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wonderful ::: a. --> Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.
wonderful ::: capable of eliciting wonder; filled with wonder; astonishing. Wonderful, the Wonderful, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a personification of the Deity.)
wonderfully ::: eliciting wonder; astonishing.
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active brahman ::: same as sagun.a brahman, the dynamic aspect of brahman which is expressed in the cosmic movement, "a universal Divine, one in being, multiple in personality and power, who conveys to us, when we enter into the consciousness of his universal forces, a sense of infinite quality and will and act and world-wide knowledge and a one yet innumerable delight"; realised by the mind separately from the santaṁ brahma or silent brahman, it is an aspect of universal being which "though wonderfully freed, uplifted and illumined, supports only the present self-expression of the Cosmic Spirit and does not transform, as would a transcendental Descent, the ambiguous symbols and veiled mysteries of a world of Ignorance". active samat samata
Adbhitanya [possibly corruption of Sanskrit adbhutama or adbhutva from adbhuta marvelous, wonderful] In the Vishnu-Purana (3:2), adbhuta is the name of the Indra of the ninth manvantara. Commentary quoted by Blavatsky refers to the first continent once “inhabited by the Sons of Sveta-dwipa [the White Island], the blessed, and Adbhitanya, east and west, the first, the one and the pure . . .” (SD 2:319). Another name for this land or primevally inhabited part of the earth is Adi-varsha.
Adbhuta-Brahmana (Sanskrit) Adbhuta-brāhmaṇa [from adbhuta wonderful, marvelous + brāhmaṇa portion of the Vedas treating of ritual, prayer, sacrifices, and mantra] One of the eight Brahmanas belonging to the Sama-Veda, dealing with omens, auguries, and extraordinary wonders.
Adbhuta-dharma (Sanskrit) Adbhuta-dharma [from adbhuta wonderful, marvelous + dharma law, truth, religion] One of the nine angas (divisions of Buddhist texts) that treats of marvels and wonders.
adbhutah ::: wonderful.
Adbhuta: Wonderful.
admirable ::: a. --> Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
admirableness ::: n. --> The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
admiration ::: n. --> Wonder; astonishment.
Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
admired ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Admire ::: a. --> Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.
Wonderful; also, admirable.
alliteration: The use of repeated consonants in neighbouring words. It appears most often at the beginning of those words, e.g. wonderful wilderness. It can create a strong effect by introducing pattern into the language. See assonance.
all- ::: prefix: Wholly, altogether, infinitely. Since 1600, the number of these [combinations] has been enormously extended, all-** having become a possible prefix, in poetry at least, to almost any adjective of quality. all-affirming, All-Beautiful, All-Beautiful"s, All-Bliss, All-Blissful, All-causing, all-concealing, all-conquering, All-Conscient, All-Conscious, all-containing, All-containing, all-creating, all-defeating, All-Delight, all-discovering, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, all-harbouring, all-inhabiting, all-knowing, All-knowing, All-Knowledge, all-levelling, All-Life, All-love, All-Love, all-negating, all-powerful, all-revealing, All-ruler, all-ruling, all-seeing, All-seeing, all-seeking, all-shaping, all-supporting, all-sustaining, all-swallowing, All-Truth, All-vision, All-Wisdom, all-wise, All-Wise, all-witnessing, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s.**
Amal: “The reference is to the Mind in its own realm where it dominates both Life and Matter and does all sorts of wonderful things, drawing its strength from the Divine Power who is called ‘the World-Magician’.
amazing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Amaze ::: a. --> Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.
anandaloka (anandaloka; ananda-loka; ananda loka) ::: the world anandaloka (loka) of the supreme bliss (ananda) of saccidananda, the plane of "the joy of absolute identity in innumerable oneness", where all "consciousness is of the bliss of the Infinite, all power is power of the bliss of the Infinite, all forms and activities are forms and activities of the bliss of the Infinite"; there is also "a repetition of the Ananda plane in each lower world of consciousness", but "in the lower planes not only is it reached by a sort of dissolution into it of the pure mind or the life-sense or the physical awareness, but it is, as it were, itself diluted by the dissolved form of mind, life or matter, held in the dilution and turned into a poor thinness wonderful to the lower consciousness but not comparable to its true intensities".
Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divines! Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe. But human nature bounded, egoistic and obscure is inapt to receive these great Presences or to support their mighty action. Only when the Four have founded their harmony and freedom of movement in the transformed mind and life and body, can those other rarer Powers manifest in the earth move- ment and the supramental action become possible.
apparition ::: n. --> The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom.
The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
Arthur, King (Welsh) A dual figure: historical ruler who held up for forty years or so the Saxon incursions; said to have passed (not died) at or after the Battle of Camlan (540 AD). The mythological Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon, or Uthr Ben, the Wonderful Head. In Prydwen, his Ship of Glass, he made an expedition into Annwn (the underworld) to obtain the Pair Dadeni, or cauldron of reincarnation, the symbol of initiation. As the king that was and shall be, he appears in the Welsh version of the coming of the Kalki-avatara, which will come to pass at the end of the present yuga. After Camlan he was taken to Ynys Afallen (Apple-tree Island), to be healed of his wounds and to await his return. But the apple tree of the island, as we see in the 6th-century poem “Afallenan” by Myrddin Gwyllt, is the Tree of Wisdom. The poem tells how the tree had to be hidden and guarded, but the time would come when it should be known again: then Arthur would return, and Cadwalaor, and then “shall Wales rejoice; bright shall be her dragon (leader). The horns of joy shall sound the Song of Peace and serenity. Before the Child of the Sun, bold in his courses, evil shall be rooted out. Bards shall triumph.”
astonishing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Astonish ::: a. --> Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.
astonishment ::: n. --> The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.
Dismay; consternation.
The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.
The object causing such an emotion.
Atman(Sanskrit) ::: The root of atman is hardly known; its origin is uncertain, but the general meaning is that of"self." The highest part of man -- self, pure consciousness per se. The essential and radical power orfaculty in man which gives to him, and indeed to every other entity or thing, its knowledge or sentientconsciousness of selfhood. This is not the ego.This principle (atman) is a universal one; but during incarnations its lowest parts take on attributes,because it is linked with the buddhi, as the buddhi is linked with the manas, as the manas is linked to thekama, and so on down the scale.Atman is also sometimes used of the universal self or spirit which is called in the Sanskrit writingsBrahman (neuter), and the Brahman or universal spirit is also called the paramatman.Man is rooted in the kosmos surrounding him by three principles, which can hardly be said to be abovethe first or atman, but are, so to say, that same atman's highest and most glorious parts.The inmost link with the Unutterable was called in ancient India by the term ``self,'' which has often beenmistranslated "soul." The Sanskrit word is atman and applies, in psychology, to the human entity. Theupper end of the link, so to speak, was called paramatman, or the ``self beyond,'' i.e., the permanentSELF -- words which describe neatly and clearly to those who have studied this wonderful philosophy,somewhat of the nature and essence of the being which man is, and the source from which, inbeginningless and endless duration, he sprang. Child of earth and child of heaven, he contains both inhimself.We say that the atman is universal, and so it is. It is the universal selfhood, that feeling or consciousnessof selfhood which is the same in every human being, and even in all the inferior beings of the hierarchy,even in those of the beast kingdom under us, and dimly perceptible in the plant world, and which is latenteven in the minerals. This is the pure cognition, the abstract idea, of self. It differs not at all throughoutthe hierarchy, except in degree of self-recognition. Though universal, it belongs (so far as we areconcerned in our present stage of evolution) to the fourth kosmic plane, though it is our seventh principlecounting upwards.
ava (Mahalakshmi bhava; Mahaluxmi bhava) ::: the Mahalaks.mi aspect of devibhava; the temperament of Mahalaks.mi, the personality of the sakti or devi who "is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace".Mah Mahalaksmi-Mahakali
Bahya, ben Joseph Ibn Padudah: (c. 1050) Philosopher and ethicist. The title of his work, The Duties of the Heart (Heb. Hobot ha-Leba-bot), indicates its purpose, i.e., to teach ethical conduct. First part demonstrates pure conception of God, unity and attributes. His basic principle of ethics is thankfulness to God, for His creating the wonderful world; the goal of religious ethical conduct is love of God. A second work ascribed to him is the Torot ha-Nefesh, i.e., Doctrines of the Soul, which deals primarily with the soul, but also with other subjects and evinces a strong neo-Platonic strain. See Jewish Philosophy -- M.W.
balaam ::: n. --> A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam&
Behind the tales that have clustered around this wonderful bird, there was a deep symbology: “Simorgh was the guardian of the ancient Persian Mysteries. It is expected to reappear at the end of the cycle as a gigantic bird-lion. Esoterically, it stands as the symbol of the Manvantaric cycle” (TG 299). Simorgh symbolizes the ancient knowledge and the creative life force. In later Persian literature, it represents the perfect man who has exalted himself to the highest degree of freedom.
Blavatsky states that Sanskrit has never been known nor spoken in its true systematized form except by the initiated Brahmins. This form of Sanskrit was called — as well as by other names — Vach, the mystic speech, which resides in the sounds of the mantra. “The chanting of a Mantra is not a prayer, but rather a magical sentence in which the law of Occult causation connects itself with, and depends on, the will and acts of its singer. It is a succession of Sanskrit sounds, and when its strings of words and sentences is pronounced according to the magical formulae in the Atharva Veda, but understood by the few, some Mantras produce an instantaneous and very wonderful effect” (BCW 14:428n). This Vach, or the mystic self of Sanskrit, was the sacerdotal speech of the initiated Brahmins and was studied by initiates from all over the world.
Buddhochinga (Sanskrit) Buddhociṅga “The name of a great Indian Arhat who went to China in the 4th century to propagate Buddhism and converted masses of people by means of miracles and most wonderful magic feats” (TG 68).
wonderful ::: a. --> Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.
wonderful ::: capable of eliciting wonder; filled with wonder; astonishing. Wonderful, the Wonderful, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a personification of the Deity.)
wonderfully ::: eliciting wonder; astonishing.
(c) In aesthetics: Rhythmic vitality; expression; wonderful quality; style full of spirit, energy or vivacity. -- W.T.C.
daijue ermiao. (待絶二妙). In Chinese, "marvelous in comparison and marvelous in its own right." In the TIANTAI school's system of doctrinal classification (see JIAOXIANG PANSHI), Buddhist teachings and scriptures were classified into four modes of instruction (according to their different doctrinal themes; see TIANTAI BAJIAO) and five periods (according to the presumed chronological order by which the Buddha propounded them; see WUSHI). The most sophisticated pedagogical mode and the culminating chronological period are called, respectively, "the perfect teaching" (YUANJIAO) and the "Fahua-Niepan period." The teachings and scriptures associated with the highest mode and the culminating period-the paradigmatic example being the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") and the teachings it embodied for the Tiantai school-are called truly "marvelous" for two reasons. First, they are "marvelous in comparison to the teachings and scriptures of all other 'modes' and 'periods'" (xiangdai miao) because they are the definitive expressions of the Buddha's teachings; second, they are also "marvelous in their own right" (juedai miao), i.e., they are wonderful and profound in an absolute sense, and not just comparatively.
Death ::: Death occurs when a general break-up of the constitution of man takes place; nor is this break-up amatter of sudden occurrence, with the exceptions of course of such cases as mortal accidents or suicides.Death is always preceded, varying in each individual case, by a certain time spent in the withdrawal ofthe monadic individuality from an incarnation, and this withdrawal of course takes place coincidentlywith a decay of the seven-principle being which man is in physical incarnation. This decay precedesphysical dissolution, and is a preparation of and by the consciousness-center for the forthcomingexistence in the invisible realms. This withdrawal actually is a preparation for the life to come ininvisible realms, and as the septenary entity on this earth so decays, it may truly be said to beapproaching rebirth in the next sphere.Death occurs, physically speaking, with the cessation of activity of the pulsating heart. There is the lastbeat, and this is followed by immediate, instantaneous unconsciousness, for nature is very merciful inthese things. But death is not yet complete, for the brain is the last organ of the physical body really todie, and for some time after the heart has ceased beating, the brain and its memory still remain activeand, although unconsciously so, the human ego for this short length of time, passes in review every eventof the preceding life. This great or small panoramic picture of the past is purely automatic, so to say; yetthe soul-consciousness of the reincarnating ego watches this wonderful review incident by incident, areview which includes the entire course of thought and action of the life just closed. The entity is, for thetime being, entirely unconscious of everything else except this. Temporarily it lives in the past, andmemory dislodges from the akasic record, so to speak, event after event, to the smallest detail: passesthem all in review, and in regular order from the beginning to the end, and thus sees all its past life as anall-inclusive panorama of picture succeeding picture.There are very definite ethical and psychological reasons inhering in this process, for this process forms areconstruction of both the good and the evil done in the past life, and imprints this strongly as a record onthe fabric of the spiritual memory of the passing being. Then the mortal and material portions sink intooblivion, while the reincarnating ego carries the best and noblest parts of these memories into thedevachan or heaven-world of postmortem rest and recuperation. Thus comes the end called death; andunconsciousness, complete and undisturbed, succeeds, until there occurs what the ancients called thesecond death.The lower triad (prana, linga-sarira, sthula-sarira) is now definitely cast off, and the remaining quaternaryis free. The physical body of the lower triad follows the course of natural decay, and its various hosts oflife-atoms proceed whither their natural attractions draw them. The linga-sarira or model-body remains inthe astral realms, and finally fades out. The life-atoms of the prana, or electrical field, fly instantly backat the moment of physical dissolution to the natural pranic reservoirs of the planet.This leaves man, therefore, no longer a heptad or septenary entity, but a quaternary consisting of theupper duad (atma-buddhi) and the intermediate duad (manas-kama). The second death then takes place.Death and the adjective dead are mere words by which the human mind seeks to express thoughts whichit gathers from a more or less consistent observation of the phenomena of the material world. Death isdissolution of a component entity or thing. The dead, therefore, are merely dissolving bodies -- entitieswhich have reached their term on this our physical plane. Dissolution is common to all things, becauseall physical things are composite: they are not absolute things. They are born; they grow; they reachmaturity; they enjoy, as the expression runs, a certain term of life in the full bloom of their powers; thenthey "die." That is the ordinary way of expressing what men call death; and the corresponding adjectiveis dead, when we say that such things or entities are dead.Do you find death per se anywhere? No. You find nothing but action; you find nothing but movement;you find nothing but change. Nothing stands still or is annihilated. What is called death itself shouts forthto us the fact of movement and change. Absolute inertia is unknown in nature or in the human mind; itdoes not exist.
Deva(s)(Sanskrit) ::: A word meaning celestial being, of which there are various classes. This has been a greatpuzzle for most of our Occidental Orientalists. They cannot understand the distinctions that thewonderful old philosophers of the Orient make as regards the various classes of the devas. They say, insubstance: "What funny contradictions there are in these teachings, which in many respects are profoundand seem wonderful. Some of these devas or divine beings are said to be less than man; some of thesewritings even say that a good man is nobler than any god. And yet other parts of these teachings declarethat there are gods higher even than the devas, and yet are called devas. What does this mean?"The devas or celestial beings, one class of them, are the unself-conscious sparks of divinity, cyclingdown into matter in order to bring out from within themselves and to unfold or evolve self-consciousness,the svabhava of divinity within. They then begin their reascent always on the luminous arc, which neverends, in a sense; and they are gods, self-conscious gods, henceforth taking a definite and divine part inthe "great work," as the mystics have said, of being builders, evolvers, leaders of hierarchies. In otherwords, they are monads which have become their own innermost selves, which have passed thering-pass-not separating the spiritual from the divine.
Dharani (Sanskrit) Dhāraṇī [from the verbal root dhṛ to bear, support] In Buddhism, a mystical verse or mantra; in Hinduism, verses from the Rig-Veda. “In days of old these mantras or Dharani were all considered mystical and practically efficacious in their use. At present, however, it is the Yogacharya school alone which proves the claim in practice. When chanted according to given instructions a Dharani produces wonderful effects. Its occult power, however, does not reside in the words but in the inflexion or accent given and the resulting sound originated thereby” (TG 100).
Dhyana(Sanskrit) ::: A term signifying profound spiritualintellectual contemplation with utter detachment from allobjects of a sensuous and lower mental character. In Buddhism it is one of the six paramitas ofperfection. One who is adept or expert in the practice of dhyana, which by the way is a wonderfulspiritual exercise if the proper idea of it be grasped, is carried in thought entirely out of all relations withthe material and merely psychological spheres of being and of consciousness, and into lofty spiritualplanes. Instead of dhyana being a subtraction from the elements of consciousness, it is rather a throwingoff or casting aside of the crippling sheaths of ethereal matter which surround the consciousness, thusallowing the dhyanin, or practicer of this form of true yoga, to enter into the highest parts of his ownconstitution and temporarily to become at one with and, therefore, to commune with the gods. It is atemporary becoming at one with the upper triad of man considered as a septenary, in other words, withhis monadic essence. Man's consciousness in this state or condition becomes purely buddhi, or ratherbuddhic, with the highest parts of the manas acting as upadhi or vehicle for the retention of what theconsciousness therein experiences. From this term is drawn the phrase dhyani-chohans ordhyani-buddhas -- words so frequently used in theosophical literature and so frequently misconceived asto their real meaning. (See also Samadhi)
Divine Soul ::: In occultism the divine soul is the garment of the divine ego, as the divine ego is the garment or child ofthe divine monad. The divine monad we may call the inner god, and this would mean that the divine ego,its offspring, is the inner Buddha, or the inner Christ; and hence the divine soul is the expression of theinner Buddha or of the inner Christ in manifestation on earth as the manushya-buddha or christ-man.It should be stated here that of the several monads which in their combination form the entire septenaryconstitution of man each such monad has its own ego-child, and this latter has its own soul. It is thiscombination, mystic, wonderful, mysterious, which makes of man the complex entity he is, and whichentitles him to the term which the occultism of the archaic ages has always given to him: the microcosm,a reflection or copy in the small of the macrocosm or kosmic entity.
Doctrine of Signatures ::: A Hermetic principle that essentially states: the form of an object determines the archetypes it represents. This works through symbolic resonance. When applied to materia for usage in talismanic magic, for instance, this means that the form of the materia determines how it should be used. For example, star anise is a wonderful Lunar herb because it is shaped like a star. Form determines function.
dweeb An even lower form of life than the {spod}, found in much the same habitat as the former. though more prevailent on {talker systems}. Unlike spods, upon receiving the desired response to the question "Are you male or female?", dweebs will then engage upon a detailed description of themselves and how wonderful they are, often in the hopes of truly impressing the other with their "charm" and "wit". Nearly all dweebs are male, but very few actually live up to the image that they present. Dweebs, unfortunately, are often the cause of ill-will, and may well bring a bad reputation to the system in question. They are often, however, easy to wind up and can be the source of great mirth to the seasoned user.
eighty-twenty rule "programming" The program-design version of the law of diminishing returns. The 80/20 rule says that roughly 80% of the problem can be solved with 20% of the effort that it would take to solve the whole problem. For example, parsing {e-mail addresses} in "From:" lines in e-mail messages is notoriously difficult if you follow the RFC 2822 specification. However, about 60% of actual "From:" lines are in the format "From: Their Name "user@host"", with a far more constrained idea of what can be in "user" or "host" than in RFC 2822. Another 25% just add double-quotes around "Their Name". Matching just those two patterns would thus cover 85% of "From:" lines, with a tiny portion of the code required to fully implement RFC2822. (Adding support for "From: user@host" and "From: user@host (Their Name) " brings coverage to almost 100%, leaving only really baroque things that RFC-2822 permits, like "From: Pete(A wonderful \) chap) "pete(his account)@silly.test(his host)" or the like.) It is an eternal question whether too much attention is paid to the 80/20 rule (leading to systems that are irrevocably broken for "unusual" cases), or too little (leading to systems that sacrifice usability in the typical case, just so that rare cases can work properly). Compare: {KISS Principle} (2003-11-17)
eighty-twenty rule ::: (programming) The program-design version of the law of diminishing returns. The 80/20 rule says that roughly 80% of the problem can be solved with 20% of the effort that it would take to solve the whole problem.For example, parsing e-mail addresses in From: lines in e-mail messages is notoriously difficult if you follow the RFC 2822 specification. However, about those two patterns would thus cover 85% of From: lines, with a tiny portion of the code required to fully implement RFC2822.(Adding support for From: and From: (Their Name) brings coverage to almost 100%, leaving only really baroque things that RFC-2822 permits, like From: Pete(A wonderful \) chap) pete(his account)@silly.test(his host) or the like.)It is an eternal question whether too much attention is paid to the 80/20 rule (leading to systems that are irrevocably broken for unusual cases), or too little (leading to systems that sacrifice usability in the typical case, just so that rare cases can work properly).Compare: KISS Principle(2003-11-17)
enchantment ::: n. --> The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.
The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.
That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.
escurial ::: n. --> A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.
Existence ::: Existence is not merely a glorious or a vain, a wonderful or a dismal panorama of a constant mutation of becoming. There is something eternal, immutable, imperishable, a timeless self-existence; that is not affected by the mutations of Nature. It is their impartial witness, neither affecting nor affected, neither acting nor acted upon, neither virtuous nor sinful, but always pure, complete, great and unwounded. Neither grieving nor rejoicing at all that afflicts and attracts the egoistic being, it is the friend of none, the enemy of none, but one equal self of all.
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extraordinary ::: a. --> Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.
Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.
facility ::: n. --> The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
ferly ::: n. --> Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
A wonder; a marvel.
from Sanskrit shishya meaning disciple or student. A monotheistic religion that originated during the 15th century AD in the Punjab of India, founded by Guru Nanak Dev who taught a life of simplicity and honesty. The One God is called Ek Onkar, and is often referred to as Wahe Guru (wonderful lord). By tradition, a Sikh man takes the surname Singh (lion), and a Sikh woman takes the name Kaur (princess).
gargantuan ::: a. --> Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
geason ::: a. --> Rare; wonderful.
Good Thing "convention" (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised. 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: "The {Trailblazer}'s 19.2 K{baud} {PEP} mode with {on-the-fly} {Lempel-Ziv compression} is a Good Thing for sites relaying {netnews}". 2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: "Removing the {self-modifying code} from that {shared library} would be a Good Thing". 3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in "{Yacc} is a Good Thing", specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load. Opposite: {Bad Thing}, compare {big win}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-07)
Good Thing ::: (convention) (From the 1930 Sellar and Yeatman parody 1066 And All That) Often capitalised; always pronounced as if capitalised.1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice: The Trailblazer's 19.2 Kbaud PEP mode with on-the-fly Lempel-Ziv compression is a Good Thing for sites relaying netnews.2. Something that can't possibly have any ill side-effects and may save considerable grief later: Removing the self-modifying code from that shared library would be a Good Thing.3. When said of software tools or libraries, as in Yacc is a Good Thing, specifically connotes that the thing has drastically reduced a programmer's work load.Opposite: Bad Thing, compare big win.[Jargon File] (1995-05-07)
Great and Wonderful—when Michael came
Gyan (Persian) Also Gian-ben-Gian, Gyan-ben-Gian. According to the Persian legend, Gyan was king of the peris or sylphs. He had a wonderful shield which served as a protection against evil or black magic — the sorcery of the devs. Blavatsky remarks that Gyan might be spelled Gnan (which corresponds to the Sanskrit jnana), meaning true or occult wisdom. His shield, “produced on the principles of astrology, destroyed charms, enchantments, and bad spells, could not prevail against Iblis, who was an agent of Fate (or Karma)” (SD 2:394).
“He was a natural clairvoyant of most wonderful powers. With no education or acquaintance with science he wrote works which are now proved to be full of scientific truths; but then, as he says himself, what he wrote upon, he ‘saw it as in a great Deep in the Eternal.’ He had ‘a thorough view of the universe, as in a chaos,’ which yet ‘opened itself in him, from time to time, as in a young plant.’ He was a thorough born Mystic, and evidently of a constitution which is most rare; one of those fine natures whose material envelope impedes in no way the direct, even if only occasional, intercommunion between the intellectual and the spiritual Ego. It is this Ego which Jacob Boehme, like so many other untrained mystics, mistook for God; ‘Man must acknowledge,’ he writes, ‘that his knowledge is not his own, but from God, who manifests the Ideas of Wisdom to the Soul of Man, in what measure he pleases.’ Had this great Theosophist mastered Eastern Occultism he might have expressed it otherwise. He would have known then that the ‘god’ who spoke through his poor uncultured and untrained brain, was his own divine Ego, the omniscient Deity within himself, and that what that Deity gave out was not in ‘what measure he pleased,’ but in the measure of the capacities of the mortal and temporary dwelling IT informed” (TG 60).
Horse In the ancient Mediterranean and Northern European mythologies, used in connection with the sun and standing as a symbol for the solar powers or the sun itself. The sun is frequently represented in ancient thought as being drawn along the heavens by means of horses. In ancient Persia and Greece, individual heroes, as for instance Hushenk and Bellerophon, are said to have obtained mastery over and consequent use of wonderful horses with which they were enabled to approach the sun. In Scandinavian mythology, horses were represented as carrying the heroes into the under- and over-world, and as mounts of the Valkyries they bore the fallen heroes to Valhalla.
It is customary to regard the later Atlanteans as a race of sorcerers because, according to the narratives told concerning the doom of Atlantis and its inhabitants (cf SD 2:427), many deliberately followed the left-hand path — yet not all were black magicians, for there were millions in all ages of Atlantis who earnestly essayed to preserve the wisdom of their semi-spiritual forebears of the third root-race. There were wonderful civilizations during the millions of years of Atlantean development surpassing in material things anything that is known today.
“it is upon the document issued from the Vatican containing the story of the so-called trial and condemnation of Cagliostro that most later students and historians of the checkered and wonderful career of that remarkable man assume that Cagliostro and Guiseppe Balsamo were one individual.
killer micro [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A {microprocessor}-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of {RISC} architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the {canonical} examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within {massively parallel computers}). [{Jargon File}]
legend ::: n. --> That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.
Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the
Life-Atoms ::: The physical body is composed essentially of energy, of energies rather, in the forms that are spoken ofin modern physical science as electrons and protons. These are in constant movement; they areincessantly active, and are what theosophists call the imbodiments or manifestations of life-atoms. Theselife-atoms are inbuilt into man's body during the physical life which he leads on earth, although they arenot derivative from outside, but spring forth from within himself -- at least a great majority of them aresuch. This is equivalent to saying that they compose both his physical as well as his intermediate nature,which latter is obviously higher than the physical.When the man dies -- that is to say, when the physical body dies -- its elements pass, each and all, intotheir respective and appropriate spheres: some into the soil, to which those that go there are drawn bymagnetic affinity, an affinity impressed upon their life-energies by the man when alive, whoseovershadowing will and desires, whose overlordship and power, gave them that direction. Others passinto the vegetation from the same reason that the former are impelled to the mineral kingdom; others passinto the various beasts with which they have, at the man's death, magnetic affinity, psychic affinity moreaccurately, an affinity which the man has impressed upon them by his desires and various impulses; andthose which take this path go to form the interior or intermediate apparatus of the beasts into which theypass. So much for the course pursued by the life-atoms of the man's lowest principles.But there are other life-atoms belonging to him. There are life-atoms, in fact, belonging to the sphere ofeach one of the seven principles of man's constitution. This means that there are life-atoms belonging tohis intermediate nature and to his spiritual nature and to all grades intermediate between these two higherparts of him. And in all cases, as the monad "ascends" or "rises" through the spheres, as he goes step bystep higher on his wonderful postmortem journey, on each such step he discards or casts off thelife-atoms belonging to each one of these steps or stages of the journey. With each step, he leaves behindthe more material of these life-atoms until, when he has reached the culmination of his wonderfulpostmortem peregrination, he is, as Paul of the Christians said, living in "a spiritual body" -- that is tosay, he has become a spiritual energy, a monad.Nature permits no absolute standing still for anything, anywhere. All things are full of life, full of energy,full of movement; they are both energy and matter, both spirit and substance; and these two arefundamentally one -- phases of the underlying reality, of which we see but the maya or illusory forms.The life-atoms are actually the offspring or the off-throwings of the interior principles of man'sconstitution. It is obvious that the life-atoms which ensoul the physical atoms in man's body are asnumerous as the atoms which they ensoul; and there are almost countless hosts of them, decillions upondecillions of them, in practically incomputable numbers. Each one of these life-atoms is a being which isliving, moving, growing, never standing still -- evolving towards a sublime destiny which ultimatelybecomes divinity.
LINCtape "storage" A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, {random access} tape system used on the {Laboratory Instrument Computer}. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny {DECtape} is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to {Wesley Clark}, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge {DC} servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked! (1999-03-29)
Madhav: “The Scripture Wonderful refers to the Supreme Knowledge. The Spirit-mate of Life hopes to divine the Supreme Knowledge in the transcript made by Life of God’s intention; but that script, however bright and attractive is a product of her fancy. The true Word lies covered under her fanciful rendering. The Supreme Knowledge that holds the key to the celestial beatitudes escapes him.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Mahasabha (Sanskrit) Mahāsabhā [from mahā great + sabhā assembly, gathering, collection, bundle] The bundle of wonderful (mayavi or illusionary) things given to the Pandavas by Mayasura, the architect of the daityas who was versed in magic, astronomy, and military science.
Manasaputra(s)(Sanskrit) ::: This is a compound word: manas, "mind," putra, "son" -- "sons of mind." The teaching is thatthere exists a Hierarchy of Compassion, which H. P. Blavatsky sometimes called the Hierarchy of Mercyor of Pity. This is the light side of nature as contrasted with its matter side or shadow side, its night side.It is from this Hierarchy of Compassion that came those semi-divine entities at about the middle periodof the third root-race of this round, who incarnated in the semi-conscious, quasi-senseless men of thatperiod. These advanced entities are otherwise known as the solar lhas as the Tibetans call them, the solarspirits, who were the men of a former kalpa, and who during the third root-race thus sacrificedthemselves in order to give us intellectual light -- incarnating in those senseless psychophysical shells inorder to awaken the divine flame of egoity and self-consciousness in the sleeping egos which we thenwere. They are ourselves because belonging to the same spiritray that we do; yet we, more strictlyspeaking, were those halfunconscious, half-awakened egos whom they touched with the divine fire oftheir own being. This, our "awakening," was called by H. P. Blavatsky, the incarnation of themanasaputras, or the sons of mind or light. Had that incarnation not taken place, we indeed should havecontinued our evolution by merely "natural" causes, but it would have been slow almost beyondcomprehension, almost interminable; but that act of self-sacrifice, through their immense pity, theirimmense love, though, indeed, acting under karmic impulse, awakened the divine fire in our own selves,gave us light and comprehension and understanding. From that time we ourselves became "sons of thegods," the faculty of self-consciousness in us was awakened, our eyes were opened, responsibilitybecame ours; and our feet were set then definitely upon the path, that inner path, quiet, wonderful,leading us inwards back to our spiritual home.The manasaputras are our higher natures and, paradoxical as it is, are more largely evolved beings thanwe are. They were the spiritual entities who "quickened" our personal egos, which were thus evolved intoself-consciousness, relatively small though that yet be. One, and yet many! As you can light an infinitenumber of candles from one lighted candle, so from a spark of consciousness can you quicken andenliven innumerable other consciousnesses, lying, so to speak, in sleep or latent in the life-atoms.These manasaputras, children of mahat, are said to have quickened and enlightened in us themanas-manas of our manas septenary, because they themselves are typically manasic in their essentialcharacteristic or svabhava. Their own essential or manasic vibrations, so to say, could cause that essenceof manas in ourselves to vibrate in sympathy, much as the sounding of a musical note will causesympathetic response in something like it, a similar note in other things. (See also Agnishvattas)
marvelously ::: adv. --> In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
marvelousness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.
marvelous ::: n. --> Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible.
Mayasabha (Sanskrit) Māyāsabhā [from māyā illusion + sabhā assembly] An assemblage of illusions; one of the wonderful gifts given to the Pandavas in the Mahabharata by Mayasura.
Maya(Sanskrit) ::: The word comes from the root ma, meaning "to measure," and by a figure of speech it alsocomes to mean "to effect," "to form," and hence "to limit." There is an English word mete, meaning "tomeasure out," from the same IndoEuropean root. It is found in the Anglo-Saxon as the root met, in theGreek as med, and it is found in the Latin also in the same form.Ages ago in the wonderful Brahmanical philosophy maya was understood very differently from what it isnow usually understood to be. As a technical term, maya has come to mean the fabrication by man's mindof ideas derived from interior and exterior impressions, hence the illusory aspect of man's thoughts as heconsiders and tries to interpret and understand life and his surroundings; and thence was derived thesense which it technically bears, "illusion." It does not mean that the exterior world is nonexistent; if itwere, it obviously could not be illusory. It exists, but is not. It is "measured out" or is "limited," or itstands out to the human spirit as a mirage. In other words, we do not see clearly and plainly and in theirreality the vision and the visions which our mind and senses present to the inner life and eye.The familiar illustrations of maya in the Vedanta, which is the highest form that the Brahmanicalteachings have taken and which is so near to our own teaching in many respects, were such as follows: Aman at eventide sees a coiled rope on the ground, and springs aside, thinking it a serpent. The rope isthere, but no serpent. The second illustration is what is called the "horns of the hare." The animal calledthe hare has no horns, but when it also is seen at eventide, its long ears seem to project from its head insuch fashion that it appears even to the seeing eye as being a creature with horns. The hare has no horns,but there is then in the mind an illusory belief that an animal with horns exists there.That is what maya means: not that a thing seen does not exist, but that we are blinded and our mindperverted by our own thoughts and our own imperfections, and do not as yet arrive at the realinterpretation and meaning of the world or of the universe around us. By ascending inwardly, by risingup, by inner aspiration, by an elevation of soul, we can reach upwards or rather inwards towards thatplane where truth abides in fullness.H. P. Blavatsky says on page 631 of the first volume of The Secret Doctrine:Esoteric philosophy, teaching an objective Idealism -- though it regards the objectiveUniverse and all in it as Maya, temporary illusion -- draws a practical distinction betweencollective illusion, Mahamaya, from the purely metaphysical standpoint, and the objectiverelations in it between various conscious Egos so long as this illusion lasts.The teaching is that maya is thus called from the action of mulaprakriti or root-nature, the coordinateprinciple of that other line of coactive consciousness which we call parabrahman. From the momentwhen manifestation begins, it acts dualistically, that is to say that everything in nature from that pointonwards is crossed by pairs of opposites, such as long and short, high and low, night and day, good andevil, consciousness and nonconsciousness, etc., and that all these things are essentially mayic or illusory-- real while they last, but the lasting is not eternal. It is through and by these pairs of opposites that theself-conscious soul learns truth. It might be said, in conclusion, that another and very convenient way ofconsidering maya is to understand it to mean "limitation," "restriction," and therefore imperfect cognitionand recognition of reality. The imperfect mind does not see perfect truth. It labors under an illusioncorresponding with its own imperfections, under a maya, a limitation. Magical practices are frequentlycalled maya in the ancient Hindu books.
Mayasura (Sanskrit) Māyāsura The asura mentioned in the Mahabharata, who presented the Pandava brothers with a gift of a bundle of wonderful things.
mighty ::: n. --> Possessing might; having great power or authority.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.
A warrior of great force and courage. ::: adv.
mirabilary ::: n. --> One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
mirable ::: a. --> Wonderful; admirable.
miracle ::: n. --> A wonder or wonderful thing.
Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.
A miracle play.
A story or legend abounding in miracles.
miraculous ::: a. --> Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.
Supernatural; wonderful.
Wonder-working.
mirifical ::: a. --> Working wonders; wonderful.
mirificent ::: a. --> Wonderful.
Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness. Another embo&es her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace. The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact per- fection in all things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it Is these powers that they bring with them into the world. To the four we give the four great names, Maheshvari, Mahakali, Mabalakshmi, Mahasarasvati.
Paths of Wisdom or Ways of Wisdom Used in the Hebrew Qabbalah, especially in the Sepher Yetsirah (the book of formation) in which formation or creation is set forth in a series of numbers. The Zohar (iii, 290a), as well as the Sepher Yetsirah (1, i), state that Wisdom (Hochmah) generates or arranges all things by means of “thirty-two wonderful paths of wisdom.” The number 32 consists of the ten Sephiroth added to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet — the latter represented in the Zohar as the 22 utterances of the Divine Speech. Again man is regarded as being the synthesis of the 22 letters, which with the addition of the ten Sephiroth makes the complete synthesis of creation.
phenomenal ::: a. --> Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.
Porphyry refers to the Magi as the learned men among the Persians who are in the service of the deity (Abst 4:16), while Philo Judaeus describes them as the most wonderful inquirers into the hidden mysteries of nature: holy men who set themselves apart from everything else on this earth, “contemplated the divine virtues and understood the divine nature of the gods and spirits, the more clearly; and so, initiated others into the same mysteries, which consist in one holding an uninterrupted intercourse with these invisible beings during life” (IU 1:94-5). It is likely that the use of the name and the order survived in times when their true dignity was no longer apparent.
portentous ::: a. --> Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.
Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size.
prodigious ::: a. --> Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
prodigiously ::: adv. --> Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.
Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased.
prodigy ::: something wonderful or marvellous; a wonder.
Psychic Powers ::: The lowest powers of the intermediate or soul-nature in the human being, and we are exercising andusing them all the time -- yes, and we cannot even control them properly! Men's emotional thoughts arevagrant, wandering, uncertain, lacking precision, without positive direction, and feebly governed. Theaverage man cannot even keep his emotions and thoughts in the grip of his self-conscious will. Hisweakest passions lead him astray. It is this part of his nature whence flow his "psychic powers." It isman's work to transmute them and to turn them to employment which is good and useful and holy.Indeed, the average man cannot control the ordinary psycho-astral-physical powers that he commonlyuses; and when, forsooth, people talk about cultivating occult powers, by which they mean merelypsychic powers, it simply shows that through ignorance they know not to what they refer. Their mindsare clouded as regards the actual facts. Those who talk so glibly of cultivating occult powers are just thepeople who cannot be trusted as real guides, for before they themselves can crawl in these mysteriousregions of life, they seem to desire to teach other people how to run and to leap. What most people reallymean, apparently, when they speak of cultivating occult powers is "I want to get power over otherpeople." Such individuals are totally unfit to wield occult powers of any kind, for the motive is in mostcases purely selfish, and their minds are beclouded and darkened with ignorance.The so-called psychic powers have the same relation to genuine spiritual powers that baby-talk has to thediscourse of a wise philosopher. Before occult powers of any kind can be cultivated safely, man mustlearn the first lesson of the mystic knowledge, which is to control himself; and all powers that later hegains must be laid on the altar of impersonal service -- on the altar of service to mankind.Psychic powers will come to men as a natural development of their inner faculties, as evolution performsits wonderful work in future ages. New senses, and new organs corresponding to these new senses, bothinterior and exterior, will come into active functioning in the distant future. But it is perilous both tosanity and to health to attempt to force the development of these prematurely, and unless the training anddiscipline be done under the watchful and compassionate eye of a genuine occult teacher who knowswhat he is about. The world even today contains hundreds of thousands of "sensitives" who are the firstfeeble forerunners of what future evolution will make common in the human race; but these sensitivesare usually in a very unfortunate and trying situation, for they themselves misunderstand what is in them,and they are misunderstood by their fellows. (See also Occultism)
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
Ribhu (Sanskrit) Ṛbhu Clever, skillful, inventive; applied to Indra, Agni, and the adityas in the Rig-Veda. As a noun, an artist, smith, builder. Also the name of three semi-divine beings, Ribhu, Vaja, and Vibhvan, the name of the first being applied to the three; “thought by some to represent the three seasons of the year, and celebrated for their skill as artists; they are supposed to dwell in the solar sphere, and are the artists who formed the horses of Indra, the carriage of the Asvins, and the miraculous cow of Brihaspati; they made their parents young, and performed other wonderful works; they are supposed to take their ease and remain idle for twelve days (the twelve intercalary days of the winter solstice) every year in the house of the Sun. (Agohya); after which they recommence working; when the gods heard of their skill, they sent Agni to them with the one cup of their rival Tvashtri, the artificer of the gods, bidding the Ribhus construct four cups from it; when they had successfully executed this task, the gods received the Ribhus amongst themselves and allowed them to partake of their sacrifices; they appear generally as accompanying Indra, especially at the evening sacrifice” (M-Wms Dict). In the Puranas, Ribhu is a son of Brahman, while Sankaracharya’s guru enumerates him as one of the seven kumaras (SD 1:457).
romance ::: n. --> A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life,
Science ::: When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others, they, unlike any other nation or school of early thought, proceeded at once to a process which resembles exactly enough the process adopted by modern science in its study of physical phenomena. For their object was to study, arrange and utilise the forms, forces and working movements of consciousness, just as the modern physical Sciences study, arrange and utilize the forms, forces and working movements of objective Matter. The material with which they had to deal was more subtle, flexible and versatile than the most impalpable forces of which the physical Sciences have become aware; its motions were more elusive, its processes harder to fix; but once grasped and ascertained, the movements of consciousness were found by Vedic psychologists to be in their process and activity as regular, manageable and utilisable as the movements of physical forces. The powers of the soul can be as perfectly handled and as safely, methodically and puissantly directed to practical life-purposes of joy, power and light as the modern power of electricity can be used for human comfort, industrial and locomotive power and physical illumination; but the results to which they give room and effect are more wonderful and momentous than the results of motorpower and electric luminosity. For there is no difference of essential law in the physical and the psychical, but only a difference and undoubtedly a great difference of energy, instrumentation and exact process.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 12, Page: 314
Scripture Wonderful
Shaberon (Tibetan) zhabs dpad blon (shab-pe-lon) [from zhabs dpad lotus feet cf Sanskrit padmapada a title of respect + blon, blon po officer, minister] Exalted officer; often the head of a Tibetan monastery. The Shaberons are mentioned as occasionally possessing wonderful powers, but are not necessarily tulkus of the Buddha (as the Dalai Lama and Tashi Lama are generally believed to be). While the ordinary Lamaist and uninstructed Tibetan supposes these Buddha reincarnations to be those of Gautama Buddha, the instructed or initiated higher classes of the Tibetan hierarchy understand that in great men there is always a ray of the celestial buddha; and therefore that when these great men reincarnate, the buddha ray is likewise reimbodied.
"Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods" is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharva itthâ padam asya rakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâti devânâm janimâni adbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
“Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts of delight, and guards the true seat of the Deva, the level or plane of the Ananda; gandharvaitthâpadamasyarakshati. He is the Supreme, standing out from all other beings and over them, other than they and wonderful, adbhuta, and as the supreme and transcendent, present in the worlds but exceeding them, he protects in those worlds the births of the gods, pâtidevânâmjanimâniadbhutah. The ‘births of the gods’ is a common phrase in the Veda by which is meant the manifestation of the divine principles in the cosmos and especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being.” The Secret of the Veda
Sometimes the word is used for the circle or zero, for the egg combines the senses of fertility and sphericity in one symbol. The egg with its central germ is the circle with the point. In company with the stroke for the masculine power in nature — sometimes represented as a vertical line — it makes the number 10, or the figure of relatively perfected or complete emanation. The egg was the symbol of life in immortality and eternity, and also the glyph of the generative matrix. The anatomy of a hen’s egg shows a wonderful analogy with the stages in comic evolution and the human principles. See also BRAHMANDA; WORLD EGG
**Sri Aurobindo: "The Unknowable is Something to us supreme, wonderful and ineffable which continually formulates Itself to our consciousness and continually escapes from the formulation It has made.” *The Life Divine
Stonehenge The well-known megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain, England, the most wonderful prehistoric relic in that country, now preserved as a national monument. The larger stones are about 18 feet high and weigh about 20 tons apiece. There are two concentric circles; the outer circle, now badly interrupted by breaks and disturbances, being a hundred feet in diameter and consisting of upright stones with horizontal ones across the tops, originally forming a continuous structure. The inner circle has no lintels at present. Within is a horseshoe line of great trilithons and monoliths, and inside that another horseshoe of smaller stones. In the center is a large block called the altar. Outside, facing the altar and the opening of the horseshoes, stand two outer stones, believed by some to mark the place of sunrise at the summer solstice about 1680 BC. Some of the stones, including the altar, were brought from a great distance. Transportation of such heavy stones from such a distance would require great skill and organizing power.
strangely ::: adv. --> As something foreign, or not one&
talisman ::: n. --> A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman
teratical ::: a. --> Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.
thaumatolatry ::: n. --> Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.
thaumaturgical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful.
thaumaturgy ::: n. --> The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.
“These advanced entities are otherwise known as the Solar Lhas, as the Tibetans call them, the solar spirits, who were the men of a former kalpa, and who during the third Root-race thus sacrifice themselves in order to give us intellectual light — incarnating in those senseless psycho-physical shells in order to awaken the divine flame of egoity and self-consciousness in the sleeping egos which we then were. They are ourselves because belonging to the same spirit-ray that we do; yet we, more strictly speaking, were those half-unconscious, half-awakened egos whom they touched with the divine fire of their own being. This, our ‘awakening,’ was called by H. P. Blavatsky, the incarnation of the Manasaputras, or the Sons of Mind or Light. Had that incarnation not taken place, we indeed should have continued our evolution by merely ‘natural’ causes, but it would have been slow almost beyond comprehension, almost interminable; but that act of self-sacrifice, through their immense pity, their immense love, though, indeed, acting under Karmic impulse, awakened the divine fire in our own selves, gave us light and comprehension and understanding; and from that time we ourselves became ‘Sons of the Gods,’ the faculty of self-consciousness in us was awakened, our eyes were opened, responsibility became ours; and our feet were set then definitely upon the path, that inner path, quiet, wonderful, leading us inwards back to our spiritual home. . . .
The Unknowable is Something to us supreme, wonderful and ineffable which continually formulates Itself to our consciousness and continually escapes from the formulation It has made.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 35
Udgata. (P. Uggata; T. 'Phags pa; C. Yujiatuo; J. Utsukada; K. Ulgat'a 欝伽陀). Lay disciple of the Buddha deemed to be foremost among laymen who served the order (SAMGHA). According to the Pāli account, where he is known as Uggata, he was a wealthy householder living in the town of Hatthigāma. One day, while the Buddha was sojourning at the Nāgavanuyyāna garden in the town, Uggata visited the garden in a drunken state, accompanied by dancers, after a drinking binge that had lasted seven days. Seeing the Buddha, he was filled with shame and immediately sobered up. The Buddha preached to him, and he became a nonreturner (ANĀGĀMIN) on the spot. He dismissed the dancers and, from that time onward, devoted himself to serving the order. He used to receive visitations from the divinities, who told him of the attainments of various members of the order and suggested that he favor these above the rest. Uggata, however, treated all monks equally and showed no preference in his benefactions between those who had attained distinction as ĀRYAPUDGALA and those who were still unenlightened. When queried, Uggata said that there were eight wonderful things that happened to, and were done by, him in this life: he recovered his sobriety the very moment he saw the Buddha; he readily understood the Buddha's teaching of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS; when he took a vow of celibacy, he provided for his four wives even to the point of finding one of them a new husband of her choice; he shared his great wealth with persons of good conduct; he served monks wholeheartedly, listening to their sermons or preaching to them when they did not speak; he was equally generous to all monks without making distinctions; he was not prideful of his conversations with the divinities; and he did not worry about death, for the Buddha had assured him that he would not return to this world.
Ugra. (P. Ugga; T. Drag shul can; C. Yuqie; J. Ikuga/Ikuka; K. Ukka 郁伽). An eminent lay disciple of the Buddha whom he declared to be foremost among laymen who give pleasant gifts. According to the Pāli accounts, where he is known as Ugga, he was a householder who lived in Vesāli (S. VAIsĀLĪ). He became a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) when he saw the Buddha the first time and later became a nonreturner (ANĀGĀMIN). He vowed to give to the Buddha and his followers whatever they found most agreeable. The Buddha, reading his mind, appeared before him, whereupon he provided them with a sumptuous meal and communicated his intentions to the Buddha. The list of favorite things included rice cakes in the shape of sāla flowers, pork, and Kāsī cloth. He was possessed of six special qualities: steadfast confidence in the Buddha, his teachings, and the order, noble conduct, insight, and liberation. Ugga declared that there were eight wonderful things that happened to him and that he did in this life. The list is similar to what is found in the story of UDGATA and concludes with the freedom he achieved from the five lower fetters (SAMYOJANA) that bind living beings to the cycle of existence: belief in the existence of the body as a real person (P. sakkāyaditthi; S. SATKĀYADṚstI), doubt about the efficacy of the path (P. vicikicchā; S. VICIKITSĀ), clinging to the rules and rituals (P. sīlabbataparāmāsa; S. sĪLAVRATAPARĀMARsA), sensuous craving (KĀMARĀGA), and ill will (VYĀPĀDA). When Ugga died, he was reborn in the realm of subtle materiality (RuPALOKA) among the divinities who project mind-made bodies (MANOMAYAKĀYA). He visited the Buddha and informed him that he had attained arhatship in that existence.
unknowable ::: “The Unknowable is Something to us supreme, wonderful and ineffable which continually formulates Itself to our consciousness and continually escapes from the formulation It has made.” The Life Divine
Upanishad(Sanskrit) ::: A compound, composed of upa "according to," "together with," ni "down," and the verbal rootsad, "to sit," which becomes shad by Sanskrit grammar when preceded by the particle ni: the entirecompound thus signifying "following upon or according to the teachings which were received when wewere sitting down." The figure here is that of pupils sitting in the Oriental style at the feet of the teacher,who taught them the secret wisdom or rahasya, in private and in forms and manners of expression thatlater were written and promulgated according to those teachings and after that style.The Upanishads are examples of literary works in which the rahasya -- a Sanskrit word meaning"esoteric doctrine" or "mystery" -- is imbodied. The Upanishads belong to the Vedic cycle and areregarded by orthodox Brahmans as a portion of the sruti or "revelation." It was from these wonderfulquasi-esoteric and very mystical works that was later developed the highly philosophical and profoundsystem called the Vedanta. The Upanishads are usually reckoned today as one hundred and fifty innumber, though probably only a score are now complete without evident marks of literary change oradulteration in the way of excision or interpolation.The topics treated of in the Upanishads are highly transcendental, recondite, and abstruse, and in orderproperly to understand the Upanishadic teaching one should have constantly in mind the master-keys thattheosophy puts into the hand of the student. The origin of the universe, the nature of the divinities, therelations between soul and ego, the connections of spiritual and material beings, the liberation of theevolving entity from the chains of maya, and kosmological questions, are all dealt with, mostly in asuccinct and cryptic form. The Upanishads, finally, may be called the exoteric theosophical works ofHindustan, but contain a vast amount of genuine esoteric information.
Upanishad (Sanskrit) Upaniṣad [from upa according to + ni down + the verbal root sad to sit] Following or according to the teachings which were received when sitting down; esoteric doctrine. “Literary works in which the rahasya — a Sanskrit word meaning esoteric doctrine or mystery — is imbodied. The Upanishads belong to the Vedic cycle and are regarded by orthodox Brahmans as a portion of the Sruti or ‘Revelation.’ It was from these wonderful quasi-esoteric and very mystical works that was later developed the highly philosophical and profound system called the Vedanta” (OG 179).
Vaidehī. (P. Videhī; T. Lus 'phags ma; C. Weitixi; J. Idaike; K. Wijehŭi 韋提希). Sanskrit proper name of the queen of BIMBISĀRA, king of MAGADHA, and mother of AJĀTAsATRU. According to some traditions, her name derives from the fact that she hailed from VIDEHA. When her son Ajātasatru usurped the throne and imprisoned his father, no one was allowed to visit him except for Vaidehī. Although she was prohibited from bringing Bimbisāra food, she hid food in her clothes. When this was discovered, she hid food in her hair and then in her shoes. When these were discovered, she smeared her body with the four sweet substances, which the king licked for his sustenance. When this was discovered, the king lived on the energy from walking meditation, until his son had his feet lacerated, after which he died. The incident of Vaidehī's visit to the cell of Bimbisāra provides the setting for one of the three major sutras of the East Asian PURE LAND traditions, the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING (sometimes known by the hypothetical reconstructed Sanskrit title *Amitāyurdhyānasutra, or simply as the "Meditation Sutra"). According to this sutra, when Ajātasatru discovers that his mother has been secretly feeding the king, he incarcerates her as well. Despite her sorrow, Vaidehī does not give up her faith in the Buddha and invokes his aid. The Buddha then appears before her, and she asks that he teach her about a place where there is no sorrow. The Buddha then teaches her how to visualize the SUKHĀVATĪ pure land of the buddha named "Infinite Life" (AMITĀYUS/AMITĀBHA). He next explains to her how one may be reborn in this wonderful paradise, which is a land without suffering, a world of endless bliss. At the end of the sutra, Vaidehī is mentioned as one of many who were inspired by the Buddha's preaching.
Vedanta(Sanskrit) ::: From the Upanishads and from other parts of the wonderful cycle of Vedic literature, theancient sages of India produced what is called today the Vedanta -- a compound word meaning "the end(or completion) of the Veda" -- that is to say, instruction in the final and most perfect exposition of themeaning of the Vedic tenets.The Vedanta is the highest form that the Brahmanical teachings have taken, and under the name of theUttara-Mimamsa attributed to Vyasa, the compiler of the Vedas, the Vedanta is perhaps the noblest ofthe six Indian schools of philosophy. The Avatara Sankaracharya has been the main popularizer of theVedantic system of philosophical thought, and the type of Vedantic doctrine taught by him is what istechnically called the Advaita-Vedanta or nondualistic.The Vedanta may briefly be described as a system of mystical philosophy derived from the efforts ofsages through many generations to interpret the sacred or esoteric meaning of the Upanishads. In itsAdvaita form the Vedanta is in many, if not all, respects exceedingly close to, if not identical with, someof the mystical forms of Buddhism in central Asia. The Hindus call the Vedanta Brahma-jnana.
wondered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Wonder ::: a. --> Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things.
Wonderful.” The legend is retold in Clement,
wonderly ::: adv. --> Wonderfully; wondrously.
wonderment ::: n. --> Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
wonder ::: n. 1. An event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle; something strange and surprising brought about by a supernatural force. 2. A miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon. 3. The emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration. 4. Something strange, unexpected, or extraordinary. Wonder, wonder"s, Wonder"s, wonders, wonder-book, wonder-couch, wonder-dance, wonder-flecks, wonder-flowers, wonder-hues, wonder-plastics, wonder-rounds, wonder-rush, wonder-tree, wonder-web, wonder-weft, Wonder-worker, Wonder-worker"s, wonder-works, wonder-world, wonder-worlds. *adj. 5. Arousing awe or admiration; wonderful. v. 6. To be filled with admiration, amazement or awe; marvel (often followed by at); to think or speculate curiously (at or about); be curious to know. *wonders, wondered, wondering.
wonderwork ::: n. --> A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.
wondrous ::: wonderful; remarkable.
wondrous ::: n. --> In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. ::: a. --> Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
Zama Zama Ozza Pachama Ozai (Greek) [from Hebrew] Usually given as “the robe, the glorious robe of my strength”; more accurately “Veil! Veil! Strength! Loveliness! My Strength!” A Gnostic inscription, the five words supposedly written on or inherent in the akasic or shining garment of Jesus at his glorification. Here the initiate is stating that his strength or power, spiritual and intellectual, lies in the wonderful veil, vital, full of energy and wisdom, which surrounds him, and which is the vehicle of his spiritual and intellectual strength.
