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Quote by Alan Watts

“The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.”

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Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker known for his exploration of the relationship between Eastern and Western thought, particularly focusing on Zen Buddhism and its influence on Western culture. His work has influenced many in the areas of spirituality, psychology, and the philosophy of science. more

“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.”

Giving Wells Children Book Reading Literature Enjoy Generations Century Wind Adults Worthy Convinced Dull 21st Century Improving Victorian Love Of Reading Uncool

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.”

Problem Focus Wall Barriers Redefining

Author:Tim Cook

“Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.”

Values Belief Leader Wise Groups Remains Surface Unspoken Beneath The Surface Wise Leaders

Author:Diane Dreher

“It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.”

Destiny Our Destiny Your Destiny Habitual

Book:The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles

Source: The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles

“I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.”

Realizing Lord Absolutes Guides Here And Now

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.”

Men Firsts Christian Lying Fiction Happened Profound Depth Fantastic Revelations Incarnation Unfathomable

Author:J. I. Packer

“The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.”

World Christian Next

Book:Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality

Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality

“The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.”

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.”

Light Law Emmanuel God With Us

Book:A commentary upon the holy Bible

Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible

Quote by Alan Watts

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