Myth and Religion by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780804830553
Google: XNnRwAEACAAJ
Amazon: 080483055X
Published: 2019-10-14T13:30:30+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

inspire people with love. Something else must happen.

But you say, “Well, what are we going to do about it?”

Do a bout it? Have you no faith ? Then be quiet. But even Qua kers are not quiet. They sit in meeting and th ink.

However, suppose we are really quiet, and do not think, but are a bsolutely silent through and through. We tend to feel uncomfortable with this idea and say, ” You will just fal l into a blank space.” But have you ever tried ?

I feel then, that it is enormously important that ch urches stop being ta l king shops. They must become centers of contemplation. What is contemplation ? It is what you do in the temple. You do not come to the temple to chatter but to be still and know that “I am God . ”

This i s why, i f t h e Christian religion, i f t h e gospel o f Christ is t o mean anything at all-instead of j ust being one of the forgotten religions, along with Mithraismwe must see Christ as the grea t mystic, in the proper sense of the word . A mystic is not someone who has all sorts of magical powers and understands spirits and so on. A mystic is one who rea lizes union with God . This seems to me the crux and message of the gospel . It is summed up in the prayer Saint John records Jesus spea king over his disciples: ” May you be one, even as the Father and I are one, that you may be all one. ” May we all realize this divine sonship or da ughtership or oneness, this basic identity with the eternal energy of the universe, the love that moves the sun and other stars.

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