Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Belief?

We think belief is so important.
But who is thinking that thought?

Does a wondrous essense of energy
Which just happens to have your name
Need a belief

to justify itself
to understand itself
to know itself
?

5 comments:

Shimmerrings said...

Sometimes lack of belief is the very thing that leads of to belief... while searching for something to believe in. I believe in me (John Lennon)... and I believe in Love. The rest is just a chance we all take, a shot in the dark.

Traveler said...

Perhaps belief is really something physiological--a feeling more than anything cognitive. I think they've actually located that dna, and the part of our brain that brings that feeling.

Shimmerrings said...

Seems I remember seeing something on tv and in magazines about the physiological aspects of faith... but faith is different from belief? Faith is, say for instance, the notion that when you put one step in front of the other, you will arrive somewhere, intact and on time. Belief might set the Path that your faith will lead you down. I believe that I will arrive in Kansas if I keep on walking, based on cognitive thougt processes... faith will set the pace that you arrive safely, for a myriad of things could happen along the way.

Traveler said...

I often think of that Lou Reed song where he says, "Takes a busload o' faith to get by." I think so, like just to get up in the morning. But then, if we're there with the universe and what we're about, faith is just sort of natural. Like, if i think everything's evil and out to get me (because we ate a bad apple or some such nonsense), then I sure need a lot of faith to help me out. But if I'm just a part of things as they are, what should I need faith for? Everything's already fantastic.

Shimmerrings said...

I know some people who seem to have no faith in being able to effect the processes on their Path. The Path may be set before us, but how we Walk that Path is entirely up to us... how miserable we want to be, or how we process what has happened to us. I've heard some people speak nothing but doom and gloom... surrounding themselves in negative commentary and ill will towards others, nearly every step of the way. I'd say something like, "Have some faith, can't you see that things will be ok? And don't you realize the words of your mouth may effect the Joy in your day?" I don't have to relate what their response was to that. Let's' just say it was just as vile as the rest of their commentary. I don't think it takes faith to get out of bed in the morning, I think it takes will. The will to live, perhaps. Everyone is not with the Universe, and what we are all about. Faith is not religion, it's a state of being. As I was walking my own Path, one of the strongest lessons I learned was to change my perception of how I viewed things in the world... like, for instance, as you present, if I thought that eating a certain apple would harm me. My thing would be to overcome the belief that the apple would kill me, instead of having the faith that I would live past eating the deadly apple. That dream I told you about, partly, and have yet to share the rest of, affirmed, for me, just that... change my perception. All perception is conditioned, anyway. Re-condition oneself.