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1:Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. ~ Annette Funicello, #KEYS
2:Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
~ Sophocles,#KEYS
3:Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own? ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
4:Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Dalai Lama, #KEYS
5:It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. ~ Bram Stoker, #KEYS
6:It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?" ~ Goldie Hawn, #KEYS
7:If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michelangelo, #KEYS
8:At each instant he sees a wonderful world and a new creation. ~ Baha-ullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
9:Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it." ~ Alexander Bloch. Source: https://bit.ly/3grLVbh, #KEYS
10:God's word, what a wonderful weight it must carry, for a mountain may be moved by it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
11:could there ever be
a more wonderful story
than your own?
~ Nichiren, @BashoSociety#KEYS
12:Rama, Krishna, Christ come down now and then to this world and they work wonderful changes in society. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
13:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
14:Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love." ~ Saint Juliana of Norwich, #KEYS
15:In a wonderful and inexpressible way God is created in his creatures [Deus in creature mirabili et ineffabili modo creatur]. ~ John Scottus Eriugena, Periphyseon, #KEYS
16:A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
17:The All-Wonderful has packed heaven with his dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, 10.03, #KEYS
18:Is it not a wonderful thing, that he that is the Lord and author of all liberty, would thus be bound with ropes and nailed hand and foot unto the Cross?" ~ Saint John Fisher, #KEYS
19:How wonderful :::
How wonderful, that
Her heart
Should show me kindness;
And of all the numberless folk,
Grief should not touch me. ~ Saigyo, [T5],#KEYS
20:How wonderful was this devotion of theirs! At the sight of the Tamal tree they were seized with the very madness of love (Premonmadu). ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
21:Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
~ Abraham Maslow,#KEYS
22:God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
~ Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard,#KEYS
23:He wades through mud to reach the Wonderful,
And does what Matter must or Spirit can. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Man the Enigma,#KEYS
24:The Divine has an equal love for all human beings, but the obscurity of consciousness of most men prevents them from perceiving this divine love. Truth is wonderful. It is in our perception that it is distorted. ~ ?, #KEYS
25:The contemplation of the impermanence of things, that wonderful gateway to Truth, leads us to victory over the thirst for the satisfaction of our desires. ~ Sangiti Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:The Divine's Grace is wonderful and almighty. And the ways of working of the Lord are full of a delightful sense of humour...
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, the Ways of Working of the Lord,#KEYS
27:Use the visible things of creation as they should be used—earth, sea, sky, air, springs, and rivers. Whatever is beautiful and wonderful in them, attribute that to the praise and glory of the Creator. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
28:A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,
The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
29:What thought is more pleasing and wonderful than God's majesty? What desire is as urgent and overpowering as the desire implanted by God in a soul that is completely purified of sin and cries out in its love: I am wounded by love? ~ Basil the Great, #KEYS
30:Yes, my brother, if we think of each world, we shall find there a hundred thousand wonderful sciences. One of these worlds is Sleep.What problems it contains! what wisdom is there concealed! how many worlds it includes! ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, #KEYS
31:God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen. ~ Hafez, #KEYS
32:Not only our memory but somehow our eyes as well contemplate the conversation between the angel Gabriel and the wondering Mary; likewise the conception by the Holy Spirit is wonderful both in its promise and in the faith that received it." ~ Pope St. Leo the Great, #KEYS
33:Īśvara is the Atman as seen or grasped by mind. His highest name is ॐ; so repeat it, meditate on it, and think of all its wonderful nature and attributes. Repeating ॐ continually is the only true worship. It is not a word, it is God Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda? #KEYS
34:Another text says: 'I have come not to call the righteous, but sinners', for it is those who are on the point of perishing who must be saved. It is a great and wonderful work to uphold those who are falling, rather than those who already stand firm. ~ 2nd century sermon, #KEYS
35:More interesting than to demonstrate the Christian Faith, would be to set out a temptation... to describe it with plenty of detail, to show forth its wonderful cohesion with force enough to make the unbeliever giddy, and leave nothing for him but to plunge in. ~ Jacques Rivière, #KEYS
36:Do u ever weep for God? How wonderful is the state when the name of the Lord brings tears to the eyes! The Master said, 'if u weep before the Lord, ur tears wipe out the mind's impurities of many births, & his grace immediately descends upon u. It is good to weep before the Lord.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
37:Yes, my brother, if we think of each world, we shall find there a hundred thousand wonderful sciences. One of these worlds is Sleep.What problems it contains! what wisdom is there concealed! how many worlds it includes! ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
38:This bright perfection of her inner state
Poured overflowing into her outward scene,
Made beautiful dull common natural things
And action wonderful and time divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
39:May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art ~ write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. ~ Neil Gaiman, #KEYS
40:May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman,#KEYS
41:No words can express what is of Christ: "Glorify the Lord as much as you ever can, for he will yet far exceed, and his magnificence is wonderful. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can, for he is above all praise" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Sir. 43:30)(Commentary on Hebrews 5, lect. 2)., #KEYS
42:God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.
~ Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Time Enough for Love (1973).,#KEYS
43:The remainder of the long story of Kamar al-Zaman is a history of the slow yet wonderful operation of a destiny that has been summoned into life. Not everyone has a destiny: only the hero who has plunged to touch it, and has come up again-with a ring. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Crossing of the Return Threshold, #KEYS
44:Thus we draw near to the All-Wonderful
Following his rapture in things as sign and guide;
Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed,
Love is his heart-beats' rhythm in mortal breasts,
Happiness the smile on his adorable face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
45:My lie has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. ~ Hermann Hesse, #KEYS
46:But imagine this same vital power of expression, with the inspiration coming from far above-the highest inspiration possible, when all the heavens open before us-then that becomes wonderful. There are certain passages of César Franck, certain passages of Beethoven, certain passages of Bach, there are pieces by others also which have this inspiration and power.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
47:It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing~really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not? ~ Woody Allen, #KEYS
48:As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It's sad. We use words like "awesome" and "wonderful" like they're candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word "amazing" to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy's. What's going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted "amazing" on a fucking sandwich. ~ Louis C K, #KEYS
49:MAGIC is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents 2 being applied to proper Patients, 3 strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effort, 4 the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.
~ King Solomon, Lesser Key Of The Goetia,#KEYS
50:Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,
Your mother, your sister, or your brother?
I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.
Your friends?
Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known.
Your country?
I do not know in what latitude it lies.
Beauty?
I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal.
Gold?
I hate it as you hate God.
Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger?
I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there
Up there the wonderful clouds!
~ Charles Baudelaire,#KEYS
51:Or, a courtier in her countless retinue,
Content to be with her and feel her near
He makes the most of the little that she gives
And all she does drapes with his own delight. ||13.24||
A glance can make his whole day wonderful,
A word from her lips with happiness wings the hours. ||13.25||
He leans on her for all he does and is:
He builds on her largesses his proud fortunate days
And trails his peacock-plumaged joy of life
And suns in the glory of her passing smile. ||13.25|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3, || 13.24 - 13.25 ||,#KEYS
52:Light will someday split you open
Even if your life is now a cage.
Little by little, You will turn into stars.
Little by little, You will turn into
The whole sweet, amorous Universe.
Love will surely burst you wide open
Into an unfettered, booming new galaxy.
You will become so free
In a wonderful, secret
And pure Love That flows
From a conscious, One-pointed, Infinite Light.
Even then, my dear, The Beloved will have fulfilled
Just a fraction, Just a fraction!
Of a promise He wrote upon your heart.
~ Hafiz,#KEYS
53:Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth,#KEYS
54:Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring.
~ Francis H Cook,#KEYS
55:Maheshwari can appear too calm and great and distant for the littleness of earthly nature to approach or contain her, Mahakali too swift and formidable for its weakness to bear; but all turn with joy and longing to Mahalakshmi.
For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make the existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow from her like the light from the sun and wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall of the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.
Magnetic is the touch of her hands and their occult and delicate influence refines the mind and life and body and where she presses her feet course miraculous streams of an entrancing Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
56:Part 2 - Initiation
6. The Road of Trials:Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth-adventure. It has produced a world literature of miraculous tests and ordeals. The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper whom he met before his entrance into this region. Or it may be that he here discovers for the first time that there is a benign power everywhere supporting him in his superhuman passage. The original departure into the land of trials represented only the beginning of the long and really perilous path of initiatory conquests and moments of illumination. Dragons have now to be slain and surprising barriers passed-again, again, and again. Meanwhile there will be a multitude of preliminary victories, unsustainable ecstasies and momentary glimpses of the wonderful land. ~ Joseph Campbell,#KEYS
57:Four Powers Of The Mother
In talking about the four powers of the Mother, it helps to know that in India, traditionally, the evolutionary principle of creation is approached, and adored, as the great Mother. Sri Aurobindo distinguishes four main powers and personalities through which this evolutionary force manifests.
Maheshwari - One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness.
Mahakali - Another embodies her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force.
Mahalakshmi - A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace.
Mahasaraswati - The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things.
~ ?, https://www.auroville.com/silver-ring-mother-s-symbol.html,#KEYS
58:So the devotion must be accompanied by another movement, that is, gratitude. This feeling of gratitude that the Divine exists, this gratefulness, full of wonder, that truly fills your heart with a sublime delight, because the Divine exists, because there is something in the universe that is the Divine, and there is not merely the monstrosity that we see—because there is the Divine, because the Divine is there.
And each time any least thing puts you in contact with this sublime reality of the Divine existence, your heart is filled with so intense and wonderful a delight, such gratefulness as is of all things the most delectable in taste.
Nothing can give you a delight equal to that of gratitude. You hear a bird singing, you see a flower, you look at a child, you witness an act of generosity, you read a beautiful sentence, you stand before a sunset, it does not matter what the thing is— all on a sudden it comes upon you, a kind of emotion, but so deep, so intense, because the world manifests the Divine, because there is something behind the world which is the Divine. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
59:[...]For these are aspects of the Divine Nature, powers of it, states of his being, - but the Divine Himself is something absolute, someone self-existent, not limited by his aspects, - wonderful and ineffable, not existing by them, but they exist because of Him. It follows that if he attracts by his aspects, all the more he can attract by his very absolute selfness which is sweeter, mightier, profounder than any aspect. His peace, rapture, light, freedom, beauty are marvellous and ineffable, because he is himself magically, mysteriously, transcendently marvellous and ineffable. He can then be sought after for his wonderful and ineffable self and not only for the sake of one aspect of another of his. The only thing needed for that is, first, to arrive at a point when the psychic being feels this pull of the Divine in himself and, secondly, to arrive at the point when the mind, vital and each thing else begins to feel too that that was what it was wanting and the surface hunt after Ananda or what else was only an excuse for drawing the nature towards that supreme magnet. ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
60:A major part of the book is devoted to poetry. It opens with Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. The author has a novel way of appreciating this most wonderful epic, which continually overwhelms and bewilders us. He has taken this bewilderment as the subject of the chapter "An Uninitiated Reader's Response to Savitri". This is a rarely explored area, namely the magical poetic beauty of Savitri that casts a spell on the reader even when he does not always understand its content. For the lover of poetry is attracted by its "beauty and strength", "he is overawed by the grandeur of the animated spirituality". Any time spent with Savitri thus becomes a special moment in his life. Later in the book we find another kind of appreciation of the epic in the chapter on K. D. Sethna as a "crusader of aesthetic yoga". There the author calls Savitri the "Odyssey of Integral Yoga" where yoga and poetry come together. He also appreciates the "sensitive analysis of stylistic effect" by Sethna, who uses wonderful quotations from Savitri as examples of adequate style, effective style, illumined style, etc. (From the Near to Far by Dr. Saurendranth Basu) ~ Nandita Chatterjee, review of the book, #KEYS
61:science of consciousness, the soul and objective matter :::
When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others, they, unlike any other nation or school of early thought, proceeded at once to a process which resembles exactly enough the process adopted by modern science in its study of physical phenomena. For their object was to study, arrange and utilise the forms, forces and working movements of consciousness, just as the modern physical Sciences study, arrange and utilize the forms, forces and working movements of objective Matter. The material with which they had to deal was more subtle, flexible and versatile than the most impalpable forces of which the physical Sciences have become aware; its motions were more elusive, its processes harder to fix; but once grasped and ascertained, the movements of consciousness were found by Vedic psychologists to be in their process and activity as regular, manageable and utilisable as the movements of physical forces. The powers of the soul can be as perfectly handled and as safely, methodically and puissantly directed to practical life-purposes of joy, power and light as the modern power of electricity can be used for human comfort, industrial and locomotive power and physical illumination; but the results to which they give room and effect are more wonderful and momentous than the results of motorpower and electric luminosity. For there is no difference of essential law in the physical and the psychical, but only a difference and undoubtedly a great difference of energy, instrumentation and exact process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Towards a True Scientific Psychology, 106,#KEYS
62:39 - Sometimes one is led to think that only those things really matter which have never happened; for beside them most historic achievements seem almost pale and ineffective. - Sri Aurobindo
I would like to have an explanation of this aphorism.
Sri Aurobindo, who had made a thorough study of history, knew how uncertain are the data which have been used to write it. Most often the accuracy of the documents is doubtful, and the information they supply is poor, incomplete, trivial and frequently distorted. As a whole, the official version of human history is nothing but a long, almost unbroken record of violent aggressions: wars, revolutions, murders or colonisations. True, some of these aggressions and massacres have been adorned with flattering terms and epithets; they have been called religious wars, holy wars, civilising campaigns; but they nonetheless remain acts of greed or vengeance.
Rarely in history do we find the description of a cultural, artistic or philosophical outflowering.
That is why, as Sri Aurobindo says, all this makes a rather dismal picture without any deep significance. On the other hand, in the legendary accounts of things which may never have existed on earth, of events which have not been declared authentic by "official" knowledge, of wonderful individuals whose existence is doubted by the scholars in their dried-up wisdom, we find the crystallisation of all the hopes and aspirations of man, his love of the marvellous, the heroic and the sublime, the description of everything he would like to be and strives to become.
That, more or less, is what Sri Aurobindo means in his aphorism.
22 June 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.62),#KEYS
63:I have already told you this several times. When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite."
So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.
But when one begins to see it, one enters upon a state of wonder which nothing can describe. For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace―infinite, wonderful, all-powerful―which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him.
Then one lives in the Action and Presence of the Grace a life full of joy, of wonder, with the feeling of a marvellous strength, and at the same time with a trust so calm, so complete, that nothing can shake it any longer. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, 8 August 1956,#KEYS
64:Many men think and write through inspiration. From where does it come?
Many! That is indeed a wonderful thing. I did not think there have been so many.... So?
Poets, when they write poems...
Ah! Inspirations come from very many different places. There are inspirations that may be very material, there are inspirations that may be vital, there are inspirations that come from all kinds of mental planes, and there are very, very rare inspirations that come from the higher mind or from a still higher region. All inspirations do not come from the same place. Hence, to be inspired does not necessarily mean that one is a higher be- ing.... One may be inspired also to do and say many stupid things!
What does "inspired" mean?
It means receiving something which is beyond you, which was not within you; to open yourself to an influence which is outside your individual conscious being.
Indeed, one can have also an inspiration to commit a murder! In countries where they decapitate murderers, cut off their heads, this causes a very brutal death which throws out the vital being, not allowing it the time to decompose for coming out of the body; the vital being is violently thrown out of the body, with all its impulses; and generally it goes and lodges itself in one of those present there, men half horrified, half with a kind of unhealthy curiosity. That makes the opening and it enters within. Statistics have proved that most young murderers admit that the impulse came to them when they were present at the death of another murderer. It was an "inspiration", but of a detestable kind.
Fundamentally it is a moment of openness to something which was not within your personal consciousness, which comes from outside and rushes into you and makes you do something. This is the widest formula that can be given.
Now, generally, when people say: "Oh! he is an inspired poet", it means he has received something from high above and expressed it in a remarkable manneR But one should rather say that his inspiration is of a high quality. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
65:Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power. Equal, patient, unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and truth that is in them. Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads them according to their blindness. In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe. Yet she has more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [39],#KEYS
66:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
67:(Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.)
34. "Four species of idols beset the human mind, to which (for distinction's sake) we have assigned names, calling the first Idols of the Tribe, the second Idols of the Den, the third Idols of the Market, the fourth Idols of the Theatre.
40. "The information of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service to point them out; for the doctrine of idols bears the same relation to the interpretation of nature as that of the confutation of sophisms does to common logic.
41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
42. "The idols of the den are those of each individual; for everybody (in addition to the errors common to the race of man) has his own individual den or cavern, which intercepts and corrupts the light of nature, either from his own peculiar and singular disposition, or from his education and intercourse with others, or from his reading, and the authority acquired by those whom he reverences and admires, or from the different impressions produced on the mind, as it happens to be preoccupied and predisposed, or equable and tranquil, and the like; so that the spirit of man (according to its several dispositions), is variable, confused, and, as it were, actuated by chance; and Heraclitus said well that men search for knowledge in lesser worlds, and not in the greater or common world.
43. "There are also idols formed by the reciprocal intercourse and society of man with man, which we call idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. Nor can the definitions and explanations with which learned men are wont to guard and protect themselves in some instances afford a complete remedy-words still manifestly force the understanding, throw everything into confusion, and lead mankind into vain and innumerable controversies and fallacies.
44. "Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men's minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre: for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements and axioms of sciences which have become inveterate by tradition, implicit credence, and neglect. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,#KEYS
68:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
69:Allow the Lord to Do Everything :::
Now, when I start looking like this (Mother closes her eyes), two things are there at the same time: this smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony - and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all: you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: "There, be quiet, don't stir, don't bother me, I don't need you." Then a door opens - you don't even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are tkane over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
All this... oh, this tremendous labour of hte mind striving to understand, toiling and giving itself headaches!... It is absolutely useless, absolutely useless, no use at all, it merely increases the confusion.
You are faced with a so-called problem: what should you say, what should you do, how should you act? There is nothing to do, nothing, you only have to say to the Lord, "There, You see, it is like that" - that's all. And then you stay very quiet. And then quite spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflection, without calculation, nothing, nothing, without the slightest effect - you do what has to be done. That is to say, the Lord does it, it is no longer you. He does it. He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words into your mouth or your pen - He does everything, everything, everything, everything; you have nothing more to do but allow yourself to live blissfully.
I am more and more convinced that people do not really want it.
But clearing the ground is difficult, the work of clearing the ground before hand.
But you don't even need to do it! He does it for you.
But they are constantly breaking in: the old consciousness, the old thoughts....
Yes, they try to come in again, by habit. You only have to say, "Lord, You see, You see, You see, it is like that" - that's all. "Lord, You see, You see this, You see that, You see this fool" - and it is all over immediately. And it changes automatically, my child, without the slightest effort. Simply to be sincere, that is to say, to truly want everything to be right. You are perfectly conscious that you can do nothing about it, that you have no capacity.... But there is always something that wants to do it by itself; that's the trouble, otherwise...
No, you may be full of an excellent goodwill and then you want to do it. That's what complicated everything. Or else you don't have faith, you believe that the Lord will not be able to do it and that you must do it yourself, because He does not know! (Mother laughs.) This, this kind of stupidity is very common. "How can He see things? We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly!
I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and try - there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely because He is All-Truth, He does not understand. (Mother laughs.) He does not understand our falsehood, I must deal with it myself." That is very strong, very common.
Ah! we make complications for nothing. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
70:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
71: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,#KEYS
72:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
73:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Tomorrow can be a wonderful age. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 2:Even mistakes can be wonderful. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 3:Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 4:Live the wonderful life that is in you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 5:Thinking, Wonderful Friends, Stories ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 6:Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 7:I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 8:It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 9:it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 10:The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 11:Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 12:Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 13:Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 14:History would be a wonderful thing if it were only true. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 15:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 16:We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 17:It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 18:Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 19:I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 20:Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 21:Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 22:I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 23:Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 24:This is a wonderful day; I have never seen this one before. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 25:A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 26:It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 27:Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 28:I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 29:Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 30:It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 31:It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 32:The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 33:A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 34:Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 35:To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 36:I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 37:It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 38:Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 39:Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 40:Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times! ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 41:Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 42:Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 43:If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 44:A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 45:Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 46:Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 47:Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on children. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 48:A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 49:That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 50:Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves? ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 51:Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 52:The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 53:Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 54:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 55:I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 56:New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 57:In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 58:The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 59:My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 60:Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 61:Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 62:It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 63:It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 64:Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 65:I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 66:It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 67:I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 68:Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry? ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 69:Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 70:Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world! ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 71:To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove 72:The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 73:The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 74:A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 75:The world is open for play, everything and everybody is mockable in a wonderful way. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 76:The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 77:There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 78:Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 79:If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 80:There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 81:Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 82:How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 83:I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 84:I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us... ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 85:I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 86:The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 87:I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 88:The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 89:Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 90:Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 91:Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 92:It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 93:Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 94:Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 95:I have a wonderful relationship with my friends, family members, and co-workers. I am appreciated ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 96:It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 97:Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 98:The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 99:Every aspect of life is magnificent and wonderful. It's so important to keep fit and healthy. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 100:Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 101:Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 102:Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 103:Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 104:Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 105:A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 106:Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 107:My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 108:Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 109:Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 110:I do believe in love. It’s wonderful, especially love third time around; it’s even more precious. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 111:I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 112:It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 113:There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 114:For me the wonderful thing about awakening is that it enables me to embrace my human nature just as it is. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 115:Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 116:I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 117:I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 118:Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 119:There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 120:Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one! ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 121:No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 122:It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 123:It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 124:Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 125:You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 126:I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 127:Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 128:It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 129:Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 130:love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 131:Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 132:Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 133:The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 134:It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 135:I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 136:The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 137:Breathing in I calm my body. Breathing out I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment! ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 138:Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 139:I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 140:Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 141:Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 142:We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 143:You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 144:Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 145:What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 146:What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 147:This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 148:What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 149:Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 150:God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 151:I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 152:I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ... wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 153:It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 154:The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 155:We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 156:Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, & 157:Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 158:A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 159:If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 160:Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 161:I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 162:Just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful quotes each and every day... Some days, it's the nicest thing I hear all day... .Muah. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 163:Life is better when we don’t try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 164:Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 165:Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 166:The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 167:The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 168:Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 169:Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 170:I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 171:imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 172:Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 173:Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; & 174:Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 175:I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 176:A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 177:I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 178:None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 179: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 180:Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 181:God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 182:This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 183:It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 184:I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful. ~ claude-monet, @wisdomtrove 185:... nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 186:Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 187:Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 188:Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 189:Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 190:Feel that back of, and under you, is the great Ocean of Universal Mind Energy and realize that you are Of and In this wonderful thing. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 191:The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 192:All my life I have been restless& 193:I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 194:She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life one scratched on the wall. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 195:Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 196:What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 197:Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 198:Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same." ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 199:Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 200:I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 201:It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 202:The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 203:Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 204:We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 205:Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 206:The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 207:When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 208:Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream - I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 209:When I see beyond my ideas about life, there's a wonderful feeling of oneness with all that is, since it's only my concepts that make me see things as separate. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 210:When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 211:The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 212:All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 213:As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 214:Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 215:The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 216:The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 217:I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 218:Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 219:Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 220:We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 221:I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 222:Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 223:Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 224:A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 225:October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 226:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 227:Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world! ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 228:And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 229:Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.’ ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 230:There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 231:The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 232:The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 233:One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 234:Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 235:Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 236:Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 237:God is all that is great and wonderful; I am nothing, have nothing, can do nothing. Yet all comes out of me - the source is me; the root, the origin is me. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 238:I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 239:Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, & 240:Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 241:The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 242:The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing! ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 243:After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 244:The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 245:Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 246:I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 247:Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 248:When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 249:I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 250:Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 251:We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 252:When I practise I to I gazing to connect with another person, I see how wonderful it is that we’re separate and not separate, because it is being both that allows us to commune in love. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 253:Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 254:The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 255:This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 256:No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 257:Of course this world is real. It is a real dream-world. Its wonders are truly wonderful and its horrors are truly horrible. I’m not dismissing it. I’m simply pointing out that it’s a dream. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 258:Of course, this world is real. It is a real dream-world. Its wonders are truly wonderful and its horrors are truly horrible. I’m not dismissing it. I’m simply pointing out that it’s a dream. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 259:Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 260:All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 261:George: I can't stand kids. Adults think it's so wonderful how honest kids are. I don't need that kind of honesty. I'll take a deceptive adult over an honest kid any day. Seinfeld TV show ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 262:I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark... ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 263:Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 264:It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 265:For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 266:There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 267:You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 268:A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 269:You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 270:Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 271:I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 272:To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something, and look at it in a new, positive way. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 273:Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 274:I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 275:If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 276:One of the wonderful things about science is that when scientists don’t know something, they can try out all kinds of theories and conjunctures, but in the end they can just admit their ignorance. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 277:That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 278:When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 279:I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 280:The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 281:When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 282:This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 283:Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 284:You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle... you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 285:The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment! ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 286:There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 287:I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 288:How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 289:Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful... How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural& 290:We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 291:It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so & 292:The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that & 293:The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 294:Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence? ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 295:The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 296:The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine... . If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 297:Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 298:Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 299:An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 300:I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it." ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 301:It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 302:Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self- imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 303:When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 304:God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 305:My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 306:Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 307:It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 308:It’s a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a God but a man to you — when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 309:It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 310:Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 311:Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 312:He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 313:I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214 ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 314:If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 315:Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 316:To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 317:To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 318:You never get it done, and with each fulfilment comes another vantage point, which causes another clear desire to evolve within you, and that there is never an ending to the wonderful things that will unfold in your experience. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 319:If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 320:People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 321:I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 322:With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 323:The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 324:Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 325:When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 326:I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 327:All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 328:Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 329:If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 330:It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 331:The brain has a wonderful capacity to simulate experiences, but there´s a price: the simulator pulls you out of the moment, plus it sets you chasing pleasures that aren´t that great and resisting pains that are exaggerated or not even real ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 332:I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 333:There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 334:It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 335:Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 336:Maya is neither real nor unreal, nor both together; She is neither identical with Brahman nor different from Him, nor both; She is neither differentiated nor undifferentiated, nor both. She is most wonderful and cannot be described in words. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 337:One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a computer program. Then we can send that program or book to companies that specialize in reproducing them and distributing them. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 338:If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 339:I think it’s a wonderful view that care was important – but I think you can make a one-off and not care and you can make a million of something and care. Whether you really care or not is not driven by how many of the products you’re going to make. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 340:The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 341:Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you've had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 342:When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an illusion, unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 343:Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 344:God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 345:She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.‚Äù Waddington, smiling, translated the question. ‚ÄúShe says I’m good.‚Äù ‚ÄúAs if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,‚Äù Kitty mocked. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 346:Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 347:Suffering is a wonderful teacher. Suffering is most people’s only spiritual teacher. Suffering deepens you, it gradually erodes the mind made sense of self, the ego. And for some people the point arrives where they realize “I have suffered enough.” ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 348:I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 349:One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it? ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 350:We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 351:You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 352:Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 353:One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 354:At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving? ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 355:Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [... ] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 356:I change my life when I change my thinking. I am Light. I am Spirit. I am a wonderful, capable being. And it is time for me to acknowledge that I create my own reality with my thoughts. If I want to change my reality, then it is time for me to change my mind. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 357:You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 358:She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 359:October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 360:We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 361:How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 362:In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 363:I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass? ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 364:I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 365:Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 366:The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 367:A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 368:Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 369:Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 370:Being a lover of life doesn’t mean always feeling that life’s wonderful. It means loving life as it is. It means embracing both the good and bad of life. It means passionately enjoying and tenderly enduring the tumultuous adventure of life through which we learn how to love. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 371:I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 372:It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 373:But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 374:Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 375:We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 376:I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 377:It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter the year But all throughout each day of the year There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 378:And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 379:For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 380:What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 381:& 382:I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 383:No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 384:The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 385:Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 386:I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 387:I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 388:[Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 389:The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 390:I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 391:It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature... . This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 392:The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 393:They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 394:When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 395:By realisation I mean a wonderful experience of peace, goodness and beauty, when the world makes sense and there is an all-pervading unity of both substance and essence. While such experience does not last, it cannot be forgotten. It shines in the mind, both as memory and longing. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 396:An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 397:There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 398:And I'll tell ya, I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other. You care about each other. It's wonderful! Plus, I love saying & 399:I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family. I'm also in a relationship that's been really good. Lasted a long time. We've got wonderful kids from that relationship, and they've had the benefit of being together. It's fantastic to have that sort of togetherness. It's a rarity these days. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 400:You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 401:Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama! ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 402:I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I'd ever seen." She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. "I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 403:It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 404:The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 405:In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 406:Can you remember the last time you were in love? Your heart went ahhh. It was such a wonderful feeling. It’s the same thing with loving yourself except that you will never leave. Once you have your love for yourself, it’s with you for the rest of your life, so you want to make it the best relationship you can have. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 407:We are here to help you understand that your life can be as wonderful or as horrible as you allow it to be. It all depends upon the thoughts that you practice. And therein lies the basis of anyone's success: How much do I practice thoughts that bring me joy, and how much do I practice thoughts that bring me pain? ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 408:I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 409:The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 410:Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 411:For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 412:The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, & 413:I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 414:All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is! ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 415:Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 416:Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and lack of faith - you are taking action to makeyour desire happen. Inspired action is allowing the law to work through you and to move you. Activity feels hard. Inspired action feels wonderful. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 417:Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over? ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 418:There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 419:There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove 420:You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 421:Before we embark on our philosophical adventure, let me make something very clear. When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an illusion, unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 422:The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 423:Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 424:There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 425:Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 426:Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 427:Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 428:If I believe I need you approval, then I begin to say the things that I think you want me to say and I begin to do the things that I think you want me to do. I turn into someone I'm not. So when you say, "I approve of you, you're wonderful", I can never believe you because you are approving of someone that doesn't exist and I know that. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 429:She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 430:I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 431:I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 432:If I'm a young mom or young dad, I can find a great source of strength. God has promised that He will help me to be the mom or dad that He wants me to be. He has promised to be with me every step of the way. He has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me. These are wonderful promises that I can learn to trust and build a life on. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 433:I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 434:The paradoxity of life means that as a conscious individual each one of us is the hero of the story of life. Looked at from one perspective we appear to be irrelevant specks of dust in a vast universe, who are here for a moment and then gone. But from another perspective everyone is the centre around which the universe revolves. How wonderful! ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 435:As a Christian I have hope not just for this life but for Heaven and the life to come. And many of those people who died this past week are in Heaven right now. And they wouldn't want to come back; it's so glorious and so wonderful. And that's the hope for all of us who put our faith in God. I pray that you will have this hope in your heart. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 436:Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the Lord won't demand anything of you. Yes, He will, my friend! The Lord will demand everything of you. And when you give it all up to Him, He may bless it and hand it back, but on the other hand He may not. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 437:I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 438:Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. & 439:We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 440:Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, I hate my job, will get you nowhere. Declaring, I now accept a wonderful new job, will open the channels in your consciousness to create that. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 441:I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 442:The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 443:If you own a wonderful business... the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 444:The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 445:I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 446:Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 447:You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 448:This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we took and hear about the friends we made. When we travel with the eyes and ears of the God who sent us, we will see wonderful sights, hear wonderful sounds, meet wonderful people ... and be happy to return home. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 449:The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 450:The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 451:Listen, remember and understand - the mind is both the actor and the stage. All is of the mind and you are not the mind. The mind is born and reborn, not you. The mind creates the world and all the wonderful variety of it. Just like in a good play you have all sorts of characters and situations, so you need a little of everything to make a world. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 452:The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;& 453:To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non- being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 454:Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast... Just getting rid of the nonsense - just figuring out that if people call you and say, & 455:This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's; and the righteousness of Christ is not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us in it, and fill us with it: and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 456:We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us? ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 457:The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and he begins to ask: What am I? What is the task of man in this wonderful universe? Do we merely live here for ourselves, or is there something more for us to do? Why do we struggle and fight? What is good and evil? Where will it all end? ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 458:When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 459:I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 460:I was taught growing up that a “yes” attitude is the right attitude. The truth is that a “yes” attitude is a wonderful attitude only if you also say yes to our own needs. Even on an airplane in distress, you must first fit your own oxygen mask before you can effectively help others in need. It is not selfish to put your own needs first. In fact, it is doing others a service. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 461:If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 462:If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into 463:I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 464:The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 465:There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please... give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please... buy a ticket. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 466:Waking up to oneness isn’t a cold and colourless realization. It’s an experience of profound communion with all that is, which transforms how it feels to appear as a person in the story of life. It’s an experience of deep love that spontaneously arises when we get the great paradoxity that we’re both separate and not-separate from one another. Love is the wonderful dance of being two and one. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 467:This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 468:I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 469:The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 470:If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: & 471:That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby& 472:It is a wonderful day in a life when one is finally able to stand before the long, deep mirror of one’s own reflection and view oneself with appreciation, acceptance, and forgiveness. On that day one breaks through the falsity of images and expectations which have blinded one’s spirit. One can only learn to see who one is when one learns to view oneself with the most intimate and forgiving compassion. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 473:That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 474:No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 475:... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove 476:We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important. We can’t read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people. Life is better when we don’t try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful.' ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 477:People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a & 478:Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 479:The idea of success for most people, revolves around money or the acquisition of property or other possessions, but we consider a state of joy as the greatest achievement of success. And while the attainment of money and wonderful possessions certainly can enhance your state of joy, the achievement of a good-feeling physical body is by far the greatest factor for maintaining a continuing state of joy and Well-Being. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 480:There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 481:We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 482:I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 483:What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 484:Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 485:If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, & 486:Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful! ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 487:You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 488: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, & 489:Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 490:Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death... to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 491:I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 492:What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 493:What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 494:That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 495:When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [... ] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 496:Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful - you'll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you're most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive - to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 497:Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego- - but not until you suffer consciously. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 498:If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 499:A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 500:Everything I am experiencing is arising within the spacious presence of awareness…just like a dream. And then spontaneously everything becomes one. I am one with the experiences that are arising within awareness…just as a dreamer is one with a dream… just as space is one with all it contains. I am not separate from life… I am one with life. I feel a wonderful sense of communion with everything and everyone. I am deep-knowing my deep self and it feels good. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:We'd be a wonderful us. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
2:Peace! It's wonderful! ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
3:be a wonderful showcase, ~ Stuart Woods, #NFDB
4:LORD’s] laws are wonderful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
5:(wonderful to relate) ~ Thomas Bulfinch, #NFDB
6:Decadence is wonderful. ~ Jack L Chalker, #NFDB
7:Mania is a wonderful feeling. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
8:that? Trains are wonderful.) ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
9:THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 1. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
10:I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
11:Wonderful theory, wrong species. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
12:Tomorrow can be a wonderful age. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
13:wonderful feature of all Was ~ Chris Van Dusen, #NFDB
14:Wonderful!" I ejaculated. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
15:Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ~ David Beckham, #NFDB
16:Being a father is just wonderful. ~ Sam Trammell, #NFDB
17:eager to see such a wonderful thing, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
18:Even mistakes can be wonderful. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
19:I have known some wonderful men. ~ Gloria Allred, #NFDB
20:I think you're something wonderful. ~ N R Walker, #NFDB
21:Time is a wonderful storyteller. ~ Deion Sanders, #NFDB
22:CHAPTER XXVII ‘WONDERFUL BIRD! ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
23:Everything wonderful is possible. ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB
24:It's a wonderful life and I love it. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
25:Marriage is a wonderful thing. ~ Patrick McGoohan, #NFDB
26:Love is both wonderful and foolish. ~ Peter Saccio, #NFDB
27:My corpse will smell wonderful. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
28:Pain is a horribly wonderful gift. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
29:To live and love is a wonderful thing. ~ Jon Jones, #NFDB
30:A horse is wonderful by definition. ~ Piers Anthony, #NFDB
31:I still think it's a wonderful world. ~ Eileen Cook, #NFDB
32:Ive had the most wonderful life. ~ Michael Moriarty, #NFDB
33:What a wonderful way to kill. (Misa) ~ Tsugumi Ohba, #NFDB
34: "Wonderful!" I ejaculated. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
35:Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
36:You are more wonderful than rain. ~ Corey Ann Haydu, #NFDB
37:Avoidance is a wonderful therapy ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
38:Change is wonderful, and necessary. ~ Darren Johnson, #NFDB
39:Denial was a wonderful place to live. ~ Liliana Hart, #NFDB
40:Most wonderful things are unconscious. ~ Agnes Denes, #NFDB
41:Always, something wonderful is brewing. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
42:It's a wonderful life if you can find it. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
43:I've had a wonderful life with music. ~ Lionel Ferbos, #NFDB
44:Live the wonderful life that is in you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
45:Nothing is to wonderful to be true. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
46:Oh, his kisses were so wonderful, ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
47:Teaching is a wonderful way to learn. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
48:Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! ~ Mae West, #NFDB
49: . . . Wally! Isn’t he wonderful? ~ Kersten Hamilton, #NFDB
50:You're wonderful. Unique. I love you. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
51:Coincidence is a wonderful thing. ~ Humphrey Lyttelton, #NFDB
52:Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing. ~ R S Belcher, #NFDB
53:I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy ~ Oscar Hammerstein II, #NFDB
54:Insecurity is a wonderful motivator. ~ Barbara Corcoran, #NFDB
55:Number one, one, one on wonderful WINO. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
56:A mind is a wonderful thing to change. ~ Andrew Sullivan, #NFDB
57:Everything is so sad and so wonderful. ~ Cloris Leachman, #NFDB
58:I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. ~ Patti LuPone, #NFDB
59:Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~ Teddy Pendergrass, #NFDB
60:Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
61:There are wonderful beings in this world. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
62:A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
63:I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
64:Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
65:Love is a wonderful, terrible thing ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
66:WONDERFUL, JEFFREY, JUST CUNTING WONDERFUL!! ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
67:afraid I must also mar this wonderful occasion ~ S H Jucha, #NFDB
68:Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
69:Country has been a wonderful outlet for me. ~ Suzy Bogguss, #NFDB
70:Females are complicated, wonderful creatures. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
71:I have a wonderful respect for old people. ~ Craig Kilborn, #NFDB
72:I think it's a wonderful time for a woman. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
73:Tell them I've had a wonderful life. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
74:The night is a wonderful country to rule. ~ Alexander Chee, #NFDB
75:Tension is wonderful for making people laugh. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
76:What wonderful thing didn't start out scary? ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
77:Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things. ~ Kate Jacobs, #NFDB
78:How wonderful life is while you're in the world ~ Elton John, #NFDB
79:It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
80:It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
81:That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
82:The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
83:We are such wonderful idiots, Peter thinks. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
84:...but she has such wonderful depth of feeling. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
85:Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
86:Humans are so wonderful.
[Alucard Hellsing] ~ Kohta Hirano,#NFDB
87:It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
88:it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
89:I was a wonderful parent before I had children. ~ Adele Faber, #NFDB
90:nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
91:Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
92:The world is a strange and wonderful place. ~ Laurie Anderson, #NFDB
93:The world is a wonderful place when you're young. ~ E B White, #NFDB
94:To us and a wonderful evening of love making. ~ Joe Dunthorne, #NFDB
95:I'm fabulous, incredibly strong and wonderful. ~ Eric Jacobson, #NFDB
96:Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
97:The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
98:The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
99:Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young. ~ Val Kilmer, #NFDB
100:I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
101:I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer. ~ Pat Benatar, #NFDB
102:Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
103:Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
104:Aren't most wonderful things a little bit strange? ~ Katie Henry, #NFDB
105:Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
106:Chiropractic is a wonderful means of natural healing! ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
107:Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
108:How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone. ~ Kurt Tucholsky, #NFDB
109:My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
110:She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
111:The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing ~ Yuri Gagarin, #NFDB
112:Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
113:Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be? ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
114:Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
115:It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
116:Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher, ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
117:Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
118:Love is wonderful to have. True love is hard to find. ~ Jon Jones, #NFDB
119:Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
120:The world was a wonderful place. Full of nightmares. ~ Saul Black, #NFDB
121:Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
122:A well-dressed man is a wonderful accessory for a lady ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
123:Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
124:It really was getting difficult to be wonderful. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
125:It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
126:Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it. ~ Coco J Ginger, #NFDB
127:There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. ~ David Eagleman, #NFDB
128:To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful. ~ Magic Johnson, #NFDB
129:We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
130:Ah, the Wonderful World of Camping - may it rot in hell. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
131:Believe strongly that truth can tell wonderful stories. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
132:Between the pages of a book is a wonderful place to be. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
133:I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
134:I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
135:Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
136:Old age," she says, "is a wonderful disguise. ~ Katherine Applegate, #NFDB
137:Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. ~ Robert Musil, #NFDB
138:Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
139:What a wonderful time for women on television. ~ Julianna Margulies, #NFDB
140:You’ll have a wonderful time.” “I hate you.” “I know. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
141:You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
142:Calming, Smiling. Present moment, Wonderful moment ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
143:Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
144:Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own? ~ Nichiren, #NFDB
145:I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement? ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
146:I can only say that I have had a wonderful life. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
147:I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids. ~ Celine Dion, #NFDB
148:Isn’t it wonderful not to have to be perfect to be loved? ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
149:Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
150:Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. ~ Richard Sapir, #NFDB
151:Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
152:Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
153:Calming, Smiling, Present moment, Wonderful moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
154:Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own? ~ Nichiren, #NFDB
155:I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful. ~ Tom Conti, #NFDB
156:It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
157:It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it! ~ Richard Dawson, #NFDB
158:Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. ~ Annette Funicello, #NFDB
159:Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. ~ Ishmael, #NFDB
160:Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
161:Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
162:Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
163:We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
164:It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
165:J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
166:Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. ~ Annette Funicello, #NFDB
167:She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change. ~ Tom Rachman, #NFDB
168:S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me! ~ Ira Gershwin, #NFDB
169:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
170:What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
171:You are as terrifying as you are wonderful, my dear. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
172:But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
173:Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful. ~ Emme, #NFDB
174:He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful. ~ M C Escher, #NFDB
175:How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
176:I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world. ~ Ernest Holmes, #NFDB
177:I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful. ~ Nigella Lawson, #NFDB
178:It must be wonderful to have the imagination of a child. ~ Nancy Naigle, #NFDB
179:It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif. ~ Roy Ayers, #NFDB
180:Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ~ Hans Christian Andersen, #NFDB
181:Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
182:She is a beautiful recipe of so many wonderful things. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
183:So this wonderful city
Has only dead ashes for me. ~ John Galsworthy,#NFDB
184:That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
185:The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
186:Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness. ~ Tenley Albright, #NFDB
187:world is terrible and wonderful at the same time. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
188:You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
189:"Aimlessness, nonattainment, is a wonderful practice." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
190:Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical. ~ Julie Anne Long, #NFDB
191:History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
192:How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
193:I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful. ~ Angela Bassett, #NFDB
194:I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life. ~ Aras Baskauskas, #NFDB
195:It is okay to be flawed and defective, or even wonderful ~ David D Burns, #NFDB
196:It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. ~ Emily Carr, #NFDB
197:It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
198:It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll ~ Brian Cox, #NFDB
199:Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
200:My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories. ~ Thomas Keller, #NFDB
201:The key to a wonderful life is a fascination with something. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
202:The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
203:There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg, #NFDB
204:There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
205:We have some really, really wonderful actors on the horizon. ~ Neal Baer, #NFDB
206:We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
207:And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
208:Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
209:I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
210:I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors. ~ David Wenham, #NFDB
211:It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences. ~ Edward Higgins White, #NFDB
212:Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
213:Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
214:Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB
215:People don't make changes because things are wonderful. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
216:Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! ~ Paul Lynde, #NFDB
217:Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
218:That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol. ~ Carl Andre, #NFDB
219:There is nothing more wonderful than falling in love. ~ Victoria Michaels, #NFDB
220:The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
221:This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
222:Wonderful; such an active word——to be full of wonder. ~ Suzanne Finnamore, #NFDB
223:You are strong. You are a wonderful, strong human being. ~ Elly Griffiths, #NFDB
224:At each instant he sees a wonderful world and a new creation. ~ Baha-ullah, #NFDB
225:At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
226:But the freedom of being my own boss is a wonderful thing. ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
227:Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
228:For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
229:He found himself supposing innumerable and wonderful things. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
230:I feel wonderful. I feel like roses and sunshine and glitter. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
231:I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard. ~ LeAnn Rimes, #NFDB
232:I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
233:I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
234:I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
235:Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
236:The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. If ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
237:This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
238:When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. ~ Liam Neeson, #NFDB
239:Wonderful adventures await for those who dare to find them. ~ Hazel Gaynor, #NFDB
240:Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent. ~ Gene Krupa, #NFDB
241:Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz, #NFDB
242:And there is a crack in every story of “life is wonderful, ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
243:As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first. ~ Joshua Slocum, #NFDB
244:cold wind struck me. Just wonderful. On my first day I'd ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
245:Election is the most wonderful prearranged marriage imaginable. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
246:Harry...You wonderful boy. You brave, brave man. Let us walk. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
247:He smelled the girl. Penny Dawson. She had a wonderful scent. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
248:How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
249:How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times! ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
250:I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
251:I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life. ~ Natalie Babbitt, #NFDB
252:I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience. ~ John Ensign, #NFDB
253:It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
254:It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. ~ Madeleine Peyroux, #NFDB
255:Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
256:Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on. ~ Howard Berger, #NFDB
257:(T)his could be the big inning of a wonderful friendship. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
258:This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. ~ Soen Nakagawa, #NFDB
259:To feel so known, so understood. It’s such a wonderful feeling. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
260:Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work. ~ Ben Kingsley, #NFDB
261:You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
262:Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life. ~ Jeffrey Tucker, #NFDB
263:Funny how something awful can turn around and become wonderful. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
264:How does one survive the loss of someone as wonderful as Stella? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
265:I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing. ~ Anselm Kiefer, #NFDB
266:I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
267:Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
268:Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. ~ Greta Garbo, #NFDB
269:Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. ~ Jorge Amado, #NFDB
270:Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
271:Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
272:The wonderful thing about second chances is that they exist ~ Felice Stevens, #NFDB
273:Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent. ~ Tad Williams, #NFDB
274:We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
275:We're all total bastards, as humans, but also totally wonderful. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
276:We’re all total bastards, us humans, but also totally wonderful. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
277:You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
278:all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
279:Everything was wonderful and then everything was awful. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
280:Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
281:Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful? ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
282:Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn’t that wonderful? ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
283:How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
284:I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me. ~ Shannen Doherty, #NFDB
285:It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more. ~ Brett Favre, #NFDB
286:It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
287:I was falling in love, and it was wonderful, and it was awful. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
288:Love is a wonderful thing, Jackson. Don’t ever take it for granted. ~ Kim Law, #NFDB
289:Love is unpredictable. It can be painful. It can be wonderful. ~ Ann M Martin, #NFDB
290:Of course. Remember, I’ve seen you in her. And it’s wonderful. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
291:Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ~ Thornton Wilder, #NFDB
292:The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful. ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley, #NFDB
293:The male prostate gland was a mysterious and wonderful thing. ~ Travis Luedke, #NFDB
294:The universe is full of wonderful answers patiently waiting for us ~ Dee Hock, #NFDB
295:To feel so known, so understood. It's such a wonderful feeling... ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
296:What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ~ Colette, #NFDB
297:Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
298:You've got a wonderful way with words, disgusting but wonderful. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
299:A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
300:How wonderful that we live in a world that responds to love! ~ Caroline Cottom, #NFDB
301:I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed. ~ Mia Farrow, #NFDB
302:In times of crisis, it's wonderful what the imagination will do. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
303:I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem. ~ Whitley Strieber, #NFDB
304:It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB
305:I truly believe I have the most wonderful fans in the world. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
306:It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
307:It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor. ~ Shirley Knight, #NFDB
308:it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
309:Second chances are wonderful if you know what to do with them. ~ Heather Burch, #NFDB
310:The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful. ~ Chris Isaak, #NFDB
311:The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
312:There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York. ~ Karen Allen, #NFDB
313:You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright. ~ Andrew Zuckerman, #NFDB
314:Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. ~ Eartha Kitt, #NFDB
315:A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
316:Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other? ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
317:But don't worry... my retaliation will be your wonderful undoing. ~ Gail McHugh, #NFDB
318:Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
319:Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive. ~ Henry W Kendall, #NFDB
320:Free. What a magical word, and how wonderful it feels on her tongue. ~ Joe Hart, #NFDB
321:If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
322:I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher. ~ Tim Gunn, #NFDB
323:I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
324:I’m not sure of anything,” she said. “Which is almost wonderful. ~ Peter Heller, #NFDB
325:I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini. ~ Vincente Minnelli, #NFDB
326:It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
327:It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
328:New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South ~ Josh Lucas, #NFDB
329:Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful! ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
330:Oh, that did me good! Laughter is wonderful for the digestion. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
331:One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women. ~ Sara Bareilles, #NFDB
332:Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
333:The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
334:Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
335:Voldemort the corn snake with the shoe fetish. Wonderful. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
336:I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business. ~ Erin Moran, #NFDB
337:I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period. ~ Claudette Colbert, #NFDB
338:Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
339:My eyes are tiny but they've taken in a world full of wonderful. ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB
340:My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell. ~ David Copperfield, #NFDB
341:Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things.” As ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
342:Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
343:Scary, isn't it? But what wonderful thing didn't start out scary? ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
344:There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume. ~ Roja Dove, #NFDB
345:Yes, It's the most wonderful and perfect king of boring there is. ~ Alice Tribue, #NFDB
346:You felt to look at him that he would be wonderful upon a horse. I ~ Nevil Shute, #NFDB
347:A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
348:A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
349:And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
350:As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. ~ Jean Ferris, #NFDB
351:Daughter, that's life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
352:Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
353:I am just blessed they are such great, really wonderful kids. ~ Jennifer Connelly, #NFDB
354:I needed to mourn my father, that wonderful, sweet, gentle man. ~ Kristan Higgins, #NFDB
355:Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
356:Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
357:Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way ~ Gerry Lopez, #NFDB
358:The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. ~ Franz Schubert, #NFDB
359:The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
360:The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
361:To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
362:When real things are so wonderful, what is the point of pretending? ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
363:Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
364:Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful. ~ Astrid Lindgren, #NFDB
365:Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve. ~ Erin Gruwell, #NFDB
366:How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment. ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
367:If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
368:I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. ~ Estelle, #NFDB
369:I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else. ~ Mavis Staples, #NFDB
370:(I like trains, and what’s wrong with that? Trains are wonderful.) ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
371:I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift. ~ Andie MacDowell, #NFDB
372:I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
373:Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost? ~ Carl Andre, #NFDB
374:It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. ~ Moli re, #NFDB
375:It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
376:Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things. ~ Dionne Warwick, #NFDB
377:. . . mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way. ~ Liza Palmer, #NFDB
378:Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling. ~ Cat Rambo, #NFDB
379:Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
380:Something in knowing is not quite as wonderful as not knowing. The ~ Samantha Hunt, #NFDB
381:stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too." ~ Steven Levy, #NFDB
382:You are all great, and everything about your company is wonderful! ~ Carlos Newton, #NFDB
383:You’ve heard the wonderful news, I presume?” “No. Has Mr. Trump died? ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
384:all kinds of wonderful, in ways words could never quite capture. She ~ Kelly Rimmer, #NFDB
385:America. What a wonderful country. Too bad it was doomed to fail. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB
386:and she giggled. “Now that’s a wonderful sound. Just forget all ~ Catherine Coulter, #NFDB
387:Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
388:Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day! ~ Julie McGregor, #NFDB
389:Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. ~ Kevin Costner, #NFDB
390:I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful. ~ Tab Hunter, #NFDB
391:It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost. ~ Jeremy Page, #NFDB
392:Memories are wonderful, but do you live differently because of them? ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
393:Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
~ Sophocles,#NFDB
394:Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic ~ Rumi, #NFDB
395:she'd learned long time ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
396:They spoke of the once and the was, of the wishful and the wonderful. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
397:When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet. ~ Justin Bartha, #NFDB
398:You have to be a wonderful actress or actor to survive in this world. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
399:Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
400:Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
401:A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. ~ Bob Barker, #NFDB
402:Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
403:Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.” “I know. ~ Greg Bear, #NFDB
404:Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness. ~ George Sand, #NFDB
405:Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times! ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
406:Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
407:Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day. ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
408:For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. ~ Fred Ebb, #NFDB
409:Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty. ~ David Brin, #NFDB
410:How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
411:How wonderful to know your place in the world before you're even born. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
412:I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. ~ Maureen Forrester, #NFDB
413:I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family. ~ Jana Kramer, #NFDB
414:I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
415:It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
416:It must be a wonderful thing to be so sure that you love somebody. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
417:I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage. ~ Lynn Johnston, #NFDB
418:Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
419:Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it. ~ Debbie Harry, #NFDB
420:Once you had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
421:Redemption was wonderful. But love? Well, hell. That was everything ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
422:Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people. ~ Gay Talese, #NFDB
423:Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
424:Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
425:Spanish girls make wonderful wives. I've never had one so I know. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
426:The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
427:this wonderful passage through the woods had to be painted with love ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
428:Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. ~ Cindy Crawford, #NFDB
429:We don’t realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow. —Amish proverb ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
430:What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
431:Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
432:You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful. ~ Andre Leon Talley, #NFDB
433:A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
434:All the stories are wonderful, except maybe the ones about Dominic. ~ Jeanne Birdsall, #NFDB
435:A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
436:Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
437:Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
438:How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
439:If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
440:I just think we'd make a good us." He smiled. "We'd make a wonderful us. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
441:It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
442:It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
443:It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really. ~ Nancy Horan, #NFDB
444:Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds. ~ Bhartrhari, #NFDB
445:My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
446:No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life. ~ Jeff Gordon, #NFDB
447:Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
448:She was wonderful, in spite of everything she was wonderful. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
449:So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
450:The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
451:The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. ~ Louis Kahn, #NFDB
452:What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
453:You are wonderful.” “I love you.” How often do you tell yourself this? ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
454:A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
455:Allene never knew that murder could make Monday mornings so wonderful. It ~ Lydia Kang, #NFDB
456:Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
457:I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
458:Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be? ~ Monique Martin, #NFDB
459:It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic. ~ Hope Ramsay, #NFDB
460:It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on. ~ Peter Fonda, #NFDB
461:Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration. ~ Habeeb Akande, #NFDB
462:Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
463:Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another. ~ O Henry, #NFDB
464:My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
465:Shadows are wonderful things. They hide pain and conceal motives. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
466:The longer she read the more wonderful and more real the pictures became. ~ Alice Ozma, #NFDB
467:The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser. ~ Harry Reid, #NFDB
468:There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ~ Gyorgy Ligeti, #NFDB
469:The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. ~ Madeleine Peyroux, #NFDB
470:Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
471:Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
472:All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
473:A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
474:A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
475:Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
476:Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
477:Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. ~ S D Smith, #NFDB
478:Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness. ~ Arnold Mindell, #NFDB
479:Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress! ~ D C Akers, #NFDB
480:If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them. ~ Martin Short, #NFDB
481:I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful. ~ Louise Bourgeois, #NFDB
482:It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
483:Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful. ~ Anne Hathaway, #NFDB
484:Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
485:Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
486:Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
487:No, I know for a fact that after-kidnapping sex is fucking wonderful. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
488:Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women! ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
489:Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
490:Sometimes mistakes could be turned into something unexpected and wonderful. ~ T L Hines, #NFDB
491:Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. ~ Leonard Maltin, #NFDB
492:that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
493:The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. ~ Michael Marmot, #NFDB
494:The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
495:The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold. ~ Sara Bareilles, #NFDB
496:There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. ~ Julie Harris, #NFDB
497:Timing is a wonderful thing sometimes. It can save us from ourselves. ~ Jennifer Coburn, #NFDB
498:Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing. ~ Stephen Walt, #NFDB
499:Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
500:A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
501:Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. ~ Stephen LaBerge, #NFDB
502:I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons. ~ Donald Sutherland, #NFDB
503:If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is? ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
504:I hope you read some fine book and kiss someone that thinks you're wonderful ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
505:I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
506:It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch, #NFDB
507:it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners. ~ B A Paris, #NFDB
508:It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
509:Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
510:Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
511:Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. ~ Richard Linklater, #NFDB
512:Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past. ~ Richard Linklater, #NFDB
513:My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths. ~ Rima Fakih, #NFDB
514:So much of love is chance. There’s something scary and wonderful about that. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
515:So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
516:[Stephen Cope’s wonderful Yoga and the Quest for the True Self]. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
517:That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
518:There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here. ~ David Niven, #NFDB
519:Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
520:A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
521:How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
522:How wonderful to put one's cunt to work and use one's brains for pleasure! ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
523:I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage ~ Lillie Langtry, #NFDB
524:I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
525:It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. ~ E Nesbit, #NFDB
526:Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
527:Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. ~ Victoria Holt, #NFDB
528:Sometime we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
529:The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything. ~ Margot Asquith, #NFDB
530:The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
531:Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state. ~ James Arthur Ray, #NFDB
532:Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story.
Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid! ~ Natsuki Takaya,#NFDB
533:Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave. ~ Salvador de Madariaga, #NFDB
534:Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career. ~ Rose Leslie, #NFDB
535:I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
536:I should think it a wonderful thing to be missed, the way that I miss him. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
537:Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves? ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
538:It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
539:My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make? ~ Walter Hagen, #NFDB
540:Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
541:Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING ~ Rayne Hall, #NFDB
542:The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful. ~ Caetano Veloso, #NFDB
543:The world is wide and beautiful and there are many wonderful places in it. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
544:This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
545:Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
546:Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. ~ Alice Schroeder, #NFDB
547:To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
548:To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful. ~ Richard O Brien, #NFDB
549:Am I really wonderful?" asked the Scarecrow. "You are unusual," replied Glinda. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
550:But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
551:English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
552:Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. ~ Frederick William Faber, #NFDB
553:Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
554:Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. ~ Helen Reddy, #NFDB
555:Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
556:How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
557:How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century. ~ Muriel Spark, #NFDB
558:I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons. ~ Kate Mulgrew, #NFDB
559:I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
560:I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
561:I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. ~ Tia Carrere, #NFDB
562:It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. ~ Marissa Mayer, #NFDB
563:I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it. ~ Joe Satriani, #NFDB
564:Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
565:Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to! ~ Dodie Smith, #NFDB
566:Psychology’s a wonderful science,” said Helmholtz. “Without it, everybody’d ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
567:some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them ~ Elizabeth Yates, #NFDB
568:Stairs are wonderful friends; they rise with us and they fall with us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
569:The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us. ~ John Deacon, #NFDB
570:The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful. ~ Nuala O Faolain, #NFDB
571:To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. ~ Lance Henriksen, #NFDB
572:Try thinking before you do things. It has a wonderful effect on the mind. ~ Cecelia Holland, #NFDB
573:We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful. ~ Mike Ditka, #NFDB
574:What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real. ~ Miranda July, #NFDB
575:Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
576:Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
577:A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. ~ Jane Yolen, #NFDB
578:ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I wish they’d had books like this when I was young… ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
579:Bless the world. Let it be a wonderful world with love, peace, joy and happiness. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
580:Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva. ~ Amish Tripathi, #NFDB
581:Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas. ~ Pythagoras, #NFDB
582:Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation. ~ Andy Samberg, #NFDB
583:Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it ~ Carolyn Turgeon, #NFDB
584:God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
585:I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
586:I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up ~ Cheryl Ladd, #NFDB
587:I want to show you, without a doubt, you are strong, wonderful and creative. ~ Leigh Shulman, #NFDB
588:I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
589:John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it. ~ Robert Morse, #NFDB
590:Like old friends from a thousand wonderful moments, the memories gathered. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
591:Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
592:Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
593:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
594:New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
595:Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs. ~ Rita Stradling, #NFDB
596:Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
597:Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished... ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
598:One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
599:Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know. ~ Frank Loesser, #NFDB
600:There is so much wonderful stuff and so many amazing people in this world. ~ Toks Olagundoye, #NFDB
601:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900. The turn of the century. ~ Elizabeth Letts, #NFDB
602:We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
603:Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
604:Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. ~ Robert Duvall, #NFDB
605:Bella is alive after all, and Alice is here with her! Isn't that wonderful? ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
606:compassion is a wonderful virtue but don’t waste it on those undeserving. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
607:Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
608:I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want anyone to know. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
609:I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
610:I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
611:I think it's wonderful to be here. And what a beautiful city you have here. ~ Woody Harrelson, #NFDB
612:It is a wonderful thing, how no one will allow anyone to live as he likes. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
613:It’s dusk in the second Age of Reason. We were wonderful, but now we are doomed. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
614:I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic. ~ Tim DeKay, #NFDB
615:My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful. ~ Jean Simmons, #NFDB
616:Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
617:Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors. ~ Jason Katims, #NFDB
618:Remember our wonderful memories, but please don't be afraid to make some more ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
619:Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
620:The wonderful thing about regrets is that it's never too late to have them. ~ Josiah Bancroft, #NFDB
621:This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
622:Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, ~ Ted Allen, #NFDB
623:When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe. ~ Kelly Holmes, #NFDB
624:I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful. ~ Kirstie Alley, #NFDB
625:If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life. ~ Jackie Kennedy, #NFDB
626:I love Liverpool. The people are wonderful and I feel very much at home there. ~ Djibril Cisse, #NFDB
627:I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do. ~ Lily Cole, #NFDB
628:In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
629:It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
630:It’s a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
631:Love is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
632:Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
633:Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
634:Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell. ~ Enid Bagnold, #NFDB
635:No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again? ~ Steve Bruce, #NFDB
636:Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
637:She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn! ~ Carol Emshwiller, #NFDB
638:the combined wonderful-company-at-a-fair-price strategy the Magic Formula. ~ Tobias E Carlisle, #NFDB
639:There will never be anything more exciting or wonderful than being close to God. ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
640:The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
641:You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
642:Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well. ~ Madeleine Stowe, #NFDB
643:Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
644:Don’t worry we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it’ll be spring. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
645:Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
646:I’m an enigma wrapped inside a riddle, all bundled in something quite wonderful. ~ Steve McHugh, #NFDB
647:I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
648:In, out Deep, slow Calm, ease Smile, release Present moment, wonderful moment ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
649:It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do. ~ Andrew Dominik, #NFDB
650:My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
651:One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish. ~ John K Samson, #NFDB
652:Prioritizing obedience in the face of stress is a wonderful way to disarm it. ~ Rachel Jankovic, #NFDB
653:Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
654:She must have a really wonderful dream often enough to make the bad ones worth it. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
655:The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves... ~ Anamika Mishra, #NFDB
656:The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility. ~ Mahershala Ali, #NFDB
657:There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris. ~ Ann Mah, #NFDB
658:The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. ~ Reinhold Messner, #NFDB
659:What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
660:Where are we going?” Tony said.
“Somewhere wonderful,” Unlikely Worlds said. ~ Paul McAuley,#NFDB
661:Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything. ~ Jerry Lewis, #NFDB
662:And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
663:As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. ~ Cecil B DeMille, #NFDB
664:But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything you talked about could come true! ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
665:college was a wonderful gig, thousands of hours to tend to yourself like a garden. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
666:Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style. ~ Christine Baranski, #NFDB
667:Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
668:Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world. ~ Joey Lauren Adams, #NFDB
669:From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. ~ Hayley Atwell, #NFDB
670:Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
671:How wonderful a thing it is, to understand someone else without even trying to. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
672:I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy! ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
673:I have learnt that there are kind wonderful people in every country in the world ~ Connie Talbot, #NFDB
674:I have to say that our fans have been absolutely wonderful all across the world. ~ John Petrucci, #NFDB
675:I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. ~ Woody Hayes, #NFDB
676:It feels so wrong and yet so wonderful, how much I need to smile at him. Something ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB
677:It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
678:It's a wonderful thing when your trainer is actually the person you're playing. ~ Christian Bale, #NFDB
679:It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
680:It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
681:Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles. ~ Nora Roberts, #NFDB
682:Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
683:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
684:Of course I am happy here! It’s wonderful! Especially when I have no choice! ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
685:Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
686:Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
687:Rome was as wonderful as I had hoped it would be, certainly a step up from Peoria. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
688:The world of math is more weird and wonderful than some people want to tell you. ~ Eugenia Cheng, #NFDB
689:To encounter a fine book
and have time to read it
is a wonderful thing. ~ Natalie Goldberg,#NFDB
690:Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more. ~ Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, #NFDB
691:By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful. ~ Max De Pree, #NFDB
692:Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist. ~ Yamaoka Tesshu, #NFDB
693:Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
694:Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
695:Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
696:Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
697:I’d rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity. ~ Melody Carlson, #NFDB
698:I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that. ~ Carrie Underwood, #NFDB
699:I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
700:It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted ~ Jayne Mansfield, #NFDB
701:It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. ~ Samuel Chadwick, #NFDB
702:It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
703:It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
704:It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
705:It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. ~ Hayao Miyazaki, #NFDB
706:I've never produced a series, so for me [X-men] was a wonderful challenge. ~ Lauren Shuler Donner, #NFDB
707:Leave it to a New Yorker to put a bunch of trees in one place and call it wonderful. ~ M K Hobson, #NFDB
708:Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
709:Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together. ~ Elizabeth Spann Craig, #NFDB
710:Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
711:On the other hand, I would've been exceedingly rich, which would've been wonderful! ~ Eric Stoltz, #NFDB
712:Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
713:Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine. ~ M E Vaughan, #NFDB
714:Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
715:The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
716:The heart of a man is a wonderful thing, especially when it is carried in his wallet. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
717:The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. ~ Dave Matthews, #NFDB
718:To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas. ~ Eleanor Duckworth, #NFDB
719:To share the joy of that conceptual freedom with someone was a wonderful thing. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
720:Travel was wonderful, travel was glorious. See the USA in your Chevrolet! But ~ Michael Zadoorian, #NFDB
721:We smile at each other and I feel that wonderful sensation of being known by someone. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
722:we will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God’s values occupy our lives. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB
723:When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen. ~ Harrison Owen, #NFDB
724:Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. ~ Jonathan Kozol, #NFDB
725:As exciting and wonderful as these toys can be, they can’t replace the human touch ~ Michael Makai, #NFDB
726:Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
727:But all she could feel was that he was her friend, her wonderful and gifted friend. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
728:Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
729:Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough. ~ Jill Badonsky, #NFDB
730:I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
731:I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me. ~ Stanley Hauerwas, #NFDB
732:Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented? ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
733:Isn’t hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented? ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
734:It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
735:I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful ~ Whitney Houston, #NFDB
736:I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it. ~ John Oliver, #NFDB
737:Like Tracy Chevalier, Burton is skilled at evoking place . . . Wonderful’ Guardian ~ Jessie Burton, #NFDB
738:My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
739:Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
740:Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force. ~ Renee Lawless, #NFDB
741:One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
742:Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful. ~ Marianne Faithfull, #NFDB
743:Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
744:Sir 39:25 He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him. ~ Various, #NFDB
745:Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
746:The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. ~ Jonathan Dimbleby, #NFDB
747:... women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands. ~ Hugo Pratt, #NFDB
748:Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. ~ Helen Reddy, #NFDB
749:You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
750:Because you're such a wonderful spectacle: I always like to see what you are doing. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
751:Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
752:Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
753:Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
754:Can't even feel dissapointed when seeing
heaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
755:Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music. ~ Maynard Ferguson, #NFDB
756:Dex was many wonderful things but he wasn’t perfect – he was his own greatest enemy. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
757:Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
758:Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ~ Thom Gunn, #NFDB
759:God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference ! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
760:Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
761:Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world! ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
762:He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
763:I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. ~ Ezra Miller, #NFDB
764:I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. ~ David Bailey, #NFDB
765:I'll give you a dream," he whispered to her. "A wonderful dream. I won't tell you ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
766:I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. [ Psalm 139:14 NCV ] ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
767:It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
768:It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
769:It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
770:It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
771:It was wonderful, Eddy. It was perfect.'
'No,' he says. 'But it will be. ~ William Nicholson,#NFDB
772:Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter. ~ Judith McNaught, #NFDB
773:Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
774:Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
775:"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
776:So it's OK that I won't set foot in the Promised Land. It's still a wonderful sight. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
777:Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
778:Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul. ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley, #NFDB
779:the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head. ~ Ruth Hogan, #NFDB
780:The worst thing wasn’t something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful. ~ Jaclyn Dolamore, #NFDB
781:Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world. ~ Matisyahu, #NFDB
782:Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost. ~ Russ Roberts, #NFDB
783:Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
784:Aquamarine is a wonderful color, and I won’t be made to feel bad for wearing it, ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
785:Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
786:Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
787:Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be. ~ Kate Baldwin, #NFDB
788:Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
789:I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
790:I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true. ~ Ben Affleck, #NFDB
791:In. Out. Deep. Slow. Calm. Ease. Smile. Release. Present moment. Wonderful moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
792:Look at him! That's life, according to the medical profession. Isn't life wonderful? ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
793:Mondays at 7pmET - Join host @llake in the wonderful #SoulNestingChat #FF @SoulNesting ~ #SpiritChat, #NFDB
794:Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
795:Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen. ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
796:The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
797:The bonds of family can be wonderful but there is a time to know when to stand apart. ~ Josie Litton, #NFDB
798:There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
799:The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
800:The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed. ~ Anne Beatts, #NFDB
801:What did I ever do, Celia thought, to have such a wonderful, satisfying, happy life? ~ Arthur Hailey, #NFDB
802:Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
803:A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~ S N Behrman, #NFDB
804:heaven was such a wonderful place, why did everybody cry whenever someone went there? ~ Deborah Raney, #NFDB
805:He kept his emotions locked away behind a wall, which made him a wonderful negotiator. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
806:How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr, #NFDB
807:Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
808:I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
809:Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is. ~ Paul Washer, #NFDB
810:It would appear that getting your heart broken is a wonderful way to boost sales. ~ Elodie Nowodazkij, #NFDB
811:Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India. ~ Moss Hart, #NFDB
812:Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular. ~ Michael Azerrad, #NFDB
813:Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
814:Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home. ~ Wu Cheng en, #NFDB
815:Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit. ~ Oleg Cassini, #NFDB
816:Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful. ~ Guy Clark, #NFDB
817:Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great. ~ James Hetfield, #NFDB
818:Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
819:Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way ~ Lesley Gore, #NFDB
820:The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it. ~ Kiran Desai, #NFDB
821:To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ~ John Muir, #NFDB
822:You smell wonderful,” he told her. “So aroused.” “That's the bug spray,” she said. ~ Sindra van Yssel, #NFDB
823:You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. ~ Francis Spellman, #NFDB
824:Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
825:As he always said, "If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful! ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
826:back up and if you enjoy yourself.” “I’m having a wonderful time!” She tried to plot ~ Tracie Peterson, #NFDB
827:Cheeseburgers. I’m fairly certain they’re the most wonderful food invented by modern man. ~ Stacey Jay, #NFDB
828:College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
829:Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
830:Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
831:How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy. ~ Adrienne Wilder, #NFDB
832:I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
833:It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,” she said simply. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
834:I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is. ~ Pixie Lott, #NFDB
835:Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
836:My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond. ~ Chick Corea, #NFDB
837:Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director. ~ Peter Jacobson, #NFDB
838:The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing. ~ Gerard Butler, #NFDB
839:Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great and wonderful calm ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
840:The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
841:There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are. ~ Russell Banks, #NFDB
842:The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. ~ Freeman Dyson, #NFDB
843:The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
844:Thomas Jefferson said, “It’s wonderful how much can be done if we are always working. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
845:WHAT A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. My horniness deflated like a sad week-old birthday balloon. ~ Grace Helbig, #NFDB
846:Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
847:You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble. ~ Janet Echelman, #NFDB
848:You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume. ~ Ellen Sussman, #NFDB
849:but she never asked because something so wonderful should never be explained ~ Sarah Blakley Cartwright, #NFDB
850:Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
851:HAS YOUR FAITH LOST ITS WONDER? HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR EYES OFF OF HIM WHO IS TRULY WONDERFUL? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
852:How do you feel about this terrible thing?"
"Terrible," said Oedipa.
"Wonderful! ~ Thomas Pynchon,#NFDB
853:I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you. ~ Jason F Wright, #NFDB
854:I found a wonderful woman, a great girl and I am excited to have her as a part of my life. ~ Tito Ortiz, #NFDB
855:I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
856:I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
857:I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now. ~ Amanda Schull, #NFDB
858:It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
859:I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it to be. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
860:Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving. ~ Frederick Barthelme, #NFDB
861:Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. ~ Marilyn Hacker, #NFDB
862:People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
863:People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! ~ Margaret Forster, #NFDB
864:People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
865:There is nothing more wonderful than the male voice. It is strong and deep and rich. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
866:There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
867:The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information! ~ Ken Ludwig, #NFDB
868:The wonderful thing about our men is if you want it, they will help you make it happen. ~ Ruth Cardello, #NFDB
869:Well, it felt wonderful everywhere that wasn’t my arms, my hand, my shoulders, or my sides. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
870:When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
871:All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us. ~ Alfred Stieglitz, #NFDB
872:Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
873:Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
874:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
875:But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message. ~ David Pietrusza, #NFDB
876:Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. ~ Kathleen Winsor, #NFDB
877:Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
878:If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
879:If something wonderful happens, chances are astronomically high that it will happen again. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
880:I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
881:I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans. ~ Steven Gerrard, #NFDB
882:Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder. ~ Ruth Draper, #NFDB
883:Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
884:The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
885:The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know. ~ Joel Gretsch, #NFDB
886:There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. ~ Bill Condon, #NFDB
887:You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me. ~ Kathy Reichs, #NFDB
888:A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving. ~ Esther Freud, #NFDB
889:But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match. ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
890:For a wonderful guy who is usually so damn perceptive, you can be pretty obtuse sometimes. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
891:Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
892:Hotels are wonderful inventions, but they are not the ideal window to the soul of a nation. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
893:I felt like I’d been licked by a hungry, dangerous lion. It felt fucking wonderful. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, #NFDB
894:If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button. ~ Salma Hayek, #NFDB
895:If you’re going to recognize your value, you have to see yourself as amazing, as wonderful. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
896:I had always vaguely felt facts to be miracles in the sense that they are wonderful: now ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
897:I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
898:I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us... ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
899:I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ~ Glenn Miller, #NFDB
900:I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ~ Emir Kusturica, #NFDB
901:Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
902:Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
903:My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. ~ Chiang Kai shek, #NFDB
904:Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
905:Of course, you mad, wonderful, courageous woman who steals the margrave’s deer.” Mad. ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
906:Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
907:That’s the wonderful thing about family: the bigger it is, the larger your heart grows. ~ Nancy Straight, #NFDB
908:The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
909:The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins. ~ Sarah Strohmeyer, #NFDB
910:There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
911:The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. ~ Louis Dudek, #NFDB
912:What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive. ~ Linda Ronstadt, #NFDB
913:Blue says true friends turn a bad day into something wonderful faster than a pancake flip. ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB
914:but the priest’s vestments are parti-coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. ~ Thomas More, #NFDB
915:For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford, #NFDB
916:Frightening and yet wonderful; wonderful and yet frightening! That is what nature is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
917:How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
918:I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
919:I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time. ~ Roddy McDowall, #NFDB
920:I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond. ~ Sally Kellerman, #NFDB
921:I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing. ~ Jeremy Renner, #NFDB
922:I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
923:It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. ~ Jim Gerlach, #NFDB
924:It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
925:It was her choice. In a world where so many choices weren't hers, it was a wonderful thing. ~ Melissa Marr, #NFDB
926:I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you ~ Judith Light, #NFDB
927:I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
928:Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. ~ Jean Marzollo, #NFDB
929:Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
930:Love is too precious to waste, too good to let go, and too wonderful not to enjoy.” “Hear, ~ Jennifer Ryan, #NFDB
931:Love is wonderful, but in the end you're better off with a man who's there for you. ~ Simone van der Vlugt, #NFDB
932:Mondays at 7pmET. Join @llake as she hosts the wonderful #SoulNestingChat ~ #FF @soulnesting ~ #spiritchat, #NFDB
933:My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
934:Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
935:The boys ran and played with such wonderful abandonment. Adults could never play like that. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
936:The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
937:There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
938:There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
939:The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
940:Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.
~ Russell Roberts,#NFDB
941:What's in a view? A world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) ~ Abhimanyu Jha, #NFDB
942:You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake. ~ Emma Stone, #NFDB
943:Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. ~ Frederic Chopin, #NFDB
944:Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things. ~ Susan Ford, #NFDB
945:Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart! ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
946:Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
947:I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. ~ Doris Day, #NFDB
948:I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
949:I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~ Dennis Haysbert, #NFDB
950:It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
951:It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
952:My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
953:One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything. ~ Art Linkletter, #NFDB
954:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
955:The children imitating the cormorants,
Are more wonderful
Than the real cormorants ~ Kobayashi Issa,#NFDB
956:The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
957:The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
958:To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
959:To my wonderful readers: Sorry about that last cliff-hanger. Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
960:What wonderful minds we have, even though they don’t seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy. ~ Tim Parks, #NFDB
961:Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
962:You all right now?"
"I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me. ~ Kathy Reichs,#NFDB
963:A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people. ~ Kerry Katona, #NFDB
964:Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
965:Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life. ~ Jamie Campbell Bower, #NFDB
966:Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
967:I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait. ~ Abbie Cornish, #NFDB
968:I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again. ~ Arthur Freed, #NFDB
969:In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. ~ Rudy Rucker, #NFDB
970:India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
971:It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
972:It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world. ~ Brady Udall, #NFDB
973:It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while. ~ Marisha Pessl, #NFDB
974:I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame ~ Ethel Merman, #NFDB
975:I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
976:I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors. ~ Catherine Deneuve, #NFDB
977:Life isn’t safe, remember. But life can be wonderful if you choose adventure rather than fear. ~ Chip Gaines, #NFDB
978:Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa. ~ George Wendt, #NFDB
979:Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you, ~ Susan Stoker, #NFDB
980:Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship. ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard, #NFDB
981:Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
982:TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. ~ Kurt Andersen, #NFDB
983:The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart. ~ Charles de Saint Evremond, #NFDB
984:What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) ~ Abhimanyu Jha, #NFDB
985:Why do you ask My name,” the Angel of the LORD asked him, “since it is wonderful?” Judges 13:18 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
986:Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
987:Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
988:Be yourself, because everyone else is taken. Fat or thin, be your wild, wonderful, unique self. ~ Mimi Strong, #NFDB
989:Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,#NFDB
990:Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
991:Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. ~ Queen Elizabeth II, #NFDB
992:Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
993:He's a thousand kinds of wonderful and he prefers his men much like I do-strong and dark. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
994:Hindsight is a wonderful thing. And who’s to say the outcome would have been any different? ~ Paul Pilkington, #NFDB
995:Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
996:I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. ~ Jonathan Ive, #NFDB
997:Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. ~ Paul Washer, #NFDB
998:I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it. ~ Mary Crosby, #NFDB
999:I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two. ~ Eddie Redmayne, #NFDB
1000:I should’ve appreciated the wonderful child I had, not tried to make you into something else. ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
1001:It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1002:I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1003:Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1004:Mistakes are so interesting. Here's a wonderful mistake. Let's see what we can learn from it. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1005:One finds out a great many wonderful things, by traveling, if he stumbles upon the right person. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1006:The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
1007:throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1008:What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1009:When I look at you and you look at me,
I wonder what wonderful things you will be. ~ Emily Winfield Martin,#NFDB
1010:You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
1011:All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life. ~ Steve Irwin, #NFDB
1012:But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
1013:Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
1014:Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people. ~ Graham Chapman, #NFDB
1015:How did one not obsess over something wonderful? How did one like something a reasonable amount? ~ Helen Hoang, #NFDB
1016:I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners. ~ B A Paris, #NFDB
1017:I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1018:I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not. ~ Georgette Heyer, #NFDB
1019:I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1020:I have a wonderful relationship with my friends, family members, and co-workers. I am appreciated ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1021:I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television. ~ Colin Cunningham, #NFDB
1022:I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be. ~ Victoria Moran, #NFDB
1023:In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. ~ Christian Bale, #NFDB
1024:I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. ~ David Hockney, #NFDB
1025:I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
1026:I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically. ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
1027:It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1028:Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
1029:Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher, #NFDB
1030:Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1031:My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband. ~ Pamela Anderson, #NFDB
1032:My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences. ~ George Stevens, #NFDB
1033:Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
1034:So think positive toward people and discover how wonderful, really wonderful this world is. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1035:The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
1036:There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. ~ Theodore White, #NFDB
1037:There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1038:The wonderful thing about a yearbook photo is that everyone shares the moment with you ... Forever ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
1039:Thinking is very hard work. And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking. ~ Jeffrey Pfeffer, #NFDB
1040:We humans have a long and wonderful history of transcending our beliefs about what’s possible. ~ Gay Hendricks, #NFDB
1041:What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet. ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1042:When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready. ~ Leos Carax, #NFDB
1043:You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
1044:common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1045:Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1046:Every aspect of life is magnificent and wonderful. It's so important to keep fit and healthy. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1047:How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. ~ William Rotsler, #NFDB
1048:If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. ~ Lane Kirkland, #NFDB
1049:I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
1050:I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions. ~ Margot Kidder, #NFDB
1051:It's a wonderful thing to have a companion like that who just wants to sit by you while you work. ~ Chris Fabry, #NFDB
1052:It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1053:Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1054:Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1055:Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company. ~ David Cronenberg, #NFDB
1056:Maybe it's fate Hound ate the map. Maybe we'll discover something wonderful while we're lost. ~ Jeanne Birdsall, #NFDB
1057:our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
1058:Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1059:Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society. ~ Richard J Daley, #NFDB
1060:To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things. ~ Tim Berners Lee, #NFDB
1061:Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it. ~ Debbi Fields, #NFDB
1062:Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1063:Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
1064:Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born. ~ Nancy Tillman, #NFDB
1065:How wonderful. An Atlantean to eat. (Female Gallu)
How wonderful. A bitch to declaw. (Kat) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1066:How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1067:How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Paul S Boynton, #NFDB
1068:How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! ~ Anne Frank, #NFDB
1069:How wonderful that we have met with paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. —NIELS BOHR ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1070:How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1071:I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1072:If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
1073:I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
1074:I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
1075:Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1076:It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1077:I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
1078:I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1079:Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. ~ Christopher Alexander, #NFDB
1080:My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority. ~ Jamelia, #NFDB
1081:My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1082:Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1083:Never doubt the abundance that’s out there for you. Our world is big, and great, and wonderful. ~ Bethany Claire, #NFDB
1084:Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1085:One word has never sounded more frightening; yet more wonderful at the same time. Shit just got real. ~ T L Swan, #NFDB
1086:Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1087:Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1088:That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. ~ Roberta Flack, #NFDB
1089:That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love. ~ Heather Gudenkauf, #NFDB
1090:The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten. ~ Gerald Durrell, #NFDB
1091:what was hope but a fight between two possible outcomes: the wonderful and the terrible? ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
1092:When you feel yourself completely free, you will feel as if you are at a wonderful seaside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1093:Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS? ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
1094:You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.
You’re doing just fine. ~ Charlotte Eriksson,#NFDB
1095:Channel that tremendous force into the proper activity and you will accomplish wonderful things ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1096:Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1097:common sense is wonderful at making sense of the world, but not necessarily at understanding it. ~ Duncan J Watts, #NFDB
1098:Editing is wonderful, but you are soulmate, analyst, bloody torturer, exploiter all rolled into one. ~ Max Porter, #NFDB
1099:I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars. ~ Helmut Newton, #NFDB
1100:If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. ~ Vince Gilligan, #NFDB
1101:I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful pay! ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
1102:I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person. ~ Jurgen Klopp, #NFDB
1103:I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas. ~ Jesse Eisenberg, #NFDB
1104:It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1105:It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise. ~ Pliny the Younger, #NFDB
1106:It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
1107:It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
1108:I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. ~ Stuart Weitzman, #NFDB
1109:I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. ~ Jim Beaver, #NFDB
1110:Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1111:Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1112:People just have to keep on going, because you never know when something wonderful is going to happen. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1113:The wonderful thing about a yearbook photo is that everyone shares the moment with you . . . forever. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
1114:When we know how to be at peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1115:Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant, #NFDB
1116:You're the only fire that consumes me." And my wonderful monster smiled at that. Smiled at me. ~ Saundra Mitchell, #NFDB
1117:A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
1118:Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
1119:Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~ Woody Hayes, #NFDB
1120:I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how
wonderful it was. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,#NFDB
1121:If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life. ~ Karen Allen, #NFDB
1122:I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. ~ Isla Fisher, #NFDB
1123:I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. ~ Doseone, #NFDB
1124:I think it’s wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can’t it’ll be time to argue. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1125:I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore. ~ Rupert Friend, #NFDB
1126:It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
1127:It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world. ~ Shawne Merriman, #NFDB
1128:I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
1129:Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1130:She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
1131:Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1132:The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing. ~ Bruce Cockburn, #NFDB
1133:Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure! ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
1134:We learn from these hardships, I think. Sometimes awful things can bring the most wonderful ones. ~ Daniel Arenson, #NFDB
1135:Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself. ~ Jessie Burton, #NFDB
1136:Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck. ~ Rick Springfield, #NFDB
1137:Al, you're the most wonderful man I've ever been terrified by down a dark alleyway. Will you marry me? ~ J L Merrow, #NFDB
1138:As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful. ~ Georgia O Keeffe, #NFDB
1139:A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1140:Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind. He ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1141:Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. ~ Paul David Washer, #NFDB
1142:ignited the word-of-mouth about the book. You are wonderful, amazing, and I’m eternally grateful to you. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
1143:I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1144:I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they're very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful. ~ Beyonce Knowles, #NFDB
1145:In the middle of all this tragedy, you're growing up, sweet pie, and that is such a wonderful thing. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1146:I suggest it’s time we head off to see the Wizard. The wonderful Wizard of Jesus We Are All So Fucked. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1147:It had been wonderful and magical and all the adjectives that people use to describe “making love. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
1148:It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1149:It really was me at Ossing. And it was wonderful. You smelled as sweet as these flowers. I love you. ~ Candice Hern, #NFDB
1150:Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
1151:Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. ~ Hugh Hopper, #NFDB
1152:Or maybe it’s about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1153:So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1154:Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved. ~ David Walton, #NFDB
1155:Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. ~ Tom Hooper, #NFDB
1156:The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. ~ Janet Burroway, #NFDB
1157:There are too many wonderful things to read to waste time on something I don’t like,” I responded. ~ Rachel Schurig, #NFDB
1158:The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
1159:What’s it like to be in love?”"It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you, ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1160:As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. ~ Bill Moyers, #NFDB
1161:As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it. ~ Jay Sankey, #NFDB
1162:Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better. ~ Nicky Whelan, #NFDB
1163:Bomber said that the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head. ~ Ruth Hogan, #NFDB
1164:For everything that’s wonderful, there’s something wicked, too. That’s the price you pay for magic. ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1165:Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible. ~ Nancy Mitford, #NFDB
1166:He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1167:If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be. ~ Inio Asano, #NFDB
1168:If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work. ~ Edwin Starr, #NFDB
1169:If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1170:I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1171:I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. ~ Dick Cavett, #NFDB
1172:I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, #NFDB
1173:I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more? ~ Ronald Blythe, #NFDB
1174:It is terrible to be singled out, to feel eyes on you all the time. It is wonderful, and terrible too. ~ Sari Wilson, #NFDB
1175:"Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1176:Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
1177:Oh, he is marvelous,” she said. “He knows his household pests, all right, it’s a wonderful book. . . . ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1178:praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1179:Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1180:Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? Love ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1181:Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1182:Sometimes the best things in life are a little less than perfect and it still makes them wonderful. ~ Samantha Chase, #NFDB
1183:There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1184:There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. ~ Tobias Wolff, #NFDB
1185:There’s a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. ~ Tobias Wolff, #NFDB
1186:There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. ~ Sean Penn, #NFDB
1187:Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1188:wonderful things couldn’t last forever, or they would be dulled by repetition and cease being wonderful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1189:writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1190:Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
1191:As I lay there, I realized I had been wrong before, this was the most wonderful moment of my life. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1192:As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
1193:George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create. ~ Peter Mayhew, #NFDB
1194:How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1195:If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
1196:I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. ~ Bobby McFerrin, #NFDB
1197:I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller! ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1198:I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1199:I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic. ~ Hermann Goring, #NFDB
1200:It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1201:I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium. ~ James Corden, #NFDB
1202:Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it. ~ Nigel Godrich, #NFDB
1203:Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways. ~ Bryan Adams, #NFDB
1204:Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want. ~ Michael Neill, #NFDB
1205:There’s nothing else, just us. And the cameras. And those wonderful people out there in the dark.” Oh, ~ Laurent Linn, #NFDB
1206:The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
1207:What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1208:Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
1209:When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. ~ Margaret Walker, #NFDB
1210:With its architectural grandeur, Senator Gore said, our capital would someday “make wonderful ruins. ~ Mark Leibovich, #NFDB
1211:Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
1212:Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality. ~ Edward Bach, #NFDB
1213:Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity. ~ Michael Faudet, #NFDB
1214:How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1215:I am not drunk, and I am not sentimental, and I tell you you are the most wonderful woman in the world. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1216:I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. ~ Peter Hambleton, #NFDB
1217:I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. ~ Dougray Scott, #NFDB
1218:I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1219:Isn’t it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
1220:It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are. ~ Lysette Anthony, #NFDB
1221:I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. ~ Dom DeLuise, #NFDB
1222:I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your g wonderful deeds. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1223:Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1224:of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1225:Oh you two look delicious," Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1226:Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful. ~ Sidney Nolan, #NFDB
1227:Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1228:Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1229:The All-Wonderful has packed heaven with his dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, 10.03, #NFDB
1230:There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster. ~ Robert Culp, #NFDB
1231:There’s nothing more wonderful than learning what a soul wants to become and giving it a little help.” ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
1232:There was something wonderful, though, in doing useless work. You could turn it into a sort of art. ~ James P Blaylock, #NFDB
1233:Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting. ~ Colleen Saidman, #NFDB
1234:We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard) ~ Rob Hopkins, #NFDB
1235:Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1236:Would I choose to continually be in this vicious cycle, or would I choose to feel wonderful and happy? ~ Richard Dotts, #NFDB
1237:Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. ~ Sophie Marceau, #NFDB
1238:BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me. ~ Cindy McCain, #NFDB
1239:Father, wouldn’t it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited? ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1240:Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen. ~ Liv Ullmann, #NFDB
1241:Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1242:If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts. ~ Ad le Geras, #NFDB
1243:Ignorance is a wonderful thing—it’s the state you have to be in before you can really learn anything. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1244:I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain. ~ Giada De Laurentiis, #NFDB
1245:Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me. ~ Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, #NFDB
1246:I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression. ~ Brie Larson, #NFDB
1247:I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation ~ Judy Collins, #NFDB
1248:My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1249:The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong. ~ Robert Reed, #NFDB
1250:The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB
1251:Then the people began to come to the party. The two dogs ran around having a wonderful time. ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner, #NFDB
1252:There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad, #NFDB
1253:The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1254:Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” said West, who was talking about sex, not vitamins.) Second, ~ Paul A Offit, #NFDB
1255:To the tomorrows we’ve yet to see—may they be as wonderful as your smile and as exciting as a first kiss. ~ Avery Flynn, #NFDB
1256:What a wonderful thing, to get paid for doing what you love,” she says, and he agrees with this. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1257:Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane. ~ Marie Hall, #NFDB
1258:a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1259:But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1260:Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1261:Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ~ Gregg Allman, #NFDB
1262:Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. ~ Neil Armstrong, #NFDB
1263:How come a boy can be so stupid, but a Daddy, who actually used to be a BOY himself, can be so wonderful? ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
1264:I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1265:I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it. ~ Helen McCrory, #NFDB
1266:I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. ~ Selena Gomez, #NFDB
1267:I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful. ~ Wes Anderson, #NFDB
1268:I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does? ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1269:I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. ~ Jim Hodges, #NFDB
1270:It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
1271:I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness. ~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi, #NFDB
1272:Keep on praying for faith, it is through prayer that you develop all your wonderful qualities of soul. ~ Myrtle Fillmore, #NFDB
1273:Life changes so quickly. Feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with. ~ Riley Keough, #NFDB
1274:My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions. ~ Chris Hemsworth, #NFDB
1275:Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
1276:Returning to my book, I learned that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. It was a wonderful evening. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1277:Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
1278:The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. ~ Sara Quin, #NFDB
1279:The wonderful thing about being a widow is that, really, you’re not obliged to be much of a woman anymore— ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
1280:Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. ~ Annie Leibovitz, #NFDB
1281:This is the first time there has ever been a you, so I wonder what wonderful things you will do. ~ Emily Winfield Martin, #NFDB
1282:When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
1283:When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
1284:After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people. ~ Howie Mandel, #NFDB
1285:And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
1286:Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
1287:Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1288:Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. ~ Murray Rothbard, #NFDB
1289:For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, #NFDB
1290:Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1291:How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — ANNE FRANK ~ Jana Riess, #NFDB
1292:I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
1293:If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
1294:I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1295:I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1296:I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy. ~ Peter Beard, #NFDB
1297:It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1298:It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again. ~ Patsy Cline, #NFDB
1299:It’s wonderful! Music in the house! Music in the heart! And music also in heaven, for joy that we are here! ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
1300:It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience. ~ Maya Beiser, #NFDB
1301:it was a wonderful thing to be needed by the person she most admired, to be told she was indispensable. It ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1302:Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful. ~ John Barrowman, #NFDB
1303:Passion is an unmatched fuel. Add being happy to that and you have a wonderful formula for good health. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1304:Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful.....But it's too bad...
...,#NFDB
1305:Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone. ~ James Corden, #NFDB
1306:The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1307:Tonight I played for you like a woman in love. It was wonderful. It was the best moment of my entire life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1308:What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1309:When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe. ~ Joseph McGinty Nichol, #NFDB
1310:Wonderful", the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1311:Wonderful,” the Flatline said, “I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1312:You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1313:Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff! ~ Dr Seuss,#NFDB
1314:A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things. ~ Bre Pettis, #NFDB
1315:Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one! ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
1316:But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped. I ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1317:How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1318:I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful. ~ Harry Houdini, #NFDB
1319:If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, #NFDB
1320:It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1321:Nothing is more wonderful than coming home to the person you love, or having a family of your own.” Their ~ Melissa Foster, #NFDB
1322:She was one of those rare women who recognized that life is finite and saw orgasms as a wonderful distraction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1323:That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans. ~ Slash, #NFDB
1324:That's the wonderful thing about the future. All you ever have to do is wait for it. It will come to you, ~ Joseph R Lallo, #NFDB
1325:There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor. ~ Omar Sharif, #NFDB
1326:There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
1327:There are wonderful things that affect us, but nothing can touch us at the depth that God can touch us. Psalm ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1328:There is a world out there, out beyond us. And now we are part of this world. It is terrifying and wonderful ~ Carrie Ryan, #NFDB
1329:The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1330:this wonderful gift of life, this sight, this smell, this touch, this taste, the glorious ability of thought. ~ Will Adams, #NFDB
1331:This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know? ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
1332:When we conceive an enterprise and commit to it in the face of our fears, something wonderful happens. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1333:Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1334:I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country. ~ Sean Hannity, #NFDB
1335:I'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1336:I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. ~ Jonny Greenwood, #NFDB
1337:It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1338:It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it. ~ Lady Bird Johnson, #NFDB
1339:It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is. ~ Tilda Swinton, #NFDB
1340:It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
1341:I've thought of a wonderful way to start a forest fire,' Tom said musingly as they were having coffee. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
1342:I won't apologize for the choices I made, because all of them brought me to the wonderful place I am today. ~ Holly Madison, #NFDB
1343:Let them give thanks to the Lord for His faithful love and His wonderful works for the human race. Psalm 107:8 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1344:Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn’t. Who knows? ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
1345:Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful. ~ Simon Mawer, #NFDB
1346:Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
1347:Paul is normally very reticent to speak about the wonderful things God performs through him or reveals to him. ~ D A Carson, #NFDB
1348:Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
1349:The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him. ~ Karen Hughes, #NFDB
1350:The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
1351:There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time. ~ Jennifer Hudson, #NFDB
1352:The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after. ~ Guy Branum, #NFDB
1353:To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
1354:Well the wonderful thing about the truth is that it exists irrespective of belief, don't you think? ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
1355:We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 – 5, 13 – 14). ~ Terri Blackstock, #NFDB
1356:What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard? ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
1357:Why do you have to be so damn wonderful all the time? Especially now!”
“I can’t help it. I am what I am. ~ Ashlan Thomas,#NFDB
1358:Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher Evie Snow ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher, #NFDB
1359:Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1360:You’re very pleasant to be with,” she said. “I like you very much. And it’s wonderful that you’re not crazy. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1361:Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
1362:Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. ~ Pee Wee Reese, #NFDB
1363:Garret Sutton’s books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1364:God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1365:Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. ~ E Nesbit, #NFDB
1366:Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
1367:Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,’ Klara said. ‘If we all had it there would be no history to write about.’ She ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1368:If a Beethoven could give us in music the spirit of the Bhagavad Gita, what a wonderful symphony we should hear! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1369:I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me. ~ Katrina Kaif, #NFDB
1370:I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow. ~ Richard Meier, #NFDB
1371:I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that’s wonderful. ~ C C H Pounder, #NFDB
1372:It’s a wonderful way to sleep, cocooned in a man who makes you feel like nothing matters beyond the two of you. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1373:Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1374:Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1375:The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1376:The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1377:This beautifully fucked up and wonderful man had possessed me in every way and I wouldn’t have it any different. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1378:When a man can listen to a woman’s feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. ~ John Gray, #NFDB
1379:You are beautiful, and your magic is a wonderful thing. The world knows it now. You no longer have to hide away. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1380:By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made. ~ Kate Middleton, #NFDB
1381:Child, you are perhaps thirty-something human-years old, and already, you know everything. How wonderful for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1382:Don’t wait for big opportunities. You can create small but wonderful ones by starting with what you have. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1383:Getting married and staying married is a wonderful way to increase your wealth - but the key is stay married. ~ Kyra Zagorsky, #NFDB
1384:Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact. ~ Patrick Bergin, #NFDB
1385:He was a wonderful companion. The most charming fiddler I ever did see. But he got tired. He was ready to go.” I ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
1386:If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful. ~ Bette Midler, #NFDB
1387:I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read. ~ Robert Hass, #NFDB
1388:Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
1389:It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule. ~ Lee Meriwether, #NFDB
1390:It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free. ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB
1391:I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. ~ Nolan Bushnell, #NFDB
1392:Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less. ~ Summer Glau, #NFDB
1393:No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
1394:One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
1395:Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1396:Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone. ~ Richard Fleeshman, #NFDB
1397:Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1398:That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
1399:The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful. ~ Jesse Eisenberg, #NFDB
1400:There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment. ~ Bindi Irwin, #NFDB
1401:Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1402:We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
1403:We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings. ~ Daniel Black, #NFDB
1404:... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1405:When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. ~ Daniel Craig, #NFDB
1406:Aenea nodded. “It’s wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves … culturally and physically. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1407:After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada. ~ Amanda Lindhout, #NFDB
1408:A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. ~ Daniel J Boorstin, #NFDB
1409:Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren. ~ Alison Gopnik, #NFDB
1410:Believe in yourself. Tell yourself everyday "I am a talented person with a wonderful gift to give others!" ~ Shantel VanSanten, #NFDB
1411:Do you know how wonderful you are?” “Of course I do,” Simon laughed. “I’ve been singing my own praises for years. ~ Wendy Webb, #NFDB
1412:Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that. ~ Stephen Graham Jones, #NFDB
1413:Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1414:Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1415:Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. ~ Ryan Phillippe, #NFDB
1416:I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. ~ Jean Tinguely, #NFDB
1417:I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine. ~ Cristina Henriquez, #NFDB
1418:If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1419:I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1420:I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
1421:I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB
1422:It would be truly wonderful if we could live as alcoholics do, to be unwarlike for just another day. We don’t. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1423:I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
1424:I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
1425:Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! ~ George Bailey, #NFDB
1426:No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. ~ Joel Sternfeld, #NFDB
1427:people quite often do what seemed impossible before they did it. It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1428:Rem: The way to kill a shinigami is to make them fall in love with a human. Misa: What a wonderful way to kill. ~ Tsugumi Ohba, #NFDB
1429:Say you feel wonderful at every possible opportunity, and you will begin to feel wonderful—and bigger, too. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
1430:There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories. ~ Heather Vogel Frederick, #NFDB
1431:We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world. ~ Will Graham, #NFDB
1432:What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world. ~ Harry Bernstein, #NFDB
1433:Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants."
"Excuse me. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
1434:You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
1435:A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
1436:As long as the red dice are in the air, the gambler has hope. And hope is a wonderful thing to be addicted to. ~ Norm Macdonald, #NFDB
1437:But life doesn’t always turn out the way you think it will,’ Robyn said, ‘and that can be rather wonderful. ~ Victoria Connelly, #NFDB
1438:Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1439:Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. ~ Neil Simon, #NFDB
1440:Every time I force myself to go outside something wonderful happens (Humans of New York photographed subject) ~ Brandon Stanton, #NFDB
1441:High school was a blur of wanting things I couldn’t have and missing the wonderful moments right in front of me. ~ Alec Baldwin, #NFDB
1442:I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
1443:I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
1444:I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1445:I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
1446:I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do. ~ Freeman Dyson, #NFDB
1447:It is a bad thing not to be able to stand solitude. It is a wonderful thing to embrace it, and I was ready. ~ Carine McCandless, #NFDB
1448:It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1449:Learn to be happy with simple things because you are completely surrounded by the wonderful simple things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1450:Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. ~ Bernie Glassman, #NFDB
1451:Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
1452:One of life’s dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem … ordinary. ~ Michael Marshall Smith, #NFDB
1453:Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written. ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
1454:On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
1455:Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
1456:Remembering herself as a confident mother evoked a feeling akin to grasping at the vestiges of a wonderful dream. ~ Sonja Yoerg, #NFDB
1457:SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1458:The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1459:There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1460:There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people. ~ Smokey Robinson, #NFDB
1461:The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
1462:Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1463:Wonderful what a little nip’ll do in case of need, and the less you’re used to it the more good it does you. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1464:Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
1465:"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes." ~ Elmore Leonard, #NFDB
1466:I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. ~ Chris Isaak, #NFDB
1467:If it feels so good loving the wrong person, imagine how wonderful it is going to be when you love the right one. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
1468:I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. ~ Sissy Spacek, #NFDB
1469:I need to start over. I can’t just stay stuck in this place.” This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1470:In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful. ~ James Denney, #NFDB
1471:It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1472:It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1473:It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do. ~ Emilia Fox, #NFDB
1474:"Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #meditation, #NFDB
1475:Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed in a labyrinth. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1476:Michelangelo who said, “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. ~ Ronda Rousey, #NFDB
1477:My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write. ~ Eden Robinson, #NFDB
1478:My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1479:Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney. ~ Scott Bakula, #NFDB
1480:The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. ~ Ella Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1481:The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see. ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
1482:The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, #NFDB
1483:What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1484:What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful? ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
1485:Being a bird, I imagined, must be wonderful. All birds had to do was fly. no need to worry about contraception. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1486:Comic-Con is a bizarre world. It's wonderful. It's nice, feeling the love. Everywhere you walk, you feel the love. ~ Anthony Head, #NFDB
1487:Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. ~ Melina Mercouri, #NFDB
1488:Francis Bacon once said, “There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1489:I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet. ~ Sergio Leone, #NFDB
1490:I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe. ~ Janos Bolyai, #NFDB
1491:I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all. ~ Columba Bush, #NFDB
1492:I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
1493:It felt so wonderful that she concluded that the existence of her clitoris was proof positive that God loved her. ~ Dossie Easton, #NFDB
1494:I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids. ~ LeAnn Rimes, #NFDB
1495:"Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself." ~ Bernie Glassman, #NFDB
1496:love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
1497:Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful. ~ Lydia Netzer, #NFDB
1498:My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. ~ Gemma Chan, #NFDB
1499:Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells. ~ Geraldine Ferraro, #NFDB
1500:The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. ~ Richard K Morgan, #NFDB
452 Integral Yoga
72 Poetry
45 Yoga
44 Christianity
29 Philosophy
27 Occultism
19 Psychology
18 Fiction
7 Hinduism
5 Mythology
5 Education
4 Sufism
4 Mysticism
4 Integral Theory
3 Theosophy
3 Buddhism
2 Science
2 Islam
1 Zen
1 Philsophy
1 Kabbalah
1 Alchemy
357 The Mother
250 Satprem
110 Sri Aurobindo
55 Nolini Kanta Gupta
29 Saint Augustine of Hippo
22 Sri Ramakrishna
14 Swami Vivekananda
14 Carl Jung
12 Walt Whitman
12 H P Lovecraft
10 Plato
10 A B Purani
9 Saint Teresa of Avila
8 Swami Krishnananda
8 James George Frazer
7 Saint John of Climacus
7 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
7 Percy Bysshe Shelley
5 Rudolf Steiner
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Friedrich Nietzsche
4 Robert Browning
4 Plotinus
4 Patanjali
4 Nirodbaran
4 Lucretius
3 Thubten Chodron
3 Ken Wilber
3 George Van Vrekhem
3 Edgar Allan Poe
3 Anonymous
3 Al-Ghazali
3 Aleister Crowley
3 Aldous Huxley
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Rabindranath Tagore
2 Muhammad
2 Kabir
2 Jordan Peterson
2 John Keats
2 Friedrich Schiller
2 Alice Bailey
30 Agenda Vol 10
25 Questions And Answers 1953
25 Agenda Vol 03
25 Agenda Vol 01
22 Agenda Vol 08
21 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
21 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
21 Agenda Vol 07
20 Agenda Vol 06
19 Savitri
19 City of God
19 Agenda Vol 04
17 Agenda Vol 11
17 Agenda Vol 05
17 Agenda Vol 02
16 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
13 Collected Poems
13 Agenda Vol 13
12 Whitman - Poems
12 Lovecraft - Poems
11 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
11 Essays Divine And Human
10 The Synthesis Of Yoga
10 Questions And Answers 1956
10 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
10 Agenda Vol 09
9 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
9 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
8 The Study and Practice of Yoga
8 The Golden Bough
7 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
7 Shelley - Poems
7 Raja-Yoga
7 Questions And Answers 1954
7 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
6 The Way of Perfection
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
6 Prayers And Meditations
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Essays On The Gita
6 Agenda Vol 12
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
5 Talks
5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
5 5.1.01 - Ilion
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
4 The Red Book Liber Novus
4 The Life Divine
4 The Bible
4 Some Answers From The Mother
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 On Education
4 Of The Nature Of Things
4 Browning - Poems
3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 The Phenomenon of Man
3 The Perennial Philosophy
3 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
3 The Human Cycle
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Essentials of Education
2 Tagore - Poems
2 Symposium
2 Schiller - Poems
2 Quran
2 Poe - Poems
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 On the Way to Supermanhood
2 Notes On The Way
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Letters On Yoga IV
2 Let Me Explain
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Keats - Poems
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Crowley - Poems
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
2 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Amrita Gita
2 Aion
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Thus, after nirvikalpa samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized maya in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kali vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Maya became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent. Sri Ramakrishna discovered that maya operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these "avidyamaya" and "vidyamaya". Avidyamaya represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man's birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyamaya is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyamaya elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyamaya the devotee rids himself of avidyamaya; he then becomes mayatita, free of maya. The two aspects of maya are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kali; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
The Divine Mother asked Sri Ramakrishna not to be lost in the featureless Absolute but to remain, in bhavamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness, the border line between the Absolute and the Relative. He was to keep himself at the "sixth centre" of Tantra, from which he could see not only the glory of the seventh, but also the divine manifestations of the Kundalini in the lower centres. He gently oscillated back and forth across the dividing line. Ecstatic devotion to the Divine Mother alternated with serene absorption in the Ocean of Absolute Unity. He thus bridged the gulf between the Personal and the Impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent aspects of Reality. This is a unique experience in the recorded spiritual history of the world.
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Sarada Devi, in the company of her husband, had rare spiritual experiences. She said: "I have no words to describe my wonderful exaltation of spirit as I watched him in his different moods. Under the influence of divine emotion he would sometimes talk on abstruse subjects, sometimes laugh, sometimes weep, and sometimes become perfectly motionless in samadhi. This would continue throughout the night. There was such an extraordinary divine presence in him that now and then I would shake with fear and wonder how the night would pass. Months went by in this way. Then one day he discovered that I had to keep awake the whole night lest, during my sleep, he should go into samadhi — for it might happen at any moment —, and so he asked me to sleep in the nahabat."
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Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely delicate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisticated men of Bengal, the best products of Western education, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
Keshab's sincerity was enough for Sri Ramakrishna. Henceforth the two saw each other frequently, either at Dakshineswar or at the temple of the Brahmo Samaj. Whenever the Master was in the temple at the time of divine service, Keshab would request him to speak to the congregation. And Keshab would visit the saint, in his turn, with offerings of flowers and fruits.
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Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, the right-hand man of Keshab and an accomplished Brahmo preacher in Europe and America, bitterly criticized Sri Ramakrishna's use of uncultured language and also his austere attitude toward his wife. But he could not escape the spell of the Master's personality. In the course of an article about Sri Ramakrishna, Pratap wrote in the "Theistic Quarterly Review": "What is there in common between him and me? I, a Europeanized, civilized, self-centred, semi-sceptical, so-called educated reasoner, and he, a poor, illiterate, unpolished, half-idolatrous, friendless Hindu devotee? Why should I sit long hours to attend to him, I, who have listened to Disraeli and Fawcett, Stanley and Max Muller, and a whole host of European scholars and divines? . . . And it is not I only, but dozens like me, who do the same. . . . He worships Siva, he worships Kali, he worships Rama, he worships Krishna, and is a confirmed advocate of Vedantic doctrines. . . . He is an idolater, yet is a faithful and most devoted meditator on the perfections of the One Formless, Absolute, Infinite Deity. . . . His religion is ecstasy, his worship means transcendental insight, his whole nature burns day and night with a permanent fire and fever of a strange faith and feeling. . . . So long as he is spared to us, gladly shall we sit at his feet to learn from him the sublime precepts of purity, unworldliness, spirituality, and inebriation in the love of God. . . . He, by his childlike bhakti, by his strong conceptions of an ever-ready Motherhood, helped to unfold it [God as our Mother] in our minds wonderfully. . . . By associating with him we learnt to realize better the divine attributes as scattered over the three hundred and thirty millions of deities of mythological India, the gods of the Puranas."
The Brahmo leaders received much inspiration from their contact with Sri Ramakrishna. It broadened their religious views and kindled in their hearts the yearning for God-realization; it made them understand and appreciate the rituals and symbols of Hindu religion, convinced them of the manifestation of God in diverse forms, and deepened their thoughts about the harmony of religions. The Master, too, was impressed by the sincerity of many of the Brahmo devotees. He told them about his own realizations and explained to them the essence of his teachings, such as the necessity of renunciation, sincerity in the pursuit of one's own course of discipline, faith in God, the performance of one's duties without thought of results, and discrimination between the Real and the unreal.
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Even before Rakhal's coming to Dakshineswar, the Master had had visions of him as his spiritual son and as a playmate of Krishna at Vrindavan. Rakhal was born of wealthy parents. During his childhood he developed wonderful spiritual traits and used to play at worshipping gods and goddesses. In his teens he was married to a sister of Manomohan Mitra, from whom he first heard of the Master. His father objected to his association with Sri Ramakrishna but afterwards was reassured to find that many celebrated people were visitors at Dakshineswar. The relationship between the Master and this beloved disciple was that of mother and child. Sri Ramakrishna allowed Rakhal many liberties denied to others. But he would not hesitate to chastise the boy for improper actions. At one time Rakhal felt a childlike jealousy because he found that other boys were receiving the Master's affection. He soon got over it and realized his guru as the Guru of the whole universe. The Master was worried to hear of his marriage, but was relieved to find that his wife was a spiritual soul who would not be a hindrance to his progress.
