A Quotes
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“Asah Isah Olah Obah”
“Asajj Ventress is highly intelligent and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Skill and competence impress her.” Kenobi hesitated. “Shes also a very striking woman, physically. It might tip her off if you, er, don’t...notice her. And...she likes to trade barbs.” Vos snagged a fried kajaka root from Obi-Wan's plate and popped it into his mouth. “You were fighting her and chatting at the same time?”
Source: Dark Disciple
“Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.”
Source: Ring
“Asal kekuatan bukan pada modal di tangan, melainkan pada cara pandang yang memandu bagaimana tangan bekerja”
“Asal mau berusaha, hidup akan menyediakan segalanya.”
Source: Javier
“Asal mula adalah tanya
Kata melahirkan tanya
Tanya melahirkan kita
Kita menyibak kata
hingga timbullah tanya
Tanya yang menga-nga
di ambang jendela
di daun-daun pintu,
hingga terbesitlah tanya
di balik rok dan bajumu”
“Asalkan kita rajin belajar, kita bisa pintar kok. Apa gunanya bersekolah di tempat bagus, tapi kita nggak serius belajar? Sia-sia saja, kan?”
Source: Dead Smokers Club Part 1
“Asami and Fumi: It's my first time ever listening to yoh sing. He's good at it.
Asaoka: He's so deceitful, training all alone in secret in the bathroom or something.
Yoh: Shut up!
Asaoka: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please continue.”
“Asami:...Did you think she was cute?
Haruna: Hmm? Yeah, I thought she was cute!
Asami: Do you think she's cuter than me?
Haruna: Huh? Who's cuter!? Umm... She's more 'normal'...
Asami: Yeah, that 'normal' part of her was why she was so popular.”
Source: High School Debut, Vol. 1
“Asami soffriva si una patologia che aumentava la probabilità di aborti spontanei. Una volta saputo di essere incinta, aveva deciso di tenere il bambino comunque, anche se da madre single. Presa questa decisione, la scoperta della sua patologia era stata uno shock ulteriore. Non poteva fare a meno di pensare che fosse stata colpa sua.
Dava per scontato che anche Kurata avrebbe trovato qualcosa da dirle, tanto per consolarla. Invece, la sua prima reazione dopo aver ascoltato la sua storia fu chiedere da quanti giorni sapesse di aspettare un bambino. Quando lei gli disse che erano passate dieci settimane, lui le chiese: "Secondo te, perchè al bambino che avevi in pancia è stata concessa la vita in questo mondo per quei settanta giorni?".
D'un tratto, non riusciva a smettere di aggredirlo. Si era già rimproverata per non aver dato alla luce il suo bambino, ma sentirsi dire una cosa simile da uno che non ne aveva alcun diritto la turbava ancora di più.
Con aria pacata, Kurata attese pacificamente che Asami smettesse di piangere, poi disse: "Quel bambino ha usato i suoi settanta giorni di vita per renderti felice. Se continui a devastarti in questo modo, il tuo bambino avrà sprecato quei settanta giorni".
Il suo messaggio non voleva essere consolatorio: le indicava una strada per cambiare il modo di interpretare il dolore che stava provando.
"Invece, se adesso provi a essere felice, il tuo bambino avrà messo a frutto i suoi settanta giorni. E in quel caso, la sua vita avrà avuto senso. Solo tu puoi dare senso alla vita che ha ricevuto in dono. Perciò devi fare il possibile per essere felice. E la persona che lo vorrebbe di più è proprio il tuo bambino".
Sentendolo parlare così, ad Asami mancò quasi il fiato. La profonda disperazione che le gravava sul cuore cominciò a dissiparsi, e ogni cosa le parve più chiara.
"Cercando di essere felice, posso dare senso alla vita del mio bambino". Ecco la risposta.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades
“Asami: ...Why'd you chase after me? It's not like you care about me!!
Yoh: Well that's true. But, things would be more complicated if I didn't chase after you.”
Source: High School Debut, Vol. 12
“Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and reclaim the innate wisdom of your body. But it is only after you rediscover the self-luminous nature of your own mind that you will begin to experience the true power of asana. That discovery comes from the meditative aspect of yoga.”
“Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.”
“ASANA
Now I shall instruct you regarding the nature of asana or seat. Although by 'asana' is generally meant the erect posture assumed in meditation, this is not its central or essential meaning. When I use the word 'asana' I do not mean the various forms of asana’s such as Padmasana, Vajrasana, Svastikasana, or Bhadrasana. By 'asana' I mean something else, and this is what I want to explain to you.
First let me speak to you about breath; about the inhaling breath-apana, and the exhaling breath-prana. Breath is extremely important in meditation; particularly the central breath-madhyama-pranan, which is neither prana nor apana. It is the center of these two, the point existing between the inhaling and exhaling breaths. This center point cannot be held by any physical means, as a material object can be held by the hand. The center between the two breaths can be held only by knowledge-jnana – not discursive knowledge, but by knowledge which is awareness. When this central point is held by continuously refreshed awareness – which is knowledge and which is achieved through devotion to the Lord – that is, in the true sense settling into your asana.
On the pathway of your breath maintain continuously refreshed and full awareness on and in the center of breathing in and breathing out. This is internal asana. (Netra Tantra)
Asana, therefore, is the gradual dawning in the spiritual aspirant of the awareness which shines in the central point found between inhaling and exhaling.
