Alan Watts Quotes, Long Quotes, Effort Quotes

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

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Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

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Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

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Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

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As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

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