--- THE ELDER GOPAL
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The Master knew Hari's passion for Vedanta. But he did not wish any of his disciples to become a dry ascetic or a mere bookworm. So he asked Hari to practise Vedanta in life by giving up the unreal and following the Real. "But it is not so easy", Sri Ramakrishna said, "to realize the illusoriness of the world. Study alone does not help one very much. The grace of God is required. Mere personal effort is futile. A man is a tiny creature after all, with very limited powers. But he can achieve the impossible if he prays to God for His grace." Whereupon the Master sang a song in praise of grace. Hari was profoundly moved and shed tears. Later in life Hari achieved a wonderful synthesis of the ideals of the Personal God and the Impersonal Truth.
--- GANGADHAR
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The two pamphlets in English entitled the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna appeared in October and November 1897. They drew the spontaneous acclamation of Swami Vivekananda, who wrote on 24th November of that year from Dehra Dun to M.:"Many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a Great Teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind, as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange, isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing.
I now understand why none of us attempted His life before. It has been reserved for you, this great work. He is with you evidently." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P. 141. Also given in the first edition of the Gospel published from Ramakrishna Math, Madras in 1911.)
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your orders please, Mother wonderful!
What can we do? He is a good and regular worker, isn't he? I
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
him seem particularly so. These treatises are a wonderful illustration of the
theological truth that grace, far from destroying nature, ennobles and dignifies it,
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How can one most effectively call this wonderful
world of delight?
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Blake had this wonderful gift of transmuting the baser metal of mundane experience into the gold of a deep mystic and spiritual experience:
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A fiery portion of the wonderful,
Artist of his own beauty and delight,
--
In the wide workshop of the wonderful world,
Modelled in inward Time his rhythmic parts.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That involves something which throws all your reasoning out of gear. For these are aspects of the Divine Nature, powers of it, states of his being, - but the Divine Himself is something absolute, someone self-existent, not limited by his aspects, - wonderful and ineffable, not existing by them, but they existing because of him. It follows that if he attracts by his aspects, all the more he can attract by his very absolute selfness which is sweeter, mightier, profounder than any aspect. His peace, rapture, light, freedom, beauty are marvellous and ineffable, because he is himself magically, mysteriously, transcendently marvellous and ineffable. He can then be sought after for his wonderful and ineffable self and not only for the sake of one aspect or another of him. The only thing needed for that is, first, to arrive at a point when the psychic being feels this pull of the Divine in himself and, secondly, to arrive at the point when the mind, vital and each thing else begins to feel too that that was what it was wanting and the surface hunt after Ananda or what else was only an excuse for drawing the nature towards that supreme magnet.
Your argument that because we know the union with the
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A glance can make his whole day wonderful,
A word from her lips with happiness wings the hours.
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The world being nothing but Spirit made visible is, according to Tagore, fundamentally a thing of beauty. The scars and spots that are on the surface have to be removed and mankind has to repossess and clo the itself with that mantle of beauty. The world is beautiful, because it is the image of the Beautiful, because it harbours, expresses and embodies the Divine who is Beauty supreme. Now by a strange alchemy, a wonderful effect of polarisation, the very spiritual element in Tagore has made him almost a pagan and even a profane. For what are these glories of Nature and the still more exquisite glories that the human body has captured? They are but vibrations and modulations of beauty the delightful names and forms of the supreme Lover and Beloved.
Socrates is said to have brought down Philosophy from Heaven to live among men upon earth. A similar exploit can be ascribed to Tagore. The Spirit, the bare transcendental Reality contemplated by the orthodox Vedantins, has been brought nearer to our planet, close to human consciousness in Tagore's vision, being clothed in earth and flesh and blood, made vivid with the colours and contours of the physical existence. The Spirit, yes and by all means, but not necessarily asceticism and monasticism. So Tagore boldly declared in those famous lines of his:
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Paces of the many-visaged wonderful,
Predestined stadia of the evolving Way,
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Pascal's faith had not the calm, tranquil, serene, luminous and happy self-possession of an Indian Rishi. It was ardent and impatient, fiery and vehement. It had to be so perhaps, since it was to stand against his steely brain (and a gloomy vital or life force) as a counterpoise, even as an antidote. This tension and schism brought about, at least contri buted to his neuras thenia and physical infirmity. But whatever the effect upon his inner consciousness and spiritual achievement, his power of expression, his literary style acquired by that a special quality which is his great gift to the French language. If one speaks of Pascal, one has to speak of his language also; for he was one of the great masters who created the French prose. His prose was a wonderful blend of clarity, precision, serried logic and warmth, colour, life, movement, plasticity.
A translation cannot give any idea of the Pascalian style; but an inner echo of the same can perhaps be caught from the thought movement of these characteristic sayings of his with which we conclude:
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Satan proposes to lead man down into hell through a sure means, nothing more sure, according to him, viz., love for a woman and a woman's love in return. Nothing like that to make man earth-bound or hell-bound and force out of him the nostalgic cry, "Time must have a stop." A most simple, primal and primeval lyric love will most suit Satan's purpose. Hence the Margaret episode. Love=Passion=Lust=Hell; that is the inevitable equation sequence, and through which runs the magic thread of infatuation. And that charm is invincible. Satan did succeed and was within an ace, as they say, of the final and definitive triumph: but that was not to be, for he left out of account an incalculable element. Love, even human love has, at least can have, a wonderful power, the potency of reversing the natural decree and bring about a supernatural intervention. Human love can at a crucial momentin extremiscall down the Divine Grace, which means God's love for man. And the soul meant for perdition and about to be seized and carried away by Satan finds itself suddenly free and lifted up and borne by Heaven's messengers. Human Jove is divine love itself in earthly form and figure and whatever its apparent aberrations it is in soul and substance that thing. Satan is hoisted with his own petard. That is God's irony.
But Goethe's Satan seems to know or feel something of his fate. He knows his function and the limit too of his function. He speaks of the doomsday for people, but it is his doomsday also, he says in mystic terms. Yes, it is his doomsday, for it is the day of man's liberation. Satan has to release man from the pact that stands cancelled. The soul of man cannot be sold, even if he wanted it.
--
The angels weave the symphony that is creation. They represent the various notes and rhythmsin their higher and purer degrees that make up the grand harmony of the spheres. It is magnificent, this music that moves the cosmos, and wonderful the glory of God manifest therein. But is it absolutely perfect? Is there nowhere any flaw in it? There is a doubting voice that enters a dissenting note. That is Satan, the Antagonist, the Evil One. Man is the weakest link in the chain of the apparently all-perfect harmony. And Satan boldly proposes to snap it if God only let him do so. He can prove to God that the true nature of his creation is not cosmos but chaos not a harmony in peace and light, but a confusion, a Walpurgis Night. God acquiesces in the play of this apparent breach and proves in the end that it is part of a wider scheme, a vaster harmony. Evil is rounded off by Grace.
The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not-evil and evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things.
13 December 1968
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
a unique and wonderful opportunity to open themselves to the
divine influence.
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realization,most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda1 which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divines Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe.
Sri Aurobindo, The Mother
--
I dont know to whom I was mentioning this today (I think it was for a Birthday3 No, I dont know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and conscious union with the Divine Presence and that I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONES help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekanandas Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain something to me! And it helped me realize in only a few months what would have otherwise taken years.
I met a man (I was perhaps 20 or 21 at the time), an Indian who had come to Europe and who told me of the Gita. There was a French translation of it (a rather poor one, I must say) which he advised me to read, and then he gave me the key (HIS key, it was his key). He said, Read the Gita (this translation of the Gita which really wasnt worth much but it was the only one available at the timein those days I wouldnt have understood anything in other languages; and besides, the English translations were just as bad and well, Sri Aurobindo hadnt done his yet!). He said, Read the Gita knowing that Krishna is the symbol of the immanent God, the God within. That was all. Read it with THAT knowledgewith the knowledge that Krishna represents the immanent God, the God within you. Well, within a month, the whole thing was done!
0 1957-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, this is what is rising from my soul: I feel in me something unemployed, something seeking to express itself in life. I want to be like a knight, your knight, and go off in search of a treasure that I could bring back to you. The world has lost all sense of the wonderful, all beauty of Adventure, this quest known to the knights of the Middle Ages. It is this that calls so relentlessly within me, this need for a quest in the world and for a beautiful Adventure which at the same time would be an adventure of the soul. How I wish that the two things, inner and outer, be JOINED, that the joy of action, of the open road and the quest help the souls blossoming, that they be like a prayer of the soul expressed in life. The knights of the Middle Ages knew this. Perhaps it is all childish and absurd in the midst of this 20th century, but this is what I feel, this that is summoning me to leavenot anything base, not anything mediocre, only a need for something in me to be fulfilled. If only I could bring you back a beautiful treasure!
After that, perhaps I would be riper to accept the everyday life of the Ashram, and know how to give myself better.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If we could truly, perfectly know all the details of the ceremony of life, the worship of the Lord in physical life, it would be wonderfulto know, and no longer to err, never again to err. To perform the ceremony as perfectly as an initiation.
To know life utterly Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And its strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras1 (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, like that):
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
He said he had received initiation in India (he knew a little Sanskrit and the Rig-Veda thoroughly), and then he formulated a tradition which he called the cosmic tradition and which he claimed to have received I dont know howfrom a tradition anterior to that of the Cabala and the Vedas. But there were many things (Madame Theon was the clairvoyant one, and she received visions; oh, she was wonderful!), many things that I myself had seen and known before knowing them which were then substantiated.
So personally, I am convinced that there was indeed a tradition anterior to both these traditions containing a knowledge very close to an integral knowledge. Certainly, there is a similarity in the experiences. When I came here and told Sri Aurobindo certain things I knew from the occult standpoint, he always said that it conformed to the Vedic tradition. And as for certain occult practices, he told me that they were entirely tantric and I knew nothing at that time, absolutely nothing, neither the Vedas nor the Tantras.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It can be expressed in this way (but its quite approximate, more than diminished or deformed): its as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver, whereas the supramental life is made of goldas if our entire spiritual life here were a vibration of silver, not gold but simply a light, a light that goes right to the summit, an absolutely pure light, pure and intense; but in the other, in the supramental world, there is a richness and a power that make all the difference. This whole spiritual life of the psychic being and of all our present consciousness that appears so warm, so full, so wonderful, so luminous to the ordinary consciousness, well, all this splendor seems poor in comparison to the splendor of the new world.
I can explain the phenomenon like this: successive reversals such that an EVER NEW richness of creation will take place from stage to stage, making whatever came before seem so poor in comparison. What to us seems supremely rich compared to our ordinary life, appears so poor compared to this new reversal of consciousness. Such was my experience.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Of all forms of ego, you might think that the physical ego is the most difficult to conquer (or rather, the body ego, because the work was already done long ago on the physical ego). It might be thought that the form of the body is a point of concentration, and that without this concentration or hardness, physical life would not be possible. But thats not true. The body is really a wonderful instrument; its capable of widening and of becoming vast in such a way that everything, everything the slightest gesture, the least little taskis done in a wonderful harmony and with a remarkable plasticity. Then all of a sudden, for something quite stupid, a draft, a mere nothing, it forgetsit shrinks back into itself, it gets afraid of disappearing, afraid of not being. And everything has to be started again from scratch. So in the yoga of matter you start realizing how much endurance is needed. I calculated it would take 200 years to say ten crore of my japa. Well, Im ready to struggle 200 years if necessary, but the work will be done.
Sri Aurobindo had made it clear to me when I was still in France that this yoga in matter is the most difficult of all. For the other yogas, the paths have been well laid, you know where to tread, how to proceed, what to do in such-and-such a case. But for the yoga of matter, nothing has ever been done, never, so at each moment everything has to be invented.
0 1960-05-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And what is wonderful is that at each moment the Grace, the Joy, the Light, the Love never cease pouring down in the very midst of all thisdespite the ego, despite the shame, despite the unworthiness. To be humble
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0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
During the operation and just afterwards, I had simply put the Force on him, as I always do in such cases, so that everything would turn out for the best. Then a few days ago, during my japa, a kind of order camea very clear orderto concentrate on him so that he would be conscious of his soul and able to leave under the best conditions. And I saw that the concentration worked wonderfully: it seems that during his last days he was ceaselessly repeating Ma-Ma-Ma1even while he was in a semi-coma.
And the concentration grew stronger and stronger. The day before yesterday it became very, very powerful, and yesterday morning, around half past noon, it pulled me inward; he came to me in a kind of sleep, a conscious sleep, and I even said almost aloud, Oh, K!
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And now it has become constant; each time I hear or see something ugly or horrible, or each time something ugly or horrible happens, something which is a negation of the divine life just behind is this flameso wonderful. And then the effect is annulled.
There is a magnificence of realization which could not have been had this evil, this horror and this negation not been.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And this vehicle was going faster than the flood (I saw and felt it by its motion)a formidable flood, but the vehicle was going still faster. It was so wonderful. In places there were some especially difficult and dangerous spots, but I ALWAYS got there before the water, just before the water barred the way. And we kept going and going and going. Then, with a final effort (there was no effort, really, it was willed), with a final push, we made it to the other side and the water came rushing just behind! It rushed down at a fantastic speed. We had made it. Then, just on the other side, it changed color. It was it changed in color to a predominant blue, this powerful blue which is the force, the organizing force in the most material world. So there we were, and the vehicle stopped. And then, after having been looking straight ahead the whole time we were speeding along, I turned around and said, Ah, now I can start helping those who are behind.
Here, Ill draw you a little sketch:
0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But L has enlarged the program. (Mother indicates the plan) This is only a small part of his extensive total program. He is planning to have a school of agriculture, a modern dairy with grazing landtheres a lot of agriculture, really a lotfruit orchards, large rice fields, many things. And then a ceramics factory. My ceramics factory will be at the far end of the lake, so as to utilize the clay the government has agreed; as they have to dig out the lake one day, we shall use the top soil for the fields. First well remove all the pebbles (you know, there are hills over there), which can be used for constructionits a mine of pebbles. After removing the pebbles, there will be holes which then well fill with earth from the lake. And below this earth is a thick and compact layer of clay which is so hard it cant be used for farmingits impossible but its wonderful for making ceramics. So right at the very end, in Indian territory,4 well have a large ceramics industry. On the other side, well have a little factory for firing clay.
All this is huge. A tremendous program.5
0 1960-09-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
After leaving your room, X kept repeating, Very wonderful. Then he explained to me that white rays were vibrating everywherealong the whole length of the Kundalini, white, yellow and blue, but especially white (he indicated the forehead in particular).
He looked quite ecstatic while speaking of his experience.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Along the way, I once went down into this physical mind for awhile to try to set it right, to organize it a little (it was done rather quickly, I didnt stay there long). So when I went inside X, I saw It was rather curious, for its the opposite of the method we follow. In his material consciousness (physical and vital), he has trained himself to be impersonal, open, limitless, in communication with all the universal forces. In the physical mind, silence, immobility. But in the speculative mind, the one there at the very top of the head what an organization, phew! All the tradition in its most superb organization, but such a ri-gi-dity! And it had a pretty quality of light, a silver blueVERY pretty. Oh, it was very calm, wonderfully calm and quiet and still. But what a ceiling it had!the outer form resembled rigid cubes. Everything inside was beautiful, but that There was a very large cube right at the top, I recall, bordered by a purple line, which is a line of powerall this was quite luminous. It looked like a pyramid; the smaller cubes formed a kind of base, the lower part of which faded into something cloudy, and then this passed imperceptibly downwards to a more material realm, or in other words, the physical mind. The cube on top was the largest and most luminous, and the least yieldingeven inflexible, you could say. The others were somewhat less defined, and at the bottom it was very blurred. But up at the top!thats where I wanted to go, right to the top.
When I got there, I felt a moment of anguish; my feeling was that nothing could be done. Not for him in particular, but universally, for all those in his categoryit seemed hopeless.6 If that was perfection, then nothing more could be done. This lasted only a second, but it was painful. And then I tried that is, I wanted to bring my consciousness down into the highest cubethis eternal, universal and infinite consciousness which is the first and foremost expression of the manifestation but nothing doing. It was impossible. I tried for several minutes and saw that it was absolutely impossible. So I had to make a curious movement (I couldnt get through it, it was impassable), I had to come back down into the so-called lower consciousness (not lower, actuallyit was vast and impersonal), and from there I came out and regained my equilibrium. This is what gave me that splitting headache I told you about. I came out of there as if I were carrying the weight the weight of an irreducible absoluteit was dreadful. Unfortunately, I was unable to rest afterwards, and as people were waiting to see me, I had to talkwhich is very tiring for me. And this produced a bubbling in my head, like a this dark blue light of power in matter was there, shot through with streaks of white and gold, and all this was flashing back and forth in my head, this way and that way I thought I was going to have a stroke! (Mother laughs)
0 1960-09-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Basically, it must be the same for my eyes. Sometimes I see wonderfully, and sometimes its blurred. It must be for the same reason I probably have to learn to concentrate!
Yes, laugh if you wantwhat I mean is concentrate on what Im doing. Not concentrate within Precisely, Im rather too concentrated!
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This wonderful world of
delight waiting at our
--
Before going to bed, sometimes I say to myself, I will do what is necessary to spend my night in these great currents of force(because there is a way to do it). And then I think, Oh, what an egotist you are, my girl! So sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesntwhen theres something important to do, it doesnt happen. But all I have to do is concentrate in a certain way before going to sleep to spend my whole night in these very far from here, very far I cant say very far from the earth, for surely its in an intermediate zone between the forces from above and the earths atmosphere. Thats what it mainly is, in any case. Its a great universal current as well, but mainly its what descends and comes onto the earth, and it is permeating the earths atmosphere all the time, all the time, and it comes with this wide, overall visionit makes for wonderful nights I no longer bother about people at allat least not as such, but in a more impersonal way.
(silence)
--
This has protected me from all seeking for pleasure in life. It was a wonderful protection, because pleasure always seemed so futile to meyes, futile; for the sake of your personal satisfaction. Later, I even understood how foolish it is, for you can never be satisfiedthough when youre small you dont yet know that. I never liked it: But is it really useful, does it serve some purpose? And I still have this attitude in regard to my nights. I have this widening of the consciousness, this impersonalization, this wonderful joy of being above all that. But at the same time I also have, Im here in this body, on earth, to do something I mustnt forget it. And this is what I have to do. But probably Im wrong!
Im waiting for the Lord to tell me clearly.
0 1960-10-02b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
'This wonderful world of delight, at our gates, waiting for our call to come down upon earth.'
'waiting at our gates for our call...'
0 1960-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Each thing carries within itself its own truthits absolute truth, so luminous and so clear. And if you are in contact with THAT, then everything falls into place so wonderfully; but men are NOT in contact with that, they are always in contact through their thought: what they think of something, what they feel about something, the meaning they attach to it (or sometimes its worse)but the highest they go is always the thought they have of it. Thats what creates all this mixture and all this disorderthings in themselves are very good, and then they get confused.
Z's work involved seeing Mother everyday to watch over her health and her food.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
She was a wonderful woman, wonderful. But as for him well
Its funny I dont know why, but a short while ago this house on Val de Grce suddenly came to me (to Pavitra) When did this photograph come?
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But I found this interesting, so I began looking, and I LIVED the scene, all kinds of scenes of initiation, worship, etc., for quite some time. When that lifted, a light much stronger than the last time (during the last meditation) came down, in a wonderful silence. (I might add that the first thing I did, at the beginning, was to try to establish a silence around you, to insulate you from other things so as to keep your mind quiet; it kept jumping a little, but once this light came down ) And it came down with a very hieratic quality and (how can I put this?) Egyptian in charactervery occult, very occult, very, very distinct, very specific, like this (gesture indicating a block of silence descending).
And then there came a long moment of absolutely motionless contemplation with something that now escapes meit may come back.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
How strange it is! You have the feeling of ascending, of a progress in consciousness, and everything, all the events and circumstances of life follow one another with an unquestioning logic. You see the Divine Will unfolding with a wonderful logic. Then, from time to time, there appears a little set of circumstances (either isolated or repeated), which are like snags on the way; you cant explain them, so you put them aside for later on. Some such accidents have been quite significant, but they dont seem to follow this ascending line of the present individuality. Theyre scattered along the way, sometimes repeated, sometimes only once, and then they vanish. And when you go through such an experience, you sense that they are things put aside for later on. And then, all of a sudden (especially during these last two years when I have again descended to take all that up), all of a sudden, one after another, all these snags return. And they dont follow the same curve; rather, its as if suddenly you reach a certain state and a certain impersonal breadth that far surpasses the individual, and this new state enters into contact with one of those old accidents that had remained in the deepest part of the subconscientand that makes it rise up again, the two meet in an explosion of light. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything is clear! No explanation is needed: it has become OBVIOUS.
This is entirely another way of understandingits not an ascent, not even a descent nor an inspiration it must be what Sri Aurobindo calls a revelation. Its the meeting of this subconscious notationthis something which has remained buried within, held down so as not to manifest, but which suddenly surges forth to meet the light streaming down from above, this very vast state of consciousness that excludes nothing and from it springs forth a lightoh, a resplendence of light!like a new explanation of the world, or of that part of the world not yet explained.
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And, even with Sri Aurobindo, even with him I didnt speak of these things for I wouldnt waste his time, and I found it quite useless to burden him with all this. I would tell him I always described my visions and experiences at night I always recounted that to him. And he would remember (I myself would forget; the next day, the whole thing would be gone), he would remember; then sometimes, long afterwards, even years afterwards, he would say, Ah, yes! You had seen that back then. He had a wonderful memory. While myself, I would already have forgotten. But those were the only things I told him, and even then only when I saw that it had a very sure, very superior quality. I didnt bother him with a whole jumble of words. But otherwise . even Nolini,4 who understands well I never, never felt even the (its not the need) not even the POSSIBILITY.
I dont want to tell you this too precisely, to expand on it, for these things cannot be explained. I want you tonot know nor think it, but feel it suddenly, like a little electric shock within that leaps forth.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But its explained very well in Savitri! All these things have their laws and their conventions (and truly speaking, a really FORMIDABLE power is needed to change anything of their rights, for they have rightswhat they call laws) Sri Aurobindo explains this very well when Savitri, following Satyavan into death, argues with the god of Death.3 Its the Law, and who has the right to change the Law? he says. And then comes this wonderful passage at the end where she replies, My God can change it. And my God is a God of Love. Oh, how magnificent!
And by force of repeating this to him, he yields She replies in this way to EVERYTHING.
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
While it was all coming up, I thought, How is this possible? For during those years of my life (Im now outside things; I do them but Im entirely outside, so they dont involve mewhether its like this or like that makes no difference to me; Im only doing my work, thats all), I was already conscious, but nevertheless I was IN what I was doing to a certain extent; I was this web of social life (but thank God it wasnt here in India, for had it been here I could not have withstood it! I think that even as a child I would have smashed everything, because here its even worse than over there). You see, there its its a bit less constricting, a bit looser, you can slip through the mesh from time to time to brea the some air. But here, according to what Ive learned from people and what Sri Aurobindo told me, its absolutely unbearable (its the same in Japan, absolutely unbearable). In other words, you cant help but smash everything. Over there, you sometimes get a breath of air, but still its quite relative. And this morning I wondered (you see, for years I lived in that way for years and years) just as I was wondering, How was I ABLE to live that and not kick out in every direction?, just as I was looking at it, I saw up above, above this (it is worse than horrible, it is a kind of Oh, not despair, for there isnt even any sense of feeling there is NOTHING! It is dull, dull, dull gray, gray, gray, clenched tight, a closed web that lets through neither air nor life nor lightthere is nothing) and just then I saw a splendor of such sweet light above itso sweet, so full of true love, true compassion something so warm, so warm the relief, the solace of an eternity of sweetness, light, beauty, in an eternity of patience which feels neither the past nor the inanity and imbecility of thingsit was so wonderful! That was entirely the feeling it gave, and I said to myself, THAT is what made you live, without THAT it would not have been possible. Oh, it would not have been possible I would not have lived even three days! THAT is there, ALWAYS there, awaiting its hour, if we would only let it in.
(silence)
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
That was the wonderful thing when we were together and all these hostile forces were fighting (they tried to kill me any number of times. He always saved me in an absolutely miraculous and marvelous way). But you see, this seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties for him. We discussed this a great deal, and I told him, If one of us must go, I want that it should be me.
It cant be you, he replied, because you alone can do the material thing.3
0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
There should be machines to graph the curves, for its so sometimes it goes like this (gesture of a very steep ascent) and at such moments you feel, Ah! now Ive caught the thing. And then back it fallstoil. Sometimes it even feels like youre falling in a hole, really a hole and how are you ever going to get out? But that ALWAYS precedes a rapid ascent and a revelation or illumination: Ah, how wonderful! Ive finally got it!
And that goes on for weeks and weeks.
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
'This wonderful world of Delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth.'
Original English.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all of that is wonderfully, accurately expressed and EXPLAINED in Savitri. Only you must know how to read it! The entire last part, from the moment she goes to seek Satyavan in the realm of Death (which affords an occasion to explain this), the whole description of what happens there, right up to the end, where every possible offer is made to tempt her, everything she must refuse to continue her terrestrial labor it is my experience EXACTLY.
Savitri is really a condensation, a concentration of the universal Mother the eternal universal Mother, Mother of all universes from all eternityin an earthly personality for the Earths salvation. And Satyavan is the soul of the Earth, the Earths jiva. So when the Lord says, he whom you love and whom you have chosen, it means the earth. All the details are there! When she comes back down, when Death has yielded at last, when all has been settled and the Supreme tells her, Go, go with him, the one you have chosen, how does Sri Aurobindo describe it? He says that she very carefully takes the SOUL of Satyavan into her arms, like a little child, to pass through all the realms and come back down to earth. Everything is there! He hasnt forgotten a single detail to make it easy to understand for someone who knows how to understand. And it is when Savitri reaches the earth that Satyavan regains his full human stature.
0 1961-01-31, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something there to be found. Something extraordinary. How wonderful it will be when we find it!
There are a few secrets like that I feel them as secrets. And now and then its as though I am given an example, as though I am being told, You see, thats really how it is. And I am dumbfounded. In ordinary language, one would say, Its miraculous! But it isnt miraculous, it is something to be found.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here, I have brought you two flowers. They have two different yet very typically Indian fragrances: this one is Straightforwardness,1 and this is Simplicity.2 I have always found that this one (Mother holds out the Simplicity) has a cleansing fragrance: when you brea the it, ah, everything becomes cleanits wonderful! (Mother breathes in the flowers fragrance.) Once I cured myself of the onset of a cold with itthis can be done when you catch it at the very beginning. It fills you completely, the nose, the throat. And this [Straightforwardness] is right at the other end of the spectrum. I find it very, very powerfulstrange, isnt it?
Its not at all sweet-smelling.
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Then after these two incidents, I received a visit one night from the King of Serpents. He was wearing a superb crown on his headsymbolic, of course, but anyway, he was the spirit of the species. He had the appearance of a cobra, and he was wonderful! A formidable beast, and wonderful! He said he had come to make a pact with me: I had demonstrated my power over his species, so he wanted to come to an understanding. All right, I said, what do you propose? I not only promise that serpents wont harm you, he replied, but that they will obey you. But you must promise me something in return: never to kill one of them. I thought it over and said, No, I cant make this promise, because if ever one of yours attacks one of mine (a being that depends upon me), my pact with you could not stop me from protecting him. I can assure you that I have no bad feelings and no intention of killingkilling is not on my program! But I cant commit myself, because it would restrict my freedom of decision. He left without replying, so it remains status quo.
I have had several experiences demonstrating my power over snakes (not so much as over catswith cats its extraordinary!). Long ago, I often used to take a drive and then stop somewhere for a walk. One day after my walk, as I was getting back into the car to drive away (the door was still open), a very large snake came out, right from the spot I had just left. He was furious and heading straight towards the open door, ready to strike (luckily I was alone, neither the driver nor Pavitra were there, otherwise). When the snake had come quite near, I looked at him closely and said, What do you want? Why have you come here? There was a pause. Then he fell down flat and off he went. I hadnt made a move, only asked him, What do you want? Why have you come here? You know, they have a way of suddenly falling back, going limp, and prrt! Gone!
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The most violent attack came immediately after that experience [of January 24]. But of all the experiences in my life, this was the most wonderful for the simple reason that it was NOT EVEN preceded by an aspiration, not even an aspiration from the body it came directly as the Supreme Will, bang! (Mother bangs down her hands in an irresistible gesture) And then there was nothing, nothing but THE thing, WITHOUT ANY PERSONAL PARTICIPATION WHATSOEVER: no will, no aspiration, not even the satisfaction of itnothing. It was. I was (in my higher consciousness) filled with wonder at the ABSOLUTENESS of the experience. It came, a thing DECREED and eternallike that (same irresistible gesture).
(silence)
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, the other day I had some zinnias (Endurance)literally works of art, as though each petal had been painted, and all together so harmonious and so varied at the same time. Oh, Nature is wonderful! In the end, we are just copycats, and clumsy ones at that.
(after a moment of silence)
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first sign is perfect equality as Sri Aurobindo has described it (you must know it, theres a whole chapter on equality, samat, in The Synthesis of Yoga)exactly as he described it with such wonderful precision! But this equality (which is not equanimity) is a particular STATE where one relates to all things, outer and inner, and to each individual thing, in the same way. That is truly perfect equality: vibrations from things, from people, from contacts have no power to alter that state.
In my reply I mentioned this first, though I didnt give him all these explanations. I put it in a few words as a kind of test of his intelligence, and in a somewhat cryptic form to see if he would understand.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its one thing to have the spiritual experience of the illusion of material life (some find this painful, but I found it so wonderfully beautiful and happy that it was one of the loveliest experiences of my life); but now the whole spiritual construction as one has lived it is becoming a total illusion! Not the same illusion, a far more serious illusion.
If That was not there. Obviously, That [divine Love] is here, like a mattress placed so you wont break your neck when you fall. Thats precisely the feeling: this experience of the vibration of divine Love is the mattress so you dont break your neck!
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had another cat named Kiki. He had a wonderful color and was just like velvet. We used to have meditations and he would come, get up on a chair and go into trance; he would make the brusque movements of trance during the meditation. And I had to rouse him out of it, otherwise he wouldnt wake up!
Once this cat was stung by a scorpion. A foolhardy youngster, he used to play with scorpions. I had to rescue him one day; I came onto the verandah just when he was playing with a big scorpion. I caught the cat, put him on my shoulder and killed the scorpion. But another time I wasnt there, and he was stung. He came inside, done for. I clearly saw the signs that he had been poisoned by a scorpion. I put him on a table and went to call Sri Aurobindo. Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, I said. (He was dying, almost in a coma.) Sri Aurobindo pulled up a chair, sat down facing the table and began to gaze at Kiki. This lasted about twenty or twenty-five minutes. Then suddenly the cat relaxed completely and fell asleep. When he woke up, he was entirely cured.
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Because later on he would go roaming about; he had become terribly strong and would prowl around everywhere. At that time I was living in the Library house, and he would go off as far as the Ashram street (the Ashram didnt belong to us yet, the house was owned by all kinds of people), but when I would go out on the terrace across from Champaklals kitchen and call, Big boy! Big Boy! although he couldnt hear it, he could sense it, and he would come back galloping, galloping. He always came back, unfailingly. The day he didnt come back, I got worried; the servant went looking for himand found him moaning, vomiting, poisoned. He brought him to me. Oh, really! it was. He was so nice! He wasnt a thief or anythinghe was a wonderful cat. Someone had laid out poison for god knows what cat, and he ate it. I showed him to Sri Aurobindo and said, He has been killed.
Before that, I lost another one from that kind of typhoid cats get. He was called Browny and he was so beautiful, so nice, such a marvelous cat! Even when utterly sick, he wouldnt make a mess, except in a corner prepared just for that; he would call me to carry him to his box, with such a soft and mournful voice. He was so nice, with something sweeter and more trusting than a child. There is a trust in animals which doesnt exist in humans (even children already have too much of a questioning mind). But with him, there was a kind of worship, an adoration, as soon as I took him in my armsif he could have smiled, he would have. As soon as I held him, he became blissful.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet for a time I was in contact with all these gods and all these things, and they had an entirely concrete reality for me; but now I read and I understand, but I cannot live it. And I dont know why. It still hasnt triggered the experience. You see, experience for me the constant, total and permanent Experienceis that there is nothing other than the Supremeonly the Supreme that the Supreme alone exists. So when they speak of Agni or Varuna or Indra it doesnt strike a chord. However, what the Vedas succeed in doing very well is to give you the perception of your infirmity and ineptitude, of the dismal state we are in now; it succeeds wonderfully in doing that!
Yesterday, this ardor of the Flame was thereburning all to offer all. It was absolutely concrete, an intensity of vibrations; I could see the vibrationsall the movements of obscurity and ignorance were cast into that. And I recall a time when I was translating these hymns to Agni with Sri Aurobindo, and Agni was real for me. Well, yesterday it wasnt that, it wasnt the god Agni, it was a STATE OF BEING. It was a state of the Supreme, and as such, it was intimate, clear, intense, vibrant and living.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In churches, I dont know. I havent been to them very often. I have been to mosques and templesJewish temples. The Jewish temples in Paris have such beautiful music; oh, what beautiful music! I had one of my first experiences in a temple. It was at a marriage, and the music was wonderfulSaint-Saens, I later learned; organ music, the second best organ in Paris wonderful! I was 14 years old, sitting high up in the galleries with my mother, and this music was being played. There were some leaded-glass windowswhite, with no designs. I was gazing at one of these windows, feeling uplifted by the music, when suddenly through the window came a flash like a bolt of lightning. Just like lightning. It enteredmy eyes were openit entered like this (Mother strikes her breast violently), and then I I had the feeling of becoming vast and all-powerful. And it lasted for days.
Of course, my mother was such an out-and-out materialist, thank God, that it was impossible to speak to her of invisible thingsshe took them as evidence of a deranged brain! Nothing counted for her but what could be touched and seen. But this was a divine grace I had no opportunity to say anything. I kept my experience to myself. But it was one of my first contacts with. I learned later that it was an entity from the past who had come back into me through the aspiration arising from the music.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I am all alone, its wonderful! As soon as this body is left all alone, oh! it melts, it melts. There are no more limits, it is content: Oh, at last I can cease to be!
And then truly, truly it forgets itself; truly it passes on to something else.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are some reflections a little further on (Mother leafs through the text and stops at Aphorism 68). Oh, he has such wonderful things to say!
68The sense of sin was necessary in order that man might become disgusted with his own imperfections. It was Gods corrective for egoism. But mans egoism meets Gods device by being very dully alive to its own sins and very keenly alive to the sins of others.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To be in a condition in which all is the Supreme, all is wonderful, all is marvelous, all is marvelous love, all is all is profound Joyan unchanging, immutable, ever-present condition. To live in That, and then to have this bodily substance contradict it through every possible stupiditylosing sight, losing strength, pains here, pains there, disorders, weaknesses, incapacities of every type. And at the SAME TIME, the response within this body, no matter what happens to it, is, O Lord, Your Grace is infinite. The contradiction is VERY disconcerting.
From experience, I know perfectly well that when one is satisfied with being a saint or a sage and constantly maintains the right attitude, all goes well the body doesnt get sick, and even if there are attacks it recovers very easily; all goes very well AS LONG AS THERE IS NOT THIS WILL TO TRANSFORM. All the difficulties arise in protest against the will to transform; while if one says, Very well, its all right, let things be as they are, I dont care, I am perfectly happy, in a blissful state, then the body begins to feel content!
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was another reason. My father was wonderfully healthy and strongwell-balanced. He wasnt very tall, but stocky. He did all his studies in Austria (at that time French was widely spoken in Austria, but he knew German, he knew English, Italian, Turkish), and there he had learned to ride horses in an extraordinary manner: he was so strong that he could bring a horse to the ground simply by pressing his knees. He could break anything at all with a blow of his fist, even one of those big silver five-franc pieces they had in those daysone blow and it was broken in two. Curiously enough, he looked Russian. I dont know why. They used to call him Barine. What an equilibriuman extraordinary physical poise! And not only did this man know all those languages, but I never saw such a brain for arithmetic. Never. He made a game of calculationsnot the slightest effortcalculations with hundreds of digits! And on top of it, he loved birds. He had a room to himself in our apartment (because my mother could never much tolerate him), he had his separate room, and in it he kept a big cage full of canaries! During the day he would close the windows and let all the canaries loose.
And could he tell stories! I think he read every novel available, all the stories he could findextraordinary adventure stories, for he loved adventures. When we were kids he used to let us come into his room very early in the morning and, while still sitting in bed, tell us stories from the books he had read but he told them as if they were his own, as if hed had extraordinary adventures with outlaws, with wild animals. Every story he picked up he told as his own. We enjoyed it tremendously!
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a wonderful story, a real novel, which will perhaps be told one day when there are no more Asuras. Then it can be told.
Anyway, it was because of Theon that I first found the Mantra of Life, the mantra that gives life, and he wanted me to give it to him, he wanted to possess itit was something formidable! It was the mantra that gives life (it can make anyone at all come back into life, but thats only a small part of its power). And it was shut away in a particular place,2 sealed up, with my name in Sanskrit on it. I didnt know Sanskrit at that time, but he did, and when he led me to that place, I told him what I saw: Theres a sort of design, it must be Sanskrit. (I could recognize the characters as Sanskrit). He told me to reproduce what I was seeing, and I did so. It was my name, Mirra, written in Sanskrit the mantra was for me and I alone could open it. Open it and tell me whats there, he said. (All this was going on while I was in a cataleptic trance.) Then immediately something in me KNEW, and I answered, No, and did not read it.
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I learned to do the same thing, and with great dexterity; I could halt on any plane, do what I had to do there, move around freely, see, observe, and then speak about what I had seen. And my last stage, which Theon called pathtisme,2 a very barbaric but very expressive word, bordered on the Formlesshe sometimes used the Jewish terminology, calling the Supreme The Formless. (From this last stage one passed to the Formless there was no further body to leave behind, one was beyond all possible forms, even all thoughtforms.) In this domain [the last stage before the Formless] one experienced total unityunity in something that was the essence of Love; Love was a manifestation more dense, he would always say (there were all sorts of different densities); and Love was a denser expression of That, the sense of perfect Unityperfect unity, identitywith no longer any forms corresponding to those of the lower worlds. It was a Light! An almost immaculate white light, yet with something of a golden-rose in it (words are crude). This Light and this Experience were truly wonderful, inexpressible in words.
Well, one time I was there (Theon used to warn against going beyond this domain, because he said you wouldnt come back), but there I was, wanting to pass over to the other side, whenin a quite unexpected and astounding way I found myself in the presence of the principle, a principle of the human form. It didnt resemble man as we are used to seeing him, but it was an upright form, standing just on the border between the world of forms and the Formless, like a kind of standard.3 At that time nobody had ever spoken to me about it and Madame Theon had never seen itno one had ever seen or said anything. But I felt I was on the verge of discovering a secret.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, thats a wonderful thingat times its truly stupendous! But go on, continueit would take too long to go into that!
Because there comes a time when one perceives the entire universe in such a total and comprehensive way that, in truth, it is impossible to remove anything from it without disturbing everything. And going a couple of steps further, one knows for certain that things which shock us as contradictions of the Divine are simply things out of place. Each thing must be exactly in its place, and whats more, be supple enough, plastic enough, to admit into a harmonious, progressive organization all the new elements constantly being added to the manifest universe. The universe is in a perpetual movement of internal reorganization, and at the same time its growing: its becoming more and more complex, more and more complete, more and more integralindefinitely. And as the new elements manifest, the whole reorganization must be built on a new basis, and thus there isnt a second when ALL is not in perpetual movement. And when the movement is in accord with the divine order, its harmonious, so perfectly harmonious that its almost imperceptible. Now, if you descend from this consciousness towards a more external consciousness, you begin naturally to have a very precise feeling of what helps you attain the true consciousness and what bars the way or pulls you backwards or even fights against your progress. And so the perspective changes and you are obliged to say: this is divine or a help towards the Divine; and that goes against the Divine, its the Divines enemy. But this is a pragmatic standpoint, geared to action, to movement in material lifebecause you havent yet attained the consciousness surpassing all that; because you havent reached that inner perfection where you no longer have to fight, since you have gone beyond the field or the time or the utility of struggle. But before reaching that state in your consciousness and action, there is necessarily struggle; and if there is struggle, there is choice; and to choose, you need discrimination.
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It translates itself into Love. And of course I am not at all speaking of the human, physical quagmire; I am speaking of the most wonderfully beautiful and pure Love imaginable. This Power is the origin of that Love, and it is in the Supreme.
(Mother sits at the organ)
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, at one point I wondered (I dont remember when, a few days ago): How could people have lived here, so near (but the same thing is still happening), how could human beings on earth who had an aspiration, who had their consciousness turned towards those things, have lived that possibility, have HAD that possibility at their fingertips, without being able to take advantage of it! How could something so wonderful and unique have taken place here, and yet people had such a small and childish and superficial image of it!
Truly, I wondered, Has the time really come? Is it possible? Or will it once again be postponed?
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont think Ive been going slowly. As I told you last time, I had the most wonderful conditions, those thirty years with Sri Aurobindoas wonderful as could be. I havent wasted my time. Oh, it was hour by hour!
It is a long, drawn-out work.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And to Theon, the God of the Jews and Christians was an Asura. This Asura wanted to be unique; and so he became the most terrible despot imaginable. Anatole France said the same thing (I now know that Anatole France had never read Theons story, but I cant imagine where he picked this up). Its in The Revolt of the Angels. He says that Satan is the true God and that Jehovah, the only God, is the monster. And when the angels wanted Satan to become the one and only God, Satan realized he was immediately taking on all Jehovahs failings! So he refused: Oh, nothank you very much! Its a wonderful story, and in exactly the same spirit as what Theon used to say. The very first thing I asked Anatole France (I told you I met him oncemutual friends introduced us), the first thing I asked him was, Have you ever read The Tradition? He said no. I explained why I had asked, and he was interested. He said his source was his own imagination. He had caught that idea intuitively.
Well, if you speak this way to philosophers and metaphysicians, theyll look at you as if to say, You must be a real simpleton to believe all that claptrap! But these things are not to be taken as concrete truths they are simply splendid images. Through them I really did come in contact, very concretely, with the truth of what caused the worlds distortion, much better than with all the Hindu stories, far more easily.
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Otherwise, you know, I would not have consented. If That had not agreed, I would have said to my body, Go on, keep going, move and it would have gone on. It stopped because That said yes. And then I understood that that whole so-called illness was necessary for the Work. So I let myself go. And then what I told you about happened: this body was consigned to the care of three people, who looked after it marvelously, by the wayreally, it filled me with constant admirationa selflessness, a care oh, it was wonderful! I was saying to the Lord the whole time, Truly, Lord, You have arranged all the material conditions in an absolutely marvelous, incredible way, bringing together whatever is necessary, and placing around me people beyond all praise. For at least two weeks they had a hard time of itquite hard. The body was a wreck, you know! (Mother laughs) They had to think of everything, decide everything, take care of everything. And they looked after it very, very wellreally very well.
Its a wonderful story, seen as I see it. And I have observed it very carefully: it isnt an ordinary story seen with an exceptional knowledge, but a true Knowledge and a true Consciousness witnessing an exceptional story. Those three people may not be aware of how utterly exceptional it is, but thats simply because their consciousness is not sufficiently awake. But they too have been, and continue to be, exceptional.
The whole story is a fairy tale.
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I have even been forbidden to utilize my knowledge, power and force to annul the pain in the way I used to (and I used to do it very well). That has been totally forbidden. But I have seen that something else is in sight. Something else is in the making. It cant be called a miracle because its not a miracle, but its something wonderful the unknown. When will it come? How will it come? I dont know.
But its interesting.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres such a wonderful passage in The Synthesis of Yoga (The Yoga of Self-Perfection), where he mentions four things (you surely remember this), four things the disciple needs (I have just translated it). I knew this, of course, but the passage is especially timely nowparticularly after that last experience, which is a jolt for a physical being. The fourth thing is wonderful. The first three we know: equality, peace and (a hard one) a spiritual ease in all circumstances. He added the word spiritual so people wouldnt think only of material easeits an ease in feelings, in sensations, in everything. But when you have a lot of pain its obviously not so easy! When physical pain keeps you from sleeping and eating, when you are plagued by constant physical painor rather by a whole host of physical pains!well, that bodily ease becomes difficult. Its the one thing thathas seemed difficult to me; but anyway, its being investigated I think it was sent for me to investigate.
But the last thing he mentions is a marvel the joy and laughter of the soul. And its so true, so true! Always, all the time, no matter what happens, even when this body is in dreadful pain, the soul is laughing joyously within. Always, always, always.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only thing to do is not torment yourself and to say to the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), Its up to You. Rid me of this. And it is very effective. Very effective. At times I have had old things like that dissolved in a flash; certain inveterate little habitsso stupid, but so ingrained you cant get rid of them. Then, while doing japa or walking or meditating or whatever, suddenly the flame flares up and (you have really had enough of it; it disgusts you, you want it to change, you really want the change) and you say to the Lord, I cant do it on my own. (You very sincerely know you cant do it; you have tried and tried and tried and have achieved exactly nothingyou cant do it.) Well then, I offer it to YouYou do it. Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading away. It is simply wonderful. You know how Sri Aurobindo used to take away someones pain? Its exactly the same. Certain habits bound up with the bodys formation.
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night I spent almost all my time in such a building. And all the people who help the work were symbolized there but its always a material help, either work or money or. I remember being particularly struck by one character last night. (Again, there were a lot of aggravations, but someone or something was always on the scene when I arrived and it all sorted itself outit was the exact opposite of the dreams I was talking about the other day: all the difficulties sorted themselves out when I arrived.) Then I came to a rather difficult place to cross (you had to flounder about on slippery scaffoldings) and suddenly, facing me, there was a man (of course, it was probably a symbol rather than a man, but it might really be someone physical). He was one of the workers, a master mason (when I woke up this morning, I thought of the symbolism of Freemasonry and wondered if it might give a clue to the experience). Nearby, people were coming to supervise, observe, direct, people who thought themselves highly superior but they were never any help in solving practical problems! They were creating more problems than they were helping to solve. Anyway, this master mason appeared to be around fifty, with a beautiful facea workers face, beautiful and concentrated. There was a difficult place to cross, and he had worked the thing out very efficiently, with a lot of care. Then, when it was all done and I was able to go on my way, I felt a great surge of love go out to him, with neither gesture nor word and he received it, he felt and received it. His face lit up and he implored me, with wonderful humility, Never let me forget this moment, the most beautiful moment of my life. (I dont know what language he used because it didnt come to me in words.) It was such an intense experience. His humility, his receptivity, his response were all so beautiful and pure that when I woke upwhen I came out of the experience, at any rate I was left with a most delightful impression.
What he represents might be partly manifested by somebody here. A beautiful face a man around fifty. Or it may be symbolic: such characters are sometimes put together with features from several people, to make it very clear that they represent a state of consciousness and not an individual. Its far more often a state of consciousness than an individual.
0 1962-07-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I said that, oh, you cant imagine, I had just been seeing it somewheresomewhere in a dazzling lightand it was full of marvelous meaning. And of course when I uttered it I wondered why why it was no longer the same. It was absolutely wonderful, it explained not that it explained everything, but it was a revelation. There must have been some fault in the transcription. It all came back after you left. I looked and asked myself, Why did I say it was so marvelous! And I understood: when I saw it, I really SAW, saw those words, more dazzling than the most brilliant diamonds and full of a marvelous power of knowledge, as though it held the key to things; but when I spoke it, it became almost flat. At any rate, it was utterly flat in comparison.
What did you feel when I said it?
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, last night for the first time I saw you, just as you are, coming to me. How wonderful! I said to you. You came up like this (Mother makes a gesture close to her face) and looked at me. Hes conscious! I said to myself.
You werent conscious?
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
(silence)
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, when youre told become conscious of your psychic being, its for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being. Then the psychic takes charge of the whole being; in fact, it is the inner Guide. Well, when I was a little child, this person (which wasnt a person, but an expression of a certain consciousness and will) was actually the psychic presence; there was something else behind, but thats a rather special case. And what happened to me happens to everyone whose psychic being has deliberately incarnated: the psychic being guides your life, and if you let it act freely, it arranges ALL circumstancesits truly wonderful! I have seennot only for myself but for so many people who also had conscious psychic beings that everything is arranged with a view to not at all your personal egoistic satisfaction, but your ultimate progress and realization. And all circumstances of life, even those you call disastrous, are there to lead you where you have to go as swiftly as possible.
Yours is more than a psychic being. As I have told you, your psychic being is accompanied by something which has come for a special purpose, with a particular intellectual powera luminous, conscious powerwhich has come from regions higher than the mind, regions Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, to do a special work. It is here (gesture enveloping the chest and head) and, along with the psychic, its trying to organize everything. This, in your psychic, is what you are feeling. It must have great power. Dont you feel a kind of luminous force?
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But I was living in my inner joynothing stirring. I spoke as little as possible and it was like something mechanical, it wasnt me. Then slowly, slowly, as though falling drop by drop, something was built up again. But it had no limits, it had no it was vast as the universe and wonderfully still and luminous. Nothing here (the head), but THERE (gesture above the head); and then everything began to be seen from there.
And it has never left meyou know, as a proof of Sri Aurobindos power its incomparable! I dont believe there has ever been an example of such a (how can I put it?) such a total success: a miracle. It has NEVER left me. I went to Japan, I did all sorts of things, had all possible kinds of adventures, even the most unpleasant, but it never left mestillness, stillness, stillness
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Oh, mon petit, how wonderful!
He put his hand on my heart and I wept. I wept in my dream, just as hard as I could.
0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a sort of reply to something I am translating in The Synthesis of Yoga. You know, there are these three aspects that must always be kept united in ones consciousness: jiva (the individual), Shakti, and Ishwara (the Supreme). He gives a wonderful description of how we have all three together in a kind of inner hierarchy. So while reading that (as I translate I have all the experiences, they come spontaneously), I kept saying to myself, No, that jiva hampers me; that jiva hems me in! Its not natural to me. Whats natural to me is its probably Mahashakti. There is always that sense of creative Power, and of the Lord. The infinite, marvelous, innumerable joy of the Lord, you see, which is so intermingled with the Poweryou can sense the presence of the Lord, yet you cannot distinguish or differentiate between the two. Its all a delectable play. So to introduce the individual, the jiva, into this spoils everything, makes everything so small!
I wanted to put all this into my sentence.
And I said it because its quite natural for people reading in the light of their own experience to get the feeling of an individual being who is united with Thatit doesnt work that way with me, I cant do it! I cant. The other movement is natural, spontaneous, wonderful the delight of being and the delight of living. But as soon as the jiva comes, oh, I feel so hemmed in.2
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0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems he said that if we could make it to 1964, afterwards the difficulties would disappear. (But this is a very strong formationwhat did he pick up? Is it Sri Aurobindos formation? Is it the boys thought, or what?) But hes a wonderful mind-reader; he must have a marvelous power of vision in the mental world.
It really amused me. If you asked if you asked people here, not too many would have such a clear idea: They have come to do something entirely new and very difficult.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its not sleep, its a kind of peace that descends. It can begin as drowsiness, but it changes into a sort of inner immobilityimmobility of the Spirit. The body too becomes quiet, quiet, quiet, very still; and from there, if nothing disturbs you, you flow into a sense of eternity. Its a wonderful experience. The real sense of Eternity: everything stops, and then NOTHING. And if you have the gift of vision (its not necessary, but if you do), you see it all grow white and luminousall white. But that may well not happen because its its something youre born with.
All the cells open up and become conscious of their eternity.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Stubbornly. You have to be stubbornstubborn, stubborn, stubborn. Youre up against all the resistance of unconsciousness and ignorance, up against all the power of unconsciousness and ignorance something obstinate and unyielding. But its like the story of the drop of water on the rock: a matter of time. The water will eventually wear its way through the rock. It takes ages, but it will succeed, for it falls persistently, drop after drop. First it runs off, eventually it makes a hole, and you have a wide river flowing below. Nature gives us this wonderful example to follow. Thats it: we must be like the water dripping on the rock.
Water is vital energy. The rock is unconsciousness.
0 1962-09-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had some magnificent experiences when I read it the first time (two years ago, I believe). wonderful, wonderful experiences! And since then, each time I read those lines, the same thing happensnot the same experience, but I come in contact with the same realm.
It will be an interesting thing to do.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres nothing to sayif you sincerely want to get out of it, its really not so difficult: theres nothing to do but leave everything to the Lord. And He does it all. He does it all, He is its so wonderful! So wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a quite ordinary intelligence, and then He simply shows you how to put that intelligence aside, lay it to rest: There now, keep still, dont stir, dont bother me; I dont need you. And then a door opensyou dont even feel you have to open it; its wide open, and youre led through to the other side. Its Someone else who does all this, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
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Yes, out of habit it all tries to start up again. But all you need to say is, Look, Lord; see, see how it is. Thats all. Look at this, Lord, look at that, look at this idiot here and its over. Immediately. And the change comes automatically, mon petit, without the slightest effort. Simply simply be sincere, in other words, TRULY want the right thing. One is quite conscious of being powerless, utterly incompetent: more and more, I feel that this amalgam of matter, of cells and all the rest, is just pitiful! Pitiful. I dont know, under certain conditions people may feel powerful, wonderful, luminous, competent but as far as I am concerned, thats because they have no idea what theyre really like! When you really see what youre made of its nothing, really nothing. But its capable of anything, provided provided you let the Lord do it. The trouble is that something always wants to do things on its own. If it werent like that.
People come, letters arrive, various circumstances and problems arise (its over now, but at the timeeven a year ago that kind of thing was sometimes a problem for me). Well, right away, I (Mother opens her hands in front of her forehead, palms upwards, as though presenting the problem to the Lord): Here, Lord, look at this. All I am good for is (same gesture): I am presenting it to You, Lord. And then I keep still, I just keep still: I wont move unless You move me, I wont speak unless You make me speak. And then you stop thinking about it. You think about it just for a second, long enough to do this (same gesture). It comes in like this, then up it goes (gesture showing a problem coming to Mother from one side and being sent above). And later, you suddenly realize youre speaking or acting or making a decision or writing a letter or and He has done it all.
0 1962-10-16, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this is just what I am realizing (I dont think its anything unique or exceptional): the closer one draws to the cell itself, the more the cell says, But I am immortal! Only it must become conscious. But this takes place almost automatically: the brain cells are very conscious; the cells of the hands and arms of musicians are very conscious; with athletes and gymnasts, the cells of the entire body are wonderfully conscious. So, being conscious, those cells become conscious of their principle of immortality and say, Why would I want to grow old? Why! They dont want to grow old. It is very interesting.
So all the ideas I used to have about death, all the things I have said about death, practically all the things I have consciously DONE2oh! I have realized that all this, too, belongs to the past, and to a past of Ignorance. Here also, I will probably have other things to say later.
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I once went into the world of music, and what I heard there was so wonderful, so incredibly beautiful that the impact remained with me for hours after I woke up. It was incredible. Where is that world located?
I know it very well, I have been there frequently. Its at the very summit of human consciousness, on the borderline between what Sri Aurobindo calls the lower and the higher hemispheres. It is very high, very high.
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The first zone you encounter is the zone of painting, sculpture, architecture: everything that has a material form. It is the zone of forms, colored forms that are expressed as paintings, sculptures, and architecture. They are not forms as we know them, but rather typal forms; you can see garden types, for instance, wonderfully colored and beautiful, or construction types.
