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Old 04-03-2023, 02:23 AM
 
Location: Somerset, UK
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How can one put ones faith in god in times of uncertainty? Going to church more often, praying more often, reading the bible more, ect...? Any suggestions?
Just a suggestion, which applies to anyone.

“Still the body, still the mind, still the voice inside. In silence feel the stillness move. This feeling cannot be imagined (only be experienced).” – Kabir
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Old 04-04-2023, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Adirondack Mountains, Upstate NY
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From the poem "If—" by Rudyard Kipling. This one verse pretty much says it all.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
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Old 04-04-2023, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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From the poem "If—" by Rudyard Kipling. This one verse pretty much says it all.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
It should go this way:

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you're not really human.

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Old 04-04-2023, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Northeastern US
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It should go this way:

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you're not really human.

Lol
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Old 04-05-2023, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Adirondack Mountains, Upstate NY
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Then you're not really human.

From a certain perspective that seems to be the case.
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Old 04-05-2023, 12:33 PM
 
Location: So Cal/AZ
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Seek him with every ounce of your being. Cry out to him like your soul needs him, because it really does. Search for him with all your strength.

Jer_29:13* And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
That gave me goose bumps.
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Old 04-05-2023, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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How can one put ones faith in god in times of uncertainty?
Well, I might say, ''How?'' By understanding the perfection of uncertainty.
Uncertainty, could be said to lead to either trust or suffering. Well, what does one trust in?
That which is certain, unchangeable, eternal...yet, elusive to the casual seeker.

Kipling, good one JASM.

( I love Jeremiah and Kabir!)
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Old 04-06-2023, 05:02 AM
 
Location: Adirondack Mountains, Upstate NY
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That which is certain, unchangeable, eternal...yet, elusive to the casual seeker...
...treats those two impostors just the same.
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Old 04-06-2023, 06:04 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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...treats those two impostors just the same.
That went over my head - what are the 2 imposters?
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Old 04-06-2023, 06:21 AM
 
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That went over my head - what are the 2 imposters?
Triumph and disaster. Treat them with the same detachment. These opposites don’t belong to the Self, which is always free and content, That which IS. The two opposites do not affect That which IS. Only the ego, that which is Not, suffers defeat and pain.
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