The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
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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.
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- 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.
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.