of sadhana in the day that it extends also into the sleep-state.

It is not indispensable that the Grace should work in a way that the human mind can understand, it generally does not ; it works in. its own ‘ mysterious ’ way. At first usually it works behind the veil, preparbg things, not manifesting. Afterwards it may manifest, but the sSdhaka does not understand very well what is happening ; finally, when he is capable of it, he both feels and understands or at least begins to do so. Some feel and understand from the first or very early ; but that is not the ordinary case.

JAPA. ::: Japa is usually successful only on one of two condi- tions ::: if it is repeated with a sense of its significance, a dwelling of something in the mind on the nature, power, beauty, attrac- tion of the Godhead it signifies and is to bring into the cons- ciousness, — - that is the mental way ; or if it comes up from the heart or rings in it with a certain sense or feeling of bhak'ti making it alive, — that is the emotional way. Either the mind or the vital has to give it support or sustenance. But if it makes the mind dry and the vital restless, it must be missing that sup- port and sustenance. There « of course a third way, the reliance on the power of the Mantra or name in itself ; but then one has to go on till that power has sufficiently impressed its vibra- tion on the inner being to make it at a given moment suddenly open to the Presence or the Touch. But Jf there is a struggling or insistence for the result, then this c/Tect which needs a quiet receptivity In the mind is impeded.

jar ::: a wide-mouthed container that is usually cylindrical, made of glass or earthenware, and without handles. Also fig. **jars.**

Jhumur: “Of all the creatures the eagle is the one bird that can stare straight at the sun. It lives on the heights. Here is its counterpart, the bird at its full power with enormous strength usually climbing straight into the sun or at the sun and here into the abyss. It is a bird of tremendous power, the king of birds.. It is fearless and it is very, very strong. Instead of the bird that leads you up to the sun it is the bird that leads you down into the darkness with the same force, with the same dynamism.”

Jupiter is usually thought to have originated as a sky god. His identifying implement is the thunderbolt, and his primary sacred animal is the eagle,[1] which held precedence over other birds in the taking of auspices[2] and became one of the most common symbols of the Roman army (see Aquila). The two emblems were often combined to represent the god in the form of an eagle holding in its claws a thunderbolt, frequently seen on Greek and Roman coins.[3] As the sky-god, he was a divine witness to oaths, the sacred trust on which justice and good government depend. Many of his functions were focused on the Capitoline (“Capitol Hill”), where the citadel was located. He was the chief deity of the early Capitoline Triad with Mars and Quirinus.[4] In the later Capitoline Triad, he was the central guardian of the state with Juno and Minerva. His sacred tree was the oak.

kakemono ::: A Japanese paper or silk wall hanging, usually long and narrow, with a picture or inscription on it and a roller at the bottom.

kakemono ::: a Japanese paper or silk wall hanging, usually long and narrow, with a picture or inscription on it and a roller at the bottom.

kernel ::: 1. The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone. 2. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.

king ::: 1. Applied to God. 2. The formal title of a monarch, usually accompanied by or substituted for the proper name.

Lakshmi ::: “Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white.” Letters on Yoga

lattice ::: an open framework made of strips of metal, wood, or similar material overlapped or overlaid in a regular, usually crisscross pattern. lattices, lattice-window.

leaf ::: 1. A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principle organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants. 2. A page of a book or manuscript. lotus-leaf. (See also gold-leaf.)

liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.

longitudes ::: distances, measured in degrees on the map, of places that are east or west of a standard north-south line, usually that which passes through Greenwich.

lotus ::: any aquatic plant of the genus Nelumbo, of the water lily family, having shieldlike leaves and showy, solitary flowers usually projecting above the water. lotuses, lotus-bud, lotus-cup, lotus-heart, lotus-leaf, lotus-pools, lotus-throne.

low-built ::: comb. Forming with ppl. adjs. used attrib. numerous quasi-compounds, usually hyphened, such as low-built; built, constructed, in a low or inferior way.

Madhav: “An oracle, as you know, is the speech of prophecy, usually by an inspired priest. It is a supernatural prophecy made through any agent. But this oracle will be tongueless to broadcast it, everybody will know this oracle without its being uttered through a tongue.” The Book of the Divine Mother

MAHAKALI ::: Goddess of the supreme strength ; with her are all mights and spiritual force and severest austerity of lapas and swiftness to the battle and the victory and the laughter, the attahosya, that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance. .*

Afa/ifliflh' and Kdh are not the same. Kali is a lesser form.

Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour.


maim ::: 1. To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. 2. To make imperfect or defective; impair. Also fig. maims.

map ::: n. 1. A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens. 2. A maplike delineation, representation, or reflection of anything. maps, concept-maps. v. 3. To depict as if on a map. 4. To sketch or plan out. maps, mapped.

marry ::: to unite in a close, usually permanent way.

mass ::: n. 1. A body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size. 2. A large amount or number, such as a great body of people. masses, flower-masses. 3. Bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness. 4. The main body, bulk, or greater part of anything. 5. Physics. A measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body. adj. 6. Of, involving, composed of masses of people (or things) or the majority of people (or a society, group, etc.); done, made, etc., on a large scale. v. 7. To gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble. massed.

maze ::: an intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth. mazes.

metres ::: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line.

midwife ::: a person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth.

Mind in the physical or mental physical is limited by the physical view and experience of things, it mentalises the experi- ences brought by the contacts of outward life and things, and docs not go beyond that (though it can do that much very cleverly), unlike the externalising mmd which deals with them more from the reason and its higher intelligence. But in practice these two usually get mixed together. The niec/innicai mind is a much lower action of the mental physical which, left to itself, woutd only repeat customary ideas and record the natural reflexes of the physical consciousness to the contacts of outward life and things.

mind, spiritual ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga

moan ::: n. 1. A low, sustained, mournful cry, usually indicative of sorrow or pain. 2. A grumble or complaint. moaning. v. 3. To utter sounds in a low mournful manner. 4. To grumble or complain. moaned, moaning.

moonbelts ::: broad bands or stripes characteristically distinguished from the surface they cross; tracts or districts long in proportion to their breadths. Also, zones or districts, usually with defining term denoting the principal characteristic.

morning star ::: a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.

mother, universal ::: Sri Aurobindo: "What people mean by the formless svarûpa of the Mother, — they means usually her universal aspect. It is when she is experienced as a universal Existence and Power spread through the universe in which and by which all live. When one feels that Presence one begins to feel a universal peace, light, power, bliss without limits — that is her svarûpa.” *The Mother

   "The Mahashakti, the universal Mother, works out whatever is transmitted by her transcendent consciousness from the Supreme and enters into the worlds that she has made; her presence fills and supports them with the divine spirit and the divine all-sustaining force and delight without which they could not exist.” The Mother


movement ::: 1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position. A particular manner of moving. 2. Usually, movements, actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. ::: movement"s, movements, many-movemented.

Sri Aurobindo: "When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm." *The Life Divine

". . . the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine

"The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads*



moving plate ::: photogr. A thin sheet of metal, porcelain, or (now usually) glass, coated with a film sensitive to light, on which photographs are taken.

n. 1. An arched structure, usually of masonry or concrete, serving to cover a space. Also fig. 2. An arched overhead covering, such as the sky, that resembles the architectural structure in form. Chiefly poet. v. **3. vaulted. **Having a hemispherical vault or dome.

n. 1. The lower interior part of a ship or airplane where cargo is stored. 2. The act or a means of grasping. v. 3. To have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 4. To bear, sustain, or support, as with the hands or arms, or by any other means. 5. To contain or be capable of containing. 6. To keep from departing or getting away. 7. To withstand stress, pressure, or opposition; to maintain occupation of by force or coercion. 8. To have in its power, possess, affect, occupy. 9. To engage in; preside over; carry on. 10. To have or keep in the mind; think or believe. 11. To regard or consider. 12. To keep or maintain a grasp on something. 13. To maintain one"s position against opposition; continue in resistance. 14. To agree or side (usually followed by with). holds, holding. ::: hold back. 15. a. To retain possession of; keep back. b. To refrain from revealing; withhold. c. To refrain from participating or engaging in some activity.

NAME. ::: The name of the Divine is usually called in for protection, for adoration, for increase of bbakti, for the opening up of the inner consciousness, for the realisation of the Divine in that aspect.

nation ::: a relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country. nation"s, nations.

navel ::: 1. The scar in the centre of the abdomen, usually forming a slight depression, where the umbilical cord was attached. 2. The centre point or middle of something. navel"s, navel lotus.

nimbus ::: 1. A cloudy radiance said to surround a classical deity when on earth. 2. A radiant light that appears usually in the form of a circle or halo about or over the head in the representation of a god, demigod, saint, or sacred person such as a king or an emperor. Nimbus.

Nolini: “Usually the first spiritual experience comes as wonder. The birds symbolise the forces at play in this level of Wonder, beings in that consciousness of Wonder.”

no man"s land ::: 1. An unowned or unclaimed tract of usually barren land. 2. An area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established.

nursery school ::: a school for children usually between the ages of three and five years.

oblivious ::: 1. Without remembrance or memory. 2. Unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of ).

ode ::: 1. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. 2. A poem meant to be sung. odes.

on the satisfaction of cgo-dcsire or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces. It is a while flame, not a red one ; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not usually get its full play in human rela- tions and human nature ; it finds the fullness of -its fire and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divine. In the human relation the psychic love gets mixed up with other ele- ments which seek at once to use it and overshadow it. It gels an outlet for its o^vn full intensities only at rare moments. Other- wise it comes in only as an element, but even so it contributes all the higher things in a love fundamentally vital-— all the finer sweetness, tenderness, fidelity, self-giving, self-sacrifice, rcachings of soul to soul, idealising sublimations that lift up human love beyond itself, come from the psychic. If it could dominate and govern and transmute the other elements, mental, vital, phj-sieal, of human love, then love could be on the earth some reflection or preparation of the real thing, an integral union of the soul and its instruments in a dual life.

orbit ::: 1. The curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun. 2. The usual course of one"s life or range of one"s activities. orbits.

orchid ::: any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers.

paean ::: a song or lyric poem expressing triumph or thanksgiving, or joy. In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice (monody). It comes from the Greek παιάν (also παιήων or παιών), "song of triumph, any solemn song or chant.” paeans, paean-song.

panel ::: a flat, usually rectangular piece forming a raised, recessed, or framed part of the surface in which it is set.

parishes ::: political subdivisions of a country or state, usually corresponding in boundaries to an original ecclesiastical parish.

pigmy ::: 1. Of very small size, capacity, or power. 2. Unusually or atypically small.

pitched ::: 1. Erect or established; set up; as a tent, etc. 2. Set at a certain point, degree, level, etc. 3. (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form; "high-pitched”, "sky-pitched”.

pitcher ::: a vase-shaped vessel usually with a handle and a spout or lip for holding and pouring liquids.

plain ::: n. 1. An extensive, level, usually treeless area of land. plains. adj. 2. Obvious to the mind; evident. 3. Not elaborate or complicated; simple.

Power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even with- out any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to deve- . lop ; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent ; but this does not alwa^ happen easily, especially if one has been habituated to live mnch in the intelfect or in art out- ward vital consciousness.

preface ::: a preliminary statement or essay introducing a book that explains its scope, intention, or background and is usually written by the author.

prints ::: photographic images transferred to paper or to similar surfaces, usually from negatives.

privilege ::: 1. A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all. 2. The advantages and immunities enjoyed by a small usually powerful group or class, esp. to the disadvantage of others.

privy ::: made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret, usually followed by to.

prop ::: n. 1. An object placed beneath or against a structure to keep it from falling or shaking; a support. 2. Fig. A person or thing giving support, as of a moral or spiritual nature. 3. Theat. Property, a usually moveable item, other than costumes or scenery, used on the set of a theatre production, motion picture, etc.; any object handled or used by an actor in a performance. v. 3. To sustain or support. props.

Psychic being is quite di/Terent from the mind or vital; it stands behind them where they meet in the heart. Its central place is there, but behind the heart rather than in the heart ; for what men call usually the heart is the seat of emotion, and human emotions are mental-vital impulses, not ordinarily psychic in their nature. This mostly secret power behind, other than the mind and the life-force, is the true soul, the psychic being in us. The power of the psychic, however, can act upon the mind and vital and body, purifying thought and perception and emotion (which then becomes psychic feeling) and sensaUon and action and everything else in us and preparing them to be divine movements. The psychic being may be described in Indian lan- guage as the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha, but the inner or secret heart must be understood, hrdaye guhayom, not the outer vital-emotional centre. The supramental change can take place only if the psychic is awake and is made the chief support of the descending supramental power.

"Pulling comes usually from a desire to get things for oneself — in aspiration there is a self-giving for the higher consciousness to descend and take possession — the more intense the call the greater the self-giving.” Letters on Yoga

“Pulling comes usually from a desire to get things for oneself—in aspiration there is a self-giving for the higher consciousness to descend and take possession—the more intense the call the greater the self-giving.” Letters on Yoga

Radha’s colour. Usually the deeper blue is Higher Mind, a paler blue is Illumined Mind (or something of the Intuition), whitish blue is Sri Krishna’s light. Whitish blue like moonlight :::

rails ::: 1. Naut. Horizontal members capping a bulwark (a solid wall enclosing the perimeter of a weather or main deck of a ship). 2. Steel bars used, usually in pairs, as tracks for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.

rear ::: 1. The back of anything; the area or position that lies at the back. 2. Military. The part of a military deployment usually farthest from the fighting front.

Recurrence of doubts ::: In the nature of these recurrences there is usually a constant return of the same adverse experiences, the same adverse resistance, thoughts destructive of all belief and faith and confidence in the future of the sadhana, frustrating doubts of what one has known as the truth, urgings to abandon- ment of the yoga or to other disastrous counsels of decheance.

report ::: n. 1. An account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc. v. **2. **To make or present an often official, formal, or regular account of.

RESISTANCE. ::: When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt — which may create mental and vital su/Tering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature ivhose principal characer is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffer- ing of the mind and vital parts. The pbj-sical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incom- prehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it docs not want to do so ; both lital and physical suffer- ing may be the consequence. There is, moreover, the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence in the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to (he

rest ::: n. 1. A state of repose, quiescence, or inactivity. 2. Relief or freedom, esp. from anything that wearies, troubles, or disturbs. 3. Mental or emotional or spiritual tranquillity. 4. Termination or absence of motion. 5. The repose of death. v. 6. To cease motion, work, or activity. 7. To be, become, or remain temporarily still, quiet, or inactive. 8. To be present; dwell; linger (usually followed by on or upon). 9. To depend or rely on. rests, rested, resting.

ring ::: n. 1. Anything having the form of a circular band. 2. An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place. 3. A group or number of things arranged in an approximately circular arrangement. rings, aeon-rings. *v. 4. To surround with or as if with a ring; encircle.* rings, ringed.

robot ::: one who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another"s will; automaton.

rung ::: one of the crosspieces usually rounded forming the steps of a ladder. Also fig. **rungs.**

Savitri ::: Purani: “The word ‘Savitri’ is derived from the word ‘Savitru’ which in its turn is derived from the root ‘su’ = ‘to give birth to’. The word ‘Soma’ which indicates an ‘exhilarating drink’, symbolising spiritual ecstasy or delight, is also derived from the same root ‘su’. It links therefore the creation and the delight of creation. Savitru therefore, means the Divine Creator One who gives birth to or brings forth from himself into existence, the creation. In the Veda, Savita is the God of illumination, the God of Creation. Usually, he is represented by the material sun which also illuminates the solar system and is its creator and sustainer in the material sense. Savitri therefore would mean etymologically ‘some one descended from the Sun’, ‘one belonging to the Sun’, ‘an energy derived from the Sun, the Divine Creator’. In our poem, Savitri is the princess who embodies the Divine Grace descended in human birth to work out with the aspiring soul of humanity his divine destiny.”“Savitri“—An Approach and a Study

scattered ::: adj. 1. Refracted and dispersed in all directions, as of light. 2. Lacking orderly continuity. 3. Distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals.

scooped ::: hollowed out with or as with a scoop (a utensil, usually in the form of a ladle or a concave shovel with a straight handle) to form a concavity or depression in. Also with out.

screen ::: n. 1. A moveable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. 2. Something interposed as a partition so as to conceal from view. 3. A window or door insertion or framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow. 4. A specially prepared, light reflecting, flat vertical surface for the reception of images as from a slide or motion picture projector. screens. v. 5. To conceal from view with or as if with a screen. screens, screened.

Seeking for occulf powers is looked on with disfavour for the most part by spiritual teachers in India, because it belongs to the inferior planes and usually pushes the seeker on a path which may lead him very far from the Divine. Especially, a contact mth the forces and beings of the astral (or, as we term it, the vital) plane is attended with great dangers. The beings of this plane are often bosiQc to the true aim of spiritual life and establish contact with the seeker and offer him powers and occult experiences only in order that they may lead him away from the spiritual path or else that they may establish their own control over him or take possession of him for their owm pur- pose. Often, representing themselves as Divine powers they mis- lead, give erring suggestions and impulsions and pervert the inner life. Many are those who, attracted by these powers and beings of the vital plane, bave ended in a definitive spiritual fall or in mental and physical perversion and disorder. One comes ineritably into contact with the vital plane and enters into it in the expansion of consriousness which results from an inner opening, but one ought never to put oneself into the hands of these beings and forces or allow oneself to be led by their sug- gestions and impulsions. This is one of the chief dangers of the spiritual life and to be on one’s guard against it is a necessity for the seeTer if he wishes to arrive at his goal. It is true that many supraphysical or supernonnal powers come with the expansion of the consciousness in the yoga ; to rise out of the body consciousness, to act by subtle means on the supraphysical planes, etc. are natural activities for the yogi- But these powers are not sought after, they come naturally, and they have not the astral character. Also, Aey have to be used on purely spiritual

sentence ::: n. 1. A sequence of words capable of standing alone to make an assertion, ask a question or give a command, usually consisting of a subject and a predicate containing a finite verb. 2. An authoritative decision; a judicial judgement or decree, esp. a judicial decision of the punishment to be inflicted on one adjudged guilty. Hence, the punishment to which a criminal is sentenced. sentences. 3. A number of words forming a complete statement. sentenced.

Sex-dreams ::: What is rejected in the waking often attacks in sleep — especially the sexual suggestions. You have to con- centrate before sleeping with a strong will that nothing of the kind should happen. After some time this concentration is usually successful.

-shackled ::: bound with a chain, ring, or other fastening as of iron for the ankle or wrist of a prisoner, usually one of a pair, which is fastened to a ring-bolt in the floor or wall of the cell. sense-shackled.

Sky ::: A symbol of the mental consciousness (or the psychic) or other consciousnesses above the mind. The higher conscious- ness In any of its levels is seen usually us a sky or ether but when felt through the vital it is often p>erceived as a sea. In this yoga one sees many levels of consciousness which appear as skies or seas.

slate ::: a tablet made of a thin piece of fine grained rock, usually framed in wood, used for writing on.

Sleep and the subconscient ::: Sleep because of its subconscient basis usually brings a falling do\vn to a lower level, unless it is a conscious sleep ; to make it more and more conscious is the one permanent remedy ::: but also until that is done, one should always react against this sinking tendency when one wakes and not allow the effect of dull nights to accumulate.

sleet-drift ::: a drift of snow which has been partially thawed by falling through an atmosphere of a temperature a little above freezing-point, usually accompanied by rain or snow.

snatched ::: 1. Seized by a sudden or hasty grasp. 2. Made a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).

solders ::: joins, unites, cements, bonds, as by soldering (fusing alloys, usually tin and lead, to join metallic parts).

special reference to the psychic or the psychidsed dial, menial and physical consciousness. Usually indicate a psychic activity.

Speech is usually the expression of the superficial nature ; therefore to throw oneself out too much in such speech wastes the energy and prevents the inward listening which brings the word of true knowledge. Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of the mind.

sphinx ::: 1. In ancient Egypt, the figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. 2. Class. Myth. A monster, usually represented as having the head and breast of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. Seated on a rock outside of Thebes, she proposed a riddle to travellers, killing them when they answered incorrectly, as all did before Oedipus. When he answered her riddle correctly the Sphinx killed herself. (The Egyptian sphinxes usually exhibit male heads and wingless bodies; in the usual Greek type the head is female and the body winged.)

SPIRITISM. ::: It is quite possible for the dead or rather the departed — for they are not dead — who are still in regions rear the earth to have communication with the living ; some- times it happens automatically, sometimes by an effort at com- munication on one side of the curtain or the other. There is no impossibility of such communication by the means used by the spiritists ; usually however, genuine communications or a contact can only be with those who are yet m a wodd which is s sort of idealised replica of the earth-consciousness and in which the same personality, ideas, memories persist that the person had here. But all that pretends to be communications with departed souls is not genuine, especially when it is done through a paid professional medium. There is there an enormous amount of mixture of a very undesirable kind — for apart from the great mass of unconscious suggestions from the sitters or the contn-

Spiritualisation and transformation ::: Spiritual experiences can fix themselves in the inner consciousness and alter it, transform it, if you like ; one can realise the Divine everywhere, the Self in qU and all in the Self, the universal Shakti doing all things ; one can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic bhakti or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best the intuitive mind, willing with a menial will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical oHIictions and suffering from the struggle of life in the body with death and disease.

Sri Aurobindo: "But what do we mean by the individual? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of Nature which holds together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible; but the individual self or soul is not this ego. The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal portion of the Divine, but can also be described as the Divine himself supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete truth when we get rid of the ego and our false separative sense of individuality, realise our oneness with the transcendent and cosmic Divine and with all beings.” *Letters on Yoga

*Sri Aurobindo: "Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things. It might almost be considered as an invention of the hostile forces.” Letters on Yoga

"Sri Aurobindo: "It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine

:::   Sri Aurobindo: "Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white.” Letters on Yoga

Sri Aurobindo: “Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white.” Letters on Yoga

*Sri Aurobindo: "The flute is the call of the Divine Love;” Letters on Yoga ::: "The flute is the symbol of a call — usually the spiritual call.” Letters on Yoga

Sri Aurobindo: "Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.” *Essays Divine and Human

stab ::: 1. A wound inflicted with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. Sudden, brief, and usually painful, sensations. 3. A thrust. Also fig. stabs, flame-stabs.

stanza ::: one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. stanzas.

star ::: 1. Any of the celestial bodies visible at night from Earth as relatively stationary, usually twinkling points of light. 2. One who is prominent or distinguished in some way. 3. Fig. A guiding light. 4. A celestial body, esp. a planet or a star, supposed to influence events, personalities, etc. stars, stars", star-carved, star-defended, star-entangled, star-field, star-gemmed, star-jewelled, star-led, star-lost, star-lustrous, star-white.

steel ::: 1. A generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon, usually containing between 0.2 and 1.5 percent carbon, often with other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties, and widely used as a structural material. 2. Something, such as a sword, or a cutting instrument such as an axe that is made of steel. steel-bound.

steppes ::: huge and extensive grasslands (like those of Eurasia, chiefly in the Ukraine and Russia) usually treeless.

stone ::: n. 1. A small piece of rock. 2. Fig. Something resembling stone in shape or hardness. stones, stone-bound, hearth-stone, stepping-stone, stepping-stones, term-stones. 3. Of a person"s expression etc.), like a stone in coldness, hardness, stillness, etc. stone-calm, stone-still. adj. 4. Made of, pertaining to or having the characteristics of stone. Also fig. stone-grip, stone-laws. adv. 5. Completely; totally (usually used in combination).

strip ::: a long narrow piece, usually of uniform width. strips, canvas-strips, sky-strips.

subtle ::: 1. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive. 2. Fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand. 3. Delicate or faint and mysterious. 4. Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious. 5. Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever. 6. Insidious in operation. 7. Crafty or sly; devious; cunning. subtler, subtle-souled.

subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga

"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga

"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga


suburbs ::: a usually residential area or community outlying a city or township.

summary ::: a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.

superb ::: of unusually high quality; excellent.

SWAYING OF THE BODY. ::: Some have this swaying of the ' body when the Peace or the Force begins to descend upon it, as it facilitates for it the reception. The swaying ceases usually when the body is accustomed to assimilate the descent.

sweep ::: 1. *n. A broad reach, extent or range. lit. and fig. 2. A curving, esp. widely or gently curving, line, form, part, or mass. storm-sweeps. v. 3. To drive or carry by some steady force, as of a wind or wave. 4. To pass over (a surface, region, etc.) with a steady, driving movement or unimpeded course, as winds, floods, etc. 5. To move with a strong or swift even motion; to move over or through a surface or region, usually rapidly. 6. To pass the gaze, eyes, etc., over (a region, area, etc.). *sweeps, swept, rain-swept.

swiftness ::: a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens.

symphonies ::: 1. Harmonies, especially of sound or color. 2. Extended large-scale orchestral compositions, usually with several movements. 3. Anything characterized by a harmonious combination of elements.

tamperings ::: actions of meddling, esp. for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with).

tapestry ::: n. 1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration. tapestries. v. 2. To hang or decorate with or as with tapestry.

(Technically)** **Any of various birds of the family Paradisaeidae, native to New Guinea and adjacent islands, usually having brilliant plumage and long tail feathers in the male.

termite ::: any of numerous pale-colored, usually soft-bodied social insects of the order Isoptera that live mostly in warm regions and many species of which feed on wood, often destroying trees and wooden structures. Also called white ant.

"The child usually signifies the psychic being — new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.” Letters on Yoga

“The child usually signifies the psychic being—new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.” Letters on Yoga

"The child (when it does not mean the psychic being) is usually the symbol of something new-born in some part of the consciousness.” Letters on Yoga

“The child (when it does not mean the psychic being) is usually the symbol of something new-born in some part of the consciousness.” Letters on Yoga

The child (when it does not mean the psychic being) is usually the symbol of something new-born in some part of the conscious- ness.

"The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one"s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one"s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one"s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces — for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness — and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in ::: —the nature.” Letters on Yoga*

“The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one’s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one’s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one’s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces—for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness—and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in—the nature.” Letters on Yoga

The overmind is the region of the gods, the beings of divine origin who have been charged with supervising, directing and organising the evolution of the universe; and more specifically, since the formation of the earth they have served as messengers and intermediaries to bring to the earth the aid of the higher regions and to preside over the formation of the mind and its progressive ascension. It is usually to the gods of the overmind that the prayers of the various religions are addressed. These religions most often choose, for various reasons, one of these gods and transform him for their personal use into the supreme God.

The psychic part oS us is something that comes direct from the Divine and is in touch with the Divine. In its origin Jt is the nucleus pregnant with divine possibilities that supports this lower triple ma^estation of mind, life and body. There is this divine element in all living beings, but it stands bidden behind the ordinary cemsdousness, is not at first developed and, even when developed, is not always or often in the front ; it expresses itself so far as the imperfection of the instruments anon’s, by their means and imdcr their limitations. It grows in the cons- ciousness by Godward experience, gaining strength every time there is a Wgher movement in us, and, finally, by the accumu- lation of these deeper and higher movements, there is developed a psychic individuality, — that which we call usually the psychic being, ft is afways tius p^-chic hem? ffcif £f c&e reaf, often the secret cause of man’s turning to the spiritual life and his greatest help in it.

The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from ic outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Therefore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must be something which represents the idea of the Divine. It is usually a name or a form or a mantra by which the thought can be feed io the sole knowledge or adora- tion of the Lord. By this concentration on the idea (he mind enters from the idea into its reality, into which h sinks silent, absorbed, unified. This is the traditional method. There are,

::: **"There is no fear in the higher Nature. Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things.” Letters on Yoga

“There is no fear in the higher Nature. Fear is a creation of the vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or distorts the intelligence of things.” Letters on Yoga

There were at one time three clerks of the remembrance, styled King’s Remembrancer, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and Remembrancer of First-Fruits. In England, the latter two offices have become extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (Queen Anne’s Bounty Act 1838), and that of Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer on being merged in the office of King’s Remembrancer in 1833. By the Queen’s Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen’s remembrancer was required to be a master of the court of exchequer. The Judicature Act 1873 attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By section 8 of that Act, the king’s remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the senior master. The king’s remembrancer department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married women acknowledgments department. The king’s remembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions relics of the former importance of the office such as the nomination of sheriffs, the swearing-in of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Trial of the Pyx and the acknowledgments of homage for crown lands.

The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of the Greek Zeus,[5] and in Latin literature and Roman art, the myths and iconography of Zeus are adapted under the name Iuppiter. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Jupiter was the brother of Neptune and Pluto. Each presided over one of the three realms of the universe: sky, the waters, and the underworld. The Italic Diespiter was also a sky god who manifested himself in the daylight, usually but not always identified with Jupiter.[6] Tinia is usually regarded as his Etruscan counterpart.[7] Wikipedia

These thought-waves, thought-seeds or thought-forms or what- ewr they axe, are of different values and come from different planes of consciousoess. The same tboughi-subsiancc can lake higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of conscious- ness through which the thoughts come in (c.g., thinking mind, vital mind, physical miad, subconscious mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover, there is a stuS of mind in each mao and the incoming thought uses that for shaping itself or translating itself (transcribing we usually call it), but the stuff is finer or coarser, stronger or weaker etc., etc. in one mind than in another.

the sex difficulty, then these dreams or discharges without dream can only be a rising up of old dormant impressions in the sub- conscient. Such risings often take place when the Force is work- ing in the subconscient to clear it. It is also just possible that the discharges may be due, especially when there are no dreams, to purely materia? causes, c.g. the pressure of undischar^d urine or faecal matter near the bladder. But in any case, the thing is not to be disturbed and to put a force or will on the sex-cenlre or sex organ for these things to cease. This can be done just before sleeping. Usually after a time, if done regularly, it has an effect. A calm general pressure of will or force on the physi- cal subconscient is to be put. The subconscient may be often obstinate in its continual persistence, but it can and does accom- modate itself quickly or slowly to the will of the conscious being.

“The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga

"The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one"s spiritual destiny) or, if one has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he regards them cheerfully as all in the day's work''. If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying,Well, that was a queer go but the Divine is evidently in a queer mood and if that is his way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means of putting me right."" Letters on Yoga

“The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one’s spiritual destiny) or, if one has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he regards them cheerfully as all in the day’s work’’. If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying,Well, that was a queer go but the Divine is evidently in a queer mood and if that is his way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means of putting me right.’’ Letters on Yoga

“ This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; …”Letters on Yoga

thyrsus ::: greek myth. A staff, usually one tipped with a pine cone, borne by Dionysus (Bacchus) and his followers.

Tile Sun symbol is usually dynamic.

topaz ::: a highly valued precious stone, transparent and lustrous, usually of a deep yellow but occasionally other colours.

To seek after the Impersonal is the way of those who vv.ant to withdraw from life, but usually they try by their own effort

Transformation of the gunas ::: If the force and the Inner consciousness are very strong, then there is a tendency for rafas to become like some inferior fapas and the lamas to become like a kind of inert Sama. That Is how the transformation begins, but usually it is very slow in Its process.

trunk ::: the main stem of a tree, usually thick and upright, covered with bark and having branches at some distance from the ground. trunks.

turn back. **To reverse one"s position so as to face (and, usually, go) in the opposite direction; to turn and go back.

UNION. ::: The abiding union is within and that can be there at all times ; the outer milan or contact is not usually abiding.

Usually there cannot but be a mixture of these two ways until the consciousness is ready to be entirely open, entirely submit- ted to the Divine’s organisation of all its action. It is then that all responsibility disappears and there is no personal burden.

velvet *n. 1. A fabric of silk, cotton, nylon, etc., with a thick close soft usually lustrous pile. adj. *2. Resembling or suggesting velvet; smooth; soft; velvety.

^Vhcn this growth of the inner sleep consciousness begins, there is often a pull to go inside and pursue the development even when there is no fatigue or need of sleep. Another cause aids this pull. It is usually the vital part of the inner being that first awakes in sleep and the first dream experiences (as opposed

village ::: a small group of dwellings in a rural area, usually ranking in size between a hamlet and a town.

visage ::: 1. The face, usually with reference to features, expression, etc.; countenance. 2. Aspect; appearance. visages.

Vital Bhakti is egoistic, usually full of claims and demands on the Divine and revolting when they are not satisfied.

void ::: n. 1. An empty space. 2. The state of nonexistence. 3. Something experienced as a loss or privation. adj. 4. Containing no matter; empty. 5. Without contents; empty; vacant. 6. Devoid; destitute (usually followed by of). 7. Useless, ineffectual; vain, without content; empty. Void, Void"s.

weeping ::: n. 1. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds). adj. 2. Dropping rain.

well ::: adv. 1. Indeed, certainly, assuredly; without doubt. 2. In a way appropriate to the facts or circumstances; fittingly, properly. 3. Skilfully or proficiently. 4. (usually used with auxiliaries) Suitably; fittingly. adj. 5. Satisfactory, pleasing, or good. 6. Proper; fitting.

“What people mean by the formless svarûpa of the Mother,—they means usually her universal aspect. It is when she is experienced as a universal Existence and Power spread through the universe in which and by which all live. When one feels that Presence one begins to feel a universal peace, light, power, bliss without limits—that is her svarûpa.” The Mother

When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first a neutral emptiness with nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. The neutral state is often or usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom.

"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga

“When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga

"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga

“When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created.” Letters on Yoga

wont ::: accustomed, used (usually followed by an infinitive.)

Work and meditation ::: Those who have an expansive creative vital or a vital made for action are usually at their best when the vital is not held back from its movement and they can deve- lop faster by it than by introspective meditation. All that is needed is that the action should be dedicated, so that they may grow by it more and more prepared to feel and follow the Divine

Yoga. This is usually done by those who want to make a clean cut, to live a purely religious or exclusively inner and spiritual life, to renounce the world entirely and to depart from the cosmic existence by cessation of the human birth and passing away into some higher stale or into (he transcendental Reality. Otherwise, it is only necessary when the pressure of the inner urge becomes so great that the pursuit of the ordinary life is no longer compa- tible with the pursuit of the dominant spiritual objective. Till then what is necessary is a power to practise an inner isolation, to be able to retire within oneself and concentrate at any time on the necessary spiritual purpose. There must also be a power to deal with the ordinary outer life from a new inner attitude and one can then make the happenings of that life itself a means for the inner change of nature and the growth m spiritual experience.



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1:Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ~ Herodotus,
2:The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
   ~ Plato,
3:People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
4:Never apologize for trusting your intuition. Your brain can play trick, your heart can be blind, but your gut is usually right." ~ Unknown,
5:In the love of God, one forgets all outward objects, the universe, and even one's own body, usually so dear to one. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
6:In samadhi, usually a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
7:The effort at governing political action by ethics is usually little more than a pretence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, Indian Polity - II,
8:In samadhi, usually, a little ego remains. All outward consciousness disappears, but the Lord keeps a little ego to let me enjoy Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
9:It is usually only if there is much activity of sadhana in the day that it extends also into the sleep state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Sleep,
10:Large abiding realisations in Yoga do not usually come in trance but by a persistent waking sadhana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Illness and Health,
11:Those who do not believe that God has care of human affairs usually follow their own will in all things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Job 22).,
12:The earth is full of adverse forces and of men who respond to these adverse forces; usually, the more one realises the Divine, the more enemies does he have around himself. ~ The Mother,
13:I say: When matters of great moment are inquired into by men of little ability, they usually make them men of great ability. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Contra Academicos 1.2.6,
14:The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Process of Evolution,
15:How can I offer my work?

   Usually one works for one's own profit and satisfaction; instead of that, one should work to serve the Divine and express His will.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T2],
16:Consistency is usually a rigid or narrow-minded inability to see more than one side of the truth or more than their own narrow personal view or experience of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, On His Philosophy in General,
17:The practical mind of the politician which represents the average reason and temperament of the time and effects usually something much nearer the minimum than the maximum of what is possible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity - Its Enormous Difficulties,
18:People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child ~ our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
19:The name of the Divine is usually called in for protection, for adoration, for increase of bhakti, for the opening up of the inner consciousness, for the realisation of the Divine in that aspect. As far as it is necessary to work in the subconscious for that, the Name must be effective there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, Namajapa or Repetition of the Name,
20:Consecration is the active dedication of a thing to a single purpose. Banishing prevents its use for any other purpose, but it remains inert until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consecration is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.
   ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Chapter 16 Of the Consecrations,
21:But the true black magician does not work through the ethers which are the home of the etheric elementals. He works through the entities who dwell in the astral light or the animal magnetism of the lower astral plane. The true black magician can become (and usually is) clairvoyant, but he can never go any higher than the astral world. To this plane he is tied to his passions, hates, incantations, and the animal nature which is the basis of black magic. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics,
22:For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. They arise from the perception of an unsolved discord and the instinct of an undiscovered agreement or unity. To rest content with an unsolved discord is possible for the practical and more animal part of man, but impossible for his fully awakened mind, and usually even his practical parts only escape from the general necessity either by shutting out the problem or by accepting a rough, utilitarian and unillumined compromise.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,
23:The sword, or more usually the dagger, is the weapon of analysis or scission, or in the most simple sense, destruction. Through the sword, the magical will and perception vitalize the imagination of the undoing of things. The sword is the reservoir of the power which disintegrates aetheric influences through which the material plane is affected. Both the sword and pentacle are aetheric weapons through which the higher-order powers of will, perception, and imagination execute mental commands on the planes of middle nature.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,
24:In Magick, on the contrary, one passes through the veil of the exterior world (which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, becomes "unreal" by comparison as one passes beyond) one creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called 'initiation': finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the mastery of the Universe. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,
25:Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause. ~ Haruki Murakami,
26:Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the aroma of this pleasant vice in most philosophers, and a happily married logicians is almost a contradiction in terms. So many sages have regarded Woman as temptress because fornication often leads to marriage, which usually leads to children, which always leads to a respectable job and pretending to believe the idiocies your neighbors believe. The hypocrisy of the sages has been to conceal their timid onanism and call it celibacy. ~ Robert Anton Wilson,
27:When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
   ~ Blaise Pascal,
28:Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus. Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, The Octavo,
29:Einstein was remarkable for his powers of concentration; he could work uninterruptedly for hours and even days on the same problem. Some of the topics that interested him remained on his mind for decades. For relaxation he turned to music and to sailing, but often his work would continue during these moments as well; he usually had a notebook in his pocket so that he could jot down any idea that came to him. Once, after the theory of relativity had been put forth, he confessed to his colleague Wolfgang Pauli, "For the rest of my life I want to reflect on what light is." It is perhaps not entirely an accident that a focus on light is also the first visual act of the newborn child. ~ Howard Gardner,
30:Although, with insight and good will, the shadow can to some extent be assimilated into the conscious personality, experience shows that there are certain features which offer the most obstinate resistance to moral control and prove almost impossible to influence. These resistances are usually bound up with projections, which are not recognized as such, and their recognition is a moral achievement beyond the ordinary. While some traits peculiar to the shadow can be recognized without too much difficulty as one's personal qualities, in this case both insight and good will are unavailing because the cause of the emotion appears to lie, beyond all possibility of doubt, in the other person. ~ Carl Jung, CW 9ii, par. 16.,
31:so you distill these stories great authors distill stories and we have soties that are very very very old they are usually religious stories they could be fairy tales because some people ahve traced fairy tales back 10 000 years ... a story that has been told for 10000 years is a funny kind of story its like people have remembered it and obviously modified it, like a game of telephone that has gone on for generations and all that is left is what people remember and maybe they remember whats important, because you tend to remember what's important and its not necessarily the case that you know what the hell it means ... and you dont genereally know what a book that you read means not if its profound it means more than you can understand because otherwise why read it? ~ Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning 2017 - 1,
32:Overmind is the highest source of the cosmic consciousness available to the embodied being in the Ignorance. It is part of the cosmic consciousness-but the human individual when he opens into the cosmic usually remains in the cosmic Mind-Life-Matter receiving only inspirations and influences from the higher planes of Intuition and Overmind. He receives through the spiritualised higher and illumined mind the fundamental experiences on which spiritual knowledge is based; he can become even full of intuitive mind movements, illuminations, various kinds of powers and illumined light, liberation, Ananda. But to rise fully into the Intuition is rare, to reach the Overmind still rarer- although influences and experiences can come down from there.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I, 152,
33:When the resolution has been taken, when you have decided that the whole of your life shall be given to the Divine, you have still at every moment to remember it and carry it out in all the details of your existence. You must feel at every step that you belong to the Divine; you must have the constant experience that, in whatever you think or do, it is always the Divine Consciousness that is acting through you. You have no longer anything that you can call your own; you feel everything as coming from the Divine, and you have to offer it back to its source. When you can realise that, then even the smallest thing to which you do not usually pay much attention or care, ceases to be trivial and insignificant; it becomes full of meaning and it opens up a vast horizon beyond."
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,
34:It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I am sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of-all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to the optic nerve and what it does to my brain-and, of course, you find that what we call "seeing a table" lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not--and the modern world usually is not--if you want to go on and ask what is really happening, then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something more is not simple. ~ C S Lewis, Mere Christianity,
35:Few poets can keep for a very long time a sustained level of the highest inspiration. The best poetry does not usually come by streams except in poets of a supreme greatness though there may be in others than the greatest long-continued wingings at a considerable height. The very best comes by intermittent drops, though sometimes three or four gleaming drops at a time. Even in the greatest poets, even in those with the most opulent flow of riches like Shakespeare, the very best is comparatively rare. All statements are subject to qualification. What Lawrence states1 is true in principle, but in practice most poets have to sustain the inspiration by industry. Milton in his later days used to write every day fifty lines; Virgil nine which he corrected and recorrected till it was within half way of what he wanted. In other words he used to write under any conditions and pull at his inspiration till it came. Usually the best lines, passages, etc. come like that.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Inspiration and Effort - II,
36:In the early part of the sadhana - and by early I do not mean a short part - effort is indispensable. Surrender of course, but surrender is not a thing that is done in a day. The mind has its ideas and it clings to them; the human vital resists surrender, for what it calls surrender in the early stages is a doubtful kind of self-giving with a demand in it; the physical consciousness is like a stone and what it calls surrender is often no more then inertia. It is only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakens, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the Force comes flooding down into the being from above and takes up the sadhana, does it for one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort - but even then, it not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,
37:It is always better to try to concentrate in a centre, the centre of aspiration, one might say, the place where the flame of aspiration burns, to gather in all the energies there, at the solar plexus centre and, if possible, to obtain an attentive silence as though one wanted to listen to something extremely subtle, something that demands a complete attention, a complete concentration and a total silence. And then not to move at all. Not to think, not to stir, and make that movement of opening so as to receive all that can be received, but taking good care not to try to know what is happening while it is happening, for it one wants to understand or even to observe actively, it keeps up a sort of cerebral activity which is unfavourable to the fullness of the receptivity - to be silent, as totally silent as possible, in an attentive concentration, and then be still. If one succeeds in this, then, when everything is over, when one comes out of meditation, some time later - usually not immediately - from within the being something new emerges in the consciousness: a new understanding, a new appreciation of things, a new attitude in life - in short, a new way of being.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, [where to concentrate?],
38:Central to shamanism is the perception of an otherworld or series of otherworlds. This type of astral or aetheric dimension containing various powers entities and forces allows real effects to be created in this world. The shaman's soul journeys through this dimension while in ecstatic or drug-induced state of trance. The journey may be undertaken for divinatory knowledge, to cure sickness, to deliver a blow to enemies, or to find game animals. Prospective shamans are usually selected from those with a nervous disposition. They may either be assigned to shamanic instruction or are driven to it by a power present in the shamanic culture. Initiation invokes a journey into the otherworld, a meeting with spirits and a death-rebirth experience. In the deathrebirth experience, the candidate has a vision of his body being dismembered, often by fantastic beings or animal spirits, and then reassembled from the wreckage. The new body invariably contains an extra part often described as an additional bone or an inclusion of magical quartz stones or sometimes an animal spirit. This experience graphically symbolizes the location of the aetheric force field within the body or the addition of various extra powers to it.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,
39:
   Sweet Mother, is the physical mind the same as the mechanical mind?

Almost. You see, there is just a little difference, but not much. The mechanical mind is still more stupid than the physical mind. The physical mind is what we spoke about one day, that which is never sure of anything.

   I told you the story of the closed door, you remember. Well, that is the nature of the physical mind. The mechanical mind is at a lower level still, because it doesn't even listen to the possibility of a convincing reason, and this happens to everyone.

   Usually we don't let it function, but it comes along repeating the same things, absolutely mechanically, without rhyme or reason, just like that. When some craze or other takes hold of it, it goes... For example, you see, if it fancies counting: "One, two, three, four", then it will go on: "One, two, three, four; one, two, three, four." And you may think of all kinds of things, but it goes on: "One, two, three, four", like that... (Mother laughs.) Or it catches hold of three words, four words and repeats them and goes on repeating them; and unless one turns away with a certain violence and punches it soundly, telling it, "Keep quiet!", it continues in this way, indefinitely. ~ The Mother,
40:When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner vital, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assistance, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,
41:
   Mother, aren't these entities afraid of you?

Ah, my child, terribly afraid! (Laughter) All those which are ill-willed try to hide, and usually do you know what they do? They gather together behind the head of the one who comes (laughter) in order not to be seen. But this is useless, because, just think, I have the capacity to see through. (Laughter) Otherwise - they always do this, instinctively. When they can manage to get in, they try to get in. But then... I intervene with greater force, because that is nasty. These are people who have the instinct to hide, you see. So I pursue them, there inside. With others very little is needed, very little; but there are some - there are such people, you know, they themselves have told me - when they are about to come to me, it is as though there were something which pulled them back, which told them: "No, no, no, it's not worthwhile, why go there? There are so many people for Mother to see, why add one more?" And they draw back, like that, so that they don't come. So I always tell them what it is: 'It would be better not to listen to that, for it's not something with a very good conscience.' Some people cannot bear it. There have been instances like this, of people who were obliged to run away, because they themselves were too attached to their own formations and did not want to get rid of them. Naturally there is only one way, to run away!
   There we are! We shall stop now for today.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,
42:At first, needing the companionship of the human voice, he had listened to classical plays especially the works of Shaw, Ibsen, and Shakespeare - or poetry readings from Discovery's enormous library of recorded sounds. The problems they dealt with, however, seemed so remote, or so easily resolved with a little common sense, that after a while he lost patience with them.

So he switched to opera - usually in Italian or German, so that he was not distracted even by the minimal intellectual content that most operas contained. This phase lasted for two weeks before he realized that the sound of all these superbly trained voices was only exacerbating his loneliness. But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered; and when the trumpets of Doomsday echoed from the heavens, he could endure no more.

Thereafter, he played only instrumental music. He started with the romantic composers, but shed them one by one as their emotional outpourings became too oppressive. Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, lasted a few weeks, Beethoven rather longer. He finally found peace, as so many others had done, in the abstract architecture of Bach, occasionally ornamented with Mozart. And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years. ~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,
43:How can faith be increased?

