Faith is a force you command. You have the power to put faith in something or someone. When you do we say that you believe in an idea or a person.
Confidence is the feeling you create for your self by investing your faith in something or someone. Oddly you can create this feeling of confidence even if the idea is a lie or the person you believe in is a fraud.
A spiritual warrior is aware of how his or her belief in something can create a false sense of safety.
Practices for spiritual warriors in Self Mastery
There is often an interest to acquire more personal power. This approach becomes a common trap in a spiritual warrior’s path. The desire to gather personal power is often a compensating strategy for that feeling of not being powerful enough.
When you gain personal power based in this motivation your “I’m not powerful enough” story is being fed. Gaining personal power becomes a remedy that doesn’t address the source of the problem, and can even makes it bigger.
Turn your attention to your desires, and the fears, beliefs, and self importance that spawn them and you will have a chance to become free.
A personal development program or Spiritual Teacher doesn’t empower individuals. No program or person can “empower” someone. People already have extraordinary personal power. It’s just that people typically expend their extraordinary power on ordinary activities and limiting fear based beliefs.
A Teacher doesn’t empower you. A Teacher or process assists you in clearing away the fears, illusions, and beliefs that have trapped your personal power. Thereby making it free for you to use.
