Now I come to something which may at first sight seem specifically Christian – or biblical, I should rather say. But when you listen very carefully, you will see that we speak about a reality which is quite universal: faith.

Faith and the path are inseparable from one another.

Faith is that dynamism of going on the path.

Faith is what makes it possible for you to go on.

Now, you see immediately that faith in this sense must mean something other than believing something. Faith includes believing in something, because life includes believing something.

But the emphasis on believing something, which we have connected with faith in recent Christian tradition, is lopsided, even dangerous, because in the full concept, faith is not primarily believing something, but is primarily trusting someone.

Faith is not giving your signature to a list of beliefs and dogmas. That will come in eventually – but what faith is, from the very start, is courageous trust. It may start simply with trust in life, and eventually open its way toward trust in the Source of all life.