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To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it.
You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever that is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing your hearing your talking your thinking your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.
And if you don't know that,
if you don't feel that,
well naturally you feel alien,
you feel a stranger in the world.
And if you feel a stranger you feel hostile, and therefore you start to bulldoze things about, to beat it up and to try to make the world submit to your will, and you become a real troublemaker.
-Alan Watts
You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever that is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing your hearing your talking your thinking your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.
And if you don't know that,
if you don't feel that,
well naturally you feel alien,
you feel a stranger in the world.
And if you feel a stranger you feel hostile, and therefore you start to bulldoze things about, to beat it up and to try to make the world submit to your will, and you become a real troublemaker.
-Alan Watts