THE MEANING OF MEDITATION (GOD)

 

                      

                           

                             WHAT IS MEDITATION?

                        THE LOVELY CITY OF GOD 

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                  *      HOW EASY A THING IS IT FOR A MAN TO PUT OFF FROM HIM ALL TURBULENT ADVENTITIOUS IMAGINATIONS, AND PRESENTLY TO BE IN PERFECT REST AND TRANQUILLITY!

               * THINK THYSELF FIT AND WORTHY TO SPEAK, OR TO DO ANYTHING THAT IS ACCORDING TO NATURE, AND LET NOT THE REPROACH, OR REPORT OF SOME THAT MAY ENSURE UPON IT, EVER DETER THEE. IF IT BE RIGHT AND HONEST TO BE SPOKEN OR DONE, UNDERVALUE NOT THYSELF SO MUCH, AS TO BE DISCOURAGED FROM IT. AS FOR THEM, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN RATIONAL OVER-RULING PART, AND THEIR OWN PROPER INCLINATION , WHICH THOU MUST NOT STAND AND LOOK ABOUT TO TAKE NOTICE OF, BUT GO ON STRAIGHT, WHITHER BOTH THINE OWN PARTICULAR, AND THE COMMON NATURE DO LEAD THEE, AND THE WAY OF BOTH THESE, IS BUT ONE.

                  * I CONTINUE MY COURSE BY ACTIONS ACCORDING TO NATURE, UNTIL I FALL AND CASE, BREATHING OUT MYLAST BREATH INTO THAT AIR, BY WHICH CONTINUALLY BREATHENED IN I DID LIVE, AND FALLING UPON THAT EARTH, OUT OF WHOSE GIFTS AND FRUITS MY FATHER GATHERED HIS SEED, MY MOTHER HER BLOOD, AND MY NURSE HER MILK, OUT OF WHICH FOR SO MANY YEARS I HAVE BEEN PROVIDED, BOTH OF MEAT AND DRINK. AND LASTLY, WHICH BEARETH ME THAT TREAD UPON IT , AND BEARTETH WITH ME THAT SO MANY WAYS DO ABUSE IT, OR SO FREELY MAKE US OF IT, SO MANY WAYS TO SO MANY ENDS.

                    

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                  * NO MAN CAN ADMIRE THEE FOR THY SHARP ACUTE LANGUAGE, SUCH IS THY NATURAL DISABILITY THAT WAY. BE IT SO, YET THERE BE MANY OTHER GOOD THINGS, FOR THE WANT OF WHICH THOU CANST NOT PLEAD THE WANT OR NATURAL ABILITY. LET THEM BE SEEN IN THEE, WHICH DEPEND  WHOLLY FROM THEE, SINCERITY, GRAVITY, LABORIOUSNESS, CONTEMPT OF PLEASURES, BE NOT QUERULOUS, BE CONTENT WITH LITTLE, BE KIND, BE FREE, AVOID ALL SUPERFLUITY, ALL VAIN PRATTLING, BE MAGNANIMOUS. DOES NOT THOU PERCEIVE, HOW MANY THINGS THERE BE, WHICH NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PRETENCE OF NATURAL INDISPOSITION AND UNFITNESS, THOU MIGHTEST HAVE PERFORMED AND EXHIBITED, AND YET THOU DOES VALUNTARILY CONTINUE DROOPING DOWNWARDS? OR WILT THOU SAY.

                    *NOT TO WANDER OF THE WAY, BUT UPON EVERY MOTION AND DESIRE, TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS JUST, AND EVER TO BE CAREFUL TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE  NATURAL APPREHENSION OF EVERY FANCY, THAT PRESENTS ITSELF.

                   * WHATSOEVER IS EXPEDIENT UNTO THEE, O WORLD, IS EXPEDIENT UNTO ME, NOTHING CAN EITHER BE UNSEASONABLE UNTO ME, OR OUT OF DATE, WHICH UNTO THEE IS SEASONABLE. WHATSOEVER THY SEASONS BEAR, SHALL EVER BY ME BE ESTEEMED AS HAPPY FRUIT, AND INCREASE. O NATURE! FROM THEE ARE ALL THIBGS, IN THEE ALL THINGS SUBSIST, AND TO THEE ALL TEND. COULD HE SAY OF ATHENS, THOU LOVELY CITY OF CECROPS, AND SHALT NOT THOU SAY OF THE WORLD, THOU LOVELY CITY OF GOD?

                    * EITHER THIS WORLD IS A KOSMOZ OR A COMELY PIECE, BECAUSE ALL DISPOSED AND GOVERNED  BY CERTAIN ORDER. OR IF IT BE A MIXTURE, THOUGH CONFUSED, YET STILL IT IS A COMELY PIECE. FOR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IN THEE THERE SHOULD BE ANY BEAUTY AT ALL, AND THAT IN THE WHOLE WORLD THERE SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT DISORDER AND CONFUSION? AND ALL THINGS IN IT TOO, BY NATURAL DIFFERENT PROPERTIES ONE FROM ANOTHER DIFFERENCED AND DISTINGUISHED, AND YET ALL THROUGH DIFFUSED, AND BY NATURAL SYMPATHY, ONE TO ANOTHER UNITED, AS THEY ARE?

                        * A BLACK OR MALIGN DISPOSITION, AN EFFEMINATE DISPOSITION, AN HARD INEXORABLE DISPOSITION, A WILD INHUMAN DISPOSITION, A SHEEPISH DISPOSITION, A CHILDISH DISPOSITION, A BLOCKISH, A FALSE, A SCURRIL, A FRAUDULENT, A TYNANICAL, WHAT THEN? IF HE BE A STRANGER IN THE WORLD, THAT KNOWS NOT THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, WHY NOT HE A STRANGER AS WELL, THAT WONDERS AT THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE IN IT?

