“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.”
More from Alan Watts
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“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”
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“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
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“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”