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Thinking Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
- Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,…
- 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…
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely…
- The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.
- We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of…
- To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,†you are not listening.
- Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
- The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's…
- Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but…
- To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people…
- We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and…
- We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is…
- Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
- We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
- To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not…
- The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad…
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right. — Nishan Panwar