Revealing Faith

"Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore

"What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer." -Prophet Muhammad

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas

Revealing

(excerpt)

Overpowering reason

And disbelief, releasing

Concepts of reality 

And imagination.

Overpowering thought and being

A presence of knowing:

Forgotten.

Sing your passions everyday,

Surrender to your beliefs

In actions, devotion and peace;

Live them, beyond the

Constraints of necessity.

Release the comforts

Of security, the comfort

Of searching, losing excuses

To the exceptions of

Faith, boundless...

~ Via Angeline Kalí

"The sacred attitude is, then, one of reverence, awe and silence before the mystery that begins to take place within us when we become aware of our innermost self. In silence, hope, expectation, and unknowing, the man of faith abandons himself to the divine will: not as an arbitrary and magic power whose decrees must be spelled out from cryptic ciphers, but as to the stream of reality and life itself. The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself."
-Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation


First three quotes encountered on Steve McCurry's post, "A Matter of Faith"