' Let Go '...

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

To have faith is like when you
trust yourself to the water.

You don’t grab hold of the water when
you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the
water, and sink.

You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the
very opposite of clinging, and holding on.

In other words, a person
who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas
about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who
has no faith at all.

Instead they are holding tight.

But the attitude of
faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn
out to be.



- Alan Watts