You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
From Alan Watts
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Saints need sinners.
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
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