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“If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

“If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.”

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“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an animal soul, a rider and a horse, a good guy with better instincts and finer feelings and a rascal with rapacious lusts and untruly passions. Hence the marvelously involved hypocrisies of guilt and penitence, and the…

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

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me…

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

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“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through…

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and…

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

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If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

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Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

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Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are…

Norman Vincent Peale

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If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of…

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

Daniel J. Siegel

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The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate…

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The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice…

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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .…

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in…

Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.

Danielle LaPorte

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