"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."
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"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.“
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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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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."
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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
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"Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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