we can only believe in what we have already known, preconceived, and imagined. But this is beyond any imagination. - Alan Watts

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

backwards law.” When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.

"The "open" mind does this as most of us breathe: without being able to explain it at all. The principle of the thing is clearly something like judo, the gentle (ju) way (do) of mastering an opposing force by giving in to it."