                       * HE IS A TRUE FUGITIVE, THAT FLIES FROM REASON, BY WHICH MEN ARE SOCIABLE. HE IS BLIND, WHO CANNOT SEE WITH THE EYES OF HIS UNDERSTANDING. HE IS POOR, THAT STANDS IN NEED OF ANOTHER, AND HATH NOT IN HIMSELF ALL THINGS NEEDFUL FOR THIS LIFE. HE IS AN APOSTEME OF THE WORLD, WHO BY BEING DISCONNECTED WITH THOSE THINGS THAT HAPPEN UNTO HIM IN THE WORLD, DOTH AS IT WERE APOSTATISE, AND SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM COMMON NATURE'S RATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. FOR THE SAME NATURE IT IS THAT BRINGS THIS UNTO THEE, WHATSOEVER IT BE,THAT FIRST BROUGHT THEE INTO THE WORLD. HE RAISES SEDITION IN THE CITY, WHO BY IRRATIONAL ACTIONS WITHDRAWS HIS OWN SOUL FROM THAT ONE AND COMMON SOUL OF ALL RATIONAL CREATURES.

                      * THERE IS, WHO WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A COAT, AND THERE IS, WHO WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A BOOK, DOTH PUT PHILOSOPHY IN PRACTICE, I AM HALF NAKED, NEITHER HAVE I BREAD TO EAT, AND YET I DEPART NOT FROM REASON, SAITH ONE. BUT I SAY, I WANT THE FOOD OF GOOD TEACHING, AND INSTRUCTIONS, AND YET I DEPART NOT FROM REASON.

                     * WHT ARE AND PROFESSION WHATSOEVER THOU HAST LEARNED, ENDEAVOUR TO AFFECT IT, AND COMFORT THYSELF IN IT, AND PASS THE REMAINDER OF THY LIFE AS ONE WHO FROM HIS WHOLE HEART COMMITS HIMSELF AND WHATSOEVER BELONGS UNOT HIM, UNTO THE GODS, AND AS FOR MEN, CARRY NOT THYSELF EITHER TYRANNICALLY OR SERVILELY TOWARDS ANY.

                     * CONSIDER IN MY MIND, FOR EXAMPLE'S SAKE, THE TIMES OF VESPASIAN, THOU SHALT SEE BUT THE SAME THINGS, SOME MARRYING, SOME BRINGING UP CHILDREN, SOME SICK, SOME DYING, SOME FIGHTING, SOME FEASTING, SOME MERCHANDISING, SOME TILLING, SOME FLATTERING, SOME BOASTING, SOME SUSPECTING, SOME UNDERMINING, SOME WISHING TO DIE, SOME FRETTING AND MURMURING AT THEIR PRESENT ESTATE, SOME WOOING, SOME HOARDING, SOME SEEKING AFTER MAGISTRACIES, AND SOME AFTER KINGDOMS. AND IS NOT THAT THEIR AGE QUITE OVER, AND ENDED?

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AFTER DOING MEDITATION , HOW YOU SEE - YOUR LIFE

                                THE EXACT ART OF LIFE 

                                     MEDITATION

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        THAT INWARD MISTRESS PART OF MAN IF IT BE IN ITS OWN TRUE NATURAL TEMPER, IS TOWARDS ALL WORLDLY CHANCES AND EVENTS EVER SO DISPOSED AND AFFECTED, THAT IT WILL EASILY TURN AND APPLY ITSELF TO THAT WHICH MAY BE, AND IS WITHIN ITS OWN POWER TO COMPASS, WHEN THAT CANNOT BE WHICH AT FIRST IT INTENTED. FOR IT NEVER DOTH ABSOLUTELY ADDICT AND APPLY ITSELF TO ANY ONE OBJECT, BUT WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT IT DOTH NOW INTEND AND PROSECUTE, IT WITH EXCEPTION AND RESERVATION, SO THAT WHASOEVER IT IS THAT FALLS OUT CONTRARY TO ITS FIRST INTENTIONS, EVEN THAT AFTERWARDS IT MAKES ITS PROPER OBJECT. EVEN AS THE FIRE WHEN IT PREVAILS UPON THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IN HIS WAY. BUT A GREAT FIRE DOTH SOON TURN TO ITS OWN NATURE, AND SO CONSUME WHATSOEVER COMES IN HIS WAY, YEA BY THOSE VERY THINGS IT IS MADE GREATER AND GREATER.

                        * LET NOTHING BE DONE RASHLY, AND AT RANDOM, BUT ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE MOST EXACT AND PERFECT RULES OF ART.

                        * THEY SEEK FOR THEMSELVES PRIVATE RETIRING PLACES, AS COUNTRY VILLAGES, THE SEASHORE, MOUNTAINS, YEA THOU THYSELF ART WANT TO LONG MUCH AFTER SUCH PLACES. BUT ALL THIS THOU MUST KNOW PROCEEDS FROM SIMPLICITY IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. AT WHATTIMESOEVER THOU WILT, IT IS IN THY POWER TO RETIRE INTO THYSELF, AND TO BE AT REST, AND FREE FROM ALL BUSINESSESS. A MAN CANNOT ANY WHITHER RETIRE BETTER THAN TO HIS OWN SOUL, HE ESPECIALLY WHO IS BEFOREHEAD PROVIDED OF SUCH THINGS WITHIN, WHICH WHENOEVER HE DOTH WITHDRAW HIMSELF TO LOOK IN, MAY PRESENTLY AFFORT UNTO HIM PERFECT EASE AND TRANQUILLITY. BY TRANQUILLITY I UNDERSTAND A DECENT ORDERLY DISPOSITION AND CARRIAGE, FREE FROM ALL CONFUSION AND TUMULTUOUSNESS. AFFORD THEN THYSELF. LET THESE PRECEPTS BE BRIEF AND FUNDAMENTAL, WHICH AS SOON AS THOU DOST CALL THEM TO MIND, MAY SUFFICE THEE TO PURGE THY SOUL THOROUGHLY, AND TO SEND THEE AWAY WELL PLEASED WITH THOSE THINGS WHATSOEVER THEY BE, WHICH NOW AGAIN AFTER THIS SHORT WITHDRAWING OF THY SOUL INTO HERSELF THOU DOST RETURN UNTO.

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                  * AS GENERATION IS, SO ALSO DEATH, A SECRET OF NATURE'S WISDOM, A MIXTURE OF ELEMENTS, RESOLVED INTO THE SAME ELEMENTS AGAIN, A THING SURELY WHICH NO MA OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF, IN A SERIES OF OTHER FATAL EVENTS AND CONSEQUENCES, WHICH A RATIONAL CREATURE IS SUBJECT UNTO, NOT IMPROPER OR INCONGRUOUS, NOR CONTRARY TO THE NATURAL AND PROPER CONSTITUTION OF MAN HIMSELF.

                           * SUCH AND SUCH THINGS, FROM SUCH AND SUCH CAUSES, MUST OF NECESSITY PROCEED. HE THAT WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH THINGS TO HAPPEN, IS AS HE THAT WOULD HAVE THE FIG-TREE GROW WITHOUT ANY SAP OR MOISTURE. IN SUM, REMEMBER THIS, THAT WITHIN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, BOTH THOU AND HE SHALL BOTH HE DEAD, AND AFTER A LITTLE WHILE MORE, NOT SO MUCH AS YOUR NAMES AND MEMORIES SHALL BE REMAINING.

                         * LET OPINION BE TAKEN AWAY, AND NO MAN WILL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED. IF NO MAN SHALL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED, THEN IS THERE NO MORE ANY SUCH THING AS WRONG. THAT WHICH MAKES NOT MAN HIMSELF THE WORSE, CANNOT MAKE HIS LIFE THE WORSE, NEITHER CAN IT HURT HIM EITHER INWARDLY. IT WAS EXPEDIENT IN NATURE THAT IT SHOULD BE  SO, AND THEREFORE NECESSARY.

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                   * WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, DOTH HAPPEN JUSTLY, AND SO IF THOU DOST WELL TAKE HEED, THOU SHALT FIND IT. I SAY NOT ONLY IN RIGHT ORDER BY A SERIES OF INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES, BUT ACCORDINGLY TO JUSTICE AND AS IT WERE BY WAY OF EQUAL DISTRIBUTION, ACCORDING TO THE TRUE WORTH OF EVERYTHING. CONTINUE THEN TO TAKE NOTICE OF IT, AS THOU HAS BEGUN, AND WHATSOVEVER THOU DOST, DO IT NOT WITHOUT THIS PROVISO, THAT IT BE A THIG OF THAT NATURE THAT A GOOD MAN (AS THE WORD GOOD IS PROPERLY TAKEN) MAY DO IT. THUS OBSERVE CAREFULLY IN EVERY ACTION.

                      * CONCEIT NO SUCH THINGS, AS HE THAT WRONGETH THEE CONCEIVETH, OR WOULD HAVE THEE TO CONCEIVE, BUT LOOK INTO THE MATTER ITSELF, AND SEE WHAT IT IS IN VERY TRUTH.

                      * THESE TWO RULES, THOU MUST HAVE ALWAYS IN A READINESS. FIRST, DO NOTHING AT ALL, BUT WHAT REASON PROCEEDING FROM THAT REGAL AND SUPREME PART, SHALL FOR THE GOOD AND BENEFIT OF MEN, SUGGEST UNTO THEE. AND SECONDLY, IF ANY MAN THAT IS PRESENT SHALL BE ABLE TO RECTIFY THEE OR TO TURN THEE FROM SOME ERRONEOUS PERSUASION, THAT THOU BE ALWAYS READY TO CHANGE THY MIND, AND THIS CHANGE TO PROCEED, NOT FROM ANY RESPECT OF ANY PLEASURE OR CREDIT THEREON DEPENDING, BUT ALWAYS FROM SOME PROBABLE APPARENT GROUND OF JUSTICE, OR OF SOME PUBLIC GOOD THEREBY TO BE FURTHERED, OR FROM SOME SUCH INDUCEMENT.

OUR THOUGHTS AND MEDITATION

 

                                                  MIND AND BODY

                                                           MEDITATION

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                 👉  *    CONSIDER HOW QUICKLY ALL THINGS ARE DISSOLVED AND RESOLVED. THE BODIES AND SUBSTANCES THEMSELVES, INTO THE MATTER AND SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD, AND THEIR MEMORIES INTO THE GENERAL AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF ALL WORLDLY SENSIBLE THINGS, OF THOSE ESPECIALLY, WHICH EITHER ENSNARE BY PLEASURE, OR FOR THEIR IRKSOMENESS ARE DREADFUL, OR FOR THEIR OUTWARD LUSTRE AND SHOW ARE IN GREAT ESTEEM AND REQUEST, HOW VILE AND COMTEMPTIBLE, HOW BASE AND CORRUPTIBLE, HOW DESTITUTE OF ALL TRUE LIFE AND BEING THEY ARE .

