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For those who believe in God and have some questions, they are answered by Alan watts

Where did the world come from?, why did god make the world?, where was I before I was born?

The answer is in ancient story!

“There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so , too there is day and night, waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You cannot have anyone of these without the other, because you wouldn’t be able to know what black is unless you had seen it side by side with white, or white unless side by side with black.

In some way, there are times when the world is, and times when it isn’t, for if the world went in and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes.Now you see it; now you don’t. So because it doesn’t get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It’s like your breath: it goes in and out, and if you hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It’s also like the game of hide and seek, because it’s always fun to find new ways of hiding , and to seek for someone who doesn’t always hide in the same place.

God also likes to play hide and seek, but because there is nothing outside god, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficult by pretending that he is not himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals and plants and ricks and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are like some bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.

Now when god plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it- just what he wanted to do.

He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me that we are god in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single self- the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.

Of course you must remember that god isn’t shaped like a person. People have skins and there is always something outside our skins. If there weren’t we wouldn’t know the difference between what is inside and outside our bodies. But God has no skin or shape because there isn’t any outside of him.

God isn’t a man or women , and he is not “it “ because it is used for things that aren’t alive.

God is the self of the world, but you cannot see god for the same reason that, without mirror you cannot see your own eyes, and certainly you cannot bite your own teeth, or look inside your head. Yourself is that cleverly hidden because it is god hiding.

You may ask why god sometimes hides in the form of horrible people, or pretends to be people who suffer great disease and pain.

Remember , first, that he isn’t really doing this to anyone but himself.

We do not “come into” this world;

We come out of it, as leaves from tress. As the ocean “waves”, the universe “peoples”.

So the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies!