J. C. Watts Quotes

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Religion is always falling apart.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Cows scream louder than carrots.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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.

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.