J. C. Watts Quotes
From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
