Alan Watts Quotes, Independent Quotes, Knowing Quotes

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Rereading Quotes

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

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Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

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Tags : Al-Shafi‘i Quotes , Heart Quotes , Knowing Quotes

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.

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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

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Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

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