If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since fai…

Alan Watts
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ✨ Alan Watts (1951). The Wisdom of Insecurity, Vintage
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people. ✨ Alan Watts (2010). Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation, p.43, New World Library
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.
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.
Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be … ▶

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ✨ Alan Watts (1951). The Wisdom of Insecurity, Vintage

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