“Faith is
a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust
yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim,
because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You
have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of
clinging, and holding on. 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. Instead they are holding
tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open
to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
| — | Alan Watts (via human-voices) |
