"So unbelievable
things like that happen. But you have to believe it first. Not wait until you
see it first, then touch it, then believe it... You 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.
Big
Book pgs. 48 & 49
We
can only clear the ground a bit. If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice,
enables you to think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within
yourself, then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad Highway. With this
attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to
you.
Big
Book pg. 55
Great
Spirit give us strength to believe.