Though faith is an important aspect of our lives, its full meaning and its profound implications are rarely understood and appreciated. Generally, people take it to be a negative quality, implying lack of intellectual maturity. Pujya Gurudev has well defined it as follows, "Faith is to Believe what you do not See, the reward of which is you see what you believed." Faith brings us closer to the secret which makes the whole world move in a wonderful clockwise precision. Have faith in Faith - for it is the real wealth of man.
- Swami Tejomayananda
Spiritual maturity is being ready to let go everything. Giving up is a first step, but real giving-up is the insight that there's nothing to be given up, since nothing is your property.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.?
Mother Teresa