The wisdom of insecurity

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“The moment I name it, it is no longer God; it is man, tree, green, black, red, soft, hard, long, short, anatom, universe. One would readily agree with any theologian who deplores pantheism that these denizens of the world of verbiage and convention, these sundry "things" conceived as fixed and distinct entities, are not God. If you ask me to show you God, I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm. But if you say, "You mean, then, that God is the sun, the tree, the worm, and all other things?"-I shall have to say that you have missed the point entirely.”

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“If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.”

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“You want peace of mind, but the attempt to pacify it is like trying to calm the waves with a flat-iron.”

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“Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.”