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Alan Watts

Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

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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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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Alan Watts

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

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