Alan Watts

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"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."

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."

"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."

"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."

"We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us."