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  • A man may have been born in a city famous for its idiosyncratic culture and yet, the very habits, fashions, and ideas that exalt that city in the eyes of the world may make no sense to him at all.†   (source)
  • A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed, was sown in me and left to germinate.†   (source)
  • She was a marble white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse but at the same time completely unlike a horse, for from the magnificently modeled back sprang a nobly formed torso, arms, and a head resembling a man's, but a man with a perfection of dignity and virtue, an exaltation of joy such as Meg had never before seen.†   (source)
  • After the lieutenant had gone, we began singing the national anthem, "High we exalt thee, realm of the free, great is the love we have for thee …." and marching, smoking and sniffing the cocaine and brown brown that was in abundance at Bauya.†   (source)
  • In addition, Owen felt that "THE ELEVATION OF THE STAGE AND THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE MORNING LIGHT PROVIDE THE HEADMASTER WITH SUCH AN EXAGGERATED PLATFORM FROM WHICH TO SPEAK; AND OFTEN, THERE'S A KIND OF SPOTLIGHT, PROVIDED BY THE SUN, THAT GIVES US ALL THE FEELING THAT WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN EXALTED PERSONAGE.†   (source)
  • The Vatican exalted the perfection of the circle and insisted heavenly motion must be only circular.†   (source)
  • People aren't ordinarily carried in chairs in New Hampshire, and as they raised him up he looked very strange to me, like some tragic and exalted personage, a stricken pontiff.†   (source)
  • The suit families had relationships with mayors of principalities and influential business men, with key members of what remained of the queendom's military force-relationships that would have to be exploited for her profit and exaltation.†   (source)
  • To allow the talentless to have exalted privileges and suppress what could be the greatest minds in the world for the sake of an archaic organization system is cruel, and it only stops us from becoming the best we can be.†   (source)
  • I learned about veneers and gilding, what a mortise and tenon was, the difference between ebonized wood and true ebony, between Newport and Connecticut and Philadelphia crest rails, how the blocky design and close-cropped top of one Chippendale bureau rendered it inferior to another bracket-foot of the same vintage with its fluted quarter columns and what he liked to call the "exalted" proportions of the drawer ratio.†   (source)
  • This is a small hymn to an exaltation of women.†   (source)
  • I confess that I felt something closer to exaltation than fear.†   (source)
  • The virtues it exalted above all others were precision, consistency, and predictability.†   (source)
  • I had gone over some kind of line with the dogs, gone back into some primitive state of exaltation that I wanted to study.†   (source)
  • That he should be there now, a man of such exalted professional stature in an office so high above the city, would have come as a great and satisfying surprise to his late father.†   (source)
  • The second reason is perhaps less exalted.†   (source)
  • I had never asked any girl out, much less the exalted Dorothy Plunk.†   (source)
  • For the first time, Hiro can hear the exaltation of the crowd.†   (source)
  • This other process , TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA , was nowhere near as exalted or exalting, but it was every bit as mysterious …. and every bit as necessary.†   (source)
  • I say nothing when they exalt these military thugs who have made a mockery of our democracy.†   (source)
  • The sky takes on content, feeling, an exalted narrative life.†   (source)
  • Her idea of herself, for instance, is much more exalted than her present circumstances warrant.†   (source)
  • All his judgments had been superficial, based on appearance and actions, things easily interpreted by whatever state of mind or prejudice that supported the need to exalt himself, or to feel safe, or to belong.†   (source)
  • Exalted by that certainty, she assumed command of her fate.†   (source)
  • The commonest Sardaukar trooper lives a life, in many respects, as exalted as that of any member of a Great House.†   (source)
  • The Romantics exploited this in an almost unrestrained 'ego-worship,' which led to the exaltation of artistic genius.†   (source)
  • Mameha seemed to know everyone, and always made a point of smiling or saying something kind, even to the most junior maids, because she understood well that she owed her exalted position to the people who thought highly of her.†   (source)
  • It took some time for the singers to come off their level of exaltation, but the minister stood resolute until the song unwound like a child's playtoy and lay quieted in the aisles.†   (source)
  • I am sorry that I had to subject you to the misery of public presentation, Eragon, but as I am sure you are aware, you occupy an exalted position among the Varden, and I cannot keep you to myself anymore.†   (source)
  • "Oh, come let us adore Him, Oh, come let us adore Him" : a cathedral choir, an exalted music that moved Perry to tears-which refused to stop, even after the music did.†   (source)