Then comes the musical zone, and there you find the origin of the sounds that have inspired the various composers. Great waves of music, without sound. It seems a bit strange, but thats how it is.
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All those zones of artistic creation are very high up in human consciousness, which is why art can be a wonderful tool for spiritual progress. For this world of creation is also the world of the gods; but the gods, I am sorry to say, have absolutely no taste for artistic creation.1 They feel absolutely no need for permanence in formsthey couldnt care less! When they want something, there it isall they have to do is want it. When they wish a particular surrounding or atmosphere, it takes form all by itself at their wish. They get everything the way they want it, so they feel no need for fixed forms. Man, on the other hand, who doesnt get what he wants the way he wants it, must make an effort to create forms, and thats why he progressesart is a great means of spiritual progress.
But about those great waves of music that interest me I had the impression they must be located well above the world of thought.
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But anyway, its right on the border of the higher hemisphere. Its the first expression of Consciousness as joy. I remember finding that same vibration of joy in Beethoven and Bach (in Mozart also, but to a lesser degree). The first time I heard Beethovens concerto in Din D major, for violin and orchestra suddenly the violin starts up (its not right at the beginningfirst theres an orchestral passage and then the violin takes it up), and with the first notes of the violin (Ysaye was playing, what a musician!2), with the very first notes my head suddenly seemed to burst open, and I was cast into such splendor. Oh, it was absolutely wonderful! For more than an hour I was in a state of bliss. Ysaye was a true musician!
And mind you, I knew nothing of all those worlds, I hadnt the slightest knowledge; but all my experiences came that wayunexpectedly, without my seeking anything. When I looked at a painting, same thing: something would suddenly open up inside my head and I would see the origin of the painting and such colors! One can get to that world directly from the vital, without going through all the mental gradations.
0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have come to understand that the Chinese are a lunar racetheir origin is the moon. They came to earth when the moon got too cold and they could no longer exist there. This is something I saw at the beginning of the century and my impression was further intensified when I went to China.2 They are a lunar race. And they gave me the feeling of people who lack a psychic being: they are cold, ice-cold. But wonderfully intellectual!
I met another Chinese a few years ago, a man with a spiritual life. He came to meet me and talked for an hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative powerinventors. He told me, No people in the world could understand Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese. And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual comprehension, really at its peak.
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Pure existence, outside of the Manifestation. It is wonderfully luminous, immobile, tranquil, and a sort of bliss devoid of any vibration, beyond vibration.
It is very useful.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But Ive had lots and lots of visions of all types, from the most frightful to the most wonderfulall very apocalyptic, in the realm of the incredible. Many, many things, detailed as well as general. They would fill a volume.
I dont know, I have the feeling that humanity isnt ready for peace and needs to be shaken up.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To live THAT spontaneously, all the timehow wonderful it would be!
(silence)
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was difficult and it attracts a lot of. Its like another type of exercise, as if my body were now being taught other kinds of things, another way of being, you understand, another way. And its trying to find a harmony, the equilibrium of a constant harmony. But its very, very, very difficult. Its not at all the usual condition: in ordinary life, the cells are accustomed to a very restless and unexpected life, with ups and downs, peaks of intense sensation, now sorrow, now pleasure, now acute pain, now something very pleasantall of this jumbled up in a sort of chaos. And I have realized that for the people here, even those near me, its even worse than that! This doesnt make sense to me any more. On its own the body is naturally in a sort of gently undulating movement, a very harmonious, very peaceful, very quiet movement. And when its not forced into outer activity theres such a wonderful sense of the divine Presence everywhere, everywherein it, around it, over it, in everything, everywhere and so concrete! (Mother touches her hands, her arms, her face, as if she were bathing in the Lord.) Its really inexpressible. And well, THATS what it wants to have ALL THE TIME, in all circumstances, even when its forced to have contacts with the outside. So I cant go too quickly; things like the balcony cause a bit too much pressure, and the body starts feeling a little unsure of itself.
Yesterday, for instance, I had to see F. and R., since they had just arrived the day before. I spent three-quarters of an hour with them, and by the time it was over they had literally EMPTIED the atmosphere of all spiritual senseit had become empty and hollow. It took me two or three minutes of concentration (which isnt so long) to bring it all back to normal.
0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I found out about the immediate effects of it even before recalling it, for it all unfolded in reverse: when a certain thing was done, I thought, What on earth! This person is wonderful. And then I suddenly realized, But I told him to do that! I told him. Then the image came the image I dont mean the sort of memory one has of a vision, but the memory of something one has DONE. With that kind of image, its not that you look: it just enters into you quite naturally. It has a particular quality. Thats how I became aware of these changes. I noticed them on my own.
And they are facts. Theres nothing to discuss: they are facts. And yet materially, according to physical appearances, that is, I didnt stir from here.
0 1963-01-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some panic. Some have already had a few experiences, they know better and see clearer, they work to adapt to the new vibration. But others have yet to understand, and they feel so stupid, so stupid! And from above, something watches it all and finds it both (both at once) very funny, because really its exceedingly ridiculous, and at the same time so sad! Its so sad to see that EVERYTHING is like this: the WHOLE earth, the WHOLE earth! That this body is the object of a special concentration, a special effort, a special CHARGE, a special concern, a special carethis minuscule fragment, minuscule and theres the whole earth, the whole earth. And they all think themselves so wonderful, so smart!
I could keep talking for hours.
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
God never takes His works seriously; therefore one looks out on this wonderful universe.
So whats your question?
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The only way to make life perfect (I mean here life on earth, of course) is to look at it from a sufficient height to see it in its totality, not only its present totality, but over the whole past, present and future: what it has been, what it is, what it must beyou must be able to see it all at once. Because thats the only way to put everything in its place. Nothing can be done away with, nothing SHOULD be done away with, but each thing must find its own place in total harmony with the rest. Then all those things that appear so evil, so reprehensible and unacceptable to the puritan mind would become movements of joy and freedom in a totally divine life. And then nothing would stop us from knowing, understanding, feeling and living this wonderful Laughter of the Supreme who takes infinite delight in watching Himself live infinitely.
This delight, this wonderful Laughter which dissolves all shadows, all pain, all suffering We only have to go deep enough into ourselves to find the inner Sun and let ourselves be bathed in it. Then everything is but a cascade of harmonious, luminous, sun-filled laughter which leaves no room for shadow and pain.
In fact, even the greatest difficulty, even the greatest grief, even the greatest physical pain, if you can look at them from THERE, take your stand THERE, you see the unreality of the difficulty, the unreality of the grief, the unreality of the pain and all becomes a joyful and luminous vibration.
0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its an explanation of why the world is as it is. At the start he says, He worships her (here again, there are no words in French: Il lui rend un culte, but that makes a whole sentence). He worships her as something far greater than Himself. And then you are almost a spectator of the Supreme projecting Himself to take on this creative aspect (necessarily, otherwise it couldnt be done!), the Witness watching His own work of creation and falling in love with this power of manifestationyou see it all. And oh, He wants to give Her her fullest chance and see, watch all that is going to happen, all that can happen with this divine Power thrust free into the world. And Sri Aurobindo expresses it as though he had absolutely fallen in love with Her: whatever She wants, whatever She does, whatever She thinks, whatever She wills, all of itits all wonderful! All is wonderful. Its so lovely!
And, I must say, I was observing this because, originally, the first time I heard of it, this conception shocked me, in the sense that (I dont know, it wasnt an idea, it was a feeling), as though it meant lending reality to something which in my consciousness, for a very long time (at least millennia perhaps, I dont know), had been the Falsehood to be conquered. The Falsehood that must cease to exist. Its the aspect of Truth that must manifest itself, its not all that: doing anything whatsoever just for the fun of it, simply because you have the full power. You have the power to do everything, so you do everything, and knowing that there is a Truth behind, you dont give a damn about consequences. That was something something which, as far back as I can remember, I have fought against. I have known it, but it seems to me it was such a long, long time ago and I rejected it so strongly, saying, No, no! and implored the Lord so intensely that things may be otherwise, beseeched Him that his all-powerful Truth, his all-powerful Purity and his all-powerful Beauty may manifest and put an end to all that mess. And at first I was shocked when Sri Aurobindo told me that; previously, in this life, it hadnt even crossed my mind. In that sense Theons explanation had been much more (what should I say?) useful to me from the standpoint of action: the origin of disorder being the separation of the primal Powers but thats not it! HE is there, blissfully worshipping all this confusion!
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was all a living, palpable experience which lasted for a day and a half. The entire universal movement was LIVED and sensed. Not merely seen but lived and in what light! What stupendous power! With that kind of certitude at the core of everything something very odd. Its very difficult to express. But the experience lasted so long that it became perfectly familiar. To translate it into words I might say: it is the Supremes way of seeingof feeling, of living. I was living things the way He does. And it gives a power of certitude of realization. In the sense that what we are heading for is already here; the road we look back on, the road we have traveled and the road yet to travel, it all lives simultaneously. And with such logic! An eternal, wonderful superlogic which makes it obviousness itselfeverything is obviousness itself. Struggle, effort, fear, all of that, oh, absolutely, absolutely nonexistent. And together with this, the explanation of the feeling we have of not wanting certain things any more: they leave the Manifest. You see, its like a sieve into which everything is thrown and where He to Him, everything, but everything is the same, but there is the vision of what He wants, and also of what is useless for what He wants or would prevent the fullness and totality of what He wants (contradictions of sorts, I dont know how to explain it)so with that He just goes this way (gesture of reswallowing) and it goes out of the Manifestation.
At the time I could have said it in a more understandable language, while now
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I dont know how to explain it. Putting it like this implies an arbitrary fiat, but theres no such thing: it isnt a gentleman who decides to withdraw certain things he no longer likes! Its not that way. They are things which, owing to their own propensity (what we might call their essential truth), had at a given moment their place in the Manifestation, and which, once they have lost their purpose, quite naturally leave the Manifestation I could put it in fifty different ways just as poorly, I cant see how to explain it properly. But the fact was evident. It was part of such a wonderfully complete and harmonious Whole that Harmony is beyond us, we cannot understand it, caught as we are in the sensation of opposites. But there, opposites do not exist, there are only things that Like the fact of the Supreme seemingly dominated by His creation, wholly obedient to His creationas though He had no power, no knowledge, no vision, so things follow their course in the chaos we know. Well, when we put it like this, there is something unbelievable and shocking about it, yet it was so very natural, so very true, and part of such a perfect whole!
Only, you cannot see it unless you see the whole. At the time, everything was preexistent, although unfolding in time for the Manifestation. But it was preexistent. Not preexistent as we understand it, not everything at a given moment. Oh, how impossible! Its impossible to express it. I still feel what I could call the warmth of the experience the reality, the life, the warmth of the experience are there. You know, I have lived in a Light! A Light which isnt our light, which has nothing to do with what we call light, a Light so warm and powerful! A creative Light. So powerful! Everything was so perfectly harmonious: everything, everything without exception, even the things that appear to be the very negation of divinity. And a rhythm! (gesture as of great waves) A harmony, so wonderful a TOTALITY, where the sense of sequence Sequence doesnt mean things being like this (chopping gesture), one being abolished by the next, it is At the time I might have been able to find or invent the words, I dont know, now now, its only the memory of it. The memory, not the presence itself.
The experience lasted long. It started in the night, lasted through the whole day, and last night there was still something of it lingering, but then (laughing) I seemed to be told, So then, arent you going to move on? Are you going to stay with this experience, are you stuck there?! It is so true: things move fast, fast, fast, and run as you may, youre still not going fast enough.
0 1963-03-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No matter where you open, no matter where you read, its wonderful! Immediately its wonderfulstrange, these three lines, arent they.
Abandoning hope to make mans soul his prey
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wonderful.
These people could very easily lure me: for a long time they have been asking me to read them the whole of Savitriquite a work! But this [translation] work is irresistible.
So, in fact (the trouble is, my notebook wont be thick enough!), in fact I would like to translate all of the Debate [of Love and Death], its so wonderful.
(Mother leafs through the book)
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Its wonderful!
So we would have to start at the beginning of the Book of the Double Twilight, Book X. Lets see how it goes.
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My God, how wonderful! Its wonderful.
(Mother turns the pages)
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One thing, though: suddenly I read (yesterday or the day before) a sermon delivered in the U.S.A. by an American (who is a rabbi, a pastor and even a Catholic priest all at the same time!). He heads a group, a group for the unity of religions. A fairly young man, and a preacher. He gives a sermon every week, I think. He came here with some other Americans, stayed for two days and went back. But then, he sent us the sermons he had given since his return, and in one of them he recounts his spiritual journey, as he calls it (a spiritual journey through China, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and so on up to India). What shocked him most in India was the povertyit was an almost unbearable experience for him (thats also what prompted the two persons who were with him to leave, and he left with them): poverty. Personally, I dont know because Ive seen poverty everywhere; I saw it wherever I went, but it seems Americans find it very shocking. Anyway, they came here, and in his sermon he gives his impression of the Ashram. I read it almost with astonishment. That man says that the minute he entered this place, he felt a peace, a calm, a stability he had never felt ANYWHERE else in his life. He met a man (he doesnt say who, he doesnt name him and I couldnt find out), who he says was such a monument of divine peace and quietude that I only wished to sit silently at his side. Who it is, I dont know (theres only Nolini who might, possibly, give that impression). He attended the meditationhe says he had never felt anything so wonderful anywhere. And he left with the feeling this was a unique place in the world from the point of view of the realization of divine Peace. I read that almost with surprise. And hes a man who, intellectually, is unable to understand or follow Sri Aurobindo (the horizon is quite narrow, he hasnt got beyond the unity of religions, thats the utmost he can conceive of). Well, in spite of that Those who already know all of Sri Aurobindo, who come here thinking they will see and who feel that Peace, I can understand. But thats not the case: he was enthralled at once!
Its the same with people who get cured. That I know, to some extent: the Power acts so forcefully that it is almost miraculousat a distance. The Power I am very conscious of the Power. But, I must say, I find it doesnt act here so well as it does far away. On government or national matters, on the terrestrial atmosphere, on great movements, also as inspirations on the level of thought (in certain people, to realize certain things), the Power is very clear. Also to save people or cure themit acts very strongly. But much more at a distance than here! (Although the receptivity has increased since I withdrew because, necessarily, it gave people the urge to find inside something they no longer had outside.) But here, the response is very erratic. And to distinguish between the proportion that comes from faith, sincerity, simplicity, and what comes from the Power Some people I am able to save (naturally, in my view, its because they COULD be saved), this is something that for a very long time I have been able to foresee. But now I dont try to know: it comes like this (gesture like a flash). If, for instance, I am told, So and so has fallen ill, well, immediately I know if he will recover (first if its nothing, some passing trouble), if he will recover, if it will take some time and struggle and difficulties, or if its fatalautomatically. And without trying to know, without even trying: the two things come together.2 This capacity has developed, first because I have more peace, and because, having more peace, things follow a more normal course. But there were two or three little instances where I said to the Lord (gesture of presenting something, palms open upward), I asked Him to do a certain thing, and then (not very often, it doesnt happen to me often; at times it comes as a necessity, a necessity to present the thing with a commentfrom morning to evening and evening to morning I present everything constantly, thats my movement [same gesture of presenting something] but here, there is a comment, as if I were asking, Couldnt this be done?), and then the result: yes, immediately. But I am not the one who presents the thing, you see: its just the way it is, it just happens that way, like everything else.3 So my conclusion is that its part of the Plan, I mean, a certain vibration is necessary, enters [into Mother], intervenes, and No stories to tell, mon petit! Nothing to fill people with enthusiasm or give them trust, nothing.
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But with you, its like a surging up into whiteness something luminous but whitein other words, it has a CONTENT. Very luminous, very white, and wonderfully still. Its blissful too, one can stay in it for a very long timemost pleasant.
The only thing Ive done since I started meditating with you is a broadening, because at the beginning, it was a bit limited.2 Its extremely difficult to have this white peace together with breadth. Sri Aurobindo said to me (when I told him about all those experiences), he always said to me that to have this FULL silenceconcrete, white, pure, absolutely pureTOGE THER WITH IMMENSITY there are not many who can have it. But I must say that I have broadened your silence a lot, quite a lot. Now I no longer feel hemmed in I dont like to feel hemmed in! I no longer feel like that: its a spreading out.
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This Savitri is wonderful, he foresaw everything, saw everything, everything, absolutely everything, there isnt one point he left unexplored!
This is in fact incorrect. Satprem remembers occasions when, while playing in his room as a child, he saw his body quietly asleep in bedonly to rush back into it.
0 1963-04-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have just written a word to Mother to tell her that if I could, I would catch the first train home. When I arrived here, I got a horrible impression as never before, almost a panic. Everything was so terribly void and far away. Probably I have grown hypersensitive. If I were not afraid of yielding to that impression and if it werent rude to X, I would take noon train today. The new guest house is beyond description1: cement walls enclosed within cement walls; the plan is so wonderful that not a whiff of air can blow in here, nor can one see a single blade of grass. There are magnificent wrought-iron railings and openwork cement designs, but not even the most basic amenities. I absolutely refused to enter that sarcophagus, so they put me up in an adjoining house purchased by X and used as a garage. Its unspeakably filthy. It didnt even occur to them to offer me a mat. Finally they brought a bench for me to sleep on, which I refused. So much for the material conditions. I hope the body will get better. As soon as I can decently leave, I shall weigh anchor.
Signed: Satprem
0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With me, its a wonderful thing (I give thanks to the Lord): I feel neither hot nor cold nor anything any more. But I can see that people suffer from heat.
I suffer when I write. When I write, I burn. I burn, my body literally burns! When I wrote the book on Sri Aurobindo, I was exhaustedit burns me, you see, I am ablaze! And then I get covered all over with salt: I dont sweat but I get covered with salt!
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its wonderful.
Thats why with all the consciousness and force, I tell people, You make yourselves sick with your idiotic fear! (A subconscious fear sometimes mental, but then its utterly stupidat any rate a fear in the cells, a subconscious fear.) You make yourselves sick. Stop being afraid and you wont get sick. And I can say that with absolute assurance.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then comes that wonderful reason we reek of (I dont say were steeped in, I say we reek of), which starts asking: How can that be? And how can I remain efficient? And how can I keep a contact with the rest of the world? And how how, how? So I stopped, stopped it all. And whats going to happen to this body? And what will be its mode of existence?
We can very well conceive (its something easy to conceive) that beings may be born in another manner, through a power of concentration, and that those beings may materialize without any of the miseries that beset us thats all very well, but its for later. We are in between, thats where the difficulty is.
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And, truly, sincerely, its absolutely all the same to me. Its the same when people write to me, How wonderful: I smile and I think, What can they understand?! I receive letters priceless letters! Positively exuberant, full of bombastic words, and then there are others who tell me very frankly that they are full of doubt, that I quite simply use tricks to run the whole business (!) like any ordinary human intelligence, and that they cant feel anything divine at all behind all thatboth make the same impression on me, the one and the other! (Mother laughs) To me its all the same thing. Its their opinions they have the right to have any opinions they like. To tell the truth, all that we could reply to them is, Have the opinions that make you progress, whether in this way or that, it doesnt matter in the least!
Thats not the point. Maybe its the fear (there is a fear somewhere, I dont know), the fear of opening the intimacy a little too much, a fear from the standpoint of the vibrations.
0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experience lasted a long time for all details, to all problems, thats what I answered. And when I came to the end, I said to myself, But thats a wonderful argument! Because all the elements of doubt, ignorance, incomprehension, bad will, negation, with that argument they were all muzzledannulled, they had no effect.
That work, I think, must have had worldwide repercussions. I was in it, in that state (with the sense of a very great power and a wonderful freedom) for certainly at least six or eight hours. (The work had started long before, but it became rather acutely present these last few days.)
And afterwards, everything was held in a solid gripwhat do you have to say?
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because NOTHING in the consciousness budged during those changeovers [back and forth from the true to the false movement]; the consciousness is like that, turned not upward, not inward, turned simply turned to the Lord, living in His Light, which, in the physical world, becomes a golden splendor. The consciousness is turned to That. There is nothing but That, its the sole reality, the sole truth. And It vibrates like this (Mother touches her hands, her arms), It vibrates in all the cells, everywhere. I go like this (Mother makes a gesture of collecting it in the air around), as if I picked it up. It isnt ethereal, its very material; it feels like an air that is thick but vibrant, very vibrant. The consciousness is like that. And all this goes on in the body. But with the presence of that old idiot which is immediately pessimistic, catastrophic, defeatisthow defeatist, oh it sees everything as a calamity. And then that wonderful character, after imagining the worse (in the space of a second, of course), it submits it all to the Lord and tells Him, Here, Lord, here is Your work, its all Yours, do what You will with it! The silly idiot, why did it have to prepare its catastrophes! A catastrophe, invariably a catastrophe, everything is catastrophic but it offers its catastrophe to the Lord!
And the answer is invariably a smile full of such patience, oh! That patience gives me a sense of wonder every second.
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the way, the same thing happened again: I went the usual wayplop! cut off, nothing left, I cant get through; I come back, start another wayplop! cut off, I cant get through. Yet I kept going up (how, I dont know). Then I reached a sort of square terrace-balcony, perfectly square, and ALL its doors were closed. There was no way of going farther: all the doors were closed. Then I see water rising, rising, rising in the ENTIRE building, except the places where the doors were closed. Downstairs (I dont know, I was very high up, maybe on the fourth or fifth floor) the doors were closed, so naturally water could not get in. All the courtyards (large, immense courtyards) were turned into swimming pools. What water! I kept watching it, admiring it; I said to myself, What wonderful water! So clear, so clear, clearer than any I ever saw. Water that was I cant say, it was transparent like like purity itself, it was marvelous. It was rising and rising and rising. I saw in one of the courtyards on my left (a very large courtyard: it had become an immense swimming pool!), I saw a person in a bathing suit come out of the water, as if he had taken his bath in it, and wrap himself up (a very tall person, very tall, who was neither a man nor a woman), he wrapped himself up in a bathrobe, then walked away on the water (!) I was watching this till suddenly I realized that the water was beginning to reach my feet. Then I KNEW: Ah, yes! Theyve decided to do this. I was a little upset: They really could have told me they were going to do this! I thought. Its something they must do regularly. Did they inform some people? (All this in my head, of course.)
And I kept admiring that water, thinking, But its purity itself! It was reaching my feet, yet I wasnt getting wet. Then I remarked, If I stay here (Because I was standing with my back against closed doors and the building extended beyond them, but in front of me there was nothing, so normally the water should have flowed out that wayhow is it then that it didnt? I dont know the whole thing was quite marvelous!) And it was rising and rising and rising, until it reached my ankles and suddenly triggered something within me I woke up.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, I dont feel any haste I love stones, flowers, plants, animals so much, theyre all so wonderful! It begins to be less pleasant beyond the most unpleasant is human perversionperversion of cruelty, of wickedness, of hardness. You have to rise higher to be able to accept it, to be unaffected by it.
But that thing I saw yesterday, that bubbly formation of joie de vivre, I saw clearly that its one of the greatest obstaclesone of the greatest obstacles: a vital joy that knows only itself, that knows nothing other than its own vital joy and is PERFECTLY content. I saw it was a great obstacle, because it already contained a sort of reflection of the True Thing. And then, you can only laugh, but there are stern people who say, Youll see when you get sick, youll see when you get old. (All that came because there was a whole work, which represents a whole great drama on the earths scale, there was this and that and that.) What for? Why be stern? Let them be happy, they represent why, its like foam on fresh beer!
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An example: yesterday, for at least a quarter of an hour, I was filled with a sort of marvelousmarvelingadmiration for Natures fantastic imagination in inventing the animals. I saw all the animals in all their details that is, the prehuman age. Consequently, there was no mind. And without the mind, how wonderful that imagination was, you know! It was as though I lived in it: there was no man, no thought, but that imaginative power making one species emerge out of another, and then another; and all those details Everything is becoming like that, as if it were SEEN for the first time and from an altogether different angle; everything, everything: peoples character, circumstances, even the motion of the earth and the stars, everything is like that, everything has become entirely new and unexpected, in the sense that all the human mental visionis completely gone! So things are much better! (Laughing) Much better without the human mind. (I dont mean they are better without man, I mean that seen from another viewpoint than the human, mental viewpoint, everything is far more wonderful.) And then, all the details of every minute, all the people, all the things, all The trees (Mother looks at the coconut tree in front of her window) that were stripped by the cyclone; this one held up so marvelously and it has a new flowerit has old leaves damaged by the cyclone, but it has grown a new flower. So lovely, so fresh! Everything is like that.
Me too. Me too, I saw myself (laughing) from a new angle! And the things that in the past were, not positively problems, but anyway questions to be resolved (certain actions, certain relationships), all gone! And there is something that thoroughly enjoys itself I dont know what that something is, but it thoroughly enjoys itself.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or written: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, something wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside existence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when something hurts, for instance, when things resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sentence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a wonderful field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
Once the body is no longer you at all, once it is something that has been added and TACKED onto you, once it is that way and you look at it from above (a psychological above), then you can come down into it again as its all-powerful master.
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
December 2nd was interestingsports day1: the day before, the 1st, the weather was wonderful, and insofar as I gave it thought I was convinced that on the 2nd it would be just as fine. But in the morning I saw it was nothing of the sort, and as the day went by, it became worse and worse. In the beginning my first movement was to say to myself, Well, I didnt see to it, I should have given it thought, but then I saw that was absurd. Then I told the Lord, Why are You doing this? Its not very nice! Those children have worked so hard, they have taken great pains. And just as I said it, the consciousness was looking at what I said, smiling, Oh, my! How silly still to be that way! And then there was yet another thing (its becoming very, very complete), something that wasnt exactly the Lord, but like an expression of the Lord, telling me (not with words, of course, but how can I explain? Sri Aurobindo describes it very well in the Yoga of Self-Perfection: its a very new thing which has to do with action, feeling, sensation and consciousness all at the same time; its all of them togethernone of those things, yet all of them), so it was there, telling me (I am putting it into words, but that distorts it entirely), So what! What if its a test, what do you have to say about it? So immediately in the consciousness here the consciousness at work here the thought awakened, Ah, it has to become a test, then. In THEIR consciousness it has to become a test. (Because at first I had made a kind of attempt to stop the rain; then I saw it didnt correspond to the Truth and that the rain had to be acceptedwhy accepted? To do nothing after having worked so hard? And to accept is easy, its nothing, its not interesting, nothing new.) So a test, all right. If they take it as a test, they will go through it victoriously and it will be very good. And all the time, I was so concentrated on them [at the sports ground] that I no longer knew what I was doing or where I was. It lasted from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. Around 8 P.M., I received the news: they had gone on with the performance just the same, the important visitors had remained till the end, so ultimately it was a real success.
There was only one difficulty: the little children, who cannot be conscious of a test, of course, and who remained four and a half hours in the rain. I didnt want it to do any damage there were about a hundred small ones, tiny tots. I spent the night in concentration to bring into their material sensation the true reaction (because, for a short while, children love rain, they have a lot of fun in it), so I said to myself, That part of their consciousness should predominate so there is no damage. And I waited for the day after. The day after, no one was sick.
Then I received a letter from M., the captain, saying that they had felt it was a test, the lila2 of the Lord (he called it the lila of the universal Mother) and asking me if it was true. I was happy and answered him that it was true and that I was happy. And everyone told me, They were wonderful. As if doing that performance in the rain had given rise to a kind of will in them, and they were remarkable: everybody was enthusiastic. So instead of saying to the Lord, Thats not nice, I thanked Him heartily! And I laughed, I thought, There you have it! Its always that way.
And all the experiences come in that way (Mother makes a round, global gesture). It cant be expressed with words; there are a hundred things that come together like that, and which (gesture of round movements within that round totality), and then there is the sense of a light (which might be like a will, but not a will formulated with words), a light that moves within it all and arranges it all, then produces a resultwhich isnt one small thing, one point or one thing: its a mass of things; and its always moving, always in motion, always in a kind of progression towards a more perfect reorganization. And the sense of individual action, of individual participation, of individual will, seems so IDIOTIC that its absolutely impossible to have it. Even if one tried, one couldnt. Once one LIVES that the whole sense of individual importance in all that seems so STUPID, you know, that its absolutely impossible to think that way or feel that way.
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last time, when he came to meditate, just before he came upstairs, all of a sudden I felt the Lord coming (He has a particular way of becoming concrete when He wants me to do something), and He became concrete with the will that I should take advantage of this mans goodwill to widen his consciousness. It was very clear. And He became concrete with a Power, you know, one of those overwhelming Powers and a wonderful Love. It came like that, and he was caught in the Movementwhat he was conscious of, I cannot say. But when he left the room, he said he had had an experience. And this time, he was quite sincere, spontaneous, natural, not trying to to make a show.2 It was very good.
No, you might have gained something [with X], but its a something you would have found quite small; if you had felt it, you would have thought, Oh, really, that was it!?
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Imperial MAHESHWARI is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mothers eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power. Equal, patient and unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and the truth that is in them. Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away from her into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads according to their blindness. In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe. Yet has she more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha6 and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.
Ganapati, or Ganesh: the son of the supreme Mother, god of material knowledge and wealth. He is represented with an elephant's head.
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I assure you, it sounds like a joke, but its true! The supplies were cutmore as a demonstration than as a necessity, that is to say, it didnt save much money: it made a lot of noise, a big hoo-ha, a lot of changes, but it didnt save in proportion; but D. felt that the demonstration was necessaryvery well. But what an effect it had! That sort of childlike trust, like a light of childlike unconcern which was hanging in the atmosphere here: pff!swallowed up (Mother laughs). So I was watching it, thinking, But this is wonderful! I watched carefully for that reason and I saw that that kind of surface sheencom-plete-ly gone! People were dismayed. At the same time, in the consciousness, such a solidity and stability as I had never seen before, as if it were decided (Mother brings her hands down in a sovereign gesture), This is now established.
And its connected to February 29.
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Oh, but shes wonderful, your Sujata!
She was looking at the sky, then she started seeing stars falling down everywhere, like a rain of stars over the earth. And then the ground had turned into an even mass of ice, like at the poles: it wasnt bright, but it was like ice everywhere on the ground. And a sort of ship rose on it, with a slightly gray color, with passengers, whose color was also not bright, but slightly gray, slightly blue, as though they had escaped from old thingsas though they had escaped from some catastrophe or were coming out of some catastrophe.1
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But without a doubt, if at that moment there had been a doctor to take my temperature, he would have found there was a tremendous feverthough nothing even remotely like an illness! No, it was miraculously wonderful, it gave the feeling that it was something the earth did not know.
Thats how it always expresses itself: something the earth did not know, something new. It is new to the earth. Thats why its hard to bear! Because it is new.
0 1964-04-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, mon petit, yesterday or the day before, I heard something I dont exactly know what it isit isnt music, I mean it isnt the notation of some musical instrument: its the notation of a vibration of I cant say, I didnt understand.2 But in it At first, you feel exactly as if you had entered a madhouse: its completely incoherent, disjointed, and everything is unexpected because there is no logicabsolutely nothing mental. So you go from one sound to another, without any transition, and your first impression is exactly like its madness. But if you listen, now and then theres a sound, which isnt the sound of a musical instrument absolutely wonderful! But it lasts one second. You would like it to continuepfft! gone. And now and then there is a voice, quite like the human voice, you can almost hear words, there seem to be wordswhich made me think that the sound of our voice has its origin elsewhere (below or above, I dont know; where those vibrations come from I cannot say). And after a while, I saw that something in the being [Mothers being] was I cant say interested, it was something that enjoyed it, that didnt exactly have a pleasant sensation, but almost felt a need for the unforeseen, an unforeseen beyond all that we can imagine: disjointed, no logic, no sense, nothing. It SOUNDS like chaos, but all of a sudden I felt it wasnt chaos, it responded to another law. And when it came towards the end, I really wanted it to go on for a long time.
At first, you start laughing, you make fun of it, you giggle as if you were faced with something absolutely farcical. But now and then, oh! And youve hardly had the time to appreciate it when its already gonea marvel. A marvel: a sound the like of which I have never heard, which no instrument can produce.
0 1964-05-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, Nature is wonderful, the sea is so beautiful, the climate delightful, but ultimately, when I close my eyes and meditate, I feel something fuller and more solid than all the degrees centigrade on a pearly sea. In reality, I spend my days waiting for my hours of japa-meditation, it is the real open sea, the peace that refreshes. It is something, and if it is nothing, its a nothing that is worth everything. Yet there is no progress of consciousness, I dont see anything, least of all youyou tell me that you know the reason, I would really like to know what it is. I cannot understand why I am so blocked (my Western atavism?). I know the Light, I see the Space, I feel the Force, there is the absolute Truth that rules everything, pacifies everything, but inside there is nothing, not even the tip of your nosewhy? I dont see Mother either, its complete blackout. Inside, there is the Light, without a doubt, but why is it all black outside?No communication between the two. Do you make sense of it? Drat!
S.
0 1964-07-13, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I did. But you know, I had an amusing experience. When I came back to Brittany from my trip to Savoy, I was in a car with my brother, and as we approached the Quiberon peninsula, I saw in the sky two extraordinary, immense wings, two clouds that were like immense wings. I said to my brother, Look! It really struck me: Look at those immense wings, look at that victorious angel welcoming us! It was wonderful. Then I went into the house, and found your letter: Open your wings and soar Its wonderful!
Very good!
0 1964-07-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
to be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the ego, its protests and its revolts.
June 26, 1964
Whats written here is such a true experience! Never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads you straight to your true goal, in spite of all your revolt, all your misunderstandingstraight, imperturbably.
You cry out, you weep, you protest, you revolt. I will lead you right to the end in spite of yourself.
When I wrote it, it was such a wonderful thing! We are all so silly, so ignorant, so stupid, we cry out and say, Oh! (people who believe in God), Oh, he is cruel, he is an implacable judgethey dont understand a thing! Its just the opposite! A goodness, an infinite grace that leads you there, just like that, right to the end, prrt! Straight.
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0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The strange thing is that (I was very conscious, perfectly conscious; the Witness consciousness is never canceled, but it isnt in the way) is that I knew, I saw (yet my eyes were closed, I was lying in my bed), I saw my body movingit had movements of such a Rhythm! You see, every movement, every gesture, every finger, every attitude was a thing that was being realized. Then what I studied, what I saw during the half-hour that followed (with my eyes closed, seeing much more clearly than with my ordinary eyes) was the difference in the body the difference in the bodys movements between that moment [during the experience] and after [when Mother returned to the personal consciousness]. At that moment, the movements were it was creation! And with an EXACTNESS, a majesty! (Mother stretches out her arms and moves them slowly in a vast Rhythm.) I dont know what other people might have seen, I have no idea, but as for me, I saw myself; I saw especially the arms because it was the arms that acted: they were like the realizing intermediaries I dont know how to put it. But it was as vast as the world. It was the earth (its always the earth consciousness), not the universe: the earth, the earth consciousness. But I was conscious then of the universe and of the action on the earth (both things), of the earth as a very small thing in the universe (Mother holds a small ball in her hands). I dont know, its hard to say, but when it expressed itself, there was also the perception of the difference in vision between that moment [during the experience] and afterwards. But all this is inexpressible. Yet it is an absolute knowledgeits another way of knowing. Sri Aurobindo explained this, that all mental knowledge is a seeking: you seek; while this knowledge has another quality, another flavor. And then the power of the Harmony is so wonderful! (Mother again depicts a great Rhythm, her arms outstretched) So wonderful, so spontaneous, so SIMPLE. And It stays there, as if It supported the entire world as it is; it is a kind of inner support of the world the world leans on it.
But outwardly, that sort of film its like a thin film of difficulties, of complications, added on by the human consciousness (its much stronger with man than with the animal; the animal doesnt have that, very littleit has it more and more because of man, but very little; its something specific to man and the mental function), its something very thinas thin as an onion skin, as dry as an onion skinyet it spoils everything. It spoils everything ONLY FOR THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. At the time [of the experience], it was unimportant. Unimportant, in the sense that it takes away all the Beauty, all the Power, all the Magnificence of the thing for the human consciousness. For man, it is of paramount importance. But for the Action, its almost negligible. Basically, its rather that it makes it difficult for man to become conscious and PARTICIPATE; otherwise, my feeling is that truly the time has come for things to get done: that experience was a NEW descent, that is, something new entering the terrestrial manifestation; it wasnt that I became conscious of how the world is: I WAS the Lords Will coming into the world to change it. Thats what it was. And that action was only very slightly affected (assuming it was affected at all) by that stupid onion skin of human mentality.
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You cant imagine how, as you go forward and as all that Consciousness, in fact, grows more and more alive, true and constant, how at first you feel you are a rotten bundle of insincerity, hypocrisy, lack of faith, doubt, stupidity. Because as (how can I explain?) as the balance changes between the parts of the being and as the luminous part increases, the rest grows more and more inadequate and intolerable. Then you are really utterly disgusted (there was a time when it used to hurt me, long agonot so long ago, but anyway long enough, a few years ago), and more and more there is the movement (a very spontaneous and simple movement, very complete): I cant do anything about it. Its impossible, I cant, its such a colossal work that its impossibleLord, do it for me. And when you do this with the simplicity of a child (gesture of offering), really like this, you know, really convinced that you cannot do it, Its not possible, Ill never be able to do itdo it for me, its wonderful! Oh, He does it, mon petit, youre dumbfounded afterwards: How come! There are lots of things that prrt! vanish and never come back againfinished. After a time, you wonder, How can that be?! It was there. Just like that, prrt! in a second.
But as long as there is personal effort, its oof! its like the man who rolls his barrel uphill, and down it rolls again every minute.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are scores of very convincing details, but, naturally, as they are details or very personal things, I cant talk about them. But on the basis of the proof or proofs of repeated experiences, I am forced to say this: when that Power of PURE Lovea wonderful Power, beyond any expressionas soon as it begins to manifest fully, freely, a great many things seem to collapse instantly: they cant hold on. They cant hold on, theyre dissolved. Then then everything comes to a stop. And that stop, which we might believe to be a disgrace, is on the contrary an infinite Grace!
Just the ever so slightly concrete and tangible perception of the difference between the vibration in which we live normally and almost continuously and that Vibration, just the realization of that infirmity, which I call nauseousit really gives you a feeling of nauseais enough to stop everything.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is a terribly dark labor and without clearly visible effects. There are people who proclaim they perform miracles with my name or my forcebringing dying people back to life, wonderful things, anyway. To me, it immediately smacks of the ego a mile off; and the ego means vital entities taking advantage of it. I dont like that.
Its a labor of every minute, without a break, night and day.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, I saw recently a sort of exhibition or procession of all the possible theories of humanity explaining the creation (the world, life, existence). All those conceptions came before me one after another, from the seemingly most primitive and most ignorant to the most scientific and they were all (smiling) on the same plane of incomprehension but ALL had the same RIGHT to express the true aspiration that was behind. And it was miraculous! Even the faith of the savage, even the most primitive religions and most ignorant convictions had behind them the same right to express that aspiration. It was wonderful. And then the sense of the superiority of intelligence fell away completely, instantly.
It is the same thing for those oppositions, those contradictions that are called violent and vulgar between the intellectual (and especially scientific) progress of the human species and, by contrast, the apparently foolish stupidity of those who react against conventions1; well, that feeling of inferiority or superiority that you find among so-called reasonable beings, all of that disappeared instantly in a perception of THE WHOLE, in which EVERYTHINGeverythingwas the result of the same Pressure (downward gesture) towards progress. Its like a pressure exerted on Matter (same gesture) to draw the response out of it. And whatever form that response may take, its part of the general Action.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This brought back to my mind all kinds of things from my childhood, from my infancy. My grandmo ther lived next door to us, and at night (in the evening after dinner), we used to visit her before going to bed. I cant say it was great fun, but she had very good armchairs (!), and so while my mother chatted with her, I had one of those splendid sleeps there, lying in that armchaira blissful kind of sleep. But if someone had watched this from outside, without knowing anything, he would have said, Just look! They force this child to stay awake till 10 instead of letting her sleep. But Id be resting wonderfully!
So it depends on the child. And if he really feels sleepy, what prevents him from sleeping? Whats required is to give them a peaceful atmosphere, as much peace as possible.
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Its also learning the lesson of illnessof the illusion of illness Oh, thats very, very amusing. Very amusing. The difference between the thing itself, as it is, the particular kind of disorder, whatever it is, and the old habit of feeling and receiving the thing, the ordinary habit, what people call an illness: I am ill. Thats very amusing. And ALWAYS, if you stay truly still (its difficult to be really and truly stillin the vital and mind, its very easy, but in the bodys cells, to be perfectly still WITHOUT BEING TAMASIC is a little difficult, it has to be learned), but when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little lighta warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, You only have to will. Then the bodys cells panic: Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? Its AN ILLNESS the whole drama (and that wasnt in sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), its an illness. Then something with a general wisdom says, Calm down, calm down, (laughing) dont remain attached to your illness! Calm down. As if you wished to be ill! Calm down. So they consentconsent, you know, like a child who has been scolded, All right, very well, Ill try. They tryimmediately, that light comes again: You only have to will. And once or twice, for one thing or another (because the Disorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, have a disorder at any spot if you accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent the next minute, its over. Not the next minute: a few seconds and its over. Then the cells remember: But how come? I had a pain herepop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantly.
So if they really learned the lesson
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Life is on the verge of becoming wonderful but we dont know how to live it. We still have to learn. When we truly learn, it will be something.
Where films are shown.
0 1964-10-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its as if a fantastic amount of things were made known to me: people whom I dont know physically, things that I dont know physically. And with the clear vision of the true Consciousness behind it all: the workings of the Consciousness. Its interesting, but anyway It would be wonderful for a writer, he would have books and books to write! I even hear sentences; when things are written, I see them writtenits even more precise than in a film. And all the answers. And then the two consciousnesses side by side: the superficial consciousness, the way it works in people, and the true Consciousness that moves it all as it would puppets.
Its interesting, obviously.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the glimpses of the True Thing, all of a sudden, are so wonderful that Only, the gap between the present state and THAT is still wide, and it seems that for THAT to settle in once and for all, It must become natural.
Voil.
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Smiling) Besides, he didnt go so far away! I spend my nights with him, and with the most complete variety of workits a multiple, innumerable Him and so wonderfully adapted to all necessities: terrestrial necessities and individual necessities.
And for him, its only one small part of himself; because its with him (I told you the story the other day) that I had that experience of going out of humanity, going out of the material world: it was with him, in his company, if I may say so!
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
God knows, never, not one minute in my life, even when things were the darkest, the blackest, the most negative, the most painful, not once did the thought come, I would like to die. And ever since I had the experience of psychic immortality, the immortality of consciousness, that is, in 1902 or 3, or 4 at the latest (sixty years ago now), all fear of death went away. Now the bodys cells have the sense of their immortality. There was also a time when I almost had a sort of curiosity about death; it was satisfied by my two experiences in which, according to the surface illusion, my body was dead, while, within, I had a wonderfully intense life (the first time, it was in the vital, the other time, way up above2). So that even that curiosity (I cant call it curiosity), even that question is no longer asked by the cells. But the possibility does present itself: according to the ordinary outer logic, if this isnt transformed, it must necessarily come to an end. And always, always, I receive the same answer, which isnt an answer with words, but an answer with a knowledge (how can I put it?), a FACTUAL knowledge: Its no solution. To say things in quite a banal way, this is the answer: Its no solution.
So we are after another solution, since death isnt considered to be a solution. And its obvious that it is no solution.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And at the same time the understanding comes of all the people I met in my life and with whom I lived for a certain time: for what reasons, with what aim, for what purpose they were there and what action they had and how they did the Lords work (unknowingly, God knows!) to lead this body to prepare itself and be ready for the transformation. Its astonishingly perfect in its conception! Its wonderful! And so inhuman! Opposed to all moral and mental notions of human wisdomall the things that appeared the most insane, the most absurd, the most irrational, the most unreasonable and the most hostile, all that combined, oh, so wonderfulLY to compel this body to transform itself.
And with such a clear vision of the whywhy it isnt transformed yet. Oh, theres work to be done.
0 1965-01-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Learn, Satprem and you, to feel CONCRETELY my presence in your hearts. This is a wonderful opportunity to make this progress.
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0 1965-02-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding the Playground Talk of March 10, 1951: In the physical form there is the spirit of the form, and that spirit of the form persists for a time, even when outwardly the person is said to be dead. And as long as the spirit of the form persists, the body isnt destroyed. In ancient Egypt they had that knowledge; they knew that if they prepared the body in a certain way, the spirit of the form wouldnt go away and the body wouldnt be dissolved. In certain cases, they succeeded wonderfully. And if you go and violate the sleep of those beings who for thousands of years have remained like that, I can understand that they arent too pleased, especially when their sleep is violated out of an unhealthy curiosity legitimized by scientific ideas. At the Guimet Museum in Paris, there are two mummies. Nothing remains in one; but in the other, the spirit of the form has remained very conscious, conscious to such a point that you can have a contact of consciousness with it. Its obvious that when a bunch of idiots come and stare at you with round eyes devoid of any understanding, saying, Oh, he is like this, he is like that, its not likely to please you. You know, in the first place they do something odious: those mummies are enclosed in a box with a special shape to fit the person, with everything needed to preserve them; so they open the box with more or less violence, they remove some wrapping here and there to see better. And as ordinary people were never mummified, they were beings who had achieved a considerable inner power, or else members of the royal family, people of some initiation.)
Those things about mummies, I knew them when I was nine or ten, they are memories from that time. I would find again some objects I had used in the past (thats how I was later able to rediscover the track). I had at leastat leastthree incarnations in Egypt (three that have been found).
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was wonderfully clear and meaningful! And I saw, I knew exactly someones place in the Work; and in that Work, in that relationship with me, he was supported, directed by Sri Aurobindo. The whole thing in detail.
It was a revelation with an absolutely wonderful exactness. And that concern he had. First, the feeling that I WAS his feet (but his white feet with tabis on, as mine are) and that he didnt want me to walk on the edge, on the rugged stones of the road, and thats why he left
It has left me with an absolutely unforgettable impression because it was a revelation of the play of forcesof what things TRULY are in spite of their appearances, which are deceptive.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, I read with H. Savitris series of experiences when she begins with self-annulment: Annul thyself so that God alone exist (I no longer remember, but thats the idea).2 It begins with self-annulment, then she has the experience of BEING the All, that is, of being the Supreme (the Supreme in herself) and the entire Manifestation and all things. There are three passages. Its absolutely an absolutely wonderful description. Its extraordinarily beautiful.3
Its a chapter that doesnt have a title.
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What Sri Aurobindo means, I think, is that when you are in communion with the soul and have the souls knowledge, that knowledge is so much more wonderful than material knowledge that you almost smile with disdain. I dont think he means that the knowledge of the soul makes you know things of material life that science cant teach you.
The only point (I dont know if science has solved it) is the unpredictability of the future. But maybe they say thats because they havent yet reached the perfection of their instruments and methods! For instance, maybe they think that just when man appeared on the earth, if there had been the instruments they now have, they would have been able to foresee the transformation from animal to man, or the appearance of man as a result of something in the animal I am not aware (Mother smiles) of their most modern pretensions. In that case, they should be able to measure or perceive the difference in the atmosphere now, with the intrusion of something that wasnt therebecause that still belongs to the material field.3 But I dont think thats what Sri Aurobindo meant; I think he meant that the world of the soul and the inner realities are so much more wonderful than the physical realities that all the physical wonders make you smileits rather that.
But the key you speak of, that key they dont have, is it not precisely the soul? A power of the soul over Matter, a power to change Matterto work physical wonders, too. Does the soul have that power?
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 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One is wondering if, really, it wont be necessary to have an American occupation here, which would have the double effect of converting the Americans and making the Indians make some progress. Practical progress is what they would make, as the Japanese did. And the Americans are now the disciples of the Japanese: from the point of view of Beauty they have made wonderful and absolutely unexpected progress. If the Americans came here, they would be converted, they would become oh, they would understand spiritual life. Only, of course, it wouldnt be too pleasant (!) But its the surest methodits always the dominator that learns the lesson from the dominated. The Americans might become the most militant spiritualists in the world if they occupied India. Only, the Indians would have a bad time. But they would become very practical, they would learn to put order in what they dowhich they quite lack (just see, I didnt make you say that for that typewriter).
Its troublesome. Its something in suspense [the American occupation]. In my active consciousness, I dont want it. First, it would take a long timeit always takes a long time. A lot of time wasted, a lot of suffering, a lot of humiliation. But its a very radical method.
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then in the north (thats where there is the most space, naturally), in the direction of Madras: the cultural zone. There, an auditorium (the auditorium I have dreamed of doing for a long time: plans had already been made), an auditorium with a concert hall and grand organ, the best you find now (it seems they make wonderful things). I want a grand organ. There will also be a theater stage with wings (a revolving stage and so on, the very best you can find). So, here, a magnificent auditorium. There will be a library, there will be a museum, exhibition rooms (not in the auditorium: in addition to it), there will be a cinema studio, a cinema school; there will be a gliding club: already we almost have the governments authorization and promiseanyway its already at a very advanced stage. Then, towards Madras, where there is plenty of space, a stadium. And a stadium that we want to be the most modern and the most perfect possible, with the idea (an idea Ive had for a long time) that twelve years (the Olympic games take place every four years), twelve years after 1968 (in 1968, the Olympiad will be held in Mexico), twelve years after, we would have the Olympic games in India, here. So we need space.
In between these sections, there are intermediary zones, four intermediary zones: one for public services (the post, etc.), a zone for transportation (railway station and, if possible, an airfield), a zone for food supplies (that one would be towards the Lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivation, etc.it would spread to incorporate the Lake estate3: what they wanted to do separately will be done as a part of Auroville); then a fourth zone (Ive said public services, transportation, food supplies), and the fourth zone: shops. We dont need many shops, but a few are necessary to get what we dont produce. These zones are like quarters, you see.
0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, there was a lot like that, I had all sorts of adventures. Then I looked to see if Sri Aurobindo really needed his cup of tea because it seemed so difficult! I saw him, there was that wonderful French window, so clear, and then as if recessed into the wall (I dont know) a sort of platform couch, a place to sit, but it was very pretty, and he was seated or half-reclining on it, and very comfortable. And there was a boy (or a boy had come to ask him something), and there were kinds of stairs leading up to the couch; the boy was reclining on the stairs, asking questions, and Sri Aurobindo was explaining something. I recognized the boy. I thought, Ah, (laughing) hes no longer thinking of his cup of tea, fortunately! Then I woke up. But I thought, If this is how he sees us having gobbled up everything, you understand.
But a few years ago you told me an almost identical vision in which you were also in search of food for Sri Aurobindo, and you couldnt find anything: the people who were supposed to prepare it hadnt prepared it or didnt know how to.2
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can tell you (if it helps your physical mind) that in Japan I had a sort of measles (which had its own rather deep reasons) and that the Japanese doctor (who, besides, had studied in Germany, anyway he was a doctor through and through) told me very gravely that I should take care, that I was in the early stages of this wonderful disease, that above all I should never live in a cold climate, and this and that. I was losing weight and so on. That was in Japan. Then I came here and I said that to Sri Aurobindo, who looked at me and smiled; and it was over, we didnt talk about it anymore. We didnt talk about it anymore and it wasnt there anymore! (laughing) It was all over. When I met Dr. S., years later, I asked him. Nothing at all, he said, everything is fine, there is absolutely nothing, not a trace. And I hadnt done anything, I hadnt taken any medicine or any precaution. Only, I had told Sri Aurobindo about it, who had looked at me and smiled.
Well, I am convinced thats how it is, thats all. But the physical mind doesnt believe in that. It believes that thats all very well in the higher realms, but when we are in Matter things follow a law of Matter and are material and mechanical, and there is a mechanism, and when the mechanism and so on and so forth (not with these words, but with this thought). And one has to keep forever working on that, forever saying, Oh, put a stop to all your difficulties, keep quiet!
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But you (speaking to Sujata) are one of those who can say that when I come at night, I am tall and strong. And at night, I work, I am tall, I am strong. And it goes on moaning! Its idiotic. Not only idiotic, but there is still that sort of self-pity (Mother strokes her cheek), which of all things is the most repugnant: Oh, poor little thing, how tired you are. Oh, poor little thing, how people tire you, how hard life is, how difficult things are. And then moaning and groaning like an idiot. If it were just for me, I would give them a good thrashing! But I am asked not to do it, so I dont do it. But I do feel that before the eyes of this wonderful Graceof this resplendent divine Love and this omnipotent Powerwe are deeply ridiculous, thats all.
(silence)
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
0 1965-08-04, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a drama, its wonderful.
Thats what happened with my eye.2 It happened with other things too (small things, very small things, a disorder somewhere, something that went askew for some reason or other); as long as you dont pay attention to it, it carries on in its own sweet way; as soon as somebody notices it or you show it to the doctor (oh, especially when you show it to the doctor), it becomes an illness: it swells up and swells up! Oh, I am an important person, I am receiving attention. Thats how it is. So they intensify the movement. And you are lucky if it doesnt actually become serious.
0 1965-08-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is the mind that was like an uncoordinated substance, with a constant, unorganized activity (Mother gestures to show a constant tremor). This is the mind which is being organized. Thats what is important, because Sri Aurobindo said it was unorganizable and the only thing to do was to reject it from existence. And I was under that impression, too. But when the transforming action on the cells is constant, this material mind begins to become organized, thats the wonderful thing! It begins to become organized. And then, as it becomes organized, it learns to FALL SILENTthats the beautiful thing! It learns to keep calm, silent, and to let the supreme Force act without interfering.
The most difficult part is in the nerves, because they are so habituated to that ordinary conscious will that when it stops and you want the direct Action from the highest height, they seem to become mad. Yesterday morning I had that experience, which lasted for more than an hour, and it was difficult; but it taught me many thingsmany things. And all this is what we may call the transfer of power: it is the old power that withdraws. But then, until the body adapts to the new power, there is a period which is, well, critical. As all the cells are in a state of conscious aspiration, its going relatively fast, but still the minutes are long.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And that was an experience lived every second, for about six hours nonstop. Six hours nonstop and in stillness (not stillness, but the possibility of physical immobility on the bed), then the continuation for more than an hour after getting up, with the activities (limited, but ordinary activities), but then it became terrible! And I say: all, all the elements, whatever they are, whether they belong to the old movement or to the other one, all the elements had the same sense of adoration. Therefore it isnt a moral attitude: the same sense of adoration. Only, some, in their adoration, accepted annulment, while others wanted the Victory, the transformationits not that they wanted: they FELT the victory: and the others accepted the dissolution. And both together Very likely, if I had expressed that (I wasnt in a fit state to do so!), if I had expressed it at the time, I would have been accused of acute delirium I was perfectly conscious. And there, I mean, THERE, above the body, the most wonderful Peace one can imagine, a smiling Peace and
And the fever is going on. Which is to say that I am very, very conscious that this is the maximum of what can be done to advance swiftly towards transformation.
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Id like to ask you a question, and its linked to what you said just now, when you had that fever while lying on your bed, and above, you said, there was a wonderful, immutable Peacewhats the power of that Peace? Whats the power of that Silence? When one rises above, one enters a sort of vast silence, frozen, all-pervading, but whats the power of that silence? Does it do anything?
Thats what people in the past used to seek when they wanted to get out of life: they would go into a trance, leave their bodies still, and then they would enter that, and they would be perfectly happy. And for the Sannyasins who got themselves buried alive, it was the same thing; they said, Now my work is over (they would make beautiful sentences), it is over, and I am going into samadhi. And they would have themselves buried alive; they would enter a room or whatever, then it would be closed, and it was all over. And thats what happened: they would go into a trance, and naturally after a time their bodies would dissolve, while they were in Peace.
