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Immediate Quotes by Alan Watts
- Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing…
- The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of…
- We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do…
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- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I… — Joe Biden
- Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't… — Julian Bond
- I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. — Jeff Bridges
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- There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term… — Buzz Aldrin
- There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin
- Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. — Nick Cave