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                👉  *   IT IS THE PART OF A MAN ENDOWED WITH A GOOD UNDERSTANDING FACULTY, TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE IN VERY DEED, FROM WHOSE BARE CONCEITS AND VOICES, HONOUR AND CREDIT DO PROCED. AS ALSO WHAT IT IS TO DIE, AND HOW IF A MAN SHALL CONSIDER THIS BY ITSELF ALONE, TO DIE, AND SEPARATE FROM IT IN HIS MIND ALL THOSE THINGS WHICH WITH IT USUALLY REPRESENT THEMSELVES UNTO US, HE CAN CONCEIVE OF IT NO OTHERWISE, THAN AS OF A WORK OF NATURE, AND HE THAT FEARS ANY WORK OF NATURE, IS A VERY CHILD. NOW DEATH, IT IS NOT ONLY A WORK OF NATURE, BUT ALSO CONDUCING OF NATURE.

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                 👉  *   CONSIDER WITH THYSELF HOW MAN, AND BY WHAT PART OF HIS, IS JOINED UNTO GOD, AND HOW THAT PART OF MAN IS AFFECTED, WHEN IT IS SAID TO BE DIFFUSED. THERE IS NOTHING MORE WRETCHED THAN THAT SOUL, WHICH IN A KIND OF CIRCUIT COMPASSET ALL THINGS, SEARCHING  (AS HE SAITH) EVEN THE VERY DEPTHS OF THE EARTH, AND BY ALL SIGNS AND CONJECTURES PRYING INTO THE VERY THOUGHTS OF OTHER MEN'S SOULS, AND YET OF THIS, IS NOT SENSIBLE THAT IT IS SUFFICIENT FOR A MAN TO APPLY HIMSELF WHOLLY, AND TO CONFINE ALL HIS THOUGHTS AND CARES TO THE TENDANCE OF THAT SPIRIT WHICH IS WITHIN HIM, AND TRULY AND REALLY TO SERVE HIM. HIS SERVICE DOTH CONSIST IN THIS, THAT A MAN KEEP HIMSELF PURE FROM ALL VIOLENT PASSION AND EVIL AFFECTION, FROM ALL RASHNESS AND VANITY, AND FROM ALL MANNER OF DISCONTENT, EITHER IN REGARD OF THE GODS OR MEN. FOR INDEED WHATSOVER PROCEEDS FROM THE GODS, DESERVES RESPECT FOR THEIR WORTH AND EXCELLENCY, AND WHATSOVER PROCEEDS FROM MEN, AS THEY ARE OUR KINSMEN, SHOULD BY US BE ENTERTAINED, WITH LOVE, ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, AS PROCEEDING FROM THEIR IGNORANCE, OF THAT WHICH IS TRULY GOOD AND BAD, (A BLINDNESS NO LESS, THAN THAT BY WHICH WE ARE NOT ABLE TO DISCERN BETWEEN WHICH AND BLACK), WITH A KIND OF PITY AND COMPASSION ALSO.

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                 👉  *  IF THOU SHOULDST LIVE THREE THOUSAND, OR AS MANY AS TEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS, YET REMEMBER THIS, THAT MAN CAN PART WITH NO LIFE PROPERLY, SAVE WITH THAT LITTLE PART OF LIFE, WHICH HE NOW LIVES, AND THAT WHICH HE LIVES, IS NO OTHER, THAN THAT WHICH AT EVERY INSTANT HE PARTS WITH. THAT THEN WHICH IS LONGEST OF DURATION, AND THAT WHICH IS SHORTEST, COME BOTH TO ONE EFFECT. FOR ALTHOUGH IN REGARD OF THAT WHICH IS ALREADY PAST THERE MAY BE SOME INEQUALITY, YET THAT TIME WHICH IS NOW PRESENT AND IN BEING , IS EQUAL UNTO ALL MEN. AND THAT BEING IT WHICH WE PART WITH WHENSOEVER WE DIE, IT DOTH MANIFESTLY APPEAR, THAT IT CAN BE BUT A MOMENT OF TIME, THAT WE THEN PART WITH. FOR AS FOR THAT WHICH IS EITHER PAST OR TO COME, A MAN CANNOT BE SAID PROPERLY TO PART WITH IT.  FOR HOW SHOULD A MAN PART WITH THAT WHICH HE HATH NO? 

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                             THESE TWO THINGS THEREFORE THOU MUST REMEMBER, FIRST, THAT ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD FROM  ALL ETERNITY, BY A PERPETUAL REVOLUTION OF THE SAME TIMES AND THINGS EVER CONTINUED AND RENEWED, ARE OF ONE KIND AND NATURE, SO THAT WHETHER FOR A HUNDRED OR TWO HUNDRED YEARS ONLY, OR FOR AN INFINITE SPACE OF TIME, A MAN SEE THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE STILL THE SAME, IT CAN BE NO MATTER OF GREAT MOMENT. AND SECONDLY, THAT THAT LIFE WHICH ANY THE LONGEST LIVER, OR THE SHORTEST LIVER PARTS WITH, IS FOR LENGTH AND DURATION THE VERY SAME, FOR THAT ONLY WHICH IS PRESENT, IS THAT, WHICH EITHER OF THEM CAN LOSE, AS BEING THAT ONLY WHICH THEY HAVE, FOR THAT WHICH HE HATH NOT, NO MAN CAN TRULY BE SAID TO LOSE.

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                   👉  *   REMEMBER THAT ALL IS BUT OPINION AND CONCEIT, FOR THOSE THINGS ARE PLAIN AND APPARENT, WHICH WERE SPOKEN UNTO MONIMUS THE CYNIC, AND AS PLAIN AND APPARENT IS THE USE THAT MAY BE MADE OF THOSE THINGS, IF THAT WHICH IS TRUE AND SERIOUS IN THEM, BE RECEIVED AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS SWEET AND PLEASING.