0 1965-10-16, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have just thrown a fit of indignation! Because almost without exception, all the people around me, who profess to want nothing but what I want, are apparently completely obedient, but their instinct is just the opposite. When I see someone, for instance, I see how he is, what he is capable of, etc., and when I see its a man we cant count on, THEIR instinct is: Oh, what a wonderful man! And its their INSTINCT, in other words, the spontaneous movement of their being is in constant contradiction with my knowledge.
So that means I cant say its hypocrisy, but its a purely mental attitude that doesnt correspond to the consciousness of the being. Because for me there is a very sure indication: when I dont say anything to someone (that is, I dont use the intermediary of the mind) but see that his sensation, his feeling, his state of consciousness are in harmony with mine, I know its going well. And when that person tells me, Yes, I want what you want, its true. But when its simply a purely mental, superficial attitude and when because I say, Its like that, outwardly they repeat, Its like that, but inwardly everything seethes because they feel differently
0 1965-11-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, all of a sudden, in all this chaos, this struggle, this friction, this suffering, and this ignorance and this darkness and this effort and this and that (oh, its much worse than when it takes place in the mind: its here [in the body] and its a question, yes, of life and death in the true sense of the phrase, that is to say, of existence or nonexistence, of consciousness or total unconsciousness and then how much it costs to find out anything!), and then, all of a sudden, just one drop its not even a drop (its not liquid!), its not even a flash of lightning, its yes, its a vibration, a DIFFERENT vibrationluminous, so wonderfully sweet, peaceful, powerful, absolute. Its like something lighting up (gesture like a burst of light or a luminous pulsation). And then theres no need anymore of discussion or explanation or anything: youve understoodits to become conscious of THAT, its to live THAT.
It happened this morning.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came after a vision of plants and the spontaneous beauty of plants (which is something so wonderful!), then of the animal with such a harmonious life (when men dont interfere), and all that was quite in its own place. Then true humanity seen as such, that is to say, the summit of what a balanced mind can produce in beauty, in harmony, in charm, in elegance in life, in taste for lifetaste to live in beautywhile eliminating, naturally, all that is ugly and low and vulgar. That was a lovely humanity. Humanity at its highest, but lovely. And perfectly satisfied as such, because it lives harmoniously. And it may also be like a promise of what almost the totality of humanity will become under the influence of the new creation: as I saw it, it was what the supramental consciousness can do with humanity. There was even a comparison with what humanity has done with animal kind (something extremely mixed, of course, but there have been improvements, betterments, more complete utilizations). Animality under the mental influence has become something else, which naturally has been mixed because the mind is incomplete; similarly there are examples of a harmonious humanity among the well-balanced people, and it appeared to be what humanity could become under the supramental influence.
Only, its very far ahead; we shouldnt expect it to come about immediatelyits very far ahead.
0 1965-12-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just as if you had a hood over your head, and something comes and removes it: pfft! all the symptoms, all gone. Its wonderful.
When this Power works, we will see something.
0 1965-12-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this money has arrived at a wonderfully appropriate time, as always!
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0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But thats wonderful, mon petit! It means you have emerged from mental formations.
Its mental formations that say, You are on this road or You are at that point of the realization or For me, thats deplorable! When one is in that, one is still buried in mentality.
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You know (shall I be frank?), its purely a vital dissatisfaction. And I know that, because it has been (how can I put it?) my great difficulty with you. It was a hundred, a thousand times more violent formerly; now its beginning to calm down. Its a vital thats very intense in its desires (which may not be ordinary desires at all), but with a sort of almost aggressive intensity, and essentially dissatisfied. It was very, very strong before, years ago; now it has quieted down. But every time the vital comes into play (and one is obliged to let the vital play because of the physical health; one cant calm it down totally because that would make the physical body suffer), its like that. It gives me, if you like, the impression of a cats vital! Cats have a wonderful vital (laughing), far, far more clever and intense than human beings have, but the cat claws, you know, and the feeling is: Im not happy, thats that. Im not happy! (Mother laughs)
No, but for instance, the first years when I was here, almost every night I had a sort of sign that I was moving along,1 making headwaytrifling signs, nothing to speak of: a car taking me along, a walk in a mountain, mere nothings, but they were telling me, Oh, good, Im getting on. Its all right, Im moving along. But for years now, not only have I had no sign, but all I see is negative things: I see pits, I see accidents, I see infernos, I see But I never see a sign telling me, Oh, yes, Im making headway. Its all right, Im getting alongnot that, never. So am I making headway? I dont know. What I am asking for is an encouragement, just a little gesture telling me, Yes, youre getting along, its all right. Youre getting along, dont fret.
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But mon petit, thats wonderful!
But its always been there, its nothing new!
Yes, but there are people who have that for one minute in their life and consider it a wonderful realization.
And its always there I know very well its always there! I know it, to me its a palpable fact.
0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But those who got hold of this experience for some reason or other without having all the philosophical and mental preparation I had (the saints, or at any rate all the people who led a spiritual life) had instead a very acute impression of the unreality of life and the illusion of life. But thats only a narrow way of looking at it. Thats not it thats not it, EVERYTHING is a choice! Everything, everything. The Lords choice, but IN US; not there (gesture above): here. And we are unaware of it, its deep down in ourselves. But when we are aware of it, we can choosewe can choose our choice, thats wonderful!
For instance, when that state was there, I told my body, But see, you clumsy fool, why do you choose to be dramatic? To have pain, to be this and that? And that sort of fate and bond and hardness of existenceall that had vanished. All vanished. It was light blue, light pink, all luminous and clear and (same dancing gesture) buoyant.
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 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its wonderfully true. It immediately puts you in the atmosphere of the relativity of all those human conceptions.
The trouble is that the outer being finds it hard to forget its habit of regarding material things as true, real, concrete: This is concrete, you touch it, see it, feel it.
0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its wonderful.
There.
0 1966-03-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those experiences are always preceded by the Supreme Presence drawing near in a very intimate and inner way, with a sort of suggestion, Are you ready for anything? (that was two nights ago). Naturally I answered, Anything. And the Presence takes on such a wonderful intensity that there is a sort of thirst in the whole being for it to be constantly like that. Nothing but That exists anymore, nothing but That has a raison dtre anymore. And in the middle of it comes this suggestion: Are you ready for anything?
I am talking about the body. Its not the inner beings, its the body.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its absolutely wonderful.
And if you look at it from the wrong side, it1 is a tension, its like something that doesnt leave you a seconds respite. And its true, it doesnt allow you to fall asleep one minute; because in the ordinary consciousness, in the general ordinary life, rest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of a rest that benefits you, its a rest that stupefies you and then you have to make effort once more to recapture the consciousness you have lost. Thats how the vast majority of people sleep. But now, the lesson is different: when I lie down to rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesnt force the body to move), as soon as there is the slightest not exactly fall, but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a startinstantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now its instantaneous, and it very rarely happens there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of the being in full Light. Its magnificent.
But during the day, there are perpetual lessons, all the time, all the time, for everything, all the time. The lesson is least pronounced when I have to write something or see people; but there, too, the exact quality of peoples vibration (not their permanent vibration but the vibration in them at that minute), the quality of their consciousness is immediately made known to me through certain reactions in my body (gesture on different levels of the body). The nerves began only a few months ago their work of transfer of power. (What I call transfer of power is that instead of the nerves being moved by and obeying complex and organized forces of Nature, of the character, of the material consciousness in the body, they attune themselves to and directly obey the divine Will.) Its the transfer from one to the other thats difficult: there is the entire old habit, and then the new habit to be formed. It was a rather difficult moment. But now there remain enough old vibrations to be able to gauge exactly (and this has nothing to do with thought, it isnt expressed in words or thoughts or anything like all that: just vibrations), to know exactly the state people near me are in. From that point of view the lesson is going on, its very interesting. And whats wonderful is that more often than not the most receptive vibration, conforming the most to what it should be, is in children, but the very small ones, the tiny tots. I see lots of people, but now I understand why: I learn enormously that way, through that contact (with people whom I dont know, sometimes whom I see for the first time, or whom I havent seen for years). Its very interesting.
But when nobody is there or I am alone, or when I dont speak or I am not busy with other people, its the inner lesson: the whole change in the vibration and how the world is organized. This morning, it was really extraordinarily amusing to see the mass of things that lie behind this appearance, an appearance that seems complicated enough as it is, but its nothing! Its thin, flimsy, without complexity in comparison with the MASS of things behind, which (drilling gesture) which bore their way through to reach the surface. Its amusing. But certainly ninety-nine people in a hundred would be seized with panic if they knew, if they saw. I had always been told (I read it, Sri Aurobindo often said it to me, Thon too often said it to me, so did Madame Thon) that its the Grace that keeps people from knowing. Because if they knew, they would be terrified! All, but all the things that are constantly there, moving behindbehind the appearancesall the complexities that are the true causes of or the instruments for all those small events, which to us are absolutely unimportant, but because of which one day you feel everything is harmonious, and another day you feel it takes a labor to do anything at all. And thats how it is. And naturally, when you know, you have the key. But if you know before you have the key, its a little frightening. I think that when people take leave of their senses, its because they are put in contact with the vibrations before having the knowledge, the sufficient knowledge, the sufficient state of consciousness.
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Mon petit, I dont know what comparison I should use, but I am certain there are some things that are invisible this way (Mother rotates her wrist in one direction), and visible that way (gesture in the other direction). My impression is that what we see as a considerable difference between the tangible, the material, and the invisible or the fluid, is only a change of position. Perhaps an internal change of position because it isnt a physical, material change of position, but it is a change of position. Because I have experienced this I dont know how many times, hundreds of times: like this (gesture in one direction), everything is what we call natural, as we are used to seeing it, then all of a sudden, like that (gesture in the other direction), the nature of things changes. And nothing has happened, except something within, something in the consciousness: a change of position. Do you remember that aphorism in which Sri Aurobindo says that everything depends on a change in the relation of the sun-consciousness and the earth-consciousness?2 When I read it the first time, I didnt understand, I thought it was something in the very subtle realms; and then, very recently, in one of those experiences, I suddenly understood, I said, But thats it! It isnt a shift since nothing moves, yet it is shift, it is a change of relation. A change of position. Its no more tangible than that, thats what is so wonderful! Oh, the other day, I found another sentence of Sri Aurobindos: Now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. (It was on one of my birthday cards.) I read that and said to myself, Oh, thats what it means! Its true, now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. We understand it psychologically, but its not psychological: its HERE (Mother touches matter). But until one has a solid base From the standpoint of concrete, physical, material things, I dont think theres anyone more materialistic than I was, with all the practical common sense and positivism; and now I understand why it was like that: it gave my body a marvelous base of equilibrium. It prevented me from having the very sort of madness we were talking about earlier.3 The explanations I asked for were always material, I always sought the material explanation, and it seemed obvious to me theres no need of any mystery, nothing of the sortyou just explain things materially. Therefore I am certain this isnt a tendency to mystic dreaming in me, not at all, not at all, this body had nothing mystic! Nothing Thank God!
I saw that (not in my head, because for me there are no such limits), in this sort of conglomerate, here: the nearest explanation is a shifta shift, the angle of perception becoming different. And its not really that, words are incorrect, because its far more subtle and at the same time far more complete than that. I have watched the change several times; well, this change gives you, to the outward consciousness, the sense of a shift. A motionless shift, meaning that you dont change places. And its not, as we might be tempted to think, a drawing within and a drawing without, its not that at all, not at allits an angle of perception that changes. You are in a certain angle, then you are in another. I have seen small objects of that sort for the amusement of children: when those objects are in a certain position, they look compact and hard and black, and when you turn them another way, they are clear, luminous, transparent. Its something like that, but its not that, thats an approximation.
0 1966-04-13, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But for this book, we meet in quite a new place, mon petit, quite new, and then so wonderful! Its a wonderful place that has nothing of the necessities and compulsions of this earth here. It is so luminous, so new, and so precise at the same time, so exact. Last night, it was in shades from a certain silver blue to pearl gray, and it had such precise forms, but at the same time with nothing of the hardness and commonplace quality of earthly things. And we were working so simply, effortlessly. I get up every day at the same time, half past four; well, for the second time (I told you the other day), instead of half past four it was ten to five. And I came from exactly the same place. And since that is the time when you are sleeping, it seems to me it must necessarily be getting in, no? When one is awake, it may not touch, but here And then, there is a thoroughly conscious part of you there. So what prevents you from being influenced by that must be a whole layer of old things.
Yes, the whole old form of the book is there.
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You feel lonely because you want to be loved. Learn the joy of loving without demand, just for the JOY OF LOVING the most wonderful joy in the world and you will never more feel lonely.
That, mon petit, for me is the key. The key that solves all problems for me. I am not saying it will eternally be like that; it isnt the supreme truth, but for my present experience of the present time, its the key.
0 1966-04-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I had a time like that in my life: I was in South America, on a wonderful island, very beautiful, with a woman who was also beautiful, wealth was offered to me, I had the possibility of having a lot of money; anyway, it was truly the best that could be found in terms of natural beauty and feminine beauty and everything and then I ran away from it all. I left everything and went off.
And is that the story you tell in the book?
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I wasnt able to keep it very long. But it is wonderful.
But the anguish had reached its peak: the sense of the futility of human efforts to understandto embrace and understandwhat isnt human, whats beyond. And I am talking about humanity in its supreme realizations, of course, when man feels himself to be a god. That was still down below.
0 1966-06-11, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, the ultimate outcome is something so wonderful that everything people have known, even those who have had the most unique, exceptional, marvelous experiences, all of it is insipid in comparison! Its like that.
And in fact the body is beginning to be aware of it, and because its beginning to be aware of it, it also begins to feel that whatever the ordeal (as they call it in English), its not too high a price to pay for that.
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The resistance of inertia in consciousnesses and in Matter are the reason why that Action, instead of being direct and perfectly harmonious, becomes confused, full of contradictions, shocks and conflicts. Instead of everything working out normally, I might say, smoothly (as it should), all that resisting, opposing inertia causes things to start clashing together in a tangled movement, with disorder and destruction, which are made necessary only by the resistance but were NOT indispensable: they might not have beenthey should not have been, to tell the truth. Because that Will, that Power, is a Power of perfect harmony in which each thing is in its place, and It organizes everything wonderfully: It comes as an absolutely luminous and perfect organization, which you can see when you have the vision. But when It descends and presses down on Matter, everything starts seething and resisting. So to want to ascribe to the divine Action and the divine Power the disorder and confusion and destruction is yet more human nonsense. Its inertia (not to speak of ill will), its inertia that CAUSES the catastrophe. It isnt that the catastrophe is willed, or even that its foreseen: it is CAUSED by the resistance.
Then, added to this is the vision of the action of the Grace that comes and mitigates the results wherever possible, that is to say, wherever its accepted. And thats what explains that the aspiration, the faith, the complete trust of the human, terrestrial element, have a power of harmonization, because they allow the Grace to come and mend the consequences of blind resistance.
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There, exactly! Exactly what I was thinking. When you see this, you feel your infirmity. (Mother looks at the flower again) Its wonderful, isnt it?
Man really isnt an improvement! He is full of miseries and ugly things, while this is so simple, so spontaneous.
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So they began with a complete ignorance and general stupidity, participating in all that this life is outwardly (as if it were something wonderful!). But as soon as they begin to grow a little wiser, it stops being wonderful. Its like what I said about this flower [the lotus]: when you know how to look at a flower, at the so spontaneous and, oh, uncomplicated expression of this marvelous Love, then you understand how long the way isall these attachments, all this importance we give to useless things, whereas there should be a spontaneous and natural beauty.
If the world understood too soon, nobody would want to stay on, basically! Thats the point.
0 1966-08-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All those are experiences of nuances (or nuances of experiences, I dont know how to put it) that become necessary and concrete only in the physical consciousness. And then, it results in a perfection of realizationa perfection in the minutest detailwhich none of those realizations have in the higher realms. I am learning what the physical realization contri butes in terms of concreteness, accuracy and perfection in the Realization; and how all those experiences interpenetrate, combine with each other, complement each otherits wonderful.
At the same time, I am little by little learning from demonstration the true use that must be made of mental activity. Its purpose is easy to understand: it has been used to educate, awaken and so on; but its not something that after having done its duty and fulfilled its purpose will disappear. It will be used in its own manner, but in its true manner and true place. And it becomes wonderfully interesting. For instance, the idea that you are what you think, that your knowledge is your power, well, it seems to be a necessity of the transition, of the passage from one state of consciousness to another, but its not, as I said, something that will disappear when something else is reached: it will be used, but in its own place. Because when you experience union, the mind appears unnecessary: the direct contact, the direct action, do without it. But in its true place, acting in the true way, sticking to its place (a place not of necessity or even usefulness, but of refinement in action), it becomes quite interesting. When you see the Whole as a growing self-awareness, the mind enrichesit enriches the Whole. And when each thing is in its own place, it all becomes so harmonious and simple, but with such full and complete and perfect simplicity that everything is used.
And with all this, there is (it almost seems to be the key to the problem, to the understanding), there is a special concentration on the why, the how of death. Years and years ago, when Sri Aurobindo was still here, there came one day a sort of dazzling, imperious revelation: One dies only when one chooses to die. I told Sri Aurobindo, This is what I saw and KNEW. He said to me, It is true. Then I asked him, Always, in every case? He said, Always. Only, one isnt conscious, human beings arent conscious, but thats how it is. But now I am beginning to understand! Some experiences, some examples are given in the details of the bodys inner vibrations, and I see that there is a choice, a choice generally unconscious, but which, in some individuals, can be conscious. I am not talking about sentimental cases, I am talking about the body, the cells accepting disintegration. There is a will like this (Mother raises a finger upward) or a will like that (Mother lowers her finger). The origin of that will lies in the truth of the being, but it seems (and that is something marvelous), it seems that the final decision is left to the choice of the cells themselves.
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Thats how the present moment is: the will may be like this (Mother raises a finger upward), or it may be like that (finger downward). Like that, it means dissolution; like this, it means continuation and progresscontinuation with the necessity of progress. There is something which is the consciousness of the cells (a consciousness that observes, and which, when it is awakened, is a wonderful witness), and that consciousness is the one which goes like this (same gesture) or like that. This is expressed by a will to endure or to last, or by a need for the annihilation of rest. And then, when these cells are full of that light that golden light, that splendor of divine Lovethere is a sort of thirst, a need to participate in That, which takes away all that is or can be difficult in the endurance: that disappears, it becomes a glory. Then
Thats what is being learned.
0 1966-08-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was so clear an explanationobvious, tangibleshowing how it happens all the timeall the time, all the time, everywhere. And unless one experiences it, theres no way one can even understand the difference; all words are approximations. But just when it is true (Mother smiles blissfully) And then, one doesnt know if it lasted or if it doesnt last: all that has disappeared. And it doesnt abolish anything, thats the most wonderful part! Everything is there, nothing is abolished. Its only a phenomenon of consciousness. Because at such a time, everything that is becomes true, so I mean it abolishes nothing of the Manifestation; you dont even feel that Falsehood is abolished: it doesnt exist, it isnt. Everything can remain exactly as it is; it becomes only a question of choice. Everything becomes a question of choice: you choose this way, choose that way. And in a splendor of joy, of beauty, of harmony, a plenitude of luminous consciousness in which there is no darkness anymore: it no longer exists. And it truly is, so to say, the choice between life and death, consciousness and unconsciousness (unconsciousness isnt what we call unconsciousness, the unconsciousness of the stone, its not that). One doesnt know what consciousness is until one has experienced that.
If it could be translated into words, it would be so pretty (thats when I understand poets!). That ineffable Presence seems to be saying, You see, I was always there, and you didnt know it. And its lived at the very heart of the cells: You see, you know that I was always there, but you didnt know it. And then (Mother smiles on in a contemplation) Its a tiny nothingwhich changes everything.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We have an awesome budget; we have the budget of a small villageno, a small town. Its a budget of twenty-six lakhs of rupees2 a year, you understand. And then, all those who used to give me money (people who had businesses and so on), have been ruined by the governments wonderful actions. So they cant give me any more. They give what they can, they are very nice, they make great efforts, but
The only ones who could give me money are the scoundrels! (Mother laughs) They have plenty of money, stolen from everywhere, but they dont want to give it!
0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats proving to be the most refractory (and the irony of it is wonderful) is the United Nations! Those people are outdated, oh! They havent yet gone beyond the materialistic, antireligious movement, and they made a derogatory remark about the Auroville brochure, saying it was mystic, with religious tendency. The irony is lovely!
Besides, even quite outwardly, that fight between India and Pakistan1 was clearly (how can I put it? The words that come to me are English) initiated and driven, that is to say, set in motion by and under the impulsion of the forces of Truth that wanted to create a great Asian Federation with the power to counterbalance Red China and its movement. It was a federation that, as a matter of fact, needed the return of Pakistan and all those regions, and which includes Nepal, Tibet, also Burma, and in the south, Ceylon. A great federation with each country having its autonomous development, perfectly free, but which would be united in a common single aspiration for peace and fight against the invasion of forces of dissolution. That was very clear, it was willed and its the intervention of this United Nations that stopped everything.2
0 1966-10-08, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To me its even stronger than that: when I look at a rose like the one I gave you, this thing which holds such a concentration of spontaneous beauty (not fabricated: a spontaneous beauty, a blossoming), you only have to see that and youre sure the Divine exists, its a certitude. You cant disbelieve, its impossible. Its like those peopleits fantastic!those people who have studied Nature, studied really in depth how everything works and occurs and exists: how can they study sincerely, carefully and painstakingly without being absolutely convinced that the Divine is there? We call it the Divine the Divine is quite tiny! (Mother laughs) To me, the existence is undeniable proof that there is nothing but THAT something we cannot name, cannot define, cannot describe, but which we can feel and BECOME more and more. A something which is more perfect than all perfections, more beautiful than all beauties, more wonderful than all wonders, which even a totality of all that is cannot expressand only THAT exists. And its not a something floating in nothingness: there is nothing but That.
By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasin. Satprem complained of difficulty in writing the end of his book.
0 1966-10-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, all beliefs people have about what happens after death Human beings have long tried to know, of course, and some religions thought they had found an explanation. Ive had personal experiences. And now the problem is put in a new way, as if (I say as if because I havent come to the end and I dont know), as if what is perpetuated from life to life werent personalities but STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, which are immortal and in constant transformation at the same time, and whats transformed through ones lives is the state of consciousness. Some have only one state of consciousness, others have many (there are even certain people who have two nearly opposite states of consciousness, which results in that double personality and those contradictions in life). Some are very simple and have only one, and that results in almost primitive individuals; but they sometimes have a wonderful development in their state of consciousness. That explains many contradictions. Thats what I am clearly shown at the moment: states of consciousness passing through numerous aggregates. And then, there is, there too, a secret to be found for the prolongation of an aggregate, that is, what gives the character not of immortality (which is something very different), but of the indefinite duration of lifeof the FORM, rather (life never stops), of the form. So then, once this study has been done in depth, another secret will have been found.
Its very interesting.
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I spent at least two hours like that. It must have been between one and three in the night. And the sense of something so very peaceful, so comfortable and full of light and consciousness especially consciousnessoh, it was wonderful. The consciousness here seems very, very restricted. Very restricted. And because it expresses itself through thought its weighed down: that weighs it down, restricts it fossilizes it. While there, the consciousness moves about freely in full light, oh, such a clear, clear atmosphere, so limpid shadowless yet everything has a shape. There are even streets (there are other places), but everything is like that, in full light.
The feeling remained for hours afterwards.
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Its like their relationship with the Divine. Yesterday, while I was working here in the morning (distributing the eggs!), they made me listen to music by Sahana,1 a hymn by their group which is in the line of religious music. There are sounds, certain sounds that may be called religious sounds; they are certain associations of sounds, which are universal, that is, they dont belong to a particular time or a particular country. In all times and all countries, those who have had this religious emotion have spontaneously given out this sound. While the music was playing, that perception came to me very clearly (its an association of two or three sounds), it came with the very state of consciousness that produces these sounds, and which is always the same: the sounds reproduce the state of consciousness. The whole [instrumental] accompaniment is different, and naturally that always, always spoils it. But these twotwo or threesounds are wonderfully expressive, in a precise, exact way, of the religious feeling, the Contact (gesture to the Heights), the adoration: the contact of adoration.
It was very interesting.
0 1966-11-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Four is manifestation. Five is power. Six is creation, and seven is realization. Four figures in a wonderful sequence. Here is realization (you want realization?), here it is: the prison turned into the Divines mansion. People say, The earth is hopeless, its done for. See! It will be fine.
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0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, lots and lots of things kept coming in that way while I was walking in the afternoon. Then I stayed quiet, still, for five or ten minutes after the walk as usual, and more kept coming and coming. So I said to the Lord, Cant I have five minutes of peace and quiet with You! (Mother laughs) If you knew this atmosphere, this light of laughter, and such a wonderful laughterso wonderfully merciful, in fact, and understanding and tender, oh! So I said to myself, Really, what an imbecile I am!
Its becoming a really interesting life.
0 1966-11-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday there came a letter from S.M.1 in which he said that Indira Gandhi is really relying on him in the hope of finding a way out and that things will improve a little. And he said that he hoped he would make the true spirit and knowledge triumph. Only, his health isnt good, otherwise he would have there a wonderful opportunity to do something, because she calls him every day to ask him his advice on what should be done, and he is present at all the ministers meetings. Which means that the two things are really going together: the new movement and the apparent disorder.
Mother takes up the translation of Savitri:
0 1966-12-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I found that wonderful.
That was the experience: I saw and felt this Compassion working through the meshes of the net, and how the Grace is all-powerful, meaning that the Law isnt an obstacle any longer. I saw this Compassion touching everyone and giving everyone their chance; I understood what he really meant when he said that it gives everyone their chanceequally, without the slightest distinction of importance or condition or anything, or of state: exactly the same chance to all. So then, the result of this Compassion was to awaken them to the existence of the Grace, to make them feel that there is in the universe something like the Grace. And with those who aspire and have trust, the Grace acts immediatelyit always acts, but with those who have trust it becomes fully effective.
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When the words come quite spontaneously, its good, but Its an odd phenomenon: sometimes the pure experience alone is therewhat is it? You cant formulate it; in order to formulate it, you are immediately forced to use words, and words diminish. But I remember, at the time of the experience, I spoke, hardly hearing what I said, but I had the experience. (The experience was wonderfully clear, powerful, immenseuniversal, you know.) Then I listened to myself speaking, and I saw that first shrinkage. Then I began sensing the other mind making a tremendous effort to try and understand (!), and so I let the expression shrink a little more: I was obliged to let it shrink so as to make myself understood. And I followed all those phases of successive shrinkages. But at the time, the speech was very powerful: it was exactly Sri Aurobindos style and way of speaking, and very powerful. Now its only a vague impression, like a memory. But one always hasalways, in every case, even in the best conditions, even in a case like this one in which the formulation is given by Sri Aurobindo the sense of a shrinkage. A shrinkage in the sense that much escapes; its slightly hardened, weakened, diminished, and there are also certain subtleties that escape they escape, they evaporate, they are too subtle to be concretized in words. And if one had a will for a perfect expression, it would certainly be very disappointing. I quite understand; if you want your book to reach the peak of its perfection, its impossible. Its impossible to be realized, one feels the difference with whats up above and thats very disappointing.
I am constantly disappointed.
0 1966-12-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same thing with my eyes. I have started seeing things with my eyes open, and, oh! Peoples state, their thoughts, and especially the state of their vital (because its a vision of the physical, a very subtle, very vitalized physical, and its a representation of things in pictures). And their state shows itself as if you knew (Mother laughs) the things one can see! A myriad of forms, faces, expressions. Youd think its an album by the sharpest humorist imaginable. Its extraordinarily humorous and sharp in the perception and the sense of how ridiculous people are. Then, in the middle of all that, suddenly a beautiful form, a beautiful picture, a beautiful expression appears; something so beautiful, so pure, so wonderfully noble! And it all turns round and round, constantly. Its very amusing, really.
I had always complained it was a realm in which I didnt see. I mostly saw (in the past), I mostly saw mentallymental visionsand also, naturally, I saw all the way up (but that was organized), and to some extent in the vital, especially at night, but anyway The vision was highly developed, very clear and precise, but physically (physically, I mean in the subtle physical and physically), I had never seen with open eyes: I always saw the stark reality as it is, never anything else, and I had always complained about it. Until suddenly it came: one day I started seeing, and then! (Mother laughs) Now I am obliged to calm it down, because (laughing) its too much. But its unbelievableunbelievable how full of forms the air is, and such expressive forms! Its as if, yes, a humorist, a caricaturist, even, were constantly making the subtle representation of what goes on materially.
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But what one sees is the work of a priceless humorist! Things like mens great ambitions, for example, also their self-satisfaction, the opinion they have of themselves, oh, its all so comical! Those lives are shown in relation to (and, so to speak, in contact with) the Truth-Light, and then the difference between peoples movement (or thought or attitude or action, or state of consciousness) and the Truth, the state of Truth, becomes plain to see, oh, if you knew! But its not seen by someone severe or harsh, no, no! Its seen by someone very sharpvery sharpwith a wonderful sense of humor and a charming irony.
It swarms and swarms.
0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a pity, men have too little sense of humour! Otherwise we could have great fun. Its a wonderful remedy.
We could arrange guided tours, just like Cooks tours (!) We would have a tour of religions, with all the statues and monuments. The explanations could be read out by some guide or other, but they would be prepared by someone with a slightly higher vision (oh, not a supramental vision, just a slightly higher one), and who would show human creeds and how men have shed blood in the name of God.
0 1967-02-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its beautiful, this Nature! I find it more beautiful than animals. From the point of view of consciousness, its obviously more limited; a plant doesnt have the consciousness an animal hasthey have this aspiration towards the light, but the consciousness isnt precise. But from the point of view of material organization its incomparable. Take a tree like this one (the coconut tree under Mothers window), I see it all the time, this tree, its wonderful! And how it struggles, how it works, how it produces
From the point of view of beauty, I mean material harmony, the Mind has spoilt things a lot, quite a lot (at least thats my impression).
0 1967-03-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The wonderful thing is that till now not one has told me, Maybe my opinions arent true?not one! Maybe my way of seeing or feeling isnt true?not one. All are right in the Truth!
Its very interesting.
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One could say thanks to all this (not even because ofTHANKS TO all this), I have had these last days, these last three days, the vision the concrete vision, showing how at every second, the supreme Consciousness (which I personally find convenient to call the supreme Lord), how at EVERY SECOND, it makes you do or say or see or know ex-act-ly what is needed for everything to move like this (round gesture expressing the innumerably ramified movement of universal forces), to move forward. Its not yet the direct, all-powerful, crushing Movement of direct Forces (gesture from above downward, like a sword of light): its a movement like this (same round gesture), but marvellousmarvellously subtle, ingenious, respectful of everything, but everything; you know, a movement that makes use of everything to lead towards the Goal, even errorswhich are not errors because when the Consciousness is there, the error isnt an error committed by ignorance: a thing is said or done because thats what needs to be said or needs to be doneit may in appearance be even a blunder, yet its ex-act-ly what is needed for everything to move forward (same innumerable round gesture), move forward luminously towards the desired goal. Its absolutely marvellous! And seen in tiny little details and in the whole. Its this marvel of a Consciousness that makes each one do what must be done, puts each thing in its place, arranges everything, and its our idiocy, an absolutely ignorant and stupid vision, that would have us believe in faults, in errors, in Each one is a problem to be resolved, so all those problems interpenetrate, and it is the WHOLE that must be led, precisely towards this famous Truth (the true one). But Ive spent, you know, hours in admirationa blissful admirationbefore this marvel of order, with all the little things around you, all the little people around you, all the little circumstances. Its wonderful! wonderful!
And then, this presumptuous mind which understands nothing and asserts itself in its all-powerful knowledge, oh its so comical!
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It is the maximum use of all possibilities and all impossibilities, all capacities and all incapacities; a maximum use in a maximum power and a maximum Compassion, and then a smile! A smile, a sense of humour, oh! Such a benevolent irony, so full of compassion, so wonderful. And this presumptuous mind, which is an incredible phenomenon indeed: it spends its time judging what it doesnt know and deciding on what it doesnt see!
(silence)
0 1967-04-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I came back from That (it lasted long enough for me to have the full experience of itfull, total), there were many things I then understood. One, for instance, which I had noticed with Sri Aurobindo for all the small details of life, well all things as they are on earthmere nothings; when I went to him with an inner vision and said to him, This is how I see that (I would say it to him with words or not), it would AUTOMATICALLY become true, it would become real: things that were neither in my hands nor in his nor And it wasnt that we would take a decision: it was automatic. I noticed this several times and found it wonderful. It so happens that in a few psychological cases, that is, when it has to do with individual consciousness, since quite recently (it hasnt been like that very long), when someone is sincere (one must be sincere) and expresses an aspiration, for instance, a hope, or a vision of how he or she should be, I have seen this same phenomenon occur: it automatically becomes true.
Its not very frequent yet, but it has happened. And now I understand how it happens.
0 1967-04-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, when the cells get into this state, its wonderful, you cant imagine! It changes life com-plete-ly. They are like that: a sense of wonder at the first Contact. Is it possible? Can it be that beautiful! Is it possible? Like that. And constantly, all the time, at any moment, about anything: Can it possibly be like that? Such a sense of wonder! Then you see the difference with the old habits and everything people have had crammed into their heads (renunciation, the beyond)its marvellous! Unbelievable. All morning again it was like that. There comes a malaise (it always comes from outside, from this and that, in relation to this and that; thats how it comes), and immediately, they remember immediately. They remember, they say, No! What You will, Lord. Thats their attitude, an attitude of such complete self-giving! Much, much more complete, much simpler, much more charming than in any other part of the being. Its, What You will. You, You, You, what You will. To be to be You not with an idea of aggrandizement, but to melt, to flow, to disappear in You like that. And then, But You are reality! And all these words are a diminution. Diminution not of sensation, but of consciousness its a marvel of consciousness, you know: You, You But You alone exist, You alone are. Then all the discomforts, all the pains, they vanish without a trace. Its a marvel, one cant imagine!
Sri Aurobindo once wrote somewhere, after an experience like this of the Divine Presence in the being, he wrote, If men knew how marvellous is the way. But they dont know. He wrote it, I cant quote because Ill quote it incorrectly, but he had this experience, If men knew how marvellous it is, they wouldnt hesitate for a minute.
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When you begin with very small children, its wonderful! With them, theres so little you have to do: it suffices TO BE.
Never make a mistake.
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something interesting in this cellular consciousness: they have a sense of sincerity which is MUCH sharper, and what they call in English exacting, than in the vital and the mind (even the material vital and mind). There is a sort of absoluteness in the sincerity which is very remarkable, and they have a rigorousness between them which is quite wonderful. Its extremely interesting. If anything, any part, any movement, tries to cheat, they catch it like this (gesture of nipping it and wringing its neck), and in such a sharp and precise way. In all the vital or mental movements, there is always a kind of (sinuous gesture) suppleness, something that tries to adaptwhile here, oh its like this (inflexible gesture). So when there is invocation, prayer, self-giving, surrender, trust, all those things become so pureso pure, so crystalline, you know, that oh!
And precisely, there is a growing conviction that a perfection realized in Matter is a perfection that is FAR MORE perfect than anywhere else. Thats what gives it a stability it has nowhere else. If there is something somewhere (when there is a great offering and then a joyous self-giving, joyous surrender), if there is something that comes in with even the slightest self-interest for instance, a suffering in some little corner (a pain or disorder), which hopes for or wishes or expects some improvement then it gets caught like this (same gesture of nipping and wringing its neck) and its told, Oh, insincere one! Give yourself unconditionally. Then its magnificent.
0 1967-04-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the mother, throughout the gestation, should be in an atmosphere absolutely protected from all degrading influences: an ideally beautiful place, a wonderful climate where everything is harmonious, and a wholly spontaneous, free and harmonious and beautiful life sheltered from all vulgarities of life. And the mother herself should have the ideal of the new child. It should be done not as a mechanical but as a conscious, willed thing in an absolutely creative atmosphere, we might say.
All these are very difficult conditions to fulfil.2
0 1967-05-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its good it came back; its a form quite within everyones grasp, which they can understandyou arent asked extraordinary things: you are asked goodwill. When I found this again, I smiled and found it amusing, I said, Well, I could have written the same thing about cheerfulness! I could have said, Be cheerful and you will see cheerfulness everywhere.One can say many things (Mother rotates her hand slowly as if to present various facets), it always makes me think of a kaleidoscope with colour arrangements to express something else which shrinks, becomes diminished, generalized and finally within everyones grasp. But there is something: like a FORMIDABLE conflict taking place over the earth at this moment, with this wonderful divine Grace always helping, always striving for the best and exerting a pressure, Come now, be cheerful, come now, have goodwill, come now, have, yes, have that inner Harmony of contentment, of hope, of faith. Do not accept the vibrations of decomposition the vibrations that diminish, degrade and lead towards destruction.
Its everywhere, everywhere like that (gesture of pressure on the earth).
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its always the same remedy. Its wonderfully effective if one can apply it, but that is difficult because the human consciousness is very unstable, in constant change. That change is what gives man the sense of life and movement. Its absolutely stupid, but thats how it is!
So, if one can make ones consciousness stable and bring those juxtaposed layers into contact with the consciousness of harmony, there are seemingly miraculous results. For instance, S. came back this morning, ten years younger; as you know, he was half-dead.
0 1967-05-10, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a silence) Listen, Ill give you an example. Some two years ago, I had a vision about U.s son. She had brought him to me (he was almost one) and I had just seen him there (in the music room). He struck me as someone I knew very well, but I didnt know who. Then, that same day in the afternoon, I had a vision. A vision of ancient Egypt, that is I was someone, the high priestess or I dont know who. (Because you dont say to yourself, I am so and so! The identification is total, there is no objectivity, so I dont know.) I was inside a wonderful monument, immense, so high! But it was completely bare: there was nothing, except for one place where there were magnificent paintings. Thats where I recognized the paintings of ancient Egypt. I was coming out of my apartments and entering a sort of great hall: there was a kind of gutter to collect water (on the ground) running round the walls. And I saw the child (who was half-naked) playing in it. I was very shocked, I said, What! This is disgusting! (But the feelings, ideas and so on were all expressed in French in my consciousness.) The tutor came, I had him sent for. I scolded him. I heard soundswell, I dont know what I said, I dont remember those sounds. I heard the sounds I uttered, I knew what they meant, but the expression was in French, and I didnt retain a memory of the sounds. I spoke to him, telling him, What! You let this child play in that? And he answered me (I woke up with his answer), saying (I didnt hear the first words, but to my thought it was), Such is the will of Amenhotep. I heard Amenhotep, I remembered it. So I knew the child was Amenhotep.1
Therefore, I know I spoke; I spoke in a language, but I dont remember more. I remembered Amenhotep because I know the word Amenhotep in my active consciousness. But otherwise, the other sounds didnt stay. I dont have the memory of the sounds.
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember a very powerful line in Savitri which says it all wonderfully in one sentence. He says, The bodiless Namelessness that saw God BORN.2
(silence)
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No words, no sentences, no wonderful gestures, no attitudes
(Mother goes into contemplation)
0 1967-08-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, for two hours, I had what I believe to be really the most wonderful experience in my life from the point of view of knowledge-vision. And it was so total from the most essential perception of That which is beyond the creation down to the perception of the bodys cells, from high to low like that. And in every plane, the vision of the creation.
It went on for two hours. I walked about, had my washit didnt matter in the least, on the contrary there was, added to that, the knowledge of how the body can act without disturbing the state of consciousness.
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And as I said, the body asked oh, it had such a wonderful moment! A moment, a few minutes, so wonderful, when it KNEW how it ought to be. It was magnificent. Then the experience came.1 Till then, it was inexpressible: it was lived, it was a living consciousness, but the mind had become very quiet, so it was inexpressible. Then there came back that great complaint from the world, and the experience started being expressed (Mother looks for a note). It started being expressed, because it isnt just the anonymous demand of thousands of people: its virtually a shower of letters, questions, demands from people who believe who believe they are part of the Work, of the Action, who believe they have given themselves, and all their questionsand such futile questionswhich to them are of crucial importance, but which are so puerile, stupid, unimportant: how to start a business, the opening date, a name for a house, a message for a meeting. And what goings-on, its a deluge from every side. So it all was seen in the new attitudenot new, the consciousness was fully there, there had been a whole tendency to increasingly adopt that attitude, but now it was KNOWN, fully known: what one must be, how one must be. So I came down abruptly to reply to all that.
For some time there had been lots of questions from people I refused, quite simply refused to answer; I would reply with some jest or other: I am not a fortune-teller, or Its none of my concern, none of my business. Jests, and sometimes I would say, Ah, let them leave me alone, thats childishness. And people who think they are very dedicated, for instance a man who has already given at least ten lakhs of rupees (he knows it only too well, but still he did give them!) and who wants to work to bring more but then, his questions So instead of replying with a quip (that was my last experience: its like dictated answers, but they are quips), this morning something came in English (Mother reads her note):
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now that girl was a true artist and a great intelligence, so I had the example. When she was awake, she understood wonderfully; and she herself was furious, but she didnt have she didnt have the power to get free of the influence on her subconscient.
She was far more intelligent than Mrs. Z, theres no comparison. She was a great artist.
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Over there? Its wonderful.
Yes, but there is a very different atmosphere, I dont know if its in my consciousness.
0 1967-09-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And without without the sense of victory, thats what is so, so wonderful! Its the All-Victorious which doesnt at all have the sense of being victoriousnot at all, at all, at all.
(silence)
This morning for more than an hour, there were veritable scenes (of torture) in their entirety, with all the details, and then that wonderful Thing.
Even while the torture is taking place, in that Consciousness it disappears. And it disappears not only for the one whos subjected to it, but for the one whos doing it. And the Thing in itself. It was interesting.
0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now it has become that way FOR THE BODY: when it hurts, when it gets disorganized, when it threatens to fall apart. And then, there is always that Consciousness inside, straight as a sword, that says, Now, will you stand firm? And the cells are really touchingly good willed: Oh, is it like that? Well, very well. So you remain very quiet, very peaceful, and then you callyou call the Lord. And you repeat the mantra, which comes automatically, and Peace establishes itself. And after a while the pain has disappearedeverything, just everything, all the threats disappear one after the other Thats how it is: Lord, You are there And you know, such dazzling, indisputable proof of this Presence, which is so wonderful and so simple, so simple, so total, in all that comes, all that happens, down to the smallest detail, so as to lead you as fast as possible to the transformation.
And all that comes nearcomes near at a greater or lesser distance, but that comes near, is borne along in the Movement, without even knowing it.
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Its this extraordinary experience that when you take all that comes as the means to learn to be what you should beto increase your receptivity, increase your effectivenessyou immediately feel a wonderful, all-powerful Presence, but concrete, like that.
Then you understand that nothing is impossible.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Power to heal? I saw in Plante the story of a man born in 1905, who for thirty-five years has been healing people by the laying on of hands!1 His father was Italian, his mother Spanish, and he was born in France, he is French. For thirty-five years he has been practicing the laying on of hands; he has treated five million peoplefive million. Out of them two-thirds were cured, and he has been taken to court countless times by doctors, naturally: he had no right to heal people because he wasnt under oath! At one of the hearings (Ill tell you the beginning of the story after the beginning at the end!), maybe one of the last hearings, suddenly his lawyer arrived very ill, with an attack of sciatica that prevented him from moving one leg, he was in acute pain. The judge, thinking himself very clever, told him, Well, why dont you cure your lawyer to begin with? The man got up, laid his hands on his lawyer, and five minutes later the lawyer was cured: Oh, but I am cured! (Mother laughs) He was convicted just the same. wonderful. Anyhow, when he was quite small, that is, five or six, he had stolen a fish from his father who had gone fishing, and the fish couldnt be found. Fifteen days later, his parents found the fish among his things, with his toys absolutely dry and perfectly intact! Then the father tried an experiment to see: they had a fishbowl with goldfish; he took out two goldfish and gave one to his son, putting it in the hollow of his sons hand the fish started drying up. As for the second fish, a few hours later it was rotten. Then they mentioned it to doctors (they were living in Toulouse, that was a little later, when he was twelve or thirteen). One doctor had in his hospital a patient whose wound he had been trying to heal for weeks and weeks in vain: it was horrible, purulent. The doctor called the child, who laid on his handstwenty four hours later, the wound was healed.
And this man (I saw his photo, he has a magnificent head) says, I live in Gods presence. Thats what he says, and I dont think he makes any fussbesides he doesnt have the time because he goes to bed after midnight and gets up at five every day, starts work at five-thirty and spends the whole day working, that is, seeing people and people and more people (when that was read out to me, I thought, And I complain!). Its admirable. He did some studies, but he isnt a philosopher, he doesnt have any theories: he seems to have been born like that, with healing hands. He probably gets rid of infections by dehydrating them, so he cures all the diseases of that nature. And they did (poor man, they must have made his life impossible!), they did encephalograms, cardiograms and so on, and they noticed that just when he lays his hands (for a few seconds, two or three minutes at the most), at that moment his heartbeats suddenly go up from sixty to eighty, then fall back to normal. And he doesnt seem to be making any fuss, unlike that German I told you aboutnothing at all, very simple, very nice.
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I have received your answer with joy and am writing again. I am in Aurobindo Ashram, where I thought I would only pass through, but there is a certain something here which attracts me strongly, and I think I have had enough of travelling around. I intend to go to Ramakrishna Mutt at Ootacamund, since I informed them of my visit, but will come back here as early as possible. Everything here is wonderful and spellbinding. One who sees beyond the surface panes might well wonder if the new heaven and the new earth St. John speaks of do not meet here.
There is a big church just a few minutes walk away, and yesterday morning, the 1st of October, the celebrant said, Become citizens of the heavenly city. He could not have hit upon my questionings more precisely. And in the evening, a young Parisian, landed here as pure as a newborn, and the first person he met was that same priest of the big church, who said to him, What have you come here for? There is nothing. The Parisian answered, What about the Ashram? The priest replied, The Ashram? Its a brothel. Because of that insulting declaration (and it is the kindest thing he said [Mother laughs ]), I am petitioning Mother for permission to remain here till the end of my stay in India. I do think there is abomination and desolation in the Holy Place. When will Christs words be acknowledged at last, A tree is recognized by its fruits? Jai-jai!
0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This particular Ganesh (on the table) was given to me by a little boy maybe two and a half years old. When that little boy was a few months old and till the age of one, his mother always brought him to me and he would cry and scream and make scenes the parents were desperate. Each time I would tell them, Dont worry, all will be well, well be very good friends. Then the parents would look at me in disbelief. Now he is two and half or three, and as soon as he is in the stairway, waitingMo ther, Mother, Mother! (or Ma, I dont know). But when he comes in (he is the first of the family to enter the room), he comes with a flower; and it was he who gave me this Ganesh, but with such consciousness! He is wonderful. Yesterday, he was absolutely exquisite: he comes in first, so self-assured, so joyful, then gestures to me as if to say, Everything is just fine, dont worry! And I speak to himhe doesnt understand a thing of what I say, but he approves gravely. Absolutely exquisite.
There is great progress among children.
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You know, its so wonderful, in fact. Where That manifests doesnt matter in the least; whether It manifests here, there, or there, doesnt matter in the least, its always the same thing manifesting everywhere. And wherever That chooses to manifest, which is where That must necessarily best manifest, there That manifests. The only thing the only thingis not to allow illusion and deceit to mix in, to hold them ruthlessly in their place, otherwise None of the egos mischiefwe dont want any of it; because its petty, mean, stupid, useless and a waste of time, and because it causes unnecessary turmoil in the atmosphere. But apart from that whether That manifests here or there or there
(silence)
0 1967-12-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is one of the things Ive learned lately by experienceuniversalisation, the contact with everything (horizontal gesture)and it has been shown to the body in such a precise way, in the detail of the vibration. In the state of receptivity (vertical gesture to the Heights), of receptive passivity (the opposite of action, that is), the body must be turned exclusively to the Supreme (same vertical gesture): the body and the cells have been taught that, and theyve understood theyve understood and are now used to it. In the state of action (horizontal gesture), when you are one with (well, lets limit the problem to the earth), one with the whole earth, there must be an ACTIVE radiating vibration of the supreme Force. Receptivity like this (vertical gesture that receives the Force), and activity like this (horizontal gesture that spreads the Force out). And the cells have felt, theyve understood, they can do it. And the relationship with everything around you, down to the smallest detail, is something so wonderful, with an influence radiating farther and farther away.
When you realize those two attitudes simultaneously, the contagion is abolished: the mental contagion (the one Sri Aurobindo refers to here, the one you get when you admire something), the mental contagion, the vital contagion, and EVEN THE PHYSICAL CONTAGIONwhen the cells realize that, you stop catching illnesses. Because formerly (for a long time), whenever something occurred in the sphere of influence of the action, there used to be a repercussion (in Mother). For a very long time, it was dangerous. Then it became reduced to a sense of unease which would become conscious, and conscious of the why the why and the how. It was reduced to a state of unease, but it was still tiresome. And now its a kind of I cant say knowledge, because its not mental, but an awareness (theres no word for it in French), a perception and nothing more, it doesnt have any action (that is, any repercussion in Mothers body). So then, the whole problem lies there:
0 1967-12-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The same principle is at work (its not a principle, its a way of doing or a way of being), is at work for all things: with fatigue, the onset of illness, that is, the cause of the illness (the internal disorder or the receptivity to the disorder from outside), it works also in the same way. If you add to it the intensity of faith or adoration, then its much easier, but it works in the same way. So what exactly takes place? To the inner perception, the perception of the consciousness, it is a sort of principle of disordera principle, almost a taste for disorder, I dont know, its between a habit and a preference for disorderwhich gets replaced by yes (to be as general as possible), by a vibration of harmony. But that vibration of harmony is full of light, of sweetness, of warmth, intensity, and so wonderfully CALM! So when that takes the place of the other, then all that belongs to the world of disorder is dissolved. AND the rigidity of time disappears.2 Time perhaps we could say (its just a way of speaking), we could say that time is replaced by a succession (Mother remains absorbed for a long time).
And that belongs specifically to the material world.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its wonderful, you know! A wonderful discovery.
Its like a progressive victory over all constraints. So naturally, all the laws of Nature, all the human laws, all habits, all rules, they all become increasingly supple and finally nonexistent. Yet it is possible to keep a regular rhythm that facilitates actionits not contrary to this suppleness. But its a suppleness in the execution, in the adaptation, which comes and changes everything. From the point of view of hygiene, health, organization, from the point of view of relationships with others, all that has not only lost its aggressiveness (because for that, it suffices to be wisewise and level-headed and calm), but also its absolutism, its imperative rule: thats completely gonegone.
0 1968-01-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For an hour in the morning, I arrange flowers in my bathroom over there; all the flowers are kept there so I select them (I make a distribution every morning). And its so beautiful! Its wonderful. All the flowers speak, like that, they have a lifethey FEEL. And as I am very fond of them, they vibrate and vibrate. Then, as some have closed up in the night, I take them, look at them, tell them they are pretty and they open up. Really a pleasant sight. Just look at this! (Mother holds out a rose)
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0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my life, I have been given so many, so many experiences, as proof that EVERYTHING is possible. For instance, when I was twenty-two, one night, after an experience I had in the night (I forget the details of it) at the time women wore dresses that exactly touched the ground, just touched it without resting on it (gesture of skimming the ground), and in my experience at night, I had grown tallin the morning, there was one inch between the dress and the ground! Which means that the body had grown one inch WITH THE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE. You see, in the nights experience I had grown tall (I dont remember the details), and in the morning And Ive been given that material verification for many such experiences, so as to be sure, so the body may be convinced without having to repeat the experiences over and over again. So it KNOWS, it knows there is nothing impossible, it knows impossible doesnt mean anything. But it doesnt depend on an individual will, you understand. The Consciousness which rules things is a marvel of wisdom, patience, compassion, endurance. When there is destruction or disorder, it means its absolutely unavoidable, absolutelybecause matters resistance in the individual or in things is so strong that it quite naturally brings about disorder or destruction. But that doesnt form part of the Action, the supreme Action, which is a marvel. The body has understood that; it has understood, it is patient. Only, from time to time (how can I put it?) There are people whom I prevent from dyingseveral people. I dont yet have the consciousness, the conscious power to cure them, but the possibility is there and I maintain it above them. That is to say, its not all-powerful in the sense that a certain receptivity, a certain response, a certain attitude are necessary which arent always there (human natures are very fluctuating, there are ups and downs and more ups and downs, and that makes the work very difficult), but at times, during a down spell, when a being suffers or sags, there is something in the consciousness [of Mother], a compassion (how can I explain that?) Affliction and all those movements are movements of weakness, but that is something at once very strong and very sweet, almost like sorrow, and the whole, entire consciousness in the body rises like a prayer and an aspirationa pure prayer: Why are things still in this pitiful state, why? Why? And it instantly has an effect [in the sick person]. Unfortunately, the effect doesnt last; it doesnt last because certain conditions in others are still necessary. But its wonderful, you know! Its something so wonderful. And it makes one understand the necessity of a presence on this side, a presence capable of feeling, understanding still IN THE OTHER WAY, so the suffering of others may be a reality. And that also is taken into account, that also means time is needed, patience is needed. Now the body knows ittheres no longer any impatience; there is only, now and then, that sort of sorrow, especially when beings are full of aspiration, goodwill, faith, and in spite of it this suffering is still there, clinging. That on one side, and on the other, one thing: there is still a sort of horror and reprobation of acts of cruelty, of THE cruelty; thats And then, there is this awesome Poweryou feel, you can feel that a mere nothing, a simple little movement would, oh, bring about a catastrophe. So you have to keep that still, still, still so what happens may always be the best.
Now stupidity, imbecility, ignorance, all those things are looked at with a patience which waits for them to grow. But bad will and crueltyespecially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering thats still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not language, but a way of being), its Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, Keep still, keep still. But thats a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but its a transcription. True truth is beyond all that.
0 1968-02-07, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now, in the morning, I just have not to think, to remain quiet, and I go straight to the flowers, they say, Me! Me! In spite of myself I am surprised, I say, wonderful, this is just what I wanted!
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0 1968-07-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, thats very interesting. Its wonderful, put it!
Then theres another text, but I am not sure:
0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For several hours, the landscapes were wonderful, perfectly harmonious.
For a long time too, visions inside immense temples, with living godheads. Each thing with a precise reason and purpose, to express nonmentalized states of consciousness.
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Ah, I had moments, two or three times absolutely unique and wonderful momentsuntranslatable. Its untranslatable.
But as soon as one is aware of such an experience
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But with that perception of soul states, there were things marvels! No mental conception, none at all, can be as wonderfulnone. I lived moments All that one can humanly feel and see is NOTHING in comparison with that. There were moments absolutely wonderful moments. But without thought, without thought.
We could put that little Apropos (where I poke fun at people!), then with all this you could prepare the Notes.
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I told you, I saw Its not seen as you see a picture: its BEING IN, being in a certain place. Ive never seen or felt anything so beautiful! And it wasnt felt, it was I dont know how to explain it. There were some absolutely wonderful, marvelous momentsunique. But it wasnt thought, I couldnt even describehow can you describe? You can only start describing when you start thinking.
