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Updated: September 1, 2025
But it must be remembered that even in Jainism Buddha is only a memory. He has entered into Nirvana, and has passed out of conscious existence. Now that he has attained that state of passivity, he has no eye to pity and no arm to save. And yet in this Jain temple images of Buddha are worshiped, and these images are numbered by the hundreds.
Why, even a modest amateur must be allowed her minutes of preparation and approach. "Passivity?" she repeated, beginning to get under way. "Shall I find you very entertaining in that condition?" "Entertaining? Me, the sitter? Why, I've always heard it was an important part of a portrait-painter's work to keep the subject interested and amused." He smiled in his cold, distant way.
A tragedy such as that which he had seen was of necessity a violent motive one way or the other, and it found him determined that the sufferers were in the wrong, and left him confirmed in his determination. Their very passivity enraged him.
Hence, while the soul in passivity reflects the Image of the Lord, the Will in intense activity holds the mirror in position lest the drifting motion of the world bear it beyond the line of vision. To "follow Christ" is largely to keep the soul in such position as will allow for the motion of the earth.
Except for this delirious scorn he was a surface of perfect passivity. Dunham, after a day of prostration, had risen, and had perhaps shortened his anguish by his resolution. He had since taken up his quarters on a locker in the cabin; he looked in now and then upon Staniford, with a cup of tea, or a suggestion of something light to eat; once he even dared to boast of the sublimity of the ocean.
Kenton read in her passivity an eagerness to be gone from sorrow that she would not suffer to be seen, and interpreted her to her father in such wise that he could not hesitate. If such a thing could be mercifully ordered, the order of this event had certainly been merciful; but it was a cruel wrench that tore Kenton from the home where he had struck such deep root.
Only when composed and at ease in the holy calm of true passivity can one think over his entire being and get a view of life and the world. How is it that we think and compose at all, except by surrendering ourselves completely to the influence of some genius?
Meeting the sure-enough lady shortly after, he upbraided her for her cold passivity on the occasion named. A passive woman one who consents to be loved should seek occupation among those worthy firms who warrant a fit in ready-made gowns, or money refunded. Love is progressive it hastens onward like the brook hurrying to the sea.
But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. They take their own time to mature. Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
The four sang on with the phlegmatic passivity of persons who had long ago settled the question, and there being no mistake about it, felt that further thought was not required. With features strained hard to enunciate the syllables they continued to regard the centre of the flickering fire, the notes of the youngest straying over into the pauses of the rest.
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