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Trying Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
- Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes…
- The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to…
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
- You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
- Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to…
- A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
- The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not…
- The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
- Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to…
- To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is…
- For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than…
- There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.…
- There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by…
- The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones…
More Trying Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you. — Nishan Panwar
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker