"Having faith does not mean subscribing to some dogmas or to some articles of faith or anything like that. Faith ultimately is courage to trust in life. The particular form that our religious faith takes depends entirely on the time and place and the social structure and the cultural forms into which we were born, and there is an infinite variety of these. But the essence of our faith is the same at all times and in all places, and it is the courage to trust in life."
-Brother David Steindl-Rast, "The Monk in Us"
This was a really beautiful article that had some wonderful Universalist notions about what 'truth' means (in a religious context) versus fear, and the paradox of experience between indidual experiences of meaning, and connection to a universal oneness. If you want the full article, I'll email it to you.
MGW
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