And the thesis of this gospel is everything that you have is inside. This is an internal experience. And don't do anything that's adulterous to your nature essentially. And by that he meant that's sort of in disobeyance to who you to really are. It's your job to figure out who you really are.

But faith, let's go.

Allen Watts, which I think is the best summation of the difference between belief and faith, he wrote in The Wisdom of Insecurity , “whether one believes in God or believes in atheism, we must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith because in general practice belief has come to mean a state of mind, which is almost the opposite of... See more

Spirituality is a practice of faith and I think about it as religion is sort of what we do and spirituality is what it is to be

And when things don't happen that I want to happen, I, instead of going immediately into victimhood or fear or anxiety, I just try to go back to this like, that's interesting. I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe something better, maybe something different. I'm just gonna say in a place of, of faith, and it's not Pollyanna-ish either. It's just. A,... See more

I don't know, it's just a place to rest really, honestly. It's a place to rest outside of certainty. Try it. You might find it deeply, deeply comforting, even though it promises to resolve absolutely nothing.

in that quest for certainty in that desire to sort of do the right thing or get to the end or, be good, we want some sort of exterior authority, some system of belief to confirm for us that we're following all the steps and checking everything off the to-do list. And that's a fallacy, certainly.

There's really no way to do this right.

the universe conspires with you. It doesn't select you, you're not special, but it conspires with you when you put yourself in motion.