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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Alan Watts
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
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.
Alan Watts
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
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.
Alan Watts
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts
This - the immediate, everyday, and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Alan Watts
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
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Alan Watts
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Alan Watts
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