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Anglican Priest Inspirational Quotes (1741)

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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Alan Watts
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Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
Alan Watts
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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Thought is a means of concealing Truth.
Alan Watts
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts
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Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
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We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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The Highest to which people can attain is wonder and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it there is the limit.
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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
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If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
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You are the universe experiencing itself.
Alan Watts
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