This is the only genuine yoga, the only spiritual exercise worth practicing. The more a man knows about individual objects, the more he knows about God. St. John was right. As a something to be believed in. God is a projected symbol, a reified name.
Faith is something very different from belief.
Belief is the systematic taking of unanalyzed words much too seriously. Faith, on the contrary, can never be taken too seriously. For Faith is the empirically justified confidence in our capacity to know who in fact we are, to forget the belief-intoxicated Manichee in Good Being. Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable.