Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Blind Faith

Sometimes when I walk in the morning I close my eyes and walk straight ahead, knowing that somehow I will keep moving forward. I thought about this as I walked this morning and felt as if this is what is meant by blind faith. I can't see where I am going but I know that I will get there, and if I veer off course somehow I will be guided back. This morning I was walking with my eyes closed and apparently I started walking toward where the pavement meets the grass and I was jolted a bit and opened my eyes. I got back on the pavement and kept on walking. Isn't this like life? We tend to get off course and something causes us to get back on track. This must be the suffering that we could actually view as opportunity if only our perceptions of life could be changed. I believe they can. I have been studying Kabbalah, and what the Kabbalists tell us is when we feel that we are suffering it is because we are going against what the creator wants for us, which is to receive in order to bestow, to become closer to the creator and do what he does. I do not know exactly what that means as of yet but I am willing to find out. We are also told that the key to fulfillment in this life and in this world is to invert our egoism to altruism. Imagine a world where everybody loved their neighbor as themselves. Imagine if we all knew that we actually came from the same place originally? Imagine if we all had blind faith? Love and peace are the answer, and you can't have one without the other I believe. Have a loving and peaceful day.