“And the principle is that any time you voluntarily let up control (in other words, cease to cling to yourself) you have an access of power. Because you [aren’t] wasting energy all the time in self defence—trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will…
…the moment you stop doing that, that wasted energy is available. And, therefore, you are, in that sense, one with the divine principle; you have the energy.
When you are trying, however, to act as if you were God, that is to say you don’t trust anybody and you’re the dictator and you have to keep everybody in line, you lose the divine energy. Because what you’re doing is simply defending yourself.
So, then, the principle is the more you give it away, the more it comes back.”
— Alan Watts