Through aspiration, I suppose. Some have it spontaneously... You see, it is difficult to pray if one doesn't have faith, but if one can make prayer a means of increasing one's faith, or aspiring, having an aspiration, having an aspiration to have faith... Most of these qualities require an effort. If one does not have a thing and wants to have it, well, it needs great, great, great sustained efforts, a constant aspiration, an unflagging will, a sincerity at each moment; then one is sure, it will come one day - it can come in a second. There are people who have it, and then they have contrary movements which come and attack. These people, if their will is sincere, can shield their faith, repel the attacks. There are others who cultivate doubt because it is a kind of dilettantism - that, there's nothing more dangerous than that. It is as though one were letting the worm into the fruit: it eventually eats it up completely. This means that when a movement of this sort comes - it usually comes first into the mind - the first thing to do is to be very determined and refuse it. Surely one must not enjoy looking on just to see what is going to happen; that kind of curiosity is terribly dangerous.

It is perhaps more difficult for intellectuals to have faith than for those who are simple, sincere, who are straightforward, without intellectual complications. But I think that if an intellectual person has faith, then that becomes very powerful, a very powerful thing which can truly work miracles. ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-6, page no.121),
44:
   How can one "learn of pure delight"?

First of all, to begin with, one must through an attentive observation grow aware that desires and the satisfaction of desires give only a vague, uncertain pleasure, mixed, fugitive and altogether unsatisfactory. That is usually the starting-point.

   Then, if one is a reasonable being, one must learn to discern what is desire and refrain from doing anything that may satisfy one's desires. One must reject them without trying to satisfy them. And so the first result is exactly one of the first observations stated by the Buddha in his teaching: there is an infinitely greater delight in conquering and eliminating a desire than in satisfying it. Every sincere and steadfast seeker will realise after some time, sooner or later, at times very soon, that this is an absolute truth, and that the delight felt in overcoming a desire is incomparably higher than the small pleasure, so fleeting and mixed, which may be found in the satisfaction of his desires. That is the second step.

   Naturally, with this continuous discipline, in a very short time the desires will keep their distance and will no longer bother you. So you will be free to enter a little more deeply into your being and open yourself in an aspiration to... the Giver of Delight, the divine Element, the divine Grace. And if this is done with a sincere self-giving - something that gives itself, offers itself and expects nothing in exchange for its offering - one will feel that kind of sweet warmth, comfortable, intimate, radiant, which fills the heart and is the herald of Delight.    After this, the path is easy.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,
45:Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego?
   How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one becomes conscious of it. For usually one is not; we think it quite normal, what happens to us; and in fact it is very normal but we think it quite good also. So to begin with one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there - so tightly that one has tried in vain to move it - then one imagines one's will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of course, one doesn't take up a sword in fact), and this produces a result. Of course you can do this work from the psychological point of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this.... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,
46:Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego?

   How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one becomes conscious of it. For usually one is not; we think it quite normal, what happens to us; and in fact it is very normal but we think it quite good also. So to begin with one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there - so tightly that one has tried in vain to move it - then one imagines one's will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of course, one doesn't take up a sword in fact), and this produces a result. Of course you can do this work from the psychological point of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this.... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you are cured.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,
47:Contact and Union with the Divine;
Seeing is of many kinds. There is a superficial seeing which only erects or receives momentarily or for some time an image of the Being seen; that brings no change, unless the inner bhakti makes it a means for change. There is also the reception of the living image of the Divine in one of his forms into oneself, - say, in the heart, - that can have an immediate effect or initiate a period of spiritual growth. There is also the seeing outside oneself in a more or less objective and subtle physical or physical way. As for milana, the abiding union is within and that can be there at all times; the outer milana or contact is not usually abiding. There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly - that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world - but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone - and this does not exclude such specific personal manifestations as those vouchsafed to Krishnaprem and his guru. The more ways there are of the union, the better. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [T4],
48:Sweet Mother, You have asked the teachers "to think with ideas instead of with words".4 You have also said that later on you will ask them to think with experiences. Will you throw some light on these three ways of thinking?
Our house has a very high tower; at the very top of this tower there is a bright and bare room, the last before we emerge into the open air, into the full light.

   Sometimes, when we are free to do so, we climb up to this bright room, and there, if we remain very quiet, one or more visitors come to call on us; some are tall, others small, some single, others in groups; all are bright and graceful.

   Usually, in our joy at their arrival and our haste to welcome them, we lose our tranquillity and come galloping down to rush into the great hall that forms the base of the tower and is the storeroom of words. Here, more or less excited, we select, reject, assemble, combine, disarrange, rearrange all the words in our reach, in an attempt to portray this or that visitor who has come to us. But most often, the picture we succeed in making of our visitor is more like a caricature than a portrait.

   And yet if we were wiser, we would remain up above, at the summit of the tower, quite calm, in joyful contemplation.

   Then, after a certain length of time, we would see the visitors themselves slowly, gracefully, calmly descend, without losing anything of their elegance or beauty and, as they cross the storeroom of words, clothe themselves effortlessly, automatically, with the words needed to make themselves perceptible even in the material house.

   This is what I call thinking with ideas.

   When this process is no longer mysterious to you, I shall explain what is meant by thinking with experiences. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,
49:More often, he listened to the voice of Eros. Sometimes he watched the video feeds too, but usually, he just listened. Over the hours and days, he began to hear, if not patterns, at least common structures. Some of the voices spooling out of the dying station were consistent-broadcasters and entertainers who were overrepresented in the audio files archives, he guessed. There seemed to be some specific tendencies in, for want of a better term, the music of it too. Hours of random, fluting static and snatched bits of phrases would give way, and Eros would latch on to some word or phrase, fixating on it with greater and greater intensity until it broke apart and the randomness poured back in.
"... are, are, are, ARE, ARE, ARE... "
Aren't, Miller thought, and the ship suddenly shoved itself up, leaving Miller's stomach about half a foot from where it had been. A series of loud clanks followed, and then the brief wail of a Klaxon. "Dieu! Dieu!" someone shouted. "Bombs son vamen roja! Going to fry it! Fry us toda!"
There was the usual polite chuckle that the same joke had occasioned over the course of the trip, and the boy who'd made it-a pimply Belter no more than fifteen years old-grinned with pleasure at his own wit. If he didn't stop that shit, someone was going to beat him with a crowbar before they got back to Tycho. But Miller figured that someone wasn't him.
A massive jolt forward pushed him hard into the couch, and then gravity was back, the familiar 0.3 g. Maybe a little more. Except that with the airlocks pointing toward ship's down, the pilot had to grapple the spinning skin of Eros' belly first. The spin gravity made what had been the ceiling the new floor; the lowest rank of couches was now the top; and while they rigged the fusion bombs to the docks, they were all going to have to climb up onto a cold, dark rock that was trying to fling them off into the vacuum.
Such were the joys of sabotage. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,
50:Disciple : What part does breathing exercise - Pranayama - play in bringing about the higher consciousness?

Sri Aurobindo : It sets the Pranic - vital - currents free and removes dullness of the brain so that the higher consciousness can come down. Pranayama does not bring dullness in the brain. My own experience, on the contrary, is that brain becomes illumined. When I was practising Pranayama at Baroda, I used to do it for about five hours in the day, - three hours in the morning and two in the evening. I found that the mind began to work with great illumination and power. I used to write poetry in those days. Before the Pranayama practice, usually I wrote five to eight lines per day; and about two hundred lines in a month. After the practice I could write 200 lines within half an hour. That was not the only result. Formerly my memory was dull. But after this practice I found that when the inspiration came I could remember all the lines in their order and write them down correctly at any time. Along with these enhanced functionings I could see an electrical activity all round the brain, and I could feel that it was made up of a subtle substance. I could feel everything as the working of that substance. That was far from your carbon-dioxide!

Disciple : How is it that Pranayama develops mental capacities? What part does it play in bringing about the higher consciousness?

Sri Aurobindo : It is the Pranic - vital - currents which sustain mental activity. When these currents are changed by Pranayama, they bring about a change in the brain. The cause of dullness of the brain is some obstruction in it which does not allow the higher thought to be communicated to it. When this obstruction is removed the higher mental being is able to communicate its action easily to the brain. When the higher consciousness is attained the brain does not become dull. My experience is that it becomes illumined.

~ Sri Aurobindo, A B Purani, Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, 19-9-1926,
51:... The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest within us and through the psychic to take up and lead the whole nature. Aspiration, prayer, bhakti, love, surrender are the main supports of this part of the sadhana - accompanied by a rejection of all that stands in the way of what we aspire for. The second opening is effected by a concentration of the consciousness in the head (afterwards, above it) and an aspiration and call and a sustained will for the descent of the divine Peace, Power, Light, Knowledge, Ananda into the being - the Peace first or the Peace and Force together. Some indeed receive Light first or Ananda first or some sudden pouring down of knowledge. With some there is first an opening which reveals to them a vast infinite Silence, Force, Light or Bliss above them and afterwards either they ascend to that or these things begin to descend into the lower nature. With others there is either the descent, first into the head, then down to the heart level, then to the navel and below and through the whole body, or else an inexplicable opening - without any sense of descent - of peace, light, wideness or power or else a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness or, in a suddenly widened mind, an outburst of knowledge. Whatever comes has to be welcomed - for there is no absolute rule for all, - but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the power of the Mother comes down and takes hold, for then the organisation of the consciousness begins and the larger foundation of the Yoga.

   The result of the concentration is not usually immediate - though to some there comes a swift and sudden outflowering; but with most there is a time longer or shorter of adaptation or preparation, especially if the nature has not been prepared already to some extent by aspiration and tapasya. ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,
52:Accumulating Prostrations

Why Prostrate at All?

Why fling yourself full-length on an often filthy floor, then get up and do it again hundreds of thousands of times?

Prostrations are a very immediate method for taking refuge and one of the best available for destroying pride. They are an outer gesture of surrender to the truth of dharma, and an expression of our intention to give up and expose our pride.

So, as we take refuge, we prostrate to demonstrate our complete surrender by throwing ourselves at the feet of our guru and pressing the five points of our body — forehead, hands and knees — to the floor as many times as we can.

(In the Tibetan tradition there are two ways of doing prostrations: one is the full-length and the other the half-length prostration, and we usually accumulate the full-length version.)

Prostrations are said to bring a number of benefits, such as being reborn with an attractive appearance, or our words carry weight and are valued, or our influence over friends and colleagues is positive, or that we are able to manage those who work for us.

It is said that practitioners who accumulate prostrations will one day keep company with sublime beings and as a result become majestic, wealthy, attain a higher rebirth and eventually attain liberation.

For worldly beings, though, to contemplate all the spiritual benefits of prostrations and the amount of merit they accumulate is not necessarily the most effective way of motivating ourselves. The fact that prostrations are good for our health, on the other hand, is often just the incentive we need to get started.

It's true, doing prostrations for the sake of taking healthy exercise is a worldly motivation, but not one I would ever discourage.

In these degenerate times, absolutely anything that will inspire you to practise dharma has some value, so please go ahead and start your prostrations for the sake of the exercise. If you do, not only will you save money on your gym membership, you will build up muscle and a great deal of merit.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness - A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practises, Shambhala Publications,
53:But usually the representative influence occupies a much larger place in the life of the sadhaka. If the Yoga is guided by a received written Shastra, - some Word from the past which embodies the experience of former Yogins, - it may be practised either by personal effort alone or with the aid of a Guru. The spiritual knowledge is then gained through meditation on the truths that are taught and it is made living and conscious by their realisation in the personal experience; the Yoga proceeds by the results of prescribed methods taught in a Scripture or a tradition and reinforced and illumined by the instructions of the Master. This is a narrower practice, but safe and effective within its limits, because it follows a well-beaten track to a long familiar goal.

For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal Knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture. Where the Scripture is profound, wide, catholic, it may exercise upon him an influence for the highest good and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his experience with his awakening to crowning verities and his realisation of the highest experiences. His Yoga may be governed for a long time by one Scripture or by several successively, - if it is in the line of the great Hindu tradition, by the Gita, for example, the Upanishads, the Veda. Or it may be a good part of his development to include in its material a richly varied experience of the truths of many Scriptures and make the future opulent with all that is best in the past. But in the end he must take his station, or better still, if he can, always and from the beginning he must live in his own soul beyond the limitations of the word that he uses. The Gita itself thus declares that the Yogin in his progress must pass beyond the written Truth, - sabdabrahmativartate - beyond all that he has heard and all that he has yet to hear, - srotavyasya srutasya ca. For he is not the sadhaka of a book or of many books; he is a sadhaka of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,
54:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.

   This is what one usually thinks about.

   So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.

   This is the first movement.

   Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.

   For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,
55:The majority of Buddhists and Buddhist teachers in the West are green postmodern pluralists, and thus Buddhism is largely interpreted in terms of the green altitude and the pluralistic value set, whereas the greatest Buddhist texts are all 2nd tier, teal (Holistic) or higher (for example, Lankavatara Sutra, Kalachakra Tantra, Longchenpa's Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka treatises, and so forth).

This makes teal (Holistic), or Integral 2nd tier in general, the lowest deeply adequate level with which to interpret Buddhism, ultimate Reality, and Suchness itself. Thus, interpreting Suchness in pluralistic terms (or lower) would have to be viewed ultimately as a dysfunction, certainly a case of arrested development, and one requiring urgent attention in any Fourth Turning.

These are some of the problems with interpreting states (in this case, Suchness states) with a too-low structure (in short, a severe misinterpretation and thus misunderstanding of the Ultimate). As for interpreting them with dysfunctional structures (of any altitude), the problem more or less speaks for itself. Whether the structure in itself is high enough or not, any malformation of the structure will be included in the interpretation of any state (or any other experience), and hence will deform the interpretation itself, usually in the same basic ways as the structure itself is deformed. Thus, for example, if there is a major Fulcrum-3 (red altitude) repression of various bodily states (sex, aggression, power, feelings), those repressions will be interpreted as part of the higher state itself, and so the state will thus be viewed as devoid of (whereas this is actually a repression of) any sex, aggression, power, feelings, or whatever it is that is dis-owned and pushed into the repressed submergent unconscious. If there is an orange altitude problem with self-esteem (Fulcrum-5), that problem will be magnified by the state experience, and the more intense the state experience, the greater the magnification. Too little self-esteem, and even profound spiritual experiences can be interpreted as "I'm not worthy, so this state-which seems to love me unconditionally-must be confused." If too much self-esteem, higher experiences are misinterpreted, not as a transcendence of the self, but as a reward for being the amazing self I am-"the wonder of being me." ~ Ken Wilber, The Religion Of Tomorrow,
56:3. Conditions internal and external that are most essential for meditation. There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seculsion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginning. But one should not be bound by external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be made possible to do it in all circumstances, lying, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise etc.
   The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.e. wandering of the mind, forgetfulness, sleep, physical and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of the human mind. All sadhaks have this difficulty and with many it lasts for a very long time. There are several was of getting rid of it. One of them is to look at the thoughts and observe what is the nature of the human mind as they show it but not to give any sanction and to let them run down till they come to a standstill - this is a way recommended by Vivekananda in his Rajayoga. Another is to look at the thoughts as not one's own, to stand back as the witness Purusha and refuse the sanction - the thoughts are regarded as things coming from outside, from Prakriti, and they must be felt as if they were passers-by crossing the mind-space with whom one has no connection and in whom one takes no interest. In this way it usually happens that after the time the mind divides into two, a part which is the mental witness watching and perfectly undisturbed and quiet and a part in which the thoughts cross or wander. Afterwards one can proceed to silence or quiet the Prakriti part also. There is a third, an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before enter, they have to be thrown away altogether. This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence. It is not easy to get into the Silence. That is only possible by throwing out all mental-vital activities. It is easier to let the Silence descend into you, i.e., to open yourself and let it descend. The way to do this and the way to call down the higher powers is the same. It is to remain quiet at the time of efforts to pull down the Power or the Silence but keeping only a silent will and aspiration for them. If the mind is active one has to learn to look at it, drawn back and not giving sanction from within, until its habitual or mechanical activities begin to fall quiet for want of support from within. if it is too persistent, a steady rejection without strain or struggle is the one thing to be done.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes,
57:Sweet Mother, there's a flower you have named "The Creative Word".

Yes.

What does that mean?

It is the word which creates.

There are all kinds of old traditions, old Hindu traditions, old Chaldean traditions in which the Divine, in the form of the Creator, that is, in His aspect as Creator, pronounces a word which has the power to create. So it is this... And it is the origin of the mantra. The mantra is the spoken word which has a creative power. An invocation is made and there is an answer to the invocation; or one makes a prayer and the prayer is granted. This is the Word, the Word which, in its sound... it is not only the idea, it is in the sound that there's a power of creation. It is the origin, you see, of the mantra.

In Indian mythology the creator God is Brahma, and I think that it was precisely his power which has been symbolised by this flower, "The Creative Word". And when one is in contact with it, the words spoken have a power of evocation or creation or formation or transformation; the words... sound always has a power; it has much more power than men think. It may be a good power and it may be a bad power. It creates vibrations which have an undeniable effect. It is not so much the idea as the sound; the idea too has its own power, but in its own domain - whereas the sound has a power in the material world.

I think I have explained this to you once; I told you, for example, that words spoken casually, usually without any re- flection and without attaching any importance to them, can be used to do something very good. I think I spoke to you about "Bonjour", "Good Day", didn't I? When people meet and say "Bonjour", they do so mechanically and without thinking. But if you put a will into it, an aspiration to indeed wish someone a good day, well, there is a way of saying "Good Day" which is very effective, much more effective than if simply meeting someone you thought: "Ah! I hope he has a good day", without saying anything. If with this hope in your thought you say to him in a certain way, "Good Day", you make it more concrete and more effective.

It's the same thing, by the way, with curses, or when one gets angry and says bad things to people. This can do them as much harm - more harm sometimes - than if you were to give them a slap. With very sensitive people it can put their stomach out of order or give them palpitation, because you put into it an evil force which has a power of destruction.

It is not at all ineffective to speak. Naturally it depends a great deal on each one's inner power. People who have no strength and no consciousness can't do very much - unless they employ material means. But to the extent that you are strong, especially when you have a powerful vital, you must have a great control on what you say, otherwise you can do much harm. Without wanting to, without knowing it; through ignorance.

Anything? No? Nothing?

Another question?... Everything's over? ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 347-349,
58:Something happened to you before you were born, and this is what it was:
   STAGE ONE: THE CHIKHAI
   The events of the 49-day Bardo period are divided into three major stages, the Chikhai, the Chonyid, and the Sidpa (in that order). Immediately following physical death, the soul enters the Chikhai, which is simply the state of the immaculate and luminous Dharmakaya, the ultimate Consciousness, the BrahmanAtman. This ultimate state is given, as a gift, to all individuals: they are plunged straight into ultimate reality and exist as the ultimate Dharmakaya. "At this moment," says the Bardo Thotrol, "the first glimpsing of the Bardo of the Clear Light of Reality, which is the Infallible Mind of the Dharmakaya, is experienced by all sentient beings.''110 Or, to put it a different way, the Thotrol tells us that "Thine own consciousness, shining, void, and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, nor death, and is the Immutable Light-Buddha Amitabha. Knowing this is sufficient. Recognizing the voidness of thine own intellect to be Buddhahood ... is to keep thyself in the Divine Mind."110 In short, immediately following physical death, the soul is absorbed in and as the ultimate-causal body (if we may treat them together).
   Interspersed with this brief summary of the Bardo Thotrol, I will add my commentaries on involution and on the nature of the Atman project in involution. And we begin by noting that at the start of the Bardo experience, the soul is elevated to the utter heights of Being, to the ultimate state of Oneness-that is, he starts his Bardo career at the top. But, at the top is usually not where he remains, and the Thotrol tells us why. In Evans-Wentz's words, "In the realm of the Clear Light [the highest Chikhai stage] the mentality of a person . . . momentarily enjoys a condition of balance, of perfect equilibrium, and of [ultimate] oneness. Owing to unfamiliarity with such a state, which is an ecstatic state of non-ego, of [causal] consciousness, the . . . average human being lacks the power to function in it; karmic propensities becloud the consciousness-principle with thoughts of personality, of individualized being, of dualism, and, losing equilibrium, the consciousness-principle falls away from the Clear Light."
   The soul falls away from the ultimate Oneness because "karmic propensities cloud consciousness"-"karmic propensities'' means seeking, grasping, desiring; means, in fact, Eros. And as this Erosseeking develops, the state of perfect Oneness starts to "break down" (illusorily). Or, from a different angle, because the individual cannot stand the intensity of pure Oneness ("owing to unfamiliarity with such a state"), he contracts away from it, tries to ''dilute it," tries to extricate himself from Perfect Intensity in Atman. Contracting in the face of infinity, he turns instead to forms of seeking, desire, karma, and grasping, trying to "search out" a state of equilibrium. Contraction and Eros-these karmic propensities couple and conspire to drive the soul away from pure consciousness and downwards into multiplicity, into less intense and less real states of being. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project,
59:There is no invariable rule of such suffering. It is not the soul that suffers; the Self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt - which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. There is moreover the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence on the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to the Divine, refuses to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form - opposition, calumny, attacks, persecution, misfortunes of many kinds, adverse conditions and circumstances, pain, illness, assaults from men or forces. There too the possibility of suffering is evident. There are two ways to meet all that - first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple, - until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable. There is also the way of the psychic, - when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the Divine, self-giving, surrender and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master...
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Resistances, Sufferings and Falls, 669,
60:
   Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?


Why not?

   But how can one do it?

But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
   You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
   But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
   ...
   It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
   Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slackness and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
   So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406,
61:This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge. A downpour of inwardly visible Light very usually envelops this action; for it must be noted that, contrary to our ordinary conceptions, light is not primarily a material creation and the sense or vision of light accompanying the inner illumination is not merely a subjective visual image or a symbolic phenomenon: light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy. There is also in this descent the arrival of a greater dynamic, a golden drive, a luminous enthousiasmos of inner force and power which replaces the comparatively slow and deliberate process of the Higher Mind by a swift, sometimes a vehement, almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation.
   But these two stages of the ascent enjoy their authority and can get their own united completeness only by a reference to a third level; for it is from the higher summits where dwells the intuitional being that they derive the knowledge which they turn into thought or sight and bring down to us for the mind's transmutation. Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude. ... Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of stable lightnings.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,
62:I have never been able to share your constantly recurring doubts about your capacity or the despair that arises in you so violently when there are these attacks, nor is their persistent recurrence a valid ground for believing that they can never be overcome. Such a persistent recurrence has been a feature in the sadhana of many who have finally emerged and reached the goal; even the sadhana of very great Yogis has not been exempt from such violent and constant recurrences; they have sometimes been special objects of such persistent assaults, as I have indeed indicated in Savitri in more places than one - and that was indeed founded on my own experience. In the nature of these recurrences there is usually a constant return of the same adverse experiences, the same adverse resistance, thoughts destructive of all belief and faith and confidence in the future of the sadhana, frustrating doubts of what one has known as the truth, voices of despondency and despair, urgings to abandonment of the Yoga or to suicide or else other disastrous counsels of déchéance. The course taken by the attacks is not indeed the same for all, but still they have strong family resemblance. One can eventually overcome if one begins to realise the nature and source of these assaults and acquires the faculty of observing them, bearing, without being involved or absorbed into their gulf, finally becoming the witness of their phenomena and understanding them and refusing the mind's sanction even when the vital is still tossed in the whirl or the most outward physical mind still reflects the adverse suggestions. In the end these attacks lose their power and fall away from the nature; the recurrence becomes feeble or has no power to last: even, if the detachment is strong enough, they can be cut out very soon or at once. The strongest attitude to take is to regard these things as what they really are, incursions of dark forces from outside taking advantage of certain openings in the physical mind or the vital part, but not a real part of oneself or spontaneous creation in one's own nature. To create a confusion and darkness in the physical mind and throw into it or awake in it mistaken ideas, dark thoughts, false impressions is a favourite method of these assailants, and if they can get the support of this mind from over-confidence in its own correctness or the natural rightness of its impressions and inferences, then they can have a field day until the true mind reasserts itself and blows the clouds away. Another device of theirs is to awake some hurt or rankling sense of grievance in the lower vital parts and keep them hurt or rankling as long as possible. In that case one has to discover these openings in one's nature and learn to close them permanently to such attacks or else to throw out intruders at once or as soon as possible. The recurrence is no proof of a fundamental incapacity; if one takes the right inner attitude, it can and will be overcome. The idea of suicide ought never to be accepted; there is no real ground for it and in any case it cannot be a remedy or a real escape: at most it can only be postponement of difficulties and the necessity for their solution under no better circumstances in another life. One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time he conceals himself, and then in his own right time he will reveal his Presence.
   I have tried to dispel all the misconceptions, explain things as they are and meet all the points at issue. It is not that you really cannot make progress or have not made any progress; on the contrary, you yourself have admitted that you have made a good advance in many directions and there is no reason why, if you persevere, the rest should not come. You have always believed in the Guruvada: I would ask you then to put your faith in the Guru and the guidance and rely on the Ishwara for the fulfilment, to have faith in my abiding love and affection, in the affection and divine goodwill and loving kindness of the Mother, stand firm against all attacks and go forward perseveringly towards the spiritual goal and the all-fulfilling and all-satisfying touch of the All-Blissful, the Ishwara.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,
63:To arrive then at this settled divine status must be the object of our concentration. The first step in concentration must be always to accustom the discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single course of connected thought on a single subject and this it must do undistracted by all lures and alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common enough in our ordinary life, but it becomes more difficult when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or action on which to keep the mind; yet this inward concentration is what the seeker of knowledge must effect. Nor must it be merely the consecutive thought of the intellectual thinker, whose only object is to conceive and intellectually link together his conceptions. It is not, except perhaps at first, a process of reasoning that is wanted so much as a dwelling so far as possible on the fruitful essence of the idea which by the insistence of the soul's will upon it must yield up all the facets of its truth. Thus if it be the divine Love that is the subject of concentration, it is on the essence of the idea of God as Love that the mind should concentrate in such a way that the various manifestation of the divine Love should arise luminously, not only to the thought, but in the heart and being and vision of the Sadhaka. The thought may come first and the experience afterwards, but equally the experience may come first and the knowledge arise out of the experience. Afterwards the thing attained has to be dwelt on and more and more held till it becomes a constant experience and finally the Dharma or law of the being.
   This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it m an inner Samadhi. If this be the process followed, then subsequently the state into which we rise must still be called down to take possession of the lower being, to shed its light, power and bliss on our ordinary consciousness. For otherwise we may possess it, as many do, in the elevated condition or in the inward Samadhi, but we shall lose our hold of it when we awake or descend into the contacts of the world; and this truncated possession is not the aim of an integral Yoga.
   A third process is neither at first to concentrate in a strenuous meditation on the one subject nor in a strenuous contemplation of the one object of thought-vision, but first to still the mind altogether. This may be done by various ways; one is to stand back from the mental action altogether not participating in but simply watching it until, tired of its unsanctioned leaping and running, it falls into an increasing and finally an absolute quiet. Another is to reject the thought-suggestions, to cast them away from the mind whenever they come and firmly hold to the peace of the being which really and always exists behind the trouble and riot of the mind. When this secret peace is unveiled, a great calm settles on the being and there comes usually with it the perception and experience of the all-pervading silent Brahman, everything else at first seeming to be mere form and eidolon. On the basis of this calm everything else may be built up in the knowledge and experience no longer of the external phenomena of things but of the deeper truth of the divine manifestation.
   Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of light to the lower members will take its place. This Will will then insist on the physical being, the vital existence, the heart and the mind remoulding themselves in the forms of the Divine which reveal themselves out of the silent Brahman. By swifter or slower degrees according to the previous preparation and purification of the members, they will be obliged with more or less struggle to obey the law of the will and its thought-suggestion, so that eventually the knowledge of the Divine takes possession of our consciousness on all its planes and the image of the Divine is formed in our human existence even as it was done by the old Vedic Sadhakas. For the integral Yoga this is the most direct and powerful discipline.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Concentration,
64:
   What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us?

You must not feel with your head (because you may think so, but that's something vague); you must feel with your sense-feeling. Naturally one begins by wanting it with the mind, because that is the first thing that understands. And then one has an aspiration here (pointing to the heart), with a flame which pushes you to realise it. But if you want it to be truly the thing, well, you must feel it.

   You are doing something, suppose, for example, you are doing exercises, weight-lifting. Now suddenly without your knowing how it happened, suddenly you have the feeling that there is a force infinitely greater than you, greater, more powerful, a force that does the lifting for you. Your body becomes something almost non-existent and there is this Something that lifts. And then you will see; when that happens to you, you will no longer ask how it should be done, you will know. That does happen.

   It depends upon people, depends upon what dominates in their being. Those who think have suddenly the feeling that it is no longer they who think, that there is something which knows much better, sees much more clearly, which is infinitely more luminous, more conscious in them, which organises the thoughts and words; and then they write. But if the experience is complete, it is even no longer they who write, it is that same Thing that takes hold of their hand and makes it write. Well, one knows at that moment that the little physical person is just a tiny insignificant tool trying to remain as quiet as possible in order not to disturb the experience.

   Yes, at no cost must the experience be disturbed. If suddenly you say: "Oh, look, how strange it is!"...

   How can we reach that state?

Aspire for it, want it. Try to be less and less selfish, but not in the sense of becoming nice to other people or forgetting yourself, not that: have less and less the feeling that you are a person, a separate entity, something existing in itself, isolated from the rest.

   And then, above all, above all, it is that inner flame, that aspiration, that need for the light. It is a kind of - how to put it? - luminous enthusiasm that seizes you. It is an irresistible need to melt away, to give oneself, to exist only in the Divine.

   At that moment you have the experience of your aspiration.

   But that moment should be absolutely sincere and as integral as possible; and all this must occur not only in the head, not only here, but must take place everywhere, in all the cells of the body. The consciousness integrally must have this irresistible need.... The thing lasts for some time, then diminishes, gets extinguished. You cannot keep these things for very long. But then it so happens that a moment later or the next day or some time later, suddenly you have the opposite experience. Instead of feeling this ascent, and all that, this is no longer there and you have the feeling of the Descent, the Answer. And nothing but the Answer exists. Nothing but the divine thought, the divine will, the divine energy, the divine action exists any longer. And you too, you are no longer there.

   That is to say, it is the answer to our aspiration. It may happen immediately afterwards - that is very rare but may happen. If you have both simultaneously, then the state is perfect; usually they alternate; they alternate more and more closely until the moment there is a total fusion. Then there is no more distinction. I heard a Sufi mystic, who was besides a great musician, an Indian, saying that for the Sufis there was a state higher than that of adoration and surrender to the Divine, than that of devotion, that this was not the last stage; the last stage of the progress is when there is no longer any distinction; you have no longer this kind of adoration or surrender or consecration; it is a very simple state in which one makes no distinction between the Divine and oneself. They know this. It is even written in their books. It is a commonly known condition in which everything becomes quite simple. There is no longer any difference. There is no longer that kind of ecstatic surrender to "Something" which is beyond you in every way, which you do not understand, which is merely the result of your aspiration, your devotion. There is no difference any longer. When the union is perfect, there is no longer any difference.

   Is this the end of self-progress?

There is never any end to progress - never any end, you can never put a full stop there. ~ The Mother,
65:AUGOEIDES:
   The magicians most important invocation is that of his Genius, Daemon, True Will, or Augoeides. This operation is traditionally known as attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is sometimes known as the Magnum Opus or Great Work.
   The Augoeides may be defined as the most perfect vehicle of Kia on the plane of duality. As the avatar of Kia on earth, the Augoeides represents the true will, the raison detre of the magician, his purpose in existing. The discovery of ones true will or real nature may be difficult and fraught with danger, since a false identification leads to obsession and madness. The operation of obtaining the knowledge and conversation is usually a lengthy one. The magician is attempting a progressive metamorphosis, a complete overhaul of his entire existence. Yet he has to seek the blueprint for his reborn self as he goes along. Life is less the meaningless accident it seems. Kia has incarnated in these particular conditions of duality for some purpose. The inertia of previous existences propels Kia into new forms of manifestation. Each incarnation represents a task, or a puzzle to be solved, on the way to some greater form of completion.
   The key to this puzzle is in the phenomena of the plane of duality in which we find ourselves. We are, as it were, trapped in a labyrinth or maze. The only thing to do is move about and keep a close watch on the way the walls turn. In a completely chaotic universe such as this one, there are no accidents. Everything is signifcant. Move a single grain of sand on a distant shore and the entire future history of the world will eventually be changed. A person doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe and seems possessed of amazing good luck. In beginning the great work of obtaining the knowledge and conversation, the magician vows to interpret every manifestation of existence as a direct message from the infinite Chaos to himself personally.
   To do this is to enter the magical world view in its totality. He takes complete responsibility for his present incarnation and must consider every experience, thing, or piece of information which assails him from any source, as a reflection of the way he is conducting his existence. The idea that things happen to one that may or may not be related to the way one acts is an illusion created by our shallow awareness.
   Keeping a close eye on the walls of the labyrinth, the conditions of his existence, the magician may then begin his invocation. The genius is not something added to oneself. Rather it is a stripping away of excess to reveal the god within.
   Directly on awakening, preferably at dawn, the initiate goes to the place of invocation. Figuring to himself as he goes that being born anew each day brings with it the chance of greater rebirth, first he banishes the temple of his mind by ritual or by some magical trance. Then he unveils some token or symbol or sigil which represents to him the Holy Guardian Angel. This symbol he will likely have to change during the great work as the inspiration begins to move him. Next he invokes an image of the Angel into his minds eye. It may be considered as a luminous duplicate of ones own form standing in front of or behind one, or simply as a ball of brilliant light above ones head. Then he formulates his aspirations in what manner he will, humbling himself in prayer or exalting himself in loud proclamation as his need be. The best form of this invocation is spoken spontaneously from the heart, and if halting at first, will prove itself in time. He is aiming to establish a set of ideas and images which correspond to the nature of his genius, and at the same time receive inspiration from that source. As the magician begins to manifest more of his true will, the Augoeides will reveal images, names, and spiritual principles by which it can be drawn into greater manifestation. Having communicated with the invoked form, the magician should draw it into himself and go forth to live in the way he hath willed.
   The ritual may be concluded with an aspiration to the wisdom of silence by a brief concentration on the sigil of the Augoeides, but never by banishing. Periodically more elaborate forms of ritual, using more powerful forms of gnosis, may be employed. At the end of the day, there should be an accounting and fresh resolution made. Though every day be a catalog of failure, there should be no sense of sin or guilt. Magic is the raising of the whole individual in perfect balance to the power of Infinity, and such feelings are symptomatic of imbalance. If any unnecessary or imbalanced scraps of ego become identified with the genius by mistake, then disaster awaits. The life force flows directly into these complexes and bloats them into grotesque monsters variously known as the demon Choronzon. Some magicians attempting to go too fast with this invocation have failed to banish this demon, and have gone spectacularly insane as a result.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,
66:Mother, how to change one's consciousness?
   Naturally, there are many ways, but each person must do it by the means accessible to him; and the indication of the way usually comes spontaneously, through something like an unexpected experience. And for each one, it appears a little differently.
   For instance, one may have the perception of the ordinary consciousness which is extended on the surface, horizontally, and works on a plane which is simultaneously the surface of things and has a contact with the superficial outer side of things, people, circumstances; and then, suddenly, for some reason or other - as I say for each one it is different - there is a shifting upwards, and instead of seeing things horizontally, of being at the same level as they are, you suddenly dominate them and see them from above, in their totality, instead of seeing a small number of things immediately next to yourself; it is as though something were drawing you above and making you see as from a mountain-top or an aeroplane. And instead of seeing each detail and seeing it on its own level, you see the whole as one unity, and from far above.
   There are many ways of having this experience, but it usually comes to you as if by chance, one fine day.
   Or else, one may have an experience which is almost its very opposite but which comes to the same thing. Suddenly one plunges into a depth, one moves away from the thing one perceived, it seems distant, superficial, unimportant; one enters an inner silence or an inner calm or an inward vision of things, a profound feeling, a more intimate perception of circumstances and things, in which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort of unity, a deep identity which is one in spite of the diverse appearances.
   Or else, suddenly also, the sense of limitation disappears and one enters the perception of a kind of indefinite duration beginningless and endless, of something which has always been and always will be.
   These experiences come to you suddenly in a flash, for a second, a moment in your life, you don't know why or how.... There are other ways, other experiences - they are innumerable, they vary according to people; but with this, with one minute, one second of such an existence, one catches the tail of the thing. So one must remember that, try to relive it, go to the depths of the experience, recall it, aspire, concentrate. This is the startingpoint, the end of the guiding thread, the clue. For all those who are destined to find their inner being, the truth of their being, there is always at least one moment in life when they were no longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning-flash - but that is enough. It indicates the road one should take, it is the door that opens on this path. And so you must pass through the door, and with perseverance and an unfailing steadfastness seek to renew the state which will lead you to something more real and more total.
   Many ways have always been given, but a way you have been taught, a way you have read about in books or heard from a teacher, does not have the effective value of a spontaneous experience which has come without any apparent reason, and which is simply the blossoming of the soul's awakening, one second of contact with your psychic being which shows you the best way for you, the one most within your reach, which you will then have to follow with perseverance to reach the goal - one second which shows you how to start, the beginning.... Some have this in dreams at night; some have it at any odd time: something one sees which awakens in one this new consciousness, something one hears, a beautiful landscape, beautiful music, or else simply a few words one reads, or else the intensity of concentration in some effort - anything at all, there are a thousand reasons and thousands of ways of having it. But, I repeat, all those who are destined to realise have had this at least once in their life. It may be very fleeting, it may have come when they were very young, but always at least once in one's life one has the experience of what true consciousness is. Well, that is the best indication of the path to be followed.
   One may seek within oneself, one may remember, may observe; one must notice what is going on, one must pay attention, that's all. Sometimes, when one sees a generous act, hears of something exceptional, when one witnesses heroism or generosity or greatness of soul, meets someone who shows a special talent or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way, there is a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude which suddenly awakens in the being and opens the door to a state, a new state of consciousness, a light, a warmth, a joy one did not know before. That too is a way of catching the guiding thread. There are a thousand ways, one has only to be awake and to watch.
   First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of consciousness, accept the idea that it is this, the path which must lead to the goal; and once you admit the principle, you must be watchful. And you will find, you do find it. And once you have found it, you must start walking without any hesitation.
   Indeed, the starting-point is to observe oneself, not to live in a perpetual nonchalance, a perpetual apathy; one must be attentive.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, [T6],
67:Education

THE EDUCATION of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.

   Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth; in this case it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a twofold action: first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child whom she is forming physically. For it is certain that the nature of the child to be born depends very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as well as upon the material surroundings in which she lives. To see that her thoughts are always beautiful and pure, her feelings always noble and fine, her material surroundings as harmonious as possible and full of a great simplicity - this is the part of education which should apply to the mother herself. And if she has in addition a conscious and definite will to form the child according to the highest ideal she can conceive, then the very best conditions will be realised so that the child can come into the world with his utmost potentialities. How many difficult efforts and useless complications would be avoided in this way!

   Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual. Usually, these phases of education follow chronologically the growth of the individual; this, however, does not mean that one of them should replace another, but that all must continue, completing one another until the end of his life.

   We propose to study these five aspects of education one by one and also their interrelationships. But before we enter into the details of the subject, I wish to make a recommendation to parents. Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied his various material needs and looked after his health more or less carefully, they think they have fully discharged their duty. Later on, they will send him to school and hand over to the teachers the responsibility for his education.

   There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to one's child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.

   With very few exceptions, parents are not aware of the disastrous influence that their own defects, impulses, weaknesses and lack of self-control have on their children. If you wish to be respected by a child, have respect for yourself and be worthy of respect at every moment. Never be authoritarian, despotic, impatient or ill-tempered. When your child asks you a question, do not give him a stupid or silly answer under the pretext that he cannot understand you. You can always make yourself understood if you take enough trouble; and in spite of the popular saying that it is not always good to tell the truth, I affirm that it is always good to tell the truth, but that the art consists in telling it in such a way as to make it accessible to the mind of the hearer. In early life, until he is twelve or fourteen, the child's mind is hardly open to abstract notions and general ideas. And yet you can train it to understand these things by using concrete images, symbols or parables. Up to quite an advanced age and for some who mentally always remain children, a narrative, a story, a tale well told teach much more than any number of theoretical explanations.

   Another pitfall to avoid: do not scold your child without good reason and only when it is quite indispensable. A child who is too often scolded gets hardened to rebuke and no longer attaches much importance to words or severity of tone. And above all, take good care never to scold him for a fault which you yourself commit. Children are very keen and clear-sighted observers; they soon find out your weaknesses and note them without pity.

   When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is firm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively. And do not forget that you have to control yourself constantly in order to be equal to your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of having brought him into the world.

   Bulletin, February 1951

   ~ The Mother, On Education,
68:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
   14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.

   Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
   Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
   There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
   If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
   This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,
69:
   Mother, when one imagines something, does it not exist?

When you imagine something, it means that you make a mental formation which may be close to the truth or far from the truth - it also depends upon the quality of your formation. You make a mental formation and there are people who have such a power of formation that they succeed in making what they imagine real. There are not many of these but there are some. They imagine something and their formation is so well made and so powerful that it succeeds in being realised. These are creators; there are not many of them but there are some.

   If one thinks of someone who doesn't exist or who is dead?

Ah! What do you mean? What have you just said? Someone who doesn't exist or someone who is dead? These are two absolutely different things.

   I mean someone who is dead.

Someone who is dead!

   If this person has remained in the mental domain, you can find him immediately. Naturally if he is no longer in the mental domain, if he is in the psychic domain, to think of him is not enough. You must know how to go into the psychic domain to find him. But if he has remained in the mental domain and you think of him, you can find him immediately, and not only that, but you can have a mental contact with him and a kind of mental vision of his existence.

   The mind has a capacity of vision of its own and it is not the same vision as with these eyes, but it is a vision, it is a perception in forms. But this is not imagination. It has nothing to do with imagination.

   Imagination, for instance, is when you begin to picture to yourself an ideal being to whom you apply all your conceptions, and when you tell yourself, "Why, it should be like this, like that, its form should be like this, its thought like that, its character like that," when you see all the details and build up the being. Now, writers do this all the time because when they write a novel, they imagine. There are those who take things from life but there are those who are imaginative, creators; they create a character, a personage and then put him in their book later. This is to imagine. To imagine, for example, a whole concurrence of circumstances, a set of events, this is what I call telling a story to oneself. But it can be put down on paper, and then one becomes a novelist. There are very different kinds of writers. Some imagine everything, some gather all sorts of observations from life and construct their book with them. There are a hundred ways of writing a book. But indeed some writers imagine everything from beginning to end. It all comes out of their head and they construct even their whole story without any support in things physically observed. This truly is imagination. But as I say, if they are very powerful and have a considerable capacity for creation, it is possible that one day or other there will be a physical human being who realises their creation. This too is true.

   What do you suppose imagination is, eh? Have you never imagined anything, you?

   And what happens?

   All that one imagines.


You mean that you imagine something and it happens like that, eh? Or it is in a dream...

   What is the function, the use of the imagination?

If one knows how to use it, as I said, one can create for oneself his own inner and outer life; one can build his own existence with his imagination, if one knows how to use it and has a power. In fact it is an elementary way of creating, of forming things in the world. I have always felt that if one didn't have the capacity of imagination he would not make any progress. Your imagination always goes ahead of your life. When you think of yourself, usually you imagine what you want to be, don't you, and this goes ahead, then you follow, then it continues to go ahead and you follow. Imagination opens for you the path of realisation. People who are not imaginative - it is very difficult to make them move; they see just what is there before their nose, they feel just what they are moment by moment and they cannot go forward because they are clamped by the immediate thing. It depends a good deal on what one calls imagination. However...

   Men of science must be having imagination!


A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. In fact, what is called imagination is a capacity to project oneself outside realised things and towards things realisable, and then to draw them by the projection. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the catastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's not yet realised, catching something there and drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and these things tend towards manifestation. It is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. It is one of the faculties one can develop in himself and render serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes.

   Sweet Mother, can one imagine the Divine and have the contact?

Certainly if you succeed in imagining the Divine you have the contact, and you can have the contact with what you imagine, in any case. In fact it is absolutely impossible to imagine something which doesn't exist somewhere. You cannot imagine anything at all which doesn't exist somewhere. It is possible that it doesn't exist on the earth, it is possible that it's elsewhere, but it is impossible for you to imagine something which is not already contained in principle in the universe; otherwise it could not occur.

   Then, Sweet Mother, this means that in the created universe nothing new is added?

In the created universe? Yes. The universe is progressive; we said that constantly things manifest, more and more. But for your imagination to be able to go and seek beyond the manifestation something which will be manifested, well, it may happen, in fact it does - I was going to tell you that it is in this way that some beings can cause considerable progress to be made in the world, because they have the capacity of imagining something that's not yet manifested. But there are not many. One must first be capable of going beyond the manifested universe to be able to imagine something which is not there. There are already many things which can be imagined.

   What is our terrestrial world in the universe? A very small thing. Simply to have the capacity of imagining something which does not exist in the terrestrial manifestation is already very difficult, very difficult. For how many billions of years hasn't it existed, this little earth? And there have been no two identical things. That's much. It is very difficult to go out from the earth atmosphere with one's mind; one can, but it is very difficult. And then if one wants to go out, not only from the earth atmosphere but from the universal life!

   To be able simply to enter into contact with the life of the earth in its totality from the formation of the earth until now, what can this mean? And then to go beyond this and enter into contact with universal life from its beginnings up to now... and then again to be able to bring something new into the universe, one must go still farther beyond.

   Not easy!
   That's all?
   (To the child) Convinced?
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, [T1],
70:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,
71:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream

(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)

Hey, man.

Hey.

Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?

I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.

No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.

Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.

Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.

I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.

What, you read it in your dream?

No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?

Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.

Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?

And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."

So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.

And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.

And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.

Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."

And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?

Right.

So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.

So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?

Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.

Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?

I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,
72:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
   Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?

   ... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
   When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
   It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
   Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
   And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
   Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
   And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
   And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
   There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,
73:
   The whole question.


The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...

Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!

One cannot explain?

No.

It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?

I do not know.

Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!

This is the first step.

You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.

This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.

And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.

And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.

It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.

...

You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.

To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.

There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.

And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.

This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,
74:The Science of Living

To know oneself and to control oneself

AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.

Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.

   Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.

   But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.

   To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.

   As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.

   All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.

   In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.

   To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.

   Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.

   There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.

   Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.

   Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.

   In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.

   When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.

   Bulletin, November 1950

   ~ The Mother, On Education,
75:Mental Education

OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.

   Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.

   A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:

   (1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
   (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
   (3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
   (4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
   (5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.

   It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.

   Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.

   For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.

   This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.

   You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.

   In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.

   Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.

   It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.

   All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.

   And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.

   For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.

   But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.

   The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.

