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" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "

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" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "

" So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. "

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

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

" Saints need sinners. "

" 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. "

" The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. "

" The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. "

" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "

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

" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "

" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "

" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "

" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "

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

" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "

" 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 difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. "

" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "

" 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. "

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

" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "

" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "

" The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. "

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

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

" How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. "

" 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. "

" Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. "