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                        👉  *  A MAN MUST NOT ONLY CONSIDER HOW DAILY HIS LIFE WASTETH AND DECREASETH, BUT THIS ALSO, THAT IF HE LIVE LONG, HE CANNOT BE CERTAIN, WHETHER HIS UNDERSTANDING SHALL CONTINUE SO ABLE AND SUFFICIENT, FOR EITHER DISCREET CONSIDERATION, IN MATTER OF BUSINESSESS, OR FOR COMTEMPLATION, IT BEING THE THING, WHEREON TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS BOTH DIVINE AND HUMAN, DOTH DEPEND. FOR IF ONCE HE SHALL BEGIN TO DOTH, HIS RESPIRATION, NUTRITION, HIS IMAGINATIVE, AND APPETITIVE, AND OTHER NATURAL FACULTIES, MAY STILL CONTINUE THE SAME, HE SHALL FIND NO WANT OF THEM. BUT HOW TO MAKE THAT RIGHT USE OF HIMSELF THAT HE SHOULD, HOW TO OBSERVE EXACTLY IN ALL THINGS THAT WHICH IS RIGHT AND JUST, HOW TO REDRESS AND RECTIFY ALL WRONG, OR SUDDEN APPREHENSIONS AND IMAGINATIONS, AND EVEN OF THIS PARTICULAR, WHETHER HE SHOULD LIVE ANY LONGER OR NO, TO CONSIDER DULY, FOR ALL SUCH THINGS, WHEREIN THE BEST STRENGTH AND VIGOUR OF THE MIND IS MOST REQUISITE, HIS POWER AND ABILITY WILL BE PAST AND GONE. THOU MUST HASTEN THEREFORE, NOT ONLY BECAUSE THOU ART EVERY DAY NEARER UNTO DEATH THAN OTHER, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THAT INTELLECTIVE FACULTY IN THEE, WHEREBY THOU ART ENABLED TO KNOWTHE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS, AND RO ORDER ALL THY ACTIONS ALL THY ACTIONS BY THAT KNOWLEDGE , DOTH DAILY WASTE AND DECAY, OR MAY FAIL THEE BEFORE THOU DIE.

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                     👉  *  DO NOTHING AGAINST THY WILL, NOR CONTRARY TO THE COMMUNITY, NOR WITHOUT DUE EXAMINATION, NOR WITH RELUCTANCY. AFFECT NOT TO SET OUT THY THOUGHTS WITH CURIOUS NEAT LANGUAGE. BE NEITHER A GREAT TALKER, NOR A GREAT UNDERTAKER. MOREOVER, LET THY GOD THAT IS IN THEE TO RULE OVER THEE, FIND BY THEE, THAT HE HATH TO DO WITH A MAN, AN AGED MAN, A SOCIABLE MAN, THAT HE HATH TO DO WITH A MAN, AGED MAN, A SOCIABLE MAN, A ROMAN, A PRINCE, ONE THAT HATH ORDERED HIS LIFE, AS ONE THAT EXPECTETH, AS IT WERE, NOTHING BUT THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, SOUNDING A RETREAT TO DEPART OUT OF THIS LIFE WITH ALL EXPEDITION. ONE WHO FOR HIS WORD OR ACTIONS NEITHER NEEDS AN OATH, NOR ANY MAN TO BE A WITNESS. 

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                     👉  *  TO BE CHEERFUL, AND TO STAND IN NO NEED, EITHER OF OTHER MEN'S HELP OR ATTENDANCE, OR OF THAT REST AND TRANQUILLITY, WHICH THOU MUST BE BEHOLDING TO OTHERS FOR. RATHER LIKE ONE THAT IS STRAIGHT OF HIMSELF. OR HATH EVER BEEN STRAIGHT, THAN ONE THAT HATH BEEN RECTIFIED.

THE NATURE GUIDANCE

 

                                      

                      OBEDIENCE OF LAWS OF NATURE

                                     

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                     ANOTHER STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF THE THINGS IS THEIR OBEDIENCE FO THE LAWS FRAMED BY THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THE FOLLOWING REVELATION SHOWS THAT EACH THING HAS ITS OWN CHARACTERISTIC NATURE AND A BUILT-IN GUIDANCE SYSTEM.

                     OUR LORD IS HE 

                     WHO GAVE TO EACH THING,

                     ITS FORM AND NATURE,

                    AND THEN GAVE IT GUIDANCE.

                   

                   VERSE 54 POINT OUT THAT WORKING OF EVERY THING IS ALSO REGULATED ACCORDING TO A PRE-DETERMINED DESTINY, PROGRAMMED IN THE CONSCIENCE OF THINGS.

                     EVERY MATTER,

                   HAS ITS APPOINTED TIME,

                   AND COURSE 

               ESSENCE OF LIFE :

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                    FROM THE ABOVE VERSES, FOLLOWING  REALITIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF THINGS ARE QUITE OBVIOUS. THESE ARE THE ESSENCE OF LIFE.

                     (A) THAT ALL THINGS HAVE THE ABILITY TO RECOGNISE THEIR CREATOR AND THUS PRAISE HIM AND FEAR HIM.

                      (B) THAT WITHIN ALL THINGS ALLAH HAS BUILT BASIC CHARACTERISTICS WHICH GUIDE THEM IN THEIR FUNCTIONS, AND GIVE THEM CONCIENCE TO RECOGNISE OTHER THINGS WHICH MAY BE TERMED AS "MIND" OF THINGS.