   When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951

   ~ The Mother, On Education,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:We usually don't look. We overlook. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
2:The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
3:Money is usually attracted, not pursued. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
4:I usually never walk by a microphone. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
5:The team with the most talent usually wins. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
6:Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove
7:What one has to do usually can be done. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
8:When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
9:I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
10:Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
11:We’re usually aware of the feeling before the thought. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove
12:When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove
13:A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove
14:A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove
15:A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove
16:A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
17:The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
18:What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
19:The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove
20:What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
21:When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove
22:A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
23:The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
24:Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
25:The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove
26:The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove
27:My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
28:Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
29:That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
30:A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
31:Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove
32:Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
33:The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove
34:Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
35:He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
36:Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
37:It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove
38:Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
39:What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
40:I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
41:I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove
42:It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove
43:Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
44:The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
45:A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove
46:Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person ~ horace, @wisdomtrove
47:If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove
48:The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
49:Prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
50:I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
51:Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
52:Bipartisan’ usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove
53:Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove
54:Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
55:The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove
56:Usually people are completely unaware of the roles they play. They are those roles. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
57:Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
58:The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
59:Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air . ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
60:What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
61:The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
62:A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove
63:If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
64:Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
65:Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
66:When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
67:When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
68:A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
69:Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove
70:The fellow that calls you &
71:Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
72:The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
73:Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
74:Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
75:if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
76:Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
77:I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
78:No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
79:Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
80:I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
81:Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
82:As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
83:Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
84:I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
85:It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove
86:The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
87:Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
88:People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
89:A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
90:What you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your job, your home, your possessions. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove
91:When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
92:Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
93:A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
94:People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
95:The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
96:Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
97:The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
98:The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
99:Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
100:I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
101:In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
102:Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
103:The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
104:The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
105:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
106:The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
107:Things that raise your energy usually don't involve humans; things that cause energy loss usually involve humans. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
108:A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove
109:Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
110:Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
111:Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
112:Q: Which ideas are wrong and which are true?  M: Assertions are usually wrong and denials - right. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
113:Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
114:It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
115:There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
116:We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
117:beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove
118:In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
119:The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
120:An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
121:An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
122:Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
123:A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
124:You need much less than you think you need to be happy, and you usually have a lot more than you think you have. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove
125:The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
126:People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove
127:The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
128:I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
129:People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove
130:A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
131:Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
132:Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove
133:I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
134:There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
135:So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
136:The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
137:Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
138:In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
139:Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
140:Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove
141:The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove
142:America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove
143:The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove
144:The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
145:I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
146:With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
147:Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
148:You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
149:Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove
150:Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
151:The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
152:When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
153:The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove
154:It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
155:Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove
156:The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
157:When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove
158:Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
159:It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
160:When art is rationally dissected, this usually kills it dead, since its role is to take us out of the adult mind and into the poetic imagination. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
161: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
162:When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
163:Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
164:The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove
165:What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
166:Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
167:Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
168:Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
169:I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
170:The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
171:The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
172:Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
173:We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
174:Pain is usually represented by lightning attacking the guy. Glowing redness is also popular. Sometimes parts of the guy would just burst into flames. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove
175:Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
176:Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
177:The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
178:After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
179:The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how&
180:The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
181:I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
182:the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
183:The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
184:Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
185:For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
186:I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
187:Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove
188:When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
189:I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove
190:I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
191:I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
192:When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
193:When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove
194:When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
195:Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
196:Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
197:And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
198:Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
199:A person who seeks power usually goes into other dimensional planes to find it. Then they bring that power back into this world and they use it to enhance their life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
200:A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
201:We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
202:Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
203:I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove
204:Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove
205:There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
206:For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove
207:I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
208:There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
209:Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
210:In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
211:People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
212:When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
213:If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
214:Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
215:While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
216:Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan! ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
217:One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
218:Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, &
219:The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
220:Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
221:An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
222:And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
223:Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove
224:To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove
225:The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
226:I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove
227:In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
228:The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
229:I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove
230:Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long... . This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
231:Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
232:It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove
233:Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we’re usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don’t even know it has spoken. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove
234:Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
235:This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia&
236:The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
237:And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
238:In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
239:The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove
240:The witness usually knows only consciousness.  Sadhana consists in the witness turning back first on his conscious, then upon himself in his own awareness.  Self-awareness is Yoga. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
241:Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove
242:There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
243:The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
244:Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
245:I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
246:There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one. ~ nathaniel-hawthorne, @wisdomtrove
247:With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
248:Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
249:An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality&
250:As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
251:Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
252:I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove
253:The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
254:I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
255:Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove
256:The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy." ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
257:When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
258:The &
259:I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
260:Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
261:At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
262:Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
263:Courage changes things for the better... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove
264:Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
265:Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
266:I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
267:It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
268:The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
269:The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
270:A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
271:Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove
272:My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove
273:My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
274:In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,... [t]he rich man is usually &
275:It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
276:In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove
277:In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
278:The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
279:Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
280:There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
281:When you use them at the right time with the right intent, they can be productive. But usually autobiographical responses force your opinion on others and sometimes you may be perceived as intrusive or unwilling to understand.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
282:In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove
283:Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
284:I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
285:An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
286:I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
287:To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
288:It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
289:Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
290:Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
291:The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
292:Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
293:Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
294:Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
295:Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
296:I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove
297:The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove
298:The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
299:Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
300:True listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person’s attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
301:Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove
302:I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
303:I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
304:Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
305:Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove
306:Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove
307:A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
308:I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
309:The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge... The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
310:When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
311:Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
312:Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove
313:Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
314:The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove
315:Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
316:... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
317:It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove
318:Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics. ~ bernard-haisch, @wisdomtrove
319:As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
320:Give up on news. It’s a never-ending cycle. And if you’ve paid attention to the news as long as I have (I’m a former journalist), you know it’s all the same, year after year. Unless your job depends on it, the news is usually a waste of your attention. Let go of the need to stay updated. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
321:Recognize that many rejections are rarely personal. They usually reflect more about the other person and how the request doesn’t meet his/her needs, than about you. By taking yourself out of the equation, you’ll realize a lot of your emotional responses with the rejection are unnecessary. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove
322:“The second feature is the sense of perceiving truths not known before. The mysteries of life become lucid, as Professor Leuba says; and often, nay usually, the solution is more or less unutterable in words. But these more intellectual phenomena may be postponed until we treat of mysticism.” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove
323:Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove
324:I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
325:If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
326:Usually I think of awareness as existing inside my head. But this simply isn't true. If I asked someone to crack open my skull and take a look, they'd never find awareness. Not even if they looked with a microscope. It's just not there. My head is full of brains, but awareness is nowhere to be found. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
327:Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
328:The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
329:With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove
330:A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
331:... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me - usually, always, my most intense lessons - the ones my soul came here to learn. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
332:People constantly speak of &
333:I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
334:The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
335:The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
336:The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
337:Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time." ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
338:I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
339:The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
340:We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
341:Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove
342:Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove
343:The artist usually sets out - or used to - to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
344:To change our reactions, we must first be aware when these reactions happen. You can’t change them if you’re in automatic mode. Once you notice it, the key thing is not to act — it’s OK to have the feeling, but the action is what is usually destructive. Acting in anger means you’re going to do something not kind, not helpful.' ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
345:Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
346:I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call soft thinking. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
347:As an automobile needs premium fuel to operate well, our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health. Packaged food creates dis-ease. There’s no nourishment in it. The body can only handle it for so long. Then, when you do have a problem, you usually take an over-the-counter or prescription drug. This is another form of poison. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
348:Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
349:If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
350:Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
351:I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
352:For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes. ~ kelly-mcgonigal, @wisdomtrove
353:In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
354:Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
355:The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly —you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.   ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
356:One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
357:Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
358:The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
359:Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
360:A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
361:What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
362:People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
363:There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
364:How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
365:When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
366:It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
367:Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove
368:A love affair is like a short story&
369:Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity is conformity. When people try too hard to be different, they usually end up being just like everyone else who is trying to be different.  Don’t conform to nonconformity for the sake of it.  Mindfully evaluate the circumstances. Once you fully understand your options, make the decision that works best for you.  ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove
370:Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
371:Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear... . It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove
372:There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think &
373:There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove
374:Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
375:What Is Realisation? Living the spiritual life is a continuous ‘dying’ of layers of the individual’s self. With each significant ‘death’ there is an advance in consciousness, marked by a finer perception of spiritual truth and a distinct change in the persona. At the spiritual energy level the change is usually startlingly dramatic and is often referred to as realisation. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove
376:In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. ‘What are the expected results from this work?’ is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove
377:Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
378:The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove
379:Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
380:Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
381:When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
382:I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
383:I'm not sure if I could tell the difference between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
384:I've no objection to the term &
385:The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
386:What am I, really? The beautiful thing... is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This... is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
387:The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
388:The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
389:And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
390:It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
391:All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ... Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus... Rooms in dreams are usually women... Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
392:What do we mean by the word &
393:When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
394:Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
395:Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome). ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
396:The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
397:Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove
398:61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
399:A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
400:Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
401:I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind? ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
402:I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
403:Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
404:[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
405:Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
406:He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
407:There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. ... For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
408:Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
409:The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the &
410:Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, &
411:All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
412:Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
413:Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
414:Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
415:I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
416:[narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
417:... .all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity... ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
418:Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
419:We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
420:In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man&
421:The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
422:I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money... as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
423:In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not - they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
424:Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
425:I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
426:Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove
427:All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"&
428:Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
429:But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices.  Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital.  Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak.  Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
430:People will then often say, &
431:I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
432:When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
433:One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it." ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
434:When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
435:Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
436:To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
437:“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him or her which the incitements of that day do not call forth.  Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep.  The human individual usually lives far within his or her limits. ” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove
438:When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have any criminal motives. Not what is usually understood by "criminal motives." He wanted to go along with the rest. He wanted to say "we," and going-along-with-the-rest and wanting-to-say-we like this were quite enough to make the greatest of all crimes possible. The Hitlers, after all, really aren't the ones who are typical in this kind of situation&
439:We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
440:One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
441:There’s a writer for you, he said. Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing. [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
442:What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
443:The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
444:Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, I can't believe this happened to me. And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, I must be on the wrong path. But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path? ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
445:I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
446:Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, I can't believe this happened to me. And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, I must be on the wrong path. But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path? ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
447:Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
448:The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii) ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
449:People feel bound by democratic elections only when they share a basic bond with most other voters. If the experience of other voters is alien to me, and if I believe they don’t understand my feelings and don’t care about my vital interests, then even if I am outvoted by a hundred to one, I have absolutely no reason to accept the verdict. Democratic elections usually work only within populations that have some prior common bond, such as shared religious beliefs and national myths. They are a method to settle disagreements between people who already agree on the basics. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
450:Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve .. one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
451:There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as &
452:Negative events generally have more impact than positive ones. For example,it’s easy to acquire feelings of learned helplessness from a few failures, but hard to undo those feelings, even with many successes . People will do more to avoid a loss than to acquire a comparable gain .Compared to lottery winners, accident victims usually take longer to return to their original baseline of happiness. Bad information about a person carries more weight than good information and in relationships, it typically takes about five positive interactions to overcome the effects of a single negative one. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove
453:Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
454:This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a refined world of abstract theory with little practical reality, lawyers are usually perceived as formally dressed people who are practically oriented, concentrating mainly on trivialities (such as negotiating their retaining fee) and engaging professionally in all sorts of nitty-gritty social intercourse—the kind of things that normal people, although worried by them, would rather not have to deal with themselves. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove
455:Reclaiming ourselves usually means coming to recognize and accept that we have in us both sides of everything. We are capable of fear and courage, generosity and selfishness, vulnerability and strength. These things do not cancel each other out but offer us a full range of power and response to life. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world. It is a real world. In calling ourselves "heads" or "tails," we may never own and spend our human currency, the pure gold of which our coin is made. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
456:They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the &
457:We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Most usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world. To fear change but to crave intuitive clarity is like fearing the cold, dark night while pouring water on the fire that lights your cave. An insight the size of a mustard seed is powerful enough to bring down a mountain-sized illusion that may be holding our lives together. Truth strikes without mercy. We fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
458:We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Most usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world. To fear change but to crave intuitive clarity is like fearing the cold, dark night while pouring water on the fire that lights your cave. An insight the size of a mustard seed is powerful enough to bring down a mountain-sized illusion that may be holding our lives together. Truth strikes without mercy. We fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
459:Recognize the fleeting nature of rewards and that they usually aren’t actually all that great. See, too, that painful experiences are transient and usually not that awful. Neither pleasure nor pain is worth claiming as your own or identifying with. Further, consider how every event is determined by countless preceding factors so that things can not be any other way. This is not fatalism or despair:you can take action to make the future different. But even then, remember that most of the factors that shape the future are out of your hands. You can do everything right, and still the glass will break, the project will go nowhere, you’ll catch the flu, or a friend will remain upset. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove
460:Gautama's insight was that no matter what the mind experiences, it usually reacts with craving, and craving always involves dissatisfaction. When the mind experiences something distasteful it craves to be rid of the irritation. When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the pleasure will remain and will intensify. Therefore, the mind is always dissatisfied and restless. This is very clear when we experience unpleasant things, such as pain. As long as the pain continues, we are dissatisfied and do all we can to avoid it. Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will intensify. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
461:Do Opposites Repel or Attract? The people in our lives who make us uncomfortable, who annoy us, who we feel judgmental or even combative toward, reflect parts of ourselves that we reject - usually aspects of our disowned selves, the shadow side of our personality. If you are a gentle, soft-spoken person, you may be very irritated by a person who seems loud and pushy. Or if you are a direct, outspoken person you may feel uncomfortable with those who hold back and seem overly timid. The fact is that in both cases you are mirroring each other's disowned energies. The quiet person is being shown their undeveloped assertive side, and the aggressive person is being shown their undeveloped reflective side. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove
462:Most human interactions are confined to the exchange of words — the realm of thought. It is essential to bring some stillness, particularly into your close relationships. No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise. If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
463: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

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1:Nature is usually wrong. ~ James Whistler,
2:big data is usually dumb data. ~ Anonymous,
3:Work usually follows will. ~ Louis Pasteur,
4:Work usually follows will. ~ William James,
5:I don't usually read reviews. ~ Steve Earle,
6:I'm usually just enjoying life. ~ Alan Jackson,
7:I usually think in terms of music ~ Shane West,
8:Length is usually intensity. ~ Thomas Pynchon,
9:Easy hope was usually false hope. ~ Dean Koontz,
10:Fear usually looks like anger. ~ Krista Tippett,
11:Russians don't complain, usually. ~ Ian Frazier,
12:Truth usually stammers at first. ~ Mason Cooley,
13:I don't usually set personal goals. ~ Tim Duncan,
14:We usually don't look. We overlook. ~ Alan Watts,
15:Good startups usually take 10 years. ~ Sam Altman,
16:Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. ~ Moby,
17:The probable is what usually happens. ~ Aristotle,
18:Usually I'm too tired to apologize. ~ Lewis Black,
19:Best practices usually aren't. ~ Christopher Locke,
20:Big ideas are usually simple ideas. ~ David Ogilvy,
21:He who hesitates is usually fucked! ~ Stephen King,
22:The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. ~ Ovid,
23:The truthful man is usually a liar. ~ Alfred Nobel,
24:Drums usually seem to tune themselves. ~ Levon Helm,
25:I usually play disenfranchised youth ~ Robin Tunney,
26:Men usually grow base by degrees. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,
27:Money is usually attracted, not pursued. ~ Jim Rohn,
28:Serious music usually doesn't pay. ~ Elvis Costello,
29:The worthless usually live long. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
30:Usually, I get hired because I`m tall. ~ Peter Falk,
31:Usually I say I have no imagination. ~ Jose Padilha,
32:Certainty is usually a sign of pathology. ~ B W Powe,
33:I'm not usually in a talkative mode. ~ Chris Cornell,
34:I'm usually alone or asleep, at home. ~ Richard Hell,
35:Literature usually begets literature. ~ Susan Sontag,
36:Usually New York has lousy salads. ~ Debbie Reynolds,
37:A drummer is usually like the backbone. ~ Brody Dalle,
38:Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing! ~ Dan Brown,
39:I usually never walk by a microphone. ~ Ronald Reagan,
40:The easy way out usually leads back in. ~ Peter Senge,
41:We usually get what we anticipate. ~ Claude M Bristol,
42:I'm usually always thinking about the cons. ~ Kid Cudi,
43:I'm usually the last person to know. ~ Kate Beckinsale,
44:People who can write a book usually do. ~ Jilly Cooper,
45:The simplest answer is usually correct. ~ Harlan Coben,
46:To the old, the new is usually bad news. ~ Eric Hoffer,
47:Usually when a woman is 60, it's over. ~ Jeanne Moreau,
48:busyness is usually a sign of brokenness. ~ Doug Fields,
49:Human experience is usually paradoxical. ~ George Eliot,
50:Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. ~ Rick Riordan,
51:Don`t feel bad, i`m usually about to die. ~ Rick Riordan,
52:Of coherency, I usually attempt it. ~ Tennessee Williams,
53:The great discoveries are usually obvious. ~ Phil Crosby,
54:We usually save money to waste it. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
55:What usually comes first is the contract. ~ Ira Gershwin,
56:In bad times, the rich usually get richer. ~ Stuart Wilde,
57:I usually need a can of beer to prime me. ~ Norman Mailer,
58:I usually only play with very close friends. ~ Emanuel Ax,
59:not even Mrs. Hill, both of whom could usually ~ Jo Baker,
60:People usually find out when you lie to them. ~ Joy Berry,
61:Sooner or later usually means too late ~ Scott Westerfeld,
62:Usually you regret the things you say no to. ~ Jim Carrey,
63:Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks ~ Herodotus,
64:I don't usually stink. But I stunk today. ~ Peyton Manning,
65:I usually feel something before I know it. ~ Fred D Aguiar,
66:The truth usually has a slightly ugly look. ~ Mason Cooley,
67:What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ~ Louis Dudek,
68:Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. ~ Marianne Moore,
69:Exhaustion usually feeds negative thinking. ~ James Holland,
70:Failure usually works for me in the end. ~ David Hasselhoff,
71:Forgiveness is usually easier than permission. ~ Amy Harmon,
72:Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ~ Herodotus,
73:Grown-Ups are usually guilty of something ~ Brian K Vaughan,
74:Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ~ John Dryden,
75:I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M. ~ Kate Dickie,
76:I usually just have ideas when I have them. ~ Vince Staples,
77:Refugees, usually émigrés and immigrants ~ Anthony Bourdain,
78:Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex. ~ Pamela Stephenson,
79:Solo homers usually come with no one on base. ~ Ralph Kiner,
80:Things that are impossible usually take time. ~ Robert Reed,
81:What one has to do usually can be done. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,
82:France has usually been governed by prostitutes ~ Mark Twain,
83:Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ~ Herodotus,
84:I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock. ~ Larry Gatlin,
85:I usually sleep just a few hours a night. ~ Jackson Rathbone,
86:The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy. ~ Mason Cooley,
87:When I want to get anywhere, I usually do. ~ Agatha Christie,
88:Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside. ~ Damon Suede,
89:Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness. ~ Muriel Spark,
90:half the feeling of home is usually a person. ~ Donald Miller,
91:History is usually a random, messy affair’, ~ Richard Dawkins,
92:Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
93:My makeup is usually left over from the night before. ~ Kesha,
94:The first step in change is usually discomfort! ~ Rick Warren,
95:The Loudest person in the room, is usually the brokest ~ Wale,
96:They usually show movies on a flight like that. ~ Ken Coleman,
97:Those who aim low usually hit their targets. ~ James M Barrie,
98:True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. ~ Kiera Cass,
99:When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic. ~ Roger Clemens,
100:If men have a smell it's usually an accident. ~ Jeff Foxworthy,
101:I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. ~ Moby,
102:Saints are usually killed by their own people. ~ Eric Sevareid,
103:Their souls are usually heavy and managerial. ~ Charles Baxter,
104:When you know what you want you usually get it. ~ Eva Ibbotson,
105:Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift. ~ Uma Thurman,
106:Don't worry though. The sitter usually survives. ~ Katie Ruggle,
107:I usually listen to classic rock and roll. ~ Caleb Landry Jones,
108:Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual. ~ Karen Armstrong,
109:Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. ~ Phil Crosby,
110:Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. ~ Katy Evans,
111:fought, it was usually more trouble than it was ~ Michael Bunker,
112:One man's opportunity is usually another man's loss. ~ Anonymous,
113:Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. ~ Rick Warren,
114:Turning people into toads is usually redundant. ~ Mary Beth Robb,
115:Usually when you’re in love, you’re miserable. ~ Cassandra Clare,
116:When a president speaks that usually means a lot. ~ David Brooks,
117:When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. ~ Dean Koontz,
118:A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. ~ Celia Green,
119:Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. ~ Clint Eastwood,
120:Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex. ~ Charlaine Harris,
121:Im usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend. ~ Annie Parisse,
122:I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. ~ Parker Posey,
123:I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. ~ Franz Kafka,
124:people usually choose the place they get lost in ~ Gerard Donovan,
125:president might have been involved usually became ~ Michael Wolff,
126:The exit is usually where the entrance was. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec,
127:Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring. ~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
128:Usually music is used to hide a film's problems. ~ Michael Haneke,
129:What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. ~ Sherman Alexie,
130:Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. ~ Jane Austen,
131:As an actor, you usually live your life with faith. ~ Molly Parker,
132:I don't like perfect people. They're usually not. ~ James L Rubart,
133:I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films. ~ Ian Hart,
134:The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. ~ Seneca the Younger,
135:the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven. ~ P D James,
136:Tony the Tiger usually thinks that stuff is great. ~ Mitch Hedberg,
137:True love usually results in a hostage situation. ~ Kinky Friedman,
138:A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. ~ Eric Schlosser,
139:But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts. ~ Iris Murdoch,
140:Children will usually live up to our expectations. ~ Steve Biddulph,
141:Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around. ~ Joe Cocker,
142:I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. ~ Eric Lange,
143:I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. ~ Jack Prelutsky,
144:It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ~ Paul Theroux,
145:I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe. ~ Christy Carlson Romano,
146:I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. ~ Scott Caan,
147:launches usually moved into the armies together, ~ Orson Scott Card,
148:obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence ~ Robert A Heinlein,
149:on a task usually also want the authority ~ Darian Rodriguez Heyman,
150:Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating ~ Pierce Brosnan,
151:Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping. ~ Lisa Lampanelli,
152:When you get wet, it usually means something good. ~ Bill Belichick,
153:A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ~ Ansel Adams,
154:Bravado usually is ignorance,’ Bottle snapped back. ~ Steven Erikson,
155:Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant. ~ Angela Carter,
156:GOOD CHARACTER IS LIKE GOOD SOUP—IT IS USUALLY HOMEMADE. ~ Anonymous,
157:Hate is usually a more compelling motive than love, ~ Ross Macdonald,
158:To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence. ~ Fanny Lewald,
159:usually discover that we’ve had a wrong perception ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
160:Usually we praise only to be praised. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
161:Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful. ~ Woody Allen,
162:We usually need exactly what we think we don't want. ~ Nichole Chase,
163:When bankers get into business they usually destroy it. ~ Henry Ford,
164:When I follow my heart, usually the results are good. ~ Renny Harlin,
165:You only live once and, usually, not even then. ~ Michael O Donoghue,
166:A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~ Ansel Adams,
167:Behind every stylish guy is usually a smart girl. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg,
168:He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right. ~ Coco Chanel,
169:It’s good to trust your instincts; they’re usually right. ~ Lang Leav,
170:It's usually the roughest waters that teach us the most. ~ Robyn Carr,
171:It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow. ~ Terry Pratchett,
172:I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's ~ Ludacris,
173:Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish. ~ Frank Carson,
174:Negative words other than not are usually strong: ~ William Strunk Jr,
175:Our deepest truths are usually the hardest to conceal. ~ Ren e Ahdieh,
176:paradises are usually places where you get killed. The ~ Rick Riordan,
177:People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind. ~ Donald Fagen,
178:People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue. ~ Etgar Keret,
179:Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless. ~ Ben Horowitz,
180:Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness. ~ Mason Cooley,
181:Ravens aren’t usually nocturnal, but hunger can be. ~ Gregory Maguire,
182:self-interest usually brings injustice with it. ~ Catherine the Great,
183:The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky. ~ Anne Lamott,
184:to the empty space usually reserved for Valentine. ~ Colson Whitehead,
185:After all, most trouble usually starts with a boy. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg,
186:A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. ~ Henry Ford,
187:he usually wasn’t a model for Asswipe & Fitch. At ~ Mariana Zapata,
188:Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team ~ Johnny Giles,
189:I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~ Hope Davis,
190:it’s usually a bad one, a negative thought, but we have ~ Mark Johnson,
191:Quiet coffees in hipster spots usually change very little. ~ Jon Acuff,
192:The best work usually meets the strongest opposition. ~ Dwight L Moody,
193:The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking. ~ Stephen King,
194:The man in liberalism is usually going to be at fault. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
195:THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING ~ Giacomo Casanova,
196:Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. ~ Tom Robbins,
197:Usually most characters I play are quite realistic. ~ Virginie Ledoyen,
198:Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic. ~ Tony Fadell,
199:When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works. ~ Mark Fuhrman,
200:When something looks too good to be true, it usually is. ~ Emmy Rossum,
201:A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. ~ Steven Wright,
202:As you can imagine I usually just end up eating my guests. ~ Ben Galley,
203:By definition startups usually do not turn a profit. ~ Kevin Harrington,
204:Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. ~ Anna Freud,
205:Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward. ~ Hunter S Thompson,
206:Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ~ Barbara Stanwyck,
207:Good people usually have a reason for doing bad things. ~ Jay Crownover,
208:He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are ~ Karen Maitland,
209:I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ~ J K Rowling,
210:I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure. ~ Tom Felton,
211:I hate to give Seth chores. Usually when he comes, I leave ~ Robyn Carr,
212:I usually have sex to my stand-up comedy album. Power move. ~ Jeff Ross,
213:I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels. ~ Eden Robinson,
214:I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have to. ~ Rick Riordan,
215:I won’t go looking for trouble. I usually don’t have to. ~ Rick Riordan,
216:Knowing is usually the easy part. Doing is much harder. ~ Eric Greitens,
217:Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. ~ Plautus,
218:Men who say they feel nothing, usually feel the most. ~ Iain Rob Wright,
219:Possessions are usually diminished by possession. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
220:There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films. ~ Maria Bello,
221:The right choice was usually the more difficult one. ~ Elin Hilderbrand,
222:The right thing is usually just what everybody don't do. ~ Willa Cather,
223:The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~ David Brin,
224:Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie. ~ Milos Forman,
225:With all due respect—” “That saying usually precedes a no, ~ V E Schwab,
226:and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer—he ~ John Ferling,
227:Building a happy life usually takes constant renovations. ~ Sarah Noffke,
228:Discussions usually separate us; actions sometimes unite us. ~ C S Lewis,
229:Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think. ~ Naomi Watts,
230:Having no energy usually means you have zero motivation. ~ Stephen Guise,
231:I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos. ~ Tyler Oakley,
232:I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy. ~ Keith Morris,
233:In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests ~ Max von Sydow,
234:I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too. ~ Rick Riordan,
235:People usually told him the same joke two or three times. ~ Walker Percy,
236:Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil. ~ Jim Caviezel,
237:We are all more similar than we usually realize. ~ Michael Adam Hamilton,
238:Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually. ~ Elton John,
239:Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books. ~ Paulo Coelho,
240:What we fear doing is usually what we most need to do. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
241:Extremists usually describe the middle course as extreme. ~ Jay Heinrichs,
242:Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting. ~ Will Cotton,
243:Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind. ~ Pam Houston,
244:Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance. ~ Yasmine Bleeth,
245:Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody. ~ Richard Rohr,
246:I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ~ Katie McGarry,
247:I'm not usually good, but when i am, i'm goddamn good. ~ Charles Bukowski,
248:It was here I usually retired to banquet on my novels ~ Washington Irving,
249:Macedonian or Bactrian Greeks were most usually intended is not ~ Valmiki,
250:Makeup is usually used to fake good or better skin. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
251:My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better. ~ L Ron Hubbard,
252:People usually don’t deserve it, that’s why it’s called mercy. ~ K M Shea,
253:The hardest things in life are usually the right things. ~ Krista Ritchie,
254:Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is... ~ Jayce O Neal,
255:Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face. ~ David James Elliott,
256:What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. ~ Mason Cooley,
257:What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ Tim Ferriss,
258:When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
259:Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you. ~ Joan Lunden,
260:But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other ~ Anna Banks,
261:Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are. ~ Donald Glover,
262:Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people. ~ Megan Hart,
263:Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right. ~ Erica Jong,
264:Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. ~ Bob Barr,
265:I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. ~ Laurie Anderson,
266:In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off. ~ Steven S Skiena,
267:In art one is usually totally alone with oneself. ~ Paula Modersohn Becker,
268:Is her husband a cop too? That’s the way it usually works in ~ Terry Hayes,
269:Life, however, is usually a between-subjects experiment, ~ Daniel Kahneman,
270:Man usually believes, if only words he hears, ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
271:My eyes are usually described as golden... and luminous. ~ Cassandra Clare,
272:Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears. ~ George Soros,
273:Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation. ~ Mason Cooley,
274:the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people ~ Geoffrey Chaucer,
275:Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise. ~ Rachel Cohn,
276:We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later. ~ Donald Cram,
277:A Clear Conscience Is Usually the Sign of a Bad Memory. And ~ Mario Acevedo,
278:advance knowledge usually trumps the shit out of experience. ~ Stephen King,
279:Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward. ~ Bryant McGill,
280:Fear usually benefits the feared; seldom the fearful. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
281:Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion. ~ Wilhelm Stekel,
282:Heinrich shrugged as he usually did, with only his mouth. ~ Richard Groller,
283:Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count. ~ Mira Grant,
284:I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. ~ Ernest Cline,
285:I write one poem a year, usually in January or February. ~ Emily Susan Rapp,
286:Life may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it. ~ Anthony Horowitz,
287:People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways. ~ Ilona Andrews,
288:The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer,
289:The right question is usually more important than the right answer. ~ Plato,
290:Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way. ~ Bernie Worrell,
291:We all have issues and we have usually come by them honestly. ~ Allan Lokos,
292:We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors. ~ Thurston Moore,
293:What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
294:worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due. ~ Tim Dorsey,
295:A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are. ~ Elbert Hubbard,
296:Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible. ~ Lawrence Eagleburger,
297:Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
298:Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis]. ~ Billie Jean King,
299:Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end. ~ Mason Cooley,
300:The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. ~ George Eliot,
301:Those that don’t follow the norm usually make the best leaders, ~ K F Breene,
302:Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas. ~ Christopher Atkins,
303:Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on. ~ John Cusack,
304:Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time. ~ Kenneth Noland,
305:What attracts usually comes from a place you'd never think. ~ Gustavo Cerati,
306:When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. ~ Fernando de Rojas,
307:When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. ~ Sydney Pollack,
308:A cool thing is that stuff can always get worse and it usually does ~ Tao Lin,
309:An overnight success usually takes about ten years. — Anonymous ~ Dan Millman,
310:a platform is usually not hostile to competition among sellers. ~ Jean Tirole,
311:As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed. ~ John Steinbeck,
312:Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
313:Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
314:[Donald Trump] is a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. ~ Mike Pence,
315:Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward. ~ Bryant H McGill,
316:Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. ~ Rob Pike,
317:Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. ~ Mark Twain,
318:History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. ~ Bruce Catton,
319:Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. ~ Patricia Highsmith,
320:I don’t usually cook.” “And the world thanks you,” he murmured ~ D B Reynolds,
321:Most of them were running away from something―usually the law. ~ Jack Kerouac,
322:my opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset. ~ Megan Whalen Turner,
323:Tempus edax rerum, usually translated “Time devours all things. ~ Corey Olsen,
324:The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. ~ E W Howe,
325:The Question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within ~ Steve Miller,
326:The squeaky wheel usually is the one that gets the grease, babe. ~ A J Downey,
327:The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night. ~ Haruki Murakami,
328:Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. ~ Helio Gracie,
329:Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity. ~ Richard Paul Evans,
330:Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans. ~ Ice Cube,
331:Usually, you’ll see, having more comes from starting with less. ~ Mike Dooley,
332:We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly. ~ Allan Lokos,
333:Well, usually when something goes wrong, someone is at fault ~ Colleen Hoover,
334:What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
335:Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong. ~ Maurice Sendak,
336:Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. ~ Gillian Flynn,
337:In the scientific world, "fear" is usually called "skepticism. ~ James Fadiman,
338:I usually feel pretty screamy when someone attacks my school. ~ Rachel Hawkins,
339:I usually go to bed pretty late but sleep a full cycle (8 hours). ~ Alex Jones,
340:My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable. ~ Michael Lewis,
341:Ockham’s razor. The simplest explanation was usually correct. They ~ Brad Thor,
342:One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun. ~ Ann Landers,
343:Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. ~ Winfield Scott,
344:People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ~ Abigail Van Buren,
345:Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment. ~ Mason Cooley,
346:Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential. ~ Mason Cooley,
347:The new wears off everything, and it usually doesn’t take long. ~ Stephen King,
348:The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ~ Steve Miller,
349:The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work. ~ Philippe Petit,
350:The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
   ~ Plato,
351:The worst extremes usually start with slight deviations. ~ John F MacArthur Jr,
352:Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. ~ Jim Davis,
353:Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
354:We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa,
355:What one person does, several people usually consider. ~ Amelia Atwater Rhodes,
356:When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want. ~ Elvis Costello,
357:When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct. ~ Dan Brown,
358:When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice ~ Saul Bellow,
359:When you feel like something is really wrong, it's usually wrong ~ Kris Jenner,
360:At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true. ~ Agatha Christie,
361:Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. ~ Elbert Hubbard,
362:Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. ~ Maurice Sendak,
363:Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. ~ Warren G Bennis,
364:He was alone in the world, and the world was Natalie. Usually ~ David Foenkinos,
365:I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class. ~ Demetri Martin,
366:I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is. ~ John Green,
367:I feel like the last tattoo you got is usually your favorite. ~ Nico Tortorella,
368:In my experience, true love is usually the most inconvenient kind. ~ Kiera Cass,
369:I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly. ~ Steve Ballmer,
370:I usually say that love and kindness are a universal religion. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
371:Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game. ~ John Madden,
372:Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
373:The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with. ~ Morgan Freeman,
374:The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. ~ Jodi Picoult,
375:The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit. ~ Walt Disney,
376:The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau,
377:The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it. ~ Neil Gaiman,
378:time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. ~ Stephen King,
379:Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other. ~ Shirley MacLaine,
380:When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style. ~ Thomas Keller,
381:When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars. ~ Sander Levin,
382:When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~ Saul Bellow,
383:You’ve deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
384:Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation ~ Jonathan Swift,
385:Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly. ~ Walter Schloss,
386:English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy. ~ John Ruskin,
387:I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week. ~ Jimmie Johnson,
388:Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are. ~ Malcolm Forbes,
389:I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on. ~ Joel Kinnaman,
390:Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains. ~ Katie McGarry,
391:Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. ~ Steven Spielberg,
392:Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention... ~ Wallace Stegner,
393:The higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance. ~ Misty Copeland,
394:Those who’ve fallen . . . usually want . . . to get back up. ~ Kenneth C Johnson,
395:Usually inner strength is respected—we get back what we put out. ~ Susan Jeffers,
396:VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies ~ Peter Thiel,
397:What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As ~ Timothy Ferriss,
398:You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. ~ Carly Simon,
399:A company without a story is usually a company without a strategy. ~ Ben Horowitz,
400:But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly. ~ Sean Maher,
401:Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty. ~ Megan Whalen Turner,
402:European humanism usually meant that only Europeans were human. ~ Charles W Mills,
403:Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. ~ Oscar Wilde,
404:Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. ~ Bruce Oldfield,
405:I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric. ~ Rachael Yamagata,
406:If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant. ~ Edward T Welch,
407:I'm not afraid. Monsters aren't usually afraid of other monsters. ~ J A Redmerski,
408:In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
409:Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
410:I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar. ~ David Bowie,
411:One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words. ~ Winston Churchill,
412:People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so. ~ Danai Gurira,
413:Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret. ~ Kathy Reichs,
414:That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again. ~ Dana Gould,
415:The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses. ~ Suzy Kassem,
416:There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be ~ Peter Drucker,
417:Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness. ~ Sri Aurobindo,
418:Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big. ~ James St James,
419:What’s called luck is usually an outgrowth of successful communication. ~ Al Ries,
420:When ever I get the urge to write, I lie down and it usually passes. ~ Mark Twain,
421:You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine ~ Sharon Salzberg,
422:you don’t usually help the bees by destroying the hive. Finally, ~ Jonathan Haidt,
423:A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to. ~ Thomas Pynchon,
424:But in my experience, the virtuous are usually the first to die. ~ Janet Evanovich,
425:Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over. ~ Danny McBride,
426:Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ~ Jean Racine,
427:early marriage usually foreclosed the possibility of a career dream. ~ Gail Sheehy,
428:Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. ~ Napoleon Hill,
429:His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were. ~ John le Carr,
430:It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. ~ Mark Twain,
431:I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes. ~ Glen Mazzara,
432:I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. ~ Wally Lamb,
433:I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting! ~ Denzel Whitaker,
434:Like your kind/
we usually destroy
what we cannot understand ~ Dan Simmons,
435:My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend to
repeat them. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
436:No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. ~ Stephen Greenblatt,
437:Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. ~ Mads Mikkelsen,
438:THE GREATEST TRUTHS IN LIFE ARE USUALLY THE MORE UNPLEASANT TO HEAR. ~ Mark Manson,
439:the greatest truths in life are usually the most unpleasant to hear. ~ Mark Manson,
440:Usually any advice I hand out is advice I need to hear as well.” “So ~ Lisa Harris,
441:Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it. ~ Don Bluth,
442:We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves. ~ Julian Fellowes,
443:You’ve deduced a universal truth:
things are usually unfair. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
444:A long silence usually makes people fill it up with something. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
445:As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time. ~ Reggie Watts,
446:Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did. ~ Lauren Hutton,
447:a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, ~ Anonymous,
448:Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned. ~ Cynthia Addai Robinson,
449:Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish. ~ David Gemmell,
450:I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them. ~ Clint Eastwood,
451:if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself. ~ Karin Slaughter,
452:In Edgar’s experience, plans made by inebriated lords usually failed. ~ Lenora Bell,
453:I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. ~ Edmund Hillary,
454:It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead. ~ Charles Stross,
455:It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup. ~ Sam Altman,
456:It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ~ Doris Lessing,
457:I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time. ~ Pawel Pawlikowski,
458:I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers. ~ Samuel West,
459:I’ve always loved morning. It’s just that I usually sleep through it. ~ Diane Capri,
460:Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. ~ John C Maxwell,
461:My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into. ~ Heath Ledger,
462:opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one, and they usually stink. ~ L J Shen,
463:Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way. ~ Malcolm Forbes,
464:We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
465:When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved. ~ P J O Rourke,
466:When I’m patient, things usually work out for the best in the end. ~ Melody Carlson,
467:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ V E Schwab,
468:When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong. ~ V E Schwab,
469:When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. ~ Bonnie McFarlane,
470:When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember. ~ James Coco,
471:Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it. ~ John Flanagan,
472:Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job. ~ Doug Stanhope,
473:As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it. ~ Stephen Daldry,
474:If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning. ~ Marc Andreessen,
475:It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
476:I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot. ~ Cecily von Ziegesar,
477:Like happiness, unhappiness usually springs from a comparison. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
478:Men are usually trying to get into my bed, not out of it. ~ Richard Stevenson,
479:My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ~ Anais Nin,
480:My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ~ Ana s Nin,
481:Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut. ~ Ryan Holiday,
482:That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
483:That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle. ~ Jonathan Stroud,
484:They don’t usually drink on Sunday, they go to church most of the day . ~ Harper Lee,
485:Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right ~ Will Smith,
486:Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot. ~ Lauren Barnholdt,
487:Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work. ~ Roni Horn,
488:Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont. ~ Burt Rutan,
489:Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars. ~ Lea Thompson,
490:What someone says and what happened are usually two different things. ~ Markus Zusak,
491:What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
492:When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. ~ John Avlon,
493:A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
494:All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
495:And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. ~ John Steinbeck,
496:A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one ~ Patrick Lencioni,
497:Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ~ Rumi,
498:Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices. ~ Elizabeth Chandler,
499:Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ~ Abraham Lincoln,
500:Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience. ~ Steven Furtick,
501:I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator. ~ Tim Kaine,
502:In fairy tales, questions don't usually have the desired response anyway. ~ Nina Lane,
503:In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. ~ Karl Abraham,
504:It’s usually some badass makes a young girl’s heart beat faster. ~ William Hjortsberg,
505:I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters. ~ Booboo Stewart,
506:I usually won most of the arguments I held with myself in my head— ~ Yasmine Galenorn,
507:Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see. ~ Fuminori Nakamura,
508:People don't usually come see me because things are going well. ~ Marianne Williamson,
509:promises were simply words strung together, usually made to placate ~ Vickie McKeehan,
510:Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences. ~ Sherry Turkle,
511:Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. ~ Tim Ferriss,
512:Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements. ~ Nancy Leveson,
513:Some people usually make lemons, when life gives them lemonade. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
514:The real explanations are usually the simplest, and often the saddest. ~ Olga Grushin,
515:The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same. ~ Steve Maraboli,
516:Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory. ~ Vicente Fox,
517:Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem. ~ Jesse Schell,
518:We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions. ~ C S Lewis,
519:We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all. * ~ Leigh Bardugo,
520:We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ~ Thomas a Kempis,
521:We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’. ~ Jan Eliasson,
522:When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love. ~ Robin Jones Gunn,
523:You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge. ~ Randy Gage,
524:A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
525:Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
526:Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast ~ Warren Buffett,
527:He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women. ~ Frederick Lenz,
528:Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. ~ Eoin Colfer,
529:I had mental arguments with nearly everyone who spoke. (I usually won.) ~ Sarah Hepola,
530:I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos. ~ Halle Berry,
531:I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl. ~ Charlie Hunnam,
532:I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself. ~ Garrison Keillor,
533:Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features. ~ Napoleon Hill,
534:Rumours don’t usually get started without a reason. - Kurt Wallander ~ Henning Mankell,
535:testing is usually the most mis-scheduled part of programming. ~ Frederick P Brooks Jr,
536:That we usually call education is making man stupid. ~ Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Education,
537:The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman ~ Hattie McDaniel,
538:Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else. ~ Karin Slaughter,
539:Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out. ~ Greg Saunier,
540:Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive. ~ Nicholas D Kristof,
541:Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day. ~ J M McDermott,
542:Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them. ~ Leona Lewis,
543:We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli ~ Janet Evanovich,
544:We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
545:What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution. ~ Jessica Zafra,
546:what we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life ~ Hannah Arendt,
547:You can usually take something good away from even the worst situations, ~ Cole McCade,
548:Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge. ~ Frank Herbert,
549:Depressed people did not usually engage in criminal conspiracies ~ Kim Stanley Robinson,
550:Don’t do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong. ~ Dale Carnegie,
551:Fyrian was prone to the hiccups. And his hiccups were usually on fire. ~ Kelly Barnhill,
552:Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world. ~ Dianne Sylvan,
553:I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. ~ Eva Mendes,
554:In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough. ~ Paul Theroux,
555:In war what you don’t dislike is not usually what the enemy does. ~ Winston S Churchill,
556:Joy, like sweat, is usually a byproduct of your activity, not your aim. ~ Eric Greitens,
557:People usually believe anything that they are told early and often. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
558:Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. ~ Mark T Sullivan,
559:Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow. ~ Clint Bowyer,
560:Usually when I buy clothes off the rack, I need to have them adjusted. ~ Kim Kardashian,
561:What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world. ~ Michael Hudson,
562:Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous. ~ Samuel Shellabarger,
563:356.—Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld,
564:A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget. ~ Anthony Trollope,
565:Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all. ~ Amy Seimetz,
566:but once I open my mouth, I usually say something awkward or off-putting. ~ Karina Halle,
567:But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. ~ Sally Ride,
568:Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy. ~ Jeff Flake,
569:Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness. ~ Carl Van Vechten,
570:gingerly. Usually, I avoid opening boxes I don’t recognise – ever since ~ Alan Partridge,
571:How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?”

