J. C. Watts Quotes
Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.
But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.
Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.
It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life meunderstand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.
The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.
My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.
It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.
To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.
The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.
Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.
What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive?
Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.
For what is life but a continuous, dynamic and fluid circle of discoveries that surrounds all peoples and has the power to change even the smallest of us.
Word of advice, ” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.
Hush my dear lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.
Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.
If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
