A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.