Alan Watts Quotes, Self Quotes, Mind Quotes

Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Self Quotes

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

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As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Soul Quotes

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Why Not Quotes

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wise Quotes , Self Quotes

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Reality Quotes , Self Quotes

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

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Love Quotes , Self Quotes

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Taken Quotes , Self Quotes

Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Self Quotes , Literature Quotes

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes