Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. ”

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. ”

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. ”

Faith is a state of openness or trust. ”

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. ”

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

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. ”

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ”

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