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

Being, Pain, Pleasure

32

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Being quotes

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Being, Choice, Focus, Future

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Being, Burden, May

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Being,

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Being, Kindness, Motive

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Being, Censure, Tax, Man

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Being, Nothing

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Country, Nothing

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

Explore more quotes by Alan Watts

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

Philosophy

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

Attitude

"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."

Religion

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

Negative

"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."

Act

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

Change

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

God

"Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life."

Conflict

"We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past."

Philosophy

"Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering."

Psychology