10-29-2015, 10:33 AM
Belief is a lot like faith, and I definitely have come around to the opinion that belief is a kind of tool for creativity. It creates the thought forms within which behavior, identity, experience actually occur.
Now, with that said, I personally appreciate some of the additional connotations of faith--the idea that it's vulnerable and in some ways self-effacing. So extending the analogy and thinking of faith as a tool for growth just augments this idea of exercising faith as a conscious mode of intention, a choice of a kind that has it's own special characteristics and puts its own valence on life.
Great point, TTP!
Now, with that said, I personally appreciate some of the additional connotations of faith--the idea that it's vulnerable and in some ways self-effacing. So extending the analogy and thinking of faith as a tool for growth just augments this idea of exercising faith as a conscious mode of intention, a choice of a kind that has it's own special characteristics and puts its own valence on life.
Great point, TTP!