Spiritual life

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There are two kinds of faith that exist. The first kind of faith is what I call ‘real' faith. It is the explosion of something in the mind that says ‘Yes, I believe that'. It is a discovery or a revelation. It starts in the mind. It is actually the mind saying to itself ‘I know that is true'. In fact what the mind is saying is "I believe that is true'. But the mind doesn't really know the difference. To our minds, really believing something is really knowing something. Problems arise when someone else says ‘Well if you really know that is true then prove it to me.' The person either tries to prove it objectively, often without success, or just says ‘I don't have to prove it - I just know it's true.' What they mean is ‘I just believe that it is true'.

The second kind of faith that comes after ‘Yes, I believe that' is actually the second ‘phase' of faith. That is - using your will to decide to go on believing that truth or reality against all odds and being ‘faithful' to what you believe. This is becoming a ‘believer' in what you believe. A person can't really say ‘I think I believe that', even though many people actually do this. But a person will either believe something or they won't. They can call thinking they believe something ‘faith' but it will let them down and they will compromise it all the time. It ends up with people saying they believe one thing but acting like they believe something else

There are principles of truth that we learn at school or university that we accept as a ‘truth' or a belief. It happens to students of mathematics and physics all the time when they discover principles of natural science like gravity or electricity. They don't have to know necessarily how it works but they know it is going to work. Some things like that are clear and easy to believe and to have absolute faith in. but when it comes to some not so clear and obvious things, a decision has to be made as to what one will believe.