  • This thought exalted him and made him feel safe.†   (source)
  • He spelled out the Klan hierarchy as it proceeded from the local to the national level: an Exalted Cyclops and his twelve Terrors; a Great Titan and his twelve Furies; a Grand Dragon and his nine Hydras; and the Imperial Wizard and his fifteen Genii.†   (source)
  • A cousin, perhaps, to someone exalted.†   (source)
  • But even as grief, borne of telegrams, began to flow into households such as the Blocks', a different kind of current, a current of exaltation, gathered its own momentum in the nation.†   (source)
  • And how did you come to live in such an exalted position?†   (source)
  • The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.†   (source)
  • …the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.†   (source)
  • This time it was music sincerely felt, not rendered for the guests, but for themselves; a song of hope and exaltation.†   (source)
  • Then the usual garbage: harboring enemies of the state due to laxness, their exalted positions once again protected by the Komitet-that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • It was the first building in America designed to exalt the nationalspirit, in what would come to be known as the Federal style.†   (source)
  • I thought that she could teach me much about how to manage alone as a woman in the world, how to embrace my state and even exalt in it, as she seemed to.†   (source)
  • For the Faith to exalt one above the rest we must be certain.†   (source)
  • She had expected him to be horrified, but instead he looked exalted.†   (source)
  • I would not wish others to think that the 'exalted Archmage' has superseded your authority.†   (source)
  • In her childhood, his statue had been Dagny's first concept of the exalted.†   (source)
  • How then shall I dare freely to unfold to you my mind in a matter which may imperil the life of this exalted Prince?†   (source)
  • And I turned into the applause, exalted, running, wild on the court.†   (source)
  • All the creatures had come to see the exalted Eugenia Spence, high priestess of the Order, now a lowly captive of the Winterlands.†   (source)
  • Well, Mr. Chief, we shall see how exalted you feel when your black carcass is being burned at the stake in Havana.†   (source)
  • Everyone's just thankful you stayed as long as you did; everyone's falling all over themselves because it's such a rare and exalted privilege when you honor us with your presence."†   (source)
  • If term limits were going to force him to descend from the exalted eminence forever and if he knows that no merit on his part could save him, he would be tempted to find a way to prolong his power.†   (source)
  • Safia had clearly grown accustomed to her exalted status.†   (source)
  • With practically nothing to exalt the mind or exercise the spirit, any man is going to sink to his lowest depths.†   (source)
  • It was an exaltation really, lofty as the summer sun; I felt buoyed up by fraternal arms holding me in a snug, loving, compassionate embrace.†   (source)
  • It is not often in a man's life that he attains the exalted rank of "temporary Honorary Colonel.†   (source)
  • I was in a mood close to holy exaltation.†   (source)
  • The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion, and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith, the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders.†   (source)
  • Their talk was full of exclamations, they paced excitedly up and down the room, marvelling at each other's perspicacity, or stood in silence by the window drumming on the glass, deeply moved by the exalting discovery of how completely they understood each other.†   (source)
  • The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums.†   (source)
  • Maclay was disgusted that, in place of "the most delicate honor, the most exalted wisdom and the most refined generosity" governing every act and deed of his colleagues, as he had expected, he found "the basest selfishness…… Our government is a mere system of jockeying opinions: 'Vote this way for me, and I will vote that way for you.'†   (source)
  • This state of exaltation was heightened, or even brought about, by the fact that I was in love then for the first time: I had identified love at once.†   (source)
  • "Listen," he cried in exaltation.†   (source)
  • [This is said in an exalted tone.†   (source)
  • Now she was here, the woman, clothing his bare little house with her presence, he could hardly contain himself with pleasure and exaltation.†   (source)
  • It has never been my weakness to exalt the flesh--far from it; but there is enough of the artist in me to appreciate its wonder.   (source)
  • exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser
  • The philosophical theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas sought to do justice to the natural knowledge of God while at the same time exalting the revealed knowledge in the gospel, and it wove the disparate parts of the tradition into a unified whole.   (source)
  • These paintings exalt the imagination
  • The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.   (source)
  • a libertarian who exalts liberty
