Having That Knowing
by Wayne Dyer
 

Rabindranath Tagore, the brilliant Indian poet, once said, “Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.” It is a knowing within that in any moment of darkness, light is on the way. No one can oblige you to have this faith which, like love, cannot be forced. When you force love, you create resistance and even hate. Trying to compel faith leads most often to doubt and disbelief. If you are not ready, no amount of forcing will allow you to see light in the midst of your darkness. But if you are ready, you will know faith regardless of what may appear to you. I will relate to you how I came to have this knowing which once and for all banished doubt from my mind.

I heard a story once that just seemed to make sense to me. From that moment on I have replaced all my doubts with faith. At one time I seriously questioned the existence of God and a spiritual solution to problems. I was more of an agnostic, pragmatic kind of person, who felt if I couldn’t see it, touch it, feel it or smell it, then it didn’t apply. This story seemed to clear it all up for me. It was a simple story highlighting the absurdity of a perfectly functioning universe without an underlying intelligence.

In this story you are asked to imagine what it would be like to see a junkyard filled with millions of pieces of random junk: wires strewn about, bits of metal, tires, cushions, electrical machinery, screws and bolts, glass, toilet seats and everything else you can imagine, lying about haphazardly. Suddenly a gigantic wind blows through this messy junkyard and the pieces of junk are thrown up into the air, colliding with each other, flying and crashing here and there. Just as suddenly the force of the wind subsides and there in the junkyard where millions of pieces of trash had previously been, is a jumbo jet, a Boeing 747, all ready to fly. By happenstance, luck, a weird coincidence, all the parts were pieced together to make a perfect jet aircraft out of several million pieces of debris. From random rubbish to precise perfection by accident.
As I contemplated the absurdity, I thought about how I once proclaimed such an explanation for the universe, with its zillions upon zillions of component parts all arriving and interacting with each other in perfect symmetry – all just working out coincidentally, by sheer chance and happenstance. I revised my viewpoint to accommodate a newly arrived sense that there has to be a creative energy at work here.

This is an intelligent system that we are all a part of. There is a force, a power, a consciousness that created and supports this system. That force is omnipresent and therefore it is in you. Your body is a part of this system and is also a system of perfectly coordinated parts itself. While it may appear random and unintelligent, it is the height of arrogance and naďveté to assume it is accidental. It is just as unlikely for the wind to accidentally blow together several million pieces of debris and create a 747 jumbo jet, as it is for a force to accidentally arrange this intelligent system that we are all a part of which has billions of moving parts. That simple little story opened me to knowing that there is an intelligence called by many names, but essentially comprised of cooperation, harmony, peace, flow or love that is the source of all.

By staying in the energy of cooperation, harmony, peace and flow, we are always connected to this force that I am calling spirit or God. I know I can turn my life over to this force at any moment. When I notice that I have allowed my thoughts to stray from this one creative power, I invite love to replace the illusion of a problem. Another way of saying it is, I bring faith to doubt and the doubt dissolves. The old Irish proverb says this so well, “Fear knocked at the door, faith answered and no one was there.” 

Excerpted from There’s A Spiritual Solution
To Every Problem

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is the renowned bestselling author of 15 books of nonfiction and three textbooks and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectures across the country and appears regularly on radio and television.
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