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Namaste all,

 

Another forward for you all. I thought this was very nicely put and

very worth sharing.

 

Om Shanti

Neil

 

 

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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

 

 

 

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http://www.alanwatts.com/essential_aw2.html

 

 

Lead me from the unreal to the real

Lead me from darkness to light

Lead me from death to immortality.

 

- Invocation from the Upanishads

 

 

 

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