Alan Watts Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Frustration Quotes

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

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If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

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The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

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My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

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Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

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I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

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Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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