J. C. Watts Quotes

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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.

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

When in doubt, zoom out.

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.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.