(04-13-2019, 10:08 AM)Cainite Wrote: 4.What should the seeker have faith in?
3.There are so many scary things that can happen. should we be blind to them? won't we be disappointed?
2.The enlightened sufis spoke of letting go of intellect. how does that work?
1.Should we set aside our intelligence in favor of having faith?
There are two fundamental verbs in creation:
To want and to believe:
To want belongs to the realm of brain/mind, to believe belong to the realm of heart/spirit. The tree of mind starts in the brain but its roots are in the heart. This travel down towards the roots from the "want" to the "believe" is the evolution of mind/body/spirit complex. Imagine every one of us are trees with our roots grounded in Infinite Intelligence. Most of us are not aware of their roots. But some are.
Faith is knowing despite adversity and despite the law of confusion that truly and sincerely it is all good now and forever. Then the pain of present becomes irrelevant.
And faith is the most powerful force of this universe, is the miracles maker. No mater how much we want a miracle it will never happen until we really believe it will.