| Some have the idea that faith and reason are in | | | | When you go through every experience with the |
| conflict with each other. They think that if you | | | | intent to understand, you are resonating with |
| have reason, you don't need faith, and if you go | | | | awareness and your consciousness will be open to |
| by faith, you cannot go by reasoning. It is this | | | | perceiving as much as you can about it. When |
| paradox that has caused the biggest problems in | | | | you seek to understand, you can arrive at the |
| all religion and spirituality. The truth is that faith | | | | right reasons, or else you would reason wrongly |
| and reason are one and the same. In order to | | | | from lower consciousness and mishandle the |
| have faith about something, you need to know it | | | | situation because you are not seeing what is out |
| as true. You can't know something as true unless | | | | of your perception. |
| you have a reason for it to be so. Faith is reason | | | | Incline your ear unto understanding. Seek to know |
| and reason is faith. | | | | the reason of a thing. Seek to know all the |
| All truths are ideas. If you knew everything there | | | | reasons there are to know about it. Open your |
| is to know about an idea, you would no longer | | | | heart to be understanding so that you may |
| need to "have faith" in it. You just know it as | | | | receive the truth of a matter and not block it out |
| reality. Faith is knowing. To know a thing is to be | | | | of perception. You need understanding in order to |
| aware of it. It is all about awareness, the more | | | | do what is right. Understanding gives us strength |
| you have it, the more faith you have. If you | | | | because it makes us bigger than our situations. |
| want to fully know something, you have to | | | | Knowing all the explanations and reasons of a |
| understand everything there is to understand | | | | thing allows you to see it in a scientific and definite |
| about it. You have to be able to explain | | | | way. Faith is having certainty. The more you |
| everything about it. The more reasons you | | | | know scientifically, the more certainty you have |
| discover, the more truth you realize. | | | | and the more faith you have. Evolution of science, |
| The way to truth is the way of understanding. | | | | knowledge and consciousness is evolution of faith. |
| Understanding alone will solve all our problems. | | | | When you know everything from a position of |
| Understanding the problem dissolves the problem. | | | | science, there are no more doubts. Because |
| Once we understand a problem, it is already | | | | everything is understood through universal laws |
| solved. All that is left is to act out the solution. A | | | | that never change. You know absolute reality to |
| problem is never without a solution, otherwise it | | | | the fullest degree. In any situation where total |
| would not be a problem. Therefore all problems | | | | understanding appears to be unattainable in a |
| have their corresponding solutions. Understanding | | | | scientific way, it means the science is incomplete. |
| is to key to resolving everything. To understand is | | | | True science is perfect in reasoning and operates |
| to reason. You have to reason all the way to all | | | | from a position of total perception. Total faith and |
| truth. | | | | total science are one and the same. It is all |
| Everything in the universe is consciousness. For | | | | awareness of truth. |
| something to be realized, it has to be perceived. | | | | Faith comes by hearing which means perception, |
| Until we are able to perceive a thing, it is not real | | | | and perception by the Word of God. The Word is |
| to us. It would be real to the one who perceives | | | | Logos which means Reason. It is reason or |
| it. The more we are able to perceive, the more | | | | awareness that directs your perception and |
| conscious we become. Consciousness is what we | | | | determines your knowing. To know as much of |
| are, and the more we expand our consciousness | | | | the Word of God is to know as much reason as |
| with perception, the more we expand our being. | | | | possible. All wisdom, understanding and knowledge |
| The more our awareness increases, the greater | | | | is for you to be convinced about the truth |
| our reality will be until it matches the reality of the | | | | because you are aware of all the reasons that |
| whole. | | | | define it. To have absolute faith is to be totally |
| Understanding brings life to those that have it. | | | | convinced about the truth. |
| When you deal with things from a state of | | | | Reason or logic is what runs the entire universe. |
| awareness, you become a cause because you | | | | You need as much reasons as possible to do |
| act with freewill. When you deal with things from | | | | good. Reason is what causes others to act and it |
| a state of ignorance, you become an effect | | | | determines how they act. It is the programming |
| because you act with unconscious choice. | | | | logic that runs the program. If you want to move |
| Awareness allows you to be calm and free to | | | | yourself or others to take a certain action, give |
| choose reality whereas ignorance causes you to | | | | as much reason as possible whether logical or |
| be unstable and moved by impulses. He that | | | | emotional, conscious or subtle to persuade, direct |
| deviates out of the way of understanding ends | | | | and motivate them. Reason can command an |
| up in the congregation of the dead. | | | | entire army to war or it can compel all nations to |
| The subconscious mind does not differentiate | | | | peace and harmony. |
| between an imagined experience and a physically | | | | God himself has perfect reasoning and total |
| experienced one. To know something is to have | | | | understanding of all there is. When we are lacking |
| an experience of it. The more you experience | | | | awareness about something but are clearly guided |
| something whether physically or mentally, the | | | | by him in a certain area, that is when we should |
| more you know it in consciousness. You can | | | | trust in God with all our heart and not lean |
| always experience a thing from a place of | | | | towards our limited understanding. God's reason is |
| awareness or a place of ignorance. Learning with | | | | the higher reasoning compared to ours. To reason |
| awareness brings enjoyment and freedom | | | | against reason is treason. But God still wants us |
| whereas learning with ignorance brings pain and | | | | to grow in awareness and understanding so that |
| suffering. | | | | we may reach his level of reasoning and be of |
| The difference between learning with awareness | | | | one mind with him. |
| and learning with ignorance depends on the intent. | | | | |