“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.”
Alan Watts
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”
Alan Watts
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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
Alan Watts
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
Alan Watts
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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
Alan Watts
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“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
Alan Watts
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“You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.”
Alan Watts
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“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
Alan Watts
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