Archive for the ‘Soliloquy’ tag

In the Clouds

I have so many half-written posts. But today, I feel different. And to save me from committing another non-posting post; I’ll reserve the wordings. It’ll just be this picture…

Returning to Sand

Maybe it’s Tamar’s voice. Maybe it’s the lyrics. Maybe both.

Didactic of Faith

I find myself writing this as a comment in a friend’s blog…

To me faith is a state of being, that one has set in their minds – modeled after and inseparable from the understanding in their hearts – a deep trust. Faith itself, is useless unless it is based on something that is steadfast, something incontrovertible. Our common doubting of our faith, is not that our trust is weak, it’s that our minds aren’t fully conformed into what our hearts believe – hence we want to believe but aren’t certain. Overcoming it would mean that sometimes, we accept that we cannot fully understand in our minds – but we know in our hearts… and that is enough.

I think some ppl are more ‘heart-belief equals mind-knowledge’, and for some others ‘heart-belief comes after mind-knowledge’. Faith is easier for the stoics – who know, but don’t necessarily need to feel – because they feel what they know/believe. But it’s a double edge sword. I think I’m this kind to an extent. But I know I feel too. But not as strong as how a feeler will feel when they have a strong conviction of faith. So anyway, that’s just food for thought. It’s not a theological hypothesis =)

Otherwise, we can just try to understand that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Maybe faith is a potent mixture of visceral and cerebral notions.