"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."

Awareness, Observation, Perception, Attention

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"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."

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"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."

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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

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