Faith

Faith is the eye that sees the future manifestation of the Divine on earth.

Faith lives in the domain of the soul. This domain is a far cry from that of the intellect.

Faith is no wishful imagination. It is the soul's pre-vision.

Faith spontaneously feels God, senses that God's protection and His guidance are indivisible. Belief thinks "Maybe. I am not quite sure."

Faith says, "All obstacles, inner or outer, can be surmounted." Belief says, "Not so easy."

The real strength of faith can be neither measured nor experienced.

Faith and Will are the two invaluable eyes of an aspirant.

Doubt sleeps with our human nature. Faith lives with its self-offering.

Mere mental knowledge is a real stranger to faith which is itself the knowledge of the soul.

Faith and perfect equanimity are not only inseparable, but indispensable to each other.

Faith can kill fear in season and out of season, and not vice-versa.

Courage is the arrow. Faith is the bow.

The worst enemy of ignorance and failure is faith.

To say that the outer intellect is stone blind is not an error. To say that faith has one thousand eyes is to state the immaculate truth.

To be a successful believer, one has only to be a child. To be a successful disbeliever, one has only to listen to his own pre-conceived ideas.

It is not your mental belief but your faith that is the ever-loyal support to your surrender in the process of your self-fulfilment.

Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 2, No.10,11, May — 27 June 1967, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y, 1967