“Faith is, `To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, `you see what you believed.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.”
— Rick Riordan, book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
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