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The Difference Between Faith & Belief

The Difference Between Faith & Belief

Let's turn to Alan Watts.

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Oct 01, 2021
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In Alan Watts’s classic, The Wisdom of Insecurity, he writes about the difference in faith and belief in a way that opened up a door in my mind: The way I understand his description reads to me as the difference between dogma and an agnostic spirituality. It’s the difference between an assurance that you know how things are, and a willingness to recogni…

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