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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 Reprinted with permission A.A.W.S. Great Spirit, today give me faith to live from the heart.
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