Alan Watts Quotes, Self Quotes

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

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Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

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This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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