{"id":545,"date":"2004-09-01T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T04:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/01\/what-the-mystic-means-by-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:29","slug":"what-the-mystic-means-by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/01\/what-the-mystic-means-by-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Mystic Means By Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When the question of faith arises, the orthodox always think that it is their religion which is being spoken of. To have faith in a religion, in the priests or clergy, in a certain dogma, ceremony, principle, or in a certain form of teaching, this is what is usually understood by  the word faith. The mystic does not mean by faith a belief in a certain religion or dogma or ceremony or book or teacher, he means trust, a trust even in the absence of reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid `Inayat Khan<br \/>\nFrom: A Meditation Theme for Each Day Selected and arranged by Hazrat Pir Vilayat `Inayat Khan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the question of faith arises, the orthodox always think that it is their religion which is being spoken of. To have faith in a religion, in the priests or clergy, in a certain dogma, ceremony, principle, or in a certain form of teaching, this is what is usually understood by the word faith. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}