“Not well. ~ Devon Monk,
572:I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
-Harry Potter ~ J K Rowling,
573:I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. ~ Chris Martin,
574:In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. ~ Robertson Davies,
575:It’s a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last. ~ Joe Abercrombie,
576:I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine. ~ Matt Skiba,
577:I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day. ~ Naomie Harris,
578:I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next. ~ Merritt Wever,
579:Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. ~ Honore de Balzac,
580:The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job ~ John Frankenheimer,
581:The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. ~ Kim Vogel Sawyer,
582:The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. ~ Milton Friedman,
583:The people who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. ~ Steve Maraboli,
584:The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this. ~ Albert Einstein,
585:Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
586:Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling. ~ Cass McCombs,
587:Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. ~ Paulo Coelho,
588:yet again that the quietest man in the room is usually the most dangerous. ~ Terry Hayes,
589:You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him. ~ W Bruce Cameron,
590:Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. ~ David Foster Wallace,
591:Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does. ~ Philip Roth,
592:A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer,
593:Avoiding chaos usually only puts us on a quicker train to that destination ~ Sarah Noffke,
594:Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this. ~ Jeff Foxworthy,
595:Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
596:Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers. ~ Gary Wright,
597:If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time. ~ Kasi Lemmons,
598:I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. ~ Laura Regan,
599:Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. ~ Shigeo Shingo,
600:It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ~ Moliere,
601:I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out. ~ Emily Browning,
602:I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually. ~ Chath Piersath,
603:My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it. ~ Brandon Mull,
604:oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything) ~ Michel de Montaigne,
605:Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. ~ Walter Savage Landor,
606:Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
607:Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much. ~ Tana French,
608:Self-immolation’s a nice gesture, but it doesn’t usually achieve very much. ~ Tana French,
609:The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns. ~ Kevin Sampsell,
610:The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making. ~ Norm MacDonald,
611:Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large. ~ Frank Spotnitz,
612:We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits.
- Joe Morelli ~ Janet Evanovich,
613:What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. ~ Samuel Johnson,
614:When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~ Eric Hoffer,
615:When technology changes, tasks usually change, but goals remain constant,” so ~ Jon Kolko,
616:Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does. ~ Richard Dawkins,
617:A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory. ~ Orrin Woodward,
618:An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ~ Robert Bresson,
619:Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards. ~ Sydney J Harris,
620:great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large ~ Walter Isaacson,
621:I don’t spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay. ~ Sonam Kapoor,
622:I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner. ~ Tom Ford,
623:If you’re decent to people, you’ll usually find out they’re decent people, too. ~ Amy Lane,
624:I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. ~ Sloane Crosley,
625:I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ~ Bette Davis,
626:It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~ Mark Twain,
627:I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people. ~ Joshua Radin,
628:Maybe for now I should try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am. ~ Lydia Davis,
629:Modern national constitutions usually contain references to international law. ~ Anonymous,
630:One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
631:Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing. ~ Lee Taemin,
632:Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
633:Religion is usually the tool the self-righteous man uses to exalt himself. ~ Matt Chandler,
634:She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian. ~ Heather Vogel Frederick,
635:Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables. ~ Edward R Tufte,
636:The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts less like Christ. ~ Francis Chan,
637:The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack. ~ Jeff Cooper,
638:The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. ~ George Eliot,
639:Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ~ James Baldwin,
640:Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind ~ Mario Lopez,
641:Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. ~ Edith Stein,
642:Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ~ Julian Casablancas,
643:What is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
644:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ V E Schwab,
645:When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing. ~ Scott Simon,
646:A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. ~ Ezra Pound,
647:A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don't know how to use it. ~ Kerstin Gier,
648:Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. ~ Stefan Molyneux,
649:But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true. ~ Manu Joseph,
650:Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much. ~ Paul Krugman,
651:Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. ~ Michael McKean,
652:Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. ~ Henry A Kissinger,
653:Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
654:I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff. ~ Maisie Williams,
655:I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car. ~ Elton John,
656:influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. ~ Harriet Martineau,
657:It is usually impossible to know when you have prevented an accident. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
658:My self-pity always had a time limit because I usually got annoyed with myself. ~ Anonymous,
659:Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
660:People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~ Mary E Pearson ~ Mary E Pearson,
661:Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
662:The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. ~ Laurence J Peter,
663:The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising. ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton,
664:The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts. ~ Tom Rath,
665:Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person. ~ Emily Blunt,
666:Usually, the team that turns the ball over less will hold on to the ball more ~ John Madden,
667:We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
668:Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust. ~ Baruch Spinoza,
669:You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie. ~ Vincent Cassel,
670:A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
671:An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't. ~ Tory Burch,
672:A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. ~ Alec Guinness,
673:Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one! ~ T F Hodge,
674:Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating ~ Ben Horowitz,
675:Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness. ~ Jim Gaffigan,
676:Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
677:Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. ~ Mason Cooley,
678:Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution ~ Jeremy Aldana,
679:If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do. ~ Rene Auberjonois,
680:I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes. ~ Audrina Patridge,
681:I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. ~ Tom Waits,
682:In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it. ~ Agatha Christie,
683:It is usually impossible to be bored while you have a serious problem. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
684:Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
685:Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
686:The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan,
687:The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say. ~ Joseph Goldstein,
688:The lucky man . . . is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance. ~ C S Forester,
689:the people closest to problems were usually in the best position to solve them. ~ Brad Stone,
690:The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance. ~ Harry Houdini,
691:The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear. ~ Mark Hart,
692:The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things. ~ Marilyn Monroe,
693:Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best. ~ Roy Lichtenstein,
694:Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love. ~ Miranda Lambert,
695:Usually, people who are sensitive need more time to understand the real world. ~ Sudha Murty,
696:Usually, she’s tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up stories. ~ Victoria Schwab,
697:Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty ~ Julia Roberts,
698:Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power. ~ Tom Kenyon,
699:Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. ~ Meg Cabot,
700:Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff. ~ Candy Crowley,
701:Whatever else is true of a man, if he makes an offer, he's usually in a bind. ~ Laird Barron,
702:When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats. ~ E W Howe,
703:When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers. ~ James Coco,
704:Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
705:You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. ~ Wendell Berry,
706:A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands ~ Josephine Tey,
707:A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews. ~ Joseph Goebbels,
708:And life’s defining moments are usually played under the shadow of doubt. ~ Stephen J Cannell,
709:An uninstructed mass, feeling its way to revolution, usually begins by terrorism, ~ Anonymous,
710:A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations. ~ Graham Greene,
711:Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. ~ Stephen King,
712:But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones. ~ Jodi Picoult,
713:Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
714:Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss. ~ Mason Cooley,
715:For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. ~ Joan D Vinge,
716:I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane. ~ Shimon Peres,
717:I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. ~ Warren Cuccurullo,
718:I’m usually so excited by the life I’m living I forget to take pictures. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
719:I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. ~ Tracy Kidder,
720:It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt,
721:I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably. ~ Woody Allen,
722:Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease! ~ Katherine Allred,
723:Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect. ~ Albert Ellis,
724:My mother doesn’t usually lie, but she does have a habit of being vaguely evasive. ~ Susan Ee,
725:Now, sociopath suits me better, since they’re usually shaped by their environment ~ V F Mason,
726:Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. ~ Richard Rohr,
727:People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ~ Eric Hoffer,
728:Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it. ~ Chris Hardwick,
729:The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't. ~ George Will,
730:The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ~ Lewis Carroll,
731:Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y. ~ Cassandra Clare,
732:what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
733:A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. ~ Marya Mannes,
734:Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress. ~ Mason Cooley,
735:A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
736:Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be. ~ Grimes,
737:But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have ! ~ Daniel Goleman,
738:Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better. ~ Kate Morton,
739:Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long. ~ Markus Zusak,
740:Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others. ~ Myrtle Reed,
741:I don’t go looking for trouble,” said Harry, nettled. “Trouble usually finds me. ~ J K Rowling,
742:If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman. ~ Coco Chanel,
743:If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. ~ Albert Ellis,
744:I like to bet on myself whenever I can. But usually with other people’s money. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
745:I looked in the mirror, which was usually a mistake. This time was no exception. ~ Shay Savage,
746:Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky. ~ Paul Neilan,
747:Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. ~ John Masefield,
748:My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand,
749:My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. ~ Natalia Kills,
750:One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other. ~ Suzy Kassem,
751:Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to. ~ Mark Buchanan,
752:proof yet again that the quietest man in the room is usually the most dangerous. ~ Terry Hayes,
753:Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't. ~ Philip Roth,
754:Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem. ~ Richard Winters,
755:Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ~ Thomas Sowell,
756:The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. ~ Czeslaw Milosz,
757:Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person ~ Horace,
758:Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts. ~ Richard Paul Evans,
759:When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no. ~ Ward Cunningham,
760:... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? ~ Iris Murdoch,
761:...when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see. ~ Diane Setterfield,
762:When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works. ~ Stephen King,
763:Women usually justify their actions with whatever they make up in their heads. ~ Jamie McGuire,
764:You seemed lost and found at the same time. And that's how I usually feel too. ~ Jasmine Warga,
765:Are you sexually active?’ ‘No. I usually just lie back and think of the Spartans. ~ Jodi Taylor,
766:By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. ~ Andre Gide,
767:dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when ~ Amitav Ghosh,
768:Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. ~ Margaret Wise Brown,
769:Evil genius! I so admire that in a person. Usually I'm the evil bitch of the group ~ Maya Banks,
770:He was pretty sure he hadn't dozed off as a snake. Usually, he slept like a dog. ~ Rick Riordan,
771:I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style. ~ Richard Clayderman,
772:If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. ~ Francis Crick,
773:I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard. ~ Grimes,
774:I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'! ~ Jim Cummings,
775:In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed. ~ Richard Dreyfuss,
776:In truth, the writer’s problems are usually psychological, like everyone else’s. ~ Richard Hugo,
777:it was usually easier to walk alongside someone when you remembered the journey. ~ Debora Geary,
778:I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you. ~ John Fogerty,
779:I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone. ~ Meg Cabot,
780:I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out. ~ Howard Rheingold,
781:I’ve heard that when citizens are unruly, there’s usually a good reason for it. ~ Marissa Meyer,
782:Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't. ~ J A Jance,
783:No matter how painful the truth may be, it’s usually a relief to acknowledge it. ~ Stephen Cope,
784:Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
785:Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld,
786:Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams. ~ Christopher Golden,
787:someone who thinks he knows a man’s dirty secret will usually stop looking deeper. ~ Ada Palmer,
788:There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't. ~ Nick Cave,
789:The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. ~ C S Lewis,
790:Usually, I’m remarkably goodnatured. Try me on any day that doesn’t end in y. ~ Cassandra Clare,
791:Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to! ~ Sigourney Weaver,
792:Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
793:Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while-- ~ Anne Lamott,
794:When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide. ~ E W Howe,
795:When a society is advancing in some respects, usually it is declining in others. ~ Russell Kirk,
796:When companies can’t invent, it’s usually because their people are too damn busy. ~ Tom DeMarco,
797:Whenever I’m tempted to hug a dwarf, that’s usually a sign I need to move along. ~ Rick Riordan,
798:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ Victoria Schwab,
799:Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful. ~ Irving Stone,
800:Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it. ~ John C Maxwell,
801:Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. ~ Rudyard Kipling,
802:Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ~ Daniel Webster,
803:Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed. ~ Brian Wong,
804:If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me. ~ Jessica Lange,
805:Im a McDonalds girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal. ~ Nikki Cox,
806:In my experience, if you look people in the eye they usually mind their own business ~ Ben Elton,
807:I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. ~ Dean Ornish,
808:My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. ~ Stephen Mangan,
809:Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions. ~ Thomas Sowell,
810:prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
811:Satan's First Law of Malignity - to wit, if the worst can happen, it usually will ~ Stephen King,
812:Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are. ~ Allan Lokos,
813:The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear. ~ Charles de Lint,
814:This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens ~ Tina Fey,
815:Usually, I’m remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn’t end in y. ~ Cassandra Clare,
816:Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ~ Charlie Sheen,
817:Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy. ~ Mariana Klaveno,
818:When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life ~ Tracy Kidder,
819:When we can’t fit a square peg into a round hole, we’ll usually blame the peg—when ~ Nate Silver,
820:When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student. ~ Byron Katie,
821:When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart. ~ Brian Williams,
822:When you take away the question mark, it usually turns their headline into a lie. ~ Ryan Holiday,
823:A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. ~ Vladimir Voinovich,
824:Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human. ~ Ilona Andrews,
825:Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we need
to be walking in a
garden to know it. ~ Rumi,
826:Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above. ~ Philip Yancey,
827:..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell... ~ H kan Nesser,
828:Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. ~ Myrtle Reed,
829:For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them. ~ Barbara Pym,
830:Good, because opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one, and they usually stink. ~ L J Shen,
831:His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. ~ H G Wells,
832:I'm a car freak, I never usually have one for more than a year before I change it. ~ Suzanne Shaw,
833:I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused. ~ Julie Delpy,
834:I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore". ~ Eckhart Tolle,
835:Let’s (first single quote is backwards) just be friends’ usually works.” Roark ~ Janette Rallison,
836:Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited. ~ Eric Hoffer,
837:Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. ~ Marilyn Manson,
838:Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. ~ Harlan Coben,
839:Our mum likes to tell us that magic usually happens outside of our comfort zone. ~ Lisa Schroeder,
840:Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost. ~ Sarah Noffke,
841:remembering and forgiving can be contrary things. No doubt they usually are. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
842:The mention of the word dispensationalism usually evokes an immediate reaction. ~ Charles C Ryrie,
843:The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
844:True models usually produce better experimental predictions than false models ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky,
845:Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with. ~ Kaitlyn Dever,
846:Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less. ~ Julie Delpy,
847:Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks. ~ Megyn Kelly,
848:Usually the most we feared from humans was either running into crazy slayer types ~ Richelle Mead,
849:We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
850:We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice. ~ Assata Shakur,
851:when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging. ~ Sharon Kay Penman,
852:When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. ~ Shannon L Alder,
853:Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible. ~ Larry David,
854:When most people say trouble, they're usually talking about something exciting. ~ Katharine McGee,
855:Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
856:Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. ~ Greg Gutfeld,
857:Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win. ~ Ursula Vernon,
858:Good institutions cannot usually be imposed from above: that way they are oxymorons. ~ Matt Ridley,
859:I am usually insubordinate. I don’t take orders that I know are stupid or illegal. ~ Bill O Reilly,
860:I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things. ~ Rachel McAdams,
861:I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something. ~ Anna Kendrick,
862:I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look. ~ Magdalena Frackowiak,
863:If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. ~ Levon Helm,
864:I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. ~ Ernest Cline,
865:I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, ~ Anonymous,
866:I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. ~ Michael Caine,
867:I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me. ~ Luis von Ahn,
868:I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole. ~ Kit Williamson,
869:Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually. ~ Stephen Malkmus,
870:most BLADDER problems come from being “pissed off,” usually at a partner. Something ~ Louise L Hay,
871:My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ~ Suzanne Collins,
872:[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not. ~ Catherine the Great,
873:People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares. ~ Robert Buettner,
874:Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry. ~ Susan Meissner,
875:Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted. ~ Agatha Christie,
876:Relentless repetition was usually needed when dealing with alcohol and idiots. ~ Suzanne Brockmann,
877:The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor. ~ Jon Stewart,
878:The mere observation that there is usually more than 100% credit to go around is ~ Daniel Kahneman,
879:The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year. ~ Woody Allen,
880:Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest. ~ Lori Palatnik,
881:Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it? ~ Alice Eve,
882:Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate. ~ Napoleon III,
883:Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. ~ J L Austin,
884:We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage. ~ John Gallagher Jr,
885:When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. ~ Howard Hodgkin,
886:A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ~ Marty Allen,
887:Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
888:I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out. ~ Adam Ant,
889:If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. ~ Marion Cotillard,
890:If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign. ~ Dia Frampton,
891:I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. ~ Vicktor Alexander,
892:I’m considered a health nut amongst vampires. I usually feed only on vegetarians. ~ Johnny B Truant,
893:I’m okay at the meals, but when I try and bake I usually end up summoning a demon. ~ Shelli Stevens,
894:In every family there is usually one member who is a source of trouble and worry. ~ Agatha Christie,
895:I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets. ~ Stokely Carmichael,
896:I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things. ~ Jennifer Carpenter,
897:Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. ~ Albert Einstein,
898:Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy ~ Albert Einstein,
899:marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
900:Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race. ~ Ken Blanchard,
901:People, common people especially, usually seemed more comfortable with the familiar. ~ Lauren Royal,
902:Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. ~ Sean O Faolain,
903:She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets. ~ Isabel Allende,
904:That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd. ~ Jasper Fforde,
905:The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right? ~ Melody Carlson,
906:The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films. ~ Robert Redford,
907:The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
908:This manipulation usually takes the form of something like, “We just want what’s fair. ~ Chris Voss,
909:Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who don't. ~ Anonymous,
910:Those who claim they can spot a lie are usually just fooled with greater conviction. ~ Harlan Coben,
911:Watch out for people that read. They usually know how to think for themselves too. ~ Jane Firebaugh,
912:We usually had four big targets a year: market share, expenses, EBITDA and cash. ~ Cristiane Correa,
913:When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion. ~ John C Maxwell,
914:When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them. ~ Amy Ray,
915:When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group ~ J Gordon Melton,
916:With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique. ~ Tom Waits,
917:An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
918:And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football. ~ Dierks Bentley,
919:As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters. ~ Kirsten Prout,
920:Folks that prosperous don’t usually pick up and move. Mostly, movers are poor folks. ~ Louis L Amour,
921:Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man. ~ Lionel Shriver,
922:Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. ~ John Ruskin,
923:Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak. ~ Jim Goad,
924:…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is. ~ Jane Austen,
925:I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside. ~ W C Fields,
926:I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful. ~ Ian Astbury,
927:If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around. ~ Anne Archer,
928:I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with. ~ Natalie Portman,
929:I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties. ~ Chuck Mosley,
930:I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already. ~ Kelly Moran,
931:Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. ~ Charles Bukowski,
932:Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane. ~ Lisa Randall,
933:Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. ~ Dav Pilkey,
934:Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ~ Ann Landers,
935:Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. ~ Mark Twain,
936:People treat writing like it’s some elegant act but it’s usually lonely and isolating. ~ Amy Poehler,
937:Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. ~ Ken Livingstone,
938:... real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures. ~ Laura Wiess,
939:Self-involvement is usually at the root of self-defeating behavior in relationships. ~ Mark Goulston,
940:Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it. ~ Don Bluth,
941:The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ~ John Stuart Mill,
942:The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. ~ Amy Poehler,
943:Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work. ~ Tim Kaine,
944:Usually when I’m handcuffed it’s consensual.” “Only usually?” “I get arrested a lot. ~ Tiffany Reisz,
945:What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion. ~ Lloyd Alexander,
946:When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird. ~ John Sandford,
947:When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong. ~ Carl Icahn,
948:When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it. ~ Thom Yorke,
949:You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill. ~ James M Cain,
950:Because science and religion make odd bedfellows whose offspring is usually malformed, ~ Robert Lanza,
951:Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. Stephen ~ Stephen King,
952:Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots. ~ Paloma Faith,
953:Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
954:How do you know a gangster?” “Usually, the room goes a little quiet when he walks in. ~ Jennifer Egan,
955:I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make. ~ James Patterson,
956:I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there. ~ Grimes,
957:I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too! ~ Ashley Madekwe,
958:I never start trouble,” I assured him. It just usually seemed to pop up in my vicinity. ~ Chloe Neill,
959:It’s impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, ~ Markus Zusak,
960:I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. ~ Babyface,
961:I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. ~ Mira Grant,
962:Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big- ~ Obert Skye,
963:Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition. ~ Edmund Hillary,
964:People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ~ Beverly Cleary,
965:People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142 ~ Eric Hoffer,
966:People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. ~ Sydney J Harris,
967:So you stick something up your ass, and you hope it might work, and it usually helps. ~ Doug Stanhope,
968:Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air . ~ Max Lucado,
969:The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? ~ Ilsa J Bick,
970:The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral. ~ Jane Fonda,
971:The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. ~ Larry Niven,
972:Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight ~ Sister Souljah,
973:those who attack problems and life with the most initiative and energy usually win. He ~ Ryan Holiday,
974:Those who have the least are usually the ones who know the most about politics. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
975:Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat. ~ Eamon Dunphy,
976:Want to piss off a woman? Just open your mouth. That usually works. -Words of wisdom ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
977:We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time. ~ Michael Walzer,
978:When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously. ~ Jonathan Jackson,
979:When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. ~ N K Jemisin,
980:When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. ~ Bellamy Young,
981:Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. ~ Simon Kuper,
982:You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. ~ Ally Condie,
983:A certain amount of desperation is usually necessary before we’re ready for God. ~ Marianne Williamson,
984:A child abuse investigator can enter anyone’s home at any time without a warrant. Usually, ~ Cris Beam,
985:A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe. ~ Rita Rudner,
986:Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep. ~ Albert Ellis,
987:But reason, under pressure, usually produces prudence when boldness is called for. ~ John Joseph Adams,
988:Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar,
989:Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. ~ Mark Cuban,
990:God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones. ~ Roger de Rabutin Comte de Bussy,
991:had long before realized that people who wanted to avoid the truth usually succeeded. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
992:I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail! ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan,
993:I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses. ~ Bo Derek,
994:I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time. ~ Jim Hodges,
995:In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas ~ Michael Gates Gill,
996:Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which. ~ James Cook,
997:I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go. ~ Rick Ross,
998:I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
999:I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends. ~ Kim Harrison,
1000:Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men ~ George S Patton,
1001:Most books usually are. It’s hard to categorize books. Each story is a world unto itself. ~ Kelli Jean,
1002:Much as I usually dislike nice, positive people, I have to admit that Margaret isn’t bad. ~ Susan Juby,
1003:Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day. ~ David Simon,
1004:Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information. ~ Idries Shah,
1005:People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. ~ John Miller,
1006:Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. ~ Madeleine Peyroux,
1007:See, that's why I hate it when somebody dies. People do stuff they wouldn't usually do. ~ Angie Thomas,
1008:See, that’s why I hate it when somebody dies. People do stuff they wouldn’t usually do. ~ Angie Thomas,
1009:Society may not need you, strictly speaking, but some sort of use can usually be found. ~ Ben Fountain,
1010:The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves. ~ Ruby Wax,
1011:The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy. ~ Marilyn Monroe,
1012:Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever. ~ David Sedaris,
1013:Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite. ~ Norm MacDonald,
1014:Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
1015:You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. ~ Clive Barker,
1016:you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. ~ Clive Barker,
1017:You never become humble except through fully accepting humiliations—usually many times. ~ Richard Rohr,
1018:As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me. ~ Ronda Rousey,
1019:body-fitting dress with tiny straps at the top. Her blond hair is usually straight but ~ Allie Everhart,
1020:Bottom line—the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options. ~ Barry Schwartz,
1021:By the time I knew it was a mistake, it was too late to come back. That's usually how it is. ~ Joe Hill,
1022:Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach,
1023:God usually ignored us when asked for something, but he invariably granted what we feared. ~ Magda Szab,
1024:I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served. ~ John Grisham,
1025:If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it. ~ Eva Ibbotson,
1026:In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce. ~ Dan Dailey,
1027:In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. ~ Chuck Grassley,
1028:I usually tell somebody if a song’s for them. I don’t always tell them if it’s about them. ~ Guy Garvey,
1029:Kade usually found humor in the absurdities in life, because life itself was absurd. ~ Elizabeth C Mock,
1030:Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains. ~ S N Goenka,
1031:Men are usually too focused on the cleavage in the shirt to see the crazy in the eyes. ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
1032:My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton. ~ Bill Bruford,
1033:My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ~ Harrison Birtwistle,
1034:Sage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear. ~ Richelle Mead,
1035:Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,
1036:Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results. ~ Edith Wharton,
1037:These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable. ~ Lawrence Durrell,
1038:The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ~ Flannery O Connor,
1039:Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. ~ Edward Abbey,
1040:Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. ~ Saint Basil,
1041:Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. ~ Mickey Kaus,
1042:Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man. ~ Frank Deford,
1043:We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach,
1044:And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts'... I usually have trouble with that phrase. ~ John Wayne,
1045:Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds. ~ Robert Kiyosaki,
1046:Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good. ~ Richard Stallman,
1047:I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears. ~ Camila Alves,
1048:If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
1049:I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films. ~ Martin Scorsese,
1050:In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration. ~ Donald Trump,
1051:It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. ~ Paul Claudel,
1052:It is usually those whose love is fake that have a compulsion to prove their love. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1053:I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate. ~ Mark Salling,
1054:Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world ~ Charles Spurgeon,
1055:No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather. ~ Rosemary Clooney,
1056:Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets. ~ Anne Lamott,
1057:Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. ~ Saint Augustine,
1058:Some nights we watch movies and TV, usually old ones. Sometimes The X-Files. And Star Trek. ~ A G Riddle,
1059:Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ George Orwell,
1060:Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear. ~ Theodora Goss,
1061:The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. ~ Etgar Keret,
1062:The guys who like me usually have a few body piercings and a taste for cheap cigarettes. ~ Jenny B Jones,
1063:The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term. ~ Edward Brooke,
1064:The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. ~ George Carlin,
1065:Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down. ~ Luis Gonzalez,
1066:Usually when Obama says, 'Let me be clear,' he's about to get into some very unclear sh*t. ~ Jon Stewart,
1067:We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception. ~ Chelsea Handler,
1068:When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you! ~ Charles Baudelaire,
1069:When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered. ~ George Washington,
1070:When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard. ~ Jim Rohn,
1071:An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1072:A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason. ~ Thomas Carlyle,
1073:Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. ~ Terri Clark,
1074:Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. ~ Roger Ebert,
1075:Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public. ~ Wesley Clark,
1076:Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner. ~ Bono,
1077:Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals. ~ Billie Jean King,
1078:For a wonderful guy who is usually so damn perceptive, you can be pretty obtuse sometimes. ~ Harlan Coben,
1079:French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction. ~ Michel Hazanavicius,
1080:God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours. ~ Chris Fabry,
1081:Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person. ~ Kreayshawn,
1082:Here's a lesson for you, Clare. Frivolity is usually far more profitable than necessity. ~ Mary Jo Putney,
1083:I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar. ~ David Bowie,
1084:I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. ~ Andrew Eldritch,
1085:I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. ~ Seanan McGuire,
1086:I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest. ~ Evelyn Waugh,
1087:My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next. ~ Jeff Mangum,
1088:Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. ~ Steve Hackett,
1089:People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke. ~ Malcolm Forbes,
1090:Politicians who talk about purity usually end up deciding who is pure and who is not. ~ Elizabeth Kostova,
1091:Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous. ~ Anonymous,
1092:The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. ~ Marcel Proust,
1093:There’s always a den mother in LSD groups, and in my experience it’s usually a Goth girl. ~ Daniel Nester,
1094:The sparks he made with just flint were not usually long-lived enough to make fire, anyway. ~ Jean M Auel,
1095:Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,
1096:Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do. ~ Leona Lewis,
1097:Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever. ~ Rachel Zucker,
1098:Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. ~ Viggo Mortensen,
1099:Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. ~ Francis Ford Coppola,
1100:Usually when I feel like there’s no time, it really means I haven’t made time for myself. ~ Gay Hendricks,
1101:Usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky,
1102:We usually talk about doubt and unbelief together as if they are one and the same. Actually ~ Joyce Meyer,
1103:What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. ~ Miguel de Unamuno,
1104:When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." ~ Emilio Ambasz,
1105:Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. ~ Raymond Pettibon,
1106:When I sit and think, really sit and think, I usually need to take a break afterwards.” -Rogue ~ Lynn Red,
1107:When someone doesn’t have a recognizable accent, they’re usually from where you’re from. ~ O Neil de Noux,
1108:Your first thought in the morning is usually the last thought you had before you went to bed. ~ Hal Elrod,
1109:And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out! ~ Joseph Delaney,
1110:Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are. ~ Arjuna Ardagh,
1111:Doesn’t big news always leak before it’s meant to? Aren’t secrets usually spilled? ~ Karen Thompson Walker,
1112:Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. ~ Werner Herzog,
1113:Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview? ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1114:First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. ~ Markus Zusak,
1115:for all the heat they take in the papers, the boys in blue usually had the right intentions. ~ L H Thomson,
1116:I feel more like myself than I usually do because as I swim, I don’t need to fully exist. ~ David Levithan,
1117:I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs. ~ Jenny McCarthy,
1118:I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it. ~ Mario Testino,
1119:love is an attitude toward reality – usually of someone finite toward something infinite. ~ Joseph Brodsky,
1120:Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. ~ Lord Dunsany,
1121:No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. ~ Jimmy Page,
1122:People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all. ~ Cecelia Ahern,
1123:The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ~ Laurence J Peter,
1124:The passage of time usually extract the venom from most things and render them harmless. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1125:Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind. ~ Danny Strong,
1126:What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually just the pretexts for it. ~ Miguel de Unamuno,
1127:When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise. ~ Charlotte Eriksson,
1128:A man usually has two reasons for doing a thing: the one that sounds good and the real one. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1129:A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1130:Attempts to forecast the future usually derive from more than just intellectual curiosity. ~ Philip Jenkins,
1131:But have you learned yet that tomorrow's answers usually don't come until tomorrow gets here? ~ Joyce Meyer,
1132:Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does. ~ Tahir Shah,
1133:Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual. ~ Bill Murray,
1134:Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology. ~ Evgeny Morozov,
1135:Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. ~ Oscar Wilde,
1136:Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision. ~ Orrin Woodward,
1137:Get your news from six or nine sources and you can usually tell the bullshit from the reality. ~ Mira Grant,
1138:If someone asks me where I bought something I’m wearing, I will usually say I don’t remember. ~ Megan Boyle,
1139:If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse. ~ Orrin Woodward,
1140:If you read for understanding, reading for information will usually take care of itself. ~ Mortimer J Adler,
1141:In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. ~ Adam Gopnik,
1142:It became the strong against the weak, and, as it turns out, the strong were usually jerks. ~ Marissa Meyer,
1143:I usually do drive-by insults, and keep moving until I realize the next day how horrible I am. ~ Andy Cohen,
1144:I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. ~ Steve Buscemi,
1145:Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually. ~ Brian Eno,
1146:Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. ~ Rob Zombie,
1147:People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen. ~ Tony Robbins,
1148:Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. ~ Steve Earle,
1149:The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ~ Freeman Dyson,
1150:The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. ~ Thomas Sowell,
1151:The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem. ~ Erich Leinsdorf,
1152:The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. ~ Freeman Dyson,
1153:Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. ~ Walter Savage Landor,
1154:Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors. ~ Joe Hill,
1155:Well, it seems like a mad idea to me, but those usually work out for you," said Catarina. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1156:When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. ~ John Henry Holland,
1157:when a wife goes missing, the husband is usually the prime suspect, and probably vice versa. ~ Shari Lapena,
1158:When you think you’ve finally figured things out? That’s usually when your plans go to hell. ~ Claudia Gray,
1159:You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well. ~ E W Howe,
1160:Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not. ~ William Zinsser,
1161:Cops don’t usually shoot people holding books, but you never know what might “look like a gun. ~ D L Hughley,
1162:Disciples were usually in their teens, and many of Jesus’ disciples may have been in this range. ~ Anonymous,
1163:Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days. ~ George Eliot,
1164:Everyone can look into another's heart. People just don't usually take the time to do it. ~ Jennifer Laurens,
1165:Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil. ~ William Godwin,
1166:I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention. ~ Kevin Shields,
1167:If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out. ~ Paul Bowles,
1168:If you don’t know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out. ~ Paul Bowles,
1169:I hate it when he [Pigpen] goes dead serious. It usually means bad shit is going to go down. ~ Katie McGarry,
1170:I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil. ~ Danny Huston,
1171:I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something? ~ Tom Cruise,
1172:In 1961 you usually didn’t hear the word shit from teachers, even if they had a mouthful. But ~ Stephen King,
1173:I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's. ~ Ray Charles,
1174:It’s usually when we’re caught up in all the little things that we start to make mistakes. ~ Andy Puddicombe,
1175:I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me. ~ Harlan Ellison,
1176:Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~ Orison Swett Marden,
1177:M did not like communities, which were usually filled with people, whom M liked even less. ~ Daniel Polansky,
1178:Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ~ George Orwell,
1179:perception and reality are vastly disparate. The truth is usually found somewhere in between. ~ Elle Kennedy,
1180:She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. ~ Henry James,
1181:The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so ~ Aleister Crowley,
1182:The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless ~ Haruki Murakami,
1183:Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness. ~ Miranda July,
1184:Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot. ~ Bram Cohen,
1185:Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ~ Baruch Spinoza,
1186:Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is. ~ Mamoru Hosoda,
1187:We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. ~ Leslie Jamison,
1188:When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more. ~ Kid Cudi,
1189:You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it. ~ Morgan Matson,
1190:An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries. ~ James Dean,
1191:A person who's willing to meet you halfway is usually, conveniently, a poor judge of distance. ~ Jill Shalvis,
1192:Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it? ~ Dennis Prager,
1193:For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa. ~ Martin Luther,
1194:For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view. ~ Jill Shalvis,
1195:Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. ~ John Steinbeck,
1196:Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. ~ Tennessee Williams,
1197:Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~ Napoleon Hill,
1198:Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic. ~ Douglas William Jerrold,
1199:I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see. ~ Elizabeth Olsen,
1200:if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. ~ C S Lewis,
1201:If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best. ~ Nick Rhodes,
1202:I'm surprised when people who don't usually smoke weed are into edibles. I can't believe that. ~ Ilana Glazer,
1203:I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
1204:I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression. ~ Rory Bremner,
1205:Leia fixed her with the steely expression that was usually effective on everyone but Han Solo, ~ Martha Wells,
1206:Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong. ~ David Ignatius,
1207:Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression. ~ Chris Gethard,
1208:Most times it took a lot to kill a man... People usually died hard. That was the horror of it. ~ Stephen King,
1209:People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau,
1210:The dead bodies I saw all stayed that way. (...) Death is usually ugly, but always complete. ~ Heather Graham,
1211:Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. ~ John Cusack,
1212:Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it. ~ John Flanagan,
1213:What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. ~ Louise Erdrich,
1214:When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. ~ Emile Zola,
1215:When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. ~ mile Zola,
1216:You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
1217:After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it. ~ Danny Kaye,
1218:At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here. ~ Anne Frank,
1219:Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. ~ Blaise Pascal,
1220:except the young and the idiots. Usually those two went together like politicians and lying. ~ Michael Anderle,
1221:Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it. ~ Thomas Moore,
1222:Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings. ~ John P Kotter,
1223:I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me. ~ Caitl n R Kiernan,
1224:I felt like a skittish rabbit. This was noteworthy, as I usually felt like an optimistic octopus. ~ Penny Reid,
1225:If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. ~ Fran Drescher,
1226:I hate boring. I always do my best to find the imperfections. That's where the fun usually is. ~ Pittacus Lore,
1227:I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ~ Shirley Manson,
1228:I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation. ~ John Kapelos,
1229:I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. ~ Francis Bacon,
1230:I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future. ~ Gerald Seymour,
1231:My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two. ~ Dominic Monaghan,
1232:Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use. ~ Gary Chapman,
1233:People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. ~ Seth Rogen,
1234:Scummer,” Mick muttered. Mick never said much, and when he did it was usually “scummer. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,
1235:Solutions aren’t usually mutually beneficial when one party has all the power,” said Julian. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1236:Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere. ~ Mark T Sullivan,
1237:The blind spots in our thinking are usually of our own making and they can grow worse as we age. ~ Nate Silver,
1238:The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong. ~ Bill Murray,
1239:The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ~ Carlos Ghosn,
1240:The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ~ Christopher Dawson,
1241:The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. ~ Russell Baker,
1242:...the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn’t mean it wasn’t also complicated. ~ Laura Anne Gilman,
1243:The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. ~ Paul Bocuse,
1244:The thing about adventure was, it usually required at least a modicum of danger. They ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen,
1245:The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis. ~ Napoleon Hill,
1246:The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to. ~ Will Smith,
1247:Trauma-triggered anger usually manifests itself in one of three ways: fight, flight, or freeze. ~ Tricia Goyer,
1248:Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow. ~ Jeremy Clarkson,
1249:Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up. ~ Khaled Hosseini,
1250:Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. ~ Pema Ch dr n,
1251:Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. ~ Pema Chodron,
1252:Usually Zach had come in from the fields by now, as he seemed to tell time with his stomach. ~ Karen Witemeyer,
1253:War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. ~ Karl Marlantes,
1254:We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1255:What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same. ~ Harriet Lerner,
1256:When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman] ~ Lou Holtz,
1257:When a person's looking for something and can't find it, they usually can't sleep very well. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1258:When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. ~ Shannon L Alder,
1259:When we say that “the world has ended,” remember – it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine. ~ N K Jemisin,
1260:When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. ~ Andrew Sullivan,
1261:Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes. ~ Joe Budden,
1262:Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
1263:Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence. ~ Jason Giambi,
1264:You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films. ~ Max Landis,
1265:Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. ~ Alice Thomas Ellis,
1266:A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer. ~ Ronald Colman,
1267:—and start a little before the beginning, because we are usually wrong about where things begin. ~ T Kingfisher,
1268:(Distaste for a tool or strategy usually only lasts until one sees how useful it is for themselves: ~ Anonymous,
1269:I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships. ~ Bob Dylan,
1270:I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized. ~ Charlie Kaufman,
1271:I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you. ~ Taylor Dane,
1272:In fact, in her experience, the more honest a person seemed, the more dishonest they usually were. ~ Cindy Dees,
1273:It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing. ~ Majandra Delfino,
1274:I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner. ~ Marilyn Manson,
1275:Liberalizing tendencies today are not usually associated with those seeking a return to Scripture. ~ D A Carson,
1276:Man seldom behaves as per his philosophies. He usually philosophizes as per his behavior. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1277:No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ Jane Austen,
1278:People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
1279:reaction. A uniform did not signify safety. Usually, in his experience, it was quite the opposite. ~ Greg Keyes,
1280:she was usually keenly susceptible to weather conditions and reveled in sunshine like a kitten. ~ P G Wodehouse,
1281:That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. ~ Alice Cooper,
1282:The fact that one people's frontier is usually another's homeland has been mostly overlooked. ~ Kathleen Norris,
1283:The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives. ~ Byron Katie,
1284:Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major ~ Gore Vidal,
1285:Usually a senile old fool knows when to retire. But sometimes he simply needs to be retired. ~ Alan Dean Foster,
1286:Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination ~ Thomas Moore,
1287:Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. ~ Tahir Shah,
1288:We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us. ~ Max Tegmark,
1289:We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1290:When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them. ~ Michael Winterbottom,
1291:You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. ~ Alex Katz,
1292:Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are. ~ Richard E Grant,
1293:But it’s a fact of life that dreadful people usually end up getting far better than they deserve. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1294:Chapter 19 Want to piss off a woman? Just open your mouth. That usually works. -Words of wisdom ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
1295:Do you trust me?
The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. ~ S J Watson,
1296:First pressings of original commercial releases usually have higher values than later pressings. 45s ~ Anonymous,
1297:For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in
full view. ~ Jill Shalvis,
1298:Have you ever noticed that it's usually those who claim they don't care about money who are broke? ~ Peter Voogd,
1299:History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. ~ Stephen King,
1300:If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball. ~ George Carlin,
1301:If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to. ~ Chuck Mosley,
1302:I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine. ~ Tinashe,
1303:It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. ~ Robin Leach,
1304:I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors. ~ Kurt Russell,
1305:I usually recommend doing it for a very minimum of ten days before you completely rule it out. ~ Andy Puddicombe,
1306:money, after all, is just one measure of a thriving company and usually not the most meaningful one. ~ Anonymous,
1307:My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations. ~ Sara Baume,
1308:People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. ~ Iris Murdoch,
1309:Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
1310:Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. ~ Yuval Noah Harari,
1311:Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one. ~ Trent Zelazny,
1312:The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' ~ Leon Trotsky,
1313:The heroes of the faith usually have feet of clay—sometimes thighs, hearts, and heads as well. The ~ Mark A Noll,
1314:The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. ~ Catherine Keener,
1315:The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~ Randall Jarrell,
1316:The start of any new journey is usually met with sadness for the things and people we will miss. ~ Katie Salidas,
1317:The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. ~ Chuck Klosterman,
1318:Usually I avoided looking at my reflection. I wasn’t somebody I wanted to see on a regular basis. ~ Rick Riordan,
1319:We usually end up finding what we are looking for, but we only look for what we already know. ~ Alejandro Junger,
1320:When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1321:Where are you going?” Kaylin stopped. “I’m following you.” “Which is usually done from behind. ~ Michelle Sagara,
1322:An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
1323:And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. ~ Cleo Moore,
1324:But fear was usually devoid of common sense. And it was more powerful than she liked to admit. She’d ~ Nancy Mehl,
1325:Carry on, please. Women don’t usually take a skillet to his head and I’m anxious to witness it, ~ Beverly Jenkins,
1326:Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
1327:I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers. ~ Sheridan Smith,
1328:If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1329:I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. ~ Roman Abramovich,
1330:I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because ‘sterner stuff’ is usually forged by hardship. ~ Julie Anne Long,
1331:It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. ~ William Barrett,
1332:It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting usually. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1333:I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there ~ Lucinda Williams,
1334:Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis. ~ Jean Monnet,
1335:Ms. Marin usually worked über-long hours at McManus & Tate, her Philadelphia advertising firm. ~ Sara Shepard,
1336:My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best. ~ Topher Grace,
1337:Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. ~ Ally Carter,
1338:Our greed can usually be traced back to dissatisfaction about what we have in comparison to others. ~ Scott Sauls,
1339:"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass. ~ Joyce Carol Oates,
1340:Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous". ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
1341:Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community... ~ Jane Smiley,
1342:Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,
1343:That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. ~ Aubrey Menen,
1344:The life we plan isn't always the life we get, but it's usually the life we were meant to lead. ~ Barbara Freethy,
1345:The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions. ~ Christopher Henry Dawson,
1346:The moral is usually that an obsessive persecution complex leads to multiple people being skewered. ~ Lucy Parker,
1347:Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think. ~ Emily Giffin,
1348:The things that are worthwhile are usually accomplished by someone with enthusiasm and drive... ~ Agatha Christie,
1349:The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. ~ Ethan Zuckerman,
1350:This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, ~ Diane Setterfield,
1351:Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit. ~ Louis L Amour,
1352:Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become. ~ Don Hertzfeldt,
1353:Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me > omg > boner. ~ Leah Raeder,
1354:Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
1355:War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres. ~ Brandon Sanderson,
1356:When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn’t. We just can’t see the whole picture. ~ Andrew Matthews,
1357:When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. ~ Orson Welles,
1358:who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant ~ Louis L Amour,
1359:You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have - Ky Markham ~ Ally Condie,
1360:An untamed mind is usually engaged in the pursuit of unhappiness (or even more unhappiness). ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1361:As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. ~ Peter Drucker,
1362:Beware the man who tells you he knows what’s best for you; he usually starts by stealing your rights. ~ Mark Mills,
1363:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~ Anonymous,
1364:Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues! ~ Carlo Collodi,
1365:Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting. ~ Robin D Laws,
1366:God,” she moaned. “I usually suggest Sir or Master, but I suppose God is adequately respectful. ~ Cherise Sinclair,
1367:I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders. ~ Dwayne Johnson,
1368:If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them. ~ Meg Moseley,
1369:I have a heart."
“Yeah, but it usually gets overruled by your dick.” He takes a sip of his beer ~ Tammy Falkner,
1370:I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up ~ Elbert Hubbard,
1371:I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life. ~ Pat Burns,
1372:I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span. ~ Joe Swanberg,
1373:in absence of mind—perhaps in a more literal absence of mind than is usually understood by the phrase— ~ Anonymous,
1374:In general, there are usually two reasons to swear--to get someone's attention and because it's fun. ~ Aaron Burch,
1375:It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. ~ Steve Maraboli,
1376:It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting, usually. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1377:I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in. ~ Michael Chiklis,
1378:I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic. ~ Margaret Cho,
1379:Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average. ~ Adam Carolla,
1380:No doubt his wife and children were beautiful too, for people usually get what they already possess. ~ E M Forster,
1381:...no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. ~ Jane Austen,
1382:Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. ~ Miguel de Unamuno,
1383:some people assume all is well, that the PK has it all together. They’re usually wrong; remember, ~ Barnabas Piper,
1384:The sacrifice is usually chained to the rock. She does not usually dance out to meet her monster. ~ Alexander Chee,
1385:The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. ~ Susan Sontag,
1386:[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16) ~ Stephen Levine,
1387:tonight’s festivities, they’d taken over Faraday’s Tennis Club, a place where you didn’t usually get ~ A J Carella,
1388:Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1389:What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button. ~ Mark Mobius,
1390:When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1391:When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes. ~ Paul Kengor,
1392:You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham) ~ Ally Condie,
1393:A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences. ~ Keith Olbermann,
1394:A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1395:And of course, in rounders, the balls don’t usually come at you with homicidal intent. That’s hockey. ~ Jodi Taylor,
1396:As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her. ~ Lorraine Toussaint,
1397:As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. ~ Albert Camus,
1398:Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless. ~ Veronica Roth,
1399:Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. ~ Richard P Denney,
1400:Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.” Tending ~ Eric Blehm,
1401:Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. ~ Max McKeown,
1402:Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. ~ C S Lewis,
1403:Folks who said you were a coward if you ran away from a fight usually didn’t live long themselves. ~ Jennifer Estep,
1404:For any single thing you can do, there is one person who is best in the world. Usually it is Mike Caro. ~ Mike Caro,
1405:God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them. ~ Shannon L Alder,
1406:History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. ~ Idries Shah,
1407:I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face. ~ Jessica Chastain,
1408:In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. ~ Charles Ives,
1409:It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are. ~ Matt Lauer,
1410:I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like a complete prick. ~ Krista Ritchie,
1411:I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out. ~ Camila Cabello,
1412:I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. ~ Maya Angelou,
1413:Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts ~ Fabolous,
1414:My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer. ~ Gary Allan,
1415:People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. ~ Max Eastman,
1416:She was, in truth, the least ornamented thing in the room, as the truly important things usually are. ~ Scott Meyer,
1417:Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better. ~ Nic Pizzolatto,
1418:Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates. ~ Guy Kawasaki,
1419:The ablity to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. ~ Susan Mallery,
1420:The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere. ~ Ross Perot,
1421:Those who take orders usually run at half speed, underutilizing their imagination and initiative. ~ L David Marquet,
1422:Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all. ~ Bradford Cox,
1423:Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. ~ Jonathan Swift,
1424:We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses. ~ Richard Rohr,
1425:We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
1426:What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works. ~ Nikki Sixx,
1427:What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived ~ Carl Jung,
1428:When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands. ~ Henry Edward Armstrong,
1429:When we show up fully, with awareness and acceptance, even the worst demons usually back down. Simply ~ Susan David,
1430:Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio. ~ Judy Greer,
1431:Yeah, and that alternate universes usually have the worst endings with the unhappiest conclusions. ~ Krista Ritchie,
1432:Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. ~ Alan Perlis,
1433:American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. ~ Shirley Henderson,
1434:As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. ~ Kenneth Koch,
1435:Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work. ~ Brady Corbet,
1436:Depressed people did not usually engage in criminal conspiracies, Gen had long ago concluded. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson,
1437:even if you fail in doing something ambitious, you usually succeed in doing something important. ~ Peter H Diamandis,
1438:First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try. ~ Markus Zusak,
1439:Hearts don’t often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved. ~ Michelle Leighton,
1440:I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. ~ Daniel Clowes,
1441:I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.' ~ Ryan Sheckler,
1442:I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father. ~ John Green,
1443:I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it. ~ David Giuntoli,
1444:I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours. ~ Phil Collins,
1445:Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ~ Christopher Lasch,
1446:In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. ~ Luke Ford,
1447:I said alone!”
He nodded in agreement. “Aye, you usually say that, and I still stay. It’s our way. ~ Kresley Cole,
1448:Is it so unusual for a man to bring home a concubine?" "Not at all unusual. Men are usually fools. ~ Agatha Christie,
1449:It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy. ~ Rick Warren,
1450:I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice. ~ Reggie Watts,
1451:I usually wear moulded boots for training, but I mainly wear studs in matches unless it s really dry. ~ Peter Crouch,
1452:Lucy Stone wasn’t usually a clock watcher. Time didn’t pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her. ~ Leslie Meier,
1453:Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
1454:Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld,
1455:Men are usually too focused on the cleavage in the shirt to see the crazy in the eyes. -Life Lesson ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
1456:Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment. ~ Julie Anne Long,
1457:Occam’s razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone’s ass was usually the correct one. ~ John Scalzi,
1458:Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
1459:So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is. ~ Reid Hoffman,
1460:The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. ~ Susan Mallery,
1461:The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
1462:There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find. ~ Tim Heidecker,
1463:They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~ Thomas A Edison,
1464:Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it. ~ Uta Hagen,
1465:Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources. ~ Kofi Annan,
1466:We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
1467:What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens. ~ Kathleen Hanna,
1468:What usually matters in your life is not the magical moment, but the quality of your daily practice. ~ Eric Greitens,
1469:When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. ~ Emily Oster,
1470:When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all. ~ Jane Harman,
1471:A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,
1472:A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end. ~ Jack Dempsey,
1473:A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order. ~ Barry Goldwater,
1474:Amory usually liked men individually, yet feared them in crowds unless the crowd was around him. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
1475:God," she moaned.
"I usually suggest Sir or Master, but I suppose God is adequately respectful. ~ Cherise Sinclair,
1476:He’d gone too far. He didn’t usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway. ~ Amy Andrews,
1477:If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way. ~ August Bebel,
1478:I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson. ~ Christina Hendricks,
1479:I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor. ~ Bill Walsh,
1480:I’m getting a headache. Usually when I get a headache, it’s time to stop talking and attack something. ~ Rick Riordan,
1481:In Russia, people who do not fit into familiar categories are usually dangerous and best left alone. ~ Jason Matthews,
1482:Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. ~ Hilary Mantel,
1483:I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game. ~ Todd Helton,
1484:It is surprising,” Roosevelt explained, “how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,
1485:it’s usually better to highlight a core benefit of your business instead of a descriptive feature. ~ Chris Guillebeau,
1486:I usually like to keep to myself, but others can tell if I'm upset because I'm keeping to myself. ~ Allen Evangelista,
1487:Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end. ~ Joe Hill,
1488:Life has its moments of great clarity. They usually come retrospectively and rarely at a convenient time. ~ Anonymous,
1489:Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. ~ Marilyn Monroe,
1490:Most of our teachers, knowing we had an extra day off, usually piled on the homework to make up for it. ~ V C Andrews,
1491:No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually "fatality. ~ Mira Grant,
1492:Once I’ve spelled out the problem in words, the greater clarity usually helps me to spot a solution. ~ Gretchen Rubin,
1493:People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. ~ George Santayana,
1494:People - just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually. ~ Dave Barry,
1495:People who pressure you usually deserve a “no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes". ~ Alan Cohen,
1496:She sounded fond. Usually she was carefully polite or businesslike. She had never been fond before. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1497:Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one. ~ Alexandra Robbins,
1498:Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. ~ Thomas Sowell,
1499:Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time. ~ A Lee Martinez,
1500:The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds. ~ Pat Conroy,

IN CHAPTERS [150/1111]



  655 Integral Yoga
  103 Occultism
   40 Psychology
   27 Philosophy
   27 Christianity
   24 Fiction
   15 Yoga
   8 Poetry
   8 Hinduism
   5 Education
   4 Integral Theory
   3 Cybernetics
   3 Buddhism
   1 Theosophy
   1 Thelema
   1 Mythology
   1 Alchemy


  381 Sri Aurobindo
  303 The Mother
  121 Satprem
  113 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   44 Carl Jung
   41 Aleister Crowley
   24 H P Lovecraft
   22 James George Frazer
   16 Plotinus
   11 Franz Bardon
   11 A B Purani
   10 Swami Krishnananda
   7 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   6 Saint John of Climacus
   5 Vyasa
   5 Plato
   5 Nirodbaran
   4 Swami Vivekananda
   4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   4 Rudolf Steiner
   4 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   4 Peter J Carroll
   4 Jorge Luis Borges
   4 Jordan Peterson
   4 George Van Vrekhem
   3 Norbert Wiener
   3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   3 Henry David Thoreau
   3 Friedrich Nietzsche
   3 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Sri Ramakrishna
   2 Saint Teresa of Avila
   2 R Buckminster Fuller
   2 Ken Wilber
   2 Edgar Allan Poe
   2 Aldous Huxley


  130 Record of Yoga
   40 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   36 Letters On Yoga IV
   33 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   32 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   32 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   31 Letters On Yoga II
   30 Questions And Answers 1956
   29 Questions And Answers 1955
   28 Letters On Yoga III
   24 Questions And Answers 1953
   24 Lovecraft - Poems
   23 Questions And Answers 1954
   23 Magick Without Tears
   22 The Golden Bough
   22 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   22 Agenda Vol 02
   20 The Life Divine
   19 Letters On Yoga I
   19 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   18 Liber ABA
   17 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   16 Agenda Vol 01
   14 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   13 Letters On Poetry And Art
   13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   12 Agenda Vol 03
   11 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   11 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   10 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   10 The Practice of Magical Evocation
   10 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   9 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   9 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   9 Aion
   9 Agenda Vol 10
   8 Agenda Vol 13
   7 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   7 Some Answers From The Mother
   7 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   7 Agenda Vol 12
   7 Agenda Vol 09
   7 Agenda Vol 08
   6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   6 Talks
   6 City of God
   6 Agenda Vol 07
   5 Words Of Long Ago
   5 Vishnu Purana
   5 Vedic and Philological Studies
   5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   5 The Secret Doctrine
   5 The Problems of Philosophy
   5 The Human Cycle
   5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
   5 Essays On The Gita
   5 Essays Divine And Human
   5 Agenda Vol 05
   4 Preparing for the Miraculous
   4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   4 On Education
   4 Maps of Meaning
   4 Liber Null
   4 Agenda Vol 11
   4 Agenda Vol 04
   3 Walden
   3 The Secret Of The Veda
   3 The Phenomenon of Man
   3 The Integral Yoga
   3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   3 Raja-Yoga
   3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
   3 Labyrinths
   3 Isha Upanishad
   3 Faust
   3 Cybernetics
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   3 Agenda Vol 06
   2 Words Of The Mother II
   2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   2 The Perennial Philosophy
   2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   2 The Blue Cliff Records
   2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
   2 Symposium
   2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
   2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   2 Dark Night of the Soul
   2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E


00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If, however, we have to speak of these other worlds, then, since we can speak only in the terms of this world, we have to use them in a different sense from those they usually bear; we must employ them as figures and symbols. Even then they may prove inadequate and misleading; so there are Mystics who are averse to all speech and expression they are mauni; in silence they experience the inexpressible and in silence they communicate it to the few who have the capacity to receive in silence.
   But those who do speak, how do they choose their figures and symbols? What is their methodology? For it might be said, since the unseen and the seen differ out and out, it does not matter what forms or signs are taken from the latter; for any meaning and significance could be put into anything. But in reality, it does not so happen. For, although there is a great divergence between figures and symbols on the one hand and the things figured and symbolised on the other, still there is also some link, some common measure. And that is why we see not unoften the same or similar figures and symbols representing an identical experience in ages and countries far apart from each other.

