Alan Watts Quotes, Journey Quotes, Heaven Quotes

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , House Quotes , Heaven Quotes

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

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God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

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Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

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Patch up thine old body for heaven.

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The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

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Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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