                    (C) THAT OBEDIENCE TO THE DIVINE LAWS BY EACH AND EVERY BIT OF THE UNIVERSE IS IN THE VERY NATURE OF THINGS AND THEY ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT. THUS THINGS HAVE ABILITY TO RECOGNISE OTHER THINGS OUTSIDE TO THEM.

                      THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES IN THE 20 THE CENTURY THAT OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS OF NATURE, IS INGRAINED IN THE VERY NATURE OF MATTER. EACH AND EVERY MOVE, EVEN AT THE LEVEL OF THE VERY ELEMENTARY PARTICLES IS GOVERNED BY THESE LAWS. THAT IS, THAT THEY RECOGNISE THE DICTATES OF THE NATURAL LAWS, AND ARE CONSCIOUS OF OBEYING THEM. THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF LIFE. ACCORDINGLY EVERYTHING IS LIVING. THEY DIFFER IN THEIR DEGREE OF LIVING ONLY.

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MEDITATION USES

 

                                   

                                  THE BENEFITS OF MEDITATIONS

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                            * AS MY GRANDFATHER VERUS, I HAVE LEARNED TO BE GENTLE AND MEEK, AND TO REFRAIN FROM ALL ANGER AND PASSION. FROM THE FAME AND MEMORY OF HIM THAT BEGOT ME, I HAVE LEARNED BOTH SHAME-FASTNESS AND MANLIKE BEHAVIOUR. OF MY MOTHER, I HAVE LEARNED TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND BOUNTIFUL, AND TO FORBEAR, NOT ONLY TO DO, BUT TO INTEND MY EVIL, TO CONTENT MYSELF WITH A SPARE DIET, AND TO FLY ALL SUCH EXCESS AS IN INCIDENTAL TO GREAT WEALTH. OF MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, BOTH TO FREQUENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND AUDITORIUMS, AND TO GET ME GOOD AND ABLE TEACHERS AT HOME, AND THAT I OUGHT NOT TO THINK MUCH, IF UPON SUCH OCCASIONS, I WERE AT EXCESSIVE CHARGES.

                                       

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                           *  OF HIM THAT BROUGHT ME UP, NOT TO BE FONDLY ADDICTED TO EITHER OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS OF THE COURSES IN THE CIRCUS, CALLED PRASINI, AND VENETI, NOR IN THE AMPHITHEATRE PARTIALLY TO FAVOUR ANY OF THE GLADIATORS, OR FENCERS, AS EITHER THE PARMULARI, OR THE SECUTORES. MOREOVER, TO ENDURE LABOUR, NOR TO NEED MANY THINGS, WHEN I HAVE ANYTHING TO DO, TO DO IT MYSELF RATHER THAN BY OTHERS, NOT TO MEDDLE WITH MANY BUSINESSESS, AND NOT EASILY TO ADMIT OF SLANDER.

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                         * OF DIOGNETUS, NOT TO BUSY MYSELF VAIN THINGS, AND NOT EASILY TO BELIEVE THOSE THINGS, WHICH ARE COMMONLY SPOKEN, BY SUCH AS TAKE UPON THEM TO WORK WONDERS, AND BY SORCERERS, OR PRESTIDIGITATORS, AND IMPOSTORS, CONCERNING THE POWER OF CHARMS, AND THEIR DRIVING OUT OF DEMONS, OR EVIL SPIRITS, AND THE LIKE. NOT TO KEEP QUAILS FOR THE GAME, NOR TO BE MAD AFTER SUCH THINGS,. NOT TO BE OFFENDED WITH OTHER MENS'S LIBERTY OF SPEECH, AND TO APPLY MYSELF UNTO PHILOSOPHY.HIM ALSO I MUST THANK, THAT EVER I HEARD FIRST BACCHIUS, THEN TANDASIS AND MARCIANUS, AND THAT I DID WRITE DIALOGUES IN MY YOUTH, AND THAT I TOOK LIKING TO THE PHILOSOPHER'S LITTLE COUCH AND SKINS, AND SUCH OTHER THINGS, WHICH BY THE GRECIAN DISCIPLINE ARE PROPER TO THOSE WHO PROFESS PHILOSOPHY.

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                      * WHATSOVER PROCEEDS FROM THE GODS IMMEDIATELY, THAT ANY MAN WILL GRANT TOTALLY DEPENDS FROM THEIR DIVINE PROVIDENCE. AS FOR THOSE THINGS THAT ARE COMMONLY SAID TO HAPPEN BY FORTUNE, EVEN THOSE MUST BE CONCEIVED TO HAVE DEPENDENCE FROM NATURE, OR FROM THAT FIRST AND GENERAL CONNECTION, AND CONCATENATION OF ALL THOSE THINGS, WHICH MORE APPARENTLY BY THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE ARE ADMINISTERED AND BROUGHT TO PASS. ALL THINGS FLOW FROM THENCE, AND WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT IS, IS BOTH NECESSARY, AND CONDUCING TO THE WHOLE (PART OF WHICH THOU ART), AND WHATSOVER IT IS THAT IS REQUISITE AND NECESSARY FOR THE PRESERVATION, OF THE GENERAL, MUST OF NECESSITY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GENERAL, MUST OF NECESSITY FOR EVERY PARTICULAR NATURE, BE GOOD AND BEHOVEFUL. AND AS FOR THE WHOLE, IT IS PRESERVED, AS BY THE PERPETUAL MUTATION AND CONVERSION OF THE SIMPLE ELEMENTS ONE INTO ANOTHER, SO ALSO BY THE MUTATION, AND ALTERATION OF THINGS MIXED AND COMPOUNDED. LET THESE THINGS SUFFICE THEE,  LET THEM, BE ALWAYS UNTO THEE, AS THY GENERAL RULES AND PRECEPTS. THAT THOU DIE NOT MURMURING AND COMPLAINING, BUT TRULY MEEK AND WELL SATISFIED, AND FROM THY HEART THANKFUL UNTO THE GODS.