00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The three fires are named elsewhere Garhapatya, Dakshina, and Ahavaniya.9 They are the three tongues of the one central Agni, that dwells secreted in the hearth of the soul. They manifest as aspirations that flame up from the three fundamental levels of our being, the body, the life and the mind. For although the spiritual consciousness is the natural element of the soul and is gained in and through the soul, yet, in order that man may take possession of it and dwell in it consciously, in order that the soul's empire may be established, the external being too must respond to the soul's impact and yearn for its truth in the Spirit. The mind, the life and the body which are usually obstructions in the path, must discover the secret flame that is in them tooeach has his own portion of the Soul's Fireand mount on its ardent tongue towards the heights of the Spirit.
   Garhapatya is the Fire in the body-consciousness, the fire of Earth, as it is sometimes called; Dakshina is the Fire of the moon or mind, and Ahavaniya that of life.10 The earthly fire is also the fire of the sun; the sun is the source of all earth's heat and symbolises at the same time the spiritual light manifested in the physical consciousness. The lunar fire is also the fire of the stars, the stars, mythologically, being the consorts or powers of the moon and they symbolise, in Yogic experience, the intuitive thoughts. The fire of the life-force has its symbol in lightning, electric energy being its vehicle.
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   It would be interesting to know what the five ranges or levels or movements of consciousness exactly are that make up the Universal Brahman described in this passage. It is the mystic knowledge, the Upanishad says, of the secret delight in thingsmadhuvidy. The five ranges are the five fundamental principles of delightimmortalities, the Veda would say that form the inner core of the pyramid of creation. They form a rising tier and are ruled respectively by the godsAgni, Indra, Varuna, Soma and Brahmawith their emanations and instrumental personalities the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Maruts and the Sadhyas. We suggest that these refer to the five well-known levels of being, the modes or nodi of consciousness or something very much like them. The Upanishad speaks elsewhere of the five sheaths. The six Chakras of Tantric system lie in the same line. The first and the basic mode is the physical and the ascent from the physical: Agni and the Vasus are always intimately connected with the earth and -the earth-principles (it can be compared with the Muladhara of the Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras the navel centre). Indra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous Mind. In the present passage, Indra is taken in his second aspect and instead of the Maruts with whom he is usually invoked has the Rudras as his agents and associates.
   The third in the line of ascension is the region of Varuna and the Adityas, that is to say, of the large Mind and its lightsperhaps it can be connected with Tantric Ajnachakra. The fourth is the domain of Soma and the Marutsthis seems to be the inner heart, the fount of delight and keen and sweeping aspirations the Anahata of the Tantras. The fifth is the region of the crown of the head, the domain of Brahma and the Sadhyas: it is the Overmind status from where comes the descending inflatus, the creative Maya of Brahma. And when you go beyond, you pass into the ultimate status of the Sun, the reality absolute, the Transcendent which is indescribable, unseizable, indeterminate, indeterminable, incommensurable; and once there, one never returns, neverna ca punarvartate na ca punarvartate.

00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Only, to some perhaps the beauty may not appear as evident and apparent. The Spirit of beauty that resides in the Upanishadic consciousness is more retiring and reticent. It dwells in its own privacy, in its own home, as it were, and therefore chooses to be bare and austere, simple and sheer. Beauty means usually the beauty of form, even if it be not always the decorative, ornamental and sumptuous form. The early Vedas aimed at the perfect form (surpaktnum), the faultless expression, the integral and complete embodiment; the gods they envisaged and invoked were gleaming powers carved out of harmony and beauty and figured close to our modes of apprehension (spyan). But the Upanishads came to lay stress upon what is beyond the form, what the eye cannot see nor the vision reflect:
   na sandi tihati rpamasya
  --
   The rich and sensuous beauty luxuriating in high colour and ample decoration that one meets often in the creation of the earlier Vedic seers returned again, in a more chiselled and polished and stylised manner, in the classical poets. The Upanishads in this respect have a certain kinship with the early poets of the intervening ageVyasa and Valmiki. Upam KlidsasyaKalidasa revels in figures and images; they are profusely heaped on one another and usually possess a complex and composite texture. Valmiki's images are simple and elemental, brief and instinct with a vast resonance, spare and full of power. The same brevity and simplicity, vibrant with an extraordinary power of evocation, are also characteristic of the Upanishadic mantra With Valmiki's
   kamiva dupram

0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  At this juncture let me call attention to one set of attri butions by Rittangelius usually found as an appendix attached to the Sepher Yetzirah. It lists a series of "Intelligences" for each one of the ten Sephiros and the twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life. It seems to me, after prolonged meditation, that the common attri butions of these Intelligences is altogether arbitrary and lacking in serious meaning.
  For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
  A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in assigning them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.

0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
     A dowser is one who practises divination, usually with
    the object of finding water or minerals, by means of the
  --
  Intellectual and moral perception of truth often, one might almost say usually,
  precedes spiritual and physical perceptions. One would be foolish to claim

0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  He was an educationist all his life both in a spiritual and in a secular sense. After he passed out of College, he took up work as headmaster in a number of schools in succession Narail High School, City School, Ripon College School, Metropolitan School, Aryan School, Oriental School, Oriental Seminary and Model School. The causes of his migration from school to school were that he could not get on with some of the managements on grounds of principles and that often his spiritual mood drew him away to places of pilgrimage for long periods. He worked with some of the most noted public men of the time like Iswar Chandra Vidysgar and Surendranath Banerjee. The latter appointed him as a professor in the City and Ripon Colleges where he taught subjects like English, philosophy, history and economics. In his later days he took over the Morton School, and he spent his time in the staircase room of the third floor of it, administering the school and preaching the message of the Master. He was much respected in educational circles where he was usually referred to as Rector Mahashay. A teacher who had worked under him writes thus in warm appreciation of his teaching methods: "Only when I worked with him in school could I appreciate what a great educationist he was. He would come down to the level of his students when teaching, though he himself was so learned, so talented. Ordinarily teachers confine their instruction to what is given in books without much thought as to whether the student can accept it or not. But M., would first of all gauge how much the student could take in and by what means. He would employ aids to teaching like maps, pictures and diagrams, so that his students could learn by seeing. Thirty years ago (from 1953) when the question of imparting education through the medium of the mother tongue was being discussed, M. had already employed Bengali as the medium of instruction in the Morton School." (M The Apostle and the Evangelist by Swami Nityatmananda Part I. P. 15.)
  Imparting secular education was, however, only his profession ; his main concern was with the spiritual regeneration of man a calling for which Destiny seems to have chosen him. From his childhood he was deeply pious, and he used to be moved very much by Sdhus, temples and Durga Puja celebrations. The piety and eloquence of the great Brahmo leader of the times, Keshab Chander Sen, elicited a powerful response from the impressionable mind of Mahendra Nath, as it did in the case of many an idealistic young man of Calcutta, and prepared him to receive the great Light that was to dawn on him with the coming of Sri Ramakrishna into his life.

0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
  The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.
  The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. It makes no difference of what material either the fulcrum or the lever consists-wood, steel, or reinforced concrete. Nor do the special-case sizes of the lever and fulcrum, or of the load pried at one end, or the work applied at the lever's other end in any way alter either the principle or the mathematical regularity of the ratios of physical work advantage that are provided at progressive fulcrum-to-load increments of distance outward from the fulcrum in the opposite direction along the lever's arm at which theoperating effort is applied.

0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I shall tell You how I usually spend my evenings.
  After seeing You go up to the terrace, I go and have
  --
  then I usually prepare my lesson and go to bed.
  But last night after my walk at 9:30, I helped X to

0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  She demands their alliance in a complete effort before she will suffer a complete change in humanity. But, usually, these two great agents are unwilling to make to each other the necessary concessions.
  The mental life concentrates on the aesthetic, the ethical and the intellectual activities. Essential mentality is idealistic and a seeker after perfection. The subtle self, the brilliant Atman,1 is ever a dreamer. A dream of perfect beauty, perfect conduct, perfect Truth, whether seeking new forms of the Eternal or revitalising the old, is the very soul of pure mentality. But it knows not how to deal with the resistance of Matter. There it is hampered and inefficient, works by bungling experiments and has either to withdraw from the struggle or submit to the grey actuality. Or else, by studying the material life and accepting the conditions of the contest, it may succeed, but only in imposing temporarily some artificial system which infinite Nature either rends and casts aside or disfigures out of recognition or by withdrawing her assent leaves as the corpse of a dead ideal. Few and far between have been those realisations of the dreamer in Man which the world has gladly accepted, looks back to with a fond memory and seeks, in its elements, to cherish.

0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  take out Ra in the street that day as usually children run after
  the calves and frighten them very much; they even hurt them

0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But since we usually give the name "dream" to a considerable number of activities that differ completely from one another,
  the first point is to learn to distinguish between these various
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  progressive ascension. It is usually to the gods of the overmind
  that the prayers of the various religions are addressed. These religions most often choose, for various reasons, one of these gods
  --
  Supernature is the Nature superior to material or physical Nature - what we usually call "Nature". But this Nature that we
  see, feel and study, this Nature that has been our familiar environment since our birth upon earth, is not the only one. There

0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The messages are usually chosen according to the occasion or
  the need of the moment, so that each person may be able to find

01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   What is the world that Sri Aurobindo sees and creates? Poetry is after all passion. By passion I do not mean the fury of emotion nor the fume of sentimentalism, but what lies behind at their source, what lends them the force they have the sense of the "grandly real," the vivid and pulsating truth. What then is the thing that Sri Aurobindo has visualised, has endowed with a throbbing life and made a poignant reality? Victor Hugo said: Attachez Dieu au gibet, vous avez la croixTie God to the gibbet, you have the cross. Even so, infuse passion into a thing most prosaic, you create sublime poetry out of it. What is the dead matter that has found life and glows and vibrates in Sri Aurobindo's passion? It is something which appears to many poetically intractable, not amenable to aesthetic treatment, not usually, that is to say, nor in the supreme manner. Sri Aurobindo has thrown such a material into his poetic fervour and created a sheer beauty, a stupendous reality out of it. Herein lies the greatness of his achievement. Philosophy, however divine, and in spite of Milton, has been regarded by poets as "harsh and crabbed" and as such unfit for poetic delineation. Not a few poets indeed foundered upon this rock. A poet in his own way is a philosopher, but a philosopher chanting out his philosophy in sheer poetry has been one of the rarest spectacles.1 I can think of only one instance just now where a philosopher has almost succeeded being a great poet I am referring to Lucretius and his De Rerum Natura. Neither Shakespeare nor Homer had anything like philosophy in their poetic creation. And in spite of some inclination to philosophy and philosophical ideas Virgil and Milton were not philosophers either. Dante sought perhaps consciously and deliberately to philosophise in his Paradiso I Did he? The less Dante then is he. For it is his Inferno, where he is a passionate visionary, and not his Paradiso (where he has put in more thought-power) that marks the nee plus ultra of his poetic achievement.
   And yet what can be more poetic in essence than philosophy, if by philosophy we mean, as it should mean, spiritual truth and spiritual realisation? What else can give the full breath, the integral force to poetic inspiration if it is not the problem of existence itself, of God, Soul and Immortality, things that touch, that are at the very root of life and reality? What can most concern man, what can strike the deepest fount in him, unless it is the mystery of his own being, the why and the whither of it all? But mankind has been taught and trained to live merely or mostly on earth, and poetry has been treated as the expression of human joys and sorrows the tears in mortal things of which Virgil spoke. The savour of earth, the thrill of the flesh has been too sweet for us and we have forgotten other sweetnesses. It is always the human element that we seek in poetry, but we fail to recognise that what we obtain in this way is humanity in its lower degrees, its surface formulations, at its minimum magnitude.
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   Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
   Indeed it would be wrong to associate any cold ascetic nudity to the spiritual body of Sri Aurobindo. His poetry is philosophic, abstract, no doubt, but every philosophy has its practice, every abstract thing its concrete application,even as the soul has its body; and the fusion, not mere union, of the two is very characteristic in him. The deepest and unseizable flights of thought he knows how to clo the with a Kalidasian richness of imagery, or a Keatsean gusto of sensuousness:

01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  In the Yoga practised here the aim is to rise to a higher consciousness and to live out of the higher consciousness alone, not with the ordinary motives. This means a change of life as well as a change of consciousness. But all are not so circumstanced that they can cut loose from the ordinary life; they accept it therefore as a field of experience and self-training in the earlier stages of the sadhana. But they must take care to look at it as a field of experience only and to get free from the ordinary desires, attachments and ideas which usually go with it; otherwise it becomes a drag and hindrance on their sadhana. When one is not compelled by circumstances there is no necessity to continue the ordinary life.
  It is not helpful to abandon the ordinary life before the being is ready for the full spiritual life. To do so means to precipitate a struggle between the different elements and exasperate it to a point of intensity which the nature is not ready to bear. The vital elements in you have partly to be met by the discipline and experience of life, while keeping the spiritual aim in view and trying to govern life by it progressively in the spirit of Karmayoga.

01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   When we say one is conscious, we usually mean that one is conscious with the mental consciousness, with the rational intelligence, with the light of the brain. But this need not be always so. For one can be conscious with other forms of consciousness or in other planes of consciousness. In the average or normal man the consciousness is linked to or identified with the brain function, the rational intelligence and so we conclude that without this wakeful brain activity there can be no consciousness. But the fact is otherwise. The experiences of the mystic prove the point. The mystic is conscious on a level which we describe as higher than the mind and reason, he has what may be called the overhead consciousness. (Apart from the normal consciousness, which is named jagrat, waking, the Upanishad speaks of three other increasingly subtler states of consciousness, swapna, sushupti and turiya.)And then one can be quite unconscious, as in samadhi that can be sushupti or turiyaorpartially consciousin swapna, for example, the external behaviour may be like that of a child or a lunatic or even a goblin. One can also remain normally conscious and still be in the superconscience. Not only so, the mystic the Yogican be conscious on infraconscious levels also; that is to say, he can enter into and identify with the consciousness involved in life and even in Matter; he can feel and realise his oneness with the animal world, the plant world and finally the world of dead earth, of "stocks and stones" too. For all these strands of existence have each its own type of consciousness and all different from the mode of mind which is normally known as consciousness. When St. Francis addresses himself to the brother Sun or the sister Moon, or when the Upanishad speaks of the tree silhouetted against the sky, as if stilled in trance, we feel there is something of this fusion and identification of consciousness with an infra-conscient existence.
   I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
   Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of something or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
   Still, it must be noted that Coleridge is a rare example, for the recording apparatus is not usually so faithful but puts up its own formations that disturb and alter the perfection of the original. The passivity or neutrality of the intermediary is relative, and there are infinite grades of it. Even when the larger waves that play in it in the normal waking state are quieted down, smaller ripples of unconscious or half-conscious habitual formations are thrown up and they are sufficient to cause the scattering and dispersal of the pure light from above.
   The absolute passivity is attainable, perhaps, only by the Yogi. And in this sense the supreme poet is a Yogi, for in his consciousness the higher, deeper, subtler or other modes of experiences pass through and are recorded with the minimum aberration or diffraction.
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   Not only so, the future development of the poetic consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest and primitive poets were mostly unconscious, that is to say, they wrote or said things as they came to them spontaneously, without effort, without reflection, they do not seem to know the whence and wherefore and whither of it all, they know only that the wind bloweth as it listeth. That was when man had not yet eaten the fruit of knowledge, was still in the innocence of childhood. But as he grew up and progressed, he became more and more conscious, capable of exerting and exercising a deliberate will and initiating a purposive action, not only in the external practical field but also in the psychological domain. If the earlier group is called "primitives", the later one, that of conscious artists, usually goes by the name of "classicists." Modern creators have gone one step farther in the direction of self-consciousness, a return upon oneself, an inlook of full awareness and a free and alert activity of the critical faculties. An unconscious artist in the sense of the "primitives" is almost an impossible phenomenon in the modern world. All are scientists: an artist cannot but be consciously critical, deliberate, purposive in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world spontaneity and supremacy of utterance; but it cannot be helped, we cannot comm and the tide to roll back, Canute-like. The feature has to be accepted and a remedy and new orientation discovered.
   The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism is curiosity the scientist's pleasure in analysing, observing, experimenting, changing the conditions of our reactions, mental or sentimental or even nervous and physical by way of discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarm and constitutes almost the whole of Valry's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn.
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   That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
   Genius had to be generally more or less unconscious in the past, because the instrument was not ready, was clogged as it were with its own lower grade movements; the higher inspiration had very often to bypass it, or rob it of its serviceable materials without its knowledge, in an almost clandestine way. Wherever it was awake and vigilant, we have seen it causing a diminution in the poetic potential. And yet even so, it was being prepared for a greater role, a higher destiny it is to fulfil in the future. A conscious and full participation of a refined and transparent and enriched instrument in the delivery of superconscious truth and beauty will surely mean not only a new but the very acme of aesthetic creation. We thus foresee the age of spiritual art in which the sense of creative beauty in man will find its culmination. Such an art was only an exception, something secondary or even tertiary, kept in the background, suggested here and there as a novel strain, called "mystic" to express its unfamiliar nature-unless, of course, it was openly and obviously scriptural and religious.

01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Thirdly, there is the line of Sublimationit is when the natural impulse is neither repressed nor diverted but lifted up into a higher modality. The thing is given a new sense and a new value which serve to remove the stigma usually attached to it and thus allow its free indulgence. Instances of carnal love sublimated into spiritual union, of passion transmuted into devotion (Bhakti) are common enough to illustrate the point.
   The human mind naturally, without any effort on its part, takes to one or more of these devices to control and conceal the aboriginal impulses. But this spontaneous process can be organised and consciously regulated and made to serve better the purpose and urge of Nature. And this is the beginning of yoga the conscious fulfilment of Nature. The Psycho-analysts have given us the first and elementary stage of this process of yoga. It is, we may say, the fourth line of control. With this man enters a new level of being, develops a new mode of life. It is when the automatism of Nature is replaced by the power of Conscious Control. Man is not here, a blind instrument of forces, his activities (both indulging and controlling) are not guided according to an ignorant submission to the laws of almost subconscious impulsions. Conscious control means that the mind does not fight shy of or seek to elude the aboriginal insistences, but allows them to come up freely, meets them squarely, recognises them and establishes an easy mastery over them.

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The dream is indeed very interesting. Snakes usually signify bad
  thoughts or bad will from people around you - or an adverse
  --
  What is usually called "conscience" is a mental formation based
  on the idea of good and evil, a moral entity or rather an element of goodwill which tries to keep the individual on what is

01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   One view considers Evil as coeval with Good: the Prince of Evil is God's peer, equal to him in all ways, absolutely separate, independent and self-existent. Light and Darkness are eternal principles living side by side, possessing equal reality. For, although it is permissible to the individual to pass out of the Darkness and enter into Light, the Darkness itself does not disappear: it remains and maintains its domain, and even it is said that some human beings are meant eternally for this domain. That is the Manichean principle and that also is fundamentally the dualistic conception of chit-achit in some Indian systems (although the principle of chit or light is usually given a higher position and priority of excellence).
   The Christian too accepts the dual principle, but does not give equal status to the two. Satan is there, an eternal reality: it is anti-God, it seeks to oppose God, frustrate his work. It is the great tempter whose task it is to persuade, to inspire man to remain always an earthly creature and never turn to know or live in God. Now the crucial question that arises is, what is the necessity of this Antagonist in God's scheme of creation? What is the meaning of this struggle and battle? God could have created, if he had chosen, a world without Evil. The orthodox Christi an answer is that in that case one could not have fully appreciated the true value and glory of God's presence. It is to manifest and proclaim the great victory that the strife and combat has been arranged in which Man triumphs in the end and God's work stands vindicated. The place of Satan is always Hell, but he cannot drag down a soul into his pit to hold it there eternally (although according to one doctrine there are or may be certain eternally damned souls).

01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   What is required is not therefore an external delimitation of frontiers between unit and unit, but an inner outlook of nature and a poise of character. And this can be cultivated and brought into action by learning to live by the sense of duty. Even then, even the sense of duty, we have to admit, is not enough. For if it leads or is capable of leading into an aberration, we must have something else to check and control it, some other higher and more potent principle. Indeed, both the conceptions of Duty and Right belong to the domain of mental ideal, although one is usually more aggressive and militant (Rajasic) and the other tends to be more tolerant and considerate (sattwic): neither can give an absolute certainty of poise, a clear guarantee of perfect harmony.
   Indian wisdom has found this other, a fairer terma tertium quid,the mystic factor, sought for by so many philosophers on so many counts. That is the very well- known, the very familiar termDharma. What is Dharma then? How does it accomplish the miracle which to others seems to have proved an impossibility? Dharma is self-law, that is to say, the law of the Self; it is the rhythm and movement of our inner or inmost being, the spontaneous working out of our truth-conscious nature.

01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Divine Love is a greater fire than the low smouldering fire that our secular unregenerate life is. One has to choose and declare his adhesion. Indeed, the stage of conversion, the crucial turn from the ordinary life to the spiritual life Eliot has characterised in a very striking manner. We usually say, sometimes in an outburst of grief, sometimes in a spirit of sudden disgust and renunciation that the world is dark and dismal and lonesome, the only thing to do here is to be done with it. The true renunciation, that which is deep and abiding, is not, however, so simple a thing, such a short cut. So our poet says, but the world is not dark enough, it is not lonesome enough: the world lives and moves in a superficial half-light, it is neither real death nor real life, it is death in life. It is this miserable mediocrity, the shallow uncertainty of consciousness that spells danger and ruin for the soul. Hence the poet exclaims:
   . . . . Not here

0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  This difficulty usually comes from a lack of unification of the
  being. Certain parts are recalcitrant and refuse to receive. They
  --
  The hands of painters, sculptors, musicians (especially pianists) are usually very conscious and always are skilful. It is a
  question of training.
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  conscious of this relation. It is usually the result of Yoga.
  8 April 1968
  --
  It is what is usually called conscience, but in fact it is the psychic
  being. And one can hear it only if one is very attentive, because
  --
  In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of the
  illusory appearance at the same time.

0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Love of Nature is usually the sign of a pure and healthy being uncorrupted by modern civilisation. It is in the silence of a
  peaceful mind that one can best commune with Nature.

0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   But really, this attitude this rather overly commercial attitude, is usually not very profitable. If you have difficulties and you sincerely aspire, it is likely that the difficulties will diminish. Let us hope so.
   (Turning to the disciple) So you may tell them this: be sincere and you will be helped.

0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   When I came back, along with the memory of the experience, I knew that the supramental world was permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and that only a missing link is needed to allow the consciousness and the substance to connectand it is this link that is being built. At that time, my impression (an impression which remained rather long, almost the whole day) was of an extreme relativityno, not exactly that, but an impression that the relationship between this world and the other completely changes the criterion by which things are to be evaluated or judged. This criterion had nothing mental about it, and it gave the strange inner feeling that so many things we consider good or bad are not really so. It was very clear that everything depended upon the capacity of things and upon their ability to express the supramental world or be in relationship with it. It was so completely different, at times even so opposite to our ordinary way of looking at things! I recall one little thing that we usually consider bad actually how funny it was to see that it is something excellent! And other things that we consider important were really quite unimportant there! Whether it was like this or like that made no difference. What is very obvious is that our appreciation of what is divine or not divine is incorrect. I even laughed at certain things Our usual feeling about what is anti-divine seems artificial, based upon something untrue, unliving (besides, what we call life here appeared lifeless in comparison with that world); in any event, this feeling should be based upon our relationship between the two worlds and according to whether things make this relationship easier or more difficult. This would thus completely change our evaluation of what brings us nearer to the Divine or what takes us away from Him. With people, too, I saw that what helps them or prevents them from becoming supramental is very different from what our ordinary moral notions imagine. I felt just how ridiculous we are.
   (Then Mother speaks to the children)

0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   I had a mantra in French before coming to Pondicherry. It was Dieu de bont et de misricorde [God of kindness and mercy], but what it means is usually not understoodit is an entire program, a universal program. I have been repeating this mantra since the beginning of the century; it was the mantra of ascension, of realization. At present, it no longer comes in the same way, it comes rather as a memory. But it was deliberate, you see; I always said Dieu de bont et de misricorde, because even then I understood that everything is the Divine and the Divine is in all things and that it is only we who make a distinction between what is or what is not the Divine.
   My experience is that, individually, we are in relationship with that aspect of the Divine which is not necessarily the most in conformity with our natures, but which is the most essential for our development or the most necessary for our action. For me, it was always a question of action because, personally, individually, each aspiration for personal development had its own form, its own spontaneous expression, so I did not use any formula. But as soon as there was the least little difficulty in action, it sprang forth. Only long afterwards did I notice that it was formulated in a certain way I would utter it without even knowing what the words were. But it came like this: Dieu de bont et de misricorde. It was as if I wanted to eliminate from action all aspects that were not this one. And it lasted for I dont know, more than twenty or twenty-five years of my life. It came spontaneously.

0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   It must be strong enough to pull me from my concentration or my activity. If I knew when you concentrate or do your puja,1 I could tune into you, and shell I would know more; otherwise, my inner life is too l am not at all passive inwardly, you see, I am very active, so I dont usually receive your vibrations unless they impose themselves strongly or unless I have decided beforeh and to be attentive to what is coming from someone or other. If I know that at a given moment something is going to happen, then I open a door, as it were. But its difficult to speak of these things.
   When you left on your journey,2 for example, I made a specie! concentration for all to go well so that nothing untoward happen to you. I even made a formation and asked for a constant, special help over you. Then I renewed my concentration every day, which is how I came to notice that you were invoking me very regulary. I Saw you everyday, everyday, with a very regular precision. It was something that imposed itself on me, but it imposed itself only because l had initially made a formation to follow you.

0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Yes, it was not a willed experience, for I had not decided I would do this. It did not correspond to an inner attitude. In a meditation, one can decide, I will meditate on this or on that or on something else I will do this or that. For meditations, I usually have a kind of inner (or higher) perception of what has to be done, and I do it. But it was not that way. I had decided: nothing, to decide nothing, to be like that (gesture of turning upwards).
   And then it happened.
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   And so, physically, the body followed. My body has been taught to express the inner experience to a certain extent. In the body there is the body-force or the body-form or the body-spirit (according to the different schools, it bears a different name), and this is what leaves the body last when one dies, usually taking a period of seven days to leave.2 With special training, it can acquire a conscious lifeindependent and consciousto such a degree that not only in a state of trance (in trance, it frequently happens that one can speak and move if one is slightly trained or educated), but even in a cataleptic state it can produce sounds and even make the body move. Thus, through training, the body begins to have somnambulistic capacitiesnot an ordinary somnambulism, but it can live an autonomous life.3 This is what took place, yesterday evening it was like that I had gone out of my body, but my body was participating. And then I was pulled downwards: my hand, which had been on the arm of the chair, slipped down, then the other hand, then my head was almost touching my knees! (The consciousness was elsewhere, I saw it from outsideit was not that I didnt know what I was doing, I saw it from outside.) So I said, In any case, this has to stop somewhere because if it continues, my head (laughing) is going to be on the ground! And I thought, But what is there at the bottom of this hole?
   Scarcely had these words been formulated when there I was, at the bottom of the hole! And it was absolutely as if a tremendous, almighty spring were there, and then (Mother hits the table) vrrrm! I was cast out of the abyss into a vastness. My body immediately sat straight up, head on high, following the movement. If someone had been watching, this is what he would have seen: in a single bound, vrrrm! Straight up, to the maximum, my head on high.

0 1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Two or three days after I retired to my room upstairs,1 early in the night I fell into a very heavy sleep and found myself out of the body much more materially than I do usually. This degree of density in which you can see the material surroundings exactly as they are. The part that was out seemed to be under a spell and only half conscious. When I found myself at the first floor where everything was absolutely black, I wanted to go up again, but then I discovered that my hand was held by a young girl whom I could not see in the darkness but whose contact was very familiar. She pulled me by the hand telling me laughingly, No, come, come down with me, we shall kill the young princess. I could not understand what she meant by this young princess and, rather unwillingly, I followed her to see what it was. Arriving in the anteroom which is at the top of the staircase leading to the ground floor, my attention was drawn in the midst of all this total obscurity to the white figure of Kamala2 standing in the middle of the passage between the hall and Sri Aurobindos room. She was as it were in full light while everything else was black. Then I saw on her face such an expression of intense anxiety that to comfort her I said, I am coming back. The sound of my voice shook off from me the semi-trance in which I was before and suddenly I thought, Where am I going? and I pushed away from me the dark figure who was pulling me and in whom, while she was running down the steps, I recognized a young girl who lived with Sri Aurobindo and me for many years and died five years back. This girl during her life was under the most diabolical influence. And then I saw very distinctly (as through the walls of the staircase) down below a small black tent which could scarcely be perceived in the surrounding darkness and standing in the middle of the tent the figure of a man, head and face shaved (like the sannyasin or the Buddhist monks) covered from head to foot with a knitted outfit following tightly the form of his body which was tall and slim. No other cloth or garment could give an indication as to who he could be. He was standing in front of a black pot placed on a dark red fire which was throwing its reddish glow on him. He had his right arm stretched over the pot, holding between two fingers a thin gold chain which looked like one of mine and was unnaturally visible and bright. Shaking gently the chain he was chanting some words which translated in my mind, She must die the young princess, she must pay for all she has done, she must die the young princess.
   Then I suddenly realized that it was I the young Princess and as I burst into laughter, I found myself awake in my bed.

0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   And when I awoke, I didnt have this feeling of returning from afar and of having to re-enter my body, as I usually do. No, it was simply as though I were in this other world, then I took a step backwards and found myself here again. It took me a good half an hour to understand that this world here existed as much as the other and that I was no longer on the other side but here, in the world of falsehood. I had forgotten everythingpeople, things, what I had to do; everything had gone, as if it had no reality at all.
   You see, its not as if this world of Truth had to be created from nothing: it is fully ready, it is there, like a lining of our own present world. Everything is there, EVERYTHING is there.

0 1959-11-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   What usually happens is that when the body reaches its maximum intensity of aspiration or of ecstasy of Love, it is unable to contain it. It becomes flat, motionless. It falls back. Things settle downyou are enriched with a new vibration, but then everything resumes its course. So you must widen yourself in order to learn to bear unflinchingly the intensities of the supramental force, to go forward always, always with the ascending movement of the divine Truth, without falling backwards into the decrepitude of the body.
   That is what Sri Aurobindo means when he speaks of an intolerable ecstasy1; it is not an intolerable ecstasy: it is an unflinching ecstasy.

0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Oh, it depends. When I dont pay attention, its all right. I usually dont make mistakesnot too many!
   Yes, yes; its quite automatic, a kind of convention somewhere. But if you have the misfortune to step out of that and to look at it, its finished, you dont know anything any more.

0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   And its true, I know it, I knew it then. In other words, all this work that usually has to be done to become free was done beforehand, long agoquite convenient!
   He saw me the next day for half an hour. I sat downit was on the verandah of the Guest House, I was sitting there on the verandah. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. Myself, I was seated at his feet, very small, with the table just in front of meit came to my forehead, which gave me a little protection I didnt say anything, I didnt think anything, try anything, want anything I merely sat near him. When I stood up half an hour later, he had put silence in my head, thats all, without my even having asked himperhaps even without his trying.

0 1960-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   For the placement of words is not the same in English and in French. In English, for example, the place an adverb occupies is of major importance for the precise meaning. In French also, but generally its not the same! If at least it were exactly the opposite of English it would be easier, but its not exactly the opposite. Its the same thing for the word order in a series of modifiers or any string of words; usually in English, for example, the most important word comes first and the least important last. In French, its usually the opposite but it doesnt always work!
   The spirit of the two languages is not the same. Something always escapes. This must surely be why revelations (as Sri Aurobindo calls them) sometimes come to me in one language and sometimes in the other. And it does not depend on the state of consciousness Im in, it depends on what has to be said.

0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   A few days ago, I recall, I wanted to know something that was going to happen. I thought that with the consciousness of supramental time, I could find out I MUST find out whats going to happen. Whats going to happen?No answer. So I concentrated on it, which is what I usually do, I stopped everything and looked from abovetotal silence. Nothing. No answer. And I felt a slight impatience: But why cant I know?! And what came was the equivalent of (Im translating it in words), Its none of your business!!
   So I understand more and more. Everythingthis whole organization, this whole aggregate, all these cells and nerves and sensorsare all meant uniquely for the work, they have no other purpose than the work; every foolish act that is done is for the work; every stupidity that is thought is for the work; you are made the way you are because only in that way can you do the work and its none of your business to seek to be somewhere else. Thats my conclusion. Very well, as You wish, may Your will be done!No, not be done; it IS done. As You wish, exactly as You wish!

0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   For some time now Ive been experiencing a precise moment during my japa when something takes hold of me and I have all the difficulty in the world to keep from entering into trance. Yet I remain standing. usually Im walking, but some things I say while leaning up against the windownot a very good place to go into trance! And it grabs me exactly at the same place each time.
   Yesterday, I suddenly saw a huge living head of blue lightthis blue light which is the force, the powerful force in material Nature (this is the light the tantrics use). The head was made entirely of this light, and it wore a sort of tiaraa big head, so big (Mother indicates the length of her forearm); its eyes werent closed, but rather lowered, like this. The immobility of eternity, absolutely the repose, the immobility of eternity. A magnificent head, quite similar to the way the gods here are represented, but even better; something between certain heads of the Buddha and (these heads most probably come to the artists). Everything else was lost in a kind of cloud.

0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   And the experience just now (during meditation) was somehow mixed with what I usually see at night (it was not a combinationor maybe it was a combination ), for it had that same light It was a kind of powdering, even finer than tiny dotsa powdering like an atomic dust, but with an EXTREMELY intense vibration but without any shifting of place. And yet its in constant motion Something shifting about within something that vibrates on the same spot without moving (something does move, but its subtler, like a current of tremendous power which passes through a milieu that doesnt move at all: rather, it vibrates on the same spot with an extreme intensity). But I dont exactly know how it is different from the present experience It becomes less golden at night, the gold is less visible, whereas the other colorswhite, blue and a sort of pinkare much more visible.
   Oh, now I remember! It was PINK during the second phase, just afterwards, after Egypt! Oh, it was like like at the end of a sunrise when it gets very clear and luminous. A magnificent color. And it kept coming down and down, in a flood that part was new. Its something I see very rarely. It was not there at all the last time we meditated together. And it came filled with such a joy! Oh! It was absolutely ecstatic. It lasted quite a long time. And from there I went into this trance where I saw (laughing) that man congratulating you! I heard him say (his voice is what roused me from my trance, and then I saw him), Congratulations, its a great success! (Mother laughs)

0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   I havent told this to anyone until now, especially not to those who take care and watch over me, for I dont want to terrify them. Besides, Im not so sure of their reactionsyou understand, if they started getting frightened, it would be terrible. So I dont tell them. But it has happened at least five or six times, usually in the morning before going down to the balcony, just when I dont have the time And it has to be done quickly, for I have to be ready on time!
   Its very, very interesting. But then, you see, at such moments the concreteness of the Presence6concrete to the touch, really to the material touchis extraordinary!

0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Mother usually improvised on the harmonium the morning of January 1 before reading the New Year's Message. She has come the day before to try out the instrument.)
   Lets see How many months has it been? I havent touched this instrument for at least eight months! And now tomorrow I have to playdont feel like it. Anyway, since I must, I must! Well meditate on it (the New Years Message1)you know what it is, for we worked on it together and then Ill see if something comes.

0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   What I say to people depends entirely upon their inner state. Thats precisely why I had such enormous difficulty at the Playground3the atmosphere was so mixed! It was a STRUGGLE to find someone receptive so I could speak. And if Im in the presence of people who understand nothing, I cant say a word. On the other hand, some people come prepared to receive and then suddenly it all comes but usually theres no tape-recorder!
   I have replied endlessly, I have given all sorts of explanations about the organization of the School, about World Union,4 about the true way to organize industry (its true functioning)so many things! If all that were compiled we could publish brochures! Sometimes Ive spoken three-quarters of an hour non-stop to people who listened with delight and were receptive but quite incapable of making a written report of it. At times like that we could have used one of your machines! But when things are organized in advance, it may well be that nothing comes out at allmentalizing stops the flow. If I is in front of me, I cant say anything to her because she doesnt understand. I already have trouble writing to herwhat I have to say is always brought down a bit; but if she were here in the room and I had to speak to her, nothing at all would come out!
   No, when we feel like it and when she doesnt raise any question about an aphorismat least not an impossible questionwell do this: I will speak here, its much easier for me. This way things come that I havent seen before; while when I write like that, they are usually things Ive seen on other occasions (not that I try to recall them, they are there and simply come back). But when theres a new contact, something new always comes.
   ***

0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
   If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.

0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In the middle of the night before last, I woke up (or rather I returned to an external consciousness) with the feeling of having a much larger (by larger I mean more voluminous) and much more powerful being in my body than I usually have. it was as if it could scarcely be held inside me but was spilling over; and SO COMPACTLY POWERFUL that it was almost uncomfortable. The feeling of: what to do with all this?
   It lasted the remainder of the night and all day long I had considerable trouble containing an overwhelming power that spontaneously created reactions utterly disproportionate to a human body and made me speak in a way that. When something was not going well: wham! Such an instantaneous and strong reply that it looked like anger. And I found it difficult to control the movementit had happened already in the morning and it very nearly happened again in the afternoon. That last attack has weakened me terribly! I told myself, I dont have the strength to contain this Power; its difficult to remain calm and controlled. That was my first thought, so I insisted upon calm.

0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Since the last experience [January 24] I see it daily. The following day, probably for reasons connected with the bodys development and adaptation, I was rather seriously illwhat is usually called painfully ill: the body was suffering a lot, or WOULD HAVE suffered a lot had it been in its former normal consciousness. Thats where I saw the differencea fantastic difference!
   I was perfectly conscious (now when I say I, it refers to my body, I am not speaking of the whole higher consciousness), the body was perfectly conscious of its suffering, the reason for its suffering, the cause of its suffering, everything and it did not suffer. You understand, the two perceptions were there together: the body saw the disorder, saw the suffering just as it would have felt it a few weeks earlier, it saw all that (saw, knew I dont know how to express itit was conscious, it was aware) and it did not suffer. The two awarenesses were absolutely simultaneous.
  --
   To illustrate this, an interesting thing came upyesterday, I think. (All these experiences come to show me the difference, as if to give proof of the change.) Someone had had a dream about me whispered to him by the adverse forces for specific reasons (I wont go into the details). He was much affected by it, so he wrote down the dream and gave it to me. I was carrying his letter along with all the others, as I usually do, but suddenly I knew I had to read it right away: I read it. Then I saw the whole thing with such clarity, precision, accuracy: how it had come about, how the dream had been produced, its effect the whole functioning of all the forces. As I read along and it went on unfolding, I did what was necessary for him (he was present at the time) in order to undo what the adverse forces had done. Then at the end, when I had finished, said everything, explained what it was all about and what had to be done, something SO CATEGORICAL came into me (I cannot verbalize this kind of experience, it is what I call the difference in power: something categorical). I took the letter, uttered a few words (which I wont repeat) and said, You see, its like this: so much for that, and I ripped the letter a first time. Then, thats for that, I tore it a second time and so on. I ripped it up five times and the fifth time I saw that their power was destroyed.
   I have done these things beforeits a knowledge I already hadand it always had its effect when I did them; its not that I am passing from powerlessness to power, not at all. But its this kind of yes, something definite, absolutea kind of absolute in vision, in knowledge, in action and ABOVE ALL in powera kind of absolute that doesnt need to conquer obstacles and resistances, but ANNULS the resistance automatically. Then I saw that something had truly changed.

0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   One day I will find his photo and show it to you; he is there with a big dog he called Little Boy, a dog that could exteriorizehe would dream and go out of his body! This dog had a kind of adoration for me. (I should mention that at a fixed time in the afternoons I used to meditate and go into trance. When it was finished I would go out walking with Theon, and the dog always came with us, usually coming to fetch me in my room.) One day I was lying on a divan in trance when I felt his cold muzzle nudging my hand to wake me. I opened my eyes no dog. Yet I had positively, clearly felt his cold muzzle. So I got ready, went downstairs, and who did I find fast asleep on the landing but Little Boyhe was in trance as well! He had come to wake me in his sleep. When I reached the landing he woke up, shook himself and trotted off.
   It was an interesting life.

0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   'There is no longer this kind of opposition between what is an agreeable impact and what is a disagreeable one. There are no more "agreeable" things and "disagreeable" things: they are simply vibrations one registers. usually when people receive a shock they do this (gesture of recoil), then they reflect, concentrate, and finally restore peace. But equality does not mean that! That's not what it is. The state must be SPONTANEOUS, constant and invariable.'
   Atman: the Self or Spirit.

0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Ive been feeling lazy! I have received an abominable avalanche of letters, three-quarters of which are useless but I have to look at them to know whether theyre useless or not, so it takes up my morning before coming downstairs. I usually translated The Synthesis of Yoga in the afternoons, or answered questions, but nowadays I go into concentration at that time: I dont do anything. I want to cure my legs.
   I am determined to cure myself they told me it was incurable. The doctors poison you to cure you (as they poisoned our poor S.), and thats no cure! When they dont feel the need to show off in front of the patient, they openly acknowledge that it isnt at all sure that their medicines cure: they merely make you inoffensive to others! But I dont believe in it I dont believe in doctors, I dont believe in their remedies and I dont believe in their science (they are very useful, they have a great social utility, but for myself, I dont believe in it).

