Faith

[Arkandeus]

Forever All ways In The Heart - Faith

Forever Always in The Here

Free Allthings Inside The Heart

I personally love spiritual acronyms, they seem to help me get certain concepts

[Loreena]

@Arkandeus

Spirit of Undying  Love - SOUL 

Good shortened - GOD 

 

 

Edited April 21, 2017 by Loreena

[Prabhaker]

23 minutes ago, Arkandeus said:

Forever All ways In The Heart - Faith

Faith is not belief, it is love. Faith is not belief because it is not half, it is total. Faith is not belief because there is no doubt in it, so how can you believe? Faith is not a rationalization at all: neither for nor against, neither this nor that. Faith is a trusting, a deep trusting, a love. You don’t find any rationalizations for it, it simply is so. 

I am not talking about the dictionary meaning of the words — in the dictionary it may be so: belief means faith, faith means belief — I am talking about existence. In an existential way belief is borrowed, faith is yours. Belief you believe in but doubt exists just underneath. Faith has no doubt element in it; it is simply devoid of doubt. Belief creates a division in you: a part of your mind believes, a part of your mind denies. Faith is a unity in your being, your totality.  Belief is of the mind, of the thinking; faith is of no-mind, of awareness, understanding.

Remember the distinction between belief and faith: belief is in an idea; faith is in total reality, faith is a reverence for the whole. Belief is of the mind; faith is of your totality. When you believe in God, you believe in the God of philosophers. When you believe in God, God is an idea, a doctrine. It can be proved or disproved and it will not transform you. But if you have faith, it has already transformed you. I will not say that it WILL transform you. If you have faith, it has ALREADY transformed you. 

Belief is opposite to faith. You believe because you have doubt; the belief is an antidote to doubt, it is a need to cover up the doubt. Faith is when you don’t have any doubt, so faith is not a belief.