Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

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• Alan Watts:

  A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

• Alan Watts:

  And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside,

• Alan Watts:

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

• Alan Watts:

  Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

• Alan Watts:

  But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

• Alan Watts:

  But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, yo

• Alan Watts:

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

• Alan Watts:

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

• Alan Watts:

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

• Alan Watts:

  Faith is a state of openness or trust.