0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then there are days when you are in contact with the divine Consciousness, with the Grace, and all is tinged, colored by this Presence, and things which usually seem dull to you become charming and pleasant all is alive, all is vibrant. At other moments you are clouded, closed, you no longer feel anything, everything loses its flavor you are like a walking block of wood.
   It comes and goes along the way, you dont keep it permanently; its like crossing a zone, a perfumed zone, and then its past for the moment, its over. A fleeting caress.

0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then I woke up (I always wake up three or four times during the night) and when I went back to bed I had an attack of what the doctor and I have taken to be filariasis but a strange type of filariasis, for as soon as I master it in one spot it appears in another, and when I master it there it reappears somewhere else. Last night it was in the arms (it lasted quite a while, between 2:30 and 4 a.m.); but I was fully conscious, and each time the attack came, I went like this (gestures over the arms, to drive away the attack) and my arms were not affected at all. When it was over, I consciously entered the most material subtle physical, just beyond the body. I was sitting in my room there (an immense, cubic room) reading or writing something, when I heard the door open and close, but I was busy and didnt pay attention, presuming it was one of the people usually around me. Then suddenly I had such an unpleasant sensation in my body that I raised my head and looked, and I saw someone there. Do you know how the magicians in Europe dress, in short satin breeches and a shirt? He was wearing something like that. He was Indian, tall and rather dark, with slicked-down hairwhat you would normally call a handsome young man. He seemed to have been drawn1 there becausehe was standing in front of me staring into space, not looking at me. And the moment I saw him, there was the same sensation in all my cells as I have with what Ive been calling filariasis (its a special, minute kind of pain) and simultaneously all the cells felt disgusta tremendous will of rejection. Then I sat up straight (I didnt stand up) and said to him as forcefully as possible, How do you dare to come in here! I said it so loudly that the noise woke me up! I dont know what happened then, but things went much better afterwards.
   The moment I saw this person I knew he was only an instrument, but a well-paid instrumentsomeone paid a great deal to have him do that! I would recognize him again among hundreds I can still see him I see him more clearly than with physical eyes. He is an unintelligent man with no personal animosity, merely a very well-paid instrumentsomeone is hiding behind him, using him as a screen.

0 1961-04-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yet I dont understand how someone might be doing something positively evil, to the extent that X says, They will repent of it. I dont understand it, I just dont. Because usually when people are like that, they cant stay, they go. Certain people have left for just that reason. Its like this story of black magic performed at the Ashram the first time I fell ill two years ago; I cant believe it, because it would prove that I am totally unconscious! And I dont think I am.
   I know all the people here. I know everything thats going on, I see it night and day. But I havent seen this. Yes, there are ill-intentioned people, but they are even obliged to tell me so! There are people who oh, they almost wish I would leave, because they feel my presence as a constraint! They tell me so very frankly: As long as youre here, were obliged to do the yoga, but we dont want to do the yoga, we want to live quietly; so if you werent here, well, we wouldnt have to think about yoga anymore! But they are a bunch of fools with no power in them at all. As I said, they are even forced to tell me their true feelings.

0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
   Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!

0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   These are small details. I myself am unable to do it at fixed hours; I had always hoped to do it between 5 and 6 in the afternoon, but I usually cant manage to go upstairs before ten to six! So so I do it from 6 to 7.
   Fundamentally, I have noticed one thing: if you yourself are in the right state, the right atmosphere is immediately created. And in addition, I am always in a sort of not even a convictionan ABSOLUTE perception that all that happens is the Lords doing. When He makes me late going upstairs its because He wants me to be late, and consequently, if I take it wellif instead of closing myself and getting annoyed I say, Good, thats fineimmediately a very interesting atmosphere is created, because at the same time I see all the advantages of this change. But this movement must not be mentalit has to be spontaneous.
  --
   But it doesnt lastit ought to last. usually it ends in a trance: I go off into the experience, I am in a beatific state and ten minutes later I notice that Ive been in that state with my pen poised in my hand. Its not favorable to the work! But otherwise its I cant even say its like someone dictating (its not that, I dont hear); it comes by itself. Oh, the other day there were one or two sentences! I wrote something and suddenly saw what I was writing and doing so pulled me out of that state. Well, I said to myself, how nicely put! And plop! (Mother laughs) Everything was gone.
   Be in that domain, and you will never grow tired.

0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Actually, as soon as one is not totally, totally tied down by the physical sense organs. For example, I am more and more frequently experiencing changes in the quality of vision. Quite recently, yesterday or the day before, I was sitting in the bathroom drying my face before going out and I raised my eyes (I was sitting before a mirror, although I dont usually look at myself); I raised my eyes and looked, and I saw many things (Mother laughs, greatly amused). At that moment, I had an experience which made me say to myself, Ah! Thats why, from the physical, purely material standpoint, my vision seems to be a bit blurred. Because what I was seeing was MUCH clearer and infinitely more expressive than normal physical sight. And I recalled that it is with these clearer eyes that I see and recognize all my people at balcony darshan. (From the balcony I recognize all my people.) And its that vision (but with open eyes!) which. It is of another order.
   I am going to study what Sri Aurobindo says when I come to it in The Yoga of Self-Perfection. He says there comes a time when the senses changeits not that you employ the senses proper to another plane (we have always known we had senses on all the different planes); its quite different from that: the senses THEMSELVES change. He foretells this changehe says it will occur. And I believe it begins in the way I am experiencing it now.

0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is always what could almost be called a popular way of presenting things. Take the whole Story of the Creation, of how things have come about: it can be told as an unfolding story (this is what Theon did in a book he called The Traditionhe told the whole story in the Biblical manner, with psychological knowledge hidden in symbols and forms). There is a psychological manner of telling things and a metaphysical manner. The metaphysical, for me, is almost incomprehensible; its uninteresting (or interesting only to minds that are made that way). An almost childish, illustrative way of telling things seems more evocative to me than any metaphysical theory (but this is a personal opinion and of no great moment!). The psychological approach is more dynamic for transformation, and Sri Aurobindo usually adopted it. He doesnt tell us stories (I was the one who told him stories! Images are very evocative for me). But if one combines the two approaches. Actually, to be philosophical, one would have to combine the three. But I have always found the metaphysical approach ineffective; it doesnt lead to realization but only gives people the IDEA that they know, when they really know nothing at all. From the standpoint of push, of a dynamic urge towards transformation, the psychological approach is obviously the most powerful. But the other [the symbolic approach] is lovelier!
   In The Hour of God, theres a whole diagram of the Manifestation made by Sri Aurobindo3: first comes this, then comes that, then comes the other, and so fortha whole sequence. They published this in the book in all seriousness, but I must say that Sri Aurobindo did it for fun (I saw him do it). Someone had spoken to him about different religions, different philosophical methods Theosophy, Madame Blavatski, all those people (there was Theon, too). Well, each one had made his diagram. So Sri Aurobindo said, I can make a diagram, too, and mine will be much more complete! When he finished it, he laughed and said, But its only a diagram, its just for fun. They published it very solemnly, as if he had made a very serious proclamation. Oh, its a very complicated diagram!

0 1961-08-08, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is something new he has accepted, because the Supreme doesnt usually appear in tantrism they are in contact with the Shakti and dont bother about the Supreme. But here he has come to accept it.
   He has tried very hard to understand. But his spiritual conception has remained like this: one canone MUSTmaster life, and in life, to some extent, a certain adaptation to the higher forces can be achieved; but there is no question of transformation: the physical world remains the physical world. It can be a little better organized, more harmonious, but there is no question of something else, of divinizationno question at all.

0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It must come from here (the heart). Thats what I was told: it must come from here. Not there (the head), not even there (above the head); HERE (the heart). usually expression comes from above, but its not there: it is here (same gesture to the heart). Its a spontaneous little something coming all at once.
   (silence)

0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Nowadays I always spend a part of the night in the realm of expression, a realm where generally I never used to go at all. Its a very lovely place, very human in the sense that its not a scene from Nature: there are huge rooms and great, highly intellectual arrangements; yet its very lovely, with such a clear and limpid atmosphereall in clear shades (Mother gives up trying to describe it). Oh, its so luminous and lovely, very well organized, as far as the eye can see; it seems as big as the earth. The rooms are roofless, just imagine! Huge roofless rooms flooded with light, and transparent partitions. And the people inside seem very, very awarenot a lot of people, but extremely studious and attentive, and they are creating arrangements of things. They must be people writing books. They are making compositionsoh, if you knew how lovely it was! Its as if they were taking colors and more or less geometrical forms and placing them in relation to one another. There are huge pigeonholes where everything is in order, and yet without doors, not closed upwide open and still completely protected. An interesting place. I dont usually go there Ive gone maybe two or three times in my life, without paying much attention but lately, because of this book you are writing, Sri Aurobindo is taking me there all the time.
   And there are people with no countryhe takes me to a place where the people have no country, no race, no special costume they seem very universal. And they move around harmoniously, silently, as though they were gliding and with precision, everything is extremely precise. Some of them have even shown me things: there were some lovely colored papers! But these colors are unearthly, somehow transparent. They were arranging it all, demonstrating and explaining to me how it has to be arranged to give the maximum effect.
   I have seen you there several times. You were wearing something similar to what you are wearing now [dhoti]: not European they wear the costume of no particular country. Its usually white, but not made of cloth. Its all on a VERY luminous, very orderly, very clear mental plane-no objects lying around, only things like sheets of paper, which seem to be ideas or compositions of ideas, but no clutter. Its vast, vast, so vast you can see no end to it! And up above its wide open, and a light is constantly descending. What you walk on is a little more solid, but not much more. Its an interesting place.
   I go there almost every night for half or three-quarters of an hour, and Sri Aurobindo shows it all to me. Some people are waiting for himin certain corners everything is ready and waiting and when he comes they show him what they have done. Then he explains: a word, a gesture, not much, and then, ah! It takes a form. Its an interesting place. I am putting you in touch with it all the time, all the time, every dayit doesnt matter if you dont remember, its not important.

0 1961-09-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel this so often now. How to put it. I always try not to talktalking bothers me. Yes, its a real nuisance. When I see someone, the first thing I do is to avoid talking. Then, when the Vibration comes, its good; there is a sort of communication, and if the person is the least bit receptive, what comes is like a its subtler than music; its a vibration bringing its own principle of harmony. But people usually get impatient after a while and, wanting something more concrete, oblige me to talk. They always insist on it. Then, being in a certain atmosphere, a certain vibration, I immediately feel something going like this (gesture of a fall to another level), and then hardening. Even when I babble (you see, the very effort of trying to be more subtle makes me babble), even my babblings (laughing) become dry by comparison. There are all sorts of things that are so much fullerfull, packed with an inner richnessand as soon as this is put into words, oh!
   The night before last, around 3 in the morning, I was in a place where there were a lot of people from here (you were there), and I was trying to play some music, precisely in order to SAY something. There were three pianos there, which seemed to be interlocked into each other, so I leaned over sideways to get at one of the three and began playing on it. It was in a large hall with people seated at a distance, but you were just at my left alongside a young lady who was a symbol figure (that is, the vibration or impression I received from her and the relationship I had with her could be applied as well to four or five persons here: it was like relating to an amalgam something that is very interesting and often happens to me). Anyway, I was leaning over one of the keyboards and trying trying to work something out, to illustrate how this would translate into that. Finally I realized that playing half-standing, half-leaning was unnecessary acrobatics, because a grand piano was right there in front, so I sat down before it. Well, the most amusing part of it was that the keys (there were two keyboards) were all bluelike the marbled paper we are making now, all blue, and with every possible marbled effect. Black keys, white keys, high keys, low keys (all of them were the same width, quite wide, like this), all seemed to be coated but it wasnt paperwith this blue. Facing the piano I said to myself, Well now, this cant be played with physical eyesit has to be played FROM ABOVE.

0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then there is a doctor, V., who comes here twice a year to give a check-up to all who take part in the physical education program and all the children. He is an extremely honest and sincere man who believes in the mission of medical science. Each time he comes, I write something in his diary on the day of his departure (his whole diary is full of things Ive written they usually appear in the Bulletin or somewhere). On that very same day I learned that V. was leaving, and it suddenly came to meso clearly! Falsehood in the body that sort of juxtaposition of contraries, the inversion of the Vibration (only it doesnt really invertits a curious phenomenon: the vibration remains what it is but its received inverted)this falsehood in the body is a falsehood in the CONSCIOUSNESS. The falsity of the consciousness naturally has material consequences and thats what illness is! I immediately made an experiment on my body to see if this held, if it actually works that way. And I realized that its true! When you are open and in contact with the Divine, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joyand all of this in the cells of the body. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude. To be sure of this, I repeated the experiment three or four times, and it was absolutely automatic, like the operation of a chemical formula: same conditions, same results.
   This interested me greatly.

0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was like that yesterday something so solid was with me (Mother touches her head); how to put it? Its solid, but not in the way we usually speak of solidity! Its not like that.
   And my head became heavy.

0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The experience was extremely intense, so I didnt do anything with my note, I put it aside. Then recently someone mentioned the first of January. What the devil am I going to read to them? I wondered (I usually read them a message). And I thought of this text: Ill change this scribble a bit, humanize it and bring it down a few rungs (smiling); then it will do. So I wrote: WE thirst for perfection, etc. In the experience it was only the BODY, you understand (the other part of the being is quite all right)the body is in this state. All the rest is very happyvery happy, in perpetual joy and eurythmy (gesture of great waves), feeling divine Love (not Love as such I dont know how to say it): this Love without object, this Love which is neither originated nor receivedwithout object, without cause or origin. Its the feeling of floating in something.
   Thats all very fine. But the body remains miserable.

0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But truly, EVERYTHING was changed at that moment: something was achieved. It was the perception of Power the Power that comes from Love (what Love is to the Supreme Consciousness, which has nothing to do with what we usually mean by the word love). And it was it was simple! None of those complications resulting from thought, intellect, understandingall that was gone, all gone. A formidable Power! And it made me understand one thing, that the state I had been put in (by the Lord of Yoga, in fact) was for obtaining the particular power that comes through an identity with all material things, a power possessed by certain personsnot always yogis, certain mediums, for instance. I saw it with Madame Theon: she would will a thing to come to her instead of going to the thing herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her mattershe exercised a will over her matterher central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an organization of Matter. And so I began to understand: With this comes the power to put each thing in its place! provided one is universal enough.
   Well, I have understood. And now I know where I stand.

0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Another thing I didnt mention to you when I related the experience was that the ship had no engine. Everything was set in motion through will powerpeople, things (even the clothes people wore were a result of their will). And this gave all things and every persons shape a great suppleness, because there was an awareness of this willwhich is not a mental will but a will of the Self, what could be called a spiritual will or a soul-will (to give the word soul that particular meaning). I have that experience right here when theres an absolute spontaneity in action, I mean when the action for instance, an utterance or a movementis not determined by the mind, and not even (not to mention thought or intellect), not even by the mind that usually sets us in motion. Generally, when we do something, we can perceive in ourselves a will to do it; when you watch yourself, you see this: there is always (it can happen in a flash) the will to do. When you are conscious and watch yourself doing something, you see in yourself the will to do itthis is where the mind intervenes, its normal intervention, the established order in which things happen. But the supramental action is decided by a leap over the mind. The action is direct, with no need to go through the mind. Something enters directly into contact with the vital centers and activates them without going through the mindyet in full consciousness. The consciousness doesnt function in the usual sequence, it functions from the center of spiritual will straight to matter.
   And so long as you can keep that absolute immobility in the mind, the inspiration is absolutely pureit comes pure. When you can catch and hold onto this while youre speaking, then what comes to you is unmixed too, it stays pure.

0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of health.
   And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.

0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When one is identified with the Supreme, there is a place where all is unequivocally known: in the past, in the present, in the future and everywhere. But when they return, those who go there usually forget what they have seen. A particularly strict discipline is needed to remember. Thats the only realm where you cant be mistaken.
   But the links of communication are seldom all there, so one rarely remembers.
  --
   "Hearing behind a sound," Mother explained, "means to make contact with the subtle reality behind the material fact: behind the word or the physical sound, or behind music, for example. You concentrate and then hear what is behind. It means contacting the vital reality behind appearances (there can also be a mental reality, but usually what is immediately behind the physical noise is a vital reality)."
   The studio on Rue Lemercier in Paris, in 1898.

0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   One day I was all tensed up; things had become so intolerable, as people say, that something in the most material vital went into whats usually considered a fit of rage (it was totally under control I mean it was working as a safety valve and being observed as such in all its vibrations). I was alone in the bathroom, nobody to see me; I grabbed hold of I dont remember what and smashed it on the floor!
   Aah, what a relief!
  --
   For instance, I am completely snowed under with material work, letters, people, matters to arrange and decide, big things to organize, all of it falling on me from every side and trying to take up all my time and energy. At times it really gets too much. So when its too much, I say, All right, Lord, now I will nestle in Your arms. And there I am, no longer thinking, no longer bothering about anything, and I go into Bliss. usually after ten minutes everything is fine!
   The trouble is, the mental mechanism isnt there any more. Before, with the mind working, I would take up this thing or do that thing, but now I dont let it function, so theres nothing to make me move!

0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   By neglecting to explain this aspect [in this Talk], I passed over a large part of the topic in silence. I usually dont speak of those things, or else mention them only in passingit terrifies people and they immediately start wondering, Oh, is it really a god? Is it this is it that? Could it be a devil in disguise? They panic.
   Only its perfectly true that to deal with those realms one must either be fully protected by a guru, a real guru, a man with knowledge, or else have purity (not saintliness), an unmixed vital and mental purity. Very, very often, bhaktas [devotees] of Sri Aurobindo or mewhen they are sincere, truly sincere, that is, people of great spiritual purityhave dozens of beings appear to them, saying, I am Sri Aurobindo. It happens all the time, with all the right external appearancesits very easy for such beings to put on a disguise. It takes the inner psychic purity not to be deceivedyou invariably FEEL something that makes it impossible for you to be duped. But otherwise, many, many people are taken in.
  --
   The other day, didnt I tell you the story of those entities working for me? (It wasnt you? Id had a vision.) In fact, I very often see entities like Nature spirits when I enter the subtle physical and work there ( usually for people here and the Ashram, and for the world at large), I very, very often have them with me, or else I meet them in the course of my work. They are forces, generally feminine in appearance, that do some work and have a great deal of power. They are usually the ones that respond to Tantric invocations (I dont mean the Tantrics who call on Kali or Durga, thats something else altogether, those belong to a totally different world). Most of the time these Nature forces are very willing to helpat any rate, they are wonderfully obliging with me! But they are limited beings, with their own ideas and laws, their own volition, and when vexed they can do unpleasant things. Yet they are not hostile beings, nor are they vital beings: they are personified forces of physical Nature, in the subtle physical.
   A world of things could be said.

0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And actually, apart from the fact of suffering (you know, an ache here, an ache there, a pain here, a pain there, giving the sense of bodily individuality), apart from that, that great undulating movement of life is my normal consciousness. Meaning that I what I call Me (gesture high above), my consciousness, is completely outside the body. Thats what the consciousness of the body is (what Ive just been describing), with only points of pain as reminders of what a body usually is: an ache here, an ache there, another ache here. Thats what its like. And this pain has a small and extremely limited life; its not general, its not a body that suffers: it is suffering that suffers. Its a point, a point of paina scratch here, a sore there, things like that. Thats what is individual and suffersits not the body that has a sore, you understand.
   It is difficult to express.

0 1962-07-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have noticed that the very thing you feel youve done most poorly is usually the most useful. It has always been like that for me. I remember doing a lot of thingsa bit of painting, a bit of music, a bit of writing (very little)and it was just when I used to think, Oh, la-la! What a fiasco!, that people were the most touched and pleased.
   You mustnt be concerned with it, its totally irrelevant.

0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Thats it. And then illnesses related to colloidal disorders (blood, for example, is a colloidal fluid): when the component elements cease to combine in the normal and natural way. Both are newly recognized causes of illness. And they usually (I dont say in every case) result from what is called an inner discrepancy; that is, when the different parts of the being have not reached the same level of development, things of that nature may crop up.
   With very few exceptions, these illnesses are not found to originate from germs, microbes or bacteria. They are frequently classified as mental illnesses, nervous disorders, etc., and they result from that inner discrepancy.

0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is quite evident that X and I are not on the same plane. His power and his action are on a mental-physical plane (gesture below), and this may bring me some complications by making me do a work I usually have nothing to do with.
   You have often told me that each time he comes it stirs up lower things.
  --
   It doesnt touch me because that whole realm has been completely set in order, but it does touch the atmosphere and puts me in contact with things I usually dont deal with. And as its a difficult time for the body now. As I told you in our last conversations, the physical is being penetrated by the subtle physical.
   The body obviously doesnt need any more difficulties than it already has.
  --
   So pushing this knowledge to its limit that is, applying it generallylife (what we usually call life, the physical life of the body) and death are THE SAME THING, simultaneous its just that the consciousness moves back and forth, back and forth (same gesture). I dont know if I am making myself clear. But its fantastic.
   And this experience comes with examples just as concrete and as utterly banal as can be. Theres no room for imagination or enthusiasm they are details of the utmost banality. For example (its only ONE example), this sudden shift of consciousness takes place (something imperceptible, you cant perceive it, for if you had time to perceive it, I suppose it wouldnt happen; it isnt objectified), and you feel youre going to faint, all the blood rushes from the head to the feet and: whoops! But if the consciousness is caught IN TIME, it doesnt happen; and if its not caught in time, it does.
  --
   Outwardly, of course, these troubles (these apparent troubles) upset people, especially the doctor! Ive explained to him that it was all yoga and transformation, and he shouldnt worry, but evidently its upsetting to ordinary eyes. One fact in particular is bewildering to ordinary vision: I am very, very regularly losing weight. Its already down to a ridiculous figure I weigh only 85 pounds! With my height and bone structure, my normal weight should be 130 pounds; when I was twenty-five I weighed 130 or 135. Now I am down to only 85, and its going down quite regularly. I understand how disturbing this might be for people who see things in the ordinary way! I dont eat much (not a little, not a lot, just average), and I dont seem to benefit from what I eat thats how it looks on the surface. And then there are these strange phenomena; I dont usually talk about them (youre the only one I have explained them to, nobody else), I dont talk about them, but from time to time I appear to I must appear to be fainting. And not in the usual way, you know, thats the thing! Nothing happens in the usual way, so its very upsetting! (Mother laughs) The Energy is tremendous, more tremendous than it has ever been; and there is practically no physical strength. I can act, but only if I bring in the Energy: the least physical act demands the Energy. I think the body is completely flimsy; it seems sometimes I touch it to see if its still if its hard or if its soft!
   (silence)

0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Because its something else altogether. Untranslatable, not the same mentality! Like French humor and English humortheyre far, far apart so far apart that theyre usually impervious to each other!
   ***

0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its something that can be very concretely sensed, if we stop seeing things the way we usually do.
   Many of these aphorisms were surely written at a time when the higher mind suddenly surged into the Supermind. It hasnt yet forgotten how things look in the ordinary way, but it now sees how they are in the supramental way. And as a result, theres this kind of thing, thats what gives this paradoxical form. Because the one is not forgotten and the other is already perceived.

0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But it was funny; it was really an experience, because had you asked me my impression beforeh and (my, I mean what usually talks), my impression was that I just had to decide to go to the balcony and it would happen (the only impossibility I saw was finding time for it). But thats not how it is, thats not it AT ALL. Its something else, utterly new, something I dont know; I have absolutely no reference points, and decisions are made on the highest levelonly with regard to the body. I mean for the work in general, for the terrestrial vision and all that, theres no difference: its seen, its known. But for this special thing in the body, I am not consulted.
   I was really amused.

0 1963-03-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Because at the start, there is usually that vibration with all the colors, though with blue strongly predominant (the color I have come to call the Tantric power in Matter); thats immediately with you, its a sort of normal state of concentration. Then afterwards, you seemed to recede or stretch out into a vast Immensity of very quiet silvery whitenessvery quiet and unbroken. Like a receding from outer life and a stretching out into that state. And then there comes downliterally comes downa very intense golden light, very intense, almost (what could I call it?) a colorful gold, really golden, very, very intense, and as though atomizeda powdering. The three in succession. Dont you feel that way?
   I feel the second movement: a sense of expanse, it is all white and open.

0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The extent of that deformation is so considerable, so generalized that usually you dont notice it, either in yourself or in othersyou notice it only when it assumes glaring proportions, but then hypocrisy, for example.
   But I am speaking of a phenomenon thats constant.

0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Once again I was tall I am always tall. But I hadnt dressed as I do usually: I wore a short dress. There were lots of people there; I recognized everyone, I could hear everyones voice, it was very, very distinct. And there were two girls (not girls, theyre women now, but to me they were like girls), two girls talking to each other and saying, How strong her legs are! (Its symbolic.) And at the same time, I saw my legs as if there were a mirror to show them to me! I had a short dress and I saw my legs and my two feet with shoes onmy feet had shoes on. And a short dress. Very active.
   Voil.

0 1963-10-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There are also some rather amusing things: yesterday I saw some people who arent from here; usually I dont speak to people, but I spoke to them. I started saying something, then Sri Aurobindo interrupted me: Dont tell them that, theyll be convinced that you always harp on the same thing! And it was true I took a look and stopped instantly. He is always letting me know, This one feels this way, that one thinks that way, that one He is very, very much mingled with everything, all the time, all the time.
   Then at other times, its as if he were no longer here at allno longer here, only up there in the Supermind! (Mother laughs)

0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But the other experience, which came first and is now continuous (it hasnt left me, which is quite rare: usually, experiences come, assert themselves, impose themselves, then they fade away to be replaced by others; but in this case, it didnt go, its continuous), this other experience is of a more general order.
   Human love, what people call love, even at its best, even taking it in its purest essence, is something that goes to one person, but not to another: you love SOME people (sometimes even you love only certain qualities in some people); you love SOME people, and that means its partial and limited. And even for those who are incapable of hatred there is a number of people and things that they are indifferent to: there is no love (in most cases). That love is limited, partial and defined. Its unstable, moreover: man (I mean the human being) is unable to feel love in a continuous way, always with the same intensityat certain times, for a moment, it becomes very intense and powerful, and at other times it grows dim; sometimes, it falls completely asleep. And thats under the best conditions I am not speaking of all the degradations, I am speaking of the feeling people call love, which is the feeling closest to true love; thats how it is: partial, limited, unstable and fluctuating.

0 1964-08-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   True, one doesnt remember much. Personally, I am used to it and if I remain (even after getting up), if I remain sufficiently quiet and absorbed in the consciousness of my dream (not dream, but anyway of my activity), I find it again, it comes back I relive it. But usually, one remembers just an image, like you something that struck and came through to the other side.
   In fact, one is very, very active. To succeed in having a part of the night still (not only mentally: a supreme Stillness in that great universal Movement) requires a whole lot of work, a lot of work.

0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   usually, I dont say anything until its firmly established, because But anyway, thats how it was.
   And at the same time, a reliefa physical reliefas if the air were easier to breathe. Yes, it was a bit like being shut inside a shella suffocating shell and at any rate, an opening has been made in it. You can breathe. I dont know if its more than that, but at any rate, something has been as if torn open, and you can breathe.

0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This took place around 11:30. In the afternoon, usually I take my bath and stretch out a little, a good while, over there. I said to the Lord, And after all, why (laughing) cant I do something for people like this who are really nice? Why cant I work miracles? I asked Him this half seriously, half in jest. Then all of a sudden, it became very serious. All of a sudden, the Presence was very intense and it was very serious. Then l felt something that said in an absolutely positive way (it was translated into words), You MUST NOT have powers. And the total understanding.
   You must not have powers.

0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And the body no longer finds pleasure in any of those things that are usually pleasant to a body: its perfectly indifferent to them. But slowly, something, or someone, is teaching it to have, not pleasure or anything that looks (even remotely) like excitement, but a comfortable vibration in certain things of the senses. But thats very, very different from what it was before.
   It is clear that in order to follow its own rhythm, the body should reduce its activities to the minimum; not exactly reduce, but have the freedom of choice of its movements: nothing should be imposed on it from outsidewhich is quite far from reality. And yet, if one looks at the whole, there is an absolute conviction, even in the body, that nothing happens that isnt the effect of the supreme Will. Therefore, the conditions in which it finds itself are the conditions that He has wanted and wants that He wantsat every second. So the conclusion is that there must be in the body a resistance or an incapacity to follow the Movement.

0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, listen, it was Y.s birthday the other day. I told her to come. She came: her face was exactly like her monkeys! She sat down in front of me, we exchanged a few words, then I concentrated and closed my eyes, and then I opened my eyesshe had the face of the ideal madonna! So beautiful! And as I had seen the monkey (the monkey wasnt ugly, but it was a monkey, of course), and then that, Ah! it struck me, I thought, What wonderful plasticity. A face oh, a truly beautiful face, perfectly harmonious and pure, with such a lovely aspirationoh, a beautiful face! Then I looked a few times: it was no longer one or the other, it was it was something (what she usually is, I mean), and it was behind the veil. But those two visions were without the veil.
   And for me thats how it is, I dont see people, I no longer see (but that has been going on for a long time), I no longer see the way people do, the way they are used to seeing. At times someone tells me, Have you noticed, so-and-so is like this or like that? I answer, No, I havent seen anything. And at other times I see things no one else sees! Its a much more complete development than simply switching from one vision to the other.

0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And usually my nightly activities are never in the material, they are always in the subtle physical, its densest part, if I may say so. Maybe I havent even had in my life half a dozen visions with the material reality as it is: I saw the room as it is and heard the sound of Champaklals voice clearly. Then I understood it was this physical mind dreaming, having an activity, and that it was to show me that attraction You understand, the door opening abruptly, the man coming in and telling me (Mother takes on a tragic tone), I am bringing very bad news, and that tense atmosphere, and then, He has fallen down and broken his head. Then I tried to know who the he was, and little by little and so on.
   With this sort of work to establish perfect equality, I never drive something away immediately, saying, No, thats not possible. One must be calm and collected in the face of all things. I was calm and collected, thinking, Let us see, let me wait for two days, and if he has really broken his head (laughing), Ill find out! Of course, nothing happened. And when I got your letter, I had the feeling it was the same thing, but I thought, Let us see, let us wait. I looked, and didnt see anything. Through your letter and your words I looked, but didnt see anything. And I had the feeling it was this same physical mind that made contact with a formationa malicious formation, because such is the habit of the physical mind.

0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The message we distributed on the 24th,4 it was Sri Aurobindo who had told me to keep it for the 24th, that was very clear and very categorical, but I didnt know why. But now he has clearly shown me why and Ive well understood. Because this Power is becoming more and more obviousthis Truth-Power and naturally human thought, which is childish (it has the same attitude towards supramental thought as what we may call animal thought or sentiment has towards human thought or sentiment), has almost a need for superstition (superstition is an ugly word for something thats not ugly: its an ignorant, ingenuous and very trusting faith), and, well, as soon as you feel the influence of a Power, that faith makes you believe in the miracle, it makes you believe that the Supramental is going to manifest now, that you are going to become supramental, and that And quite amusingly, I usually have to send out two to three hundred of these messages every darshan (everyone asks me for some for his correspondents); and this time, I havent even given a hundred of them! (Laughing) Not even a hundred. Ah, its not so comfortable, of course, it comes and tells you, No, no, be sensible.
   Its very amusing. I still have my whole stack here.

0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I very well imagine that its not something absolute; it was only ONE way of being, but a charming way of being! usually, when those who dont have a sufficient intellectual preparation have an experience like this one, they think they have caught the only truth. And then, from it, they dogmatize. But I clearly saw it wasnt that: its ONE way of being, but a wonderful way of being, of course! Infinitely superior to the one we have here. And we CAN have it here: I had it. I had it quite concretely. And there is always something going wrong (a pain here or a pain there, or this or that, and then circumstances going wrong too, always difficulties) the color of it all changes. And it becomes buoyant, you know, lightlight, supple. All the hardness and rigiditygone.
   And the feeling that if you choose to be that way, you can go on being that way. And its true. Its all the bad habitshabits that have been on earth for thousands of years, obviouslyits all the bad habits that stop you; but there is no reason why it couldnt be a permanent state. Because it changes everything! Everything changes! You know, I was brushing my teeth, washing my eyes, doing the most material things: their nature changed! And there was a vibration, a conscious vibration in the eye that was being washed, in the toothbrush, in All that, all of it was different. And it is clear that if you become the master of that state, you can change all circumstances around you.

0 1966-04-16, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its amusing, Ive just done that as if I had been made to do it. usually its always blank and still here (gesture to the forehead), and thats what it gets inscribed on; but just now it wasnt like that: I read, it came here, then I made a movement backwards: a door opened, and then it was clearly written!
   ***

0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The other day, for example, the day before yesterday (not last night, but the night before), I was with Sri Aurobindo, and Sri Aurobindo had taken on the appearance of the photograph of him in which he is young, with long hair: that full-face photograph in which he has a fair complexion and very dark hair. He was like tha the WAS like that, it wasnt a picture: he WAS like that. And we were looking at certain things, talking about certain things (we dont talk much, but anyway), looking at some thingswhen I suddenly see his face all tormented like this (gesture as if the face had shrunk). He usually always has a very calm and very smiling, quiet face; but all of a sudden, it was quite tormented, and then he abruptly sat back on that sort of seat, a sort of couch. So I looked at him, and he told me, Oh, how they are distorting things. Look at this fellow, how they are distorting things. Almost immediately afterwards, it was time and I woke up, I got up. And I said to myself, I thought one wasnt tormented in that state! Then I heard today that A., who was here and left to be a political activist there [in Bengal], is speaking in Sri Aurobindos name, mon petit! And he issues political declarations. Thats what I had seen. It wasnt that Sri Aurobindo was annoyed: the image of his face was the image of what the others were doing!1 (Mother laughs) How can I explain it? Its very strange, you know. It was the image of what those people did with his teaching, it wasnt the expression of his own feeling. You know, what goes on here, what we describe, is so blunt, devoid of fineness, crude, like a rough-hewn statue: its rough, crude, exaggerated; and its distorted by the sense of separation given by the ego. While there, I dont know how to explain, there, all is one, there is one single thing taking on all sorts of forms like that (Mother turns her two hands together, one wrapped inside the other) in order to express something, but not with one center that feels and another center that sees and another center that understands; its not like that, its (same gesture), its all ONE substance with inexpressible suppleness, which adapts itself to all the movements of all that happens, which expresses all that happens, without separation. So then, it leaves me in a state that goes on for hours in the morning, in which I am in this world [here], yet without being in it. Because I dont feel things the way the world feels them. Its a very strange phenomenon.
   Yesterday, I remained like that the whole morning, in a very strange state, and the state seemed to want me to remember, to have the memory, and it left me only when I said (I said, I dont know, I didnt say it to anyone, I just said) that I would tell you about it today. Then I was allowed to resume contact with everyday life.

0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So then, the result (laughing) is that the body is a little better! It no longer feels that tension so much. But it has been advised to be very peaceful, very peaceful, above all no excitement, no joy as one usually has it (the vital joy that is aware of itself and expresses itself), not that, nothing of all that: very peaceful, very peaceful. Its something so pure, oh! So translucent, transparent, light.
   Its the first time I have felt this physically. Meaning its the first time these cells have had this experience.

0 1966-08-10, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Plenty of people (I think its those who are usually called intellectuals) cannot distinguish thought from consciousness: if they dont think, they are unconscious! (Thats the sequel to what I told you just before about the new man.) To them, consciousness always means words. Thats odd.
   Its still a long, long way to the new man.4

0 1966-08-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning and end of the following conversation could not be tape-recorded because of mechanical trouble, and only the middle remains. The conversation was about an experience of Mothers; she described the place in which Satprem usually rests at night and from which he draws the atmosphere of his present book: a place very harmonious in color and substance. Then Sujata tells Mother a dream she had a few days ago.)
   When you went to this place of harmony, did you play music? Because I saw you play music for him.

0 1967-01-09, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel like I am there (gesture above the head), and usually its not like that. Since this morning Ive had the feeling of being there (same gesture), and its extremely strong there, as if something were being done. I feel that a work is being done (at night too).
   I dont know if its an effect of your experience, but I have great difficulty being in physical things: in words, gestures, all outward things. A great difficulty.

0 1967-02-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have some interesting things to tell you. Its about this cold. An extraordinary healing power All the phases in their most acute form, with the study of the process, and each phase gone through in a few hours, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). usually, when you have a cold, you go through one phase, then another (you know how it is), then it goes lower down, then you cough, then All that was gone through quickly, and in two days it was over. And with the whole process, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes, acts, and at once Oh, it was very, very interesting, because there was the part played by the inconscient, the part played by conscious reactions, the part played by the will (tremendous, an enormous part), the part played by mental suggestion (tremendous too), and the action of the supreme Vibration. The whole thing in detail, day and night, constantly; to such a point that at moments I stood still, like that, to follow the course. And it lasted (I saw you on Saturday) for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday: those three days.
   Its my fault it started; as I told you, I had complained about these sinuses which were a constant nuisance, and there was also that constant inflammation of the mouth and the throat. So it had its effect. I cant say its fully over because there still remains a lot, quite a lot of the old habit, but it came with the intention of changing things.

0 1967-04-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was followed by another peculiar experience. Some people in Bombay have taken it into their heads to prepare a big event for 1968, when I turn ninety (supposedly ninety!). So they have prepared brochures which they are going to distribute to lots of people and so on I am quite indifferent to it, but they sent it to me for my approval. I stuck it in a corner and didnt bother about it. They returned to the charge, went and saw Nolini, said they were in a hurry because its a big work and they needed to have it right away, so I shouldnt keep them waiting. So Nolini started reading out the brochure. And as he was reading (they included all that Sri Aurobindo said on the universal Mother, the Mothers Aspects and all that, the whole old storygenerally it leaves me quite indifferent), but while he was reading, when he gave all the quotations and sentences, there was a kind of sensation (I dont know how to explain it), a sensation of imposed limitation, with a malaise, and something that wanted to break those limits. I didnt say anything. I said, I dont want to concern myself with this, do what you like, its no business of mine. And he answered along those lines, politely. But I found it very interesting, because that sense of malaise, of constrictionlimitation, constrictionwas very, very strong. So I said, Whats going on? What is it, why do I feel this way? What is it? As I said, usually I let myself float in an indifference, like thatnot indifference, but (vast gesture). Instead of that, it was as if someone wanted to shut me in something. Then I looked, and the memory of the experience [of the pulsations] came back, and I understood. Its interesting.
   All this is felt in the body; all the experiences are in the body, in thiswhich, besides I sometimes look (laughing), I look to see (I look from above), to see if theres still a form! (Mother laughs) Its peculiar. And why does it remain like this? Oh, I have stopped asking this question too. Its like that its like that as the effect of a supreme Grace, because if it were otherwise it would be intolerableintolerable for everybody.

0 1967-04-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Something still remained (but not as strong as that), something remained when I went to the balcony (in the afternoon of the 24th). At the balcony I was different from what I usually am. I dont exactly know what it was. But then, the photographs are very different; there is something in the photographs that isnt there usually. There was a special atmosphere.
   (silence)

0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I did somethingnot something special because I usually do it but more totally, I might say, than usual. Id like to know if you felt anything?
   I dont know. It seemed so much THAT.

0 1967-11-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But here too, I get an impression of someone Its very different from you as you are usually.
   Isnt it!

0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   What I mean is that usually (always till now, and more and more so), men establish mental rules according to their conceptions and their ideal, then they apply them (Mother lowers her fist, as if to show the world under the mental grip). And thats absolutely false, arbitrary, unreal, with the result that things revolt, or else waste away and disappear. Its the experience of LIFE ITSELF that must slowly work out rules AS SUPPLE AND VAST as possible, in order that they remain ever progressive. Nothing must be fixed. Thats the immense error of governments: they build a framework and say, Here is what weve established, now we must live under it. So naturally, Life is crushed and prevented from progressing. It is Life itself, developing more and more in a progression towards Light, Knowledge, Power, that must progressively establish rules as general as possible, so as to be extremely supple and capable of changing according to needof changing AS RAPIDLY as habits and needs do.
   (silence)

0 1968-01-24, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother usually has a bath around 2:30 P.M.
   ***

0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yesterday (I cant say yesterday morning), I came back from there [the music room] after seeing seventy-eight people. It was 3 oclock: the time when, usually, I resume my work after taking my bathso didnt have lunch. Well, the so-called lunch has long gone to the winds.
   (silence)

0 1968-03-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   These last few days, seen again in the present imperfect consciousness, there repeatedly came (but its all methodical and organized by an overall organization infinitely superior to anything we can imagine) a state which is the state causing a break in the equilibrium, that is, the dissolution of the formwhats usually called death. And that state went up to the extreme limit, like a demonstration, with at the same time the state (not a perception the state) that prevents the break in the equilibrium and allows progress to go on without break. The result, in the body consciousness, is the simultaneous perception (so to speak simultaneous) of what we might describe as the extreme anguish of dissolution (though its not quite that, but anyway) and the extreme Ananda of union the two simultaneously.
   So if you translate it into ordinary words: the extreme fragility (more than fragility) of the form, and the eternity of the form.

0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At one point things were so acute usually I dont lose patience, but it had reached the point where everything, just everything in the being was as if annulled. Not only could I not speak, but my head was in a state it had never been in my whole existencepainful, you know. I couldnt see anything anymore, couldnt hear anything anymore. Then, one day (Ill tell you the experiences afterwards), one day when things were really it was difficult, painful all over, the body said, it said really very spontaneously and very strongly, I dont care in the least about being dissolved, I am quite ready to live, but this condition is impossible, it cannot go oneither live or die, but not this. And from that moment on, things started improving slightly. Little by little, they took their place and were sorted out.
   I took a few notes, which arent worth much, but I think they can be used (Mother looks for her notes on a table by her side). I cant see yet. I cant see, but I know.
  --
   One night, a disciple, who usually was a very good clairvoyant, heard a voice, whose vibration was clearly hostile (a voice he felt coming from a vital world very near matter, almost a material world). That voice declared that Mother would pull through this time, but that the last battle would return in 1972.
   ***

0 1968-09-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But now, the visions are so concrete that they are almost material they arent visions, you understand: its life for a certain length of time. Its certainly in a region where I didnt use to see previously.1 Very concrete, precise, and the transition from that state to the waking state is almost imperceptible. Its not a reversal of consciousness as it usually is: its almost imperceptible, as though intermingled (Mother slides the fingers of her right hand between those of her left hand to show how the two worlds interpenetrate).
   I see all kinds of people whom I generally didnt use to see. For instance, I didnt use to dream of P., I never used to see him at night; now I see him often, but (how to explain?) with just a slight change (same gesture of the fingers of one hand sliding between those of the other hand), its very Its not the same region at all. M. too, for instance, I didnt use to see him at night; last night, I saw him for a long time I questioned him, he answered me, I spoke to him. It was quite concrete.

0 1968-11-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Just today, I saw a German lady who worked for a while in N.s dispensary. Naturally, she noticed he lacked everything he needed from a modern viewpoint; and for a reason I dont know, she has to go back to Germany, but she wants to come back with the full equipment. And she asked to see me before leaving. Id never seen her before. She came, I told her a few words about what she should do, then she didnt want to leave anymore! She was sitting. So I simply did as I usually do, that is, the body (I dont know how to explain) seems to disappear, then the Lord (gesture of Descent) And then a thing which has happened, I dont know, maybe hundreds of times: poff! she got up and (laughing) did a pranam and left. Hundreds of times its happened! And you know its a Supergoodness (I dont know how to explain it to you), something so marvelously loving and good and but its awesomely powerful! I think what terrifies them is the power. It happens all the time. The body goes like this (gesture of standing back or disappearing), and the Presence is there. And I simply look. But nine times out of ten, they take flight!
   Some are used to it and are on the contrary very happy, but they arent many.

0 1968-12-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   usually I play some music for him, and he composes from it, but this time I didnt play, so he took some old pieces of mine; with that he makes contact and composes.
   An American musician has come here, and I sent him to Sunil (hes a pianist). He said hed heard some of Sunils music there, in America, and at first people are a bit bewildered, but that when theyve heard it several times, they become quite enthusiastic.

0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was far more external than the things I usually feel, far more external. Hardly mental at all, I mean there was no sense of a promise or No. It would rather be like My own impression was that of an immense personality, immense (meaning that for it, the earth was small, like this [Mother holds a small object in the hollow of her hands], like a ball), an immense personality, so very benevolent, and coming to (Mother seems to gently raise the little ball in the hollow of her hands). It was the impression of a personal god (yet it was I dont know) who comes to help. So very strong! And so sweet at the same time, so understanding.
   And it was very external: the body felt it everywhere, everywhere (Mother touches her face, her hands), all over like this.
  --
   It interested me because it was entirely new. And so concrete! Concrete like this (Mother touches the arms of her chair), like what the physical consciousness usually regards as others, as concrete as that. Which means it didnt come through some inner being, through the psychic being: it came DIRECTLY onto the body.
   What is it? Yes, it may be that. The bodys feeling since that took place has been a sort of certitude; a certitude as if now it no longer were in an anxiety or uncertainty to know. What will it be? What will this Supramental PHYSICALLY be like? the body used to wonder. What will it be like physically? Now, it no longer thinks about it, its happy.

0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This mornings experience was very curious. All of a sudden, it awakened the memory of something that took place in my childhood when I was about eight or ten (which I had completely forgotten). On Sundays (I suppose so, or anyway on holidays), I used to go and play with my first cousins, the children of a brother of my father. I would go and play with them. I remember their house, I can still see it. We would usually spend our time playing scenes or enacting a story in tableaux. And today, it showed me something I had really forgotten. Theres a story of Bluebeard, isnt there? (Bluebeard I forget, I only know what I remembered this morning.) One day, we did a tableau vivant, in several tableaux, with the story of Bluebeard who cut off his wives heads. (To Satprem:) Thats how the story went, isnt it? (Laughter) I only remember this morning, I dont recall the story. Now, we played in a big room, a sort of enclosed verandahin Paris, a big long room. We had stood (our playmates were little boys and girls), we had stood a certain number of girls against the wall: we had stuck them to the wall, with their hair strung above their heads (Mother laughs), and we had put a sheet in front to cover the rest of their bodies the sheet reached down to the floor so that we couldnt see their bodies, only their heads! I am saying that because I saw it this morning, otherwise I didnt remember in the least. I saw this scene, I saw the memory of that room and how it was all arranged. And at the same time there came You see, we found it quite natural, just a story we had read; I remembered my impression at the time: there was no sense of horror! We didnt find it monstrous (laughing), we were having great fun! So the experience came, and it remained for OVER AN HOUR to make me understand very deeply where this memory came from, how it acted and why we were in that state. And all of it not at all from a personal standpoint, not at all: from the general standpoint of the earth and humanity in general. It was exceedingly interesting! And then, at the same time, a vision showing how, with what swift movement, the universal consciousness moves (arrowlike gesture) in a progression towards the Divine the TRUE Divine, I mean, not religions, of coursetowards the TRUE Divine through all that. And with the consciousness of the WHOLEthe whole and nuances (Sade and all that line), from the highest to the lowest. For one hour I saw a whole stage of humanitya stage towards the late 1800s, the second half of the 1800sand how it moved on and progressed (gesture like a great curve). And thats I have no words or capacity to describe it, but its extraordinarily interesting. The vision of the human collectivity on earth, with all its stages, gradations, nuances, and how it all followed a movement (same arrowlike gesture). And this story (story this VISION, rather, because it wasnt a story: I didnt see what we said or anything, only the vision of what we did), this story came as the illustration of a certain state of mind of those times, and how children were given stories of that kind to readwe found it quite natural! (Mother laughs) And those things are so dreadful.
   As soon as I am not busy talking or listening to people or doing a work, it goes on and on: certain samples, as it were, of this bodys life are taken up again, and through those samples, the whole is shown. A wonderful education! Never, never does any human education as its conceived resemble this, because its a vision of the whole, in which everything hangs together; youre shown everything together.