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                       * REMEMBER HOW LONG THOU HAS ALREADY PUT OFF THESE THINGS, AND HOW OFTEN A CERTAIN DAY AND HOURS AS IT WERE, HAVING BEEN SET UNTO THEE BY THE GODS, THOU HAST NEGLECTED IT. IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THESE TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE BOTH OF THE WORLD, WHERE OF THOU ART A PART, AND OF THAT LORD AND GOVERNOR OF THE WORLD, FROM WHOM, AS A CHANNEL FROM THE SPRING, THOU THYSELF DIDST FLOW, AND THAT THERE IS BUT A CERTAIN LIMIT OF TIME APPOINTED UNTO THEE, WHICH IF THOU SHALT NOT MAKE USE OF TO CALM AND ALLAY THE MANY DISTEMPERS OF THY SOUL, IT WILL PASS AWAY AND THOU WITH IT, AND NEVER AFTER RETURN. 

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                     * LET IT BE THY EARNEST AND INCESSANT CARE AS A ROMAN AND A MAN TO PERFORM WHATSOVER I IS THAT THOU ART ABOUT, WITH TRUE AND UNFEIGNED GRAVITY, NATURAL AFFECTION, FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, AND AS FOR ALL OTHERS CARES, AND IMAGINATIONS, HOW THOU MAYEST EASE THY MIND OF THEM. WHICH THOU SHALT DO, IF THOU SHALT GO ABOUT EVERY ACTION AS THY LAST ACTION, FREE FROM ALL VANITY, ALL PASSIONATE AND WILFUL ABERRATION FROM REASON, AND FROM HYPICRISY, AND SELF-LOVE, AND DISLIKE OF THOSE THINGS, WHICH BY THE FATES OR APPOINTMENT OF GOD HAVE HAPPENED UNTO THEE. THOU SEEST  THAT THOSE THINGS, WHICH FOR A MAN TO HOLD ON IN A PROSPEROUS COURSE, AND TO LIVE AND DIVINE LIFE, ARE REQUISITE AND NECESSARY, ARE NOT MANY, FOR THE GODS WILL REQUIRE NO MORE OF ANY MAN, THAT SHALL BUT KEEP AND OBSERVE THESE THINGS.

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                               * DO, SOUL, DO, ABUSE AND COMTEMN THYSELF, YET A WHILE AND THE TIME FOR THEE TO RESPECT THYSELF, WILL BE AT AN END. EVERY MAN'S HAPPINESS DEPENDS FROM HIMSELF, BUT BEHOLD THY LIFE IS ALMOST AT AN END, WHILES AFFORDING THYSELF NO RESPECT, THOU DOST MAKE THY HAPPINESS TO CONSIST IN THE SOULS, AND CONCEITS OF OTHER MEN.

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                    * WHY SHOULD  ANY OF THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN EXTERNALLY, SO MUCH DISTRACT THEE ? GIVE THYSELF LEISURE TO LEARN SOME GOOD THING, AND CEASE ROVING AND WANDERING TO AND FRO. THOU MUST ALSO TAKE HEED OF ANOTHER KIND OF WANDERING, FOR THEY ARE IDLE IN THEIR ACTIONS, WHO TOIL AND LABOUR IN THIS LIFE, AND HAVE NO CERTAIN SCOPE TO WHICH TO DIRECT ALL THEIR MOTIONS, AND DESIRES.

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                    * FOR NOT OBSERVING THE STATE OF ANOTHER MAN'S SOUL, SCARCE WAS EVER ANY MAN KNOWN TO BE UNHAPPY. TELL WHATSOVER THEY BE THAT INTEND NOT, AND GUIDE NOT BY REASON AND DISCRETION THE MOTIONS OF THEIR OWN SOULS, THEY MUST OF NECESSITY BE UNHAPPY.

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                    * THESE THINGS THOU MUST ALWAYS HAVE IN MIND. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE, AND WHAT IS MINE - IN PARTICULAR. THIS UNTO THAT WHAT RELATION  IT HATH, WHAT KIND OF PART, OF WHAT KIND OF UNIVERSE IT IS, AND THAT THERE IS NOBODY THAT CAN HINDER THEE, BUT THAT THOU MAYEST ALWAYS BOTH DO AND SPEAK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE AGREEABLE TO THAT NATURE, WHEREOF THOU ART A PART.

WHAT IS EMOTION

 

                                   HOW TO LEARN EMOTIONS

                     CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

                ERIC SCHAPS, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES CENTER, IAKLAND, CALIFORNIA PENDENT OBSERVERS, COMPARING WITH CONTROL SCHOOLS.

                  RESULTS :

              * MORE RESPONSIBLE

              * MORE ASSERTIVE

              * MORE POPULAR AND OUTGOING

              * MORE PRO-SOCIAL AND HELPFUL

              * BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHERS

              * MORE CONSIDERATE, CONCERNED

              * MORE PRO-SOCIAL STRATEGIES FOR INTERPERSONAL 

                PROBLEM-SOLVING

              * MORE HARMONIOUS

              * MORE "DEMOCRATIC"

              * BETTER CONFLICT-RESOLUTION SKILLS

HOW TO HANDLE RELATIONSHIPS

 

                                    

                                UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS

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                       * INCREASED ABILITY TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND                                              RELATIONSHIPS

