You have to believe it
first. Not wait until you see it first, then touch it, then believe it...You
have to say it from the heart.
Wallace Black Elk Lakota
Everybody
nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence,
but no perfect visual proof. And does not science demonstrate that visual proof
is the weakest proof? It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the
material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all. To
illustrate:
The
prosaic steel girder is a mass of electrons whirling around each other at
incredible speed. These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these
laws hold true throughout the material world. Science tells us so. We have no
reason to doubt it. When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an
All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak
comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't
so. We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe
this universe needs no God to explain it. Were our contentions true, it would
follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.
Big
Book pgs. 48 & 49
Great Spirit, today
give me faith to live from the heart.