I wouldn’t say I don’t believe in anything. Rather, I do a lot of research before I will stand behind something fully.
I’d rather not be that way. I envy people who believe more easily than me.
It’s one of the reasons why religion was always fascinating to me as a system. In fact, when it came time to figure out what I was going to do for a degree to shoot for (keeping an ancient promise), I’m pursuing “Religion and Cultural Studies”.
[I already did the “stay at a monastery to see what it’s like” thing in the late 1990s and the “hang out with Baha’i people and their Volvo cars” as a teenager in the 80s and sit in a circle with the Quakers and wait for the spirit to inspire me in the early 1990s]
People like yourself I envy. You have a capability to look at a human man and see ‘hope’, ‘solutions’ – he will be daddy for us all. I can’t.
I believe in lots of people. But gurus and swamis and other kinds of thought leaders, I wish I could.