                      * BETTER AT RESOLVING CONFLICTS AND NEGOTIATING                                         DISAGREEMENTS

                      * BETTER AT SOLVING PROBLEMS IN RELATIONSHIPS

                      * MORE ASSERTIVE AND SKILLED AT COMMUNICATING

                      * MORE POPULAR AND OUTGOING, FRIENDLY AND INVOLVED                                 WITH PEERS

                      * MORE SOUGHT OUT BY PEERS

                      * MORE CONCERNED AND CONSIDERATE

                      * MORE "PRO-SOCIAL" AND CONSIDERATE

                      * MORE SHARING, COOPERATION, AND HELPFULNESS' 

                      * MORE DEMOCRATIC IN DEALING WITH OTHERS

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                     ONE ITEM ON THIS LIST DEMANDS SPECIAL ATTENTION, EMOTIONAL LITERALLY PROGRAMS IMPROVE CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS SCORES AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. IN A TIME WHEN TOO MANY CHILDREN LACK THE CAPACITY TO HANDLE THEIR UPSETS, TO LISTEN OR FOCUS, TO REIN IN IMPULSE, TO FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WORK OR CARE ABOUT LEARNING, ANYTHING THAT WILL BUTTRESS THESE SKILLS WILL HELP THEIR EDUCATION. IN THIS SENSE, EMOTIONAL LITERACY ENHANCES SCHOOL'S ABILITY TO TEACH EVEN IN A TIME OF BACK-TO-BASICS AND BUGET CUTS, THERE IS AN ARGUMENT  TO BE MADE THAT THESE PROGRAMS HELP REVERSE A TIDE OF EDUCATIONAL DECLINE AND STRENGTHEN  SCHOOL IS ACCOMPLISHING THEIR MAN MISSION, AND SO ARE WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT.

                           BEYOND THESE EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGE, THE COURSES TO HELP CHILDREN BETTER FULFILL THEIR ROLES IN LIFE, BECOMING BETTER FRIENDS, STUDENTS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS - AND IN THE FUTURE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE BETTER HUSBANDS AND WIVES, WORKERS AND BOSSESS, PARENTS, AND CITIZENS, WHILE NOT EVERY BOY AND GIRS WILL ACQUIRE THESE SKILLS WITH EQUAL SURENESS, TO THE DEGREE THEY DO WE ARE ALL THE BETTER FOR IT. A RISING TIDE LIFT ALL BOATS. AS TIM SHRIVER PUT IT. IT'S NOT JUST THE KIDS WITH PROBLEMS, BUT KIDS WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THESE SKILLS, THESE ARE AN INOCULATION FOR LIFE.

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                       A WORD ABOUT WHAT I REFER TO UNDER THE RUBRIC EMOTION, A TERM WHOSE PRECISE MEANING PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE QUIBBLED OVER FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. IN ITS MOST LITERAL SENSE, THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DEFINES EMOTION AS "ANY AGITATION OR DISTURBANCE OF MIND, FEELING, PASSION, ANY VEHEMENT OR EXCITED MENTAL STATE. I TAKE EMOTION TO REFER TO A FEELING AND ITS DISTINTIVE THOUGHTS, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BILOGICAL STATES, AND RANGE OF PROPENSITIES TO ACT. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF EMOTIONS, ALONG WITH THEIR BLENDS, VARIATIONS, MUTATIONS, AND NUANCES. INDEED, THERE ARE MANY MORE SUBTLETIES OF EMOTION THAT WE HAVE WORDS FOR.

                    RESEARCHERS CONTINUE TO ARGUE OVER PRECISELY WHICH EMOTIONS CAN BE CONSIDERED PRIMARY - THE BLUE, RED, AND YELLOW OF FEELING FROM WHICH ALL BLENDS COME - OR EVEN IF THERE ARE SUCH PRIMARY EMOTIONS AT ALL. SOME THEORISTS PROPOSE BASIC FAMILIES, THOUGH, NOT ALL AGREE ON THEM. THE MAIN CANDIDATES AND SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES.

                         * ANGER : FURY, OUTRAGE, RESENTMENT, WRATH, EXASPERATION, INDIGATION, VEXATION, ACRIMONY, ANIMOSITY, ANNOYANCE, IRRITABILITY, HOSTILITY, AND , PERHAPS AT THE EXREME, PATHOLOGICAL HATRED AND VIOLENCE

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                        * SADNESS : GRIEF, SORROW, CHEERLESSNESS, GLOOM, MELANCHLOGY, SELF-PITY, LONELINESS, DEJECTION, DESPAIR, AND , WHEN PATHOLOGICAL, SEVERE DEPRESSION .

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                         * FEAR : ANXIETY, APPREHENSION, NERVOUSNESS, CONCERN, CONSTRERNATION, MISGIVING, WARINESS, QUALM, EDGINESS, DREAD, FRIGHT, TERROR, AS A PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PHOBIA AND PANIC.

                                   

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                         * ENJOYMENT : HAPPINESS, JOY, RELIEF, CONTENTMENT, BLISS, DELIGHT, AMUSEMENT, PRIDE, SENSUAL PLEASURE, THRILL, RAPTURE, GRATIFICATION, SATISFACTION, EUPHORIA, WHIMSY, ECSTASY, AND AT THE FAR EDGE, MANIA.

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                         * LOVE : ACCEPTANCE, FRIENDILNESS, TRUST, KINDNESS, AFFINITY, DEVOTION, ADORATION, INFATUTION, AGAPE

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                  * SURPRISE : SHOCK, ASTONISHMENT, AMAZEMENT, WONDER

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                   * DISGUST : CONTEMPT, DISDAIN, SCORN, ABHORRENCE, AVERSION, DISTASTE, REVULSION.

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                      * SHAME : GUILT, EMBARRASSMENT, CHAGRIN, REMORSE, HUMILIATION, REGRET, MORTIFICATION, AND CONTRITION.