Mundane Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mundane Sacred Spirituality
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There are some things that are sacred and should be kept close. — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
“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… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...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. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy;… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image