Sitting with Sharon at IMS
“Faith is not a singular state that we either have or don’t have, but it is something that we do. Faith is the willingness to take the next step, to see the unknown as an adventure, to launch a journey. For faith to be alive and to deepen we need to use our power to inquire, to wonder, to explore or experience to see what is true for ourselves. This requires us to approach life with an inquisitive, eager, self-confident capacity to probe and question. It requires us to examine where we place our faith, and why, to see if it makes us more aware and loving people. To develop a verified faith we need to open to the messiness, the discordance, the ambivalence, and above all, the vital life force of questioning. If we don’t, our faith can wither. If we don’t, our faith will always remain in the hands of someone else, as something we borrow or abjure, but not as something we can claim as our own.”
--Faith by Sharon Salzberg
“Faith is not a singular state that we either have or don’t have, but it is something that we do. Faith is the willingness to take the next step, to see the unknown as an adventure, to launch a journey. For faith to be alive and to deepen we need to use our power to inquire, to wonder, to explore or experience to see what is true for ourselves. This requires us to approach life with an inquisitive, eager, self-confident capacity to probe and question. It requires us to examine where we place our faith, and why, to see if it makes us more aware and loving people. To develop a verified faith we need to open to the messiness, the discordance, the ambivalence, and above all, the vital life force of questioning. If we don’t, our faith can wither. If we don’t, our faith will always remain in the hands of someone else, as something we borrow or abjure, but not as something we can claim as our own.”
--Faith by Sharon Salzberg
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