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Alan Inspirational Quotes (4323)

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We see what we believe rather than what we see.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
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I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
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Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
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There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
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...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
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Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
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In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain it only indicates.
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All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.
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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
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Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
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I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, You shall be my disciple.I looked at him and said, Who was Buddha's teacher? He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.
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People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'
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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
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this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.
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The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.
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For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.
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