Fearful people live from their mind. It takes courage to live from the heart. All that happens in your consciousness can create its reality outside. All that happens outside has to happen first inside. The seed is inside and the tree shows outside.
If your heart believes, nothing is impossible. The mind is incapable of belief. So if you start forcing beliefs on the mind, those beliefs will only hide your doubts. The mind doubts. The heart cannot doubt, it can only believe. When for the first time you believe something there is bound to be great turmoil, chaos, because all that was settled will be unsettled, and all that was established will be de-established, and all that you were feeling secure in is no longer secure, and all you were feeling as meaningful is no more meaningful. Everything will become topsy-turvy because the canter has a totally different approach towards reality than the circumference. When the depth speaks to the surface, there is bound to be trepidation.
If you are a meditative person and the canter-your inner guide-speaks to you and says to you, “Now do this!” and you will do it.
The mind can only create substitutes. You can remain engaged in them but your life will be wasted. You will never know any joy, any celebration.
When I say believing can make impossible things possible, I mean believing in the heart that is child-like which knows only the positive, the way of the head: yes outside, no inside; no outside, yes inside. The head is schizophrenic it is never total and one. When the heart says ‘yes’ it simply say ‘yes’. There is no conflict. There is no division. The heart is integrated in its affirmation; it is trusting. It is not a thought but a feeling, and ultimately it is being, not even feeling.
In the beginning trust is a feeling, in its final flowering it is being. The so-called beliefs remain in the head, they never become your feeling, and they cannot become your being. And unless something becomes your being, it is just a dream. But believing needs risking. You will be surprised to know this: To doubt is to be cowardly.
Doubt arises out of fear; how then can it be brave? Doubt is rooted in fear. Doubt arises because there is a longing to defend oneself, to protect oneself, to be secure. You can trust only if you are ready to go into insecurity; if you are ready to go into the uncharted; if you are ready to sail your boat without any map, into the unknown. Trust means immense courage, and only a courageous person can be religious, because only a courageous person can say ‘yes’.
Doubt is a defense. And even if you are defended by it, you remain stuck; you cannot move -because each movement brings fear because each movement is movement into the unknown, the unfamiliar. Doubt is a by-product of fear. Heartfelt belief requires courage; it fosters trust. On the other hand, belief that germinates in the head generates cowardliness and mistrust.
If your heart believes, nothing is impossible. The mind is incapable of belief. So if you start forcing beliefs on the mind, those beliefs will only hide your doubts. The mind doubts. The heart cannot doubt, it can only believe. When for the first time you believe something there is bound to be great turmoil, chaos, because all that was settled will be unsettled, and all that was established will be de-established, and all that you were feeling secure in is no longer secure, and all you were feeling as meaningful is no more meaningful. Everything will become topsy-turvy because the canter has a totally different approach towards reality than the circumference. When the depth speaks to the surface, there is bound to be trepidation.
If you are a meditative person and the canter-your inner guide-speaks to you and says to you, “Now do this!” and you will do it.
The mind can only create substitutes. You can remain engaged in them but your life will be wasted. You will never know any joy, any celebration.
When I say believing can make impossible things possible, I mean believing in the heart that is child-like which knows only the positive, the way of the head: yes outside, no inside; no outside, yes inside. The head is schizophrenic it is never total and one. When the heart says ‘yes’ it simply say ‘yes’. There is no conflict. There is no division. The heart is integrated in its affirmation; it is trusting. It is not a thought but a feeling, and ultimately it is being, not even feeling.
In the beginning trust is a feeling, in its final flowering it is being. The so-called beliefs remain in the head, they never become your feeling, and they cannot become your being. And unless something becomes your being, it is just a dream. But believing needs risking. You will be surprised to know this: To doubt is to be cowardly.
Doubt arises out of fear; how then can it be brave? Doubt is rooted in fear. Doubt arises because there is a longing to defend oneself, to protect oneself, to be secure. You can trust only if you are ready to go into insecurity; if you are ready to go into the uncharted; if you are ready to sail your boat without any map, into the unknown. Trust means immense courage, and only a courageous person can be religious, because only a courageous person can say ‘yes’.
Doubt is a defense. And even if you are defended by it, you remain stuck; you cannot move -because each movement brings fear because each movement is movement into the unknown, the unfamiliar. Doubt is a by-product of fear. Heartfelt belief requires courage; it fosters trust. On the other hand, belief that germinates in the head generates cowardliness and mistrust.
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