J. C. Watts Quotes

It takes a lot of strength to let go.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

The mind's the standard of the man.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

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.

Just remember, everything you are is.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.