Contemplating the mystery of faith today and the manner in which authentic faith requires doubt and the testing of whatever is being asserted as worthy of faithfulness. The way to gain faith is to practice it, and the way to practice it is to test the axioms of the spiritual teachings in the circumstances of our lives. But the way to not gain faith is to use our reasoning mind to think about it in an abstract manner. We might, at times, prefer a spirituality that doesn't require us to leave our comfortable ways of being behind, at least for a few moments, but that won't ever really work.

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking." - Khalil Gibran (allegedly)