J. C. Watts Quotes

Black implies white self implies other

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

The menu is not the meal.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

I owe my solitude to other people.