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Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
Anglican Priest
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Dramaturge
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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.
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Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
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