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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
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A.A.W.S.
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
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A.A.W.S.
As
we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we
discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious
of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the
hereafter.
Big Book
pg. 63
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A.A.W.S.
Creator help us, give us
belief. |