"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
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.“
-Alan Watts
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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."
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"Faith is a state of openness or trust."
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"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."
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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."
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"Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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