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Pope Paul boldly declares, “Faith is not alienation, it is not a cheap sham, nor is it passe, a sterile system of ideas which is only a burden upon man’s capacity for knowledge, but on the contrary, it is light, it is fullness, it is life. The more a man’s knowledge is evolved, his sensibilities cultivated, the more mature, adult and eager for certitude he is, the greater will be his need for faith and his joy in experiencing its liberating and redeeming power.” God is Infinite; again, God is Omnipresent. To a genuine aspirant, this is not a mere belief. It is the Reality unparalleled. It is a serious mistake on our part to think that the spiritual life is a life of austerity, a bed of thorns. No, never! We came from the Blissful. To the Blissful we shall unerringly return with the spontaneous joy of life.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Compassion-Father, Champion-Brother, Perfection-Friend[^1-36], Agni Press, 1976
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