0 1969-03-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There are obviously certain things that come in corroboration; they are based on certain scientific experiments theyre now making, such as birth through an operation:1 theres no need of a deliberate intervention anymore. So then, it had lost all that morbid, unpleasant side it has in lifeall that was completely gone! It was in a wholly different region. That is, a DIFFERENT consciousness, a DIFFERENT way of seeing, of feeling wholly different. Its strange, you know, all the reactions we usually have towards things it all appears meaningless. A sort of vision the equivalent of a scientific vision, but it doesnt have that mental character, its not like that: it keeps a smile. Everything, everything was seen in a very curious way, very curious.
   So the body really has a great goodwill, it says, Very well, when the decision is made, well see! But the body itself knows (just like what we have just heard2) that there is no intervention of personal effort, personal willits not like that, its oh, like beautiful music, you know, unfolding indefinitely (gesture like an immense rhythm). its extraordinary. And all that tension, all of it is gone, entirely.

0 1969-07-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   While usually those quarrels dont strike me at all. I clearly felt, This is the beginning of something. That was three or four days ago, before all these events. But this thought also came to me, Wont the Chinese take advantage of the situation?
   The danger is there.

0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Have I seen you since that experience? I spent one night (but I forget which), it was strange. I was with Sri Aurobindo, but a Sri Aurobindo (how can I put it?) quite joyful, full of liveliness, and slightly more material than what I usually see, as though not material, but (I dont know how to explain) more precise, and we spent hours working together, seeing things, seeing people, doing things, and so on. But then, the strange part, the peculiar part was that it didnt depend on my body being asleep: it didnt sleep, it was simply quiet; and in the middle of it I had to get up, but when I did, that consciousness and activity didnt cease. It was the ordinary consciousness (that is, the perception of ordinary things, of the room and all that) which was somewhat less precise. It was as if topsy-turvy, you understand. And it remained for a long time, even in the morning, until I was obliged to see people and do things.
   It was very particular, its the first time it has happened like that. Which means that this slightly inner consciousness was more concrete than the ordinary consciousness.

0 1969-08-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Hes had that sensation. He said, They will do it as they usually do; they generally give you a promotion somewhere: they might, for instance, nominate me bishop of [such and such a country]. Then he would be driven out of the Vatican. But when something of that kind happens, you are put under the Holy Office, which means you cannot talk to anyone and are obliged to answer with yes or no. If this situation comes, asks PL., what shall I do? Should I fight it out to assert my place at the Vatican, because they must give me the reasons for my exclusion (he can openly challenge their intentions), or should I accept, get caught tip in the meshes of a post such as that of bishop [of such and such a country], with, at the same time, a rather widespread sphere of actionshould I accept that? Or what should I do in that case? His sensation is that he is going to be excluded from the Vatican this year.
   Officially, is it the Pope who does it, or the cardinals?

0 1969-09-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But the extraordinary thing is that usually, when I am with people, after half an hour I am exhaustedafter three and a half hours (I didnt budge, didnt stop looking at him), I was as fresh as a daisy! And so full of energy that I didnt sleep the whole night! And I spent three and a half hours listening to this man. Yesterday evening (I was tired, Id had a rather heavy day), I spent only half an hour chatting with him I was as fresh as a daisy.
   Oh, but hes first-rate!

0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Ill give you an example. For a few days I had difficulties with Z and there was a sort of need to exert a pressure on him so he would rectify a few of his movements. Today he made at least four or five mistakes (they werent perceptible, in the sense that I didnt have a sensation of them: it was taking place there, like that, some distance away), but he was conscious of them in a COMPLETELY different way from usually, and he admitted it (which he never did before), and in the end he said he was changing (which is true). And all of it not only without one word, but without one movement of consciousness: simply the Pressure. So there. Thats a proof. Everything would be done automatically, like an imposition of the Truth, without any need to intervene: simply remaining in the true consciousness, thats all, its enough.
   There.

0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So Id like to know whats the key to the cure WITHOUT REPRESSION. Because usually, as a matter of fact, one puts the Light, and the wrong movement sinks below.
   Ah, yes, thats the general rule. Whats needed is the opposite! Instead of repelling it, to offer it. Its to put the thing, the movement itself, to CAST it into the Light . Generally, it squirms and refuses! But (laughing) its the only way. Thats why this Consciousness is so precious . You understand, what caused the repression is the idea of good and evila sort of contempt or shame at whats regarded as evil and so one goes like this (gesture of repelling), one doesnt want to see it, doesnt want to let it be. Whats needed The first thing the first thing to be realized is that the infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division, and that there is a Consciousness (I am sure of it now), there is a Consciousness in which that doesnt exist, in which what we call evil is as necessary as what we call good, and if we could cast our sensationor our activity or perceptioncast it into this Light, thats what cures.2 Instead of repressing or repelling it as something one wants to destroy (it cant be destroyed!), one must cast it into the Light. I had in fact several days of an experience which for that reason was very interesting; instead of trying to drive far away from yourself certain things (which you dont accept or which cause a disequilibrium in the being), instead of that, accept them, take them as a part of yourself, and (Mother opens her hands) offer themthey dont want to be offered, but theres a way to compel them. A way to compel them: the resistance is lessened to the extent that we can lessen in us the sense of disapproval. If we can replace that sense of disapproval with a higher understanding, then we can do it. Its much easier.

0 1970-03-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Now, as things are organized, to be surrounded by beautiful things you need to be rich, and thats a source of imbalance, because wealth usually goes with quite an average degree of consciousness, even mediocre at times. So theres everywhere an imbalance and a disorder. We would need a place of beautya place of beauty in which people can live only if they have reached a certain degree of consciousness. And let it not be decided by other people, but quite spontaneously and naturally. So how to do that?
   Problems of that sort are beginning to come up at Auroville, and that makes the thing very interesting. Of course, the means are very limited, but that also is part of the problem to be solved.

0 1970-03-28, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yet, usually with physical things, one feels it takes a little time to
   But thats because the cells are not used to surrendering, to giving themselves. Once the cells are conscious and give themselves, I have noticed that things can go really very fast. But it may depend on the kind of disorder; I suppose, for instance, that a broken bone may need some time to be repaired.

0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   usually I dont say anything (its the first time Ive said that), because there is still a sort of memory of what was [in the past], something remaining conscious that if those things are said quite simply as they are, then the impression people would get I dont know. The body doesnt care, but something is watchful I see that something as a person (whom I dont know, besides) watching over my body and over circumstances, and stopping me from doing certain things so there may be no catastrophes.
   Its an impersonal person, I dont know; theres no personal relationship with it, but its someone whose responsibility is to see to this bodys well-being, and especially to its relations with others, because the body has reached the point where it really couldnt care less.

0 1970-10-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Answer:) Not sex exactly, but what might be called the masculine and feminine principle. It is a difficult question [whether sex is altered in rebirth]. There are certain lines the reincarnation follows and so far as my experience goes and general experience goes, one follows usually a single line. But the alteration of sex cannot be declared impossible. There may be some who do alternate. The presence of feminine traits in a male does not necessarily indicate a past feminine birththey may come in the general play of forces and their formations. There are besides qualities common to both sexes. Also a fragment of the psychological personality may have been associated with a birth not ones own. One can say of a certain person of the past, that was not myself, but a fragment of my psychological personality was present in him. Rebirth is a complex affair and not so simple in its mechanism as in the popular idea.
   11 January 1936

0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   How did you feel about that note? I am all the more interested because I didnt have any contact with anyone at that point: Z happened to be cleaning the room while the others were busythey were my legs to do things! It was quite a physical task, you know: to get me from a chair to an armchair and from the armchair to the bed. It was really bad, I was like a childworse, worse because the rest of the body, all the rest of the body was normal, but for some time one of my legs was simply it was as if it were finished, as if there were nothing there. And little by little, little by little it came back. That was the final period. But it was not an innocent paralysis! For at least three weeksat least for three weeks there was a continuous pain, night and day, 24 hours out of 24, without any letup, none whatsoever: it was as if everything were being torn out of me. You know, I dont usually complain, but I was almost forced to cry out loud all the time. So, of course, there was no question of seeing anyone. Now its over. The pain is quite bearable and the body has resumed a somewhat normal existence.
   But I wanted to tell you that my consciousness was actively with you all the time; I thought: if he feels it, so much the better; if he doesnt it doesnt matter.1

0 1971-04-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.2
   1909-1910

0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   "The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution."
   China announced that, if India interfered in the "internal affairs" of Pakistan, she would attack.

0 1971-04-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   An impression of something that belongs to someone elseits quite curious. usually its the body that retains the continuity of the being, but that continuity belongs to such a material and superficial realm that (Mother shakes her head) unbelievable. All that seems its as if I were speaking of someone else. Its curious. No senseno sense at all of the personality. Someone whose history I know well, thats all. Its quite curious. I didnt know it had gone so far.
   By boat.

0 1971-06-12, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is not however a fact that the whole nature has to be emptied of the old things before there can be the Light and Grace. It is done usually in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more slow to receive anything new or to change. But by the detachment and steady rejection and reliance on the Mothers force, this obstinacy can be overcome and the cup emptied for filling with the Divine Light.
   January 15, 1937
  --
   As for sadhana, it is not that you have no capacity, but what has happened to many has happened to you the physical consciousness has risen up and veiled the psychic which was about to come forward. It has risen up with the insistence on the value of its own small ignorant ideas and feelings and refusing to let them go. When the psychic comes forward, all larger and more enlightened movements replace them. But usually before that happens, these things rise up and control the consciousness for a while. This state need not be a permanent condition and if one sees clearly and rejects them consciously, then it can be got over quickly but even if it lasts a long period, it can in the end be overcome and that is happening to many now. Naturally, the physical consciousness persuades the mind that it is everlasting and cannot be got over; but that is not true.
   May 21, 1937

0 1971-07-03, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In short, its becoming very, very critical: how far the world is from what it should be. usually people say theres a mixture of good and bad things; but all that is childish the good things arent any better than the bad ones. Thats not IT. The Divine is something else.
   (Mother goes within)

0 1971-12-11, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed, the prison is already starting to collapse. The end of a stage of evolution, announced by Sri Aurobindo, is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.6 Everywhere about us we see this paroxysmal shattering of all the old forms: our borders, our churches, our laws, our morals are collapsing on all sides. They are not collapsing because we are bad, immoral, irreligious, or because we are not sufficiently rational, scientific or human, but because we have come to the end of the human! To the end of the old mechanism for we are on our way to SOMETHING ELSE. The world is not going through a moral crisis but through an evolutionary crisis. We are not going towards a better worldnor, for that matter, towards a worse onewe are in the midst of a MUTATION to a radically different world, as different as the human world was from the ape world of the Tertiary Era. We are entering a new era, a supramental Quinary. We leave our countries, wander aimlessly, we go looking for drugs, for adventure, we go on strike here, enact reforms there, foment revolutions and counterrevolutions. But all this is only an appearance; in fact, unwittingly, we are looking for the new being. We are in the midst of human evolution.
   And Sri Aurobindo gives us the key. It may be that the sense of our own revolution escapes us because we try to prolong that which already exists, to refine it, improve it, sublimate it. But the ape may have made the same mistake amid its revolution that produced man; perhaps it sought to become a super-ape, better equipped to climb trees, hunt and run, a more agile and clever ape. With Nietzsche we too sought a superman who was nothing more than a colossalization of man, and with the spiritualists a super-saint more richly endowed with virtue and wisdom. But human virtue and wisdom are useless! Even when carried to their highest heights they are nothing more than the old poverties gilded over, the obverse of our tenacious misery. Supermanhood, says Sri Aurobindo, is not man climbed to his own natural zenith, not a superior degree of human greatness, knowledge, power, intelligence, will, genius, saintliness, love, purity or perfection.7 It is SOMETHING ELSE, another vibration of being, another consciousness.

0 1972-01-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I remember when I wrote the note, the words had a special meaning for me, a depth they dont usually have. Well.
   (Sujata returns with Words of Long Ago)

0 1972-03-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When I see that, theres usually a catastrophe the next day. But there was no catastrophe the next dayit seems to have fallen on you. I dont know a gigantic tidal wave.
   (after a silence)

0 1972-04-04, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You see, some people come to me I dont know their names, I dont know what they do, I know nothing about them; the new requests for admission should come to me through one of you two (because you know the practical situation and the people). Unfortunately, many people write to me, and I dont know, you see, I never remember names; I only remember when I know who they are, what they do and so on. But if you know these peoples worth and can tell me, This one is like this or that, I trust what you say; and if you tell me, That person is undesirable, well, he must go. But I have to be informed beforehand, because people usually go through one person, then another to get their request to me, and I dont keep track, I dont know. Do you see the picture? I give a general answer, and they take it as because I think its somebody else. I dont remember, I forget names the next minute I have forgotten. My head is full of something far vaster than all that, you know. There should be one personone or two (two is very good)to present the admissions to me, the new admissions to Auroville, and I fully agree to send back those you find undesirable.
   Do you understand?

0 1972-04-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Well, usually we passively leave it up to Nature to set things right when something goes wrong thats totally disappearing. Now it is a process of consciousness, and no longer. You see, the mind (laughing: its going on the supramental is still sitting on it!), the mind has been worked upon for years, so that it doesnt meddle when its none of its business and lets Nature take care of all the damage; but now Nature is being told, Keep quiet, a higher Consciousness will settle things. But that means the consciousness must be CONSTANTLY alert.
   Constantly alert.

0 1972-05-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, yes. Perfectly so. Really, its very simple: the whole creation must want nothing but the Divine, want nothing but to manifest the Divine; all its actions (including its so-called mistakes) are a means to make it inevitable for the whole creation to manifest the Divine but not a Divine as man usually conceives of, with all kinds of limitations and restrictions: a TOTALITY of tremendous power and light.
   Truly the Power is IN the world, a new and stupendous Power which has come into the world to manifest the divine Almightiness and make it manifestable, so to say.

0 1972-07-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, yes! I ask them, you know. But they say I cant see anymore. True, I cant see I see, but its a mixed vision. Its interesting (I wouldnt wish it on anybody, because the people who would see with it). I see what is true in things from the supramental point of view. And its extremely interesting. I hear sounds that people dont usually hear, because these sounds have a supramental reality. I can see. When people talk to me, I see at the same time not only what they think (thats old hat), but whats true from the supramental point of view. All the time it is like that. Both together. Because my body has no longer the same (whats the word?) I am strong, but the old type of energy is gone; and the one that replaces it is far more powerful but I dont like to talk about it. When I do, I appear to be boasting. So I dont say anything. I tell you now so youll understand.
   I am no longer on this side but not yet on the other; I am in betweenits difficult. But I am still capable of controlling what these people are doing. At any rate, they have no right to do whatever they want with Sri Aurobindos books. And as for Satprems books, I had said that he gave them to me personally

0 1972-12-02, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But whats extraordinary is the disparity: usually I dont think about the time, but since it was your day and it was already late, I told myself: I must finish in twenty minutesand it took me more than an hour!
   Theres something there I must understand. Clearly, the standard of time changes. But its very impractical.

0 1972-12-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   usually it didnt come this way.
   The consciousness must have sunk a lot quite a lot.

02.01 - Our Ideal, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Now to the first question. It is usually contended that the ideal is an impossibility, a chimera, since it involves on the face of it a self-contradiction. For, is not divinity the very opposite of humanity, immortality that of mortality and Matter that of the Spirit? These pairs, all of them, are formed of two mutually exclusive terms. This is what Mayavada posits. But need it be necessarily and inevitably so? What is affirmed is after all a postulate and one can start from other postulates as well. The truth, of course, is that all theories or views of existence are centrally formulations of an experience; and each experience has its own postulate.
   To begin with, we refuse to admit or recognise that there is or is bound to be a contradiction or opposition between Matter and Spirit, between body and soul or between the human and the divine. We start with an experience, a realisation which declares the essential unity and identity of the duality. That is the thing that has to be posited first clear and nett. The question next arises how the two are one and identical; this demands some clarification. For, is it meant that they are one and the same in the sense that Zeus and Jupiter are the same or that water and H2O are the same? Apart from any barren theorising, is it not a universal and eternal and invariable experience that to attain to the Divine one must leave behind the human, to become the immortal one must cease to be a mortal and to live in the Spirit one has to deny Matter? The real answer, however, is that it is so and it is not so. The dilemma is not so trenchant as it has been made out to be.

02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The various movements or forces of consciousness that play in the various fields or levels of creation are not merely states or degrees and magnitudes, currents and streams of consciousness: they are also personalities with definite forms and figuresnot physical indeed, yet very definite even when subtle and fluidic. Thus the supreme Reality, which is usually described as the perfect status of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, is not merely a principle but a personality. It is the Supreme Person with his triune nature (Purushottama). It is the Divine as the supreme Knower and Doer or Creator and Lover. The creation in or from that status of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of consciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is the will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother.
   Now, as the Reality along with its consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation, has been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more and more obscure and dense in separated and isolated units, even so the Person too has been following a parallel course of disintegration and multiplication and obscuration and isolation. At the origin lies, as we have said, the Perfect Person, the Supreme Person, in his dual aspect of being and nature, appearing as the supreme purua and the supreme prakti, our Father and our Mother in the highest heaven.

02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This is usually what the poets, the great poets have done. They have presented living and moving bodies as fixed, stable entities, as a procession of statues. But Shakespeare's are not fixed stable pictures but living and moving beings. They do not appear as pictures, even like moving pictures on a screen, a two-dimensional representation. Life in Shakespeare appears, as in life, exactly like a three-dimensional phenomenon. You seem to see forms and figures in the round, not simply in a frontal view. A Shakespearean scene is not only a feast for the eye but is apprehended as though through all the' senses.
   However, we must not forget Michael Angelo in this connection. He is living, he is energetic, to a supreme degree. If we seek anywhere intense au thentic life-movement, it is there at its maximum perhaps. Even his" statues are a paean of throbbing pulsating bodies. Still he has planted moving life in immobility and stilled rigidity. It is a passing moment stopped as though by magic; a mortis rigor holds in and controls, as it were, a wild vigour spurting out.

02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The birth of Shilindhra resembles the birth of Dionysus. When King Zeus took the form of thunder and lightning and entered the womb of Semele, Dionysus was born. Similar is the story of the appearance of the toadstool, in the midst of rain and thunder and lightning and on the lap of mother earth. We have already said that there are two categories of gods or two types of themone belongs to heaven and the other to earth. The Vedic Rishis announced that heaven was our father and earth themotherdaurme pit mt pthvimahyam. The Vedantins usually and mainly worship the father, and Tantriks, the mother. Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite.
   However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength and capacity are of the nature of thunderenduring and hard and powerful. Born thus it spreads everywhere and lasts through all time. From the beginning of creation this god has sprouted up everywhere, as giver of pleasure and ecstasy and intoxication. To worship him is to worship earth, to worship Dionysus himself. But one needs to worship this god in the right way, to give oneself away wholly to him. Once upon a time the demons for some selfish interest wanted to capture and imprison him. The result was disastroushe thought of depriving them of their power of movement and drowning them into the ocean. On the contrary, to the devoted which world does he reveal, which delight bring? Let us listen to the poet:

02.12 - Mysticism in Bengali Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Bengali poetry was born some time towards the end of an era of decline in the Indian consciousness, almost towards the close of what is called the Buddhist period, but it was born with a veritable crown on its head. For it was sheer mystic poetry, mystic in substance, mystic in manner and expression. The poets were themselves mystics, that is to say spiritual seekers, sadhaks they were called Siddhas or Siddhacharyas. They told of their spiritual, rather occult experiences in an occult or oblique manner, the very manner of the ancient Vedic Rishis, in figures and symbols and similes. It was a form of beauty, not merely of truthof abstract metaphysical truth that rose all on a sudden, as it were, out of an enveloping darkness. It shone for a time and then faded slowly, perhaps spread itself out in the common consciousness of the people and continued to exist as a backwash in popular songs and fables and proverbs. But it was there and came up again a few centuries later and the crest is seen once more in a more elevated, polished and dignified form with a content of mental illumination. I am referring to Chandidasa, who was also a sadhak poet and is usually known as the father of Bengali poetry, being the creator of modern Bengali poetry. He flourished somewhere in the fourteenth century. That wave too subsided and retired into the background, leaving in interregnum again of a century or more till it showed itself once more in another volume of mystic poetry in the hands of a new type of spiritual practitioners. They were the Yogis and Fakirs, and although of a popular type, yet possessing nuggets of gold in their utterances, and they formed a large family. This almost synchronised with the establishment and consolidation of the Western Power, with its intellectual and rational enlightenment, in India. The cultivation and superimposition of this Western or secular light forced the native vein of mysticism underground; it was necessary and useful, for it added an element which was missing before; a new synthesis came up in a crest with Tagore. It was a neo-mysticism, intellectual, philosophical, broad-based, self-conscious. Recently however we have been going on the downward slope, and many, if not the majority among us, have been pointing at mysticism and shouting: "Out, damned spot!" But perhaps we have struck the rock-bottom and are wheeling round.
   For in the present epoch we are rising on a new crest and everywhere, in all literatures, signs are not lacking of a supremely significant spiritual poetry being born among us.
  --
   One great characteristic of these mystics, particularly the older ones, is the conception of the spiritual or divine being asa human being the soul, "the man there within this man here," is a human person and the human form has a significant charm which none other possesses. The Spirit, the Divine individualised and concretised in an earth-made man is a blazing experience with the Siddhacharyas and the experience continues down to our days. The Siddhacharyas themselves have added a peculiar, rather strange form to the conception. The soul, the inmost divine being is a woman whom one loves and seeks: she is an outcaste maid who dwells beyond the walls of the city; one, that is to say, the conscient being in us, loves her all the more passionately because she is so. The city means this normally flourishing confine of outer consciousness where we dwell usually; the Divine is kept outside the pale of this inferior nature. To our consciousness that which is beyond it is an obscure, valueless, worthless, miserable non -entity; but to the consciousness of the sage-poet, that is the only thing valuable and adorable. These mystics further say that the true person, the divinity that lies neglected and even despised in our secular life is truly the idol of all worship and when she is accepted, when she puts off her beggarly robes, the obscurities of our mind and heart and senses, then she becomes the mistress of the house, the queen whom none thenceforth can disobeyall the limbs become her willing servitors and adorers. The divine Law rules even the external personality.
   The significance of the human personality, the role of the finite in the play of the infinite and universal, the sanctity of the material form as an expression and objectification of the transcendent, the body as a function of Consciousness-Force Delight are some of the very cardinal and supreme experiences in Bengali mysticism from its origin down to the present day.

02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Mechanical and totalitarian equality does injustice, to say the least, to the individual, for it does not take into account the variable value and the particularity of each individual. It usually gives him a position and function in the society to which his inner nature and character do not at all respond. The result of such indifference to individuality is evident also in a modern society based as it is on so-called freedom, that is to say, on open competition and struggle. The tragedy of a Bankim eking out his subsistence as a bureaucratic official is not a rare spectacle but the very rule of the social system in vogue. Indeed the so-called steel-frame of governmental organization of our days sucks in all the best brains and few can survive this process of "evisceration, deprivation, destitution, desiccation and evacuation", to use the glowing and graphic words of T. S. Eliot, although in another connection; few can maintain or express after passing through this grinding or sucking machine their inner reality, the truth and beauty personal to them. The poet1 regrets:
   Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
  --
   In the older order, however, a kindlier treatment was meted out to this class, this class of the creators of values. They had patrons who looked after their physical well-being. They had the necessary freedom and leisure to follow their own bent and urge of creativity. Kings and princes, the court and the nobility, in spite of all the evils ascribed to them, and often very justly, have nevertheless been the nursery of art and culture, of all the art and culture of the ancient times. One remembers Shakespeare reading or enacting his drama before the Great Queen, or the poignant scene of Leonardo dying in the arms of Francis the First. Those were the truly great classical ages, and art or man's creative genius hardly ever rose to that height ever since. The downward curve started with the advent and growth of the bourgeoisie when the artist or the creative genius lost their supporters and had to earn their own living by the sweat of their brow. Indeed the greatest tragedies of frustration because of want and privation, occur, not as much among the "lowest" classes who are usually considered as the poorest and the most miserable in society, but in that section from where come the intellectuals, "men of light and leading," to use the epithet they are honoured with. For very few of this group are free to follow their inner trend and urge, but have either to coerce and suppress them or stultify them in the service of lesser alien duties, which mean "forced labour." The punishment for refusing to be drawn away and to falsify oneself is not unoften the withdrawal of the bare necessities of life, in certain cases sheer destitution. A Keats wasting his energies in a work that has no relation to his inner life and light, or a Madhusudan dying in a hospital as a pauper, are examples significant of the nature of the social structure man lives in.
   It is one of the great illusionsor perhaps a show plank for propagandato think or say that the so-called poorer classes are the poorest and the most miserable. It is not so in fact. Really poor are those who have a standard of life commensurate with their inner nature and consciousnessof beauty and orderliness and material sufficiency and yet their actual status and function in society do not provide them with the necessary where-withals and resources. No amount of philanthropic sentimentalising can suppress or wipe off the fact that the poor do not feel the pinch of poverty so much as do those who are poor and yet are to live and move as not poor. It all depends upon one's standard. One is truly rich or poor not in proportion- to one's income, but" in accordance with one's needs and the means to meet them. And all do not have the same needs and requirements. This does not mean that the needs of the princes, the aristocrats, the magnates are greater than those of the mere commoner. No, it means that there are people, there is a section of humanity found more or less in all these classes, but mostly in less fortunate classes, whose needs are intrinsically greater and they require preferential treatment. There should be none poor or miserable in society, well and good. But this should not mean that all the economic resources of the society must be requisitioned only to enrichto pamper the poor. For there is a pampering possible in this matter. We know the nouveaux riches, the parvenus and the kind of life they lead with their fair share boldly seized. A levelling, a formal equalisation of the economic status, although it may mean uplift in certain cases, may involve gross injustice to others. The ideal is not equal distribution but rational distribution of wealth, and that distribution should not depend upon any material function, but upon psychological demands. Is this bourgeois economics? Even if it is so, the truth has to be faced and recognised. You can call truth by the name bourgeois and hang it, but it will revive all the same, like the Phoenix out of the ashes.
  --
   In the old Indian social organisation there was at the basis such a psychological pattern and that must have been the reason why the structure lasted through millenniums. It was a hierarchical system but based upon living psychological forces. Each group or section or class in it had inevitably its appropriate function and an assured economic status. The Four Orders the Brahmin (those whose pursuit was knowledgeacquiring and giving knowledge), the Kshattriya (the fighters, whose business it was to give physical protection), the Vaishya (traders and farmers who were in charge of the wealth of the society, its production and distribution) and the Sudra (servants and mere labourers )are a natural division or stratification of the social body based upon the nature and function of its different members. In the original and essential pattern there is no sinister mark of inferiority branded upon what are usually termed as the lower orders, especially the lowest order. If some are considered higher and are honoured and respected as such, it meant simply that the functions and qualities they stand for constitute in some way higher values, it did not mean that the others have no value or are to be spurned or neglected. The brain must be given a higher place than the stomach, although all its support and nourishment come from there. Hierarchy means, in modern terms, that the essential services must pass first, should have certain priorities. And according to the older view-point, the Brahmin, being the emblem and repository of knowledge, was considered as the head of the social body. He is the fount and origin of a culture, the creator of a civilisation; the others protect, nourish and serve, although all are equally necessary for the common welfare.
   Fundamentally all human society is built upon this pattern which is psychological and which seems to be Nature's own life-plan. There is always this fourfold stratification or classification of members in any collective human grouping: the Intellectual (taken in the broadest sense) or the Intelligentsia, the Military, the Trader and the Labourer. In the earlier civilisationswhen civilisation was being formedespecially in the East, it ,was the first class that took precedence over the rest and was especially honoured; for it is they who give the tone and temper and frame of life in the society. In later epochs, in the mediaeval age for example, the age of conquerors and conquistadors, and of Digvijaya, man as the warrior, the Kshattriya, the Samurai or the Chivalry was given the place of honour. Next came the age of traders and merchants, and the industrial age with the invention of machines. Today the labourer is rising in his turn to take the prime place.

03.01 - Humanism and Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is the cult of the Divine Human which enunciates the mystic truth that man is greater than all and surpasses the Vedic Law (which aims usually at the impersonal Absolute). But Man here is to be understood as the Divine Person in his human norm, not at all the human man, as modern humanists of our country would like to have. It does not mean the glorification of man's human attributes and movements, even if they be most sattwic and idealistic; it refers rather to the divinised type, the archetype that is eternal in the super-consciousness. And when such a Man lives and acts upon earth he does so in manner and measure that do not belong to this plane.
   Only the other day I found a critic in The Manchester Guardian referring to The Gita as something frigid (and confused)!

03.01 - The Evolution of Consciousness, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Consciousness is usually identified with mind, but mental consciousness is only the human range which no more exhausts all the possible ranges of consciousness than human sight exhausts all the gradations of colour or human hearing all the gradations of sound - for there is much above or below that is to man invisible and inaudible. So there are ranges of consciousness above and below the human range, with which the normal human has no contact and they seem to it unconscious,
  - supramental or overmental and submental ranges.

03.02 - Yogic Initiation and Aptitude, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In the practice of Yoga a condition precedent is usually laid down: it is called adhikra, aptitude, fitness or capacity. Everybody does not possess this aptitude, it is urged, and; cannot take to a life of Yoga at one's sweet will. There must be a preparation, certain rules and regulations must be observed, some discipline must be followed and one must acquire certain qualities or qualifications, must reach a particular stage and degree, rise to a particular level of life and consciousness before one can successfully face the spiritual problem. It is not everyone that has a laisser-passer, a free pass to enter the city or citadel of the spirit.
   The Upanishad gives the warning in most emphatic terms: This Atman is not to be gained by the weakling1 and again it declared:
  --
   The inner soul the psychicvery often undergoes a secret preparation, develops and comes forward but just waits, as it were, behind the thin though opaque screen; and because of that it gives no objective indication of its growth and readiness. We see no patent sign of what is usually known as fitness or aptitude or capacity. Otherwise how to explain the conversion of a profligate and dilettante like Augustine, or of a rebel like Paul, or of scamps like Jagai-Madhai. Often the purest gold hides in the basest ore, the diamond is coal turned, as it were, inside out. This, one would say, is the Divine Grace that blows where it listsmakes of the dumb a prattler, of the lame a mountain-climber. Yet, but what is this Divine Grace and how does it move and act? It does not act on all and sundry, it does not act on all equally. What is the reason? Appearances often belie the reality: a contrary mask is put on, it would appear, deliberately, with a set purpose. The: sense and significance of this mystery? The hard, obscure, obstinate, rebel outer crust may continue long but it is corroded from within and one day, all on a sudden, it crumbles and dissolves and becomes in a new avatar the vehicle and receptacle of the very thing it opposed and denied.
   Virtues are not indications of the fire of the inner soul, nor are vices irremediable obstacles to its growth. The inner soul, we have said, feeds upon allit is indeed fire, the omnivorous, sarvabhuk,virtues and vices and everything else and gather strength from everywhere. The mystery of miracles, of a sudden change or reversal or revolution in consciousness and way of life lies in the omnipotency of the psychic being. The psychic being has the power of making the apparently impossible, for this reason that it is a portion of the almighty Divine, it is the supreme Conscious-Power crystallised and canalised in a centre for the sake of manifestation. It is a particle from the Being, a spark of the Consciousness, a ripple from the Delight cast into the fastnesses of Matter and the, material body. Now, it is the irresistible urge of this particle, this spark, this ripple to grow and expand, to become in the end the Vast the Ocean and the Sun and the sphere of Infinityto become that not merely in an essential status but in a dynamic and apparent becoming also. The little soul, originally no bigger than a thumb, goes forward through one life after another enlarging and intensifying itself till it recovers and establishes its parent reality in this material body here below, till it unveils what is latent within itself, what is its own, what is itself,its integral self-fulfilment, the Divine integrality.

03.03 - The Inner Being and the Outer Being, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Men do not know themselves and have not learned to distinguish the different parts of their being; for these are usually lumped together by them as mind, because it is through a mentalised perception and understanding that they know or feel them; therefore they do not understand their own states and actions, or, if at all, then only on the surface. It is part of the foundation of
  Yoga to become conscious of the great complexity of our nature, see the different forces that move it and get over it a control of directing knowledge. We are composed of many parts each of which contri butes something to the total movement of our consciousness, our thought, will, sensation, feeling, action, but we do not see the origination or the course of these impulsions; we are aware only of their confused pell-mell results on the surface upon which we can at best impose nothing better than a precarious shifting order.

03.04 - Towardsa New Ideology, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   However the crucial point arises herehow is the collective life, the group existence to be made soul-conscious? One can understand the injunction upon individuals to seek and find their souls; but how can a society be expected to act from its soul and according to the impulsions of its soul? And then, has a collectivity at all a soul? What is usually spoken of as the group-soul does not seem to be anything spiritual; it is an euphemism for herd instinct, the flair of the pack.
   The real truth is that a group has the soul the spiritual being that is put into it. How can that be done? It is done by the individual, in and through the individual. Not a single individual perhaps, but a few, a select body, a small minority who by their conscious will and illumined endeavour form the strong nucleus that builds up automatically and inevitably the larger organisation instinct with its spirit and dharma. In fact all collective organisations are made in the same way. The form that a society takes is given to it by the ideology of one man or of a few men. All depends upon the truth and reality, the depth and fecundity of the inspiration and vision, whether it will last a day or be the eternal law of life, whether it will be a curse for mankind or work for its supreme good. Naturally, the higher the aim, the more radical the remedy envisaged, the greater the difficulty that has to be surmounted. An aggregate always tends to live and move on a lower level of consciousness than the individual's. It is easy to organise a society on forces and passions that belong to the lower nature of manalthough it can be questioned whether such a society will last very long or conduce to the good or happiness of man.

03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Thus Religion and Spirituality, two fundamental categories that form one realm when held up in opposition to Materialism, are, when considered by themselves, really very different things and may be even contradictory to and destructive of each other. What then is Religion? and what, on the other hand, is Spirituality? Religion starts from and usually ends with a mental and emotional approach to realities beyond the mind; Spirituality goes straight forward to direct vision and communion with the Beyond. Religion labours to experience and express the world of Spirit in and through a turn, often a twist, given by the mental beingmanuin man; it bases itself upon the demands of the mental, the vital and the physical complex the triple nexus that forms the ordinary human personality and seeks to satisfy them under a holier garb. Spirituality knows the demands of the Spirit alone; it lives in a realm where the body, the life and the mind stand uplifted and transmuted into their utter realities. Religion is the human way of approaching and enjoying the Divine; Spirituality is the divine way of meeting the Divine. Religion, as it is usually practised, is a special art, one the highest it may be, still only oneamong many other pursuits that man looks to for his enjoyment and fulfilment; but spirituality is nothing if it does not swallow up the entire man, take in his each and every preoccupation and new-create it into an inevitable expression of its own master truth. Religion gives us a moral discipline for the internal consciousness, and for the external life, a code of conduct based upon a system of rules and rites and ceremonies; spirituality aims at a revolution in the consciousness and in the being.
   Keeping this difference in view, we may at once point out that Europe, when she is non-materialist, is primarily religious and only secondarily spiritual, but India is always primarily spiritual and only secondarily religious. The vein of real spirituality in European culture runs underground and follows narrow and circuitous by-paths; rarely does it appear on the top in sudden and momentary flashes and even then only to dive back again into its subterranean hiding-place; upon the collective life and culture it acts more as an indirect influence, an auxiliary leaven than as a direct and dynamic Force. In India there is an abundance, a superfluity even, of religious paraphernalia, but it is the note of spirituality that rings clear and high above all lesser tones and wields a power vivid and manifest. We could say in terms of modern Biology that spirituality tends to be a recessive character in European culture, while in India, it is dominant.

03.06 - Divine Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is the cult of the Divine Human which enunciates the mystic truth that Man is greater than all and surpasses even the Vedic Law (which aims usually at the impersonal Absolute). But Man -here is to be understood as the Divine Person in his human norm, not the human man at all, as modern humanists of our country would like to have it. It does not mean the glorification of man's human attributes and movements, even if they be most sattwic and idealistic; it refers rather to the divinised type, the archetype that is eternally in the super-consciousness. And when such a Man lives and acts on earth, he does so in a manner and measure that do not belong to this plane of humanity familiar to us.
   Only the other day I found a critic in the Manchester Guardian referring to the Gita as something frigid and confused !!

03.08 - The Standpoint of Indian Art, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A Chinese or a Japanese piece of artistic creation is more of a study in character than in form; but it is a study in character in a deeper sense than the meaning which the term usually bears to an European mind or when it is used in reference to Europe's art-creations.
   Character in the European sense means that part of nature which is dynamically expressed in conduct, in behaviour, in external movements. But there is another sense in which the term would refer to the inner mode of being, and not to any outer exemplification in activity, any reaction or set of reactions in the kinetic system, nor even to the mental state, the temperament, immediately inspiring it, but to a still deeper status of consciousness. A Raphael Madonna, for example, purposes to pour wholly into flesh and blood the beauty of motherhood. A Japanese Madonna (a Kwanon), on the other hand, would not present the "natural" features and expressions of motherhood; it would not copy faithfully the model, however idealized, of a woman viewed as mother. It would endeavour rather to bring out something of the subtler reactions in the "nervous" world, the world of pure movements that is behind the world of form; it would record the rhythms and reverberations attendant upon the conception and experience of motherhood somewhere on the other side of our wakeful consciousness. That world is made up not of forms, but of vibrations; and a picture of it, therefore, instead of being a representation in three-dimensional space, would be more like a scheme, a presentation in graph, something like the ideography of the language of the Japanese themselves, something carrying in it the beauty characteristic of the calligraphic art. 2

03.09 - Art and Katharsis, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Even so the beauty of poetic creation, when we contemplate it and live in it, automatically and inevitably steals into our consciousness, works a subtle change in our nature and by elevating and refining it makes us, for the moment at least, less crude and obscure and earthy things that we usually are.
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03.10 - Sincerity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This central sincerity, however, has to be worked out in actual life. For, one may be true in the spirit, but falseweak, that is to sayin the flesh. The light of the central being usually finds its way first into the mind. One becomes then mentally sincere: in other words, one has the idea, the thought that the Divine is the goal and nothing else can or shall satisfy. With the light in the mind, one sees also in oneself more and more the dark spots, the weaknesses, the obstaclesone becomes conscious of one's feelings, discovers elements that have to be corrected or purged. But this mental sincerity, this recognition in the understanding is not enough: it remains mostly ineffective and barren with regard to life and character. One appears at this stage to lead a double life: one knows and understands, to some extent at least, but one is unable to act up even to that much knowledge and understanding. It is only when the power of sincerity descends still further and assumes a concreter form, when the vital becomes sincere and' is converted, then the urge is there not only to see and understand, but to do and achieve. Without the vital's sincerity, its will to be transformed, one remains at best a witness, one has an inner perception of consciousness of the Divine, but in actual living one lets the old ordinary nature to go its own way. It is the sincerity in the vital,-its win to possess the Divine and the Divine alone, its ardour to collaborate with the Divine the conscious that brings about the crucial, the most dynamic change. Sadhana instead of being a mere mental occupation, an intellectual pursuit, acquires the urgency of living and doing and achieving. Finally, the vital sincerity, when it reaches its climax, calls for the ultimate sinceritysincerity in the body. When the body consciousness becomes sincere then we cannot but be and act as decided and guided by the divine consciousness; we live and move and have our being wholly in the divine manner. Then what the inmost being, the psychic, envisages in the divine light, the body inevitably and automatically executes. There is no gap between the two. The spirit and the fleshsoul and bodyare soldered, fused together in one single compact entity. One starts with the central sincerity in the psychic being and progress of sadhana means the extension of this sincerity gradually to all the outlying parts and levels of the being till, when the body is reached, the whole consciousness becomes, as it were, a massive pyramid of loyalty.
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03.11 - Modernist Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   What the modernist usually expresses is his brain or a part of it, his small vital desires and velleities, his sensational reactions or some sections of these. He can do that certainly, but he can do that well only when he has reached and touched the soul that is behind them: for once this is found, those become vehicles and instruments, echoes and sparks, symbols and signatures of that one thing needful.
   Old style orthodox Pandit.

03.12 - The Spirit of Tapasya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Tapasya (Asceticism) is usually understood to mean the capacity to undergo physical discomfort and suffering. We are familiar with various types of Tapasya: sitting in summer with blazing fire all around and the fiery noonday sun overhead (Panchagnivrata), exposing one's bare limbs to the cold biting blasts among the eternal snows, lying down on a bed of sharp nails, betaking oneself to sack-cloth and ashes, fasting even to the point of death: there is no end to the variety of ways and means which man's ingenuity has invented to torture himself. Somehow the feeling has grown among spiritual, religious and even moral aspirants as well that the body is the devil that has to be curbed and controlled with bit and bridle and whip. Indeed the popular view measures the greatness of a saint by the amount of his physical privations.
   One seems not to know that the devil cannot be so easily checkmated or beguiled. For, indeed, it is easy for the body to take punishment, to submit to all kinds of rigours, yet feel as if it was making ample amends and atonement in that way rather than really give up its aboriginal instincts and impulses. Often one deceives oneself, succeeds in hiding, in secretly preserving one's unsaintliness behind a smoke-screen of the utmost physical tapasya.

