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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "

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

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

" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "

" 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. "

" No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "

" Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. "

" 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. "

" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "

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

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

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" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "