No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
— Alan Watts
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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.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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.
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.