Faith

"In a lot of old religion and spirituality there was a great struggle.   There was great effort and great weariness.   And people often exile themselves from the warmth of their own hearts and pushed their lives into a cold perfect place because the thought that that was the place where the Divine was actually waiting for them.   Nothing could be further from the truth.   There is nothing coercive in God.    If you go for a naive, monolithic notion of the divine will then you can work in a fundamental way.   But if you go for the gracious hospitality and warmth and passion of the Divine Imagination then you'll never be forced.   But you'll be continually drawn and invited.   Faith then is a response to the Divine Presence.  It isn't about pushing yourself, but faith is about helplessness of being in love with the Divine.   Faith is really primal, ancient attraction to the Divine."