  • looking for a community that does not exalt materialism
  • The exaltation, the lunatic enthusiasm, was still in his face.   (source)
    exaltation = extreme happiness from praising or glorifying
  • Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity.   (source)
  • A quiet moment of exaltation passed between them and they headed for the kitchen.†   (source)
  • You want the race, the exaltation, the joy and beauty of it to go on and on….†   (source)
  • The Liberal exaltation had been extinguished into a silent terror.†   (source)
  • And now I was seized with a fierce sense of exaltation.†   (source)
  • It was to climb down from the exaltation of the Domain, to grasp reality again.†   (source)
  • I take pen and paper out and write: Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; ' lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless…†   (source)
  • Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and…†   (source)
  • Heights of splendor, pride, exaltation in one month: depths of wretchedness, suffering, hunger, cold, in the next.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glowed with exaltation.†   (source)
  • -an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire.†   (source)
  • In the degrees of exaltation the first is the stoppage of all motion in the profoundest of movements.†   (source)
  • Reviewing Melquiades' notes, serene now, without the exaltation of novelty, in prolonged and patient sessions they tried to separate Ursula's gold from the debris that was stuck to the bottom of the pot.†   (source)
  • …upon his back, though they are upright and uncongealed, and perhaps if you and your gracious father are moons that sail and dip in the rainbow lines of Saturn's rings, I am but a true, but a proud tree, on the mountain of the moon, standing upright in the cool light of the blessed protector, whose cloak of silk like a luminous mantle is draped across the stars, and from the dog that rides in the godly sea of space, this exaltedness runs in train, trying to lap its blessed luminous sap.†   (source)
  • I could see him vividly, half-drunk on words and full of contempt and exaltation, pacing before the blackboard chalked with quotations from Joyce and Yeats and Sean O'Casey; thin, nervous, neat, pacing as though he walked a high wire of meaning upon which no one of us would ever dare venture.†   (source)
  • Then, to split the reverie of the mood, to shatter the spirit of exaltation over the successful crossing of the river and the return, Mrs. Brown poked her head in the doorway, saying " 'Scuse me, I'd like to have a word with your babies, Mr. Conroy."†   (source)
  • The Elysian chorus, thrusting itself up through the muttering chatter of Floss and his aide below, stabbed her with such astonished exaltation that she rose spontaneously from her seat at the typewriter, as if in homage, faintly trembling.†   (source)
  • It was not the implacable blue dome that arched over the farm, enclosing it in cycle of unalterable seasons; it was a soft flower-blue, and she felt, in her exaltation, that she could run off the pavement into the blue substance and float there, at ease and peaceful at last.†   (source)
  • The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve.†   (source)
  • "Go!" cried King Billy, stutter forgotten, voice exalted, a blazing mass of poetry in each hand.†   (source)
  • As my heart exalted Allah, my mind began to take in information about Allah's works.†   (source)
  • She arrived exalted, rejuvenated, with new clothes in a style that was unknown in the village.†   (source)
  • How could the Kingslayer belong in such exalted company?†   (source)
  • Why, I'm in doubt whether the exalted grand master of smees could have managed such a thing.†   (source)
  • Tell me, if Ambiades has an exalted grandfather, why doesn't he have a better cloak?"†   (source)
  • Yes, the mortal leap is a gift of holy gracious sap from the exalted one.†   (source)
  • There are gentlemen such as your father, and you, who are of exalted status.†   (source)
  • The glory and the joy of the blessed sap and the exalted one!†   (source)
  • But this very thing was discovered by the exalted one to be a deception.†   (source)
  • It was an exalted thing to deposit my seed within such a beautiful vessel.†   (source)
  • You're friendly, you followers of the exalted one.†   (source)
  • Everyone willingly made himself smaller the better to exalt those leaders.†   (source)
  • Her words in my ear—words importunate, unfake now—were exaltingly obscene and satisfying.†   (source)
  • But often, I'll think of this day, oh exalted one, and of this hour, when my eyes beheld a holy man.†   (source)
  • And—thus is my thought, oh exalted one,—nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!†   (source)
  • But in compensation, I reasoned, I had more exalted goals.†   (source)
  • This is what the teachings require, this is what the exalted one wants.†   (source)
  • Very good are the teachings of the exalted one, how could I find a fault in them?†   (source)
  • We have both heard the exalted one, we have both perceived the teachings.†   (source)
  • Quoth the woman: "Many times I have seen him, the exalted one.†   (source)
