Alan Watts Quotes, Mind Quotes, Culture Quotes

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

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The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

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The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

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The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.

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The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

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Let the poor man mind his tongue

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The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

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This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

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We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

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