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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you dont grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. – Alan Watts

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But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful. – Alan Watts

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Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask. – Author Unknown

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The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. – Paramahansa Yogananda

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