When all faith is lost
- Anne Sweet
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min read
There comes a point
in every search
when all faith is lost
and all hope fades.
This is a screaming
crossroad on the path.
Will you turn your back
on that most treasured
longing and allow
your doubting, cynical
mind to crucify you?
Or will you let helplessness
break you into a million
pieces and destroy your
'you' so that you may
be born anew?
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Thank you for another beautiful poetic piece, Anne. It is often described this or in a similar way. Yet it seems to suggest that only when such dramatic (my interpretation) loss of faith has happened, one is ripe to choose or loose. To illustrate what I mean: it was when I left my teacher that my yearning seemed to break completely by loosing faith in the possibility of real freedom. Because with leaving I somehow left something behind that had guided me for most of my live. That inner guidance, I learned later, was not actually lost exactly when I left but already before, during that time with the teacher. So on that crossroad I chose doubting and cynisism (strong…
Beautiful. What came to me when I read it was that not everybody reaches such a point - only those who are somewhat desperate in their search to start with. And therefore, such a crisis is also a product and an expression of one's longing and yearning for liberation or the Real.