  • Salvation from the self is what we Samanas search for, oh exalted one.†   (source)
  • Quoth Siddhartha: "Yesterday, oh exalted one, I had been privileged to hear your wondrous teachings.†   (source)
  • "I wish that you, oh exalted one, would not be angry with me," said the young man.†   (source)
  • Silently the exalted one nodded his approval.†   (source)
  • You should know, in Jetavana, in the garden of Anathapindika is where the exalted one dwells.†   (source)
  • Mortati was not naive enough to think that the shouts of joy and amazement now thundering through the crowd were exaltations from bearing witness to one of Christianity's most sacred relics.†   (source)
  • She was not intimidated because she felt herself inspired by an exalted courage that would have enabled her to move the world.†   (source)
  • Walsh's problem with Singleton's exalted self-image had nothing to do with the color of his skin but with the position he played.†   (source)
  • This other process , TRYING TO HAVE AN IDEA , was nowhere near as exalted or exalting, but it was every bit as mysterious …. and every bit as necessary.†   (source)
  • Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?†   (source)
  • All they had to do was crook their fingers and the girls would come running, eager to be known as the girlfriend of a member of the exalted Big Creek team.†   (source)
  • The harbor was dotted with vessels of every description, which appeared mere specks from our exalted position, and the reflected rays of the beautiful sunset cast a gleam upon the surrounding scenery, making a picture lovely to behold.†   (source)
  • Sullivan's low opinion of Burnham and the fair was counterbalanced only by his own exalted view of himself and what he saw as his role in attempting to bring to architecture something fresh and distinctly American.†   (source)
  • It was something to pull me out of my limited mortal ways and thrust me into a state of exalted wonder.†   (source)
  • These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind, a lion or a cheetah (the life of a gnu or of an aardvark is rarely exalted).†   (source)
  • May I present Lord Prusias, Exalted Ruler of Blys, Defender of the— "Enough, enough," growled Prusias, shooing the imp away.†   (source)
  • That's precisely my point, Agent Cooper—if even an exalted teacher can be corrupted, what can be said for the rest of your Order?†   (source)
  • Jason concentrated on the ground; the exalted passengers were about to enter the elongated vehicle with their most trusted aides amid sustained applause.†   (source)
  • He caught a sense that the boy felt highly flattered by the gunslinger's companionship-perhaps even exalted by it-and this disturbed him.†   (source)
  • Then a flaxen-haired page dressed in a tunic stitched with the Varden's standard—a white dragon holding a rose above a sword pointing downward on a purple field—marched through the open doorway at the far end of the hall, struck the floor with his ceremonial staff, and, in a thin, warbling voice, announced, "His Most Exalted Royal Highness, Grimrr Halfpaw, King of the Werecats, Lord of the Lonely Places, Ruler of the Night Reaches, and He Who Walks Alone.†   (source)
  • Their stories would be exalted, absorbed by something larger, the long arching journey of the baseball itself and his own cockeyed march through the decades.†   (source)
  • But we do appreciate you clarifying the key points: I suppose it's my responsibility as a leader to swallow my pride and glean whatever other insights our exalted Archmage has to offer.†   (source)
  • Only that sex is the one secret we have that approximates an exalted state and that we share, two people share wordlessly more or less and equally more or less, and this makes it powerful and mysterious and worth sheltering.†   (source)
  • I will exalt you.†   (source)
  • Hickock's attorney, Harrison Smith, forty-five, six feet tall, a golfer, an Elk of exalted degree, accepted the task with resigned grace: "Someone has to do it.†   (source)
  • The faint smear of face, almost hidden by the boy's left shoulder, looked both terrified and exalted.†   (source)
  • The historian will search for those o, cult causes that induced her to exalt an individual who has neither that innocence of sensibility which incites it to love, nor that omnipotence of intellect which commands us to admire.†   (source)
  • An exalted state of mind could easily put her into a trance in which she would move around the room while sitting in a chair, as if there were a hidden motor underneath the cushions.†   (source)
  • "Know, O enlightened Prince," said the Grand Vizier, "that until the year in which your exalted father began his salutary and unending reign, the land of Narnia was covered with ice and snow and was moreover ruled by a most powerful enchantress."†   (source)
  • A thousand occasions exalted delight …. a succession of warm showers all day, my threshers, my gardeners, and my farmers all behaved better than usual, and altogether kept me in a kind of trance of delight the whole day.†   (source)
  • Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers-as industrialists.†   (source)
