Believe From
Let's talk about belief for a moment. Particularly the word faith.
A lot is made of faith in spiritual traditions. Believe it and then you'll see it, that sort of thing.
I'd like to offer a slightly different angle. What if belief were less an in and more a from?
To believe in something requires the world's version of faith. Strong conviction standing in for proof. Believing in an apple's crisp tartness without ever having bitten one takes a leap.
But bite the apple. Taste the snap and the sourness. Now belief isn't required. You're not believing in anything. You're speaking from experience.
And so it is with touching the divine. We can believe in a sacred realm of love, which is intellectual furniture and nothing more. Or we can taste it.
So how do we take a bite of this metaphorical apple?
First by understanding that attention always sits in one of two places. Caught up in the me and everything attendant to it. Or resting in the spacious awareness in which everything, including the me and all its concerns, arises.
And then, second, noticing where consciousness is presently focused. Heavenly deliciousness flows from there. Not by believing in the holy. Believing from it.