Hola ¡ perquè confiem ? per apropament per conèixer confiem per afinitat confiem en l'amor la felicitat la pau i la igualtat profunda dins la diversitats de formes
Wishing you a smooth surgery and a gentle, speedy recovery. I actually woke up this morning with the feeling to send you a message, and then saw your new post — such beautiful synchronicity. Grateful for your writing and the awareness you share. Holding you in light and wishing you deep rest and healing this month. ✨🙏
Dear Joan, just reading about how you describe John Butler made a big teary emotion come up. Feeling intimately that this is the truth, this is my faith, there is beauty, there is kindness. You yourself are often in my heart, your future stays in the hospital touch my compassion, may you be safe.
Thank you Joan, for this article, and the video 🙏 Most of my life when I heard someone use the “faith” I completely turned away. Faith? Either it was some certain belief, or I thought, “what a chump”. Needless to say these are not my experiences anymore. I do tend to still “turn away” if it is someone with certainty, but I have a much more profound connection if it is being used as a kind of “opening”, a peace, related to not knowing. Can’t help but share my understanding/use:
Faith - A deep sense/feeling of alignment with something outside mind ego logic. An intuitive non-verbal recognition and openness to what is unfolding. A willingness to engage with life without needing certainty. A deep trust in love, connection, and the inherent meaningfulness of life.
This is very valuable: "Some doubt is obviously wise and important. But sometimes, doubt can become an habitual way of holding on to the known, not letting go and falling into the ungraspable vastness of what is beyond words. I’ve suffered at times from that kind of doubt, and maybe some of you have as well. There’s no clear dividing line between wise doubt and addictive doubt, but we can become more sensitive to which is which."
And this: "I would say that faith is a trust in what we know deeply and nonconceptually, a trust that grows out of direct experiencing, not out of belief. But this vast openness to which I’m pointing can never be grasped or pinned down and proven scientifically. And sometimes, although it is never really absent, we can seem to lose touch with it. So it can easily be subject to doubt, very often the addictive kind of doubt that holds us back."
And thank you for sharing this John Butler-ism: "To make whole, be whole."
Looking back over the years, the things for which I have felt that trust have shifted to an incredible degree - I don't now see how I could have viewed the world from some of the perspectives that I previously held, which in their moment defined "me"...and I have no reason to doubt, given my lived experience to date, that that shifting will continue until I die. 🈚️🫶
Unconditional love taught to me by Motherhood has brought me to a place of absolute faith that this incarnate/embodied life is really a chapter, an opportunity to bring love into this realm. It’s so temporary, finite here but infinite at the level of Soul. Blessings to you Dear Joan for your steadfastness in never giving up on love.
Doubt...faith...trust...such a temptation to add more words...trust hits the spot more for me than faith...[so what?]...trust [faith] does not mean I can foretell the future...and yet I can...there is "Joanness" before the surgery...there will be "Joanness" after surgery, no matter the outcome....Joanness never separable from "this"...but then I doubt "Tomness" is inseparable from "this"...and rather than making "Tomness" less; doubt makes it seem "Tomness" is more...which it isn't...❤️😍💕🤡
I would say, faith is prior to all such convoluted thoughts and has nothing to do with a desired outcome. As for "Joanness" and "Tomness," I'm not sure exactly what those are, but for sure, nothing stands apart from THIS. 😎❤️🦋🌈🤡
Dear Joan, What is compelling to me in this writing is your kindness, acceptance, openness to the nurse and you way of accepting and extending her bid for connection-translating in your head without the correction of her words. Yours is
a model of that faith beyond understanding. What s gift to the world you are. May healing be just what is needed.
Awesome insight, thank you 🙂
Hola ¡ perquè confiem ? per apropament per conèixer confiem per afinitat confiem en l'amor la felicitat la pau i la igualtat profunda dins la diversitats de formes
Per això tinc confiança profunda en tothom i tot
Wishing you a smooth surgery and a gentle, speedy recovery. I actually woke up this morning with the feeling to send you a message, and then saw your new post — such beautiful synchronicity. Grateful for your writing and the awareness you share. Holding you in light and wishing you deep rest and healing this month. ✨🙏
Wow Joan,
Thanks for sharing
Dear Joan, just reading about how you describe John Butler made a big teary emotion come up. Feeling intimately that this is the truth, this is my faith, there is beauty, there is kindness. You yourself are often in my heart, your future stays in the hospital touch my compassion, may you be safe.
Thank you Joan, for this article, and the video 🙏 Most of my life when I heard someone use the “faith” I completely turned away. Faith? Either it was some certain belief, or I thought, “what a chump”. Needless to say these are not my experiences anymore. I do tend to still “turn away” if it is someone with certainty, but I have a much more profound connection if it is being used as a kind of “opening”, a peace, related to not knowing. Can’t help but share my understanding/use:
Faith - A deep sense/feeling of alignment with something outside mind ego logic. An intuitive non-verbal recognition and openness to what is unfolding. A willingness to engage with life without needing certainty. A deep trust in love, connection, and the inherent meaningfulness of life.
You have often inspired my faith.❤️
What did he mean by walking on water? I think he meant what Liezi meant by riding the wind.
I'm not familiar with Liezi, which Google tells me is a Taoist text, but it sounds like it's in the right ballpark.
Dear Joan,
Excellent piece!
This is very valuable: "Some doubt is obviously wise and important. But sometimes, doubt can become an habitual way of holding on to the known, not letting go and falling into the ungraspable vastness of what is beyond words. I’ve suffered at times from that kind of doubt, and maybe some of you have as well. There’s no clear dividing line between wise doubt and addictive doubt, but we can become more sensitive to which is which."
And this: "I would say that faith is a trust in what we know deeply and nonconceptually, a trust that grows out of direct experiencing, not out of belief. But this vast openness to which I’m pointing can never be grasped or pinned down and proven scientifically. And sometimes, although it is never really absent, we can seem to lose touch with it. So it can easily be subject to doubt, very often the addictive kind of doubt that holds us back."
And thank you for sharing this John Butler-ism: "To make whole, be whole."
Thank you for it all.
Love
Myq
Hey! For me, faith is also a synonym for trust...
Looking back over the years, the things for which I have felt that trust have shifted to an incredible degree - I don't now see how I could have viewed the world from some of the perspectives that I previously held, which in their moment defined "me"...and I have no reason to doubt, given my lived experience to date, that that shifting will continue until I die. 🈚️🫶
Unconditional love taught to me by Motherhood has brought me to a place of absolute faith that this incarnate/embodied life is really a chapter, an opportunity to bring love into this realm. It’s so temporary, finite here but infinite at the level of Soul. Blessings to you Dear Joan for your steadfastness in never giving up on love.
Doubt...faith...trust...such a temptation to add more words...trust hits the spot more for me than faith...[so what?]...trust [faith] does not mean I can foretell the future...and yet I can...there is "Joanness" before the surgery...there will be "Joanness" after surgery, no matter the outcome....Joanness never separable from "this"...but then I doubt "Tomness" is inseparable from "this"...and rather than making "Tomness" less; doubt makes it seem "Tomness" is more...which it isn't...❤️😍💕🤡
I would say, faith is prior to all such convoluted thoughts and has nothing to do with a desired outcome. As for "Joanness" and "Tomness," I'm not sure exactly what those are, but for sure, nothing stands apart from THIS. 😎❤️🦋🌈🤡
Dear Joan, What is compelling to me in this writing is your kindness, acceptance, openness to the nurse and you way of accepting and extending her bid for connection-translating in your head without the correction of her words. Yours is
a model of that faith beyond understanding. What s gift to the world you are. May healing be just what is needed.