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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 only when they happen without force.
Quote by -Alan Watts
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
Quote by -Alan Watts
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
Quote by -Alan Watts
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Quote by -Alan Watts
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.
Quote by -Alan Watts
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.
Quote by -Alan Watts
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.
Quote by -Alan Watts
Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.
Quote by -Alan Watts
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
Quote by -Alan Watts
If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Quote by -Alan Watts
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith let’s go…faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deceptio
Quote by -Alan Watts
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
Quote by -Alan Watts
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.
Quote by -Alan Watts
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 straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service ofmankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hatingoneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.
Quote by -Alan Watts
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.
Quote by -Alan Watts
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking deeply into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self, which many-eyed, as the mask of Vishnu is many-faced, is looking out everywhere, one energy playing myriads of different parts.
Quote by -Alan Watts
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
“I talk to myself,” he had once explained to his minder. “I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself.” He remembered smiling. “Sometimes I even win the arguments.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
Quote by -Colin Firth
"I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years."
Quote by -Betty White
"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."
Quote by -Paul David Hewson
"I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person."
Quote by -Carrie Fisher
"In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train."
Quote by -Carrie Fisher
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects..."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night."
Quote by -Charles M Schulz