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

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

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

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

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

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

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

" 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. "

" Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. "

" 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. "

" Saints need sinners. "

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

Differentiation

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

" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "

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

" 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. "

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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