"When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that.  Then, when faith is completely unified, one gains the object of devotion.  In this way, every desire is fulfilled by me."  (Bhagavad Gita -  7:21-22)

The whole purpose of every experience, every activity, every faculty, is to turn the human being inward and lead each of us back to our divine source.  Thus every person seeking satisfaction in the world outside - pleasure, power profit, prestige - is really looking for God:   "As they approach me, so I receive them.  All paths Arjuna lead to me" (Bhagavad Gita - 4:11)

~ Translation by Eknath Easwaran

"The spiritual life is a process, not an event... It takes our patient presence."

~ Sister Joan Chittister

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”

~ Corazon Aquino

“If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result-either failure or success... Trust is knowing that there will be a message.  When you trust in those messages, the reflection of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness.  You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages. Those messages are regarded neither as punishment nor as congratulations.  You trust, not in success, but in reality.”

~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing God that we trust him.”

“The greatest thing a human being can do is to accept the Mystery.”

“We don’t look for an answer, we accept, and then life becomes much more intense, much more brilliant,

because we understand that each minute, each step we take, has a meaning that goes far beyond us as individuals.”

“We plunge into the Dark Night with faith, we fulfill what the ancient alchemist used to call our Personal Legend,

and we surrender ourselves fully to each moment, knowing that there is always a hand to guide us,

and whether we accept it or not is entirely up to us.”

Paulo Coelho

Excerpts from the Novel “Brida”

pgs 138-139

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.

His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."

~ Henry S. Haskins

“Somewhere in between our understanding and not understanding is the way.  That’s what we call faith.”

Roshi, Jakusho Kwong (2007). No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen (p. 211). Harmony. Kindle Edition.

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"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

~Mother Teresa

“Faith” does not necessarily mean a conflict with reason or a substitute for reason. It merely means not excluding the possibility of the existence of certain levels of reality beyond the pure sense perceptions. Faith is the power which is capable of bringing about the spontaneous apperception of the truth. Faith intuitively recognizes the ring of truth, and opens “the eye of the heart” to apperceive the Truth.

Balsekar, Ramesh S. (2011-11-02). Duet of One: The Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue (Kindle Locations 205-208).  . Kindle Edition.