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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“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.”- Alan Watts