  • The volunteers were mainly art students but there were others as well, history majors and teachers on leave and nomads and runaways, coming and going all the time, burnt-out hackers looking for the unwired world, they were people who heard the call, the whisper in the ear that sends you out the door and into some zone of exalted play.†   (source)
  • The vapor stayed intact for some time, the astronauts fallen to sea but also still up there, graved in frozen smoke, and he lay awake in the night and saw that deep Atlantic sky and thought this death was soaring and clean, an exalted thing, a passing of the troubled body into vapor and flame, out above the world, monogrammed, the Y of dying young.†   (source)
  • You, who dare to regard us as the moral inferiors of any mystic who claims supernatural visions-you, who scramble like vultures for plundered pennies, yet honor a fortune-teller above a fortune maker-you, who scorn a businessman as ignoble, but esteem any posturing artist as exalted-the root of your standards is that mystic miasma which comes from primordial swamps, that cult of death, which pronounces a businessman immoral by reason of the fact that he keeps you alive.†   (source)
  • These are traits in his character which peculiarly fit him for the exalted station he holds, and God grant that he may hold it with the same applause and universal satisfaction for many, many years, as it is my firm opinion that no other man could rule over this great people and consolidate them into one mighty empire but he who is set over us.†   (source)
  • In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memory of its dead enemy.†   (source)
  • It was during that time that Ursula, began to speak Rebeca's name, bringing back the memory of her with an old love that was exalted by tardy repentance and a sudden admiration, coming to understand that only she, Rebeca, the one who had never fed of her milk but only of the earth of the land and the whiteness of the walls, the one who did not carry the blood of her veins in hers but the unknown blood of the strangers whose bones were stillcloc ing in their grave.†   (source)
  • We agreed that because of my condition we would refrain from speaking of the exalted one and the blessed sap.†   (source)
  • The frozenness of the blessed sap, the exalted gracious sap, will unfreeze, and the world will catch fire.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he thought he was living in a mountain of bones, and that the exalted one was going to go there to pick him up.†   (source)
  • "Because," Orfeo said, gravely, "when the world ends, the cloak of the exalted one will drag across the Po Valley."†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of the blessed sap that flows from the cloak of the exalted one, on the eucalyptus throne, in the deep shadow of the whitened airless valley of the moon?†   (source)
  • I run the war the way I see fit, and I've been doing a good job, because I've been blessed by the exalted one, who has directed at my person great quantities of invigorating sap.†   (source)
  • It's when the exalted one infuses into the body of a scribe sufficient quantities of the sap that flows in the boiling passages of the bony valleys of the moon….†   (source)
  • And then there are the other ranks, far below the exalted ones, which are to the moons of the planets as the mountains of the moon are to the moon itself.†   (source)
  • Perhaps not the most exalted status: God and the angels, and His holy blessed Son, bless him, are certainly the most exalted, but as there is the sun and Saturn, so are there the moons that circle in rich profundity.†   (source)
  • Well, the exalted one did.†   (source)
  • The lovely adagio from the Fourth Symphony floated down, merging like the serene, steadfast throb of a human pulse with my exalted mood.†   (source)
  • "Too bad," he said, again in tones of leaden irony, "too bad, my friends, that our celebration cannot continue in the vein of exalted homage I had intended for this evening.†   (source)
  • Even when he was horribly wounded—he lost most of one of his legs on Iwo Jima—he maintained a cheerfulness I could only describe as exalted, writing me letters from his hospital bed that bubbled with a mixture of joie de vivre and Swiftian corrosiveness and energy.†   (source)
  • For even then she knew that somehow she was not finished—a truth now borne out, she was relieved to say (while sprawled on the lakeside grass), by the timid yet voluptuous gurgles of hunger that attended the exalted instant, just before biting down, when her nostrils breathed in the briny smell of pickles, and mustard, and the caraway-tinged scent of Levy's Jewish rye.†   (source)
  • So differently sound the exalted one's pure teachings, clearer, purer, more comprehensible, nothing strange, foolish, or silly is contained in them.†   (source)
  • Never again, after our exalted Gotama has become one with the Nirvana, never since then have I met a person of whom I felt: this is a holy man!†   (source)
  • Tell me, since it could not be any other way, that you also, my learned friend, will take your refuge with the exalted Buddha!†   (source)
  • "Too bold is my speech," Siddhartha continued, "but I do not want to leave the exalted one without having honestly told him my thoughts.†   (source)