This awareness is not gained by that person who is full of prejudice, avarice, or envy. Such a person, filled with all such negative qualities, cannot concentrate. The prerequisite of this glorious achievement is, therefore, the purification of your internal egoity. It must become pure, clean, and crystal clear. After you have purged your mind of all prejudice and have started settling with full awareness into that point between the two breaths, then you are settling into your asana.
When in breathing in and breathing out you continue to maintain your awareness in continuity on and in the center between the incoming and outgoing breath, your breath will spontaneously and progressively become more and more refined. At that point you are driven to another world. This is pranayama." (Netra Tantra)
After settling in the asana of meditation arises the refined practice of pranayama. ‘Pranayama’ does not mean inhaling and exhaling vigorously like a bellow. Like asana, pranayama is internal and very subtle. There is a break less continuity in the traveling of your awareness from the point of asana into the practice of pranayama. When through your awareness you have settled in your asana, you automatically enter into the practice of pranayama.
Our Masters have indicated that there are two principle forms of this practice of ‘asana-pranayama’, i.e. cakrodaya and ajapa-gayatri. In the practice of ajapa-gayatri you are to maintain continuously refreshed full awareness-(anusandhana) in the center of two breaths, while breathing in and out slowly and silently. Likewise in the practice of cakrodaya you must maintain awareness, which is continually fresh and new, filled with excitement and vigor, in the center of the two breaths – you are to breathe in and out slowly, but in this case with sound.
― Swami Lakshmanjoo”
“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.”
“Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active”
“Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.”
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“Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.”
“ASBOLUTION
Our paradise is not made out of worldly things but of the broken fragments of heaven - laced with doubt and forgiveness;
Nearly silent we promise each other absolutisation for every promise we ever dared to make with words and deeds - yet I feel incomplete.”
“Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.”
Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal
“Ascend, may you find so resistance
Just know that you made such a difference
All you leave behind will live to the end
The cycle of suffering goes on
But memories of you stay strong
Some day I too will fly and find you again”
Source: Alter Bridge - One Day Remains Guitar Recorded Versions | Hard Rock and Metal Sheet Music | 11 Songs from the Debut Album | Guitar Tablature and Standard Notation | Music for Intermediate Guitarists
“Ascend the mountains and experience their tranquillity. Let them remind you of life’s beauty.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Ascend the mountains with a renewed mind and a flicker of hope. Let the fresh mountain air clear your thoughts, and let the panoramic views broaden your horizons.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19).”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“Ascender sin antes haber descendido no es aconsejable porque no hay verdadero enraizamiento en un crecimiento de esa índole.”
Source: Ogni angelo è tremendo
“Ascending and descending hills and mountains is an absolute joy on a motorcycle, not only for the roller coaster type feeling you experience, but also because of the way scenic views unfold before you as you crest a hilltop or mountain peak.”
Source: Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer
“Ascending and descending, uphill and downhill, the road inclines and slopes, sliding down yet climbing anew.”
“Ascending higher, we say…
not definable,
not nameable,
not knowable,
not dark, not light,
not untrue, not true,
not affirmable, not deniable,
for
while we affirm or deny of those orders of beings
that are akin to Him
we neither affirm nor deny Him
that is beyond
all affirmation as unique universal Cause and
all negation as simple preeminent Cause,
free of all and
to all transcendent.
(from The Mystical Theology)”
“Ascension is not arrival. Ascension is making it back.”
Source: Temple of Warm Harmony
“Ascension is the triumph of mastered emotions; a process of gaining clarity in the darkness of blind spots and struggles, allowing you to perceive with the karmic intelligence of the Soul.”
“Ascension Island
Along the western coast of the Sahara desert, about half way between the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands, lies a sand spit called Cape Barbas. In 1441, ships attached to Estêvão da Gama’s fleet were sent by Prince Henry to explore the coastline south of Cape Barbas, which, five years earlier, was the farthest point reached by any of Prince Henry’s captains. Although there are some conflicting stories regarding the discoveries of the mid-Atlantic islands, it is safe to assume that in 1501 João da Nova discovered Ascension Island. The desolate island remained deserted until it was rediscovered two years later on Ascension Day by Alfonso de Albuquerque. He was also the first European to discover the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Having been to most of these exotic locations I know that Ascension Island is the very top of a mostly submerged mid-Atlantic mountain. It is part of the mid-ocean ridge which is by far the longest mountain range on earth. As an active fault line it starts north of Iceland becoming the Reykjanes Ridge as it crosses the northern Island Nation and finishes in the Indian Ocean south of the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Because of this active ridge, South America and Africa are 1,600 miles apart and dovetail each other, spreading apart at an annual rate of about 1 1/8 inches.”
“Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?”
Source: Housekeeping: A Novel
“Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”
“Ascent with all its sportive forms of God is blissful. It terminates in Absolute. Then Descent comes and every state of it is full of Bliss. God is ever Blissful at every condition and realization in the body. It is called “from Absolute to His sportive forms and from sportive from to Absolute”. Nitya to Lila and Lila to Nitya. Its Bliss is enjoyed only by Avatars and none else.”
“Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza."
"Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.”
Source: Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System
“Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.”
“Asceticism.
"(from Greek askeō: “to exercise,” or “to train”), the practice of the denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal. Hardly any religion has been without at least traces or some delphic features of asceticism.
Enlightenment, meditation, yoga, natural, free, sanctuary, homelessness, technology, spirituality, depth, mindfulness, function, society, benefit.”
“Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.”
“Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.”
“Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!”
“Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”
“Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.”
“Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.”