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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. ↗

— Vince Gill

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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. ↗

— Alan Watts

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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. ↗

— Alan Watts

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ↗

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. ↗

— Alan Watts

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. ↗

— Alan Watts

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