Theres one more note:
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Ah, that was very interesting! It was very interesting because I saw like this (gesture like a film unfolding), it was changing. If someone came near me, it would change. Near me were P., V., the doctor, and C. less often, now and then, but C. didnt have much effect on the atmosphere. But the other three, especially P. and V. One day, mon petit, I dont know what happened to them: they were superhuman. A day when I must have been apparently in danger, I dont know. One day, the whole day long, the pictures (not pictures: those places where I was) were so wonderfully beautiful, harmonious. It was inexpressible, inexpressible. And with the slightest thing changing in their consciousness, lo and behold, everything would start changing! It was a sort of perpetual kaleidoscope, day and night. If there had been some way to record it it was unique. Unique. And the body was in it, you understand, almost porousporous, without resistance, as if the thing were passing through it.
I lived hours the most wonderful hours, I believe, that one can live on earth.
And it was so expressive, so revealing! So expressive. One night, for two hours, there were those temples I mentioned (it wasnt physical), with such immensity and majesty and LIVING godheads, mon petit! Not pictures. And I know what it is. And then, the state of consciousness of Eternity, oh! As if above all circumstances.
0 1968-09-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
wonderful!
There was a question: Our self-deception is always in good faith; we always act for the good of others or in the interest of humanity and to serve you, that goes without saying! How exactly do we deceive ourselves, and how can we truly know?1
0 1968-10-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And as if underneath, as if coming from the depths, beneath, the perception of this Compassion the divine Compassion the perception of the way the thing is seen and felt by the Divine. That was wonderful.
It really was a dominant note.
0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, from time to time, there are flashes, like flashes from the Grace, absolutely wonderful. But they last for one second.
(silence)
0 1968-12-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember the time when I used to speak of a bath of the Lord which I gave [people]that business seems to me quite outdated, its not that! Its The Lord is there, everywhere and always! (I say the Lord so as to avoid making lengthy sentences, but sometimes I say the supreme Consciousness to be lesswhat shall I say?less childish, because all that is childish, everything we say.) But the experience is becoming more and more wonderful.
How far away I was when I spoke like that [the 1953 talk]! How far away I was. It was a mental transcription. Well, it doesnt matter; it amuses people. They understand that; what I may do now, they dont understand. And then
0 1968-12-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The strange thing is that there are kinds of demonstrations of the bodys natural tendency (I suppose its not the same thing for all bodies: it depends on the way it was built, that is, father, mother, antecedents, and so on), a demonstration of the body left to itself. This one, for instance, has a sort of imagination (its something odd), a dramatic imagination: it constantly feels its living catastrophes; and then, with its faith, which remains there, the catastrophe is turned into a realization; things of that sort, absurd. So for a while its left to that imagination (thats what happened these last few days), and when its sufficiently tired of that idiotic activity, it prays, you know, with all its intensity it prays for it to cease! Instantly, hup! the thing just goes like this (gesture of reversal), it turns around at one stroke, and the body is in a contemplation (not a faraway one, very close) of this wonderful Presence which is everywhere.
It goes like this, and like that (Mother abruptly turns over two fingers): it takes no time, theres no preparation or anything, it goes hup! hup! like this (same gesture), as if to show the bodys stupidity. Its something perfectly idiotic, like a factual demonstration of the stupidity of the body left to itself, and then of this wonderful Consciousness which comes and in which all that vanishes like something that has no consistency, no realityit vanishes. And like a demonstration that its not just in imagination but in the FACT: a demonstration of the Power at work for all this vain dream of life as it is (which, for the consciousness of this body, has become something so frightful), for it to be turned into a marvel, like that, simply through the turning around of the consciousness.
The experience is repeated in every detail, every field, like a demonstration through fact. And its not a long process of transformation: its like something turning around all at once (Mother turns over two fingers), and instead of seeing ugliness, falsehood, horror, suffering and all that, the body suddenly lives in bliss. And all things have remained the same, nothing has changed, except the consciousness.
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The body has absolutely wonderful momentsand HOURS of anguish. And all of a sudden, a wonderful moment. But that moment cant be expressed. If we are to judge the degree of development from the proportion of time, well the wonderful moment lasts for a few minutes, and there are hours of anguish. There are even hours of suffering. So if, from that, you judge the proportion, theres still a very, very long, extremely long way to go.
But what can we do? We can only keep going, thats all.
0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
wonderful!
Out of fear or skepticism?
0 1969-01-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted to tell you a little story (its not seriously interesting: its just amusing as a turn of mind). You know that the doctor went for an outing to a temple in the South, the temple of Tirupathi,4 and it has given me an opportunity to make contact. These are people who receive crores of rupees every year, they have a huge organization and feed thousands of people every day (from a physical point of view, it takes up a lot of space), and according to what the doctor told me, its impeccably clean, wonderful. He himself was surprised. There are several hundred guest houses to lodge people, well, a big affair. So then, everything is based on a god they call Tirupathi, I think, and this god gives you whatever you ask him thats a widespread belief. They have a statue of him (I had the photo in my hands today), with the god blindfolded. He has four hands opened like thisfour hands that give, two on each side and blindfolded. And it is said, You see the god and ask him; and without looking at you, he gives you automatically.
In other words, a god who doesnt see faults, doesnt see virtue, doesnt see anything: he receives requests, and gives.
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.
It cant be said. At least I cant say it I cant, this body is incapable of formulating it methodically and clearly. But as far as learning is concerned, its certainly learning!
0 1969-02-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Absolutely wonderful.
It came effortlessly, and it left simply because I was too busy. It doesnt come at willwhat comes at will is what we might call a copy: it looks like it, but its not THE Thing. The Thing There is something wholly independent of our aspiration, our will, our effort wholly independent. And this something appears to be absolutely all-powerful, in the sense that none of the bodys difficulties exists. At such times, everything disappears. Aspiration, concentration, effort no use at all. And its the DIVINE SENSE, you understand, thats what having the divine sense means. During these few hours (three or four hours), I understood in an absolute way what having the divine consciousness in the body means. And then, this body, that body, that other body (gesture here and there, all around Mother), it doesnt matter: it moved about from one body to another, quite free and independent, aware of the limitations or the possibilities of each bodyabsolutely wonderful, I had never, ever had this experience before. Absolutely wonderful. It left because I was so busy that and it didnt leave because it had just come to show how it is thats not it: its because life and the organization of life (gesture like a truckload being dumped) engulf you.
I know its there (gesture in the background), I know it is, but But thats a transformation as I understand it! And clearly, in people it could express itselfnot something vague, clearlyin this man, in that woman, in (same gesture here and there), quite clearly. And with a Smile!
0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some even (as I have said) spontaneously repeat the mantra. Spontaneously, the mantra goes on and on being repeated, sometimes with a very great intensity; sometimes there is a sort of (do you know the English word shyness?), a shyness to invoke the Divine, so strongly That is felt. But it meltsit melts in an awareness, a conscious perception of such a Clemency! Unbelievableunbelievable, unthinkable, its so wonderful. (In its very small human manifestation, thats what has become goodness, but thats a distortion.) A marvel! The cells are in ecstasy before this vibration. But then, you see and hear this CLAMOR of protest, misery, sufferingits a clamor all over the earth, and that makes the cells feel a little ashamed.
(silence)
Its way of working (I think Ive already told you once or twice) is a sort of storytelling based on experiences, memories, very small dormant things that seemed to be gone, and which awaken for the experience to become concrete. So then, all that unfolds, with the human sensation, human vision, human understanding (even the most spiritual understanding, I might say), and at the same time this Presence. And then the Presence brings the TRUE understanding. Something wonderful.
(silence)
0 1969-02-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this Consciousness, there is something smiling in such peace! Its absolutely wonderful, its Unless one has felt it, one cant understand what it is. Its something wonderful. And naturally thats what is trying to what is workingworking to take control of all these cells.
Theres still a lot to be done.
0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its wonderful, this Consciousness, it has such a way of seeing things! Really really unique. I could say that my vision and my understanding of the world, of life, of everything, have completely changed, in a widening Of course, I had worked constantly to get the widening, but this widening has shown itself to be full of something completely new, completely. And there are two things mingled together: one is this sort of understanding and benevolent Smile, which is CONSTANT, whatever may be there, even the most stupid negations; and at the same time, underneath this benevolence (but benevolence is a weak word), theres such a power! A tremendous power. Tremendous As if it were swollen with power. An almost concrete power, I dont know (Mother feels the air) its a light, but a light you could touch, as it were: if it goes through your fingers, its so concrete that you feel it go through. A deep golden light.
In the space of a few days, I had two cases of people who behaved like fools and ninnies (that often happens!), but those two realized it, felt it, and wrote to me accusing themselves of the very thing that had been seen in this light. So thats new. There was one letter yesterday, and another today; one is a Frenchman, the other an American. Both had behaved absolutely like silly fools, but ordinarily they would have excused their behavior with all sorts of good reasons, while both accused themselves: Ive behaved like a fool. Thats new.
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Its like that, you see, its almost wonderful, and then Thats probably so we dont swell with pride and satisfaction, so we know how much change still remains to take place. Of course, when it comes to the physical (Mother looks at her hands), theres no need for any demonstration, its obvious! But its been said and repeated a hundred times: thats what will come last. So
But the inner change is considerableconsiderable. Its considerable: from the point of view of consciousness, it has been the greatest change in my whole existence; Ive had many of them, Ive worked a lot, but nothing in comparison with what has taken place since the 1st of January. To such a point that the body feels like a different person. But its not enough.
0 1969-04-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its an experience the body is given day after day, now on one spot, now on another, now for one thing, now for another, and it goes through all that. You know, its absolutely wonderful.
Theres all the old habit, which simply has to be conquered. All the old habit which, as soon as there is a slackening, goes like this (gesture of falling back); its like a rubber band that you let go of, and it all starts up again: you have a pain, you And the moment the body identifies with this Vibration, everything becomes like a radiant expression of the Consciousness, and then everything is smooth (I dont know how else to put it), free from clashes or difficulties; then, if you let yourself go like that, it becomes a marvel. It becomes a marvel. Unfortunately, theres the whole influence of the outer world which makes it difficult for the body to be CONSTANTLY like that and makes it tend to fall back into the ordinary way Thats why it cant settle in permanently.
The body is becoming conscious as if it had a truth-vision to see all the previous falsehood. All that it did, even when the inner being knew and the consciousness was growing more enlightened and there was a general goodwill all the silly things done because of that sense of a separate personality, all that is becoming clear, very clear, and with this nascent vision. While its in this state where the vision is clear, everything simply becomes wonderful but it cant last. It cant last mostly because of the constant contact (gesture around Mother). But even without contact, at night, for example, it can remain in that state for an hour, two hours, and suddenlyone doesnt know what happensah! it falls back into the old way, and then Then you get a pain here, a pain there, a sense of unease oh, youre disgusted. Then, simply, when you climb back again and all those divisions disappear, then everything is so clear! So clear, so transparent, and so simple! So simple
Life could be so marvelously simple and beautiful. Man has really made it idiotic.
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And this Consciousness can explain wonderfully (not with words: by making you have experiences one side by side with the other). For example, many people say they cant realize the difference between an aspiration, a spiritual effort, and a desire; for them the two are hard to tell apart in the sensation; this Consciousness explains it, and shows you, gives you the one and the other, and the difference wonderful! wonderfully exact. Now the body KNOWS, it knows perfectly well the difference and its a huge differencebetween aspiration or effort, the vibration that makes you become a thing or obtain a thing, and desire. Now the body knows. It knows. It has had such a demonstration in every detail with food. For a very long time the body has been quite indifferent to food (thats probably the reason), but it has been given a demonstration with one thing, the relationship with that thing; it has been shown how desire is and how the harmony is that makes the thing beneficent. So as to understand clearly, it has also been shown how total indifference isnt good eitherits not like that, neither desire nor total indifference, neither this nor that, but like this (Mother seems to follow a tiny vibration with her fingertip): in a certain way, with a certain vibration, the thing you take is neutral (that is, it cant harm you, its neutral); if you take the same thing with a certain vibration, its beneficent; and then, the body is shown how vibrations of desire are disastrousall of it in detail. Tiny little things, but so clear, so precise! It takes place while youre eating, so its perfectly concrete.
Its a mentor, this Consciousness. It knows, mon petit! It knows loads of things that men dont know!
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day, I received someone here (it was R., in fact), and the body asked this Consciousness, like that, it asked, How, how to make sure there is no mixture of all the lower movements with this light? Then (I was sitting here), there came down a sort of column wide like this (gesture of about five feet), here (gesture in front of Mother), like a column of light. But it came down IN THE ROOM, mon petit! It wasnt elsewhere it was here. To such a point that I saw it with my own eyes. A light indefinable, dazzling, but I dont know, so tranquil! I cant say, I dont know how to explain so steady, so tranquil. Dazzling. And without any vibrations. And its color indefinable, in the sense that it was neither white nor golden nor It was as if EVERYTHING were there. It cant be described. wonderful. Then this Consciousness took my consciousness and went like this (gesture in a circle starting from Mother on her left, going through the column of light, then returning to Mother on her right). I felt it [the column of light, when Mothers consciousness went through it]. I felt it, but I didnt see anything [i.e., no shadow]. I didnt see anything, I only saw a slight movement, but It was like a slight movement, but it was the same light.2 Then it went through the column, and came back [into Mother]. And then it took R.s consciousness (same gesture in a circle starting from R., taking her consciousness through the column, and coming back to R.), it went through, and there was an outline [while crossing through the column of light], an outline, and in the place of the head, it was blue, it had become blue [i.e., a shadow in the light]. That was R.s effect: an outline. Then it said something to me (wordlessly, but it was instantly translated into words, in English):
When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness you must not make a shadow.
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It remained for a long time. It remained for at least a quarter of an houra long time. And I felt like doing this (Mother rubs her eyes as if in disbelief). Its the first time the physical body has had an experience of that sort, with the eyes wide open. I saw it come down, come down like that, settle down and stay there. And all the cells seemed to be thirsting and thirsting for thatit was wonderful! Inexpressible.
No shadow, that is, no ego.
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And I understood. I understood to what extent it was a gracetruly a wonderful graceto have taken away my mind and vital. Naturally, it could be done only because the psychic was in full possession of the body, otherwise (Mother laughs, showing that otherwise she would have disconnected from her body). Which means the process isnt to be recommended: it was quite radical. But it was wonderful. And I found something in Savitri something in the fifth Canto (I translated it yesterday and kept it to show you). Here:
(Mother takes a roll of sheets and reads:)
0 1969-05-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The vast majority of humanity is unconscious (what I call unconscious, that is, without contact with the Consciousness, not CONSCIOUSLY in contact with Consciousness), the vast majority; but for one who is capable of being above circumstances with a clear and precise vision of the why and the how its wonderful.
There.
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This fact was further supported when this morning Champaklal brought a dish of flowers to be burnt on her body. I saw a pretty little flame in the center of the dish. Generally I do not give any flowers on the dish; I send it as it is. But today I was specially interested, I took a rose and put it on the flame of the dish. The flame grew big and it was glowing wonderfullyit was very beautiful.
May 3, 1969
0 1969-05-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why? Why that habit of suddenly coming apart, why? Of course, its not something new that came with man, because it was the same thing with all that preceded him: it would take form, dissolvetake form, live, grow, and dissolveeverything: plants and The mineral kingdom was more stable by virtue of its unconsciousness (!), but all the rest was like that, constantly taking form, losing form, taking form and losing form again. Then man made a fuss about it, of course, and a drama. He dramatized it, and because he dramatized it he endeavors not to get out of it, but to adjust himselfto understand and adjust himself. And when you are in a certain consciousness, it simply looks like foolishness, nothing else. But why? Is the human body incapable of? Its not even that, I cant even say that. There are minutes (minutes, it doesnt last), minutes when the body feels it has escaped that law [of death]. But it doesnt last; its for one minute, then it passes and things are back as they were. But the body consciousness is beginning to wonder why its like that: Why, why isnt there a growth in light and in consciousness, an indefinite growth? Why? The body itself wonders why. Also, its constantly assailed by all the well, the general corruption; and once in a whileonce in a whilea flash of light, lasting a few seconds: all of a sudden, something else. Something else and a wonderful consciousness, and then the old routine goes on.
Then, people come with all their thoughts. Some come, sit down in front of me, and start thinking, Maybe its the last time I am seeing her! Things of that sort, you understand. So it all comes (gesture like a truckload being dumped), and because of that, its a bit difficult.
0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had first said that he would be buried this morning at 10 oclock, since the end took place even before the doctors declared it was over, but I had it delayed until 4. I cant say he has remained separate [from Mother], not at all, but now and then, for one thing theres his way of reacting; its quite interesting. And he has brought with him an extraordinary sense of satisfaction! As if, Ah, at last Like that. Its constant, night and day. I wanted to see last night whether something of him would still come, but it was all over, there was nothing more. It was done as a super-yogi might do it! Hed never boasted about it, I dont even know whether he actively knew it. He did it wonderfully. You know, the stories that are told of those who would have themselves shut in a cave and who would leave like that thats it.
They didnt exactly pick him up, because he hadnt fallen down, but they found him standing, unable to move. It was after lunch (on the 15th he had his lunch with A.), and immediately after lunch, he asked A. to leave,3 and wanted to go to his terraceit took him an hour to go there! Its while coming back from there that he remained like that, standinghe nearly fell down, so they had to carry him to his bed (that was in the afternoon of the 15th), and during the night he did that. So then, I had said he would be buried this morning, that is on the 17th, then A. came and told me he was quite intact, not stiff (he went to see him with N., whos a doctor, and N. said that was because Pavitra was so thin), so I said we might as well wait till this afternoon. It has been postponed till 4 oclock. But as for me, last night I saw carefully: theres nothing.4 Even if there is something, a little consciousness left, its better to let it go peacefully.
0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, as I have said, from time to time, for ONE second (not even one second), a joy something I cant say, its neither joy nor pleasure nor happiness, nor any of all that, its something adorablewhich may be nothing: it may be a taste, or a perfume, or a gesture, and then it disappears. If the world were constantly like that, it would be a wonderful thing! wonderful, inexpressibly wonderful, but But impossible to be all alone like that, its not possible. Its not possible, there is all that comes from outside (gesture like a truckload being dumped) and which So if we have to wait till everything is changed phew!
Its obvious that the creation CAN be a wonderful thingit seems to be the opposite of that. But how is the one going to change into the other?
(silence)
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The body is aware of a very deep stupidity, and it realizes that because of that stupidity, the whole entire universe is the way it is. And its perfect incapacity to get out of it Its a question of Grace, thats all. There are some seconds when everything is so wonderful as to be unbelievable, and then, the next second
There. Its better not to talk about it.
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Today was Ys birthday She came, and (smiling) started telling me that the latest scientific discoveries are absolutely wonderful, that they have found how thoughts are formed and travel from one person to another (Mother laughs). I couldnt help telling her, Yes, thats what yogis already knew!
Well, indeed. Really!
0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After you left [last time], I looked a good deal, the whole day long. There is the sense that it [the glorified body] would be a wonderful solution. When you said it, something all of a sudden became concrete.2 But with no personal sense in it. The body doesnt in the least, in the least, have either the ambition or the desire or even the aspiration to become that [the glorified body], but there was only a sort of joy at the possibility that that may be that THAT MAY BEwith anyone, anywhere, anyhow: that that may be. And I looked very, very attentively: not for a minute did it have the idea, It should be this (Mother pinches the skin of her hand), you understand? It was, May that incarnation, that manifestation BEnot with the choice of one person or another, one place or another, no, none of that was there: it was the THING IN ITSELF which was a wonderful solution. And thats all.
Then the consciousness started observing: if there is nothing in this body even aspiring to be that, it shows thats not its work. Then came this extraordinary Smile (I dont know how to explain), like that, which passed by and said (to put it in a quite childish manner), Thats not your business! And thats all. And it was over, I didnt concern myself with it anymore. Not your business, in the sense, Its none of your concern; whether its like this or like that, its not your business. Thats all.
0 1969-06-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all that you understand, its like a few drops in an ocean of work. Thats how it is. The work is terrestrial, of coursemore and more terrestrial, even the body has a connection with the whole and therefore rather tremendous. But the sense of limitlessness in regard to the Force (not only the Consciousness, but the Force), the sense of limitlessness is becoming more and more permanent. The scale of the work in proportion with the form [Mothers body] is very perceptible, and perceptible in a very keen way, but there is the sense of the inanity of this formnot even its relative character: almost its inexistence, something like the sense of a continuing illusion. And then, quite concretely, the wonderful allpowerfulness of the Consciousness-Force; that comes with the impression that so-called miracles are nothing at all, a natural working. But you understand, the work has the proportion of the Consciousness, and it has to be done on (laughing) on the scale of the body. So that gives a sort of perception of an immensity that has to worked out on one point. I cant express it, its something inexpressible with words. But I need to have some peace.
And above all, above all, the chatter of words For instance, it has become very hard for me to read a letter: there are always at least a hundred times too many words. And its easy to see its in the head that it goes like this (gesture of a jumble). But then, here (gesture to the forehead), it has remained mar-vel-ous-ly tranquil and calm and white and oh, thats really a Grace. It has remained like that. So all those things that come and try to entertheres no response, they are kept at a distance. And then, the Solicitude, the Care taken to make the thing as easy as we permit it to beits wonderful! wonderful Naturally, from time to time, one is crushed under the weight of stupidity, but behind, there is nevertheless a benevolent Goodness, smiling and so TREMENDOUS that nothing matters, no worry There. So
The body has the sensation of hanging between two states: one which people call life, and the other which people call death. The body feels its hanging between the two: neither alive nor (laughing) dead, like that, neither one nor the other. Its between the two. And thats very odd. Very odd. There is an impression (not an impression, its a perception) that the slightest disorder (gesture of tipping over to the left) would be enough to fling it to the other side, and that this very slight movement this way (gesture of tipping over to the right, into life) is made impossible by something one doesnt understand. And it takes very little to
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Thats the bodys impression: just be very still, always very still, even when things begin to grate with all that comes from outside, all the circumstances the laggard cells go like this (gesture of grating), ill-adjusted, and one is on the very edge on the very edge of tipping over: the only thing to do is to stay very still and then it passes (immense, even gesture) wonderful! Something like I dont know I dont know what to call it, its wonderful (same immense, perfectly even gesture). And along with that, the constant impression of that Smile, but an all-powerful smile.
And for for weeks, it acted only on this body, which was in a very concentrated state; since not long, since yesterday, it has started (gesture of expansion) acting on other people. And then, some entirely unexpected things happen, that is, which were neither planned nor willed nor devised, absolutely nothing: all of a sudden, this Consciousness comes, seizes the person whos here (gesture like a tornado), then through this body [of Mother] does something, and takes the person away in its whirl. Especially today. Yesterday, it was a sort of Forceactive Forcewhich came into the body, not bothering anymore about all thats in a bad state.5 And this morning, I twice saw this occurrence: I saw (when I say I, I mean the consciousness there [gesture above the head], which is a Witness quite like this [immutable gesture], without any reaction, without a shadow of personal will to intervene in the work of this Consciousness; it was simply a spectator), I saw how through this body, the Force came, seized the other person (same gesture of a tornado) and took him away That was amusing! They were two difficult cases, two cases in which I really met with a difficulty to be conqueredyou could see how it seized the person, oh, like a child playing with a ball. Like that. Extraordinary! Extraordinary. So if that comes and settles I dont know.
0 1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats wonderful, mon petit! It would be wonderful.
(Mother smiles and keeps looking)
0 1969-08-06, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It makes for wonderful nights, mon petit! You dont sleep, yet you are much more rested than if you slept.
But the ordinary consciousness is becoming a bit cumbersome, a bit painful, physically so.
0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Did I tell you that in Italy a veterinarian has found a cure for cancer? This man has discovered that goats, the goat species (male and female), never have cancer! They even went as far as trying to make them have cancer, and they didnt succeed. Conclusion: in their makeup, theres something opposed to cancer; theyve discovered that something in the stomach (I forget the details), and he made a serum. As he is a veterinarian, he doesnt have the right to give it, but he has doctor friends, and those doctors (a dozen or so) have tried it outextraordinary cure, without fail. But with a difference: the female goat cures certain cases, while the male cures other cases; its not the same with the male or the female, they cure different types of cancer (I understand nothing about it). Anyway, he lives somewhere in Italy, I dont know where, and I had him asked if he would like to come herehe has accepted. And hes going to come: theres a whole group of young Italians who want to come at the end of the year for Sri Aurobindos yoga, and hell probably come with them, or else he will come with Paolo if Paolo doesnt mind paying for his travel. My intention is to put him in touch with Dr. S., to let them study that together, and if it works well, Ill ask him to stay on. Because you know that S. now has a sort of dispensary in Auromodle [in Auroville] (theres even a young French medical student who has come and stays there too, he is very happy). So we could open a cancer clinic, that would be very interesting! Because with S.s presence here, theres no difficultyin Auroville he can do what he likes. That would be wonderful!
He is coming before the end of the year. And the other man, the healer, is coming in September The other, well see if he wants to cure some people here, that would be good.
0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I do now is to (Mother crosses her fingers on her lips) because this Force, this Consciousness is there (gesture of pressure), and its working, I see it work, and it uses all that wonderfully, so as to put people (gesture against the nose) in front of themselves.
Theres a place (Promesse and Auro-orchard, all that area which is concerned with agriculture), with French people, Swiss people, Italians (even Indians!), and theyre all busy quarreling all the time. From every side they complain to me, asking for my support. So its prodigiously instructive. As for me, I stay like this (Mother crosses her fingers on her lips), and now and then I let a drop fall. The Xs, for instance, would regularly, once or twice a week, send me a complaint against the people living there (now some, now others, all of them in succession). The first time, I didnt say anything, but after a while (laughing), I simply said (I dont remember the exact words, only the meaning) that the true consciousness needed to live in Auroville is to look at ones own faults first, before complaining about others faults, and to mend ones ways before demanding others should mend theirs (I put it in a more literary manner). And I sent it. Since then, silence, complete silence: I no longer exist I dont go and give support to all their little quarrels, so I no longer exist.
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But I must say that from the standpoint of action (not even merely material action, because I have almost no material action left, so to say), but of invisible action, with this Consciousness I have learned a LOT, quite a lot. It has our means are very childish, and, you know, it has such a wonderful sense of humor, a way of making people face their stupidity, which is really really charming. And I see it constantly, all the time, for very small things, for big things, for a countrys politics or the organization of a houseall the same thing. And with a delightful irony and so benevolent: no sense of reprobation, no The idea of evil and sin and all thatprrrt! all gone.
Its only the pressure of the Consciousness on the inconscientand then, in people, the measure of the resistance or of the receptivity. its like that. In some people (and not always the apparently bad ones), theres such resistance! Its like like iron. While others
0 1969-09-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, he is struggling with death. He came to see me and explained everything. For two years hes been fighting against heart attacks. He has never told anyone about it, he has immense trust in the Grace. He told me, Ive had wonderful experiences in which I called Mother, Mother came, and in a moment the danger was repulsed. (That recurred several times.) He told me, for instance, that he read the February Bulletin a hundred times over and found in it an immense help, precisely where you speak of the descending Presence that makes everything disappear as if it were unreal. But anyway, he has reached a point where his body has become very weak. So hes written a letter to you:
(extracts from the letter in English)
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some stones can contain a force of protection. Thats remarkable, mon petit! You can accumulate in a stone (amethysts especially) a force of protection,. and the protection ACTUALLY protects the person wearing the stone. Thats very interesting, I experienced it. I knew someone whom Id given such a stone (an amethyst) full of a POWER of protection, and while he wore itit was wonderful; then he lost it, and almost met with a catastrophe. Especially amethysts: the power of protection.
(Then in the same Talk, a child asks Mother the difference between what she calls the Divine and what people call God. Mother puts off the question until later.)
0 1969-09-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He is conscious of this Power, but he says one needs to have the TOTAL vision, the vision of TOTAL Harmony. Because, he says, its all an equilibrium, a wonderful harmony, and we mustnt cause any disequilibrium, we must obey the Law, follow the Law of Harmony, but its a TOTAL Law, of course, and we mustnt make any mistake. I need the total vision, he says. Take the Ashram: its a center of light where there is total harmony; then theres a circle around it, Pondicherry, which is already darker
Very dark!
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Right now, for three days he has been fasting; hes stopped eating. He said, Ill go and see Mother like this, without having taken any food. So for three days he has been taking nothing but water The wonderful thing is that there isnt an atom of mentalization, its all an experience that springs forth. And all that youve said, all that Sri Aurobindo said, he has experienced. He is conscious of the Moment in the History of the earth, he feels all that. So he wants to participate in the Work.
(after a silence)
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do not be puzzled and you will feel the wonderful smile that rules over everything.
With you always,
0 1969-10-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Youre wonderful!
No, no, I just have all I need!
0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its interesting because, I remember, I had already been doing the yoga; I already had an experience greater than most people have when I had that difficulty with the nerves (it was in 1915), I remember how it was and how I held out. And it has come back after 1915 and now its 1969, that is to say more than fifty years later. And I really felt the difference in my body, really. The first day it came (I should tell you that its one of the pains regarded as hardest to bear), when it came, the only there was nothing but, Ah, You. Thats all. Like that. And clinging like this (same gesture with clenched fists), not moving anymore. Those are pains that prevent you from breathing, prevent you from moving; theyre extreme, all the nerves go awry; well, before, I knew, I would call, but I was somehow (at least partly) identified with the pain, whereas this time, the reaction wasnt one of suffering the suffering was there, but no reaction of oh, what might be expressed as that wonderful self-pity people always have. Well, that was completely gone, there was only, Ah! You, You, You, You, You And there was a pressure on the person who was therewho by the way wasnt aware of anything, neither the other day nor yesterday (the first time, it was a woman; yesterday it was a man): they didnt notice anything.
But I said to myself, Well, well, things are getting serious! The vital world has started rebelling.
0 1969-11-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the point of view of the attitude towards circumstances and others character, theres that wonderful atavism of ours, which is so natural that we dont even notice it, and now For years Ive looked and looked, and well, you know, when you were born into the bourgeois middle class, youre awfully bourgeois! And you dont even notice it! (Mother laughs) Its so ridiculous! Here, with the Indians, Ive noticed that they have the atavism of their caste; even when they have deliberately left their caste, they still have that atavism. Thats how I began to see. And then, I realized it was exactly the same thing with me! You were born into the middle class and youre awfully bourgeois, awfullyridiculously!
It goes away in a smile.
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Oh, no! Ah, we have many little Aurovilians, lots of them, but you know, among them some are absolutely remarkable from the point of view of consciousness; theyre tall as a boot, mon petit, and theyre conscious! Its splendid. A few days ago, I held a Tamil baby in my hands, he was as big as this, like a doll (delightfully shaped, with exquisite tiny feet), and with this child I wanted to make the experiment: I took him on my lap, and I put the Forceyou should have seen the transformation of his expression! His eyes arent open yet, but a blissful peace seemed to come over him. I thought, Lets see whether hes asleep or conscious. Then I touched his foo the started, which means he wasnt asleep at all. wonderful! A wonderful expression. I know another one who isnt yet two years old, but, mon petit, his way of seeing and acting is that of a five-year-old child! So something is happening nevertheless. And the last experience is a woman (she came with the caravan), who had a first child in France: she suffered for thirty-five hours to give birth. She gave birth to another one here (the day before yesterday, I think): one hour and without suffering. An hour later, when it was over, she was up and about! So she said, Thats Mother, because I dont know how its done!
Something is happening.
0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I do hope it wont come back. Thats really thats what I understand to be a transformation! You are conscious in a golden immensity (its wonderful, mon petit!), luminous, golden, peaceful, eternal, all-powerful.
How did it come? There are really no words to express it, that sense of wonder towards the Grace. The Grace, the Grace is a thing that exceeds all understanding in its clear-sighted goodness.
Naturally, the body had the experience. Something took place which I wont tell, and it had the true reaction; it didnt have the old reaction, it had the true one: it smiled, you know, with this Smile of the supreme Lordit smiled. That remained there for a day and a half. And that difficulty was what let the body make the last progress, let it live in that Consciousness; if everything had been harmonious, things might have dragged on for yearsits wonderful, you know, wonderful!
How stupid people are! When the Grace comes to them, they drive it away, saying, Oh, how horrible! Id known that for a long time, but my experience is a bedazzlement.
0 1969-12-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With the passing byvery brief passing byof the true consciousness, the supramental consciousness, there has been in its wake a certain its between an attitude and a vision in the body (the physical being), and it no longer sees things in the same way at all, the reaction is completely different. That has made a difference . For those few hours, there was nothing but that consciousness, it was wonderful; now there is what has been formed. But the inner attitude, even in the physical consciousness, is changed; there is a sort of vision of things, a POSITION: the position with regard to the world, the creation, is changed. Its no longer the sameno longer the same. And then, a sort of clearsighted sensitivity for all that comes to to be done or said or decided (it comes from people and circumstances).
How can I put it? I have refused to be a prophet. This Consciousness which is there (gesture above) feels that in order to be a prophet, one must coagulate things. Thats giving them a sort of fixity or hardness (how can I explain that?), yes, a fixity they dont have. Things are seen (theyre seen all the time, constantly), but it takes some time (what, for us, is expressed as time) between the vision and the execution (Mother draws a downward curve), and if one is in the true consciousness and the true vision, what was there like that (fluid gesture above) can be changed. You understand, the whole creation is in a movement of such tremendous rapidity that its imperceptible for the physical consciousness, but between the moment when things are seen (gesture above) and the moment when they get expressed materially, a change takes place. And if one is very carefulvery careful and (what should I call it?) very objective there is time for a transformation. And its that habit of fixing things that prevents the rapidity of the worlds transformation. So then, to prophesy is a way of fixing things, and the consciousness refuses to do it, it wants to allow things their full suppleness so they may change every moment.
0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They need I see that, Ive received letters again, to which I reply (Mother vainly looks for other papers near her) It comes every day. And Sri Aurobindo wrote wonderful things on the question. Very recently (yesterday or the day before), I answered a question about an aphorism of Sri Aurobindos in which he said that atheism was NECESSARY because of religions and all their misdeeds.2 I was asked a question and I answered that also.
People are still very small.
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another aphorism yesterday But when I read those Aphorisms with my present experiences, I see that Sri Aurobindo knew all that. He had caught it there, he was there, and words that appear odd or not quite comprehensible to intellectual understanding, even the highest, have a meaning. Yesterday all of a sudden, Oh, that was it! [what Sri Aurobindo had seen]. For instance, in one of the aphorisms I readjust yesterday, there was the word perception, and I remember that when I translated it [many years ago], I thought, Perception, what does he mean? Now, I understand wonderfully! Its something that has nothing to do with our senses: neither sight nor hearing norperception. He put perception. And perception is an excellent word.2
Moreover, for the time being, I only read the translation; if I saw the original again, it might be even more striking.
0 1970-02-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body has received a gift this morning. This morning, truly the Supreme Lord has taught it to be entirely His, and it was so wonderful! The whole night the whole night and morning there seemed to be an absolutely concrete demonstration of how to be perfectly His. Never, never had the body felt like that. Naturally, its perfectly aware of what grates stillwhich is in fact why there are traces (they are just traces) of that famous attack,1 but
The absolutely concrete experience for the body, it had it the whole morning, and the conclusion came during the meditation.
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness isnt an idea, its a sort of yes, a state of consciousness, an awareness of the Divines sole existence, of the sole Reality, and when its there, everything becomes wonderful (physically, materially). There are moments full of an intensity of harmony quite exceptional. But then, when things grate, mon petit, they grate horribly!
And I get letters by the dozen: entreaties from people in all possible difficulties, physical difficulties (the most incredible physical difficulties), and then moral, material, external difficulties, inner difficultieseverything seems raging.
0 1970-03-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, for HOURS I had (the BODYthe body) this experience that nothing exists except the Divine. And then, the two are like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand through those of the left). But for hours The discomfort about very small things1 is much greater than in ordinary life, and the well-being is wonderful, and the two are like this! (same gesture indicating a close fusion) One needs to be very, very, very still. Its bearable only in an inner peace.
For the body its bearable only when the time has come for it to be convinced that the Divine is the only Truth; then its fine. Because it knows that the discomfort, however intense it may be, is sure to pass. So its at peace. Thats what I have learned. It began yesterday evening and lasted the whole morningin fact, until you came, but its still there.
0 1970-04-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now and then, for a few seconds, there is perhaps a specimen of what is to be, what will bewhen, I dont knowit lasts a few seconds. Thats wonderful, but
(long silence)
0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this one is wonderful:
482My lover took away my robe of sin
Oh, yes, its wonderful! And when he takes away the robe of virtue!
and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me.
0 1970-04-29, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I found it was it was all guided so wonderfully! It was (how can I put it?), to make myself understood, I prayed: I prayed that if it were really possible, well, let him be helped to leave. And thats what was done (but I had done it the previous time).
It came just at the right time.
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It suffers; sometimes it suffers with a very a strange kind of suffering! A very strange kind of suffering. But then, how everything is wonderfully arranged! In the Aphorisms, there are all those things of Sri Aurobindo about the unreality of suffering, and it has come just at the right time!5 I said to myself, But how wonderfully arranged it is! It just came to tell my body, Dont worry! The duality [suffering and bliss] is so, so concrete that my body is it groans, literally groans as if it were suffering terribly, and at the same time it says to itself, Ah, this is bliss! And it groans! You understand, the two are like this (fused gesture).
It depends on a little something that looks like an act of will but thats not it. Thats not it. I really dont know its something new.
0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was simply wonderful! wonderful.
And you know, its simply a movement like this (gesture of slight reversal or tipping over) and I was really miserable, you might say (I mean on the purely physical level: nausea and everything imaginable, CONSTANT, constant), and then it went like this (same gesture of slight reversal): a bliss For the BODY.
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But it wasnt like last night, it wasnt so complete, so total. There is still the memory, and then the impression that the body has tipped over to the right side. You understand, it was it was doing what they all dodisintegrating and getting disorganized. The impression that that seems to be over.2 But its not THAT yet, its only But it was wonderful.
You know, ordinary sightgone; ordinary hearinggone; capacity to work (Mother makes a gesture of writing)gone. And it can ONLY come back in the true way, when But Ive had the proof that EVERYTHING can come back wonderfulLY. The question is
I have understood, the body has understoodit has understood, it has had the experience. What will come next? Well see.
0 1970-05-13, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its almost a constant state now for my body. Only at very rare moments does it suddenly Aah! (gesture filled with wonder). When those moments come, its wonderful. But theyre very rare. Sometimes a day goes by without even one. That state [of discomfort] used to be more frequent during the day, but now its beginning to happen at night. Last night, a good part of the night I spent like that, and then I was able to be in peace only because my whole body was (gesture of surrender) saying to the Lord, Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will. Like that.
(silence)
0 1970-05-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its wonderful to what point it isnt this active consciousness that writes: it sounds quite foreign to me! But the day before yesterday, I wrote something, and while writing, I said to myself, Oh, this will interest Satprem. And I no longer remember either!
Its very strange.
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Its so new for the material consciousness that each time you feel as if on the verge of mental derangement. (Derangement of CONSCIOUSNESS its not mental derangement, the mind has nothing to do with that, thank God! Thats a wonderful help I was given.) But the consciousness, theres a minute of panic in the consciousness.
Because from the beginning and constantly, theres a sort of commonsense firmly rooted in the being, which refuses to imagine things; it says, I dont want to imagine this, I dont want to imagine that. So then, the consciousness takes up things only when they are totally concreteits too easy to start spinning tales and None of that. Totally PRACTICAL, concrete.
0 1970-05-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
People need occasions to do things. But this seems to have been wonderfully prepared ON PURPOSE.
(long silence)
0 1970-06-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its wonderful, just whats going on!
to hew through, durchhauen, even at the risk or the cost of much damage to the outward life and the body? To the growing soul, to the spirit within us, may not difficulties, obstacles, attacks be a means of growth, added strength, enlarged experience, training for spiritual victory? The arrangement of things may be that and not a mere question of the pounds, shillings and pence of a distribution of rewards and retri butory misfortunes!
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Oh, but this is admirable. Its wonderful! (Mother repeats, in a very humorous tone) The ways of the Divine are not like those of the human mind or according to our patterns.
(another text)
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I live in a constant sense of wonder! Every minute, what comes is whats necessary: circumstances, reactions everything, everything, theres a constant vision of the wonderful way in which things are organized, the world is organized.
And what he says here, the way things are organized to make you advance fast and give you the maximum, the optimum condition of progress thats marvelous. And always it comes and presses on the very spot (Mother presses her thumb) where there was a weakness, an incomprehension always.
0 1970-07-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If I were to tell in detail what goes on, its absolutely wonderful! For instance, while eating, when the body keeps its true attitude and the perception of the Divine presence in all things, and naturally in what it absorbs, and when it absorbs it automatically with that attitude, without any contradiction, everything takes place without any difficulty. To such a point that if the attitude deteriorates (whatever), things can go to (gesture of choking) swallowing the wrong way, like that, in the space of a few seconds. Its clearly a transitional period, but how long will it last? I dont know. The harmony of the functioning is becoming miraculousmiraculous. Only, its not automatic, it still depends on the attitude. Its not something that imposes itself, its a consequence.
(long silence)
0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But whats growing very clear is that all things remaining the same, the position of the consciousness remaining the same, theres a reversal this way or that way (Mother tips her hand over to one side or another), I dont know how to explain. In one case, that is, to the ordinary human consciousness (not ordinary but present), the suffering is almost intolerable; and everything remaining IDENTICALLY the same, with this slight reversal (I dont know how to explain it maybe we could say the contact with the Divine, I dont know), but everything remaining the same (its a phenomenon of consciousness), a wonderful blissyou understand, physical things remain IDENTICAL! I have that all the time. Unfortunately (laughing) the painful side lasts longer! When I am in peace, still, then naturally its the other side.
But this toothache and all that, which to the material consciousness, from an external standpoint, is very real (!), even that is no longer When the consciousness becomes true, it no longer has the same character I dont know how to explain. There must be what in our ordinary consciousness we would call a cure, but its not a cure: the nature of it changes.
0 1970-07-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I answered. This morning I presented that question [to the Lord], and it was as if it was waiting for the occasion. I received a reply simple, as always, but explaining the WHOLE, entire functioning. When I saw that, it was such an illumination that everything became so simple! (I wrote it down, but its nothing, it looks like a commonplace.) But it puts an end to all questions. It was absolutely wonderful!
So instead of sending the notebook back to him, I kept it to show it to you, because it looks like nothing at all, but if it gives others the experience it gave me, its something! For several hours I lived in a Peace nothing can disturb. Its so simple, so simple!
0 1970-09-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
that night was absolutely wonderfulabsolutely peaceful and wonderful. A night as I hadnt had in a long, long time. I thanked you, I dont know if you know!
Oh, Mother.
0 1970-10-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I understand ELSEWHERE, you understand? Its no longer the same thing. I understand elsewhere. And understand, its wonderfully clear and expressive. Strange! Its interesting. I had forgotten it had happened last time, and exactly the same thing recurred. Its very interesting.
Is it half of the chapter?
0 1971-03-03, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think I see the most exact thing to say is their condition, the state theyre in. And then, of course, there are those who are closed, so to say, who, for me, dont see, who are totally in the outer consciousness; and there are those who are openthere are some certain children are remarkable, its as if they were wide open (gesture like a flower to the sun) and ready to absorb. Its especially peoples receptivity that I see, the condition theyre in: those who come with aspiration, those who come with curiosity, those who come out of a kind of obligation, and then those who are thirsty for lightthere arent too many, but there are several children. Today I saw one, he was so sweet! His father lives at the lake, he bought some property at the lake; he lives there with his wife and children, and it was the birthday of one of the childrenoh! (Mother opens her eyes wide) wonderful!
And I see only that. Not what they think or say (all that seems superficial and uninteresting): only the state of receptivity they are in. Thats what I see above all.
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I feel that it is the book that will give a new orientation there. Thats why I am insisting. And Russia. Russia, changed to the right side, it would be wonderful! I dont know why. Naturally I was Russian in a recent incarnation, when I was. Is it Catherine?
Catherine, yes.
0 1971-04-01, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are at one of those Hours of God, when the old bases get shaken, and there is a great confusion; but it is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to leap forward, the possibility of progress is exceptional.
Will you not be of those who take advantage of it?
0 1971-04-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver, whereas the supramental life is made of goldas if our entire spiritual life here were a silvery vibration, not cold but simply a light, a light that goes right to the summit, an absolutely pure lightpure and intense but in the other, in the supramental world, there is a richness and a power that makes all the difference. This whole spiritual life of the psychic being and of all our present consciousness, which seems so warm, so full, so wonderful, so luminous to the ordinary consciousness, well, all this splendor seems poor in comparison to the splendor of the new world.
I can explain the phenomenon like this: successive reversals will bring about such an EVER-NEW richness of creation from stage to stage, that it will make whatever came before seem very poor in comparison. What to us seems supremely rich compared to our ordinary life appears very poor when compared to this new reversal of consciousness.
0 1971-07-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and there is a great confusion; but it is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to leap forward, the possibility of progress is exceptional.
Will you not be of those who take advantage of it?
0 1971-11-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Truth is wonderful. It is in our perception that it is distorted.
Yes, as if all of a sudden. For a few moments I saw the world as the Divine sees it. Its. There are no words, its inexpressible. Then I understood. Everything became clear, clear, clear.
0 1971-12-29b, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As I told you, its so strong that at times I cant even eat; whereas when its like this, when the consciousness becomes like this (gesture of surrender, hands open), I finish my dinner without even knowing I am eating. Its inexpressible. But wonderful.
Only, there is no place for fearif youre afraid, it becomes dreadful. Fortunately my body is not afraid.
0 1972-01-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It isnt easy, but its what I was telling you: both extremes. It isnt easy, but all of a sudden, for a few seconds, everything becomes wonderful, and then again. So Id rather not speak about it.
(silence)
0 1972-01-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like that paper I gave you [The result of creation]. When I was in the experience, it was evident, the total key to understanding how everything workswhy and where it is all going and how. It was clear, thoroughly clear. But you see the paper, it looks like nothing. Yet when the experience was there, it was so evident! It was wonderful. The key to understanding everything the key to ACTION. The secret uncovered. As if it gave you the power. And then it left.
I remember when I wrote the note, the words had a special meaning for me, a depth they dont usually have. Well.
0 1972-02-16, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But how wonderfully things get organized when you really and sincerely put yourself in the Divines hands! This year, for instance, is like being bathed in Sri Aurobindo, you know.
(Mother goes into meditation)
0 1972-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But if you want to collaborate, it would be wonderful, you know! I need someone, you see, someone who could get around, talk to people, see, take notes: reestablish unity on a higher level. oh, that would be a wonderful work! wonderful.
Once that is done, things would ease up. Its not that money is lacking, its just being wasted, scattered.
0 1972-04-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, you shouldnt. You simply keep clinging to the Divine. For, of course, the resistance has such wonderful reasoning! You see, it says, You see where all this is leading you, you see. Oh, its its more than a resistance; it is PERVERSE.
Yes.
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After some time it becomes absolutely wonderful, but one goes through some difficult moments.
Yes. Yes, there are times when you wonder if everything isnt going to be swept away.
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While the divine child sitting on the minds head plays! I wish I could draw that picture, its so wonderful.
We are so silly we even say (Mother puts on an air of offended dignity): the Divine is wrong, You shouldnt handle things that way! Its comical, mon petit.
0 1972-07-12, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Dangerous, but wonderfulhow to express it?
First, the [bodys] subconscient is in the process of changing, and that is long, arduous and painful but marvelous as well. The feeling of (gesture as if standing on a ridge).
0 1972-07-22, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its difficult, I cant speak. But its so wonderful when you see it! But I cant speak.
When I can say exactly how it is, then Ill say it. Not quite yet.
0 1972-08-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, the physical body has a millennium of past experiences that says, Why, that blissful state is impossible!this stupidity is what delays everything. Its as if the cells themselves, the cells of the body which are used to struggling and suffering, couldnt accept that things can be like this (same gesture of surrender, hands open). But when it is then its wonderful.
Only it doesnt last. Its not daylong. Constantly, constantly things keep coming (same gesture of being assailed from all sides).
0 1972-10-25, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Sujata:) Mother, you know, I saw you yesterday morning between 4:00 and 4:30, and you were giving your blessings to everybody. You were sitting on a very high seat, dressed in a white sari (if I recall correctly), and I was among the first to approach you for pranam. I knelt before you, brought my hands together, and bowed my head. Then you held my head, and suddenly I noticed I couldnt raise my head anymore! And I realized you were forcing my head downwards: you know, with your hands you were pressing, so my head kept going down and down and down. Finally I saw your feet I was very close to your feetand what lovely feet they were, Mother! All white and wonderful. Translucent almost.1
(Mother smiles and caresses Sujatas cheek)
0 1972-12-30, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things have taken an extreme form. Theres a sort of lifting of the whole atmosphere towards an almost inconceivable splendor, but at the same time, theres a feeling that one can die any momentnot die, but the body could dissolve. Both things together make up a consciousness in which (Mother shakes her head) all past experiences seem puerile, childish, unconscious. And this is stupendous and wonderful.
But the body, the body has a single prayeralways the same:
0 1973-01-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And theres a new kind of malaise. Something new. As I was telling you, theres a new and wonderful joy that comes! But it comes the way you disclose something, you know (Mother dangles an imaginary lure between her fingers): See, this is what you could have. Exactly like that. It could be like this, and brrrt, its gone!
So really, Id rather not talk about it.
0 1973-01-31, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For hours on end its enough to drive you mad, and for a few (maybe hours, maybe minutes the sense of time isnt the same, but anyway) a wonder. A wonderful Presence.
It doesnt really depend on circumstances: the circumstances are always the same, and yet.
0 1973-04-07, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can tell you theyre absolutely wonderful already; they do their utmost, thats why I dont dare ask him. Youll tell him I told you so.
Yes, Mother.
02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the very outset of the evolutionary march, when material Nature meant only a mass or masses of incandescent gaseous elements, the first miracle that happened was the formation, the advent of water. There was Hydrogen and there was Oxygen existing and moving side by side, for millions of years perhaps, but only at a given moment did an electric current happen to pass through a certain mixture of the two elements somewhere, and behold, a liquid drop was the product, an absolutely new, unforeseen, unpredictable and wonderful object! Examples can be multiplied.
The fact is admitted, on the whole, unless one is a Fundamentalist and prefers still to live in the consciousness of a bygone century. Difference comes in when the question of explanations and of viewpoints regarding them is raised. A materialist like Professor Broad would consider Mind and Life as fundamentally formations of Matter, however different they might seem from each other and from the latter. Water, the so-called miracle product of Oxygen and Hydrogen, according to him, is as material as these two; even so Life and Mind, however miraculously produced, being born of Matter, are nothing but the same single reality, only in different forms. Others, who are more or less idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some of them call themselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same way. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each other; they are truly emergents, that is to say, novelties; but how the thing has been possible, one need not inquire; one should accept the fact with natural piety.
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Sojourns the winged and wonderful wayfarer
And can no more recall her happier state,
02.06 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first article of his faith thenit is not merely a faith but a deep and concrete perceptionis that the world is one. Creation forms a global unity and there is one pulsation, one throb running through all life. In this regard he is a unanimist of the school of Jules Romains. Life's single pulsation, however, he feels most in the plant world; the global unity there moves in a wonderfully perfect rhythm and harmony. Mankind in its natural, unsophisticated state shares in that rhythm and harmony and forms part of it. That is perhaps the stage of happy innocence of which many of the first great Romantics dreamed, e.g., Rousseau and Wordsworth. Viewed as such, placed as a natural phenomenon in the midst of Nature, in its totality, mankind still appears as a harmonious entity fitting into a harmonious whole. But that is a global bird's-eye view. There is a near view that isolates the human phenomenon, and then a different picture emerges. That is the second article of Pasternak's faith. Life is a rhythmic whole, but it is not static, it is a dynamic movement, it is a movement forwardtoward growth and progress. It is not merely the movement of recurrence; life does not consist in pulsation only a perpetual repetition. As I say, it means growing, advancing, progressing, as well. That is, in other words, the inevitable urge of evolution. Ay, and there's the rub. For it is that which brings in conflict and strife: together with creation comes destruction.
Nature in her sovereign scheme of harmony accepts destruction, it is true, and has woven that element too in her rhythmic pattern and it seems quite well and good. She is creating, destroying and re-creating eternally. She denudes herself in winter, puts on a garb of bare, dismal aridity and is again all lush, verdant beauty in spring. Pain and suffering, cruelty and battle are all there. And all indeed is one harmonious whole, a symphony of celestial music.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He thinks to read the Scripture wonderful,
Hieratic key to unknown beatitudes.
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The clasp was remembered of the wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes.
02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The relation between India and Britain is peculiar and has an especial significance. It is not enough to say that Britain is the imperialist overlord and India the subject underling. The two stand for two world-forces and their relation is symbolic. The difficulty that will be solved between them will be a world-difficulty solved; what they achieve in common will be a world-achievement. India means nations in bondage aspiring to be free, peoples living in conditions of want and weakness and internecine quarrel, still struggling towards a harmonious and prosperous organised life; she is the cry of the down-trodden demanding her share of earth's air and lightlife-room. Britain represents the other side, the free people, organised, strong and successful. Neither America nor Russia fills this role. America is young; she has a wonderful grasp over life's externals; none can compare or compete with her in the ordering and marshalling of an efficient pattern of life, but what escapes her is the more abiding and deeper truth of life and living. Russia started to create on totally new foundations, indeed the outer aspect here has changed very much. But the forces that ruled Russia's past do not seem to have changed to the same extent. In spite of the rise of the proletariate, in spite of all local autonomies, it is doubtful if the true breath of freedom is blowing over the country, if the country is creating out of a deeper soul-vision. Life movement in either of these two countries seems to have a rigid mould; that is because they seek to build or reform, that is to say, fabricate life, in other words, they impose upon life a pattern conceived by notions and prejudgments, even perhaps idio-syncracies. The British are more amenable to change, precisely because they do not force a change and do not know they are changing. The British Empire is more loosely formed, its units have more freedom than is the case with other Empires built upon the pattern of the extremely centralised Roman Empire. Truly it has the spirit of a commonwealth. The spirit of decentralisation and federation that is increasing today and has seized even old-world Empires the Dutch, the French, the Russianhas come largely from the British example. Therefore, the unravelling of the Britain and India tangle would mean the solution of a world-problem. These two countries have been put together precisely because the solution is possible here and an ideal solution for all others to profit by.
The British people do not move by ideals and idealism, as the French do, for example. The French rise naturally in revolt and rebellion and revolution for the sake of an idea the motto of the Great Revolution was "Liberty or Death". Without an upsetting they cannot bring about a change; for the social moulds are rigid and more presistent. The AngloSaxons, on the contrary, go by an unfailing instinct, as it were, gradually and slowly, but surely and inevitablyfrom precedent to precedent", as they themselves say. A life-intuition guides them: the inherent merit of an ideal has not such a great value in their eye, but if the ideal means a practical utility, a thing demanded by time and circumstances, a clear issue out of a dead impasse, well, they hesitate no longer and go about it in right earnest as practical men of affairs.
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
There are the wonderful voices, the sun-laugh,
A gurgling eddy in rivers of God's joy,
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Into a wonderful bodiless realm he came,
The home of a passion without name or voice,
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Close, blissful, concrete, wonderfully true.