  • For a long time, he had to tell her about the exalted Buddha, and Kamala had sighed and had said: "One day, perhaps soon, I'll also follow that Buddha.†   (source)
  • Kindly, he thought of him, saw his path to perfection before his eyes, and remembered with a smile those words which he had once, as a young man, said to him, the exalted one.†   (source)
  • GOTAMA In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones.†   (source)
  • When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation.†   (source)
  • Near the town was Gotama's favourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant Anathapindika, an obedient worshipper of the exalted one, had given him and his people for a gift.†   (source)
  • The face was unchanged, after under its surface the depth of the thousandfoldness had closed up again, he smiled silently, smiled quietly and softly, perhaps very benevolently, perhaps very mockingly, precisely as he used to smile, the exalted one.†   (source)
  • With a soft, yet firm voice the exalted one spoke, taught the four main doctrines, taught the eightfold path, patiently he went the usual path of the teachings, of the examples, of the repetitions, brightly and quietly his voice hovered over the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.†   (source)
  • When he had left in this very morning from the grove Jetavana, the grove of that exalted one, already awakening, already on the path towards himself, he he had every intention, regarded as natural and took for granted, that he, after years as an ascetic, would return to his home and his father.†   (source)
  • I, oh sir, am a follower of the exalted Gotama, the Buddha, the Sakyamuni, and have been on a pilgrimage together with several of us on this path, when I saw you lying and sleeping in a place where it is dangerous to sleep.†   (source)
  • On the way, Siddhartha also remembered everything he had experienced in the Garden Jetavana, the teaching he had heard there, the divine Buddha, the farewell from Govinda, the conversation with the exalted one.†   (source)
  • Again he remembered his own words, he had spoken to the exalted one, every word, and with astonishment he became aware of the fact that there he had said things which he had not really known yet at this time.†   (source)
  • I know you, oh Govinda, from your father's hut, and from the school of the Brahmans, and from the offerings, and from our walk to the Samanas, and from that hour when you took your refuge with the exalted one in the grove Jetavana.†   (source)
  • Behold, then Govinda, the shy one, also stepped forward and spoke: "I also take my refuge in the exalted one and his teachings," and he asked to accepted into the community of his disciples and was accepted.†   (source)
  • Then he happened to meet Gotama, the exalted one, and when he greeted him with respect and the Buddha's glance was so full of kindness and calm, the young man summoned his courage and asked the venerable one for the permission to talk to him.†   (source)
  • Everywhere where the rumour of Buddha was heard, everywhere in the lands of India, the young men listened up, felt a longing, felt hope, and among the Brahmans' sons of the towns and villages every pilgrim and stranger was welcome, when he brought news of him, the exalted one, the Sakyamuni.†   (source)
  • But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.†   (source)
  • He observed the man, who had neither hair on his head nor a beard, and he had not observed him for long when he recognised this monk as Govinda, the friend of his youth, Govinda who had taken his refuge with the exalted Buddha.†   (source)
  • Then, at one time, monks came by on a pilgrimage, followers of Gotama, the Buddha, who were asking to be ferried across the river, and by them the ferrymen were told that they were most hurriedly walking back to their great teacher, for the news had spread the exalted one was deadly sick and would soon die his last human death, in order to become one with the salvation.†   (source)
  • May his teachings be strange, may his words sound foolish; out of his gaze and his hand, his skin and his hair, out of every part of him shines a purity, shines a calmness, shines a cheerfulness and mildness and holiness, which I have seen in no other person since the final death of our exalted teacher.†   (source)
  • At one time, when the two young men had lived among the Samanas for about three years and had shared their exercises, some news, a rumour, a myth reached them after being retold many times: A man had appeared, Gotama by name, the exalted one, the Buddha, he had overcome the suffering of the world in himself and had halted the cycle of rebirths.†   (source)
  • Whether it may be good or bad, whether living according to it would be suffering or joy, I do not wish to discuss, possibly this is not essential—but the uniformity of the world, that everything which happens is connected, that the great and the small things are all encompassed by the same forces of time, by the same law of causes, of coming into being and of dying, this is what shines brightly out of your exalted teachings, oh perfected one.†   (source)
  • Exaltation, the flight of doves descending, is over.†   (source)
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