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Wikipedia - Jacquemart (bellstriker) -- Animated, mechanised figure of a person, usually made from wood or metal, which strikes the hours on a bell with a hammer
Wikipedia - Jawshan Kabir -- An Islamic supplication usually recited during the holy Nights of Qadr.
Wikipedia - Journaling file system -- File system that keeps track of not yet committed changes in a data structure called a M-bM-^@M-^\journalM-bM-^@M-^] (usually a circular log); when a system crash or power failure occurs, such file systems can be recovered online faster with less corruption
Wikipedia - Khadi -- Hand-spun cloth from the Indian Subcontinent, usually made out of cotton
Wikipedia - Kiss -- Touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting
Wikipedia - Kneecapping -- Form of malicious wounding or torture to the knee, usually by gunshot
Wikipedia - Kolach -- Small, usually sweet, type of pastry
Wikipedia - Krzywy Domek -- Unusually shaped building in Sopot, Poland
Wikipedia - Kyrios -- Greek word which is usually translated as "lord" or "master"
Wikipedia - Lady Day -- Feast of the Annunciation, usually 25 March
Wikipedia - Lambda Bootis star -- Peculiar star with unusually low amount of iron
Wikipedia - Lanugo -- Type of hair that is very thin, soft, usually unpigmented, and downy.
Wikipedia - Large ornamented Ediacaran microfossil -- Microscopic acritarchs, usually over 100 M-NM-
Wikipedia - Lawn cloth -- Fine plain weave cloth, originally of linen, now usually of cotton
Wikipedia - Leukemia -- Group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow
Wikipedia - Lichen sclerosus -- Itchy skin rash usually affecting the genitals
Wikipedia - Lifeline (diving) -- A rope connecting the diver to an attendant, usually at the surface
Wikipedia - List of Indian massacres in North America -- Incident wherein a group of people deliberately kill a significant number of relatively defenseless people, usually involving European descended peoples and Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Wikipedia - Loneliness -- Complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation
Wikipedia - Longdog -- dog of sighthound type, usually cross-bred
Wikipedia - Lorne sausage -- Traditional Scottish food usually made from minced meat, rusk and spices
Wikipedia - Lustrum -- Unit of time, usually a five year period
Wikipedia - Lyceum -- Type of school, usually a secondary school
Wikipedia - Macrostomia -- Unusually wide mouth
Wikipedia - Magistrate -- Officer of the state, usually judge
Wikipedia - Majesty -- An honorific of Monarchs, usually Kings or Emperors
Wikipedia - Manilla (money) -- Form of money, usually made of bronze or copper, which were used in West Africa
Wikipedia - Mark the cousin of Barnabas -- Character in the New Testament, usually identified with John Mark
Wikipedia - Matchmaking -- Process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage
Wikipedia - May 2009 derecho series -- Unusually strong sequence of derecho events and tornadoes
Wikipedia - May Day -- An ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday
Wikipedia - Medical state -- One's current state of health, usually within a hospital
Wikipedia - Mesa -- Elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs
Wikipedia - Metropolis -- A large and significant city or urban area usually with millions of inhabitants
Wikipedia - Micropenis -- Unusually small penis
Wikipedia - Midget -- Term for a person of unusually short stature
Wikipedia - Military surplus -- Obsolete or obsolescent military goods usually offered for sale
Wikipedia - Miniskirt -- Short skirt that usually extends to mid-thigh
Wikipedia - Monobloc (chair) -- Heavy stackable polypropylene chair, usually white in color
Wikipedia - Monolithic architecture -- Buildings carved or excavated from a single material, usually rock
Wikipedia - Movie theater -- Venue, usually a building or integrated into a shopping mall, for viewing films
Wikipedia - Mumble rap -- Subgenre of rap, usually associated with SoundCloud rap
Wikipedia - Municipality -- Administrative division having corporate status and usually some powers of self-government or jurisdiction
Wikipedia - Muumuu -- Loose dress, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women, or as a housecoat
Wikipedia - Nanoscopic scale -- Refers to structures with a length scale applicable to nanotechnology, usually cited as 1-100 nanometers
Wikipedia - Nightclub -- Entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night
Wikipedia - Non-governmental organization -- Organization independent of any government, usually created to aid those in need or similar
Wikipedia - Non-penetrative sex -- Sexual activity that usually does not include sexual penetration
Wikipedia - Nonsense mutation -- Point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and in a truncated, incomplete, and usually nonfunctional protein product
Wikipedia - Nut (food) -- Dry and edible seed, that usually has a high fat content
Wikipedia - Ontogeny -- Origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of egg fertisliation through to adult form
Wikipedia - Open top bus -- Bus, usually a double-decker bus, without a roof
Wikipedia - Optical disc -- Flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data
Wikipedia - Orthocone -- Unusually long straight shell of a nautiloid cephalopod
Wikipedia - Oxhide ingot -- Metal slabs, usually of copper but sometimes of tin, produced and widely distributed during the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age
Wikipedia - Panic buying -- Act of buying unusually large amounts of a product in anticipation of a shortage of supply or rapid increase in cost
Wikipedia - Parade -- Procession of people that are usually celebrating an important day or event
Wikipedia - Paramount leader -- The highest leader of China, usually the General Secretary or Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Wikipedia - Parking -- Act of stopping and disengaging a vehicle and usually leaving it unoccupied
Wikipedia - Passport -- Travel document usually issued by a country's government
Wikipedia - Pedal keyboard -- Musical keyboard played with the feet, usually used for low-pitched notes
Wikipedia - Pedometer -- Device, usually portable and electronic or electromechanical, that counts each step a person takes by detecting the motion of the person's hands or hips
Wikipedia - Peignoir -- Long, usually thin, woman's garment worn as a dressing gown
Wikipedia - Pensioner -- Person who collects a pension, usually because of retirement from the workforce
Wikipedia - Percussion cap -- A gunlock mechanism that uses a small metallic cap or cup, usually of copper or brass, containing a shock-sensitive explosive compound that is struck by a hammer to initiate the ignition process of a caplock firearm
Wikipedia - Perfume -- Mixture of fragrant substances, usually in liquid form, used to give agreeable scent to objects, air or living creatures
Wikipedia - Pericope -- Set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought; usually of sacred scripture
Wikipedia - Phrase book -- Collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation
Wikipedia - Pitchy Patchy -- One of the original figures of Jamaican carnival, Pitchy Patchy is usually represented by a suit made of tattered, colorful pieces of cloth
Wikipedia - Pizza -- Usually savory dish of flattened bread and toppings
Wikipedia - Plateau -- area of a highland, usually of relatively flat terrain
Wikipedia - Platoon -- Military unit size, usually composed of two or more squads or equivalent units
Wikipedia - Pneumatic circuit -- interconnected set of components that convert compressed gas (usually air) into mechanical work
Wikipedia - Pogrom -- Violent attack on an ethnic or religious group, usually Jews, either approved or conducted by the local authorities
Polytunnel - A polytunnel (also known as a polyhouse, hoop greenhouse or hoophouse, grow tunnel or high tunnel) is a tunnel typically made from steel and covered in polyethylene, usually semi-circular, square or elongated in shape. The interior heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building faster than heat can escape the structure. Air warmed by the heat from hot interior surfaces is retained in the building by the roof and wall.
Wikipedia - Pony bottle -- Small independent scuba cylinder usually carried for emergency gas supply
Wikipedia - Potentiometer -- Type of resistor, usually with three terminals
Wikipedia - Precursor cell -- Partially differentiated usually unipotent cell
Wikipedia - Prison -- Place in which people legally are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms
Wikipedia - Private collection -- Privately owned collection of works, usually a collection of art
Wikipedia - Prohibited airspace -- Airspace within which flight of aircraft is not allowed, usually due to security concerns
Wikipedia - Promontory fort -- Fortification, usually dating from the Iron Age
Wikipedia - Public holiday -- Holiday generally established by law and is usually a non-working day
Wikipedia - Puddle -- A small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface
Wikipedia - Putto -- A chubby male child, usually nude and sometimes winged depicted in works of art
Wikipedia - Quilt -- Bedcover made of multiple layers of fabric sewn together, usually stitched in decorative patterns
Wikipedia - Radiation therapy -- Therapy using ionizing radiation, usually to treat cancer
Wikipedia - Raffle -- Gambling with numbered tickets, usually for charitable fundraising
Wikipedia - Randomized experiment -- Experiment using randomness in some aspect, usually to aid in removal of bias
Wikipedia - Rape -- Type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent
Wikipedia - Reciting tone -- Music for the reciting of chant; usually a single tone.
Wikipedia - Recurring character -- Character, usually in a prime time TV series, who often and frequently appears from time to time during the series' run
Wikipedia - Remoulade -- Condiment that is usually aioli- or mayonnaise-based
Wikipedia - Respiratory rate -- Breathing frequency; rate at which breathing occurs, usually measured in breaths per minute
Wikipedia - Rest area -- Public area, usually adjacent to limited-access highway, used for rest from travel
Wikipedia - Rex1 -- Known marker of pluripotency, and is usually found in undifferentiated embryonic stem cells
Wikipedia - Rhinotomy -- Mutilation, usually amputation, of the nose
Wikipedia - Rite -- Established, ceremonial, usually religious, act
Wikipedia - Rolandic epilepsy -- Most common epilepsy syndrome in childhood, usually subsiding with age
Wikipedia - Roundel -- Identification symbol, commonly used in aircraft insignia and heraldry, usually of circular design
Wikipedia - Roundhouse (dwelling) -- Type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof
Wikipedia - Rushton turbine -- Rotating disc with perpendicular blades around the circumference, usually used as a mixing impeller
Row cover - In agriculture and gardening, row cover is any transparent or semi-transparent, flexible material, like fabric or plastic sheeting, used as a protective covering to shield plants, usually vegetables, primarily from the undesirable effects of cold and wind, and also from insect damage.[1] In addition to reducing the drying effect of wind, row cover can provide a limited amount of warming by the same effect that cold frames, greenhouses, and polytunnels produce, creating a microclimate for the plants.
Wikipedia - Safe deposit box -- Secure container for storage of valuables - usually in a bank
Wikipedia - Salt pork -- Salt-cured pork, usually prepared from pork belly, or, more rarely, fatback.
Wikipedia - Sash -- Band or strip of fabric wrapped around the waist or worn over the shoulder or hips and usually tied
Wikipedia - Sateen -- Smooth, lustrous satin-weave fabric made of spun fiber, usually cotton, rather than filment yarn
Wikipedia - Satin -- Smooth, lustrous fabric, usually of silk or synthetic fiber, woven with a long-float satin binding in warp or weft
Wikipedia - Schism -- Division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination
Wikipedia - School bullying -- Type of bullying that occurs in an educational setting. Usually causes either physical or emotional pain.
Wikipedia - Schreibersite -- Iron nickel phosphide mineral usually found in meteorites
Wikipedia - Scott Manley -- Scottish/American YouTuber who makes videos usually focusing on space
Wikipedia - Sepal -- Any of the separate parts of the calyx of a flower (excluding the bracts), usually green
Wikipedia - Shield volcano -- Low profile volcano usually formed almost entirely of fluid lava flows
Wikipedia - Shopping center -- Complex of shops, usually under one roof
Wikipedia - Shopping mall -- Large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores
Wikipedia - Short story -- work of literature, usually written in narrative prose
Wikipedia - Show cave -- Cave managed by an organization and made accessible to the general public, usually for an entrance fee
Wikipedia - Single (music) -- Type of music release usually containing one or two tracks
Wikipedia - Sleeved blanket -- Body-length blanket with sleeves usually made of fleece or nylon material
Wikipedia - Slurry -- Mixture of solids denser than water suspended in liquid, usually water
Wikipedia - Small satellite -- Satellites of low mass and size, usually under 500 kg
Wikipedia - Solid surface -- Man-made material usually composed of a combination of marble dust, bauxite, acrylic, epoxy or polyester resins and pigments
Wikipedia - Somnolence -- State of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods
Wikipedia - Sport -- Forms of competitive activity, usually physical
Wikipedia - Spring 2013 United Kingdom cold spell -- Period of unusually cold weather in the United Kingdom between 6 March and April 2013
Wikipedia - Squadron (naval) -- Military unit used by naval forces, usually comprising a number of ships
Wikipedia - Steak -- Cut of meat usually sliced across the fibres
Wikipedia - Steeple -- Tall tower, usually on a church or public building
Wikipedia - Sterling silver -- Alloy of silver containing 92.5% by mass of silver and 7.5% by mass of other metals, usually copper
Wikipedia - Subject-object-verb -- Language in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence appear or usually appear in SOV order
Wikipedia - Sundress -- Lightweight warm weather dress, usually with shoulder straps
Wikipedia - Supporter -- Figures usually placed on either side of an heraldic shield and depicted holding it up
Wikipedia - Surge channel -- A narrow inlet, usually on a rocky shoreline, and is formed by differential erosion of those rocks by coastal wave action
Wikipedia - Surimi -- Meat paste, usually made from fish
Wikipedia - Swagger stick -- Short stick or riding crop usually carried by a uniformed person as a symbol of authority
Wikipedia - Swarm behaviour -- Collective behaviour of a large number of (usually) self-propelled entities of similar size
Wikipedia - Syrinx (medicine) -- Rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity within the spinal cord (syringomyelia), in the brain stem (syringobulbia), or in the nerves of the elbow, usually in a young age.
Wikipedia - Tam o' shanter (cap) -- Scottish bonnet made with a tight-fitting headband and a very wide circular crown, usually with a pompom in the center
Wikipedia - Tertiary education -- Advanced level of education, usually for adults
Wikipedia - Thanatophoric dysplasia -- Severe form of genetic dwarfism that is usually lethal
Wikipedia - The Aristocrats -- Usually-obscene joke about a performance act
Wikipedia - Thermal oxidation -- process creating a thin layer of (usually) silicon dioxide
Wikipedia - Tide table -- Tabulated data used for tidal prediction which show the daily times and heights of high water and low water, usually for a particular location
Wikipedia - Tiger's eye -- A chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre
Wikipedia - Top hat -- Tall-crowned hat usually made of beaver pelt
Wikipedia - Topstitch -- Visible surface stitches, usually parallel with edges or seams, often sewn with decorative threads
Wikipedia - Town square -- Open public spaces in cities or towns, usually rectilinear, surrounded by buildings
Wikipedia - Town -- Settlement that is usually bigger than a village but smaller than a city
Wikipedia - Toy safety -- Practice of ensuring that toys, especially those made for children, are safe, usually through the application of set safety standards
Wikipedia - Tragedy (event) -- Event of great loss, usually of human life
Wikipedia - Tripundra -- Saivite tilaka consisting of three horizontal lines on the forehead, usually with a dot
Wikipedia - Tunic -- Simple T-shaped or sleeveless garment, usually unfitted, of archaic origin
Wikipedia - Turbidity current -- An underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope
Wikipedia - Undeciphered writing systems -- Usually a written form of language that is not currently understood
Wikipedia - Universal grammar -- Theory in linguistics, usually credited to Noam Chomsky, proposing that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain
Wikipedia - Vacation -- Leave of absence from a regular occupation, or a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism
Wikipedia - Very-high-temperature reactor -- Type of nuclear reactor that operates at unusually high temperatures as part of normal operation
Wikipedia - Vihara -- Sanskrit and Pali term for a residence, monastery usually Buddhist
Wikipedia - Virtual learning environment -- Term in educational technology: web-based platform for the digital aspects of courses of study, usually within educational institutions
Wikipedia - Vow of silence -- Vow to maintain silence, usually for spirituality or protest
Wikipedia - Vrata -- Vow, resolve, or pious observance, usually a fast in Indian religions
Wikipedia - Wadmal -- Coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in the North Atlantic region from the Middle Ages into the 18th century
Wikipedia - Waistcoat -- Garment for the upper body, usually sleeveless, extending to near the waist
Wikipedia - Wall -- Vertical structure, usually solid, that defines and sometimes protects an area
Wikipedia - Web decoration -- A stabilimentum is a conspicuous, usually zig-zagged, silk structure in some orb-weaver spider webs
Wikipedia - Whisper joke -- Joke said secretly, usually to avoid oppression
Wikipedia - White House press corps -- Group of journalists or correspondents usually stationed at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas -- Project page describing article ideas that usually end up in articles for deletion
Wikipedia - Windfall gain -- Unusually high income that is sudden and/or unexpected
Wikipedia - Wire -- Single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal
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Boris And Natasha(1992) - The classic cartoon spies, Boris and Natasha, get their very own live-action adventure. Sent to America to find an important microchip, the usually villainous duo begin to question who they're working for and why.
Jack and Jill(2011) - Thanksgiving is usually a happy time, but ad executive Jack (Adam Sandler) dreads the holiday because his twin sister, Jill (also Sandler), makes her annual visit. When Jack and his sister get off on the wrong foot, the only way to make it right is to invite her to stay through Hanukkah. But, when a...
British Men Behaving Badly ::: Men Behaving Badly (original title) 45min | Comedy | TV Series (19922014) Two early thirties best friends live together while having completely different personalities. While their girlfriends try to help them take on more responsibilities the boys seldom respond well and usually end up drinking together. Creator: Simon Nye
Ghost World (2001) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama | 21 September 2001 (USA) -- With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives. Director: Terry Zwigoff Writers:
I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979) ::: 6.7/10 -- Io sto con gli ippopotami (original title) -- I'm for the Hippopotamus Poster In Africa, 2 expat "brothers" are usually at each other's throats but now have a common enemy. Ormond's men are shooting or catching much of the wildlife for export as well as forcing the locals off their land. Lots of fun fights follow. Director: Italo Zingarelli Writers: Barbara Alberti, Amedeo Pagani | 2 more credits
Law & Order ::: TV-14 | 45min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19902010) -- Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court. Creator:
Quincy M.E. ::: TV-PG | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19761983) -- The cases of a coroner who investigates suspicious deaths that usually suggest murder. Creators: Glen A. Larson, Lou Shaw
The Perfect Storm (2000) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 30 June 2000 (USA) -- An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger. Director: Wolfgang Petersen Writers: Sebastian Junger (book), William D. Wittliff (screenplay) (as Bill
Whose Line Is It Anyway? -- Not Rated | 22min | Comedy, Game-Show | TV Series (2013 ) ::: Aisha Tyler hosts this skit comedy show where the actors on the show, usually Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles and another guest star or two do different comedy skits. It's all improv and made up on the spot. Creators:
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Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume -- -- animate Film, Studio Fantasia -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Mecha Seinen -- Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume -- Ryuunosuke Natsume is the son of genius inventor Kyusaku Natsume and overbearing Akiko Natsume, CEO of Mishima Heavy Industries. Using funds from his wife's company and the brain from his son's beloved cat, Kyusaku creates a revolutionary android called Atsuko "Nuku Nuku" Natsume. To Kyusaku's disgust, Akiko wants to use her husband's technology to create weaponized robots for her company's customers, resulting in Ryuunosuke getting caught within the explosive fights between his parents -- -- The android Nuku Nuku tries to live as a normal high school student, adopting the role of Ryuunosuke's elder sister, but usually ends up acting as her family's protector. Nuku Nuku will do anything to protect the ones she loves. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Discotek Media -- OVA - Oct 21, 1992 -- 9,569 6.68
Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi -- -- Sunwoo Entertainment -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Drama Fantasy -- Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi -- Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox revolves around a kumiho, a nine-tailed fox that can assume different forms including human. Kumiho are familiar figures in Korean folk tales, and they are usually depicted as magical creatures that take female form to lure and prey on humans. This time, however, our protagonist is a young, kind-hearted fox with only five tails, instead of nine. -- -- After losing her family to fox hunters, five-tailed Yobi lives in the forest with some shipwrecked aliens, far away from the humans. When one of her alien friends gets captured by a villager, Yobi has no choice but to adventure into the human world to rescue him. At the village, Yobi meets many humans, including Geum Yee who studies at a school for maladjusted children. Interested in Geum Yee, Yobi joins the students and revels in the fun of human life, but both a fox hunter and a mysterious shadow man are on her trail. -- -- (Source: YesAsia) -- Movie - Jan 25, 2007 -- 12,569 7.30
Chu Feng: B.E.E -- -- Haoliners Animation League -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Romance Fantasy Mecha School -- Chu Feng: B.E.E Chu Feng: B.E.E -- In 2017, a group of genius scientists achieve a remarkable breakthrough in bioengineering. However, all the new technologies are put into military use, beginning a new round of arms race. Vanguards, as the most significant achievement of the modern bioengineering and the most advanced weapon, are widely utilized in the race. Although vanguards are exceptionally combat-effective, their life expectancy is shortened by the nanomachines they use. Usually, most vanguards will retire from the army after a number of years in service. -- -- The heroine Liuli has also consumed too much of her lifespan after executing missions for a long time. With only 380 days left in her life, Liuli receives a new mission, to rescue a hostage being held in a civilian facility. It is without doubt a difficult mission for a vanguard like Liuli, who only knows how to kill and battle. However, Liuli obediently decides to accept the mission in the end. -- -- During the mission, Liuli surprisingly finds that the man who holds the hostage was once a vanguard. The former vanguard Zhongrong Zhou cries and asks the government to hand over the son of Eden. As a vanguard, Liuli feels deep contempt against Zhou. To eliminate the scum of the vanguards, a battle between two vanguards begins... -- -- (Source: Official site, edited) -- ONA - Jul 23, 2015 -- 15,845 5.90
Cike Wu Liuqi -- -- - -- 10 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Comedy Super Power Drama Romance Martial Arts -- Cike Wu Liuqi Cike Wu Liuqi -- To the casual eye, the amnesiac bounty hunter Wu Liuqi looks quite intimidating. With his deadly telekinetic scissor techniques and his ability to seamlessly transform into anything, one would not expect his modest demeanor. In fact, Wu is quite terrible at his job. Often times the freelancer can be found botching an assassination or targeting the wrong person. While his failures could be due to his subpar skills, it usually boils down to him being a normal kid, with a heart unsuited for his line of work. -- -- Accompanied by his feathered friend Dai Bo, Wu is on a simple quest to regain his memories. Although his inconspicuous day job as a hairdresser and his after-hours occupation are simply a means for him to repay debt, his various ventures seem to intertwine with his pursuit to recover his lost past. -- -- ONA - Apr 25, 2018 -- 23,321 7.91
Dai Mahou Touge -- -- Diomedéa -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Magic Supernatural -- Dai Mahou Touge Dai Mahou Touge -- Punie is next in line to become queen of Magical Land. However, she must spend a year on Earth before she can inherit the throne, so she transfers into a school in Japan. She's usually a sweet and gentle girl... that is unless someone does something to displease her, then she'll drop the act. She won't hesitate to whip out her magic stick and cheerfully rain bloody destruction down on the hapless fool, or barring that, simply use wrestling moves she calls "Submission" to punish them. Accompanied by her animal mascot Paya-tan, who makes regular attempts on her life (still bitter about being defeated and then forcibly recruited from Waku Waku Mascot Village), and forced to fend off random attacks by various people from her Kingdom who all have different reasons for wanting her dead, she must complete this year of training on Earth without fail. -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- OVA - Mar 20, 2006 -- 27,540 6.97
Dai Mahou Touge -- -- Diomedéa -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Magic Supernatural -- Dai Mahou Touge Dai Mahou Touge -- Punie is next in line to become queen of Magical Land. However, she must spend a year on Earth before she can inherit the throne, so she transfers into a school in Japan. She's usually a sweet and gentle girl... that is unless someone does something to displease her, then she'll drop the act. She won't hesitate to whip out her magic stick and cheerfully rain bloody destruction down on the hapless fool, or barring that, simply use wrestling moves she calls "Submission" to punish them. Accompanied by her animal mascot Paya-tan, who makes regular attempts on her life (still bitter about being defeated and then forcibly recruited from Waku Waku Mascot Village), and forced to fend off random attacks by various people from her Kingdom who all have different reasons for wanting her dead, she must complete this year of training on Earth without fail. -- OVA - Mar 20, 2006 -- 27,540 6.97
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III OVA -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Romance Ecchi Fantasy -- Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III OVA Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka III OVA -- (No synopsis yet.) -- OVA - Apr 28, 2021 -- 31,040 N/A -- -- Nil Admirari no Tenbin -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Historical Romance Fantasy Josei -- Nil Admirari no Tenbin Nil Admirari no Tenbin -- The Taishou era didn't end in 15 years, but went on for another 25. In order to protect her waning family, a girl resolves to marry a man she doesn't even know the name of. However, just before the marriage was to take place, the girl's younger brother mysteriously committed suicide by self-immolation and was found holding an old book in his hands. Appearing before the bewildered young girl was the "Imperial Library Intelligence Asset Management Bureau," more commonly referred to as "Fukurou." According to these men, there exists "Maremono," which are books that greatly affect their readers. On top of that, ever since the incident involving the girl's younger brother, she unwittingly gains the ability to see "Auras" (the sentiments of the Maremono which manifest as bright lights and are usually invisible to humans). It was as though fate were trying to drag the young girl in its flames. And then, even though apprehensive, the girl chooses to venture outside her bird cage. Jealousy, hatred, scorn, compassion, and love. What awaited the girl was the darkness of betrayal that had already begun to bewitchingly inlay the imperial capital. Toyed by and swayed within that darkness, will the young girl finally reach the truth after her struggles, or...? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 30,986 6.61
Fuujin Monogatari -- -- Production I.G -- 13 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Fantasy Supernatural School Drama -- Fuujin Monogatari Fuujin Monogatari -- Nao, an 8th grader, is one of the only two members of a Digital Camera Club, where she also serves as the manager. It's a mystery that she shoots nothing else but the skies and clouds. One day, she finds a cat on a rooftop where she usually shoots her camera. It's a cat that knows how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Shocked to find a strange animal, Nao loses her footing and falls off from the rooftop! -- -- Miki is the other member of the club, and also Nao's best friend. Mr. Taiki is the teacher who's taught the cat how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Ryoko is a girl who has a huge crush on Mr. Taiki. And there's Jun, who helps Nao and Miki look for a cat that can fly. Then, there's Yukio, who is the widow of Mr. Taiki's deceased brother. -- -- On the outskirts of this big city, a town off the "Wind Handlers," has been formed—and a mysterious Wind Festival is about to begin... -- -- (Source: Production I.G) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Sep 11, 2004 -- 14,738 7.22
Galaxy Angel -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Game -- Comedy Sci-Fi -- Galaxy Angel Galaxy Angel -- The Angel Brigade, an elite branch of the Transbaal Empire military, are assigned to search for The Lost Technology, mysterious items from the past that hold unknown powers. Led by the soon to retire Colonel Volcott O' Huey, the Angel Brigade travel to different planets using their specially designed Emblem Frame ships to search for Lost Technology. Unfortunately, they usually mess up somehow and end up getting into all kinds of weird and troublesome situations. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment -- 24,387 7.02
GJ-bu -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy School Slice of Life -- GJ-bu GJ-bu -- School clubs usually advertise their activities, but the goings-on of the GJ Club are a mystery. Kyouya "Kyoro" Shinomiya recently joined and became the sole male member of the five-person club. -- -- Besides Kyoro, there is Mao Amatsuka, the club president who has a tendency to bite Kyoro when she gets mad or bashful; Megumi Amatsuka, Mao's composed younger sister who always makes tea and desserts for the club's members; Shion Sumeragi, a demure chess prodigy; and Kirara Bernstein, a meat lover with a strong feline personality. All four girls have some form of interest in Kyoro. -- -- With the girls' idiosyncratic and cute personalities, Kyoro's time in GJ-bu will never be a dull one, for better or for worse. -- -- TV - Jan 10, 2013 -- 150,001 7.34
Guardian Hearts -- -- - -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Ecchi Magic Romance School -- Guardian Hearts Guardian Hearts -- Maya, Kurusu, and Chelsea hit it off really well when trying to get revenge on Guardian Hearts for making them suffer. Maya and company thought that Guardian Hearts usually appears when Kazuya is getting along with a girl. Not knowing that Guardian Hearts is actually Hina, they leave her alone with Kazuya in an attempt to lure Guardian Hearts. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - May 23, 2003 -- 7,233 5.86
Haitoku no Shoujo -- -- - -- 2 eps -- - -- Hentai Psychological -- Haitoku no Shoujo Haitoku no Shoujo -- The girls of the Saegusa family are always on the lookout for a new pet to train, and they have plenty of time as their father is usually gone. At the same time they are hiding their own dark family secret. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Sep 18, 2001 -- 2,938 5.73
Hakaba Kitarou -- -- Toei Animation -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Horror Supernatural -- Hakaba Kitarou Hakaba Kitarou -- Kitarou is a youkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and youkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter. -- -- This version of the Kitarou story is based on the original Hakaba Kitarou manga, the manga which inspired the popular Gegege no Kitarou series in the late 60's. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- 10,074 6.89
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora -- -- Group TAC -- 6 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Romance -- Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora -- After contracting hepatitis A, Ezaki Yuuichi has been confined to a hospital, away from his friends and family, much to his displeasure. To relieve his boredom, he has taken to sneaking out of the hospital, usually putting himself on the receiving end of a beating from his nurse. Upon meeting a girl his age also staying in the hospital, he is immediately captivated by her beauty. Akiba Rika's personality is not quite as captivating as her beauty however. In fact, she is rather selfish, moody, and bossy. But as the two spend more time with each other, they become closer, sharing the ordinary joys and trials of a budding teenage romance, even when darkened with impending tragedy—for Rika's condition does not leave her much longer to live. -- -- TV - Jan 13, 2006 -- 88,908 7.52
Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga -- -- J.C.Staff -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Parody Sci-Fi Shounen -- Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga -- It's hard to take over the world, and the enigmatic Il Palazzo, head of the ACROSS organization, knows this, so he aims to start small by conquering the city of Fukuoka. Two young officers, the Excel and her partner Hyatt, are tasked with executing this plan, but standing in their way are the City Security workers, a group consisting of three (mostly) normal guys, a very severe girl, and some robots. Regardless of simplicity, Excel and Hyatt always manage to screw up their missions, which usually result in death and lots of destruction. -- -- Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga chronicles the elaborate troubles that the ACROSS officers get themselves into, as Excel and Hyatt never fail to do their jobs improperly. -- -- 94,521 7.50
Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga -- -- J.C.Staff -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Parody Sci-Fi Shounen -- Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga -- It's hard to take over the world, and the enigmatic Il Palazzo, head of the ACROSS organization, knows this, so he aims to start small by conquering the city of Fukuoka. Two young officers, the Excel and her partner Hyatt, are tasked with executing this plan, but standing in their way are the City Security workers, a group consisting of three (mostly) normal guys, a very severe girl, and some robots. Regardless of simplicity, Excel and Hyatt always manage to screw up their missions, which usually result in death and lots of destruction. -- -- Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel♥Saga chronicles the elaborate troubles that the ACROSS officers get themselves into, as Excel and Hyatt never fail to do their jobs improperly. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 94,521 7.50
High School DxD New -- -- TNK -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Harem Comedy Demons Romance Ecchi School -- High School DxD New High School DxD New -- The misadventures of Issei Hyoudou, high school pervert and aspiring Harem King, continue on in High School DxD New. As the members of the Occult Research Club carry out their regular activities, it becomes increasingly obvious that there is something wrong with their Knight, the usually composed and alert Yuuto Kiba. Soon, Issei learns of Kiba's dark, bloody past and its connection to the mysterious Holy Swords. Once the subject of a cruel experiment, Kiba now seeks revenge on all those who wronged him. -- -- With the return of an old enemy, as well as the appearance of two new, Holy Sword-wielding beauties, it isn't long before Issei and his Devil comrades are plunged into a twisted plot once more. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 703,097 7.52
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season -- -- Ajia-Do -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Fantasy -- Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season -- When Myne learns that the Holy Church is in need of mana for their relics, she sees it as her chance to be cured of her life-threatening mana disorder. After seeing their bountiful library, she throws herself headfirst into the Church's grasp and begs to join their order. In exchange for her service and her unusually bountiful supply of mana, Myne is given the blue robes of a noble-born apprentice priestess, despite being a commoner. To Myne, all this talk of mana and nobility is trivial, as she now has access to an unlimited supply of books! -- -- As Myne transitions into the next phase of her life in this new world, she soon learns that achieving her dream has come at a heavy cost. Noble society is severe, unforgiving, and fueled by politics and neglect. She must now deal with the class conflict between the noble-born blue robes and the common-born grey robes, the High Priest's attempts to oust her, and constant behavioral issues from her new retainers. With the help of her family, friends, and the enigmatic Head Priest whose loyalties and motives remain unknown, Myne seeks to overcome these obstacles and continue on the path to becoming her ideal self—the ultimate librarian! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- 108,351 8.15
Karin -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Vampire School Shounen -- Karin Karin -- Vampires—supernatural beings that feed on the life essence of the unsuspecting at night—have been around for centuries. However, high schooler Karin Maaka is unusual, even among her own kind. Unlike her vampire family, ever since she was a child, Karin has suffered from polycythemia: a rare disorder which causes her to periodically produce excessive amounts of blood. And the more blood she produces, the more anemic and lightheaded she gets, ultimately leading to frequent nosebleeds. -- -- Her only solution? Force her excess blood onto random strangers, which surprisingly causes these "victims" to become livelier and happier than before. With her siblings—Anju, her reserved yet affectionate younger sister, and Ren, her womanizing elder brother—helping her abilities remain a secret by altering the affected humans' memories, no one is the wiser. That is, until Karin's newly transferred classmate, Kenta Usui, finds her behavior suspicious. And to make matters even more complicated, Karin feels her blood reacting unusually to Kenta's presence. -- -- 156,832 7.15
Karin -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Vampire School Shounen -- Karin Karin -- Vampires—supernatural beings that feed on the life essence of the unsuspecting at night—have been around for centuries. However, high schooler Karin Maaka is unusual, even among her own kind. Unlike her vampire family, ever since she was a child, Karin has suffered from polycythemia: a rare disorder which causes her to periodically produce excessive amounts of blood. And the more blood she produces, the more anemic and lightheaded she gets, ultimately leading to frequent nosebleeds. -- -- Her only solution? Force her excess blood onto random strangers, which surprisingly causes these "victims" to become livelier and happier than before. With her siblings—Anju, her reserved yet affectionate younger sister, and Ren, her womanizing elder brother—helping her abilities remain a secret by altering the affected humans' memories, no one is the wiser. That is, until Karin's newly transferred classmate, Kenta Usui, finds her behavior suspicious. And to make matters even more complicated, Karin feels her blood reacting unusually to Kenta's presence. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 156,832 7.15
Kengan Ashura -- -- Larx Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Action Martial Arts -- Kengan Ashura Kengan Ashura -- Business deals are usually made through meetings and contracts; but in the world of Kengan Ashura, businesses resort to other means to make their decisions: by hiring gladiators. Yabako Sandrovich's Kengan Ashura depicts a world brimming with action, violence, and martial arts—one where powerful gladiators have fought in grand arenas since the Edo Period to settle the disputes of wealthy businesses and merchants. -- -- Ouma Tokita, who is nicknamed "The Ashura," is a fighter trying to prove himself as the strongest. Hideki Nogi, a member of the Nogi Group, hires Ouma to fight for him and makes Kazuo Yamashita, an average middle-aged man, his manager. The duo is thrown into fights facilitated by the Kengan Association. Their journey will be full of ruthless battles with other fighters aiming for the same goal. Do they have what it takes to be the best? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- ONA - Jul 31, 2019 -- 82,364 7.46
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Fantasy -- Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon -- As Kobayashi sets off for another day at work, she opens her apartment door only to be met by an unusually frightening sight—the head of a dragon, staring at her from across the balcony. The dragon immediately transforms into a cute, busty, and energetic young girl dressed in a maid outfit, introducing herself as Tooru. -- -- It turns out that the stoic programmer had come across the dragon the previous night on a drunken excursion to the mountains, and since the mythical beast had nowhere else to go, she had offered the creature a place to stay in her home. Thus, Tooru had arrived to cash in on the offer, ready to repay her savior's kindness by working as her personal maidservant. Though deeply regretful of her words and hesitant to follow through on her promise, a mix of guilt and Tooru's incredible dragon abilities convinces Kobayashi to take the girl in. -- -- Despite being extremely efficient at her job, the maid's unorthodox methods of housekeeping often end up horrifying Kobayashi and at times bring more trouble than help. Furthermore, the circumstances behind the dragon's arrival on Earth seem to be much more complicated than at first glance, as Tooru bears some heavy emotions and painful memories. To top it all off, Tooru's presence ends up attracting several other mythical beings to her new home, bringing in a host of eccentric personalities. Although Kobayashi makes her best effort to handle the crazy situation that she has found herself in, nothing has prepared her for this new life with a dragon maid. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 826,046 8.01
Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Tachikoma na Hibi -- -- Production I.G -- 26 eps -- - -- Sci-Fi Comedy Mecha -- Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Tachikoma na Hibi Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Tachikoma na Hibi -- Tachikomatic Days is a series of comedic shorts attached to the end of every episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG. The shorts feature the antics of the Tachikoma think tanks of Section 9 and usually involve plot points. The average short time is a little over a minute. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Special - Sep 10, 2004 -- 18,555 7.20
Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex -- -- Production I.G -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Police Mecha Seinen -- Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex -- In the not so distant future, mankind has advanced to a state where complete body transplants from flesh to machine is possible. This allows for great increases in both physical and cybernetic prowess and blurring the lines between the two worlds. However, criminals can also make full use of such technology, leading to new and sometimes, very dangerous crimes. In response to such innovative new methods, the Japanese Government has established Section 9, an independently operating police unit which deals with such highly sensitive crimes. -- -- Led by Daisuke Aramaki and Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 deals with such crimes over the entire social spectrum, usually with success. However, when faced with a new A level hacker nicknamed "The Laughing Man," the team is thrown into a dangerous cat and mouse game, following the hacker's trail as it leaves its mark on Japan. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Manga Entertainment -- TV - Oct 1, 2002 -- 332,809 8.44
Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma na Hibi -- -- Production I.G -- 26 eps -- - -- Sci-Fi Comedy Mecha -- Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma na Hibi Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikoma na Hibi -- Tachikomatic Days is a series of comedic shorts attached to the end of every episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The shorts feature the antics of the Tachikoma think tanks of Section 9 and usually involve plot points. The average short time is a little over a minute. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Special - Oct 1, 2002 -- 23,592 7.15
Maesetsu! -- -- AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Maesetsu! Maesetsu! -- The anime centers on four girls at the full bloom of their youth, working hard to achieve their dreams as they struggle valiantly. In Japanese entertainment, Maesetsu! refers to an introductory talk or explanation addressed to the audience before the broadcast of television programs, usually performed by assistant directors and particularly comedians in variety or comedy shows. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 8,993 5.77
Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari -- -- Shaft -- 1 ep -- Original -- Mystery Psychological Drama Magic Thriller -- Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari -- The young girls of Mitakihara happily live their lives, occasionally fighting off evil, but otherwise going about their peaceful, everyday routines. However, Homura Akemi feels that something is wrong with this unusually pleasant atmosphere—though the others remain oblivious, she can't help but suspect that there is more to what is going on than meets the eye: someone who should not exist is currently present to join in on their activities. -- -- Mahou Shoujo Madoka� -- Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari follows Homura in her struggle to uncover the painful truth behind the mysterious circumstances, as she selfishly and desperately fights for the sake of her undying love in this despair-ridden conclusion to the story of five magical girls. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Oct 26, 2013 -- 295,580 8.45
Manaria Friends -- -- CygamesPictures -- 10 eps -- Card game -- Demons Fantasy Magic Supernatural -- Manaria Friends Manaria Friends -- Mysteria Academy is a prestigious magic school that teaches magic without discrimination to the three factions (men, gods, demons), who usually are engaged in battle with each other. Two of the academy's students are Anne, a princess and honor student, and Grea, a princess born from a dragon and a human. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 93,340 6.64
Manaria Friends -- -- CygamesPictures -- 10 eps -- Card game -- Demons Fantasy Magic Supernatural -- Manaria Friends Manaria Friends -- Mysteria Academy is a prestigious magic school that teaches magic without discrimination to the three factions (men, gods, demons), who usually are engaged in battle with each other. Two of the academy's students are Anne, a princess and honor student, and Grea, a princess born from a dragon and a human. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 93,340 6.64
Meitantei Holmes -- -- Gallop, TMS Entertainment -- 26 eps -- Novel -- Action Adventure Mystery Comedy Police -- Meitantei Holmes Meitantei Holmes -- Loosely based on the "Sherlock Holmes" series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Hound turns all the classic characters into dogs. The canine Sherlock Holmes, his assistant Watson, and housemaid Mrs. Hudson work together to solve mysteries. The culprit is usually Professor Moriarty and his gang, who use all kinds of wacky contraptions to steal what they want. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Nov 6, 1984 -- 8,805 7.37
Mitsudomoe -- -- Bridge -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Slice of Life -- Mitsudomoe Mitsudomoe -- The 11-year-old Marui triplets could not be any more different. The oldest one, Mitsuba, is sadistic and kind of mature for her age. The middle one, Futaba, is perverted and very athletic and has the strength of a full-grown man. The youngest one, Hitoha, is generally very quiet and gentle but when push comes to shove, she might just be the strongest, the most perverted and the most sadistic out of the three. -- -- The three are all in the same class, led by the newly graduated teacher Yabe Satoshi. He usually gets pushed around by the girls and, on occasion, abused but the triplets also try to lead him and the new school nurse, the clumsy Kuriyama Aiko, together. However, Yabe had no intention of dating Aiko and the methods the triplets use to accomplish their goal are highly unorthodox... -- TV - Jul 3, 2010 -- 92,595 7.58
Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Game Fantasy -- Monster Strike: Rain of Memories Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- - They deserve better. Someone better than me... - -- -- The stage is set one year before Ren arrives in Kaminohara. -- Akira has moved to Kaminohara from Sendai, all for the sake of revenge. -- The wounds that his sister suffered in an MS battle fuel his vengeance. -- -- A lost Haruma is given directions by Akira, -- revealing a caring side to the usually cold and calculating teen. -- Haruma observes Akira's violent MS battles, -- and realizes that Akira fights while reading his enemies' attacks. -- -- Haruma proposes the idea of recruiting Akira to his teammates, -- Aoi and Minami. Surprised and naturally reluctant, -- Aoi and Minami decide to trust Haruma. -- For Haruma has resisted recruiting the fourth member of their team, -- saving the spot for the right person... -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- ONA - Dec 3, 2016 -- 2,318 6.50
Popee the Performer -- -- Nippon Animation -- 39 eps -- Original -- Comedy Dementia -- Popee the Performer Popee the Performer -- Popee the Performer deals with a circus that operates in the middle of the desert. Each episode deals with the small cast of characters attempting at times to rehearse their performances, but it usually dissolves into the characters trying to humorously destroy each other in the usual cartoon manner. -- -- The star of the show, Popee, is a clown in an odd red-striped jumpsuit and bunny ears. He is adept at juggling, being a clown, pulling large knives and small bombs out of thin air. He is not adept at ever succeeding in his nefarious plans to hurt his poor assistant or the owner of the circus. His mischievous nature is the driving force of each episode. -- -- (Source: animefringe.com) -- 6,702 7.13
RD Sennou Chousashitsu -- -- Production I.G -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi -- RD Sennou Chousashitsu RD Sennou Chousashitsu -- 2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems such as personal data leaks and proliferation of manipulated information began to surface. Nevertheless, people still relied on the Network to exchange information, and proved unable to opt to abandon it. -- -- In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, usually abbreviated as "the Metal." -- -- The Metal accommodated personal memory data within protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells and eventually pervaded the everyday lives of people. -- -- However, people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the secure environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts pushed each individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their real world lives. Thus, strange friction between the two worlds began to manifest themselves as aberrations beyond the bounds of the imaginable. -- -- Experts who challenged the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher such aberrations were called cyber divers. -- -- This is a story of a cyber diver, Masamichi Haru, who investigates the incidents that lie between Reality and the Metal. -- -- (Source: Production I.G) -- 23,293 7.12
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru -- -- TROYCA -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Drama Mystery Thriller -- Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru -- When Shoutarou Tatewaki first meets Sakurako Kujou, he knows his life will never be the same. Initially believing her to be responsible for a disappearance in the neighborhood, he later learns of her true talent: analyzing bone specimens. Sakurako has quite the collection of reconstructed animal bones, but she wishes she had more of the human variety, much to the chagrin of those around her. -- -- Soon, Shoutarou begins accompanying the eccentric osteologist on the many different unsolved cases she comes across—usually in the form of decomposing bodies. But with so many incidents happening around them, could there be a larger mystery at work in their lives? -- -- Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru is a story of two unlikely partners, each showing in their own way that bones can tell how one died, but only people can tell how they lived. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 178,153 7.43
Seitokai no Ichizon -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Parody School -- Seitokai no Ichizon Seitokai no Ichizon -- Imagine living life as the vice president of the student council, passing the days eating snacks, playing games, and bonding with a harem of beautiful girls. This is exactly the kind of life that high school student Ken Sugisaki leads, or so he thinks! -- -- Usually, the officers of Hekiyou Academy's student council are elected by popular vote, but an additional position is granted to the student who scores the highest on the exams. Ken, who historically has had below average grades, worked hard to improve them to be accepted into the student council, with the ultimate goal of surrounding himself with girls who fawn over him. -- -- Unfortunately for the vice president, things do not go quite as planned. Not only do the ladies of the council continually rebuff his advances, they also prefer to focus on more important and "boring" activities, such as organizing school events and managing the other clubs. But a few minor hurdles like these won't stop Ken from chasing after his dreams, even if they seem a bit ridiculous. -- -- TV - Oct 3, 2009 -- 169,766 7.35
Shaman King Specials -- -- Nippon Animation, Xebec -- 5 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Shounen -- Shaman King Specials Shaman King Specials -- Throughout the broadcast of Shaman King, many shorts (usually referred to as Shaman King omake and TV specials) were made on special days of the year related to spirits and the like. The omake were short stories that were made for humorous effect. Apparently, all of the omake fit into the story before the Shaman Fight 2nd round. Documents of the Shaman Fight was shown with a New Year's omake as well. The TV Specials were aired after specific points of the story as well as on holidays. The specials were never dubbed in English, and, most likely, never will be. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- Special - Jan 2, 2002 -- 17,874 7.29
Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Fantasy -- Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan -- One day, a mysterious girl named Kaguya was washed ashore the island of Wyndaria after a great storm. She encounters Rick, a swordsman who wound up working at the island's bakery. Apparently, Kaguya is suffering from having lost her memories and emotions. In addition, the usually peaceful Wyndaria is now swarming with pirates who came seeking for the special spirit stone that is worn around Kaguya's neck. Knowing the situation, Rick and his co-workers, Nellis, Amyl, and Aerie decided to bring back peace to island and help Kaguya regain her lost memories and emotions. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 13, 2012 -- 38,632 6.14
SKET Dance -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 77 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen -- SKET Dance SKET Dance -- At Kaimei High School there is a special club dedicated to helping others known as the SKET Brigade. The brains of the group is Kazuyoshi "Switch" Usui, a tech-savvy otaku who speaks through speech synthesis software, while the brawn is provided by Hime "Himeko" Onizuka, the hockey stick-wielding girl once known as "Onihime." And last but not least, their leader is Yuusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki, whose latent ability is evoked by his goggles, allowing him to summon the awesome power of extraordinary concentration. -- -- However, most of the school only know them as the club that handles odd jobs. Many of their days are spent in the clubroom slacking off, but when there is something to be done, they give their all to help others—usually in sincere, but unintentionally hilarious, ways. The SKET Brigade do all they can to provide support, kindness, encouragement, and troubleshooting to any students crazy enough to ask for their services. -- -- 189,583 8.24
Space☆Dandy -- -- Bones -- 13 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Space Comedy -- Space☆Dandy Space☆Dandy -- The universe is a mysterious and strange place, full of even stranger and more mysterious aliens. Dandy's job is to hunt down unclassified aliens and register them for a reward. It sounds easy enough, but something weird always seems to happen along the way, like chance meetings with zombies, mystical ramen chefs, and adorable orphans. Hunting down aliens may not be easy, but it's definitely never boring. -- -- With the help of his sidekicks, the adorable robot vacuum QT and cat-like alien Meow, and his slightly-used ship the Aloha Oe, Dandy roams the galaxy searching for new alien species. What he usually finds, however, is adventure, danger, and romance, and no two journeys (or universes) are ever the same. This is Space☆Dandy, baby! -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jan 5, 2014 -- 277,948 7.88
Space☆Dandy -- -- Bones -- 13 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Space Comedy -- Space☆Dandy Space☆Dandy -- The universe is a mysterious and strange place, full of even stranger and more mysterious aliens. Dandy's job is to hunt down unclassified aliens and register them for a reward. It sounds easy enough, but something weird always seems to happen along the way, like chance meetings with zombies, mystical ramen chefs, and adorable orphans. Hunting down aliens may not be easy, but it's definitely never boring. -- -- With the help of his sidekicks, the adorable robot vacuum QT and cat-like alien Meow, and his slightly-used ship the Aloha Oe, Dandy roams the galaxy searching for new alien species. What he usually finds, however, is adventure, danger, and romance, and no two journeys (or universes) are ever the same. This is Space☆Dandy, baby! -- TV - Jan 5, 2014 -- 277,948 7.88
Upotte!! -- -- Xebec -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Military Seinen -- Upotte!! Upotte!! -- Kiss kiss, bang bang! The arms race takes on a startling new development when the arms come with heads, legs and very feminine bodies attached! -- -- Yes, at Seishou Academy every girl is literally a lethal weapon, and they're all gunning for the top shot at getting their own personal serviceman! Needless to say, it's going to be difficult for newly recruited human instructor Genkoku to adjust to working with a living arsenal of high caliber cuties with tricky names like FNC (Funko) M 16A4 (Ichiroku) L85A1 (Eru) and SG 550 (Shigu). Especially since many have hair triggers and there's no bulletproof vest that can stop a really determined coed! He'll have to rewrite the operator's manual on student/teacher relationships, and pray that his job description won't include having to field strip and reassemble one of his cadets in the dark. But unfortunately (for him) FNC's already thinking about becoming HIS personal weapon, and she usually gets what she aims for! -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- ONA - Apr 7, 2012 -- 64,158 6.50
Yakitate!! Japan -- -- Sunrise -- 69 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen -- Yakitate!! Japan Yakitate!! Japan -- While countries such as France, England, and Germany all have their own internationally celebrated bread, Japan simply does not have one that can match in reputation. -- -- Thus after discovering the wonders of breadmaking at a young age, Kazuma Azuma embarks on a quest to create Japan's own unique national bread. And being blessed with unusually warm hands that allow dough to ferment faster, Azuma is able to bring his baking innovations to another level. -- -- As he begins working at the prestigious Japanese bakery chain, Pantasia, Azuma encounters other talented bakers and experiences firsthand the competitive world of baking. Along with his newfound friends and rivals, Azuma strives to create new and unparalleled bread that will start a baking revolution. -- -- TV - Oct 12, 2004 -- 81,617 7.95
Yakusoku no Neverland -- -- CloverWorks -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Mystery Horror Psychological Thriller Shounen -- Yakusoku no Neverland Yakusoku no Neverland -- Surrounded by a forest and a gated entrance, the Grace Field House is inhabited by orphans happily living together as one big family, looked after by their "Mama," Isabella. Although they are required to take tests daily, the children are free to spend their time as they see fit, usually playing outside, as long as they do not venture too far from the orphanage—a rule they are expected to follow no matter what. However, all good times must come to an end, as every few months, a child is adopted and sent to live with their new family, never to be heard from again. -- -- However, the three oldest siblings have their suspicions about what is actually happening at the orphanage, and they are about to discover the cruel fate that awaits the children living at Grace Field, including the twisted nature of their beloved Mama. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 1,256,617 8.63
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