As when one walks in sleep through luminous dreams
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
03.02 - Yogic Initiation and Aptitude, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now what exactly is this wonderful thing? This power that brings into being the non-being, realises the impossible? Whose is this Call, from where does it come? It is none other than the call of your own inmost being, of your secret self. It is the categorical imperative of the Divine seated within your heart. Indeed, the first dawning of the spiritual life means the coming forward, the unveiling of this inner being. The ignorant and animal life of man persists so long as the inner being remains in the background, away from the dynamic life, so long as man is subject to the needs and impulses of his mind and life and body. True, through the demands and urges of this lower complex, it is always the inner being that gains and has its dictates carried out and is always the secret lord and enjoyer; but that is an indirect effect and it is a phenomenon that takes place behind the veil. The evolution, in other words, of the inner or psychic being proceeds through many and diverse experiencesmental, vital and physical. Its consciousness, on the one hand, grows, that is, enlarges itself, becomes wider and wider, from what was infinitesimal it moves towards infinity, and on the other, streng thens, intensifies itself, comes up from behind and takes its stand in front visibly and dynamically. Man's true individual being starts on its career of evolution as a tiny focus of consciousness totally submerged under the huge surface surge of mind and life and body consciousness. It stores up in itself and assimilates the essence of the various experiences that the mind and life and body bring to it in its unending series of incarnations; as it enriches itself thus, it increases in substance and potency, even like fire that feeds upon fuels. A time comes when the pressure of the developed inner being upon the mind and life and body becomes so great that they begin to lose their aboriginal and unregenerate freedom the freedom of doing as they like; they have now to pause in their unreflecting career, turn round, as it were, and imbibe and acquire the habit of listening to the deeper, the inner voice, and obey the direction, the comm and of the Call. This is the Word inviolate (anhata-vn) of which the sages speak; this is also referred to as the still small voice, for indeed it is scarcely audible at present amidst the din and clamour of the wild surges of the body and life and mind consciousness.
Now, when this call comes clear and distinct, there is no other way for the man than to cut off the old moorings and jump into the shore less unknown. It is the categorical demand of such an overwhelming experience that made the Indian spirant declare:
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Drew God's approaches close, sweet, wonderful.
Its solidity was a mass of heavenly make;
03.04 - The Body Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The perfection of the anatomical and morphological structure in man consists precisely in its wonderful elasticity the 'infinite faculty' or multiple functioning referred to by Shakespeare. This is the very characteristic character of man both with regard to his physical and psychological make-up. The other species are, everyone of them, more or less, a specialised formation; we have there a closed system, a fixed and definite physical mould and pattern of life. A cat or a crow of a million years ago, like 'the immemorial elm' was not very different from its descendant of today; not so with man. I mean, the human frame, in its general build, might have remained the: same from the beginning of time, but the uses to which it has been put, the works that have been demanded of it are multifarious, indeed of infinite variety. Although it is sometimes stated that the human body too has undergone a change (and is still undergoing) from what was once heavy and muscular, tall and stalwart, with a thicker skeletal system, towards something lighter and more delicate. Also an animal, like the plant, because of its rigidity of pattern, remains unchanged, keeping to its own geographical habitat. Change of climate meant for the animal a considerable change, a sea-change, a change of species, practically. But man can easilymuch more easily than an animal or a plantacclimatise himself to all sorts of variable climates. There seems to be a greater resilience in his physical system, even as a physical object. Perhaps it contains a greater variety of component elements and centres of energy which support its versatile action. The human frame, one may say, is like the solar spectrum that contains all the colour vibrations and all the lines characteristic of the different elements. The solar sphere is the high symbol for man.
The story runs (Aitareya Upanishad) that once the gods wished to come down and inhabit an earthly frame. Several animal forms (the cow, the horse) were presented to them one after another, but they were not satisfied, none was considered adequate for their habitation. At last the human frame (with its conscious personality) was offered to them and immediately they declared that that was indeed the perfect form they neededsuktam bateti and they entered into it.
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The French, for example, have developed as a people a special characteristic and mental turn that has set its pervading impress upon their culture and civilisation, upon their creations and activities; that which distinguishes them is a fine, clear and subtle, rational, logical, artistic and literary mind. France, it has often been said, is the head of modern Europe. The Indians are not in the same way a predominantly intellectual race, in spite of the mighty giants of intellect India has always produced, and still produces. Nor are they a literary race, although a rich and grandiose literature, unrivalled in its own great qualities, is their patrimony. It was the few, a small minority, almost a closed circle, that formed in India the elite whose interest and achievement lay in this field; the characteristic power, the main life-current of the nation, did not flow this way, but followed a different channel. Among the ancients the Greeks, and among the moderns the French alone, can rightfully claim as their special genius, as the hallmark of their corporate life, a high intellectual and literary culture. It is to this treasure,a serene and yet vigorous and organized rational mind, coupled with a wonderful felicity of expression in speech,that one turns when one thinks of the special gift that modern France and ancient Greece have brought to the heritage of mankind.
Again, the Japanese, as a people, have developed to a consummate degree the sense of beauty, especially as applied to life and living. No other people, not even the old-world Greeks, possessed almost to a man, as do these children of the Rising Sun, so fine and infallible an sthetic sensibility,not static or abstract, but of the dynamic kinduniformly successful in making out of their work-a-day life, even to its smallest accessories, a flawless object of art. It is a wonder to see in japan how, even an unlettered peasant, away in his rustic environment, chooses with unerring taste the site of his house, builds it to the best advantage, arranges everything about it in a faultless rhythm. The whole motion of the life of a Japanese is almost Art incarnate.
04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Upon the altar of the wonderful;
Her hours were a ritual in a timeless fane;
05.03 - The Body Natural, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The body, precisely because of its negative natureits dumb inertia, as it is calledprecisely because it has no axe of its own to grind, that is to say, as it has no fancies and impulsions, plans and schemes upon which it can pride itself, precisely because of this childlike innocence, it has a wonderful plasticity and a calm stability, when it is not troubled by the mind or vital. Indeed, the divine qualities that are secreted in the body, which the body seeks to conserve and express are a stable harmony, a balance and equilibrium, capable of supporting the whole weight of all the levels of consciousness from the highest peak to the lowest abysses even as physically it bears the weight of the entire depth of the atmosphere so lightly as it were, without feeling the burden in the least.
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05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, although it may sound somewhat strange and wonderful, nevertheless it is literally true that the body is the fortress par excellence for the individual being: it is not merely an ugly dirty clothing that has to be cast off so that one may go straight to the enjoyment of the beatitude of Paradise; on the contrary, it is, as it were, an armour, a steel-frame that protects the subtle body against the attacks or harsh and cruel touches of other worlds and their beings. Once outside the body, there is every danger for the individual to go astray and be hurt, unless he is guided and protected by a guardian angel, as Dante has had Virgil as his Maestro. We may note here that the passage of Dante from Hell through Purgatory to Heaven across their various levels is almost an exact image of what happens to a soul after death. The highest Heaven where Dante meets Beatrice may be considered as the psychic world and Beatrice herself the Divine Grace that bathes, illumines and comforts the psychic being.
If one has, however, within oneself an ardent and sincere and un flickering flame, one can go through more or less easily and unscathed; but that is rare. Even when alive, in sleep one goes out often into other worlds and the foreign and unpleasant contacts and experiences he has there are recorded in the brain-mind as nightmares: on such occasions the best way to escape is to rush back into the body, the best place of safety. Many have this experience of rushing headlong into the bodydropping into the body, as it werein order to escape from a threatening danger in sleep and waking up all on a sudden to find to one's relief that all was illusion and hallucination.
06.15 - Ever Green, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Whenever you go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the familiar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go ahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening unexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your physical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your adventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, forget your habit of eating or even walking, truly forget and try to learn over again, even as you did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a capacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness, what fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid yourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence, the physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic formation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void of all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight into the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions. The world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original beauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the normal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a fixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the summum bonum. That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and young and new.
The preacher who speaks of the truth and delivers it to his hearers is usually effective for the first time or for a first few occasions only, when he feels the truth of his truth and is sincere while delivering. But as time wears on, his truth too wears out, for it becomes stereotyped, a matter of mere habit. The experience is no longer lived, but mechanically doled out. You are sincere only when the experience is new and fresh and living, it should be made so every moment, otherwise it is dead letter, letter that killeth.
06.26 - The Wonder of It All, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The ordinary consciousness takes for granted the things that exist as they are. It does not question; it finds everything very natural and as a matter of course. It sees and expects to see the same old familiar things repeated and is not struck by any extraordinary note in them. That is the unconsciousness of the ordinary consciousness. But when you begin to be conscious, when you look about and gaze at things, you awake, as it were, from sleep, and begin to question, to wonder: why is it like this, how is it so, what is it, to what purpose etc. etc. Normally you see the sun rise, rain fall, earth rotate but you do not spend a thought over any of these objects or happenings, except so far as they are useful or simply nuisance. But when there is a light in you and you become conscious, conscious of yourself and of things around you, everything acquires an importance, a sense and you are full of wonder, wondering at a wonderful creation. The more you advance, the more the light grows in you, all the more your wonder increases. As your awareness increases, your interest too increases. A new beauty surrounds, flows out of every object and event. You do not take things for granted and let them pass mechanically, but greet everyone of them as a guest, with whom you wish to make acquaintance and be familiar, each one having a message for you and yourself something to deliver. That is a source of inexhaustible delight and of ever increasing knowledge.
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07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the green wonderful and perilous earth;
It hoped in a brief body to survive,
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And action wonderful and time divine.
Even the smallest meanest work became
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Luminous with mysteried lips and wonderful eyes;
Or from her heart emerged some burning face
07.12 - This Ugliness in the World, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Everything in the world has at its source a supreme truth, how is it then that the world has become ugly in its expression? Why are things at all ugly? Because there are other things that intervene between the Source and the manifestation. For example, if I asked you: Do you know your true being? what would you say? You do not know; it would be wonderful if you did. It is the same with all beings and things. And yet you are already a sufficiently developed being, a thinking being, and have gone through many stages of refinement; you are not quite the lizard crawling on the wall! Still you cannot tell what is the truth of your being. That is the secret of the deformation in the world. It is because there is all the unconsciousness the Inconscient that has been created by the fact of separation from one's origin. It is this inconscience which prevents the Source from manifesting in its own nature, although it is there always. It is there, therefore that all things exist, the world exists; but in its expression it is deformed, because it has to manifest itself through inconscience, through ignorance and obscurity. But how did it come about? The will to create was originally a will that projected itself towards individual formation; what it arrived at, however, was not the true individual (or individualisation) but a breaking up of the solid unity into infinitesimal fragments. The original indivisible unity became a sum of infinitely divided unities. These unities or units were individualisations of things separate and feeling and acting as such. It is precisely the feeling of separation from others that gives you the impression that you are an individual. Otherwise you would feel that you were only a fluid mass. That is to say, you are no longer conscious simply of your rigid outer form and all that cuts you off from others and makes of you a separate individual, you are conscious of the vital forces that move about everywhere, of the inconscient that is the foundation of all, you have the impression that you are a moving mass with all kinds of contradictory movements in it, which cannot be separated from each other. You would not have the impression that you are an individual being, but that you are something like one note or vibration in a whole complex. The original will was to form individual beings capable of becoming conscious again of their divine origin. This process of individualisation created the necessity that to be an individual one must feel oneself separate: that is why one is cut off from the original consciousness, at least apparently, and is fallen into inconscience. For the Life of life is the Origin alone and if it is separated from that source, consciousness naturally turns into unconsciousness and you lose trace of the truth of your being. That is the process of the creation or formation of the world by which the pure origin does not manifest directly in its essence and purity, but through deformation, that is to say, unconsciousness and ignorance. That is how ugliness came in, death and disease, wickedness and misery and all. It is the movement, I say, brought in by the necessity of individual formation that has produced these things, each and every one of them, that is the one source of the multiple evil in all its modes and vibrations. I do not say this was indispensable that problem I may take up later on. But for the moment I direct you to the source in order to show the remedy. And there is no point in questioning why it is so. As I said, the only way to settle the world problem is to be conscious again, to recover the lost consciousness. Of course, if you say like some religions that good is good and evil is evil and they will always remain so, then there is no longer any problem. An eternal struggle binds the two together and whichever wins for the moment will make the world a little better at one moment and a little worse at another. But the two exist, continue to exist eternally and indissolubly intertwined. But you have seen it is not like that; one can come out of the tangle into the perfect unity of the truth, for it is that which is the only and original source.
It is this perfect truth, let me repeat, that has scattered itself abroad, into these innumerable little atoms, into these insignificant brain cells which, in spite of all their ignorance, are still moved by a secret stir of consciousness: these little specks of darkness reach out towards light which they can find, for it is within them. They will arrive at what they seek. It may take time more or less, but they will reach in the end. That is then the remedy: it lies in the very heart of evil itself.
07.13 - Divine Justice, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You must understand once for all that the Divine, when he acts is not moved by human notions. Possibly he does things even without what we call reason. In any case the reasons are not of the human kind; above all, the Divine has not that sense of justice which man has. For example, when you see a man full of greed for money, trying to cheat people just for the sake of getting a few rupees, your idea of justice cries out that such a man should be deprived of all money, he must be reduced to poverty. But actually you find things happening to the contrary. Although that is only the appearance of the situation; behind there is an altogether different picture. The greedy gets the object of his greed, but he has to make an exchange, give up some other possibilities. He gets money but he loses in his consciousness. And then it also happens very often that when he does get what he desired so much, he finds himself not so happy, generally he is even less happy than before: he is tormented by the wealth he has gained. You must not judge things by apparent success or by apparent failure. One can say, on the whole, that the Divine gives what one asks for and that is the best way in which one gets his lesson. If your desire is ignorant, unconscious, obscure, selfish, you increase in yourself ignorance, unconsciousness, obscurity and selfishness, that is to say, you move away more and more from truth and consciousness and happiness, in other words, away from the Divine. For the Divine, however, there is only one thing which is true, the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Union. Each time you put material things in front of you, you become more and more material, you push behind more and more the Divine. To the eye of the ignorant you may have all the appearance of wonderful success, but this success, from the standpoint of truth, is a terrible defeat, you have bartered truth for falsehood.
To judge by appearances, by apparent success is an act of complete ignorance. Even in the case of a person hardened to the core, who has apparently the utmost success, there is a counterpart: exactly this hardening, this evil that is put up thicker and thicker between the outer consciousness and the inner truth becomes also more and more unbearable. The outer success has to be paid for very dearly. One must be very great, very pure, one must have a very high, very unselfish spiritual consciousness to be able to succeed and yet not be affected. There is nothing so difficult to bear than success. That is the true test in life. When you are not successful, you turn very naturally to yourself, go within you, seek there comfort for the outer failure. And they who have the Flame within them and the Divine helping them truly, that is to say, if they are mature enough to get the help, if they are ready to follow the path, must expect blows coming upon them one after another, because that helps. Indeed that is the most powerful, most direct and most effective help. But if you have 'Success, take care! Ask yourself, at what price you have had it? What is the thing you have paid for the success? Of course, there are people of a different kind. They who have gone beyond, who are conscious of their soul, who are entirely surrender they can succeed and success does not touch them. But one has to rise very high to be able to shoulder the burden of success. It is perhaps the last and final test that the Divine puts to anyone. He says: Now that you are noble and high and unselfish, you belong to Me alone. I shall make you triumph. We shall see if you can bear the blow!
07.14 - The Divine Suffering, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Divine's compassion, translated in the individual physical consciousness, becomes a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sorrow that is an expression of one's identification with the universal sorrow through sympathy. I have described the experience at some length in one of the Prayers and Meditations. I spoke there of the sweetest tears that I shed in life; for those tears were not for my sake, I was not weeping for myself. In almost every case man grieves for egoistic reasons, in the human way. Whenever anyone loses a person he loves, he suffers and weeps, not over the condition of the person: in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred or even more, people do not know in what condition the person gone may be, do not and cannot know if the person is happy or unhappy, if he is suffering or is in peace. It is the sense of separation that causes the grief, the feeling that he will not be with them anymore which they so much wish. At the root of all human sorrow, there lies this return upon one's own self, more or less conscious, more or less admitted. But when you feel unhappy for the unhappiness of others, there comes in a mixture. That is to say, to your personal grief is added a psychic element which I described as the reversed image of the Divine Compassion. Now, if you can distinguish between the two, the personal anguish and the disinterested sorrow, come out of what is egoistic and concentrate upon the divine element, make yourself one with it, then you can in that way come in contact with the great universal compassion, which is something immense, vast, calm, mighty, pro-found, which is perfect peace and infinite Bliss. If you know then how to enter into your suffering, go down to the very bottom of it, pass beyond the portion that is egoistic and personal, go farther on, then you arrive at the door of a wonderful revelation. Not that you should seek suffering for the sake of the suffering and in order to have the experience; but when it is there, when it has come upon you, then try what I have suggested, cross the border, the barrier of egoism in your suffering: note first where is the egoistic part, what is it that makes you suffer, what is the egoistic reason of your suffering, then step across and beyond, towards something universal, towards a greater principle. You enter then into the vast, the infinite compassion, the door of the Psychic opens for you. If, in that domain, you see me in tears, as you say you did in your dream, then you can identify yourself with me at the moment, enter into those tears as it were, melt into them. That will open the door and it will bring you an experience, a very unique experience that leaves always a deep mark upon the consciousness. It is never blotted out altogether even if the door closes again and you become once more what you are in your ordinary movements. That experience, that mark remains behind and you can recall it, go back to it, refer to it in your moments of concentration. You feel then the immensity of an infinite sweetness, a great peace, pervading all your being, it is not in your thought only; it goes out and sympathises with everything and can cure everything.
Only you must sincerely wish, you must have the will, to be cured. Everything lies there. Now I always come back to the same theme. You must be sincere. If you want an experience for the sake of the experience and, once you have it, to go back to your ordinary ways, that will not do. You must sincerely will to be curedcured precisely of the ordinary waysyou must have the aspiration, the true aspiration to overcome the obstacle, to mount up and up, above and beyond yourself, so that you may drop all that pulls you back, drags you down, to break all limits, clarify and purify yourself, rid yourself of all that lies in your way. If you have this will, the true intense will not to fall back into past errors, to rise out of obscurity and ignorance towards the light, shorn of all that is human, too humantoo small, too ignorant then that will and that aspiration shall act, act gradually, strongly and effectively bringing you a complete and definitive result. But beware, there must be nothing that clings to the old movements, that does not declare itself but hides its head and when the occasion is opportune puts up its snout.
07.20 - Why are Dreams Forgotten?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To become conscious of all the various movements of your nights, to recover them in your memory, some sort of training is necessary. The different states of the being in which you roam at night are, as you have seen, usually separate from each other. There is a gap in between two states; you jump from one to the other. There is no highway passing through all the domains of your consciousness connecting them without break or interruption. That means forgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, you push back, that is forget, the one you leave behind. So you have to construct a bridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose end of a thread and then pull, pull slowly, till image after image comes back: it is something like the unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction. When you lose trace, stop and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever stray bit or faint impression still persists or can be more easily revived and then again pull slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the bits. In this way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a good part of the lost underworld.
There are, however, many ways of setting about the thing. For you must know that your nights are not all the same. Each one is different and brings its own kind of sleep and dream. As each day is different having its own particular kind of activity, each night too likewise comes with its peculiar experiences. You may think that one day is more or less exactly like the previous day, that you are doing the same thing from day to day; but it is not so. Outwardly the activities may appear to be the same, but really their nature and significance vary from one day to another. No two moments are alike in the universe. Your night too is an universe of its own kind. Each night brings its own problem and needs its own solution.
07.24 - Meditation and Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have never seen people who left off everything to sit in a more or less empty meditation making any progress; in any case their progress is very small. On the contrary, I have seen people, full of enthusiasm for the work of transformation in the world, devoting themselves to that work without reservation: they give themselves up with no idea of personal salvation. Yes, it is such people I have seen making the wonderful progress. On the other hand, I have seen very many living in monasteries: well, they are not worth talking about. It is not by running away from the world that you will change it: it is only by working steadily at it that you can bring about the change.
Does this mean that meditation is of no use at all?
07.38 - Past Lives and the Psychic Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A psychic memory has a very definite character; it has a wonderful intensity. It stores the unforgettable moments of life, those when the consciousness was most luminous, most powerful, most active. They are the happiest and the most fortunate moments of life. But they cannot be spoken about.
There are people who say and perhaps believe too that they were such and such persons and even give a detailed description of their past lives. There are also the well-known sprit communications through a medium at spirit sitting. Someone comes and tells you he was Napoleon, another was Shakespeare and so on. How many Shakespeares and Napoleons and Caesars have manifested in this way, there is no counting! There are spirits who are extremely talkative and bewitch you with extraordinary stories, many that seem so true and genuine on the face, many others, of course, full of the grossest self-contradictions. The fact, however, is that usually these spirits are small beings of the vital, often remnants of a dead person, broken bits of his decomposed personality, desires that have persisted, coagulated imaginations set free that move about and seek to possess and settle upon a living person. The small spirits of the vital are often not of good disposition; they amuse themselves at the cost of the gullible human being, making a fool of him. In that world it is easy to read the mind of others: the spirit sees clearly what is there in your head even if you do not speak it out. That is how it reveals secrets known to you alone, even secrets you have totally forgotten. They can imitate other personalities. They know many other small tricks to confuse or astound you.
08.01 - Choosing To Do Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You all, my children, I may tell you,I have already told you many times and I still repeat, you live in an uncommon freedom. Externally there are a few small restrictions, for, as we are many, and have not the whole earth at our disposal, we have to submit ourselves to some discipline to a certain extent, so that there may not be too much disorder; but internally you live in wonderful liberty, no social restraint, no moral restraint, no intellectual restraint, no fixed principle, nothing is there, save and except a light. If you wish to profit by it, you get the profit; if you do not want, you are free not to profit by it.
But the day you make a choice, and when you do it with all sincerity and you feel within you a radical decision, things become, as I say, quite different. There is the light and there is the way to follow, straight on, one must not turn aside. It deceives none and none can deceive it. Yoga, you must know, is not just a play. When you choose, you must know what you have done. And when you have chosen your way, you must stick to it. You have no more the right to hesitate. You have to go ahead. That is all.
08.04 - Doing for Her Sake, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Through centuries it has been preparing itself in you, not naturally in this body, which is the most recent, but in your true being: for centuries it has been waiting for this occasion. You see how wonderful it all is! You see the things that one has hoped for since long ago, for which one has prayed so much, laboured so much, find now the hour when they are being realised. It is the hour when great things are being done. One must not miss the occasion.
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08.26 - Faith and Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The psychic being has this trust, has it in a wonderful manner, without a shadow, without a question, without contradiction; and when it is there, there is no prayer that remains unanswered, no aspiration unfulfilled.
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08.28 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Up there, it is the domain of absolute freedom. Who tells you that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer cannot change the course of the unfolding? It means everything is possible. This is one wonderful grace that has been granted to human nature. Only one does not know how to make use of it.
So, in spite of the most absolute determinism in the horizontal line, one can, if one is able to cross it and reach the highest point of consciousness, change what appears to be absolutely determined.
08.33 - Opening to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One must have around oneself an atmosphere so condensed, condensed in a spirit of total surrender, that nothing can enter without being automatically filtered. There are wicked thoughts, evil will about you, harmful formations sent out by bad people. The air pullulates with these: dark noisome bacilli. It is so troublesome to be always on the look-out, at every step to be on one's guard, to move slowly with care and caution and precautions; even then one is not sure. But if you cover yourself with the cloak of light, the light of a happy, sincere surrender, and aspiration, that is a wonderful filter, that gives you automatic protection. The undesirable forces not only cannot enter, they are thrown back upon their originator, the attackers themselves become their own victims.
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09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Looked back with his wonderful eyes at Savitri.
But Death pealed forth his vast abysmal cry:
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The wonderful, the charioteer, the swift?
A traveller of the million roads of life,
09.04 - The Divine Grace, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And if to that now you add the ardour of faith and trust in the Divine Grace and that self-giving to the Grace which makes you wait upon the Divine for everything, then it becomes a formidable matter. You can see before your eyes things happening more and more, the most wonderful things realised one after another.
But there are conditions to fulfil: a great purity must be there and a great intensity in the self-giving and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the Divine Grace which knows better than us what is truly good for ourselves. If the aspiration is offered to That and the offering is made truly and with enough intensity, the result will be marvellous.
09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is a force of this kind that is the origin of the phenomenon of crystallisation. Crystals gather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. Stones that crystallise, rock crystals, for example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their absolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing the Force of Love.
You do not see the thing, because you have not the inner sensibility. But once you have the direct perception of the forces of love behind things you see that it is everywhere the same. And you can even come to understand what man-made manufactured things tell you.
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All wonderful things are there around you: You do not see them, or see them occasionally only, at a moment when you are a little more receptive, or perhaps in sleep, when you are less exclusively occupied with your petty affairs. Then a light comes to you of something; you see, you feel something. But generally, as soon as you wake up, all that is obliterated by the formidable ego that is full of itself.
If you look at yourself closely you will see that it is always like that. Your vision of the universe is this: that you are at the centre and the universe is around you. It is not the universe that you see but you see yourself in the universe. So there is no room for any other thing.
09.11 - The Supramental Manifestation and World Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Then there would be no limit to the possibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world as it is.
All this I am telling you so that each one of you may put as few barriers as possible against future possibilities. And that is my conclusion.
09.18 - The Mother on Herself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When I began to practise occultism, as I started working with my nights, making them conscious, I found that between the subtle physical level and the most material vital there was a small region, very small indeed, that was not developed well enough to serve as a conscious link between the two. So what happened in the most material vital was not being accurately translated into the consciousness of the most subtle physical. Something was lost in the passage which was however not quite empty but only half-conscious, not adequately developed. I knew there was only one way, namely to go on working for the development. I started working sometime in February, I suppose. One month, two months, three, four months passed with no result. I continued. Five months, six months. Then in July or August I left my home in Paris for the country-side. I came to a very small place near the seaside and stayed with friends. There was a garden there. And in the garden a fine green turf and flowers and trees all round. It was a pretty little quiet place. It was very quiet, very silent. One day I lay myself down on the grass, flat on the face resting on my elbows (among the grass). Suddenly the whole life of this nature, the whole life of the intermediate region I am speaking of, which is most living in the plant and in physical nature, all this domain became all on a sudden, unexpectedly, without any transition, absolutely living, intense, conscious, wonderful. This was the result of the continuous activity of six months that had not given any result till then. I did not know it; just a little favourable condition and the result is there. It is like the chick in the egg. It has been there for a long time but you do not see it. You ask doubtfully if there is any chick at all inside the egg. And then suddenly a crack, a small hole the egg bursts and the chick comes out, quite formed and whole and entire. It took all this time to form itself. So it is like this. When you wish to pre pare something within you it is like the preparation of the chick inside the shell. It takes a long time and there is not the least result. But you must not be disheartened. You must continue your effort, as before, regularly as if the whole of eternity were before you, thoroughly disinterested in the result. One day the result bursts upon you, the whole result of all your work.
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1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
We are gradually led by this proclamation of the Veda into a tremendous vision of life which requires of us to have a superhuman power of will to grasp the interrelationship of things. This difficulty of grasping the meaning of the interrelationship of things is obviated systematically, stage by stage, gradually, by methods of practice. These methods are called yoga the practice of yoga. I have placed before you, perhaps, a very terrible picture of yoga; it is not as simple as one imagines. It is not a simple circus-master's feat, either of the body or the mind, but a superhuman demand of our total being. Mark this definition of mine: a superhuman demand which is made of our total being not an ordinary human demand of a part of our being, but of our total being. From that, a demand is made by the entire structure of life. The total structure of life requires of our total being to be united with it in a practical demonstration of thought, speech and action this is yoga. If this could be missed, and of course it can easily be missed as it is being done every day, then every effort, from the smallest to the biggest, becomes a failure. All our effort ends in no success, because it would be like decorating a corpse without a soul in it. The whole of life would look like a beautiful corpse with nicely dressed features, but it has no vitality, essence or living principle within it. Likewise, all our activities would look wonderful, beautiful, magnificent, but lifeless; and lifeless beauty is no beauty. There must be life in it only then has it a meaning. Life is not something dead; it is quite opposite of what is dead. We can bring vitality and life into our activity only by the introduction of the principle of yoga.
Yoga is not a technique of sannyasins or monks, of mystics or monastic disciples it is a technique of every living being who wishes to succeed in life. Without the employment of the technique of yoga, no effort can be successful. Even if it is a small, insignificant act like cooking food, sweeping the floor, washing vessels, whatever it is even these would be meaningless and a boredom, a drudgery and a stupid effort if the principle of yoga is not applied.
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Allowed by Heaven and wonderful to man
A sweet fire-rhythm of passion chants to love.
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The wager wonderful, the game divine.
What liberty has the soul which feels not free
--- Overview of adj wonderful
The adj wonderful has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (14) fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous ::: (extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement")
--- Similarity of adj wonderful
1 sense of wonderful
Sense 1
fantastic, grand, howling(prenominal), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(prenominal), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
=> extraordinary (vs. ordinary)
--- Antonyms of adj wonderful
1 sense of wonderful
Sense 1
fantastic, grand, howling(prenominal), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(prenominal), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
INDIRECT (VIA extraordinary) -> ordinary
--- Pertainyms of adj wonderful
1 sense of wonderful
Sense 1
fantastic, grand, howling(prenominal), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(prenominal), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
--- Derived Forms of adj wonderful
1 sense of wonderful
Sense 1
fantastic, grand, howling(prenominal), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(prenominal), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
RELATED TO->(noun) wonderfulness#1
=> admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness
--- Grep of noun wonderful
wonderfulness
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Angels in the Endzone(1997) - Wonderful World of Disney's follow-up to ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD. This time around, Christopher Lloyd and the angels return to help out a school's football team. Also stars Paul Dooley and Matthew Lawrence.
Some Kind of Wonderful(1987) - What would YOU do to win the girl of your dreams? Keith spends his college money and plans out the wazoo to make his date with the popular Amanda Jones one she'll remember. But could his best friend, tomboy Watts be a better match? Growing up was never easy, because sometimes the best things in li...
Foul Play(1978) - Not short on murder, mayhem, or any other screwball '70s conventions, Foul Play is a wonderful vehicle for Goldie Hawn. She plays Gloria, a librarian "ready to take a chance again," who ends up the target of an assassination ring. Chevy Chase, fresh off of Saturday Night Live, does the closest thing...
The Greenstone(1980) - Obscure, low budget film about a kid who ventures into an enchanted forest that just happens to be located right behind his house. Despite some of the film's perceived flaws upon first glance, it bears a very unique and atmospheric quality. It also begins with a wonderfully written monologue about t...
All That Jazz(1979) - Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is an over-stressed, over-sexed and drug-addled choreographer who, at the same time, is directing a Broadway musical and editing a movie, all the while dealing with issues of family and lovers. The movie is a wonderful mixture of musical, drama and dark comedy, with great p...
Chances Are(1989) - Alex has a lifetime full of wonderful memories. But unfortunately, they're not his.
Beyond Witch Mountain(1982) - This little-known follow-up to ESCAPE TO and RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN first aired on "The Wonderful World of Disney" in 1982. Tony (Andy Freeman) and Tia (Tracey Gold) return to Earth to find their uncle's lost grandson, but it isn't long before Aristotle Bolt (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) discovers that...
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit(1998) - Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Sin...
After Hours(1985) - Aaah, New York City in the 80s. Sleaze, crime, depravity...It was wonderful, wasn't it? A young man named Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is about to be plunged into the maelstrom of the city in 1985. A computer processor with a dull life, Hackett visits a coffee shop one night and meets a young woman...
Miracle Beach(1992) - A romantically hapless young man named Scott has his life changed when he finds the proverbial genie-in-a-bottle, in this case a very comely lass named Jeannie. With Jeannie granting wishes left and right, Scott soon has a fine house, a wonderful car, and a chance to impress the girl of his dreams....
Magic Adventures of Mumfie: The Movie(1996) - What do you do when you're a little elephant who lives all alone and has no one to play with? If you're an elephant named Mumfie, you set out for an adventure ... and does he ever find it! Along the way, Mumfie makes two wonderful new friends: the wise Scarecrow and Pinkey, an extraordinary piglet w...
Eloise at the Plaza(2003) - Eloise is a fun-loving six-year-old girl with a knack for finding adventure every place she looks. While under the care of her "rawther" wonderful nanny (Julie Andrews), Eloise tries to play matchmaker to a lonely prince and wrangle an invitation to the society event of the season.
Life-Size(2000) - This made-for-TV movie debuted on The Wonderful World of Disney in March 2000, and stars Lindsay Lohan & Tyr
The Legend of the Candy Cane(2001) - In this wonderfully animated adaptation of The Legend of the Candy Cane, youll discover a fascinating story of hope and the hidden meaning of a favorite Christmas candythe candy cane. Based on the best-selling book, The Legend of the Candy Cane, this recreated and expanded version will introduce y...
The Way We Were(1973) - Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
The Bullfighters(1945) - The Bullfighters is Laurel and Hardy's last Hollywood film appearence where the boys are Peoria detectives visiting Mexico. Stan became a wonderful Bullfighter. But there were gangsters who were threatening the boys to be skeletons. And they were, Resulting a gag from "Going Bye-Bye
Old Yeller(1957) - Based on Fred Gipson's novel it is about a boy and his wonderful dog who saves their family from bears,cows,wolves and pigs set in late 1860s Texas it is a sad and heart warming story about this wonderful dog.
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie(2002) - Take the basic story of It's a Wonderful Life. Add Muppets. This what you get! An angel named Daniel (David Arquette) watches Earth on Christmas Eve in horror. Kermit the Frog and his friends, through a series of mishaps, misplace their theater's December rent payment to the wicked Rachel Bitterman...
It's A Wonderful Life(1946) - It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and privately published in 1945. The film is considered one of the most loved films in American cinema and has...
Broken(2006) - After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.
The Hotel New Hampshire(1984) - The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
The Sea Gypsies(1978) - A man and a woman and 3 children start to sail around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very dangerous for them in the beginning. They live through a lot of wonderful adventure together and they become a big family.
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Curious George (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- G | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 10 February 2006 (USA) -- The Man in the Yellow Hat is an oddball museum employee who looks after his pet monkey, an inquisitive and wonderful creature whose enthusiasm often gets the best of him. Director: Matthew O'Callaghan Writers: Ken Kaufman (screenplay), Ken Kaufman (story) | 3 more credits Stars:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) ::: 8.6/10 -- PG | 2h 10min | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7 January 1947 (USA) -- An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. Director: Frank Capra Writers:
Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 51min | Action, Drama, Romance | 8 August 2003 (USA) -- A developmentally disabled young man tries to continue the work his father did in communicating with extra-terrestrials from outer space, which leads to something miraculous and wonderful. Director: Rakesh Roshan Writers:
Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! ::: Kono subarashii sekai ni shukufuku o! (original tit ::: TV-14 | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV Series (2016-2017) Episode Guide 21 episodes Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Poster It was a happy day for Kazuma - right up to the moment he died. A goddess intervenes and offers him a second chance in a magical land. Stars: Jun Fukushima, Sora Amamiya, Rie Takahashi
Looking for Alibrandi (2000) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4 May 2000 (Australia) -- Alibrandi ultimately concerns a senior high school girl embracing her Italian heritage, but moving toward the less traditional Australian way of life. A wonderful cast who play their roles ... S Director:
Looking for Alibrandi (2000) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4 May 2000 (Australia) -- Alibrandi ultimately concerns a senior high school girl embracing her Italian heritage, but moving toward the less traditional Australian way of life. A wonderful cast who play their roles ... S Director: Kate Woods Writers: Melina Marchetta (screenplay), Melina Marchetta (novel) Stars:
Pokemon Abridged ::: Connections -- Episode Guide 33 episodes Pokemon the 'Bridged Series Poster Ash along with Lazy Brock and Crazy Misty set out on rambunctious adventures in the wonderful world of Pokemon. Stars: Michael Hecht, Jesse Nowack, Jerry Pakalinsky Add to Watchlist
Sky Blue (2003) ::: 6.7/10 -- Wonderful Days (original title) -- Korea) Sky Blue Poster -- 2142: Pollution and climate change wiped out most of Earth's population. Ecoban city is built to withstand this. Suppression results in revolt. A childhood couple find each other as adults on opposing sides. Director: Moon-saeng Kim
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 35min | Drama, Romance | 27 February 1987 (USA) -- When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith. Director: Howard Deutch Writer:
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) ::: 7.3/10 -- TV-PG | 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Family | TV Movie 13 December 2008 -- Corporate analyst and single mom, Jen, tackles Christmas with a business-like approach until her uncle arrives with a handsome stranger in tow. Director: Michael M. Scott Writer:
The Ricky Gervais Show ::: TV-MA | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (20102012) -- Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant talk to Karl Pilkington about important things in life whilst Karl provides anything but intelligent answers. Comedy at its finest with wonderful animation. Creators:
The Way We Were (1973) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 58min | Drama, Romance | 19 October 1973 (USA) -- Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart. Director: Sydney Pollack Writer: Arthur Laurents
This Is Us ::: TV-14 | 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (2016 ) -- A heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles and their wonderful parents. Creator: Dan Fogelman
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Aria the Animation -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life Fantasy Shounen -- Aria the Animation Aria the Animation -- Drift peacefully into Neo Venezia, a city on the planet Aqua (formerly known as Mars). By the 24th century, humans have found a way to colonize the previously uninhabitable planet. As futuristic as that sounds, Neo Venezia is still teeming with rustic beauty; gondolas on wide canals and waterways are the main mode of transportation. The city itself is a faithful replication of Manhome's (the planet formerly known as Earth) Venice. -- -- To make sure that residents and tourists alike get the most from Neo Venezia's many wonders, companies offering guided tours via gondola were formed, one of which is named Aria Company. -- -- This is the workplace of Akari Mizunashi, a free spirited teenager from Manhome who is now a novice Undine (the title given to tour guides). Join Akari as she becomes intimately acquainted with other Undine, tourists, Neo Venezia's residents, and even the city itself, learning many valuable life lessons along the way, such as the wonderful truth that there are such things as manmade miracles. -- -- 131,217 7.69
Aria the Animation -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life Fantasy Shounen -- Aria the Animation Aria the Animation -- Drift peacefully into Neo Venezia, a city on the planet Aqua (formerly known as Mars). By the 24th century, humans have found a way to colonize the previously uninhabitable planet. As futuristic as that sounds, Neo Venezia is still teeming with rustic beauty; gondolas on wide canals and waterways are the main mode of transportation. The city itself is a faithful replication of Manhome's (the planet formerly known as Earth) Venice. -- -- To make sure that residents and tourists alike get the most from Neo Venezia's many wonders, companies offering guided tours via gondola were formed, one of which is named Aria Company. -- -- This is the workplace of Akari Mizunashi, a free spirited teenager from Manhome who is now a novice Undine (the title given to tour guides). Join Akari as she becomes intimately acquainted with other Undine, tourists, Neo Venezia's residents, and even the city itself, learning many valuable life lessons along the way, such as the wonderful truth that there are such things as manmade miracles. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 131,217 7.69
Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance School -- Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen Clannad: After Story - Mou Hitotsu no Sekai, Kyou-hen -- Included in the 8th and final DVD of Clannad ~After Story~ is an extra episode set in an alternate universe. Here, Fujibayashi Kyou is the main heroine in place of Furukawa Nagisa. -- -- Love can be wonderfully exciting, but also extremely painful. Fujibayashi Ryou, Kyou's sister, is in love with Okazaki Tomoya, the male protagonist. With the help of Kyou, Ryou manages to sum up the courage to ask him out and now Tomoya and Ryou are a couple. However, as things progress, Kyou begins to acknowledge her feelings for Tomoya, and a love-triangle is formed. -- -- As everything is revealed, the sisters learn the pains of love and try to decide between the two loves of their life: Tomoya, or each other. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Jul 1, 2009 -- 225,544 7.84
.hack//Gift -- -- Bee Train -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Fantasy Game -- .hack//Gift .hack//Gift -- As an expression of gratitude for the heroes of both the ".hack//Sign" and the ".hack" game series, Helba has prepared a special event for all the characters to find the newly established "Twilight Hot Springs." The characters can get their well deserved rest and relaxation by having a soak in the wonderful hot springs, but there is only one problem—the hot springs are hidden and there have been mysterious player murders. With the only clue being the word “GIFT," the race has begun to find the culprit and the location of the hot springs. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Nov 16, 2003 -- 19,215 6.15
.hack//Roots -- -- Bee Train -- 26 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Fantasy Game Sci-Fi -- .hack//Roots .hack//Roots -- After the termination of the incredibly popular virtual reality MMORPG "The World," a new version of the game—The World R:2—is brought online. On his first day in the game, newcomer Haseo thinks he has made some friends to quest with. However, as if mocking his sentiments, they kill his character just for fun. Luckily, he is saved by a mysterious, one-armed player named Ovan who offers to show him around The World. -- -- Alongside Ovan and his cleric friend Shino, Haseo enjoys a wonderful first year in the game. But this peaceful life is shattered when Shino's character is killed by a familiar figure notoriously known as Tri-Edge, whose victims have all fallen into comas in the real world. In a fit of rage, Haseo vows to find the elusive Tri-Edge and kill him. -- -- Taking place during Haseo's first year in The World, .hack//Roots explores the friendships Haseo built in the game before Tri-Edge ripped them away. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- TV - Apr 6, 2006 -- 67,429 6.90
.hack//Roots -- -- Bee Train -- 26 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Fantasy Game Sci-Fi -- .hack//Roots .hack//Roots -- After the termination of the incredibly popular virtual reality MMORPG "The World," a new version of the game—The World R:2—is brought online. On his first day in the game, newcomer Haseo thinks he has made some friends to quest with. However, as if mocking his sentiments, they kill his character just for fun. Luckily, he is saved by a mysterious, one-armed player named Ovan who offers to show him around The World. -- -- Alongside Ovan and his cleric friend Shino, Haseo enjoys a wonderful first year in the game. But this peaceful life is shattered when Shino's character is killed by a familiar figure notoriously known as Tri-Edge, whose victims have all fallen into comas in the real world. In a fit of rage, Haseo vows to find the elusive Tri-Edge and kill him. -- -- Taking place during Haseo's first year in The World, .hack//Roots explores the friendships Haseo built in the game before Tri-Edge ripped them away. -- -- TV - Apr 6, 2006 -- 67,429 6.90
Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World -- -- Asahi Production -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Fantasy Harem Romance Shoujo -- Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World -- The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with bishounen characters and added romance. -- -- A parody of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormatlike. -- -- In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet darkly cynical. Instead of the tradition story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place call Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight and more... What should Alice do in such a world!? -- -- (Source: MU) -- Movie - Jul 30, 2011 -- 28,342 6.07
Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Slice of Life Drama Romance -- Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi -- A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan's Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her days reading and painting until by chance she encounters Tsuneo, and decides it's time to face the real world. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- Movie - Dec 25, 2020 -- 66,606 7.98
Kaijuu no Kodomo -- -- Studio 4°C -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Drama Mystery Seinen Supernatural -- Kaijuu no Kodomo Kaijuu no Kodomo -- One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, "Umi" and "Sora," whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh... -- -- Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses! -- Movie - Jun 7, 2019 -- 50,894 7.15
Kanojo, Okarishimasu -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Kanojo, Okarishimasu Kanojo, Okarishimasu -- Kazuya Kinoshita is a 20-year-old college student who has a wonderful girlfriend: the bright and sunny Mami Nanami. But suddenly, he doesn't. Without warning, Mami breaks up with him, leaving him utterly heartbroken and lonely. Seeking to soothe the pain, he hires a rental girlfriend through an online app. His partner is Chizuru Mizuhara, who through her unparalleled beauty and cute demeanor, manages to gain Kazuya's affection. -- -- But after reading similar experiences other customers had had with Chizuru, Kazuya believes her warm smile and caring personality were all just an act to toy with his heart, and he rates her poorly. Aggravated, Chizuru lambastes him for his shameless hypocrisy, revealing her true pert and hot-tempered self. This one-sided exchange is cut short, however, when Kazuya finds out that his grandmother has collapsed. -- -- They dash toward the hospital and find Kazuya's grandmother already in good condition. Baffled by Chizuru's presence, she asks who this girl might be. On impulse, Kazuya promptly declares that they are lovers, forcing Chizuru to play the part. But with Kazuya still hung up on his previous relationship with Mami, how long can this difficult client and reluctant rental girlfriend keep up their act? -- -- 519,024 7.37
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Slice of Life -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series -- When 15-year-old Kino is feeling weighed down by heavy thoughts, one thing always manages to cheer her up: traveling. Nothing fills her heart with joy like exploring the beautiful, wonderful world around her and the fascinating ways people find to live. However, Kino is not as helpless as her cute appearance and courteous demeanor suggest. Armed with "Cannon" and "Woodsman," her trusted handguns, Kino isn’t afraid to kill anyone who would dare to get in her way. Always by her side is her best friend and loyal companion Hermes, a sentient motorcycle, who supports Kino through the sorrows and hardships of their journey. Together, they travel the vast countryside with the shared goal of always moving forward, and a single rule: never stay in one country for more than three days. -- -- As Kino and Hermes encounter new people and learn the rules of their civilizations, they grow and find out more about their own values and virtues. But as Kino slowly discovers the world around her, she also finds herself facing dangers that linger within the vast unknown. -- -- 149,872 7.59
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Slice of Life -- Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series -- When 15-year-old Kino is feeling weighed down by heavy thoughts, one thing always manages to cheer her up: traveling. Nothing fills her heart with joy like exploring the beautiful, wonderful world around her and the fascinating ways people find to live. However, Kino is not as helpless as her cute appearance and courteous demeanor suggest. Armed with "Cannon" and "Woodsman," her trusted handguns, Kino isn’t afraid to kill anyone who would dare to get in her way. Always by her side is her best friend and loyal companion Hermes, a sentient motorcycle, who supports Kino through the sorrows and hardships of their journey. Together, they travel the vast countryside with the shared goal of always moving forward, and a single rule: never stay in one country for more than three days. -- -- As Kino and Hermes encounter new people and learn the rules of their civilizations, they grow and find out more about their own values and virtues. But as Kino slowly discovers the world around her, she also finds herself facing dangers that linger within the vast unknown. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 149,872 7.59
Mahoujin Guruguru -- -- Nippon Animation -- 45 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoujin Guruguru Mahoujin Guruguru -- There is a small village called Jimuna on the continent of Jamu Jamu. This village is home to a girl named Kukuri. She is the last descendant of the Migu Migu Tribe. She is raised by an old witch who teaches her the secret magic of the tribe, but Kukuri is not a good student. -- -- In the same village lives a boy named Nike. He has been raised by very strict parents. They discipline their son to become a brave hero of the village. Nike himself does not want to be a hero at all, but he grows up to become a mighty boy. -- -- One day the king of the village, Kodai, recruits troops to fight against the ruler of the darkness, Giri. Kukuri and Nike are accepted. The two children, the strong but reluctant hero Nike, and the eager but unskilled little witch Kukuri, set out on a wonderful journey full of adventures and friendship. -- -- (Source: Nippon Animation) -- 8,960 7.61
Mahoutsukai no Yome -- -- Wit Studio -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoutsukai no Yome Mahoutsukai no Yome -- Chise Hatori, a 15-year-old Japanese girl, was sold for five million pounds at an auction to a tall masked gentleman. Abandoned at a young age and ridiculed by her peers for her unconventional behavior, she was ready to give herself to any buyer if it meant having a place to go home to. In chains and on her way to an unknown fate, she hears whispers from robed men along her path, gossiping and complaining that such a buyer got his hands on a rare "Sleigh Beggy." -- -- Ignoring the murmurs, the mysterious man leads the girl to a study, where he reveals himself to be Elias Ainsworth—a magus. After a brief confrontation and a bit of teleportation magic, the two open their eyes to Elias' picturesque cottage in rural England. Greeted by fairies and surrounded by weird and wonderful beings upon her arrival, these events mark the beginning of Chise's story as the apprentice and supposed bride of the ancient magus. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 650,881 8.09
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- -- Wit Studio -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- After many hardships in her life, Chise Hatori ended up at an auction, where she was purchased and then freed by the renowned Thorn Sorcerer, Elias Ainsworth, only to stay and become his apprentice. Though her life is wonderful now, the arrival of a picture book, "The Lonely Little Star," brings back memories of those trying times and the loneliness she endured. -- -- As a child, Chise experienced a great tragedy: her mother's death. Shunned and unwanted by peers and relatives alike, she has lived a detached and pitiful life. However, the unexpected discovery of a mysterious library in the forest provides her with a temporary place of solace. Through reading countless books and spending time with the kindhearted librarian, Chise slowly begins to feel less alone in the world. But could this peculiar library have a darker side? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- OVA - Sep 10, 2016 -- 225,972 8.13
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- -- Wit Studio -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- After many hardships in her life, Chise Hatori ended up at an auction, where she was purchased and then freed by the renowned Thorn Sorcerer, Elias Ainsworth, only to stay and become his apprentice. Though her life is wonderful now, the arrival of a picture book, "The Lonely Little Star," brings back memories of those trying times and the loneliness she endured. -- -- As a child, Chise experienced a great tragedy: her mother's death. Shunned and unwanted by peers and relatives alike, she has lived a detached and pitiful life. However, the unexpected discovery of a mysterious library in the forest provides her with a temporary place of solace. Through reading countless books and spending time with the kindhearted librarian, Chise slowly begins to feel less alone in the world. But could this peculiar library have a darker side? -- -- OVA - Sep 10, 2016 -- 225,972 8.13
Ni no Kuni -- -- OLM -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Adventure Magic Fantasy -- Ni no Kuni Ni no Kuni -- Best friends Yuu, Haru, and Kotona enjoy a tranquil high school life together. One day, however, a suspicious man pursues and stabs Kotona—a catastrophe that Yuu and Haru fail to prevent. While hastily carrying the girl to the hospital, the two boys are nearly hit by a truck but miraculously remain unharmed. Instead, they find themselves in a fairy-tale-like kingdom with an exotic diversity of people and wonderful creatures. -- -- To their surprise, the boys discover that Yuu, who has been confined to a wheelchair since childhood, can now walk! Yet they have no time to ponder the puzzling situation, as their friend is gone. Setting off to find Kotona, Yuu and Haru stop at a local pub to inquire about her. But upon inspecting a picture of Asha, the kingdom's princess, the two have a shocking revelation. -- -- Narrating an extraordinary adventure in a magical world, Ni no Kuni demonstrates the special connection between two separate yet parallel worlds and its manifestation of the bonds between individuals. -- -- Movie - Aug 23, 2019 -- 35,450 6.39
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Memory Snow -- -- White Fox -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Drama Fantasy -- Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Memory Snow Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Memory Snow -- Subaru Natsuki finally gets to take a breather, but he does not waste any time as he prepares for a date with his beloved Emilia. He scouts the nearby village for the right dating spot, and with the help of the village children, he finds a wonderful location. With that, he is well prepared for his date! -- -- Unfortunately for Subaru, cold weather suddenly sweeps across Roswaal's mansion on his important day, leaving him with no choice but to postpone the date. Overnight, it becomes even colder and unbearable. Subaru must get to the bottom of this because, at this rate, his date will be the least of his worries. -- -- Movie - Oct 6, 2018 -- 206,473 7.55
Sakura Trick -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School Seinen Shoujo Ai -- Sakura Trick Sakura Trick -- Having been best friends since middle school, Haruka Takayama and Yuu Sonoda plan to attend Misato West High School together. However, despite being assigned to the same class, a cruel twist of fate has them seated on the opposite ends of their classroom! To make matters worse, their school will shut down in three years, making them the final intake of first-year students. Undeterred by this chain of unfortunate events, Haruka is set on sticking with Yuu, striving to create many wonderful memories with her. -- -- Much to Haruka's jealousy however, Yuu's easygoing demeanor quickly attracts the attention of their female classmates. Sympathizing with her friend's growing insecurity, Yuu ends up sharing a deep, affectionate kiss with her in an empty classroom. The act intensifies their bond as "special friends," gradually revealing a different aspect to their unique friendship while also inviting new conflicts. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jan 10, 2014 -- 215,977 7.00
Sakura Trick -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School Seinen Shoujo Ai -- Sakura Trick Sakura Trick -- Having been best friends since middle school, Haruka Takayama and Yuu Sonoda plan to attend Misato West High School together. However, despite being assigned to the same class, a cruel twist of fate has them seated on the opposite ends of their classroom! To make matters worse, their school will shut down in three years, making them the final intake of first-year students. Undeterred by this chain of unfortunate events, Haruka is set on sticking with Yuu, striving to create many wonderful memories with her. -- -- Much to Haruka's jealousy however, Yuu's easygoing demeanor quickly attracts the attention of their female classmates. Sympathizing with her friend's growing insecurity, Yuu ends up sharing a deep, affectionate kiss with her in an empty classroom. The act intensifies their bond as "special friends," gradually revealing a different aspect to their unique friendship while also inviting new conflicts. -- -- TV - Jan 10, 2014 -- 215,977 7.00
Shelter -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Music -- Sci-Fi Music -- Shelter Shelter -- Day 2539: Rin wakes up alone again with blurred memories and still no contact from any other human. She's not bored, however, because in her arms lies a tablet capable of creating any world her heart desires. Day after day, Rin crafts a wonderful reality—one utopia at a time—to shelter her from loneliness, hoping to one day reveal the truth behind her very existence. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- Music - Oct 18, 2016 -- 274,088 8.33
Tamayura: Hitotose -- -- TYO Animations -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Comedy Drama -- Tamayura: Hitotose Tamayura: Hitotose -- As a little girl, Fuu Sawatari’s father taught her to love photography. They took pictures everywhere they went. But after he passed away, seeing those photographs only served as a reminder of her loss, so she locked them away to be forgotten. Years later, her brother Kou finds their father’s picture album, and as he flips through its pages, the pictures remind Fuu of all the happy memories of her father that she will carry with her forever. -- -- Now, as the shy Fuu enters her first year of high school, she once again takes up her father’s old camera, determined to take wonderful pictures that will bring joy and happiness to others. -- -- (Source: Nozomi Entertainment) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 39,207 7.31
Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? OVA -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Comedy Ecchi Fantasy -- Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? OVA Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki Desu ka? OVA -- Unaired 13th episode. -- -- To thank the group for all their hard work in the past, Shirase invites the party to enjoy the sunny beach. While enjoying the wonderful weather and pristine waters, an accident causes Masato to lose all his memories, including those of Mamako! -- -- (Source: Funimation) -- OVA - Mar 25, 2020 -- 29,524 6.05
Wonderful Days -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Drama Romance Sci-Fi -- Wonderful Days Wonderful Days -- Set in 2142, Wonderful Days depicts a world that has been nearly destroyed by environmental pollution. Human life as we know it is almost extinct, and only a few were able to pull through the collapse of Earth's ecosystem. In order to deal with the chaos, a city named Ecoban was created. The city uses the very pollution that caused the disaster as an energy source. -- -- However, although the initial plan was successful to an extent, it didn't just create a new source of energy, but also an elite group of people. This prestigious faction believes that they are above the system, and are not willing to accept survivors from outside the city unless they are put to work as laborers. -- -- Among the people living in the wasteland outside Ecoban is a young man named Shua. He leads a very difficult life, but tries to make the most of it through the love that he feels for his childhood friend Jay. Unfortunately, Jay may be more interested in her security commander Cade than in Shua, and thus a love triangle is formed. Not only does Shua have to deal with the heartbreak, but he must also find a new way to survive in the crumbles left from the once-beautiful planet Earth. -- Movie - Jul 17, 2003 -- 31,680 7.04
xxxHOLiC -- -- Production I.G -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Mystery Psychological Supernatural -- xxxHOLiC xxxHOLiC -- Kimihiro Watanuki can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures—for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 7, 2006 -- 256,800 8.01
xxxHOLiC -- -- Production I.G -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Mystery Psychological Supernatural -- xxxHOLiC xxxHOLiC -- Kimihiro Watanuki can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures—for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events. -- -- TV - Apr 7, 2006 -- 256,800 8.01
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