Knowledge about faith: how not to confuse one with the other: questions you need to ask YOURSELF

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Faith and knowledge

Do you think there was no faith before this? Or is that just your illusion that it wasn’t there? It was definitely faith, just a different kind. When you say you wanted to quit smoking (but really, you didn’t believe it, you didn’t want to quit smoking), but now you’re sure you’re going to quit – that’s your current state. Let’s meet in a year and ask, “So did you have faith or not? Or why didn’t you quit smoking? Or why did you quit smoking?” Some time needs to pass.

Right now, you’re assessing your well-being from the perspective of your internal state of faith. There’s this moment when we confuse some concepts. First, it’s important to figure out the terminology: there’s “faith” and there’s “knowledge.”

Faith is when we internally hope that something specific will happen.

We have this correct feeling, or we know, we believe that something will happen: business will work out, the job is chosen right, the relationship will be good. I believe in it, and then there are moments when I know.

Knowledge is like a fact.

It’s a precise given: I don’t believe you have two eyes, I know you have two eyes. You, for example, may believe that reincarnation exists in life, while I know that reincarnation exists in life. This immediately brings different perceptions and interactions between people.

So, we call some things faith, and some things – knowledge.

Perception of faith and knowledge

Knowledge can change: we knew one thing, now we know something else. Faith can migrate: today it’s there, tomorrow it’s not. You’re saying now, “I believe I’ll quit smoking, I believe I’ll start living differently.” Once you started smoking – you don’t believe anymore. If, for example, you said, “I know I’ll quit smoking, I see that it’s guaranteed to happen” – it’s not about how it will happen, whether you believe it or not. The point is that you understand: it will happen anyway. I know we’ll die – it will happen anyway. I know this, I don’t believe in it. A little kid, when he’s just learning to talk, maybe he doesn’t know this: he believes in it. Or he has some internal impulse of knowledge that might give him that. But if he hasn’t encountered it, doesn’t fully grasp it, then he may believe it or not. Or he might not even think about it at all. As adults, we know for sure that every person will die.

Does a person need faith to do various things? Yes. Before I knew that reincarnation existed in life, I believed it existed. First, I believed. Can you first know before you believe? Yes, that can happen. Circumstances may align in such a way that you’ve never encountered something before and immediately learn about it: you have some internal state where you’ve definitely absorbed it. You didn’t have faith.

Example with business

For example, you’re doing business and you say, “Maybe it’ll work out, maybe it won’t.” I ask you, do you have faith it will work out? You say, “The faith is equal, that it will work out and that it won’t. I don’t know how it’ll be.” Do you need faith to do business then? Not always. Some people absolutely need it because if a person doesn’t have faith, they won’t take certain actions.

Faith in life is a very important word, a process into which each person will put their own meaning from the perspective of perception and understanding. It could be a certain light or impulse, a guiding star, some kind of flow – faith in different aspects of perception.

Sometimes, without faith, a person will go crazy, won’t build relationships, won’t find peace – they just won’t get it, they won’t be able to come to it in any way. But you need to get that thread of faith.

How to distinguish “I believe” from “I know”

This is a very complicated topic because there are different conditions, terms. What I’ll describe under this word or will describe my states and feelings will be perceived differently by each person.

I always say: look carefully where you know and where you believe.

Again: you know that a person has two eyes, that a person will die, that your business will succeed, or you believe it will succeed? These are completely different things. Do you know or believe that you’ll become rich? Do you know or believe that you have a good relationship and that this is your wife or husband, and no one else? Do you know this is your true, genuine partner, or do you believe it?

Knowledge and faith are based on different things. It’s important in any event that raises the question of “faith or knowledge?” to check what this faith or knowledge is based on. My faith that I’ll quit smoking is based on you just wanting to think that today, or that two months have passed? Is it based on time, on your internal state of desire, or on the fact that people around you supported you, or that you read some new approach, or that you saw other people succeeded, so you’ll succeed too? Or is it just some kind of state, kind of unconditioned? Then it’s based on some internal feeling, some perception. What exactly is faith based on? Just like knowledge.

I think the most important component when we talk about any faith (in God, happiness, or just in the fact that the weather will be good today) is the distinction between understanding knowledge and faith. This gives a very strong point of reference, this resale, rechecking. It gives a very strong point of reference. It’s that action that allows you to quickly pull everything together and then draw conclusions, make decisions, take this or that action.

I believe the video will take off, or I don’t believe the video will take off. I know this video will take off, or I don’t know this video will take off. Can I be wrong in knowledge? Yes, I can. For example, I believe that a person will come to us today, and he’ll have two eyes. He comes – he has one eye: one was knocked out. I say, “But didn’t he have two eyes before?” And he never did, he was born that way. I could be wrong in knowledge. I could be wrong somewhere else too. It’s important to look: do I truly know or just believe it? We think a lot everywhere, we watch different videos, read books. The author who wrote the book and tells us something, does he believe it or know it? Or does he not even believe it, and his knowledge is based on the knowledge of other people, and he’s just retelling it? What exactly is it?

It’s really interesting to truly diagnose yourself and other people from the perspective of faith, knowledge, or something else entirely. This gives the possibility for strong forward movement, development, scaling. This is that very impulse, that very reason that gives movement and forward development – understanding the difference between “faith” and “knowledge.”

Questions to yourself

When we hear someone else, it’s important to double-check with them. This applies to absolutely any action: work, profession, at work, in the family – double-check everywhere. A person can ask themselves: “Do I know this or believe in this?” And even more important: in terms of life, there are places where a person believes and where they know; and there are also places where they neither believe nor know. Should you start a business only when you know or believe? Should you get married only when you know or believe? Should you make decisions only when you know or believe? There’s no right answer here.

The correct answer is to be in a state of observation and understanding of what exactly you are perceiving right now, where your support is from the perspective of faith and knowledge. This is what will give you a very strong movement forward.

A subscriber recently told me, “Alexander, I watched a video from two months ago again, and I perceive it completely differently now, like the information is new to me. Although I remember I had insights before.”

I create information so that a person stays in a state of both faith and knowledge over a long period of time. This allows you to see your next step, the one you should take – in relation to your family, relationships, employees, boss, earnings. This allows you to make the right decisions at any given moment and live a very broad and rich life.