Question to consider: Is "belief" perhaps a tool that, at its best, can help us connect to, and live, from our true spot . . . but eventually can outlive its usefulness, once it becomes a barrier to the true spot. Then we need to revise the belief or let it go altogether . . . ?
I lived believing so many things most of which I didn't understand. No one ever said, I don't know or its unknowable! Belief, right belief, was the ticket that got you in. It was conditional based on authority (patriarchy).
Now I know, at last, it is more about trust and embracing mystery, truth, goodness. It is an evolving process. I am relieved to no longer value right beliefs. It is so dangerously exclusive and divisive.
I gave my self to the life of the church wholeheartedly.
it became a painful and wounding experience and it pushed me to question and risk trusting my own inner voice or true spot over a long period of time.
I don't ever want to go along and be silent to conform. If you seek and search long enough you can see that there is so much fear revealed when people say, I believe. Many have never critically questioned what the words say. Yes, moving beyond what i once valued is challenging but it is worth while to be more attuned to my true spot now.
Courage, dear hearts ❤️
If you believe...yes? No?
Just take the next step, breathing deeply.
Question to consider: Is "belief" perhaps a tool that, at its best, can help us connect to, and live, from our true spot . . . but eventually can outlive its usefulness, once it becomes a barrier to the true spot. Then we need to revise the belief or let it go altogether . . . ?
I lived believing so many things most of which I didn't understand. No one ever said, I don't know or its unknowable! Belief, right belief, was the ticket that got you in. It was conditional based on authority (patriarchy).
Now I know, at last, it is more about trust and embracing mystery, truth, goodness. It is an evolving process. I am relieved to no longer value right beliefs. It is so dangerously exclusive and divisive.
I gave my self to the life of the church wholeheartedly.
it became a painful and wounding experience and it pushed me to question and risk trusting my own inner voice or true spot over a long period of time.
I don't ever want to go along and be silent to conform. If you seek and search long enough you can see that there is so much fear revealed when people say, I believe. Many have never critically questioned what the words say. Yes, moving beyond what i once valued is challenging but it is worth while to be more attuned to my true spot now.
I am so happy for you. And your true spot. In part, maybe life is learning to tune into that (however we imagine it) more and more and more . . .