Faith Without Beliefs

"What is vital to recognize is that aside from the laws of physics, we are only limited by our beliefs."

-- Shannon Duncan

Beliefs, all beliefs, even those bright, positive, pie-in-the-sky, New Age hunky dory beliefs, are limitations. Reality doesn't need you to believe in it in order for it to exist. It just is.

Beliefs limit us in so many ways. Most beliefs, especially religious and political beliefs, promote divisiveness rather than Unity. There's the believers versus the non-believers, the saved v.s. the damned, the right against the wrong and the good battling the bad, on and on ad nauseum. And, of course, we always see ourselves on the positive end of every polarity!

Instead of belief, give me Faith with no beliefs attached. Faith in the Universe, in a beautifully impersonal energy called God, in the Tao, in the Now. I want to be Awake to what is, not asleep behind a veil of beliefs.

So, just for today, as each belief arises, I will gently let it go. Sure, that sucker will probably return and try and worm his way in when I'm less than diligent. And then, as soon as I notice it, I'll let it go again and again and again... I really don't "believe" I can do it, but I have Faith in the whole process.