This is great, Gil! You've very clearly differentiated these three states. Very helpful! I love how you describe belief as commitment without full awareness. So right on.

So, to KNOW, and not mistakenly attribute believing with authentic knowing, may well be the trick that allows us to move into this higher vibration. Hope and belief are functions of the ego, whereas Knowing is sourced beyond ego, and can only happen in the present moment, beyond the judging mind and intellect. As such, it seems to me that Knowing is a vibrational state that must be practiced, and involves grace, too.

As 'powerful beings that can create anything', it would certainly seem, as well, that we have great responsibilities that come with such empowerment. How to continuously discern belief from knowing, and its interplay with egoic wishes and drives, and how to align our creative powers with our deeper awareness, feels to be to be quite the challenge...

Hope vs Belief vs Knowing

For thousands of years humanity has held on to the idea of Hope with a stronghold so intense it has now become the universal icon for manifesting our dreams and desires. But without moving forward and transcending our hopes into higher states of awareness we can eventually become lost to a perpetual state of doubt or wishing and never realize our full potential.

Hope, Belief, and Knowing, are three very distinctive states of awareness that each hold their own level of vibration. Let’s look at each of these from a vibrational energy standpoint;

1. Hope is the universal savior - it is the life-ring you hold on to while you’re waiting to be saved. It allows you to find the necessary strength to carry on while you search for options. Without hope you would quickly sink into despair. But hope retains an element of doubt making it a lower vibration than belief or knowing.

2. Belief is a firmly held opinion that transforms you way beyond the doubts of hope and produces a much higher vibration. But opinions are not certainties or truths as they are limited by the beliefs supporting them. Believing in something does not necessarily make it true. And once you create a fixed belief about anything, you box yourself in and immediately set limitations on it.

3. Knowing is the highest vibration of the three - it is the ‘absolute’ derived from a state of fully aware consciousness. Knowing is source because knowing holds the power of love, and source is love as it is always in a perpetual state of knowing. Knowing allows you to simply KNOW without doubt, fear, or limitation, that all is possible and all will be as it should. Knowing is unlimited and infinite.

So from a vibrational point of view... to be in a state of knowing is the highest vibration. Hope has it's purpose, but with all that is now available to us in this higher realm of the New Earth, HOPE is basically 'Old School', BELIEF is commitment without full awareness, but KNOWING is where it’s at! Knowing is your direct alignment to source, and is the quickest way to manifest all your desires.

Let us leave our hopes behind us and step into the awareness of ‘KNOWING’ that we are powerful beings that can create anything.

Peace - Love - Light

Gil

Howard, I really appreciate the distinctions you draw between these words. Aspiration is active, not passive. I think its very helpful to learn, or be reminded, of the subtle yet powerful implications of our word choices because they DO make a difference...not just in how clearly we communicate, but perhaps more importantly, in how we ourselves unconsciously, or consciously, relate to our own thoughts. Saying "I hope that..." tells ourselves and others something significantly different than if we say "I aspire to..."

Here's to conscious word choice, and to you for making the effort to share your thoughts. Very helpful.

Hi, Here are a few thoughts.

I tend to consider these words in relation to each other: optimism, hope, aspiration.

To be optimistic reflects a positive mindset.

To be hopeful reflects a deeper commitment, and/yet still one that need not be active. One can be hopeful while sitting on the couch.

To aspire to something cannot be passive. We aspire to greater global oneness. Neither hope nor faith fully communicate this type of agency. And recognition of agency represents an important distinction.

Respectfully,

"Of course, if you view trust in terms of trust in life, in our nature as consciousness itself then that includes trusting yourself, then conscious action is more likely as we are less likely to act based on a standardized mental template."

I think that's right on, Mark

Hi Lisa,

Trust seems to have more of a passive connotation, and even in a religious context there is that passage in the book of James that says faith without works is dead. Of course, if you view trust in terms of trust in life, in our nature as consciousness itself then that includes trusting yourself, then conscious action is more likely as we are less likely to act based on a standardized mental template. I suppose that just points back to being one with the trust or faith, and not seeing it as relating to something separate.

Yes, the points being made here make a lot of sense.

HOPE [we, all, as One, recognizing the possibility of change] ---

Leads to FAITH [and, believing that change will occur] ---

Realize CHANGE [daring to hope, and having the faith of a grain of mustard seed, we can accomplish _ANYTHING_].

Yes Lisa, it is essentially about not being attached, although that applies in different ways. I want to tie this back to hope, and I suppose it would be a matter of not attaching the future to the past. Much of what we learn is essentially conditioning, rather than having the learning at our disposal and applying it in new and innovative ways.

This is a bit like the question on "Mother Mind" from Credo under the Expanding Identities section of the dialogues here, which is an interesting discussion in itself. As far as Beginners Mind is concerned, I would say a lot of it has to do with the aliveness in the moment, (contrasted with a mechanistic view of what is and is not possible) and from that perspective which is always fresh there is indeed grounds for hope in the future.