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" 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. "

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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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Truth

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. "

" 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. "

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

Alan Watts

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" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "

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

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

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

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

Alan Watts

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "