Get past the need to believe… Live Free!
When you have the knowledge of something, you don’t need to believe it. You know it.
You don’t need to believe that your dad is your dad or that your daughter is your daughter. You don’t have to believe that your name is what it is! You know it, or you grow into the knowledge and the realization of that item.
The need to believe comes in when you don’t know; more appropriately put, when you don’t realize.
You ‘believe’ something that someone tells you. You believe in things that you are made aware of. And it stays a belief, only until you realize it one way or the other.
Belief may therefore be considered, a state of ignorance. And ignorance as such is not a comfortable state of being. Ignorance comes with uncertainty. You have to keep assuring yourself of your ‘belief’ to keep that gut wrenching feeling of uncertainty at bay.
Faith is a belief system as well and as such is laden with the need to self-assure; many times together with other believers… in groups. The more the reassurance, the greater the level of assumed comfort! Uncertainty freezes you!
Knowledge on the other hand is a state of certainty. You don’t need to be with the masses to assure yourself of knowledge. Knowledge makes you sure of the things that you know. It is a state of certainty.
You can deal with certainty. You can safely take on responsibility and assume control in the comfort of knowing exactly what it is.
If you know, belief is no longer necessary.
Work on gaining knowledge. Work on bringing it into your experience. Work on realization. And it applies at all levels and to all aspects of our existence.
Knowledge is power… Realization is strength. And it is knowledge or realization that gets you past uncertainty… past ignorance… past the need to believe… past faith!
And that is true freedom… And it is liberating!
