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Nothing Quotes by Alan Watts
- The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
- As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one…
- A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world…
- Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
- You can't have something without nothing.
- You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry…
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
- Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
- The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it…
- There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity…
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown…
- The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
- There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
- What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all…
- To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to…
- Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable…
- For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires…
- What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman